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Earth to Trump! Those wars are ongoing and Trump has in no way engineered any peace between the participants. No one is paying attention to him since on the world stage he is like the demented uncle who shows up at Thanksgiving whom no one takes seriously.
Something incongruous in his statement. Is he looking at different cohorts of populations? I'm not a statistician but my alarm bell of bullshit just went off.
@gspinell.bsky.social Wise words promoting persistence. We all find ourselves occasionally climbing a steep cliff and wonder why. Then we get to the summit and see all that lay below and it dawns on us we have arrived!
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Those who believe Trump was sent by God must be projecting their own ignorance and bigotry onto God. Scripture tells us that God made us in His image. These people make God in their own image.
There was a research study a decade ago which showed progressives have a much more developed anterior cingulate cortex, the site for higher level thinking. Conservatives have a more developed right horn of the amygdala, the site for fight or flight reflexes. Interesting but not definitive.
This is classic. He is turning the tables on Trump who writes at a third grade level to not overwhelm his followers. They should be able to master this and it should get under Trump's skin. Look for a "Truth Social" verbal diarrhea event tonight.
And the "religious" are OK with this since he is their sugar daddy. Hypocrisy runs deep in the religious community.
It is heartening to see a Democratic governor counter punching the regime. Hopefully he'll inspire more of the same among our representatives in Congress and in all the Blue states.
It is becoming more apparent that he is either a useful idiot who does not know his actions support Putin or he is deliberately working for Putin. Either way if there are any patriots in our government they need to invoke the 25th Amendment since Trump is unfit to hold office.
Trump hasn't worked hard to remain stupid. He hasn't worked hard at anything his whole life. Stupidity comes natural for him.
This is Trump in a nutshell. It is also the nature of narcissists who are so obsessed with their own "talent" they can not look at anything they have done with any objectivity.
Progressivism seeks truth and justice. If those are unappealing to "normal" people I am quite content to be abnormal.
Susan Collins is toast 🍞
When Trump awarded it to Limbaugh he diminished the medal. This only reinforces the fact that the value of the medal is a reflection of to whom it is bestowed and which president does the honors.
Michelle Obama didn't make any mistakes encouraging kids to exercise and eat balanced meals. If RFKjr is encouraging kids to exercise and watch their diets that's all good but his nonsense about vaccines negates any benefit. What good is a balanced diet when you die from measles.
Unfortunately ex post facto laws are unconstitutional. (only Democrats are concerned about that BTW) So we can not pass a law once we regain power to re-criminalize the criminals. Our only recourse is make them social pariahs; avoid them socially, do not hire them.
Paxton and his ilk think the Ten Commandments apply to the "little people". For themselves they are mere suggestions and quaint at that.
@ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social We have become used to having immigrants, undocumented and on work visas, do much of our low wage work. It had become commonplace. The better option is to encourage a path to citizenship so these people can benefit from the protections of our Constitution.
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Governor Pritzker is spot on! A republic is run by the people and the people need to reassert our responsibility.
Maybe more Democratic governors will be like Newsom and Pritzker and stand up to Trump and his cabal once they see how their fortitude makes Trump incontinent.
It isn't just that he is a Russian asset. He is likely one of their useful idiots. The problems lay with Congress and SCOTUS. Their owners do not care for the continuation of our republic.
Leonard Leo played the long game, as do his fellow reactionaries. What he effected took decades of slow deliberate compromise of our civil rights laws and the accountability of the executive to our judiciary. His dream is for an unaccountable president, a supine Congress, and corrupt judiciary.
SCOTUS rules according to their owners' wishes, not according to the Constitution.
Looks like he had an IV in his hand. Getting infusions of antibiotics or antivirals? Asking for a friend.
Too many people think what is happening at CDC and HHS generally is beneficial since they hold science generally in contempt. When the disease outbreaks become a daily occurrence and their own families are affected maybe they will blame Trump - although not likely.
The kid's parents should sue him for traumatizing their child.
Something is fishy. Why would he have been struck from behind at high speed after having given assistance to someone?
Socialism - You have 2 cows. You give 1 to your neighbor. Communism – You have 2 cows. You give them both to the government and the government gives you some milk. Fascism – You have 2 cows. The government shoots you and keeps the cows. Capitalism – You have 2 cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
This is the reason in a nutshell why the plutocrats want to destroy labor unions. They want a bigger piece of a pie which they are shrinking.
The laws are as effective as our willingness to enforce them. If Trump exercises extralegal power and no one stops him then the law is mute.
I can remind him. He's a Republican stooge with the balls of an earthworm.
There is a drip-drip-drip of information and suggestions that many voting machines were hacked and votes erased. The whole purpose behind instigating the liable suits by Dominion and Semantic was to access the OS of their machines to learn how they were programmed.
The problem, as I see it, the Democrats are too concerned about protocols and norms to be able to exercise raw power - even when that is necessary to preserve our republic. You confront people by standing on your feet, not kneeling on your knees.
Their lies are so hyperbolic they overwhelm the credulous who can't think and the rest of us give up in disgust rather than confronting their bullshit.
Trump is a stooge for the oligarchs. The flatter him so he thinks he is in charge but the apparatchiks chosen by the oligarchs are doing the work of dismantling our republic. The Republican Party is totally complicit.
Correcting for race is a euphemism for ignoring the greater morbidity and mortality of women of color. It is morally vacuous.
As a Republican Cassidy will not go against his party's "leader" no matter what. He's another stooge with no moral compass.
When someone calls me a DemocRAT I call them a RepubliCANT. I have always hated the corruption of Democratic Party to Democrat as if the speaker can't tell an adjective from a noun (perhaps they really can't). I am also WOKE - aware of he needs of others and willing to do something about it.
Der Fuehrer or die fotze?
Looks like there were only four people I wasn't already following. I must be doing something right!
It is bad enough that some businesses mine our private information to market to us. Now we have our government providing all the data they want including confidential information.
The UN should move to Geneva. In a future presidency the US should recognize the jurisdiction of the Hague so we can send Trump and his minions there to be tried for war crimes.
The United Nations should pass a resolution recognizing a Palestinian State which includes all of the West Bank. If it is a General Assembly resolution the US can not veto it. It might not have weight with Trump and Bibi but the message will be sent loud and clear.,
Trump is already an embarrassment. His tariffs are unlawful since the Constitution says so. We should expect that Roberts & Co. will find words in Article I that aren't there so Trump's owners get what they want.
Of course he will! His perspective is constrained from having his nose planted in Trump's derriere so he doesn't see what's coming.
We have a combination of a supine Congress, a corrupt Supreme Court, and a chief executive who does not think he is constrained by either the Constitution or common morality. I hope our 250 year old republic can outlast this conflation of cataclysms.
Best of luck. The truth about January 6 is being drowned out by propaganda from Trump and MAGA.
The hacking seems to be through DMs with a message that you "won" something from Bluesky. It may seem unfriendly but block all DMs or at a minimum only exchange DMs with people you follow.
Had Biden misspoke like this or anything similar the MSM would have been all over him and the fascists in Congress would be screaming for the 25th Amendment.
Trump proudly announced to the assembles "news" media that he was about to meet with Putin in Russia. It appears he confused Alaska for Russia. The MSM gave a collective shrug.
This is a dress rehearsal to impose martial law.
You did not let anyone down. Those of us who voted for Harris were let down by our fellow Americans whose hatred for "the other" supersedes their own common sense.
Now Hegseth proclaimed that women should not be allowed to vote. They already have lost personal agency so loss of first class citizenship is next.
Another step in the marginalization of the LGBT community. First they came for the transgenders and denied them health care and the right to serve our country. Now they are coming for the LGBs by denying them 14th Amemedment protections of equal rights.
I always felt the reason they use masks is so they can not be photographed and be compared to the images taken on J6. If identified as insurrectionists, among the other crimes they committed, it is likely state charges could be brought against them and Trump can't save their butts.
They decided to not count a large number of Latinos arguing they were undocumented. Of course they had no proof. However, the under-count, if there was one, is their fault due to their own hubris and stupidity. Vance is an exemplar of both.
Interesting Orwellian doublespeak. Everything he said is the opposite of what they are doing. I truly believe the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice but waiting for justice is a bitch.
👍 My rule of thumb. The greater their show of piety, the more they are covering up antisocial and likely illegal behavior.
👍 His entire agenda needs to be revealed so the people of Oklahoma know what is in store for them if ilk like him become more influential.
Blog on main stream media, write letters to the editor, show by example you can not be intimidated or bullied. If you know a company is underwriting MAGA take your business elsewhere.
That would be a dream just like one antibiotic that can kill all species of bacteria and prevent any survivors from adapting. I don't know if it is at all possible. I worry however, that scads of money will be thrown into this quixotic research while promising research is starved for funds.
Trump is desperate for a Nobel Peace Prize since Obama received one. His obsession to one up Obama means he'll sell out anyone and anything to claim he brought about peace and then he'll claim he "earned" the prize. I doubt he can gaslight the Nobel Committee.
Too bad Trump is ignorant of history (most subjects actually) or he would see the parallels to Munich 1938.
From the illustrations it looks like he's copying Versailles. He shares the megalomania of Louis XIV but without the competency which Louis's court held.
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Welcome to our plutocracy. We can change our trajectory through our votes. What's required is the will to make changes and the wisdom to carry them out.
mRNA technology earned a Nobel Prize and was responsible for saving millions of lives. Stands to reason that anyone Trump hired would try to negate that history since the vaccination program was enacted under Biden.
Trump's base would blame the underage girls.
Yes! Every sentient citizen knows Biden was one of our most productive presidents. Trump voters are not sentient so don't bother trying to explain sentient to them.😀
One of the most honorable presidents in my lifetime going back to Truman. Carter is up there also. Any Republicans? Nope!
Zero scandals, strong leadership. Repost if you like President Obama too 🙌🏻
David Frum is a prophet. The MAGA/GOP knows the midterms do not look good for themselves so they will try to trash the elections to retain power. Who is enabling this? The oligarchs, who else?
One could say the "empty space" is between his ears but metaphorically it would appear the empty space is where his heart should be.
I have chosen, long ago, to forgo using titles for people who do not deserve the honor that title conveys. Therefore I refer to Trump as Trump without the moniker but I will always say President Biden and President Obama and Secretary Clinton, and her husband as President Clinton. Kiss my 🍑
The are the ramblings of a delusional narcissist. If no one is looking at the 25th Amendment to save us from this fool we are in BIG trouble.
His taste is "Victorian Bordello".
From the artist's impression it looks like Versailles. So Trump sees himself as a redux of Louis XIV.
Just because a district happens to be mostly Republican, or Democratic for that matter, does not preclude the voters choosing the other party. True, folks are tribal and that makes gerrymandering effective but it is not absolute. There have been occasions wherein 'Red' districts have gone 'Blue'.
Hard to fathom. Are they genuinely that stupid or are they gaslighting the credulous. I would like to see all energy subsidies rescinded so the marketplace can decide which energy sources are cost effective. The fossil fuel folks would hate that because they know the answer.
Grassley is a demented PO💩
No one demanded a recount in 2024 because that would have given oxygen to Trump's BS about the 2020 election. He would have said "see they don't trust the elections either". The truth will come out. The arc of the universe bends toward justice but in its own time.
This will happen only if the American people wake up and defeat the Republican Party in November 2026. Only if there is accountability for Trump and his minions will we have a prosperous and safe republic once again.
This BS is coming from the most corrupt and lawless administration in history. This is deflection and projection all at once.
He is being willfully ignorant. He knows Obama did not take office until 2009. These MAGAts are kissing Trump's ass and gaslighting the credulous at the same time. Perhaps that is their idea of multi-tasking?
I suffered the misfortune of listening to his BS until I turned off the TV. I thought taking a walk in hot humid weather was preferable to listening to that moron spout nonsense.
It isn't just Thiessen. The "journalist" who is interviewing him is either just as ignorant or is deliberately gaslighting the mob. Any wonder why we will degenerate into a third world shithole over the next four years?
If a person is on tranquilizers they are not engaged. If not engaged why would they crave power? Marshall is just another Republican schmuck.
Unfortunately, Dems seem to play by the rules and are concerned for the health of the Republic by not arresting who was then a former president. One reason the Dems lose is the desire to get along and not be bullied. We all know how that works out.
Yet his minions will follow him. Talk about a low bar.
Harris failed to separate herself from Biden which she could have done by criticizing Netanyahu. She chose to join Biden at the hip as if all his policies were supportable. She was not her own woman but were it not for Musk's interference she would have won.
Simple math escapes this one. Maybe that's why he went bankrupt 6 times🤔