Alright folks, gotta stop there for now! Thanks for spending some of your Friday with me. <3

Thank you Stay Angry

Thanks again!

Thanks, Angry!!!

Thank you. Stay safe!

That went fast tonight, thanks for all your great insights. Good to know there are more of us than there are of them! Find some fun when you get a chance. Enjoy your weekend! Cheers! 🥃

Thank you. As always.

Thank you!

Thank you AMA with Angry is always great. Enjoy the weekend

Dang, just missed it!

Thanks Angry!

Damn. Just missed you. Thanks.

TY

Angry, thank for doing your Friday AMA. We appreciate you and your posts. Wishing you, Mrs. Angry and your children a wonderful weekend.

Great AMA. Thank you.

🚩🚩🚩 Everyone should start carrying state legal weapons because the tech billionaire Bond villians are correlating all our info with what Musk stole from government and can disappear us dissenters at any time!

Have a good weekend Angry.

What’s your favorite flower?

So excited you are having the Q & A. When I closed my Twitter account, these talks were the 1 thing I missed the most.

“Tariffs will teach China a lesson!” bro, you just paid $200 more for a washing machine Congrats on owning the libs by taxing yourself 💸🇺🇸

Orange Skidmark was famous for his revolving door hires and fires the first time around. Who is the first close staffer to go? Who will be thought loyal to the end (whenever that might be - I'm betting this fall)?

Actually, better question- do you think this tariff stuff will finally break the idea the GOP (or at least MAGA) is "good for the economy"?

Which power benefits the most from Trump chewing on the high-voltage wires of the global economy like a squirrel in a damn junction box? I suspect it's China, but I'm not 100% sure.

Stealing that!

Is trump *ever* going to be held accountable for *anything*?

Does Trump have all the Infinity Stones yet?

Trust me, Donald has no stones.

Or, if he does, they're really tiny.

Will Ovechkin kiss Putins ass more or stand up for Ukraine ?

Where are our former Presidents and VPs? Crickets

They don’t want their secret service details removed.

Oh shit I didn’t think of that but still, pretty lame

Don't they have enough money to pay for their own security (at least until we're able to dump trump and restore sanity in America)?

Oh, fuck. Trump would totally do that.

Yeah he’s already weaponized that. I think he did it early for this exact reason.

Meanwhile today at the White House President Obama’s portrait was removed and look what 🍊replaced it with.

He’s just grotesque

Unbelievable. Not only is he a crook, his cognitive skills are seriously lacking. The guy is out of his mind.

Is this true??

Tweet on WH ❌ acct today! x.com/whitehouse/s...

Ugh. Of course it's true. Thank you for verifying.

Obama spoke out very recently.

Both of them have a target on them. Biden is beat up after 4 years of abuse and the VP should be in the White House except shit for brains had some help to throw it his way. She starting to re enter.

How do they 'throw' out votes when there is no way to match a ballot to a voter once they are tabulated?!? I'm an NC poll judge, I've been through all the training. I don't understand how they aren't disenfranchising every single NC voter.

That cockamamie decision is being appealed. Check out Democracy Docket for details.

That’s been my question. If the votes are genuinely anonymous there is no way to trace them back to the people who cast them, so how can any counted vote be removed, or any ballot cured to ensure it is counted - if no one knows who that person voted for?

Do you think the save act will get through the senate?

How much will the bond markets constrain Trump's tariff mania?

Trump still believes that he can pressure the Fed to lower interest rates, so he - mistakenly in my opinion - thinks he can also whip the bond market into line

That seems to be what triggered the walk back this week, which gives China a lot of leverage here. If they start dumping their t bills, our interest rates would likely skyrocket.

Our interest rates are skyrocketing.

Be cool, trust Trump 😬😜

Like @tpasinet.bsky.social says, feels like the Canadians got this going but buying up a bunch of treasuries and then quietly selling them off. If the EU and Japan were in on it all the better. Nothing will turn the heads of the greedy billionaire class than sinking bond markets and devalued dollar

You don’t think they don’t have crypto, and lots of it.

So we should purchase them instead? Never sat right with me that a big adversary of ours owns so much of our t bills.

Former presidents and their econ stuff should have acted to curtail this a long time ago. They didn't.

and there goes the housing market

China also owns a lot of mortgage backed securities. The net effect of them dumping MBS would smoke the housing market. Bessent the dope knows this. IMO that’s why he intervened. Look at what happened to mortgage rates in just the last 5 sessions.

Ain’t that the truth

30+ million of his followers are confused by them too, but they still want them.

Looking forward to the memes of Xi telling Donald he doesn’t have the cards while holding T-bills.

To clarify/simplify for people not knowing: we buy a lot of goods from China, and China uses this export revenue in part to buy our gov't debt (and finance us). It's a gross simplification in a complex web, but this is an important strand of that web. Which is why we need nuanced policymakers.

Who's gonna buy American bonds from the Chinese now?

Thank you

Supposedly, it was the Canadians coordinating with the EU and Japanese.

Carney is exponentially smarter than anyone in this administration.

I’m thinking we threatened to pull our roughly $350 billion in bonds. Japan own $1 trillion.

That's what the article I read said. It's helpful to have an econ PhD as a PM in a trade war ;) Well played.

Well, someone put the idea of high tariffs in Orange 🤡's head. Who was that someone, and why?

Lots of morons are responsible, including Trump's own stupidity. However, Peter Navarro is especially responsible and especially moronic.

Peter are amazing. Amazingly stupid 😂

So is Ron Vara! 🥸

Exactly ;)

I read that too

They don’t even need to sell what they currently own. All they need to do is buy fewer at our upcoming treasury auctions, to dramatically swing our interest rates.

Even easier. China doesn't have to do anything but to announce that they're not buying more treasuries. They can tank our economy in less time than it took Trump to blink and cancel tariffs on chips, phones and computers

Excellent point.

TY

Thank you for this info! I was not aware of this at all! 🙏🏼

As is always the case, we can't tell if he's just a complete moron or if he's acting with purpose. Russia and BRICS want the US dollar dethroned. Destroying the belief that our bonds are the gold standard in terms of reliability would do that. And it would crush our economy.

A simple message for all Americans:

There is 1 thing Musk is right about, Peter Navarro is a damn quack, that has roped Trump into believing that Tariffs are the answer. In my entire life I've never seen a President who has ruined the Economy on purpose like Trump has.

Help spread the word!! www.firetrumpsaveamerica.com

*unintelligible screaming*

Accurate.

@infinitescream.bsky.social

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH

I'm in!

Screaming *and* food? 🤔

I like it!

Im there!

Can wine be included? 😂

Wine is now included at every mealtime, or am I the only one doing that? 😅

Mead for us!

That works too!!

Haha nope, that’s my new normal too!

i’m in

I'll need something MUCH stronger than *food*

Should we bring pillows to muffle the noise or will they be provided? We don't want to frighten the pets and wildlife.

Me too!

Oh my god. Yes. Please.

Tomorrow!

If it weren’t for edibles I would be screaming every day! Pass the gummies!

zoom scream?

I'm in.

only if we can get DRINKS too‼️

Oh! I’m SO in!

See also: @infinitescream.bsky.social It’s a most handy bot!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Feeling. This.

I felt this one. Lol.

Same... 🤬

Is it true That Kash Patel FBI Director Is going to run the FBI REMOTELY From his home in Wait for it... Las Vegas Is that true

Macron said the EU plans to recognize Palestine By June How will this affect the world order Alliances

The world will be fine. Palestine existed before. Adults in the international room want a two state solution. Not hotels and resorts.

No one wants that to become A stolen resort And almost everyone wants two states Was asking because it will infuriate Netanyahu And FelonRapist Who are ruthless greedy vengeful Warmongers

Netanyahu has an arrest warrant on his head. No one cares if he's infuriated.

Not concerned that either of them Would have their feelings hurt Quite concerned about potential brutal violence That could ensue They have plotted for that resort for a long while And view it as their property

Brutal violence has been happening for decades. That's why no one cares anymore what Netanyahu wants. Macron has had enough of his and Putin's and Trump's and Orban's shenanigans.

Exactly. Adults.

Maddow last night Terrifying As her well respected guest Was terrified Said the time to act is NOW Right NOW Was urgent Does it feel like the time for demonstrating Might be over They know our numbers And how we feel Is it time to dump the tea in the harbor While we still can

That was Eric Holder, Obama's AG. Speaking of holding a tea party, a few weeks ago I saw a great cartoon about dumping Teslas in Boston Harbor🤣

I know who he is Was trying not to call him out by name Have utmost respect for him

I think you mean Bahstin Hahbah.

Drain the fluids, remove the batteries...

Love the image, but it would poison the bleep out if the harbor.

Someone just needs to do it

Agree how urgent it is. I'm not sure what this means in practice, though. General strike? Something else?

Strike might result In people losing jobs And don't think it would be effective Even w/massive participation I was at HandsOff MS media was not FelonRapist=lawless Can't fight him/them w/legality Bought SCOTUS Threaten Senate/House Like Russian mob We're 1/2 way To becoming Russia/NKorea

We were made aware that Dem leadership Was creating a shadow government Mirroring their Cabinet And possibly other positions Have not heard it again Is that still a thing It should be

I pray it is true.

Is this why Abrego Garcia Can't come back Witnessed unspeakable conditions Been abused Do we have proof he is alive El Salvador could have sold them Perhaps shipped prisoners To Russian front lines against Ukraine Or anywhere Also Testing waters for future Unquestioned carte blanche cruelty

I’m late to the party…is anything going to come from the Signal screw up? Do we continue talking about it or are we wasting time?

We RECORD it, share it with others, and do not anyone forget what ACTUALLY is happening. Related; Steven Miller lied that the SCOTUS case on Abrego was 9-0 FOR the Trump admin - NOT the truth that they'd unanimously decided AGAINST it. Brazen!

youtube.com/shorts/VAF15...

Thoughts on Trump's "it's a great time to buy," post and stock market manipulation?

Really, have to get SSA comm announcements on X now???

Do you think the SAVE Act has any chance of passing the Senate? Trying to figure out if I have to change my IDs back to my maiden name?

Isn’t the other option to get a passport? I never changed my name, but I’m planning to get a passport, just in case I have to “prove” someday that I’m a citizen.

I have a passport, but my last name doesn't match my birth certificate. Was wondering if that will be accepted or if my passport will have to be changed back to my maiden name? These are strange times...

Your passport is proof of citizenship

TY

I did

Be proactive, not reactive, in these times.

Do you think Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still alive?

I am very much afraid he isn't.

This is my biggest question after today’s news that DOJ doesn’t even know where he is.

He is either in terrible shape or dead. The gop does not want him back either way. Shame on all of them.

I hope so. I got pretty concerned today when DOJ lawyers claimed to not have any idea where he’s at. Sounded like a convenient way for him to end up dead, but obviously I hope I’m wrong.

Jesus, they’re likely to Nalvany him away

They'd rather have him dead than here and talking about what goes on there. I'm not a conspiracy guy who's saying that they made it happen, just that they wouldn't mind if it did.

It makes me sick to my stomach that my agency is being used to further this madness 😭

I hope he's ok he has a wife and child 😭

His wife is 8 months pregnant.

Friendly FYI: you're confusing Abrego Garcia (Salvadorian national from Maryland w wife & kids) with Khalil (Palestinian-Algerian national from Columbia University w pregnant wife). There's just so many stories like theirs; it's almost incomprehensible.

Thank you, yes sometimes one comes upon a thread midway and it is confusing.

Now I’m crying. Somehow this possibility never occurred to me. I figured they just didn’t want to admit they were wrong, didn’t want him telling his story or to give others wrongly deported a chance back in. But … he could be dead. Effing monsters.

My boyfriend’s grandmother’s cousins were murdered in death camps, and he was talking about how it’s not a huge spectacle, people just disappear and then are never seen again.

How terrible and terrifying. I am so sorry for his family and all the trauma they’ve endured.

The fear is always there, but it’s far less visceral and immediate when it comes to his grandmother’s cousins, as opposed to what his grandfather saw in the Pacific Theater, or his great-grandfather escaping the Kyiv Pogrom. It’s more haunting; His grandmother’s cousins just ceased to exist.

Plus they don’t want to get sued.

His family could absolutely still sue. His wife and child are American.

And quite frankly I don’t think Trump gives two shits about getting sued. It has been happening his whole life.

Rich people just run out the clock on this stuff then settle at the last minute when there is no other option except losing.

He doesn't care, but the rest of the administration might

CECOT is a death camp. They brag that nobody gets out alive. Garcia fled El Salvador because his life was at risk there. They won't return him because they're hiding something dire. Either he's seen too much that would bring them down, or he's already gone.

I knew it was a gulag and they bragged nobody gets out. I figured they would treat him inhumanely, but I didn’t think he could be dead in only a month’s time. If he is, that means that poor gay hairdresser is likely dead, too. Horrific.

Yeah. I thought about that too. Even ordinary prisons are brutal but that sweet guy had no defence.

Yeah, you don’t pay that much to care for people you consider the scum of the earth. If they’re not going to give you due process, they’re not going to pay thousands to house each prisoner.

Isn't this how we treated prisoners during the Iraq war? There were people held at Guantanamo long-term, without due process, because someone accused them of something. And the torture with dogs and electric shock at Abu Ghraib prison. I wonder how many people remember and acknowledge that.

It was all shameful, no doubt. I remember. There was some level of accountability eventually and wasn’t Abu Ghraib closed? This is even worse, because it is not a war situation. And there’s an admitted error without any attempt to remedy it. Their only regret is that they admitted it.

As Nayib Bukele spoke about space issues he seemed to say he had endless capacity. That only works if inmates leave.

Leave as in die?

Correct but I’ve been put I. “Jail” on SM before for even typing the word lol!

Ohh good warning, i didn't think of tha5

www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

Hey there fella!

Hey old curmudgeon I got your back

Thanks!

I'm trying to find my pack on here. I've got lots of fellas but mostly blue resisters now fewer about Ukraine

I’ve noticed the same thing

I worry that if he does make it back, the administration may hurt him to keep him quiet.

“I hope I’m wrong” Those words have only continued to pop up these days

Do we know what're the details of the agreement this Administration made with El Salvador? I know we are paying their government to take these men, but are they only there for a certain amount of time or did they say as long as they live? Did they never expect them to come out of that prison?

That entire planeload of passengers must be brought back for due process. Each person must be brought back.

I think he is dead, because they can’t let him come back here and tell of the horrors of what happened to him and others. I just wonder if anything will be done to this administration at all if and when they can’t produce him, thoughts?

This may be a case of "don't ask, don't tell." If the DOJ lawyers don't bother asking the Salvadoran gulag keepers where he is, they can deny knowing what's happening to him, thus dodging responsibility for his fate.

i *feel* he's still alive for whatever that is worth. doj lawyers probably didn't even try looking for him, just threw their wimpy little hands in the air.

Khashoggi…

If he gets back to the USA, the truth about that hell hole will be exposed. This is the Trump Administration dilemma. If he’s dead, it gets a lot worse.

Affirmative

I think he is dead and the US knows it.

Why are we focused on just one? Most of those guys had no records. Now they are all sitting in a foreign concentration camp unable to speak to family or legal representation. CECOT is a black hole. How do we stop the regime from sending anyone there?

Because he from El Salvador, not Venezuela, and the Trump admin have admitted that he was deported by mistake. He should be the easiest case to get overturned, which may open the door for some of the Venezuelans to be returned (which is no doubt why Trump's DOJ is fighting it).

It’s both heart wrenching and infuriating.

I would think that El Salvador might be smart enough to have taken him out of the prison and is holding him somewhere else to use him as a bargining chip. I can't imagine they have not noticed that Trump and his toadies have no idea what they are doing.

Today someone posted a google earth picture of a yard shot in El Salvador what looks to be a pile of bodies and a lot of blood. Is this Trumps concentration camp? He couldn’t build one here as we would see. Maybe that’s why they won’t return him. Makes me sick.

🙏🙏🙏

I hope the worst doesn't happen to him, but what are the consequences for those involved if God forbid it does?

Major lawsuit for damages for now. The rest will have to wait until 2029 assuming a D president

Am worried about the gay makeup artist.

We all are

I hope someone has the balls to end this entire administration

My thoughts exactly. This whole administration is made up of monsters, they all should be prosecuted, including the ringmaster, if that innocent man is dead.

Can Great Britain, France, and Germany intervene?

Now that would be meaningful - and embarrasing for this administration !

They’ve sunk so low, they are incapable of being shamed or embarrassed

You’re right, they wouldn’t care one way or the other

If the signal chat didn’t embarrass them, nothing will.

If he doesn’t make it out of El Salvador alive will there be ramifications? Doesn’t feel like it, human life is totally disposable with this sadistic Admin!

I don’t

Sadly no, I don’t think any of them are still alive. The republican regime SOLD them to another sovereign country. Dead men can’t talk😞

Yes, but not after Bukele’s visit Monday.

If not can you imagine the tv appearances and the lawsuits if they brought him back. Maybe we could trade Stephen Miller for him.😂

I don't know. I pray that he is. 🙏🦅

There's zero evidence for either option. Speculation is pointless. What we need are aggressive lawsuits.

I’m concerned he’s not alive or possibly they don’t know where he is because they don’t keep records.

I hope so but knowing what I know about super prisons in El Salvador, I doubt it.

I’ve thought that he was dead since the current regime was trying so hard to NOT bring him home. Is he now going to ignore SCOTUS?

No I don't. He's been dead for some time, probably.

That’s been confirmed.

If his family’s not convinced I’m not convinced

I don’t blame them, or you, questioning the veracity. If it were a member of my family, I’d do the same.

No.

I’m wondering that myself.

Is the severity of Salvadoran prison a desensitizing ploy? A way to get Trump's pals' private prisons seen as 'more legal, less lethal' alternatives that we might not have been ok with...prior to the whole KristiRolexAbuGhraib-y video, administrative errors by, and rulings against, the Admin?

Also, that poor kid is dead, isn't he? Why is there no demand of proof of life?

THANK GOD I AM WRONG!

#HabeasCorpusNow

Or they just don’t want to be seen as caving.

I'm fearful that you may be correct.

Do you see any ray of hope/movement/anything...that the GOP will wake up and speak up for what is right?

How long can this insanity continue?

When do we go out on general strike?

Are we going to war with Itan?

How much scotch did you drink this week?

Good question!

How do you get away from (gestures around) all this?

Angry runs. I do puzzles and garden.

What is the best way for the average person to resist, besides voting?

Help your neighbours. Help older folks jump through the SSA website hoops, help women obtain the document copies they'll need to vote, help keep track of ICE in your area and report their location/raid sites online.

Already done and doing.

Did ICE actually use the applications for asylum that were filed legally by the immigrants as a means of tracking them down? ~Asking for We the People.

Oh! Good question. Dang, no answer!

The reason I ask is that 100% of the people arrested and shipped off to El Salvador ALL had filed paperwork to seek asylum in the US..and 90% of them didn't have a criminal record here in the United States. So how did they find them? They fucking cheated, inorder to get some results, for the press.

What did McCabe mean by this?

Now would be the time to tell all.

You know he knew

@muellershewrote.com I am pretty sure we know the answer but a fun question nonetheless for Sunday!

McCabe was supervisory agent in charge of the FBI’s NY Taskforce on Eurasian Organized Crime, i.e. Russian mobs. Trump tried to destroy him first time around, firing him as acting director of the FBI one day before he’d receive his pension. It was a message to other agents as well. McCabe knows.

We know now, don’t we. And we know these effing cowards like McCabe, covered up for Trump - they are essentially complicit to this country’s RUIN.

McCabe covered for Trump??? Did You miss the part where they fired him a day before retirement?

No. McCabe did not cover for Trump.

Well he obviously knows stuff so why isn't he telling the world? Is he writing a book? I just don't understand why there aren't whistleblowers coming out the wazoo in US. Trump is a life long criminal, he's intrinsically corrupt. He's a traitor. Are they afraid for their lives? If one broke the dam?

But it seems to me that a ton of credible info has been published since 2015, and a lot of folks in a position to know what they're talking about have warned the American ppl, and it hasn't helped? Ppl believe what they want to believe.

Exactly. Facts, science, it doesn't matter. The brains are hijacked by scrolling through nonsense

bsky.app/profile/jswe...

I'm talking about releasing the Jack Smith investigation, the un redacted Mueller papers, his FBI file. Releasing actual DoJ investigation files. But you're right lots of his staff warned the American ppl and it didn't help so it might be moot. I can't believe how quickly your democracy failed.

😥😢

Parts of the Mueller Report are still online. Barr was hired exclusively to kill any kind of such facts coming out. Jack Smith and Garland also published a part of Smith's conclusions. But Garland didn't want to appear political. Can someone explain , what's not political in Trump's treason?

However, there was plenty of information since 2015 abt Trump. About what he and his dumb fascists will do. People listened to the dumbest aholes like Joe Rogan.

😢

I wish more evidence & facts would change people’s minds, but recent history has shown that Republicans will never hear it inside “the bubble”, or will ignore the info if they do hear it. And non-voters don’t care, can’t be bothered, or are confused to the point of paralysis.

I get that but surely there are Govts worldwide who are looking at the chaos in the US, and who have information they can use as leverage to get the GOP to stop the madness! The five eyes must have cast iron proof of his treachery with Russia?

Can you imagine if UK, Canada, Aus and NZ, four of the 5 eyes held a press conference showing clear evidence of Trumps treason and malfeasance? How would the GOP mitigate that? There must be recordings of him talking to Putin, what about the Helsinki notes? I can't believe what is happening to USA 😢

One third doesn’t vote, and another third has chosen to believe dishonest & untrustworthy sources that tell them what they *want* to believe.

This is it right here. A third of US citizens are utterly brainwashed propaganda stooges. A third doesn't vote. The margins for Trump were tiny even if he won all states. The concessions to slave states in our constitution bias towards Trump.

Betty, some facts will help you understand the situation better and the the work of the FBI and law enforcement: McCabe started an investigation into Trump for obstruction of justice. That's why he was fired hours before his retirement. FBI isn't announcing investigations.

Maybe he can’t reveal details without endangering confidential informants

True

But he was silent for so long.

He’s been working with Murder She Wrote, I consider him a hero of the resistance.

He is.

He also has a slightly twisted sense of humor and that is always a good thing.

Absolutely necessary

We had very different priorities learning languages. I can say I love you in six.

😁😘 Oh I love you, too. But if you start defending kidnapping people to foreign prisons or bombing children , I start swearing.

Do you Mueller?

Before the election I was a Podcast junky, I am still in denial and have temporarily kicked the habit.

🤭 i meant do you mean Mueller (instead of Murder)

Yes, I’m tired and not editing 🤣

It's okay. I'm typo expert 😂

He wasn't.

We need that information.

Good question and I remember that detail!

He was an agent for them.

Is, not was

Or… Putin owns a pee-pee vid.

Do tell!

Wonderful song parody I just heard yesterday Hey Sane America by Shirley Şerban youtu.be/0bkfsbajLaE?...

Oof. Right in the feels.

Meidas Touch's Michael Popok says that Commerce Sec Howard Lutnick has family members involved in bond trading. Have you heard this? How deep does the rot go?

Neck deep

How close did @casanova5256.bsky.social get to figuring out where you work?

Many people are saying those two leave notes for each other under the Pentagon cafeteria's hot dog vending machine.

I've missed you :)

☺️☺️☺️

Will there be an attack on Iran soon?

After we win the midterms and take the house and the senate, what should some of the first actions be from the Dems? I know it could be a different world by then.

Change Dem leadership.

Single-payer health care

Impeach

and convict

How many legitimately deserve to be impeached? Morally and legally, if it were to be just, there wouldn’t be many administration or GOP left. At least the way I read the law.

Hi Angry! How are you? Thanks for taking the time to listen and answer. No real question tonight just more anxiety and fear of what’s to come.

Same here, @bluefae.bsky.social, same here....

What will make us more angry moving forward?

PROTESTS. 🪧 ✊🏼🩵

Generally, Congress has been MIA, courts are iffy, 6 more law firms caved. Is there no group or group of people with power to effect change who have the principles/moral courage to stand up to him?? Each day I don’t think it could get worse and it does. It’s depressing.

Encouraging news: The respected law firm Susman Godfrey is fighting back. They did not cave.

Yes! And check out who is representing them in their lawsuit against Trump, the entire cabinet, and the entire list of cabinet secretaries!! The caption takes up SIX & A HALF pages! Felon47 is going to be furious when he finds out which firm is representing Susman Godfrey!!

#Democrats need to take a very hard look at how all party member vote! Stop supporting fascism, FUCKING NOW!!!

#BluyskyEditNow

Perez is in an extremely tight rural swing district in Washington State. Rs could have passed this without any Ds. She’s likely trying to preserve her seat by appeasing the fringe in her district. I wouldn’t read too much into it..

Next time, their votes may not count.

Along with helping to destroy our fair voting system, they are also destroying their own chances of being re-elected as this bill is aimed at Dems, women, minorities, and seniors …!!

Not surprised at all about Cuellar. He’s been a DINO for years.

They didn't ignite our voting rights. They actively diminished them. They attached all of us, Democrats in particular, women and trans in detail.

Marie G. Perez is the only viable Democrat that's won two terms in this district; the other candidates are MAGA and worse MAGA. Her voting record is okay except for a couple of really bad ones like the SAVE act.

Wasn’t Cuellar under investigation a few years back, had his house raided by the FBI? What ever happened to that?

So many criminals...

Is Trump really making any decisions?

Where did you go? You ok?

Oh shoot ICE agent Barbie could have given him a ride back home. Drat!

What's the intent of the National Defense memorandum for the southern border?

Hows the dis function from the inside? Not including the firings?

What’s going on at the southern border and the military?

Can we count on the judiciary to save our Republic?

Lollerfuckingcopter.

Since Russia meddled in 2016, & Elon in 2024, in addition to blatant criminality, is there a route to reverse all the stupid shit he did? He wasn’t elected fairly, & every decision he has made has been a threat to us & the world.

Can America still be a hegemon after this, plus another ~3.75 years?

Do you think the delay in returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia is to see if they can get away with disappearing people? or do you think he has died?

Since birth certificates do not have photos nor do they have fingerprints or an other identifying information, what good are they when presented for identification?

What if my pic on the birth cert doesn't match the picture on my Real ID Driver's License?

Yeah. Or your 4 year old drivers license and new passport pic? Rules just for women. Men are exempt.

What is JD Vance's name on his birth certificate? He probably can't remember after so many changes.

Jd couch shagger

He likes pushin' the cushion.

LOL!

😂

Women are going to have particular issues. I tried to get my license changed over to floriDUH, I almost couldn't, the amt of paperwork that's needed is ridiculous. Ladies, be sure you have ALL your docs, marriage, divorce, all of it! Crazy times

I know a lot of lefty friends are taking up shooting and arming themselves. Do you see any scenario where this is a reasonable idea, or are we starting to tilt toward paranoia? Thanks as always!

🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️ 3 of them. Well-rounded little armory.

Any vibes/info/insights into the likelihood of genuine, thorough, and there'll-be-results investigations into what appears to be flagrant insider trading within Regime 2.0 and among certain congress critters?

I think hoping for any meaningful results during this administration is a fever dream. I’m not sure what the statute of limitations is for that particular crime, but we aren’t going to see charges until Trump’s out of office, at the very minimum.

I heard the statue of limitation is 5 years. So maybe if we are still a country then.

I bet Martha Stewart has a few thoughts

Tish James

Trump will self-pardon.

He wouldn’t be able to travel even pardoned. President pardons mean shit in the rest of the world.

He doesn’t need to be pardoned because SCOTUS gave him immunity.

Unless he accidentally gets swept up in a “deportation” on January 20, 2029😉

Nope. Not an option for the shit he’s done. If our courts are unwilling, then we can do it via military tribunal, he’s a fucking war criminal. If that doesn’t work then the ICC can send him to Elba to hang out with the bones of Napoleon.

You can count on Trump issuing blanket pardons for everyone in his administration on the way out the door, which is one reason why everyone in his administration is now acting with complete impunity.

I'm sure there will be a plethora of other crimes to choose from.

Everyone gets a pardon

He will sell the pardons too.

Waiting for @propublica.org to follow the money!

Martha Stewart did time in a federal pen for less. 😳

Five years from the date of the crime. But he's just going to keep doing it so the calendar resets.

Unless Democrats repeal the statute of limitations like a Republican lol

5 yrs

When I heard Congress was investigating, I thought... uh oh, some dems will be in trouble too & we need them! I think that for now, they should focus on: Signalgate, CECOT & try to stop the tarrifs/trade-wars! Always keeping an👀 on Felon47, of course!

5 years

Leticia James??

They should all be in jail

I believe the statute of limitations is 5 years for congressional insider trading. Enough time for a possible new administration to get up & running to prosecute

Not if things move at a Merrick Garland pace.

5 years I looked it up and I hope the next Dem AG is a pit bull

To think we could have had Sally Yates.

Biden's biggest disappointment was Garland. Period.

😢

Just bring back Jack Smith.

You think Felon47 will last 4 years? I don’t! I don’t think he’ll last 2, maybe even 1. The man is sickly, mentally and physically, I think it will only get worse for him!

feels like pam bondi will investigate anyone who calls for an investigation.

Good question!

I expect there will be a lot of prosecutors required when this is all over. I suggest we tap all the ones this administration has fired.

1) are they going to get kilmar abrego garcia back 2) what happens if (when) they don't

Is there *any* chance of Vance (directed by Thiel, presumably) starting the ball rolling on the 25th amendment?

Suicide for him. The cabinet would never turn on DL to support that. He’d fire anyone he thought might be remotely considering it

The VP is elected and cannot be fired.

The cabinet has to all be on board and they can be is what I meant. He’d be sticking his neck out for slaughter

By clenching onto trump's coattails, we're talking about people who have already demonstrated they are utterly devoid of principle, and that there is no level to which they will not stoop if they can see personal gain in it. Thiel has the resources to sway such vile wretches.

Are executive orders only done in the first hundred days or do we have to suffer through this reckless abuse throughout this entire presidency?

They can be signed at any time by POTUS… many reversed day 1 of a new admin. They’re not law!

They are mostly for show & accolades, though of course real harm is done by them

With so many distractions at once is there one thing you think we should be most focused on when contacting our reps/senators?

Any chance we’ll find out who in Trumps orbit just happened to make a crap load of money when he reversed the tariffs? You have any thoughts who might be on that list?

Well he said he made a lot himself. And pointed to someone who made 900 million.

Charles Schwab according to Trump himself.

Here's a picture of some of them.

Sounds like MTG bought a bunch of stock before it jumped. We’ll find out more as all the disclosures start coming out.

Think AOC said the deadline For them to file those disclosures Is May 15th

Ah

Hell sign an EO that nobody has to disclose

Apparently, she put the money in Treasury Bonds, which took a hit.

Just a coincidence that she did the exact same thing pre Covid?

Put her ass in jail. Will she go to a female prison, or to a male one, according to how she presents?

But will we do anything about it? I know what I think.

If Pam Bondi is Americas newest billionaire, no.

Exactly. Nothing matters, there is no bottom.

Except Lindsey Graham

*Lindsay 😝

LOL well played.

Where in the world is Lindsey. Real quiet lately???

🤔

I'll be at Runts tomorrow trying not to choke on a rib bone still laughing at this. Thanks! 🤣

😂

Ha, not the point, but my Philly-raised grandmother did just this until her dying day 😆

I just visited Philly for the Philadelphia Flower Show. What a great city!

In continuing irony, my grandfather was very involved with the flower show for decades! Glad you enjoyed it!

Maybe in four years.

Seems like many did.

too bad they are apparently above the law.

Statute of limitations is 5 years. We just have to oust this regime in 2028.

Pretty sure most of his inner circle did, huge spike in calls bought right before the announcement.

They just might go after her. That investigation just might get bipartisan support.

Yeah, the Republicans like her as much as they liked Matt Gaetz!

Gone AND forgotten! (Till Daddy buys him another political office …)

You don’t seriously think that they will disclose?

By May 15th

Weren't there quite a few members of Congress who scooped up a bunch of stocks shortly before Trump finally admitted that Covid was serious?

i read that as 'dick'closures, & i thought you were up to your old tricks. 😂 😅 🤣 😆 🤣 😂

Disclosures??????

So you believe that there will be disclosures, Angry?

A huge number of people in his inner circle have suddenly been buying million-dollar real-estate in the DC area. There's definitely a loose-string to tug-on there & it may just unravel the whole thing!

And what will be done about it? Nothing. There’s no law that says she has to return that money or give it away to charity or be taxed at 100% .

She is such a criminal.

Maybe Letitia James can look into it?

Your momma can

Doesn't matter. Republicans and MAGA are immune from criminal prosecution.

yup. she won't go down alone

This will end up with the Republicans rolling back disclosure requirements and then penalizing anyone who tries to report out what they're doing as "privacy violations."

Who's going to investigate, Trump's SEC?

He did spend the whole weekend with his Saudi golf buddies. Though, he is widely known for his discretion

He’s on video bragging about Charles Schwab and another guy making $2billion and $900 million inside the Oval Office.

Here's the video bsky.app/profile/llfa...

They all did.

Did Trump really think China would cave? It’s a dictatorship they don’t care if their people suffer. The more I think about this tariff war with China the more I think this maybe his biggest mistake ever. Watching the US decouple economically from China has got to be making Taiwan anxious.

China doesn’t need us. People in China know how to be poor. Americans don’t. It’s a disaster.

We have millions and millions of poor Americans who "know how to be poor." The difference might be that the white middle class thought they were exempt and are finding out they're not; THEY might be group that picks up the pitchforks and start demanding their "right" to not be poor.

I can see how my words can be misunderstood. There are many poor ppl here too, but they know that have (or had) rights. What I meant is that in the communistic regime ppl don’t have any rights to disagree/ complain. The party says you will suffer because of the country’s pride, they suffer.

Folks can't complain in China...I hear you, but where has "complaining" (asking the govt for a bit of help against corporations, for ex) gotten poor Americans? This country has generational poverty for millions, plenty of complaints about it, and 0 change. In fact, inequality's increasing.

China isn't the only one. There's a strategy to this. It was Japan's dump that panicked Bessent and Lutnick. open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

I follow an expert on China, not just on econ but society, traditions and culture. China today isn't a Maoist dictatorship the way it was under Mao's red guards. Xi has to consider public opinion and keep his people content. The Chinese were deeply insulted by JD Vance's remark.

Trump has no understanding of other countries' cultures. Trump is strongly disliked across the world because he is the archetypal “ugly American” - obnoxious, uncouth, boastful and duplicitous. He's also an uneducated and dangerous buffoon.

Who has Trump lifted out of poverty again, remind me.

I think he thought it would be an easy negotiation, yes. What he doesn’t realize is that China has most of the leverage here. All he’s managed to do so far is weaken the dollar, and if he doesn’t cut the bullshit, China will be in a position to make that even worse.

Not like they own a ton of our debt or anything.

China, Japan, Canada and the EU all hold a lot of Bonds and a slow bleed sell off is disastrous for the US

Did he ever hear of "saving face".

Maybe they should, to send a very clear message to the US.

So this time, China has all the cards. Karma!

Exactly what I was thinking.

A la @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social , possibly “national sabotage for the benefit of foreign autocrats”? After all, musk wants china happy, or am I wrong? It’s Russia trump wants to please.

There's a surging nationalism in China becuz of 🍊💩 trade & economic aggression. Do you think China will make a move during 🍊💩's stupid term to take over Taiwan?

He also ignores China’s high value on personal honor. A Chinese-American friend said China would sooner grind their economy to a halt rather than lose face to Mad Lord Yam. China has existed long before the US and they believe they will still exist long after.

open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

While the dollar is impacted, the big killer will be when the Chinese dump bonds requiring the US to hike the bond return rate (because of the increase in the risk profile) and the federal deficit is driven up billions in interest payments to China, Japan, Saudi Arabia.

He really drank the Kool Aid that he was the most powerful man in the world and could leverage everything to make people bend the knee. He’s the laughing stock of the world and he lost the country’s status on Day One. All those tech bros already have deals with China directly. Just a fool.

I think part of the China standoff is to put Elon in his place - he was getting too much attention. The sycophantic cabinet meeting also diluted Elon’s power.

Wait until they cash in their treasury bonds.

👆

Foreign nations own $8.7T in U.S. debt (Japan $1T, China $759B, UK $723B). Mass sell-offs could spike interest rates, hurt mortgages, and stall construction

Canada used it as leverage so Donny wouldn’t add more tariffs.

They did well and simply stopped listening to his ridiculous

China has the bond leverage. Then add all those shipping containers that have tariffs due on them that are more than 140% more than the buyer has already paid will go unclaimed. Small business owners will fall and fail. Walmart isn’t going to pay another 145% either.

👍

I read that Canada may be considering the same although their leverage is less. In the same article, it suggested Carney traveled to the EU to bring some of the allies into the fold, a unified leverage defense against Trump.

I can’t see Canada cashing them in yet. Since yes it is leverage but we’re fifth in terms of owning.

All that cargo will be stuck in US Ports.

That's a great point. There's going to be a huge traffic jam soon.

They quietly added an “on the water” deferral. I think 27 April? Or so before the new rates are levied.

Target is pooched too.

Trim says the $6.9 trillion in treasuries held by the US in exchange for the Social Security surplus are fraudulent and is setting up the stage so that he can walk away from it and default on nearly $7 trillion in USA debt. Battle put the rest of the $28 trillion at risk.

I saw Chinese cancelled 90% of soybean contracts w US farmers and 50% (maybe? can’t remember exactly figure) of wheat contracts. That basically puts Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas ag production off line for a year. Imagine downstream impact on towns, schools, retail, taxes. Brutal.

Imagine ‘be' the measure official opts! #sixwords #vss

I wonder how many of these farmers voted for the 🍊💩 ? Here in Ky (my area) they voted for this. I have zero sympathy anymore, they brought this hell storm on everyone.

Maybe the farmers will finally get their heads out of their butts with all of this MAGA bullshit.

Somehow they will blame the Democrats.

They'll try and they are admittedly a very gullible bunch. But I genuinely believe it will be a tough sale.

I am totally cool with magical people suffering if they will finally get their heads out of their butts.

I thought disappearing the dollar is part of their plan to go full "crypto".

How bad is the damage to the US dollar?

i think trump is so used to getting his way: from not paying people he owes, to the courts, to legal cases, etc etc. he didn't realize that he can't bully EVERYbody. all of a sudden countries are fighting back. i don't think he thought that was possible. the dumb a**.

So Xi has the cards.

He doesn’t hold the cards. Almost instant karma, but I’m tired of suffering the consequences of his actions.

anyone want to bet how long before we're at war with China? #DictatorDonold needs a new distraction

He doesn't have the cards? China has the cards?

They literally and figuratively make the cards.

He's so detached from the American worker, he hasn't got the foggiest clue how working class Chinese live or their relationship with their government. They will own him on this. Not to mention the huge swath of U.S. small business owners he will destroy.

Another BRICS win

He’s a fcking twit

What about the +/- 100 patents Ivanka got in China? Is Trump trying to get out of repaying the $200,000,000 he borrowed from Bank of China?

China is playing the long game and tRump is playing tic-tac-to

Trump and the USA think China needs exports otherwise there will be unemployment but China has money and internally there are still many construction sites and tasks for solar expansion etc. However, the USA cannot replace deliveries from China

You think it's bad now, wait til China decides they can survive the pain (or its the lesser pain) and dump their t bills/bond holdings.

Yup. Over $700 billion. Better hope the US doesn’t piss off Japan. They hold a trillion.

Iirc Japan did liquidate some and that is what prompted the overnight (us time) bond panic that spurred Trump's word salad semi tariff retreat.

Yeah they did. But not the full trillion. The US would be insolvent.

Oh shit. I didn't even think of that🫣

Yea. I have thought too much about this crap. I think we end up with an alternative pay system that mostly replaces SWIFT, and the dollar is no longer the default world currency as Trump erodes 80 years of regulation that has kept things like the Fed independent and our banks safe.

Watching western empires rise and fall has been China's national pastime since the Han dynasty.

China, in the past, has had no issues with having millions of its people die. This is the 21st century, but history is history.

If not caring about your people suffering is the definition of a dictator...

Trump already caved by exempting smartphones and electronics. After Lutnick said that we were moving that manufacturing back to the US.

If we actually decouple from China monetarily, Taiwan won’t be the only big problem.

Do you follow back?

Tim Miller suggested 3-4 GOP Reps caucus with Democrats to change control and take back some power over the tariffs situation. Given that Arlen Apector Jim Justice and Jim Jeffords all did it, why is it impossible now?

Sending hugs of thanks! Have a great weekend 💕💐

Angry - so many of us are worried about our savings and our ss payments and cost of living. Do you think that the protests, if they double in size, can have an impact on people in Congress? Is there any way to get the GOP to truly turn on this madness?

What happens when Trump doesn’t bring back that innocent man in the hell hole prison? Also, why aren’t we talking about everyone else who did not get any due process? Is there anything besides impeachment that can tame him?

Heart attack? Stroke? (NOT wishing this, but he's pretty old...)

I wish for it, it’s ok to say so

He's the only person, in my entire long life, I've ever wished dead... Generally not my style, but this is different.

Old, fat, sedentary and rage filled. Not exactly a recipe for good health 🤷‍♀️

Someone just needs to do it

I'm wishing this...

I just read a novel where the old women was smothered with a pillow while sleeping. Maybe Melania could do us a solid.

Where IS she these days??? They don't even pretend any more.

Mel has had a boyfriend in NY for years.

This was just me being silly. I know she is nowhere near him. As it should be. He’s disgusting.

MAGA loves her so much, thinks she’s the classist, best, most beautiful First Lady we’ve ever had. She & DJT are such an amazing team! Melania did more during Trump’s term than any former First Lady, and she also has impeccable style! But…they certainly don’t miss her. FAMILY VALUES! 🙄🙄🙄

I'm pretty sure Melania goes nowhere near his bedroom.

I think she avoids being in his presence, awake OR asleep, as a matter of course.

i was trying to think of a clever response, but i'll agree with this one instead! 😇

I can't understand how they justify this even if these people shipped to El Salvador were undocumented does that mean they deserve life in a foreign prison? Even a criminal gets a trial before life in prison. He calls them terrorists and that's how he's getting away with it. It's so disturbing.

Thank you for everything, you help keep me sane! Are you still pet confident we’re going to recover from this, and have midterms?

What's a great 'dad joke' I can use to crack my kid up? She's had a rough week.

Two wind turbines were standing on a hill. One said to the other, What kind of music do you like? The other replied, I'm a big metal fan.

😂😆😂

any Republicans going to grow a spine before the midterms?

Martha Stewart should make him that chocolate pie from "The Help"

Ooo, I like the way you think. 😂😂

Remember when they jailed Martha Stewart for 5 months in prison for doing far less than what Trump did with insider stock trading manipulation ?

Was just thinking about this yesterday.

That is awesome! 🤣

I love her so much. She's so spicy. 🙂

Where is Comey now?!?!

#📌

💙 Martha

I love Martha!!!! “Too bad!” 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏

I do

It was $45k or something too. Comparatively speaking, drop in the bucket…

James Comey was the prosecutor on her case. I think he hates smart, powerful women.

100% the reason.

🎯

Yep

Yep - She was too smart and too successful. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Yep

Agree. Completely.

Totes.

With all that is going on in America today, maybe Comey should not be your first target.

Give me a break. He was probably singlehandedly responsible for Hillary Clinton's loss and the ascension of Trump. Also, not a target. I was making an observation, a pertinent one. Misogyny generally chipped away at both Clinton's & Harris's vote totals.

I agree with you.

AND, that does not fall under his official duties.

I’m certainly old enough to remember 🙋‍♀️

OMG is this real or dubbed?!

Real.

Did you know Tiffany was pregnant? bsky.app/profile/thec...

Can they STOP procreating!!!???

tiffany really looks like her mom in that first picture. i've never thought that before...

Where was Malaria??

I really wish they'd stop breeding...

How much closer are we to China invading Taiwan? Or escalating in the South China Sea?

Any chance the republicans finally stand together to end Trump’s wannabe dictatorship? Will they ride this travesty to the end or come to their senses?

How much stock is in all the connections between Musk + Technocracy + and Trumps desire to conquer Canada, the Panama Canal, and Greenland?

Do you see any R in congress ever waking up and doing something about Trump-ageddon?

Why are all these high powered law firms capitulating to Trump?

They're not ALL.

How many Law firms is 🍊💩 still targeting? What's the goal there besides him controlling the legal system? What happens after 🍊💩 leave office knowing he has millions of legal pro bono? Is he still entitled to it?

Once he's out, they can tell him to stuff it. He has no leverage once he's out.

He's never going to be out. He will rule until he dies, and the GOP will protect him, even if he stays until he's 99 years old.

Do you think Republicans are SCARED of Trump? Why? Scared they won’t win next election, he will hurt them, kill them, threaten their families, what?? I just can’t fathom selling out your own country for a dictator with the IQ of a jar of mayonnaise.

Jar of mayonnaise 😂😂😂

Love it

What did mayonnaise do to earn your wrath? 😂 (And you’re not wrong)

For whatever reasons they think that Trump has more influence on their reelection than their own constituents do.

A lot of them are Christian nationalists and they are on board with the fascist agenda to remake the culture and put everyone in their place

Per Romney they can’t afford the 24/7 security details for them and their families that he could on just a government salary to protect against the death threats..😔 From Trump supporters…😳