“Single Person Clapping: The James Donald Bowman/ James David Hamel/JD Vance Story”
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“Single Person Clapping: The James Donald Bowman/ James David Hamel/JD Vance Story”
I’ve lived in LA my entire life. It’s massive. LA County is 4,753 square miles. The anti-ICE protests encompassed no more than TWO city blocks and ONE burning Waymo. Trust me, LA would be standing whether Trump weaponized the military for political reasons or not.
“Trump’s not dead, he’s only golfing” is the most depressing song lyric of the year.
Yes! lol.
Hey MAGA, so now you’re the party that’s against curing brain cancer in children. Can’t wait to see that on a bumper sticker.
Admittedly, I haven’t left the Philly airport yet. But I’ve been here less than an hour and two bearded, middle aged men have already complimented my Replacements t-shirt. That’s two more sartorial compliments than I’ve gotten in 60 years of living in LA!
Before Trump chipped away at our standards, could you imagine if I told you masked gunmen would be throwing people into unmarked vans in Home Depot parking lots without due process? And it’s real life not a Purge movie.
“Using manufactured crises to deploy our military domestically to police our city streets.” It sounds no less scary in its original German.
“Higher prices. Fewer medicines. More disappearances by masked gunmen.” Would a majority of Americans have voted for that promise? Because that’s what you’re getting.
Many, many people believe in the healing and restorative powers of prayer. But that’s not a substitute for stopping kids from getting murdered.
This administration is banning vaccines while doing nothing about guns. Are they TRYING TO KILL CHILDREN?
“U.S. President declares war on Chicago” isn’t a headline I thought I’d live to see.
The President has a masked paramilitary disappearing people off our streets without due process, and most people are still, like, “when is Fascism getting here?”
The only way Trump doesn’t run in 2028 is if elections have been abolished. All of this is heading towards him refusing to leave office.
When GOP legislators someday meet their Maker, the hardest thing to explain will be how they could let hundreds of children die every year just so they could line their campaign coffers with gun lobby cash. How could any act of public service be more important than saving children’s lives?
We are now decades into mass school shootings and nothing changes. Because the GOP is too beholden to NRA money to fix anything. No one is against prayer. We’re against prayer as the only solution to a probably that desperately needs solutions.
Now MAGA is blaming mass shootings on anti-depressants. Before that it was movie violence, rap lyrics, and single-shooter video games. That’s a helluva lot of tap dancing to not say “guns.”
This graphic proves that Trump’s domestic troop deployment has nothing to with Crime. And everything to do with Punishment of his political enemies.
Trump cronies: “No one deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than Dear Leader.” Rest of the World: “For what? Trying to force Ukraine to capitulate to the country that attacked it?”
I don’t buy that Trump is some sort of evil genius. I think he’s actually dumb enough to believe that he’s allowed to be a dictator.
Every country in the world has people with mental health challenges. Only America, has near-daily mass school shootings. What could be the difference? Hint: Starts with “g-u” and ends with “n-s.”
Donald Trump: “I’m so not a Communist. If I was a Communist would my government take ownership of a company’s means of production?” Hmmmmmm….
The state of the world today is why I watch The Gilded Age. Watching a footman invent a new clock is about all I can handle these days.
MAGA: Just wait, Trump is playing 4 dimensional chess. Everyone else: Or he’s just a giant baboon throwing feces at a checkerboard.
Why pass sensible gun legislation when “thoughts and prayers” are so obviously effective?
If social media & news shows are to be believed, Americans are way more outraged by changing logo designs than by the SHOOTING DEATHS OF CHILDREN.
This year, I’ve seen more press coverage of Sydney Sweeney’s denim wear than all the mass school shootings in America combined.
If only Americans loved their children as much as they love their Cracker Barrel logos.
Anti-Kamala voter: “She’s a Marxist! She’s a socialist! She’s a Communist!” The U.S. government buys 10% of Intel Anti-Kamala voter: “Woo hoo! Hurray for government owning the means of production!”
ENTIRE MAGA MOVEMENT: “Hey White people, Cities where you don’t live are war zones. Immigrants who don’t live near you will kill you. And only a tough guy, in orange makeup, can save you from those two imaginary problems. If you name another “idea” behind Trump’s success, I’d love to hear it.
Can’t wait to try all those hot new D.C. restaurants that have opened in the minutes since the National Guard arrived. And with them, a culinary renaissance!
The military occupied our domestic streets. ICE is grabbing people without due process. Democrats are labeled terrorists. The President says people want a dictator. Colleges, companies & law firms are forced to pay fealty money. Everything we thought would happen, happened.
Is this how all totalitarian takeovers happen? Every day, a wannabe dictator chips away at our laws, norms, and guardrails. And every day, your friends accuse of you being hysterical and overreacting.
Too many Americans seem to believe a card is going to flip over and declare “It’s Fascism!” Like it’s a gender reveal party. Or the millionth customer at a supermarket. Not the case. It happens right under our noses. And it already has.
I effing can’t get over the number of people I know who continue to believe, “It can’t be Fascism. I’m still playing pickleball.”
This week: The President said “a lot of people want a dictator.” His chief advisor called the Democratic Party “terrorists.” They sent military to occupy our cities under phony pretexts. Nobody declares “now it’s Fascism.” It’s here. In the White House & on the streets.
When the party out of the White House is depicted by the party leading the government, not as the loyal opposition, but as a criminal, terrorist organization, our democracy is beyond fucked. With violence against the opposition sure to follow.
We have a dictator in the White House. How do I know? The dictator told us.
No offense, but I’d rather you burn a flag than whatever the fuck this is.
Sad, sad Cracker Barrel gives in to the mob of whiny snowflakes.
Trump: “I can do anything I want!” Good job, America. I didn’t know we elected Veruca Salt as president. Hey Donnie, do you also want a goose that lays golden eggs for Easter?
Has there ever been one day in his miserable existence that he hasn’t said something provably, laughably false?
Trump: “I have the right to do anything I want. I’m the President of the United States.” U.S. Constitution: “Hey Cheeto Mussolini, I’d like a word with you in private.”
Central government owning the means of production. Sure as shit sounds like Communism to me.
I know he’s making every word up. You know that he’s making every word up. But are there really people out there, fellow Americans that vote, who believe Trump created a miracle economic turnaround in less than two weeks? Really? No, really?
New restaurants are opening and D.C. is suddenly a boomtown? Didn’t he send the National Guard to town, like, two weeks ago. Literally EVERYTHING he’s saying is b.s.
Just so I get it, burning a flag is a felony. But using a flag on a pole to try to beat police officers to death in order to stop our electoral system— that gets you a full pardon. About right?
Trump will continue to seize exactly as much power as we let him. The pushback can only come us from. Restraint will never come from him.
How is the President declaring “a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" not the headline of every newspaper in America? And don’t say, what are newspapers?
When more people are squawking about Cracker Barrel than troops about to occupy the streets of Chicago, we’ve played right into the Extreme Right’s hands.
Trump: “I’m firing Lisa Cook.” Narrator: “The President can only fire a Federal Reserve Governor for cause. No such “cause” exists. Unless you count “being a Black woman who defied him?”
There are seven Federal Reserve governors? Any wild guesses why he chose to fire this one?
No matter how much Trump has tried dismantling DEI, you still can’t fire a Black woman just for being a Black woman.
The other justices are exactly what I expected. But has there ever been a greater disappointment in the history of jurisprudence than John Roberts?
Trump just called Chicago “killing fields.” Like he has with LA, DC, NYC & Baltimore. Anywhere with people of color. Even though crime stats are way down in all. Nothing to do with public safety. All a phony, Hitler-like pretext to put troops in the streets.
Flag on fire: Felony with a year in jail. Flag as a battering ram to storm Capitol: Just patriotic tourists visiting D.C.
I know this isn’t Westeros, but Greyscale is never a sign of great health.
Trump: “A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator.” Narrator: “Alas, no folks are saying this. Besides Trump himself. And possibly Stephen Miller.”
If Joe Biden’s hand had looked like this, Jake Tapper would’ve written an entire book about it.
Projection Theater, Take 9 million Trump: They say J.B. Pritzker is a dictator. He’s a dictator. Translation: Trump is a dictator. Another day, another super-obvious case of projection.
Kash Patel: "“I have no interest, no desire, and will not, if confirmed, go backwards. There will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken by any FBI should I be confirmed as the FBI Director.” Narrator: "Except when politically targeting John Bolton."
Trump: "Did Wes Moore, the Governor of Maryland, lie about getting a Bronze Star?" Narrator: "No." Next question....
Kamala Harris: "Donald Trump is out for unchecked power. He wants a military like Adolf Hitler had, who will be loyal to him, not our Constitution. He is unhinged, unstable, and... there would be no one to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses." Narrator: "Correct. No notes."
DeSantis: "We got shortchanged in the last census. That was the Biden Administration's doing. We are asking them award us another seat, that would trigger a new map." Narrator: " Biden wasn't President during the last census. Trump was." Governor DeSantis, you were saying...
Trump: “I now have the highest poll numbers I’ve ever had. Most are in the 60s and 70s.” Narrator: “ Trump’s current approval rating is 43%. That is neither in the 60s or the 70s.”
Trump: “We need to rescue D.C. from crime, bloodshed, bedlam & squalor…because of violent gangs, bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, and drugged out maniacs." Narrator: “Violent crime in D.C. is at a 30 year low.” It’s all just a pretext to send in troops.
Vance: “If you go back to WWII, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation.” Narrator: “World War II ended with Hitler’s suicide, two atomic bombs, and Germany & Japan’s unconditional surrender.” Does he know anything about anything?
Trump: “I gave Wes Moore a lot of money to fix his demolished bridge. I will now have to rethink that decision??” Narrator: “Trump had nothing to do with Baltimore bridge money. It was passed in ‘24 as part of a CR Biden signed into law.” Is there ANYTHING he doesn’t lie about?
Gavin Newsom has gotten so under Trump’s tangerine skin that Trump is viciously lashing out at … Wes Moore? I love it. Let the flying ketchup bottles commence!
What’s driving Cheeto Hitler’s sudden obsession with Wes Moore? Did he see a poll showing that Americans vastly prefer cool war heroes to racist, drug-addled, sexually-predatory draft dodgers?
There’s nothing questionable about Wes Moore’ Bronze Star. And Trump sent no bridge money. Biden did. Trump just knows that Moore is more popular & respected than he ever will be. Instead of trying to be better, he chooses to smear a good man.
Projection Theater, Take one million. The coward who lied about bone spurs to dodge the draft and avoid service, now questions the legitimacy of an actual American hero’s Bronze Star. Every Fucking Time. He takes his own massive deficiency & accuses an opponent of having it.
Listen to Trump’s 80s interviews. Cities are “crime ridden.” They’re “war zones.” People in cities are “animals” or “vermin.” Every country is “ripping us off.” He’d fix it all. This was regardless of what party was in power. He’d use this one message regardless.
This has been Trump’s one playbook since the 80’s. Every city is “crime-ridden.” Every Dem-majority city or state is a “war zone.” Regardless of what numbers or empirical proof says. Instead, everything’s a disaster. Only he can save us. Send in federal troops. 😩😩
Trump has deployed federal troops to mount an armed occupation of U.S. cities, under false pretexts and over the objections of local officials. So naturally, CNN seemed to devote an entire week to the changing of the Cracker Barrel logo.
A friend on Threads just pointed out that the FBI interview of Ghislaine Maxwell would make the worst SVU episode. One where they don’t ask speak to the victims, just ask the criminals what happened.
He also said that WWII ended through negotiations. Not two atom bombs and Hitler’s suicide. He’s bound to get one answer right, if only by accident.
Yes, that’s a much more important question than “Why is the President of the United States using the FBI to settle petty political scores?”
Why is it that 26 women can credibly accuse Trump of sexual misconduct and nobody seems to care. But if sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell says Trump’s a “gentleman,” we’re expected to accept that like it’s the word of God?
This week alone, the President defended slavery, used the FBI to seek revenge on a political rival, re-drew the Texas electoral map, and deployed federal troops on our city streets. Actual Fascism. But by all means, let’s talk more about Cracker Barrel and Sydney Sweeney’s dungarees.
The only thing worse than Trump using the FBI to seek vengeance on political enemies is that he told us he would and America re-elected him anyway.
This week, I heard both Donald Trump and Jillian Michaels on tv, defending slavery. Way to go, 2000s NBC, you made all the best reality stars. (And that’s not even counting Joe Rogan)
How can this still be the same week that Trump got mad at the Smithsonian for being mean to slavery?
Even if the only people I could choose to be President had to come from the cast of Home Alone 2, I still wouldn’t pick Donald Trump.
Wait MAGA, I’m so confused. Is government ownership of the means of production Communism or The Opposite of Communism? Or does it just depend on who’s in the White House?
Forget the mysterious blotch on his hand, his sleepy demeanor, his batshit crazy ideas, and his inability to complete a coherent thought. The fact that Trump wears a hat that refers to himself in the 3rd person— that should disqualify anyone from being President.
But yes, by all means, let’s write more books about Joe Biden’s lack of fitness to be President.
I’m a simple man. In upcoming elections, I plan on voting for the candidates who are AGAINST Putin, slavery, Nazis, and the Epstein/ Maxwell pedophile ring.
This week, Donald Trump demanded that our museums focus on the good parts of slavery and threatened to have the military occupy New York and Chicago. Yet, I haven’t read a single Jake Tapper book excerpt questioning this lunatic’s cognitive ability to serve.
Gavin’s current address: Living in Trump’s head Cost of rent: Free
At least, 27 women have credibly accused of Donald Trump of sexual misconduct. But if convicted sex trafficker seeking a pardon Ghislaine Maxwell says he’s a “gentleman,” then it must be true.