I'm pre-emptively having thoughts and prayers for Trump, because I'm sure that's what he and his cult would want
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I'm pre-emptively having thoughts and prayers for Trump, because I'm sure that's what he and his cult would want
Because it turns out that having kids has a lot of downsides even if people are given plenty of support to encourage them to do it
Bailey's a bootlicking POS
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
Putin delenda est.
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Elmo? Captain? Lieutenant?
Well, that and 7 episodes is a very unusual length
"When the public asks, 'How did we get here?' after each mass shooting, the answer goes beyond NRA lobbyists and Second Amendment zealots. It lies in large measure with the strategies of firearms executives like Richard Dyke." www.propublica.org/article/how-...
I'm seeing a lot of these batshit nonsense fake posts about Colbert (or rather, friends are seeing them), and all they do is make me wish for the demise of social media
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
A group of 6 LCC K9 comfort dogs arrived in Minneapolis yesterday in the wake of the latest mass shooting. The organization deploys comfort dogs following tragic events. The dogs wore their "please pet me vests," offering love and comfort to those processing this heartbreaking tragedy. 15/10 for all
This woman was a traitor who died in disgrace.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
I've heard that Olivia Jaimes is a brilliant cartoonist and definitely gorgeous and on the shortlist for a Pulitzer
There’s one policy that Democrats could run on that guarantees they’d sweep back into power: making .webp images illegal
xkcd.com/927/
Because I want a president who's good at governing, not doing stupid college debates
Wow, fuck those guys
Fair; I don't care if the line was staged, it's normal to prepare attacks, I just wish they had opened with that. If he runs in 28 (as he seems to be considering) I hope he gets better debate coaches. And they did seem to keep him under wraps later in the campaign (and dropped "weird"), big mistake.
It's looking more and more like it's either Butler or Skynet
I hate that motherfucker so much I wouldn't shit on his face if he was freezing to death
"If that happens, the roots of our democracy are in extreme danger.” It's already happened. We're there. This isn't about preventing fascism any more, it's about overthrowing it. I hope Smith is talking to people he knows and trusts.
The President is supposed to work for the people. He's not the boss, every single American citizen is his boss. He needs to be firmly reminded of that.
But what land would we concede to him?
Well, in fairness she must have known she was already a black woman when she joined the Fed, so this is kinda on her
It'll be interesting to see what happens when they say he can't do something and he says "watch me" and does it anyway. Which is inevitable at some point.
Michaels: It’s fascinating to me to hear people in charge of our country say they’re listening to a convicted pedophile—someone with multiple perjury charges—and taking her word as gospel, rather than listening to the victims.
If he hasn't done anything wrong, then obviously this is BS. But if he did put something in his book that was still classified and Biden's DOJ decided it wasn't worth prosecuting but Trump's DOJ can use it to crucify Bolton, then that's bad because it's one more step towards normalizing retaliation.
Bolton's a POS who may have done something wrong here, but part of the reason he's being targeted is that he's (a) been mean to Trump and (b) doesn't have any friends to his left. So he's easy pickings to get people used to the idea of Trump punishing his enemies.
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2/ The regime is trying to send Abrego Garcia there to punish him for not pleading guilty to crimes they have no evidence he committed. And in order to scare anyone else who dares humiliate the mighty cheeto-faced shitgibbon.
This is what the US State Dept said about Uganda in 2023: "Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings, including extrajudicial killings; enforced disappearance; torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment..." www.state.gov/reports/2023...
As I commented elsewhere: "When Miller and Vance say they feel unsafe in cities like DC, what they really mean is that they're terrified fragile racists who are convinced that every black or brown person they see is just a criminal looking for an opportunity to rob, rape, and kill them."
So 7th graders who haven't been yet and people who don't take school field trips at all
No one in their right mind feels safer with armed soldiers around. They're either necessary or unnecessary (guess which) and neither situation is safe.
When Miller and Vance say they feel unsafe in cities like DC, what they really mean is that they're terrified fragile racists who are convinced that every black or brown person they see is just a criminal looking for an opportunity to rob, rape, and kill them.
It's in the post we're discussing: "If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research". So, it would help DC if Dems did not listen to fuckhead Shor and DID talk about DC and DID attack Trump.
That's true but it also seemed like he was trying really hard not to be aggressive or confrontational, and while some of that might have been misplaced niceness it's hard not to wonder if he was coached to play it safe. His reaction at the end was good, it's a shame he didn't start off like that.
And why do you think Dems struggle to get elected? Could it have anything to do with paying consultants lots of money for bad advice and then following that bad advice instead of listening to constituents?
Lotta people still don't get this: Biden and Garland's failure to impose consequences (a) taught voters that nothing bad really happened and talk of threats to democracy were just for show and (b) taught the fascists that they could literally get away with murder and should try again.
Yeah, there can't be any fucking "Merrick Garland consequences" either
The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of RFK Jr.’s closest associates told the Daily Beast. Remember during his confirmation hearing RFK Jr. promised not to take away vaccine access for anyone. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
This idea that Dems aren't part of the problem is a big part of how we got into this mess. The CSA was the problem in the Civil War, didn't mean Lincoln didn't need to fire McClellan and Burnside. Refusal to acknowledge mistakes and bad strategy guarantees losing. These shit consultants need to go.
The highly-paid political consultants too many Democratic campaigns have been relying on for years are a cancer. Parasites who make money despite losing over and over again and betraying the voters. They're a big part of the reason the Democratic party has lost the battle with fascism.
"Useful idiots"
Seriously? You're not mad at the overpaid consultants giving terrible advice or the elected officials taking it, you're mad at the people pointing out the problem? How exactly do you expect things to get better?
One of the sad ironies of this horrorshow is that by trying to erase Ukraine from existence Putin has only made Ukrainian culture stronger. Lots of people who could barely find Ukraine on the map in 2021 are learning the cities and provinces, the flag, the songs, the language. Slava Ukraini.
Anyone who thinks it makes sense to negotiate with Putin is either a fucking idiot or a willing enabler of genocide. Or both. Probably both.
Also watching Wes Moore, who just happens to be in the news a bunch today
And still there are people saying "yOu'Re oVeRrEaCtInG!" No. America has fallen to a fascist coup.
Walz. Beshear. A few months ago I would've said Whitmer; she's done some disappointing things since the election but I'm not quite ready to count her out.
And yet Gillibrand and Schumer and Booker are still making excuses for not endorsing him
Cuban could endure a "shakedown" that removed *99%* of his wealth and still live an obscenely comfortable life. He can fuck himself until the heat death of the universe.
This is why I'm willing to consider him despite the fact that billionaires shouldn't exist, friends in Chicago who would know if he's the Midwest's version of Newsom like him.
Actual quote from Daily Kos: "I have noted that none of the Newsom naysayers have actually given an obviously better alternative at this point." There's a looooong fucking list, dumbass.
I'm appalled at how many Democrats (like most of Daily Kos) are just "he made fun of Trump that's all I need to know!" That's how you end up with terrible candidates and terrible politicians, Blue MAGA. And that in turn is how shitheads like Trump actually seem appealing to people.
The Republican Party is just one big child sex trafficking and sexual abuse ring at this point
The Pedo Party. GOP delenda est.
Questions Dems should ask Maxwell if she testifies before Congress: "What is an appropriate setting to rape children?" "a hotel room?" "a massage room?" "a private plane?" "a ranch in New Mexico?" "a Trump hotel?" "a bathroom next to a photocopier and 100s of stolen national security secrets?"
I've been saying this too: don't donate to PACs (and if you don't know they're legit, report as spam and block). These parasites keep as much as 98% of donations and give little or nothing to actually fighting fascism. Donate to candidates directly, or to orgs you know that are doing good work.
Researchers found that moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans. By @abrahm.bsky.social
Pretty sure the hate is sincere
It's not funny. It's horrifying: we have a pathological liar who rapes children and committed treason and insurrection in the White House, and tens of millions of people don't see any problem with that. It's a fucking nightmare.
That's five syllables that mean "racism"
Can I renounce my citizenship?
Let them know you're filming them and keep asking the key questions: "Do you have a warrant signed by a judge? Show me." "Do you have a badge? Show me." "Do you know how pathetic you are? You showed me."
My hope is that she lies and either gets caught out by one of the Democrats at the hearing, or right after the hearing someone releases proof that she lied. But no one should take her testimony seriously or tolerate anyone pretending to do so. "Disgraced financier's girlfriend exonerates Trump"
And Cohen came clean against his former boss. Maxwell's testimony will be to protect Trump.
Oh they'll try. And she's definitely fishing for a pardon and will lie like a rug to get one. I just don't think there's any way she can come off as credible if she says Trump didn't rape kids. I think Cohen does regret what he did. He's a crook but I think he feels shame. Maxwell is a sociopath.
"Do you want a pardon?" "Yes." "Will you lie to Congress and claim Trump never raped kids with Epstein?" "Yes, anything." "I think my client has answered all your questions truthfully!"
She's not going to testify against Trump. And what she did was way worse than anything Cohen was convicted for.
Yeah, he's illustrating the saying "sow the wind, reap the whirlwind" as clearly as anyone ever has. I'm not sure what happens either: some of the cult will accept anything he does, while there are signs some may actually have a limit. If he pardons Maxwell and MAGA revolts, what does Johnson do?
I think Trump is pretty desperate. Will a pardon be a bridge too far for the cult? We're already seeing Charlie Kirk and others make excuses for Maxwell. He's got to kill this story somehow. I think you're right that Maxwell would prefer her conviction overturned, but she's also pretty desperate.
Spinal Tap 2 trailer: youtu.be/PbExf2qbmEo?...
No, not really. I don't think the SC gives a shit about raping kids, it looks to me like this could be a Night of the Long Knives, where Trump is allowed to go down so they can replace him with someone more manageable (Vance). So far they're still maintaining the kabuki that courts and laws matter.
And the SC is loyal to the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society, not Trump. If the WSJ is going after him for real (and not just trying to scare him), they're not likely to help him.
Maybe - but Trump can give a pardon whenever he likes, whereas overturning her conviction requires the Supreme Corruption to step in. I have no faith in them, even when it comes to raping children, but that's at least 5 more people that have to be convinced and makes them pedo enablers too.
The people pushing AI are doing it so they can avoid paying people to work. There's no way in hell that if they succeed they're going to then agree to pay people NOT to work.
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
"Turns out it was all just videos of Donald drinking Diet Coke. Jeffrey just loved recording 50-year-old rich men drinking Diet Coke, and that's all Trump wanted to do. Weird, I know, but totally harmless as it conveniently turns out. Who knew!?"
Best case scenario is she lies to Congress in an attempt to cover for Trump raping children, and someone drops a smoking gun proving she's just helping out another child-raper. Because that's who she is. NYT: "Debate rages over veracity of documents that contradict controversial libertine's story."
Never forget: no matter what Maxwell says now in her attempt to get a pardon, she's a perjurer and convicted sex offender who preyed on children, and Trump is using her to protect himself from accountability for raping children. The greedo-owned media will try to hem and haw around this. Fuck them.
Trump: ‘We Could Argue All Day About Who Is Or Isn’t A Child Rapist’
Translation: we see a pardon in her future
The Australian Senate is based in part on the United States Senate, which isn't great and does cause inertia if the governing party isn't in control there. But at least it uses proportional representation.
BREAKING: JOINT STATEMENT FROM REUTERS, BBC NEWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS & AFP. Warning that their staff face death by starvation in Gaza. Horrifying and unprecedented.
They're wearing masks to hide their identities. That's the reason. Some of them have black stockings over their whole heads, that's not because they're afraid of Covid.
The real problem is that we don't have any idea who they are. They're very much secret police.
Everything downhill from Park Slope is el plano
Plano is also 1,500 miles away from NYC
Even worse: "Half of the nation’s people have only 18 senators representing them, while 52 senators represent just 18 percent of Americans." That was in 2021, when the Senate was evenly split: dividedwefall.org/senate-debate/
It doesn't help that Barrasso and Lummis (both WY) have exactly the same power as Padilla and Schiff (CA). Or that the Democratic Senators got 1.5 million more votes than the GOP Senators last election but lost four seats, ending up with 8 fewer Senators than the Pedophiles.
Took too long, but we got there in the end
Well, here's a depressing article about a side effect the mass deportations that I hadn't thought about before. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/south-f...
Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.
AOC needs to primary Schumer into the sun
Whey Standard 