Trump to give Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I expect to be promptly claimed by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss (the actual, rightful recipients) www.axios.com/2025/09/01/t...
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Trump to give Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I expect to be promptly claimed by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss (the actual, rightful recipients) www.axios.com/2025/09/01/t...
That's horrible and God awful. I hope that homeowner spends the rest of his life in prison.
The kid died. Stand your ground with an unarmed 10 year old? Really?
"The contracting utilities will pay for this pipeline capacity every month and every year for 20 years, regardless of how much gas they actually use for power burn. These costs are passed directly to ratepayers."
So Ali Velshi is going on a block spree after lying his ass off about everything. He & I got into it last night & I finally got pissed off & that's when he blocked me. Goalpost moving LIAR. Trash, BYE.
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
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"It runs contrary to everything that [Trump] promised to our members and to the American people," he says. Sometimes you just have to touch that hot stove that you were told was hot, to know that it is, in fact, hot. www.npr.org/2025/09/01/g...
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Here’s what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub. Not one of those men helped her up the stairs. Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social
I think many do not realize they treat children this way.
Come to think of it: if Trump didn't care what others thought of him, he'd have thick skin. Trump doesn't have thick skin. He has the thinnest skin of any one who ever ran for President. He whines like a baby when anyone pushes back on him. Josh Brolin just straight-up got this one wrong.
If Trump didn't care what other people thought, he wouldn't work so hard to keep protestors out of his rallies.
Bluesky has no pull of what? MAGA? Incels? Gas lighters? F-ck it, X, you can keep 'em.
Might wanna rethink that Senate-run, Paxton. If a Democrat wins the election for AG, it won't matter if you win the Senate seat: you'll be under investigation right away and may lose the seat. At best, you're better off staying AG.
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Put this one in The Atlantic’s hall of fame, alongside “what if Democrats can’t admit they lost”
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
Angelina left with dignity, her best friend by her side and with love from around the world. What a legacy for a little street dog in Thailand ♥️
The text under the headline reads: "Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault may have dealt lasting damage to the agency, experts fear, with harsh consequences for public health." @nytimes.com , you keep forgetting to add "and it's all your fault, MAGA" to these stories. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
Beyond the "we're all going to die" comment, Joni Ernst also gained attention for holding Town Halls at the worst times of day, when only the elderly, the childless, and the unemployed could attend.
"Despite Trump’s low approval ratings, growing economic uncertainty and historical patterns that show the president’s party losing ground in the midterm elections (...) Republicans are favored to keep control of the Senate." Just add "for spite" & it makes sense www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
That one sentence summarized for me the fallacy of a hierarchical structure that is supposed to answer to the US Constitution first and not the President, but - apparently - that's really subject to the whims of whoever is in charge at the military - which can be changed by a sycophant DoD Sec.
I listened to an NPR interview with Retired Marine Corps Lt. General Walter Gaskin, and this part shook me: Kelly: What guidance would you give a Marine who came to you with questions about this mission? Gaskin: (...) Ours is not to reason why, but to do or die. www.npr.org/2025/06/10/n...
I don't dispute that the NG can be put to other use, but cleaning up garbage is still a productive use of time that, at the very least, runs counter to the image of intimidation that Trump wants to paint for the public. We shouldn't be brought to the point where we no longer respect our military.
Maybe the death of the review in online/paper print format, but not in video. Red Letter Media (YouTube) is a great example of how the format works.
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I was going to post the video of each cabinet member kissing his ass, but it's over 6 minutes long. They're all as pathetic as this waist of flesh.
What little I know about the inner workings of US-funded research for universities and scientists... With that being said: I've never seen an academic researcher who was rolling in the kind of cash that the average CEO makes, as a result of his/her groundbreaking discovery.
It's going to be a long road, but these videos won't disappear, and as long as the person being shoved can reference the date and time it happened, it can one day be used to bring charges against that officer.
My top 2 "nudges" that I'll shout to anyone who will listen, are: 1) only the President can win an election through the Electoral College. All other elections are decided by popular vote. 2) Across the past 35 years of midterm elections, Indiana's statewide average for voter turnout is ~43%.
I get what you're saying, but I much-prefer the National Guard picking up garbage and beautifying our country, versus patrolling streets as a force of intimidation. At least picking up garbage is a constructive act of leading-by-example. This actually helps the National Guard's image, not hurt it.
It says a lot about where THEY are. THEY may be influenced, but THEY are imbeciles who do not represent the much larger percentage of people in this country, who do not listen to Charlie Kirk. Please don't lump me and the rest of the collective "we" in with THEM.
"Gulping today, Mr. Witkoff? Or just the usual swallow?"
But I get that everyone can be more civil. I've responded to Bowers's posts before, like the one RE: James Dobson's passing, by reiterating that his supporters don't care that he's a hypocrite, and to instead focus on increasing non-voter turnout. At least, that's how I internalized your message
Respectfully: People post their thoughts in the hopes that others will read them and be influenced, whether it's the original poster or respondent. If - prior to hitting the "send" button - someone were to tell you that your post is guaranteed not to be viewed by anyone, would you still send it?
Final thought: no vocal, outspoken rhetoric from that same neighbor on unidentified, masked ICE agents pulling people (even citizens) off the street and disappearing them into detention facilities.
Mind you: I might consider the same if my kids' school were to, for example, tell kids that Black slaves were happy, or that J6 was a peaceful event, or that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. But that's a lot different than a mask mandate.
I have a neighbor who literally pulled her two children out of public school because the school wouldn't budge on the mask mandate. I thought "you've gotta be pretty selfish to pull your kids away from their friends and teachers, and make them start over, just because of your politics."
Don't these calculations assume roughly the same turnout of voters each year (i.e. non-voters continuing to be non-voters)?
I wonder how many businesses actually audit their ad-spend and compare it to their ROI.
Definitely one of the dumber ways we've spent money, but thankfully they're all this stupid and there are like five more coming.
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They'll only feel stupid about it if they lose elections. Vote.
He's doing a better job disproving that God exists, than he is proving that God chose Trump
"Beristain watched helplessly as they led her husband away to begin deportation proceedings. There was no undoing her vote. There was no rewinding time. 'I wish I didn’t vote at all,' she told the Tribune." Couldn't even bring herself to vote for a Democrat FAFO www.indystar.com/story/news/i...
"Trump claimed that it is 'inconceivable' that Cook was 'not aware of [her] first commitment when making the second.' " Trump didn't say that. Trump thinks "inconceivable" means a woman can't get pregnant. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/t...
We should always internalize what we can. Ultimately, this really began in 2016 when too many people let themselves lose focus of the danger of a President Trump, and instead focused on what they perceived as the banality of a President Clinton. Non-voters and MAGAts owe us all an apology.
If they're lucky enough to have a Democrat as their next President, they will probably be allowed to continue sleeping on that sidewalk because s/he won't round them up and relocate them, as Trump would have done. The irony will not dawn on them.
One Winter day, that banner will make for an acceptable-at-best blanket to be shared by 10-12 MAGAts, sleeping outside on a sidewalk.
Arrested for filming it. And look how excited they all are to get some *action*. 🇺🇸 Watch fascism work.
Which is why if you want to beat these people, beat them at the polls. When they make fools of themselves by wearing gauze on their ears and then Trump wins, they feel vindicated. When they do that and then Trump loses, then they're just fools with gauze on their ears and they know it.
An annoying part about this hypothetical is that if Trump lost and Hillary won, those same Republican voters wouldn't show one ounce of gratitude for the good she would have done. That's why I'm for any Dem candidate who makes MAGA's lives miserable. Make them hurt. Make it part of the agenda.
It's kinda hard for Republicans to pin any of voters' current problems on Democrats when Republicans have the majority in the House and Senate, and a Republican in the White House
He's talking to a room full of Republicans who came to see him. I don't think anyone in that room was undecided up until now, so Vance's speech isn't about convincing voters to vote against Ossoff. It's more like a plea for them to not skip the election out of apathy for the poor job Trump is doing.
My original reply probably didn't do much to restore your faith in others. I apologize.
There are ~80M (or 1 out of 3) eligible voters who didn't vote in the 2020 election, and that election had the country's highest voter turnout ever. 80M no-shows can't ALL be attributed to lack of local resources. People just don't like being swarmed and sold on joining a club.
Sometimes I say "I'm currently aligned with today's Democratic party", because what I'm really saying is "I know my values, and I know what I don't like, and at the current moment the Democratic party is most-aligned with those values, but if you go off the rails, I'm not following."
I just want to say that your message really gets to the crux of why I think so many people don't vote. Yes, some of it has to do with lack of resources that are available in their locale, but I also think a lot of it has to do with feeling like a political party is trying to sell you something.
Stop trying to reason with them. Focus on getting non-voters to show up at the polls. You'll find the vitriol and hypocrisy from a Evangelicals is a lot less frustrating when they're on the losing side of an election.
James Dobson didn't care that he was a hypocrite because the end-goal was to get people to pay attention to what he was saying, and they did. Now you're trying to come up with a competing narrative, and the same audience doesn't care because they already agreed with Dobson (2/3)
It's not about hypocrisy, because if it were, Dobson would have recognized it and cared. He didn't. Remember: when you point out hypocrisy, you're not really talking to James Dobson: you're talking to everyone else and hoping they will listen. But they're not. (1/3)
It's not as if humans are innately drawn to petty jabs like moths to a flame. They chose to gravitate towards them. The reckoning shouldn't be with Newsom, Trump, or pettiness in general: it needs to be a reckoning for voters. They dug themselves into this, they need to dig themselves out of it.
This really made my afternoon, thank you
Please, post a link to your personal website. I need inspiration!
"Few measurements reflect the luster of a political party’s brand more clearly than the choice by voters to identify with it" Maybe Democrats don't register anymore because it's old and antiquated. That would certainly explain why Republican membership is up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
So much love for God, and yet, parishioners outsource their thinking to their local pastors. God gave them all brains. They should use them. They need to think for themselves and do their own homework.
Anyone who says people hated Trump for no reason is either gaslighting, or incompetent.
I dream of a day when the media shifts its focus away from politicians and redirects it towards voters. We're all expected to read and be informed. A bunch of people who vote for a guy embroiled in scandal, deserve scrutiny just as much as the politician. Those voters owe everyone an explanation.
And lest someone says "yeah, all those other positions win by popular vote, but they're gerrymandered so that Republicans get the popular vote", I'd buy that argument more if the turnout were a lot higher than 50%, which is ambitious for a State or Local election.
Which is ironic, because while gerrymandering is to the advantage of the gerrymandering party, only the President can win with fewer votes, thanks to the Electoral College. Every single other elected office wins by popular vote.
I have to push back on this. 1 out of 3 voters doesn't vote in the Presidential election, and that statistic is for the Office of the President itself, not all the other positions that have elections at the same time. For all other positions, the turnout is even worse.
Yes, I agree. But I'm just pointing it out because some people probably do think their vote doesn't matter, and in a Presidential Election, it's kinda understandable why they feel that way. But in the case of Elise Stefanik running for Governor, absolutely every vote against her matters.
It's worth a reminder that only a Presidential candidate can lose the popular vote and still win the election, thanks to the Electoral College. No other election has the Electoral College. Virtually every other election in this country - from school board to Governor - is decided by popular vote.
His career should have ended when he announced his run in 2015, by calling Mexican immigrants rapists, gang members, and drug dealers. That sentence should be the first line that future generations read when they study about the Trump Era, followed by "and your parents likely voted for him."
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Mike Flood also thinks that when people vote for him, his views are a proxy to the people's views, so people should be onboard with whatever he's voting for, and - as is typical with the Republican party - anyone who shows up to yell at him is just grandstanding. Simple beliefs from a simple man.
Mike Flood says he has more in common with someone screaming "fascist" at him than he has in common with someone who sits idly by and doesn't care about politics. That might be the only thing I agree with. Having said that, he gets some important things wrong (1/2) pca.st/j7v42kxp
Since it's called the Election Rigging Response Act, is it too legally treacherous if Newsom calls it the ERRA's tour?
It's fine, I should have noticed that.
People would do well to remember this. Our sense of civics has degraded so much that we think we're responsible voters when we pick the candidate whose platform most-aligns with our values. Instead, we should create our platform first, and then pick whoever promises to deliver on it the most.
Which cesspool of hatred was this posted? Twitter/X, or Truth Social?
One would think.
Roblox is a financially predatory company whose vulnerable targets, are children. I have no idea how they haven't been shut down. If you're a parent whose child is asking to get a Roblox account, tell your child "no, and if you ask again, you're going to bed early."
All good, my VPN does split tunneling. Now that I'm listening to your latest episode, I learned that Laura Loomer called MTG a home wrecker, a rabid dog, a narcissistic witch, a whore, a steroid user, a horse face, and a dumb b-tch. I'm unemployed, and that rant makes my life feel pretty good.
Thank you, disabling VPN for the app did indeed fix the issue. Really appreciate it!
@driftglass.bsky.social and @bluegal.bsky.social , has no one else mentioned having difficulty playing your episodes? None of your episodes load now, on multiple browsers, apps, and devices.
Wearing a suit while you repeatedly ask banks for millions of dollars in loans, doesn't make you better or more legitimate than a homeless person asking for a few bucks on a train platform.
I just tried last week's episode too, and ran into the same problem. I also tried on multiple browsers. Might there be something wrong with the hosting service, or maybe a change to the folder structure that affected the file pathways?
I've tried listening to the episode on my podcast app and from the link you provided, and neither are working. I'm not sure, but maybe something went wrong while uploading.
But isn't this for Australia?
So what you do is, direct your ire in the following order: 1) Trump voters 2) non-voters 3) third-party voters 4) voters who wrote in a candidate 5) then, if Democrats are in power and they screw up, THEN direct your ire at them.
Define BigBallz: You get car jacked, but instead of just having to deal with it like anyone else who's ever been car jacked before, the President of the United States consoles you, federalizes the DC police and brings in the National Guard. BigBallz does not have big balls.
At minimum, it'll be a waste of taxpayer dollars, much like the military deployment in LA, where soldiers sat around, bored.
It's an important perspective that MAGA needs to hear. Unfortunately, MAGA doesn't watch CNN, and never did - and Fox News will never air something like this. MAGA is so siloed, that these news pieces are either preaching to the choir, or falling on deaf ears.
Small wonder he chose to go on Fox News instead of a real journalism platform like, say, Axios, or Democracy Docket, or Democracy Now!