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For the love of God if the economy collapses for the 4th time under Republicans, can we start actually blaming them instead of saying the democrats are the financially irresponsible ones? I'd let the economy crash a little bit if its what's needed to never have a republican president again
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
Nailed it. #ableg #cdnpoli #yeg
Does anyone have readily available the longest stint Joe Biden ever avoided the press for? Really want to rub it in their noses that Trump is being graded unbelievably on a curve. He's just as old, just as mentally declined, and now just as sheltered from the press
I would say based on all the evidence the left has provided, the intent portion of genocide has clearly been met. It's not up to you to determine whether that meets the definition, it's up to you to disprove that Netenyahu has bragged about blocking a 2 party state and all the other evidence
This is definitely the media attempting to soften the blow for when the epstein files come out. I was going to say they wanted to hedge and not call him a convicted sex trafficker, but he literally is so i don't know what their deal is. Lips glued to asshole syndrome I guess
California stepping up.
Even remove the political brainwash animosity, which alone is heinous enough to be prosecutable. The Capitol police were *defending* a position, not being actively deployed into a city. Being abused for being an invading force is a lot less sympathetic than being abused for defending from one.
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
Fatality.
He can pretend to be dead all he wants. I still want the Epstein files released.
What a ridiculous person.
Look man, I'm not SAYING he's hitler. But if Hitler posted this before it all went down.... like...
Well obviously it's because the guy buying the two guns is going to go STOP the meth dealer. The only way to stop a bad guy without a gun is with a vigilante with a gun
Im already not a huge fan of the military. But I have some respect for those willing to do the hard but necessary work to keep the country safe. But these people are either too excited to follow a tyrant, or they're too stupid and cowardly to not.
I really wanna triple down on the "only pussys obey tyranny" line. Because it's not just that they're a coward robot following orders mindlessly. It's not just that they don't have the brainpower to come to the conclusion that what they're doing is wrong. Theyre also too cowardly to disobey now
Im an eco nut, and even I can agree this is delusional to pretend is a positive. Theres a time and place, homeless people need housing, not EV chargers.
We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
NEW: A federal grand jury has REFUSED to indict sandwich guy! I imagine the DoJ will keep trying. They have two weeks, at which point they’ll have to drop the charges or reduce it to a misdemeanor. 🥪 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
I have a dream… That one day people will care about children the way they care about embryos.
Cant wait for @kaitlancollins.bsky.social to push Trump on this, I'm sure he cracks so quickly between how thin he's spread
Curious what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My first thought it that it was a Putin request
Whoa. *needle scratch*
If Cracker Barrel sets them off, imagine how they’ll react when they hear I went woke in the New Testament — turning the other cheek, feeding the poor, all that radical stuff.
Trump would definitely make sure to find a way to blame democrats even if he did that. Either by framing Obama or AOC, or saying their cruel and violent language drove him to it
I can't wait for @theonion.com to do CODs new game, where you wander around DC picking up trash and stand intimidatingly while cops arrest brown people.
He's been following Hitler's playbook since day 1 ....but not even Hitler was ever accused of being a pedophile...The rotting carcass is human excrement
Everyone who learns two things about this topic learns that all the countries remotely colored blue often have a high infant mortality rate and a thriving child slave trade. Once developed medicine means everyone born survives past age 10, birth rates plummet
And Magats will defend it by saying "well what about the $12.50 Joe Biden wasted on an ice cream cone?!" Because they are fundamentally incapable of addressing the topic in front of them OR not bringing up Biden. I'd love to know if there are more never Trump or never Biden, and the parallels
FOX NEWS' TREY GOWDY GOES WOKE, ACKNOWLEDGES OBVIOUS LINK BETWEEN VIOLENT CRIME AND (WHITE) MALES. The dam is breaking folks. When not even fox news can keep the lid on basic reality, it's only a matter of time before the water starts flowing
So not only can you not indict a ham sandwich, you can't even indict the person throwing it. And this is all *under* the Trump regime. Where is everyone who thought the charges against Trump were fixed? Let's roll them out to talk about this
Please let this be true. If for no other reason than if it even remotely catches on, every Trump supporter i know will lose their mind (hopefully losing and refinding it is like turning your computer off and on again)
I give McConnell not an ounce of credit or good will. But it's important to note that Merrick Garland deserves to be barred from practicing law for his negligence from 2020-24, not a supreme court seat. No idea how the world looks if he's on SCOTUS instead, but it's not half good enough
They could have probably tracked them entering and exiting a grocery store a lot, should we bomb those too? Like holy shit man, your burden of proof is NOTHING for this. What's your burden of proof for the starvation and the torture and the genocide? I imagine sky high
If this is the issue you have, negotiating for a safe and secure and humanitarian evacuation of civilians should have been completed. Instead, Israel has trapped them in Gaza, with almost nobody allowed to leave. And IDF can't bomb over fight in house the same reason cops can't use rocket launchers
youtube.com/shorts/B4wjH... A reminder that being anti capitalist is not the extreme outlandish take it once was. Trickle down economics and late stage capitalisms ever upward stock price causes companies to make worse decisions just because it makes them more money
Republicans have realized that if they're deporting everyone, they'll need to strip child labor laws and force retirees back to work. Can't have too tight of a labor market or your billionaire buddies might have to start paying their employees more
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
Holy moving goalposts batman!! Defund the police isn't even on your list, its not "alienating language used in a grant proposal". You just figure if you keep changing the topic no one can pin you down to your own claims?
Democrats speak like they've actually studied the issues. Republicans speak like they have concepts of a solution. Focus on how the policy actually functions instead of the words it uses. Especially when most of the time, it's words that don't alienate, like "privilege" or "food insecure"
No you egg, its about using words that show you've actually studied the issue, not just throwing out random solutions off the top of the dome. "Pushing an agenda" of helping people isnt problematic btw, but nice use of loaded language. Focus on how the problem helps people instead of the words used
I was pretty sure that individual states signing international deals was against the law, but i mean, "the law" hasn't mattered since at LEAST when Merrick Garland let Trump walk, so who gives a shit.
Because the general society connotation is that it is a slur. Too many people have used it that way for so long, it's taking a long time for it to comfortably be reclaimed by that community and reintegrated into civilized speech. For now, even 50% of those meaning well will be assumed foul
It's because pussy is the longest word in that sentence, and they don't like any words they don't know. Being "woke" just means being remotely educated, and that's terrifying to the Trump crowd
The thing that's wrong with it is that being trans, two spirited, non binary, asexual, etc isnt "gay" The whole reason we use the acronym is because we need something that encompasses everything in the community, and the deuchebags ruined "queer" One day we can go back to that word being inoffensive
I think there's room for nuance here. Because she's absolutely right that it's not "hungry", it's the constant stress and fear associated with it all. To say "we're helping the hungry" means something entirely different from the "food insecure", and the second one can't be strawmanned
Fucking THIS! Not just the centrist bashing, which is valid. But ANYONE is capable of supporting ANY value, if the billionaire is on my side I'll take it. We need allies, not a purity contest. If they're even a quarter of the way to thinking like a leftist, they have room in the tent and my heart
Make it so there exists zero possibility for a narrative of Democrats only ever wanting to escalate, or whatever it is. We need to predict or react to their moves, and match it by forcing the narrative into our favor. That requires ACTING accordingly
"Im going to be the strongest leader i can be, by being the weakest leader I can be, and be willing to bqck out of my own proposal. Part of this redistricting bill will include immediately revoking it if Texans and Republicans mutually disarm." What Newsoms office SHOULD say. Force the narrative
Funny as hell, accurate, and politically expedient are three VERY different things lmao. I really hope this is fake, but *more* than that I hope that anyone upset by this is equally as upset by trumps BS
Theres a very small part of me that actually hopes they don't release anything for like another few weeks. It took Trump only a few days of actual pressure for him to crack as hard as "it's a democrat hoax" which KILLED his base. Let him keep axing his own support through blusters
That's actually why I'm doing it. Partially because I'm so fed up with how much corruption is in government, and partially because of how many people have told me I couldnt survive in politics without becoming corrupted. I believe it's fixable. We just need the good people to actually step up
8 days ago, the John Bolton news was: that he took a jibe at Trump for antagonising India, calling the steep tariffs imposed on New Delhi "a mistake in the bilateral relationship." Today, the news about Trump's former national security adviser is that the FBI is raiding his home. Autocracy 101
As a BC resident, idk how i feel about this. It shouldn't be coming out of my pockets that Albertans elected someone incapable of governing. At the same time, 100% of the people who would do this are people who want the vaccine, and therefore must be semi decent people. Can we just impeach???
Every single "first amendment protectionist" should either be screaming from the rooftops, or have their mouths firmly glued shut for their complete partisan Bullshit. They're not pro constitution, they're pro authoritarian
Never seen the Toronto Star taking the right side of an issue i have lmao. Scrapping the DST was one of the million ways Carney has beefed his last term, alongside every other weak handed move to subdue the US president. Pierre's hands are firmly down Trumps pants, and Carneys are in his pickets
Yesssssss, Keep reminding the epstien files, do not let that pop out of the zeitgeist. For any 20 somethings, does this not feel like Luigis mansion catch a boss ghost? Just holding on fear dear life trying not to let them get away and change the subject.
Krishnamoorthi on the FBI raiding Bolton's house: "It looks like it's also an attempt to distract from the other big news of the day, which is the first production of the Epstein files that is required by subpoena from the Oversight Committee and they want to change the conversation."
Being woke is half the battle. Being proud to be woke, proud to stand up for the rights of minorities and against oppression, that's another half altogether. I have yet to see a coherent argument for why woke is bad (or even clearly defining it), so I'll continue to be proud
It's slightly more dangerous too, because love it or hate it, Trump is playing this incredibly smart. He's attacking a former cabinet member, showing his current admin what will happen if they step out of line. They get little sympathies or protection from democrats, and it's further normalized
DNI Tulsi Gabbard has revoked 37 security clearances—experts in AI, cyber defense & election security, gone. More firings to come. She calls it “ODNI 2.0.” It’s not reform. It’s retaliation to protect Trump, not America.
You can't taste the boots you're picking while they're stomping your head in. I fully agree, if you can't identify Russia as the enemy, you will not be identified as an ally. I don't think Vlad would even spare Tim Pool or Trump, so don't think he'll spare you
If this is the story that I hear every other day, I honestly think that'd be inspiring enough. Resistance, even the futile kind, can be such an insane pest to the establishment, it still fulfills a key role. Keep getting up to good trouble everyone!
Cartman is so upset that he's on the side of the resistance. Like Woker without Batman, he knows that the whole world succumbing to darkness would extinguish his shadow he casts on the world, and desperately works to protect the last light. Right for the wrong reasons is still on our side, for now
It's honestly one of the reasons I'm having such a hard time deciding if I want to go into politics or journalism. Cause the only thing more important than someone aggressively asking the important questions, is the people in power being able to calmly and securely answer them
True that, politicians being allowed to run away from tough questions is one of the first things that caused us down this slippery slope to hell. Even given their current state, id rather an aggressive independent 3rd party host questioning than a passive "we won't fact check you" moderator
Since both you and OP have replies turned off, I guess I'll use this: I see nothing on your page that is proof Palestine, and about halfway through this article their argument that it's "just antisemitism" kinda falls flat. Is this a genuine/good faith take, that AIPAC actually isn't that bad?
Ann Johnson is challenging the Republican racist trash in Texas. The power in her words is inspiring. I followed her & look forward to what she does next. @voteannjohnson.bsky.social
I genuinely had to search up if LWV was some astroturf Republican BS. Because you're right, this is so incredibly blindingly partisan... It is incredible how many organizations are losing their entire reputation over defend some arbitrary norm that shackles democrats that republicans break daily
Regardless of which country is making this accusation: do you think there is a strong bipartisan interest in having a neutral third party (like the ICC or the UN) inspect the veracity of this evidence? Or at least make it public record? Perhaps there's security risks there, idk
In this light, while Hamas is the aggressor since Oct 7th, I can see why non-Hamas civilians have unease around IDF inspecting their hospitals. Especially if there's a power imbalance, and the IDF could grab any civilian (claiming they're Hamas or not) and disappearing them.
America bombs Canada, and Canada begins retaliating by claiming (with proper intel) that American Terrorists are hiding in American hospitals. Do you thinks it's right to say America should be forced to let Canadian authorities rummage through all of their hospitals? Would you see a security risk?
This is the closest thing to a good argument I've heard anyone supporting israel make. Do you mind if I take a comment or 4 to try and tease out my thinking of why this is at least Grey, if not that I'm on the right side here. For context, let's imagine it's Canada and America at war:
Are these the same dildos that the "protect women's sports!" Crowd was throwing on the WNBA courts?
Ron desantis: "we will not allow our roads to be commandeered for political purposes" Really? Cause I see a road that was commandeered EXCLUSIVELY for political purposes The fact that the GOP couldn't beat themselves in an argument, but are loud and stupid enough to blast through it, is frustrating
I went back and observed this entire thread. If your response here didn't click for you that youre being disingenuous and obfuscating, I thought I'd let you know. You're completely unable to answer how many of a minority group need to be affected in order to classify as genocide, and ignoring fact
Byron Donalds was always a heavy water carrier for the president. Anything that makes them forget about the Epstien files
I started following Andrew specifically over his incredibly well reasoned take of this issue. I dont necessarily have a platform for it, but I'd love to do an interview with you about this or other topics, given your level headedness. More people should hear your takes
This perspective is 100% fair, ill own that if one side is not playing by the rules, the other side can't either (hence why I support democratic counter gerrymandering). However, mutual dissarmament is an option here. And netanyahus government are the LARGEST obstacle to that outcome
I'm not contesting that Hamas was using hospitals; I'm contesting that every hospital Bombed was harboring Hamas. For example, if there were 10 hospitals potentially hiding hamas, and only 8 actually had terrorists in them, is the IDF justified in blowing up the other two? Or do they need intel?
It is not an inhumane action to bomb a hospital because you claim Hamas is hiding under it? Every country in the world would have reacted that way? I dont even think the US did that in response to 9/11, try again
It's absolutely different, but that doesn't mean that the IDF is absolved of judgement for their inhumane and overreaction
youtu.be/6wyijFL-TQ4?... Even if you only watch from minute 4 to 5, and absolutely AMAZING clip of Trump contradicting his current position on the Smithsonian. This is more proof that yes, T2 is so much worse than T1, even for how bad T1 was. He's reached a depravity not thought possible in 2019
There have been 61,000 Palestinians and 1,900 Israeli citizens killed since October 7th. Multiple scholars are able to appropriately estimate 80% of the casualties are civilians. And the way I suggest Israel separate the two is by airing on the side of caution, instead of sniping children
If you saw a movie where superman laser eyed through a civilian to kill a bad guy, would you consider that a good act? Because of the clear power imbalance, we obviously answer no, that superman has a responsibility to work around that burden when you are that much more superiorly armed
I proudly defend every statement I've made on Hamas. Me demanding that Hamas stop using civilians as human shields does nothing. But me demanding that society stop lumping Palestinian civilians alongside Hamas soldiers might have a chance to sway public opinion
Yeah, I expect a country with 10-100x the military might to responsibly be able to separate the innocent civilians from the terrorists. If TDA sent a single attack on Houston, does that justify the US starving all of Mexico, blocking others from delivering said aid, and killing civilians?
His brother is also a 3%er, so like.... yeah. He's closeted Maga at least, the only debate is how closeted it is when this many people see through it
Anyone who sees this should know OP blocked me immediately with no response. Clearly I caught on to their shtick
This level of outrage is honestly embarrassing lmao. I will admit though, that her acknowledging that grok said she's a "problem" does show AI overreliance on spitting out opinions users prompt them with, I don't know that a good AI would do this.
I think even if you mean well, your position is identical to that of sly Republicans. "Discard the transgender movement for your political victory" Not only is this heartless and spineless, showing we will throw away our principles, it will cost us our base and lose us elections.
I can't say I'm blame you, the world has definitely grinded mine down to a nub. As long as you can find a way to make space or make patience for the people who need it, first your loved ones, but also those who are capable of change, you are making the world a better place. Keep it up! 🍁🇨🇦❤️
Ah yes, because nothing is more unpresidential than *checks notes* acting like the president. These clowns have no principles, they deserve no respect or credibility in their outrage. Being a bully isn't presidential, but mocking, calling out, and defeating a bully sure is.
Ah yes, because nothing is more unpresidential than *checks notes* acting like the president. These clowns have no principles, they deserve no respect or credibility in their outrage. Being a bully isn't presidential, but mocking, calling out, and defeating a bully sure is.
In another sense though, sometimes it feels nice to get it out, kind of like a digital rage room lol.