This was really bad. And she finished off with a lengthy cross examination of "his bronze star" controversy from 2008.
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This was really bad. And she finished off with a lengthy cross examination of "his bronze star" controversy from 2008.
Trump to zelensky, in the "perfect call"-"open an investigation of Biden - you don't have to do anything- just announce you are opening an investigation and we'll do the rest"
Ok, forget the polls, all of them. How else are gauging the public's response to the bill? Have have told all your members to go home and have town halls?
It should be noted that the Union offered him command of the Union army, which he declined.
He's got his eye on that couch in the oval office
The question stated that prayer was "attacked"(are there only right wing stooges in the press room now?)- no, it was only stated that prayer was not a sufficient response.
Someone better tell him they are not going to be able to roll battleships down Constitution Ave.
“.. democracy often erodes slowly at first .. But with each concession, autocrats become bolder.. and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden ..” @dziblatt.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
Crime is also a problem in millionaires' compounds in Palm Beach
I read Hitler became tired of cabinet meetings and basically stopped having them. He was tired of all the posturing and infighting, and everyone vying for his attention or support.
Me too. Even Parkland.
After the Parkland school shooting in his first term, he made a big deal of bringing families to the White House, summoned key politicians and the NRA, sat around the table and advocated universal background checks and age limits on gun purchases, lectured the NRA, then went TACO, and did nothing
It didn't take the Nazis long- maybe a year after Hitler took power, laws were passed against mocking or disparaging Hitler, Nazi leaders, Germany, and later against general "grumbling". People who drunkenly mouthed off in a bar were turned in to the gestapo, and you might be sent off to a camp.
We failed them a long time ago
Next deployment- trump golf courses
He rightfully called himself the king of debt
How much does a trump flag cost? No crime against that
What's the saying- if you trade freedom for security you will end up with neither
Oh, he's the head cracker all right
It harkens back to ole times, when racist white men sat around on porches all day yelling the n word at passerbys
Or, a capital idea
She needs to go expose who's blowing the great leader- she won't have to dig too deep
Trump himself has "commented" that if miller had his way, there would only be 100 million white people in this country- the rest, I guess, "removed"
Well, it will likely be the one with the most piss and shit on it
And the World Cup. The United States is a fascist police state where no one is safe.
He's going to send the military into Oslo if he doesn't get a prize
Yeah, and Cantor Fitzgerald makes a lot of money trading US bonds and treasuries, so let's take a stake in that as well
Hey Maga! You like MAHA? how about MUCA? Make Universities Chinese Again!
Well, at least now, having seen the new Southpark episodes, I can imagine each of them concluding their adulatory remarks with..."and, Sir, you do not have a small penis"
He's sued the Iowa pollster
"I'm trying to have people learn about kersonene, but they keep wanting to use it...WHALE Oil! I hope they go back to that- it's big in America, because we get it from big whales!
The Nazis, over a period of a year or so banned all political parties except the Nazi party. There were still "elections" though- guess who "won"
Trump to zelensky, in the "perfect call"-"open an investigation of Biden - you don't have to do anything- just announce you are opening an investigation and we'll do the rest"
"I spent weeks researching this question, desperately looking for counter-examples ... Here's what I found: Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever." 😔
Oh, cool, the Einsatzgruppen are back!
Clear-eyed and correct.
They didn't call him "unconditional surrender" Grant for nothing.
American civil war
At this point, perhaps it should be called a counter revolution
Yup
Yeah, the civil war ended with "negotiations" - Grant- surrender today, go home, take an oath pledging allegiance to the United States, and we"ll let you know when you can come back into the system and under what conditions.
The first thing the Nazis did was complete their internal takover- that happened over a period of 5 years (1933-38)- they "nazified" politics (no party but the Nazis) the civil administration, courts, schools, media, and it became harder to hide your dissent.
Haffner's book is basically his inner battles with dealing with the Nazi takeover. It's quite resonant with the daily struggles we all have now- accede? Give up? Fight and resist? Ignore it all? It is heartbreaking and tragic, and we may have a long way to go
I read "Defying Hitler", by Sebastian Haffner (highly recommended)a memoir of 1930's Germany. He writes about his journey in Nazi Germany. He finally determined that the Nazis were an occupying force that had destroyed the Germany he knew, and he had to leave, he left (for good) in 1938
Perhaps she has cankles too
Vance is a Nazi and using Nazi rhetoric - substitutes "illegal aliens" for "Jews", blames all the problems (crime, lack of health care, housing prices) on them- saying we need to "get rid of them". He is dangerous and we should know where this leads
This book, Defying Hitler, by Sebastian Haffner, is one man's chronicle of the Nazi years. An intimate, honest attempt to come to grips with how Germans dealt with the takeover of their country. I found much resonance with the struggles we are all currently facing. A compelling and tragic story
Maybe what maga saw was an old racist redneck, the kind who sat on the porch, drank moonshine all day and yelled the n word at anyone who passed by - and his removal triggered them
Maybe what maga saw was an old racist redneck, the kind who sat on the porch, drank moonshine all day and yelled the n word at anyone who passed by - and his removal triggered them
I'm waiting for his decree that every American bring him a shrubbery, a really nice one
Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and hate your friend.... Funny, the things one remembers.
No, what he really wants to see is his "president" shooting someone in the head on Constitution Avenue, as trump has long opined that he could do so with no consequences
One tin soldier walks away....
How did Fawn Hall stay so young looking?
Hopefully they have the same career path
I've been reading some about antisemitism, and it struck me that antisemitism is completely rooted in Christianity; that's where it started and was relentlessly pushed by the church, because if Jesus was not the Messiah, as rejected by the Jews, then Christianity was a false religion.
Oh no, that's the Biden economy!
Well, just remind him of this when they inevitably open fire on protesters- and ask him how could they fire on the elderly!?
While Volodymyr Zelensky was given a tour White House, President Trump made an unplanned stop in Melania's bedroom.
That's because it's nap time- they'll be back out later, and then dinner break at 4:30
Are they still on tv? I thought trump said he murdered an intern and his (second) wife was bleeding from her face or something
They're probably going to decree "work requirements" for social security. "All these elderly leeches are out protesting- they should be at work"
Not at night
Wasn't that basically what the trump organization was found guilty of in new York? Continually overvaluing collateral values to deceive banks. Wasn't the entire company dissolved because of this?
It's not a joke, it's a mirror, and yes , you people are a joke
I was a history student in the 1970's, and we were just starting to debunk the "civil war was about states rights" spin that had been prevalent; we've made progress in overcoming the biased narratives and really seeing and accepting our history. But what we think is better, they see as toxic
Yeah, but where's the "white" success in that? That's all they care about.
And they provided musical bands and showers to those arriving at the death camps- very welcoming and accommodating! How ironic
Isn't this something you do on "day one"?
Yee haw- that's probably as far North those boys have been since they got their butt kicked at Cemetery Ridge
Try this one on lil Marco: "life will be the same in the US whether there is a communist government in Cuba or not. Americans just don't care, and we have plenty of issues to deal with at home."
Trump continually says he is "the least racist person you could meet"- trouble is, that means you're still a racist, just maybe a little lower on the spectrum.
You can't constantly call the media and Democrats "enemies of the state" and then get your feelings hurt when they don't give you accolades. He's a child reliving his "daddy never praised me" traumas
In the 1970's we lived in southern Alabama. My dad had frequent business travel to a furniture plant in southern Indiana - he said, race wise, it was worse than southern Alabama
Holy shit.
Putin did NOT say "no"- he said "nyet"
Putin's got plutonium tea- but we got Trump's diaper
New from me: Trump is a dictator who must be removed from power and we need to state that out loud. open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...
They've gone from Palin's "Obama pals around with terrorists" to Trump "wines and dines war criminals"
#epsteinfiles #pedopotus
Whiskey Pete's new "Mecha Warrior Super War Fighting" regimen apparently includes "rolling out the red carpet for our enemy's dictator"
Not quite as inspiring as the "raising the flag on iwo jima" photo, but I guess it fits the times
As I said yesterday, the volume of Kompromat that Putin must have on Trump... Could be... Career ending. I'm also certain that there's an Epstein factor going on. Release the Epstein files. Sláva Ukrayíni! ✊🏻 🇺🇦 🌻
Poopillon
A reminder why Melania is sending C&Ds to everyone who repeats Wolff’s claim but not Wolff himself.
TACO
Now: Union Station in Washington, D.C.
5) just throw the 6" sub- the foot long will subject you to higher sentencing guidelines
Gov. Newsom: We cannot stand back and watch this democracy disappear district by district, all across this country. Not just in Texas but Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Florida. We need to stand up, not just California. We need to be firm in our resolve
His #1 job, in his mind, is to continue to blame Pete so when the next crash happens he can deny all responsibility.
"As you can see—and as any American paying attention to the news these days can attest—it does not take that long for a stubborn and dedicated strongman, however ridiculous he may appear, to acquire fearsome authoritarian powers."
But have you seen a wheelie?!
They located CCTV video
Well, that's tricky, because you have to equate bottles to a box- 3 bottles in a box?
As they said, they will have a "bloodless" revolution, if we let them. This is Maga "reconstruction" of blue states, without the actual civil war.
As L.A. was a couple of months ago, D.C. is merely an excuse for Trump to continue normalizing the use of federal law enforcement and the U.S. military to police Democratic cities. The implications for local self-government, civil liberties, and the 2026 and 2028 elections are obvious and ominous.
Notice how he left out that American air forces participated in the raid as well
We need to require AI people be distinguishable - like Max Headroom