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Today the New American Dream is founding a moderately successful company and then doing everything possible to marginalize your workforce to squeeze the most productivity for the lowest wages while continuing to grow your business into a successful corporation that gets acquired for 10x receivables.
The "American Dream" requires: 🎯 Constitutional amendment guaranteeing union representation 🎯 Federal minimum wage marked to inflation 🎯 Statutory paid time off, incl. materity/paterny leave 🎯 A choice of single-payer healthcare 🎯 Federal social safety net incl. disability, unemployment
RFK Jr. smoked so much crack cocaine that he burned down his vocal cords so thoroughly he now sounds like a 1970s school bus transmission getting jammed into reverse. And yet, nobody in media asks him how he damaged his voice. Why does it matter…credibility. Make bad people prove their credibility.
What this image of Putin, Modi, and Xi says to me is neither China nor India will intervene when Russia escalates its war in Ukraine and then with NATO in Eastern Europe. Both will continue to buy Russian oil and sell weapons and technology to Putin's war machine. Trump is on blast in this photo.
🔘 Greenland 🔘 Venezuela ✅ Crypto 🔘 Chicago 🔘 Health
Tomorrow is a new day, a new work week, and now we’ll start to see what’s going on. Trump can’t hide from the world’s view any longer.
Imagine if you were gettin' down with a married woman whose partner came around and you had to hightail it outta there, and then they tried to run you down with their car. 🤔 or Imagine you were drinking heavily and you pulled out into a fast-moving road and got rear-ended. 🤔
🔘 Heart attack ✅ Stroke 🔘 Covid 🔘 Flu 🔘 Injury from fall 🔘 STD flare-up 🔘 Other … What is your guess?
The point here is not to have a truthful answer (though that would be a great bonus). What we want is to challenge Trump's regime on their lies. Because the cover-up is almost always worse than the problem. Hiding the US president's illness is worse than admitting he has a medical issue.
Good morning, DC media. Here's your guide for the week: ➡️ "Is the president ill?" ➡️ "When will the president make his next public appearance?" ➡️ "Can you confirm the president writes all his Truth Social posts, and if not, who writes them in his name?" Simple questions to establish the record.
Looking good, Donnie! Hike up those trousers, buddy. This reminds me … On April 15, 2025, at Walter Reed, Trump had a yearly physical and was listed as 6 feet 3 inches tall, weighing 224 pounds. Tom Brady is 6 feet 4 inches and weighs 225 pounds.
The scramble to declare Trump gone was fun; social media this morning was a blast. But the next step is to just let the days tick by naturally. Next week will come soon enough, and there's no hiding a health crisis. He's got to pay the toll eventually.
Totally normal. No worries here. Who hasn't gotten a free RV from a billionaire?
ZERO percent chance Trump used an em dash.
Got to say, if while being president, most of America thought I was dead, I might take, like, 2 minutes and find a camera and say, "Hey, I'm not dead."
FCK. So disappointed.
I'm on my way to Barthelmarkt, and if I find out Trump is dead in a GERMAN BIER TENT, there might be (happy) problems for me. 🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻
I think this is the last post Trump wrote himself. That was 3 days and 4 hours ago.
It will be Jr. Has to be a Trump. Maybe Laura.
You voted for 6 of Trump's Cabinet, including Sean Duffy for Transportation. GFY
📌 Fun fact: Quadruple bypass surgery typically takes 4 to 6 hours, with about 7 days of hospitalization afterward, followed by 8 to 12 weeks of recovery before resuming normal daily activity.
I think Trump needs to be seen publicly today, or some deep state conspiracy shit will devour the internet.
It seems clear to me that Trump is not writing the latest spate of Truth Social posts. Strangely, it might be that posts with "President DJT" or similar are his, while the rest are others'. Can't be certain, but to me this tracks. For example, these posts are very different styles.
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Mike Johnson was a nobody congressman before he was probably blackmailed into becoming speaker. There is no doubt in my mind Trump has some bad, bad stuff hanging over Johnson's head.
None of the cost cuts or reductions are about saving money. Trump's regime is trying to force anyone who's not MAGA to submit to their power.
After the last school shooting massacre, you're telling me now that all those prayers for it to never happen again didn't work?
I understand Darwinism is a very long-term process of natural selection. But, and hear me out, perhaps it could be "encouraged" down to a four-year cycle in former slave states?
In the upcoming midterm election cycle, perhaps ask your Democratic candidate why, when they totally controlled the Senate, the House, and the White House, they did not pass comprehensive gun control laws. It's a good icebreaker.
Once Mamdani wins, ICE will show up and accuse him of using an Oxford comma on his residency paperwork, and then they'll deport him.
🚨🚨🚨 Susan Collins is concerned. Gather the children. Get the go bag. 🚨🚨🚨
Mortgage fraud! Get ‘em boys.
I really wish we could know the number of people who believe there will be a cure for autism available in September. I can imagine it's startling.
…also for the platform… "My opponent is 86 years old, and you have to ask yourself, why does an 86-year-old man who had a stroke last year WANT to be reelected? Together, let's wish him a happy retirement."
Let's all celebrate Pete Hegseth being 7 months sober. The most miraculous addiction turnaround in history. 🍻
I never thought it would need to be said, but here we are. 👏 DO 👏 NOT 👏 TRAVEL 👏 TO 👏 WASHINGTON 👏 DC 👏
It's Day 1, the executive orders are a distraction from kitchen table issues It's Day 100, the Epstein files are a distraction from kitchen table issues It's Day 200, the military occupation of cities are a distraction from kitchen table issues It's Day 1076, the public executions are a.....
It will be lovely to see all those single-issue voters enjoying group walks amid the rubble of America. At least the breadlines won't be boring.
In my lifetime, the CDC was known globally as the ultimate go-to place for solving the big virus/health crises. Their scientists were the heroes. Their reputation was legendary. To think the CDC is now a hollowed-out husk because of Jenny McCarthy and RFK Jr.'s bullshit quackery is beyond belief.
Repeal the 2A, and go get the guns. No guns at home. No guns on open carry. No guns on concealed carry. The US has lost the plot on gun rights, full stop.
Five days ago the US president claimed to have ended up to 10 wars, and the media, of course, doesn't follow up on this obvious lie. We won't have reporting leading to accountability because the attention span of Americans is short, plus every day brings a new wave of bullshit from the White House.
On January 20, Trump declared a national emergency based on illegal immigration. Now, 219 days later, it seems the media has forgotten why ICE is in the streets. Is the national emergency over? I thought there were ZERO border crossings now. How many "violent foreign criminals" has ICE arrested?
I sincerely hope the regime members who don't end up in jail will at least be shunned from society because they are too stupid to exist any longer.
SpaceX can't just do a rocket test; it has to be "…making progress towards a multiplanetary future." STFU
A months worth of Obama-era news has happened in the last two days with 100% more crimes.
Sure, sure, 100% agree. They're all rotten.
In case you want to show your opinion about Trump's bullshit immigration force, you can get one of these shirts. I make $0 on each shirt sold. There's no branding. 100% of the profits (like $4.50 a shirt) will go to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (www.ilrc.org) quarterly, which I will publish.
The crazy thing is Trump's regime is scattershot. Everything is about retribution. Authoritarian regimes would mandate ZERO salmonella in the meat market and punish those who failed with harsh consequences. I'm not recommending that, but it's what has happened. Trump only cares about 🖕 everyone.
I'm sorry, truly, but I can't help myself.
What was old is new again. Time is a flat circle.
I am a zero percent John Bolton stan. I listen to the guy and his takes. Some are accurate, some not. He's a pundit. That's what pundits do for a living. But do I think John Bolton is an intelligence asset for a foreign government against the US? No, no, I don't. Trump just hates him.
Reply Guy Trump should also go fuck himself.
If you look at the history of armed rebellions, revolutions, for instance, the sitting judiciary doesn't survive.
Easier to build, repair, and eventually replace. Less costly to operate. Big windows reduce lighting costs. More interior space on smaller building plots. More facing inside and out for branding. But yes, they do suck. And they all are bastardizing Bauhaus styling so brazenly it's vomit-inducing.
NYT: "For most American parents, choosing to invest in college savings plans used to be a no-brainer. Now, some are reconsidering. Here’s what’s behind the shift."
"President Donald J. Trump Improves Our Nation Through Better Design" This idea has worked just fine, super fine, in the past. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
Trump's US Destruction Plan™ progress report: ✅ Tariffs crushing small businesses ✅ Housing prices are falling ✅ US Dollar crashing ✅ Unemployment up ✅ Consumer prices up ✅ Inflation up ✅ Exports down ✅ US military in cities ✅ Russia and Putin defended (NATO rebuffed) ❌ Dear leader is beloved
Today is a good day to get to know a new friend.
What might be lost on people is that he's doing these crimes while Congress is in recess until Sept. 2nd. Besides a few remarks here or there, none of the country's elected representatives are doing anything to push back on this maniac. The American political system is fundamentally broken.
Trump is not well, clearly. His health is failing, so now is the time to do all the illegal stuff because he's probably not going to see 2028. Edema is a broad symptom, but given Trump eats endless McDonald's food and doesn't sleep or exercise, his heart is maybe as strong as a cup of pudding.
Just checked Google Maps using the distance thing. There are 11 grocery stores less than 2 km from our home in Ingolstadt. All are bikeable. Granted, 3 are on a mini-stroad, but there are separated bike lanes there. It can be done if there's a political will to make it happen.
Gotta stop the break dance warm up before the birds man. We old.
Let’s get the goin nationwide. Dance those fucking ICE bastards into the ground. Good times!
Ask your doctor about The Bacon Candle™️, and you can save money from not buying Ozempic.
Hands and ankles safely tucked under the desk for today's Oval Office episode.
I am sure the president could read the transcripts of every phone call Yoon Suk Yeol has ever made.
If the guy dies in office, China is going to invade Taiwan on the same day.
Would love to see a European country go get the guy and reunify his family and end this fucking bullshit.
The people who voted for Adams had the chance to see him search an imaginary child's room for drugs and guns. It should have been game over right then.
You could play this clip on a loop as a sleep aid.
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The term is even antiquated. There are so many singles and couples, families, whatever, who don't sit in a kitchen and discuss the costs of the food they're eating. This is a fantasy. The best they do is the pointing Leonardo DiCaprio meme when some crap is on the TV about gas prices being higher.
I'm not seeing a lot of natural fibers here.
I have to wonder if the margin will be +30 in the final tally. The other two losers are doing Maria Bartiromo FOX News stops.
Ol' Snoop might want to check himself on the way to the office today.
Donald Trump has been gaslighting the world, saying Ukraine started the war. He's proudly displayed a photo of him and Putin in the Oval Office. JD Vance is expecting Ukraine to give up territory to Russia. Nobody is talking about the 1.6M children who were taken. The American people are asleep.
This was one of the best shows I have ever seen. 11/10! I really wish the same team would continue all the way up to the present with the same creative vibe. Oh, the AI stories that could be told.
If this was Biden or Clinton, Fox News would be running 24/7 adrenochrome stories.
The biggest new story today should be the de minimis tariffs. Every US-bound package now gets inspected for tariffs. This is a disaster that people will feel in a matter of days. Small businesses will be hammered out of existence.
I've read some bad takes, even written a few myself, but this one goes on the museum wall.
He's moving right ever so slightly more and more.
The fracture of America in 2025 has been a long time coming. The racism and economic vulgarity that have been pervasive since the start of the 20th century have always been held in check through professional government or collective crisis. Now we have neither. To survive, Blue must defeat Red.
This has to a wind up. C’mon.
If you’re still a registered Republican in 2025, you’re MAGA. Own it.
I’m the furthest from a Mark Cuban fan, so the reality is that he should pay his fair share of taxes to repair the damage to society he's done as a billionaire. His prescription meds scam doesn't even come close to undoing the damage. Billionaires are like a plague; there aren't any benign plagues.
I might start posting this every day at the risk of a mute, but f'ing hell, it's getting to me. Reject the "deal" ethos that is being pushed and normalized by Trump and most media. Deals are not part of the government's social contract. Nothing from your government needs to be a business deal.
Our only defense from the madness is to exclude AI results from Google search. Add this string to your browser's custom search config. www.google.com/search?q=%s&... There is a lot of detail on this method online already, and it works very well for me in Chrome. I never see AI results.
Generally, if you want to go on the offensive by illegally co-opting National Guard units in blue states, for example, the first thing you do is put your defense in place. DC is becoming a potentially heavily defended city. Those patrolling units hassling delivery drivers are learning the streets.
Left Shark returns - but right now?
Like if you walk across a room and suddenly your foot just doesn't work for a few seconds. Zero cool.
It takes some doing to rebrand a person entirely. Benedict Arnold comes to mind as "the OG traitor." Now and forevermore, JD Vance will be known colloquially as The Couch Fucker. ✅
When the person makes their insurance claim, I am 100% sure MRAP won't appear on the list of vehicles involved in the accident. Plus, who is the at-fault insured party? So fucking dumb all of it.
It’s a Trojan ICE agent, with several more inside.
Might be the perfect storm for a blockade. Now won't that be fun?
I hate it.
