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Eugenicists opposed public health for those they deemed unfit, uncivilized, or subhuman to raise death rates. MAHA is so stupid it turned a proven tactic for eugenic population reduction into Russian roulette w/ a fully loaded gun. Modern eugenicists lack the knowledge to even be pseudoscientists.
MAHA is eugenics. You can and should treat it like phrenology, if the phrenologists were shooting your children themselves.
The idea of giving Trump any benefit of the dumb sickens me to my core but it is possible that he doesn't know what's posted in his name? Some staffer fires off posts in his voice, perhaps? He is still endorsing their content, of course. But it seems out of character for him not to claim ownership.
Ladapo is a grifting propagandist first and a doctor second. DeSantis ensured his default expertise of having an MD was well bought and paid for.
I repeat, Kennedy is either liar to the point where he is a national security risk or he is in cognitive decline so staggering that he makes Trump look fit for office.
Water. Porch.
"President Trump, Lamb of Frank & King of Kings, we pray to you asking for kindness and mercy. Please deliver your flock from the consequences of their own acts & place blame upon the brow of the socialists; whose policies we like when they benefit only us. Bury me in thy golf course soil. Amen."
Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has ordered officials to hide tuberculosis cases, even as three active TB cases were just reported in Maine. He’s also suppressing bird flu reports. Pandemics don’t start with viruses they start with secrecy. RFK Jr. must resign now!
There is not much left if the President gets to wage war against American citizens. We lost every norm in nine months. There are 423 days until the midterms and no guarantee this country gives enough of a damn for that to matter. But that's the last shot.
I'm old enough to remember when "Let's go Brandon" came out of a crowd chanting "Fuck Joe Biden".
Heads. Spikes. Walls.
Holy fuck doesn't begin to describe any of this
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
Also, so that's AI generated but that's the title of an episode of a Disney cartoon so...some in the White House definitely prompted "Chicapocalypse Now!" but got Big City Greens.
No. This is treason.
Yes!
And more dead Americans.
This is both pathetic and absolutely terrifying.
Trump has orchestrated the widest sabotage and vandalism of American history just so he can set all the money on fire, like The Joker, in some twisted attempt to seem powerful. "Defense weak. Trump strong. War strong. Hegseth and Putin say so."
MAGA if it was raised under a monarchy.
"Why do you criticize Democrats?" Because my view on whether or not to doom an entire population of women and LGBT+ people to oblivion is not based on domestic American politics. It's based on principle. And being against theocracy and autocracy.
"Because it’s the right one — it’s the right decision for our people." - President Biden, August 16, 2021
I'd read an alternate history novel where Dr. Larry Braunstein rented his office from a landlord besides Fred Trump and the butterfly effect saves the world.
My great-uncle was KIA by Chinese soldiers along a river in what is now North Korea but it wasn't for him not fighting hard enough or being woke. This is an insult to every single person who has died to service to this republic and it is only to serve the ego of a draft dodger and his lickspittles
"Mr. Trump, I am going to attempt to hand you the most important city in the world on a silver platter but if that fails, I would also love to hang out and drink with murderous princes."
This is your reminder that without act(s) of Congress this is simply illegal cosplay. The executive branch of the United States is a rogue element.
If Dems quoted the actual words of some of the most famous founders on religion, they would be slandered and lose their next election to the most zealous sociopaths in their area. Americans literally do not know where they come from and how much this is heresy against our secular values.
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula
Indeed.
When you bring gladiators to the palace its an emperor not a president, a kingdom not a republic.
I swear to god. This obsession with Newsom has to be thanks to the fact that he looks like Michael Douglas if you squint (and thus presidential) compared to Vance who looks like an Oblivion NPC.
This would be a laughable parody if it wasn't going to directly result in the death of American service members with infinitely more worth and honor than the Secretary of Defense or their Commander-in-Chief.
Venezuela has 3 F-16s and 20 or so Su-30s (comparable more to the F-15 iirc from a friend who knows fighter aircraft). Ten F-35s is a response to narcotics trafficers in the same way chemotherapy is a response to the flu.
Not a great sign when the NRA is doing more to speak up against trans people having constitutional rights stripped away than a lot of our actual supposed allies are.
The fact that "clairvoyant" is capitalized and "Earth" isn't says everything you need to know about Laura Loomer. Also, there is has been no greater insult devised against neurodivergent people than Loomer saying people think she is autistic.
Still waiting for The Rock Wizard's triumphant reboot as a Thrawn level supervillain.
It is nice to know that balance in the Force has been restored as after 13 years that the EU has restored to being an insane mess. It is just now an insane mess at the same level of canonicity across the board.
It's almost like he was given a list in Alaska and told to spread it out a few weeks.
Let's also remember that Trump's 1st op, 9 days in, was the Raid on Yakla, Yemen which Obama considered too risky but Trump went ahead it. The raid was an alsolute failure that killed 14-25 civilians including 9 children; among them a 9 year old American girl shot in the neck. This is what he does
I am sure this administration is going to carefully and resonably handle the obvious act of the 4th largest military in Latin America saving face after a superpower either murdered its citizens or faked murdering its citizens.
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Nothing quite sums up my feelings watching conspiracy theorist, anti-semite, insurrectionist, and white supremacist MTG somehow stumble into the right solution on this Epstein stuff. It's like Sam Wilson briefly agreeing with Baron Zemo.
I am going to be honest, watching this as a hearing impaired person. He answers twice. He then listens, answers, and then claims to have lost track due to hearing. He is either the worst liar ever or, and I mean this seriously, mentally unfit for his office.
You know what? Shutdown the government. Make the case. "We are not letting Donald Trump mutilate our largest and most impactful global institution while he uses it to violate international and domestic law to play toy soldiers, with real lives, against the people of the United States." Bam!
Renaming the Defense Department will require an act of Congress. If Dems aren't willing to slam on the breaks and mess with the machines on this, they might as well give this despot a crown.
I was going through this looking for my Like, somewhere in the 30s, only to nearly spit-take iced tea across my keyboard and desk. Holy crap.
I will have to say that I can't take some accounts seriously when they rush to the ramparts to fight vaccine misinformation but still push the conspiracy theory that the vainest, most selfish narcissist on the planet (who is afraid of sharks and birds) organized a plan to shoot himself in the head.
Someone has big "I didn't do the reading" energy.
I missed the post you must have made in the Spring about retiring. Congratulations, Brian. And thank you.
*ancestor. I am very tired.
RFK is good for one thing. It is clearly what his miserable life was designed for. Updating the educated pseudoscience of the 19th century and importing it to useless MAGA memelord culture where it requires none of the basic education of its centuries old bastard descendent.
Also Spinosaurus is a beast. If you are looking at the current scientific understanding of a Spinosaur and going "Woke! Gay! The lib scientists ruined it!" than you have stuff to work out that is completely separate from dinosaurs.
The dumbest thing about this is the random LGBT+ hate but, second to it, is that birds are dinosaurs. Our species exists, in part, because enough of our tiny mammalian ancestors avoided being murdered by predators including predatory [bird] raptors; the deadliest thing after cats and fire.
Again, this IS what Americans voted for (and more importantly DIDN'T vote for).
Susie Wiles is sitting pretty far back for a Chief of Staff and is surrounded by a lot of clowns to be holding to her so-called "Clown Car Clause".
And so we face the question: is it more dystopian for the US govt to fake a video of the military assassination of civilians in international waters to make POTUS feel good, or to actually carry out the military assassination of civilians in international waters to make POTUS feel good?
If I see these videos I tell YouTube to stop recommending these channels to me. Not sure if it helps, but we all have limited options.
Say no to all the slop.
Yes, I am sure.
Pro-tip. If you are answering this, please don't post an AI image you found on a website. That's how you get blocked.
Nope, sadly.
Leaving aside that he owned slaves, Lee WAS an honorable guy, an exemplary cadet, a superintendent of West Point, and a capable officer BUT then he became a traitor so the rest of that doesn't matter. West Point already knows how to deal with that. See how they handled Benedict Arnold.
There it is. I was right. Tail. Dog. Wag.
Laura Loomer is 32 but talks like she is mad that her job at a Nazi forced labor camp was furloughed.
Somewhere in Maine, boss music is playing.
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
One, this is a policy position you would only take if your chief politican advisor is the White Horse of Pestilance and you want to kill infants, school children, and the elderly. Two, come on, man? Really?
I wonder what the defensive advantage of Colorado was for modern warfare. Could it have been the incomprehensible tons of primordial earth? Nah.
You got this!
Someone needs to ask Governor Jeff Landry what he thinks of the President calling him an incompetent danger to national security.
This is a concept so stupid that it is defeated by the fact that kids have filmed everything from shoplifting to murder and posted it online.
One of my favorite stories about Sparta, mostly because I find it funny that most people cut out what happens after the "If".
These monsters deserve to die screaming.
No. No. No.
Take a slightly different approach. The literal first thing we learned about Trump as POTUS was perception of support mattered more than the reality. Yeah, it's an empty room. But on social media it's a guy on a stage and he could be speaking to a stadium for all Facebook knows.
At long last, the crack scienticians at PragerU have recreated the Duff Beer Hall of Presidents
I would say AI but I presume an AI would have stolen enough poems to duplicate a rhyme scheme.
This is the energy that kept this republic from falling into oblivion in the mid-late 19th Century.
"We, Michael we were making..." No. You had two choices. One was distinctly worse than the other and you stayed home because it was a choice that was below you. Enjoy your work. You have decided the fate of millions. Be proud.
Again, the voters in this country made the decision to put the 250th anniversary in the hands of people that hate her. That was a choice. Just like everything that has happened was a choice. They were asked to do the most basic of civil tasks and refused. Next time it is not going to be as simple.
Civil war? Yes. But in the Bleeding Kansas prelude to something worse sort of way. It's a red line that we can't just step back over once we've crossed it.
Mood in Hungary "is palpably different" than a year ago, with people "more comfortable criticizing Orbán in public.…Public figures speak about the 'Orbán regime' instead of the 'Orbán government.'… "In response, the rhetoric from the regime…has become more threatening, violent, and openly fascist."
Yes, Donnie. Yes. So, stop being their ally in Ukraine and their inevitable invasion of Taiwan.
The Republican Party platform.
A victory.
Yeah that might be it
This sounded better in its original German. Oh and its historically illiterate as you can get.
So the greatest military on the planet that has been handling pirates for centuries and developed means of killing anyone, anywhere couldn't handle a single speedboat in international waters. No. It smells like the tail wagged the dog so they could post lethality on social media.
I like how the safari was like it was "sudden and unprovoked", I pretty sure attempted murder is provokation but I am not a marketing hack in the big game hunting business. The bull clearly had a superior battle strategy.
"Be loud for America."
This guy wants to find common ground with the guy openly threatening to illegally send US soliders to intimidate and detain the citizens who elected him. That tells you everything you need to know about him.
"Play the clip." *plays clip* "Um um ah um..." Yeah, man. Admit it. You are a hack who made money off of lies. You tried to become President based on those lies and your family name. And now you work for fascists and your own dad would hate you. Life comes at you fast.
Sorry, Devin, this was a bad enough take but then I saw you were an AI-apologist. I am sure you will have time to explain that you were one of the good ones in favor of the name change when the guy with the rifle is shouting at you to keep digging.
I am going to be a bit of a jerk. The media circus for a decade plus of "Everything causes cancer" walked to this could run. There is no medical conspiracy of this admin that doesn't hae a eugenic or New Age point of origin. None of this is new.