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Mobile billboard rolling thru downtown Washington DC
Photograph two: 2.52 pm Same place Your taxes are paying for the National Guard to spend the day doing nothing in particular
Deploying the military against Americans.
Trump and his whole damned criminal clown cabal could disappear from the earth tomorrow and still no one would trust us again. Maybe if the rethugs in congress were also disappeared but unlikely to help at this stage.
Canada doesn't want all these angry, toxic, drug-addicted idiots.
She wanted to be a nurse ffs.
And then there are young adults like this: www.wunc.org/2025-08-26/a...
“What EPA is doing is systematically putting the interest of corporate polluters and political ideology ahead of EPA’s mission of protecting public health and the environment.”
A special place in hell for these bastards.
6 months locked up by ICE! www.wunc.org/2025-08-26/a...
There is a lovely young lady in Charlotte who chose voluntary deportation to Honduras. She graduated or was studying at UNC and planned to be a nurse. I hate those mother fuckers.
ROTTING OLD DONALD TRUMP (SAD DEMENTO!) DISAPPEARS FOR A WEEK AND HIS HANDLERS TRIED TO COVER IT UP WITH STAGED PHOTOS AND FAKE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS!!! MANY PEOPLE ARE THANKING JEFF TIEDRICH FOR HIS ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER IN TODAY'S POST WHICH YOU CAN READ HERE: bit.ly/4g47SfF
Such bullshit. Legalized highway robbery by the mob boss.
have they tried unplugging Trump and plugging him back in? no, wait. have they tried unplugging Trump and leaving him that way
I think Thiel has everything right where he wants it for Vance to take over. Now whether the repugs in congress will go along, who knows, but they haven't shown any backbone so far. And SCROTUS is helping.
If they are handpicked by Thiel and the P2025 bunch Vance will do whatever he is told to do.
He was only their puppet to get everyone in the door. Once there they can easily take over with all the same morons in place. He really shouldn't drink the tea.
So what?...in a week or 2?
Well, the press was kept at a distance this time, in the tennis courts, and one photo posted with his bestie had palm trees in it. Virginia does not have palm trees.
Meidas Health: The President of the American Academy of Pediatrics open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
We've been asking that for 10 years now. And now we have an administration full of P2025 goons waiting to take over even when he drops. The problem is now existentially bigger & more difficult than one person. He will be a martyr to the cult forever.
As Americans it is "we". WE allowed this insanity to occur with our arrogance, apathy, being too busy to vote, not standing up to the cult, etc etc. The 'royal we' if you prefer but we will all pay the price.
And we aren't the only ones who will feel it. Our former allies are also in clench mode thanks to our stupidity. Difference is, Americans have never experienced not being top dog. They are in for a nasty surprise.
We won’t feel this shift immediately but in the long run it will cost us trillions and drastically undermine our global influence. We voted for isolationism without realizing the consequences. Here come the consequences. (3/3)
We are witnessing a shift in the balance of power in real time. The attendees for the military parade in China are a who’s who of our forever enemies and former allies spurned by Trump’s stupidity. (1/3)
Ain't that the truth.
It’s hard to focus on the growing existential threats abroad when your own government is intent on killing you.
Also assigned to pick up trash. So when natural disaster hits, sorry but they're busy being demeaned.
Sad but true.
US foreign policy update: friends alienated, enemies united, armed forces spreading mulch in DC. MAGA
NAILED IT! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
But that's all they care about and they've got piles of money now thanks to daddyo.
Trump family's got nothing to offer.
True but he also doesn't have to run for office until 2028 and the rest of the criminal clowns will still be in the administration. Who are we if we have to endure 3 1/2 more years of this madness?
JD could disprove the notion that no one is worse than Trump. And the cabal of criminal clowns would still be there.
The cruelty never stops with them. It's their favorite entertainment.
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
Give him some of that 'cures everything' horse dewormer. He deserves the same care he pushed onto American citizens. www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
Another clueless Latino? www.irishstar.com/sport/other-...
Well we can surmise but it is difficult to pin down when identity theft & corporate hacks have become a daily event. One law firm told me, when signing up for a class action suit again one corporation, that one must be able to prove the damage (from 1 out of 100 breaches?).
You have to.
Great. And just when my panic about my monthly bens was subsiding a bit.
It’s time for that George Clooney Op-Ed expressing concern about Trump’s health…
Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, resigned Friday — days after filing a whistleblower complaint alleging DOGE employees had uploaded a copy of the entire country's Social Security information to a "vulnerable cloud environment”
Keep going after the bastards. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Preach it.
A message for JD Vance and anyone else in this Administration that is pretending they care about the safety of our kids. They don’t. All they care about is the political approval and profits of the gun industry. And they show it every day.
SARAH PALIN: "There are going to be death panels!" RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."
How about insuring their health by not propping up an insane asshole like RFK Jr?!
And yet you support a criminal asswipe like RFK Jr? WTF is wrong with you, man?!
Shame our forefathers didn't account for this possibility. OH wait. They did. Congress is complicit and criminal.
And we won't get many of them back. Health services, intel, diplomacy...so many good people lost, not to mention OUR safety and privacy destroyed.
We are losing a lot of good people who dedicated themselves to making our lives better This sucks on so many levels
Three of the officials who have resigned in protest, outside CDC HQ just now with their colleagues. In his resignation letter Dr Demetre C. Daskalakis (on the right) warned that the Trump administration “risks our personal well-being and the security of the United States.” (📸 Sam Stein)
How sad that it has come to this in our country. Thank you for doing what's right even IF it kills us lol.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
And of course Kennedy selects another Thiel acolyte who knows nothing about science or medicine. They are going to kill so many people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Another Thiel acolyte. Knows nothing about medicine or science. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Republicans have long ago lost their souls and integrity.
Mark this day as the death of expertise at the CDC. All we have between us and the next pandemic are a bunch of horse paste eating conspiracy loons.
RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
My town is already having a Covid spike. I am a 70 yr old cancer patient but now I'm expected to get a consult from my PCP (whatever that means) before I can get my booster? She wants me nowhere near her office for my own safety!
At a profound level, MAGA's immigration policies are simply a way to transfer taxpayer dollars to private contractors whose job is to terrorize the American people. Fundamentally, leaders are using our own money to destroy our democracy.
I want to hear the GOP explain again why we can't have decent healthcare or other nice things in this country.
The Florida government has signed contracts with at least $245 million of taxpayers' money for this this short-lived un-American photo-op cruelty.
We already have a large Covid spike in WNC. Probably from kids going back to school. My PCP wants me nowhere near her office but now I need a consult in order to get my booster? Total bullshit. I'm a 70 yr old cancer survivor who refuses to let Trump kill me.
Disgusting. It's is difficult not to wish evil on every one of them. Actually, I do. Every day. They deserve every bad thing coming to them if karma is a real thing.
"Two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula were arrested by federal law enforcement, in a confrontation described by firefighters and depicted in photos and video."
Ummm, and FEMA and CDC and NSI, etc etc
I guess they have lost all self respect, too. What happens when you sell your soul to a tyrant.
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
Fuck you.
What are you going to do to stop it? zip
Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett. They need that kind of fire.
THIS. Meidas Health: Changemakers Take on Goliath (i.e., the American Health Insurance Industry) open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
I mean think about it. WE are paying the salaries & expenses of these people he is sending to attack us.
Beyond absurd, it's criminal, evil, and wastes millions if not billions of taxpayer dollars.
No one is too insignificant for these criminal tyrants to attack.
But it started with the sycophants in Congress voting to confirm unqualified morons to run these agencies. Should they have all walked out? Maybe. Easier said than done when you have a mortgage and a family to feed. Our elected 'leaders' are the tip of the spear that allowed Trump to do this.
And god only knows how badly he has destroyed the CIA & other intel depts, the HHS, FAA, FDA, CDC, NIH, USDA, etc etc etc. ALL government entities that we depend on and that require our trust in what they say.
Law enforcement, elected 'leaders' (need quotes for that), the judiciary, businesses (there was a time when businesses were proud to lift up communities), and while we are at it, higher education.
This regime never stops. Court records filed Saturday reveal that immigration officials intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, after he rejected a deal that would have sent him to Costa Rica in exchange for staying in custody and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges.
My Layla loves playing in fresh water but the ocean was a bit overwhelming for her, too. Second time seemed even worse perhaps because our cottage steps were literally 2' away at high tide. At most she may have gotten her pads damp. No beach bum hiding in there.
I'm old, too. A lot of us are. And we are good people, who worked hard, being sickened (some will die) due to Trump's cruelty. Cry me a river for Bolton.
Bolton was complicit in the weakening of our democratic institutions and the strengthening of the executive branch. Even though this is wrong and I oppose it, he is reaping what he has sown and I have no sympathy for the man.
John Bolton legitimized Trump in the first place. Fuck him and all of the other enablers who made this lunacy possible.
Perhaps Dems in Congress should try that when the GOP is running & hiding from doing their jobs.
They see anything that benefits them as "appropriate"...justified. No conscience, no integrity, no morals, no compassion. Evil personified.
"The president was never inappropriate with anyone." Pardon me if I don't consider Ghislaine Maxwell, someone who used to prowl Middle Schools looking for young girls to rape, an expert on what's appropriate behavior.
Not to mention the fact that he is inappropriate with EVERYone in one form or another. It is the one consistent thing about that criminal sociopath.
A win! A federal judge has expanded a ruling that stops the Trump administration from cutting off federal money to cities that limit cooperation with immigration enforcement.
Nope and nope. I foresee so many lawsuits. techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/h...
I used to hear often, particularly as regarding politicians, "America loves a reformed sinner". I think we are over that now as we watch our country crumble around our heads. Schadenfraude keeps our heads up right now.
But let's not forget. If Bolton had been an honorable member of Trump's first administration, we would not be where we are right now. He was a culpable enabler who helped get us where we are now. Only spoke up after he was out and could make money from it. Did NOTHING to protect democracy.
They messed with the wrong guy? What has he accomplished? Nothing.
Why? Save your sympathy for the innocent people Trump is killing.
It IS the point. Both can be true. There are far too many people who turned their heads for 4 years & enabled Trump's rise to where he is now (for $s). They are not heroes. They are just examples of the snake eating its own tail. People who understand history & human nature knew this day would come.