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Bless the poor little plebs who buy a piece of this. Stupid fucking sons of bitches that they are. In the context of crypto, a "windfall of billions of dollars" means tens of millions of individual suckers, each losing 100's of dollars. That money is NEVER coming back.
Well, it's not like they have any other job or family to care about.
If he didn't have a health issue, given all the speculation, wouldn't he have dispelled all the rumors by, I don't know, maybe riding a bike or something, like Joe Biden can do? Or failing that, showing his damn face and being able to speak, using both sides of his face, for example.
What color is every single one of the "US" in this picture? Might tell you something of the source of this graphic. Who would like us to be distracted at this moment, by China?
NO NO NO NO FUCKING NO! YES, we have met the enemy, we have met many. But the one we need to care about right fucking now, is the ENEMY WITHIN our own fucking White House and "He Isn't Us".
I hear you. It's exactly what we needed in this moment, and for his legacy too. This is true leadership.
Cabinet material for sure.
It's a very curious fact that it did. So completely out of whack with the rest of civilization and such an obvious and utter failure. And yet it's political suicide for 1/2 our politicians to acknowledge those simple facts.
Nah, he's their useful idiot
Ching-ching! 🤑 Indeed, that is what it is all about. You really can't blame those 300,000 for wanting to keep their jobs and maintain their lifestyles, so some creativity, understanding and support will be needed, to really change things. It's a cultural thing and will take time.
Oklahoma Republican, tried to GOUGE OUT HIS WIFE'S EYES and succeeded in FORCING HIS DAUGHTER'S CAR OFF THE ROAD AND INTO A DITCH. But hey, what about them trans folks?
What a great idea! So if you're stuck in the rainforest and need a breath of fresh air, there you go, just open the window. 😁
Reminds me of when a friend suggested we send all our nuclear waste, or any other shit we didn't want to deal with, into space. Imagine then our first inter-stellar visitors arrive and have to pass through this ring of garbage. Helluva first impression. 👽🛸
Good for him. And he's right on.
That would be me.
"Then they came for the people who perpetually drive in the overtaking lane, refusing to move over, but I wasn't one of those assholes and was fine with them getting taken away, but then they came..."
If he was able to squash the rumors with a robust, public performance, you KNOW he would have. The fact he has not, speaks volumes.
I'm about the same age. When you weren't at Princeton, I was in Scotland. And since then I've spent your Princeton time in the US. A little heads up before the next move, would be appreciated. 😁
Russia assassinated a top Ukrainian official a few days ago. On multiple occasions, Russia attacked and damaged undersea fiber optic cables, connecting Europe to the world. Now they attack the aircraft of the EU chief. Russia is a terrorist state and international menace. Putin must be stopped.
I hope he lets RFK Jr try out his health farm concept. Cut out the adderall and gain health harvesting potatoes on his hands and knees.
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On the left, isn't that Qyborn from Game of Thrones?! Is he mentoring Stephen Miller, or the other way round?
He looks awful, and old as fuck. Is it his teeth? Did he forget to put his teeth in?
RFK Jr Health Reeducation and Population Growth Baby Factories?
Definitely not about problem solving. They're struggling to keep their authoritarian mojo flowing and are stumbling from one publicity stunt to the next.
Nate Silver is Nay a Sliver of the prognosticator he once was. He's a professional poker player and commercially tied to a sports betting outfit. It's been a *long* time since you could have any faith in his political takes. His rightwards shift manifests through these weird put-downs of democrats.
I thought it was a coffee drink.
Universal Truth: The more civilized the nation, the more years of public education they provide.
100% agree.
Why are the few Republicans, unaffected by kompromat, not demanding RFK Jr's resignation? They know the guy is a lunatic. I think it might be the same "establishment" thinking that affects Schumer and Jeffries. An inability to accept that their all important and powerful system, is under attack.
Ya'll need to read this especially if you stuff from these Countries..Trump and his Felon Economics Advisor Peter Navarro says this will bring jobs..no..it..won't Small Businesses suffer read the article
Oh the irony. Ancient dinosaurs of the past gave us the fossil-based energy sources we depend on today, while ancient GOP dinosaurs of the present, are denying us the energy sources we'll depend on in the future.
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding: "RFK Jr. says shooting heroin helped him read again. My God." 🧠 🪱 💨 leading the HHS thought coke & heroin made him a “top student.” Add that to his sex addiction & what you get is a frat brat who’d rather sext & believe conspiracy theories than read a real medical journal.
That was hard to read
Oh, for sure. There's no doubting that.
Kennedy is the appointed lunatic. His job is to cause chaos in the asylum and keep us occupied.
Worse. The more prominent the victim the more he'll use it to tighten down authoritarian control.
Launch of a new submarine.
Assassinated (by Russia.) www.bbc.com/news/article...
Simple but brilliant. He most likely is dead anyway, or will be if we give it a minute.
So darn close
That would have finished me off.
You're right, statesman is right. But look how Gavin Newsom is playing it. I see him now, more of a statesman than ever before, because he's not playing a role, he's defining it for the moment.
Playing attack puppy in the Oval Office, nipping and snarling at Zelenskyy's heals, does not count.
Tiny hands for the win 🙄 I wish he was here so I could mock him some more. World tells US to go fuck ourselves, in the hope we'll stop being insufferable morons. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
There is a thread of exploitation, greed and abuse that runs from the very beginning to the current day and beyond.
Doh! Epstein's alleged child-raping co-conspirator, must feel like a right turkey now. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Sorry kids with international relatives, Donald Trump fucked up your Xmas. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
It's a double maybe even triple, eyebrow raising event.
My inlaws suck it all in. If Fox News feature Portland in any way, they'll be asking my wife if we're OK with everything that's going on and she'll be like "what's going on?". It is literal brainwashing.
Lots of homeless footage on that clip, because that scares white Republicans. It's notable however, that issue has *nothing* to do with sanctuary cities or law and order. You know the stuff they ostensibly are talking about.
The Dem who fights back w expert-level-trolling precision is at it again & does not disappoint. Newsom: “You have not seen this on Fox News so the president might not be familiar with these facts” MY GODDESS HE IS GOOD AT THIS. Also, #epsteinfiles
Agreed. We're also very good at turning on our own, for not satisfying our personal purity tests. If we're going to take them down, we should stop doing that.
Witkoff is the guy who self-debased himself in front of the world, by running his tongue around the anus of Trump's Nobel prize desperation. "Single finest Nobel prize candidate". One of the world's worst. Period.
Yup. She's an idiot. "Science is never settled", she's "fully on-board with MAHA" and doesn't worry about "things like" drinking raw milk. [ NARRATOR: "By 'things like', she means the science; She couldn't care less about the science" ] share.google/nbqzvd4r6TWV...
Yeah, that particular "black", stands out like a pointy white hood with holes for eyes.
Every human baby ever born was born on this planet, Earth. If Sam Asswart-Hates stopped writing nonsense, he might even get a chance to contribute.
Yes, Scott Jennings! The extreme-right wing sympathizer sitting on the left. I watched him carefully and he was careful not to shake his head, as he often does in the face of facts and logic.
Interesting game theory. It could be quite deviously applied as an ongoing tactic, especially if the precedent case seems unrelated to the eventual target.
Stupidest idea ever and more evidence they really are set on destroying everything of value in modern America, so they can buy up the pieces and own us Putin style. With this decision, Americans get hit with administrative inefficiency/overhead AND the tariff-tax. www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/b...
FIRE RFK
If you're scientifically, engineering or math-oriented, this is indeed a gem!
I didn't know about this but will certainly remember it.
"Then they came for the firefighters.." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Remember "follow back parties" at the other place? The organizers typically had an excessive number of emoticons in their display name. That was really annoying and I'm grateful they're not a thing here.
Oh me, me, me!!! I can think of better on-the-job training for him. 1) If there was a real, democratic president and he wasn't such a tool, OR 2) If he was training to flip burgers - much closer to his capabilities - and he wasn't such a tool.
Would you buy gold from this woman? www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...
If we can find this out after humans have been slaughtered, why can't we search for these homicidal traits as part of the federal background check? Answer: Because the NRA and Republicans would fight tooth and nail to sell him the guns anyway. apnews.com/article/minn...
Lindsey "love ants" Graham. 😱
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
This seems to be a Dem establishment thing. Jeffries and Schumer are the same, "American people, blah blah, unprecedented, blah blah, distraction from real issues that the.." [ loop indefinitely]
Oh boy, that's quite a poke in the eye.
Totally on brand for humans. We went from "hey everyone, let's save energy and the planet by phasing out incandescent lightbulbs", to "let's carpet the world with data centers and start an AI arms race".
There's some of that for sure. Maybe 1/2 his appointments. That's how mob shit works.
Weird mofo needs to get back to swimming in sewage and rubbing himself up on roadkill, but get the fuck out of our faces on health. He's a fucking lunatic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Hugely important. They are trying to provoke reactions that they can play endlessly on TV, to justify their overreach and give the SCOTUS cover to approve it all.
Damn
Thanks for sharing that. Vaccines are one thing but this is all the more terrifying. Millions are unable to function without these medications. In previous generations, people would simply suffer and spiral down. That's what he wants to return us to.
What I find astonishing is, all the other cabinet sycophants, who presumably are not all RFK-level crazy and have families, with vaccine needs. I mean Trump's own family for goodness sake. How can they possibly live with this? All to own the libs?!?!
It's their identity. Often, the only meaning in life they have.
"Soft secession" - now we are talking. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
Patty Murray is saying what most of us are thinking.
And if your senators are Republicans (except McConnell), call their office and say you created this problem, you need to fix it
Yes, 100%. Those Sen. John whatsits, there are at least two or three of them, supposedly long-standing statesmen. Why are they letting this go on?
I absolutely agree. The longer Americans stay stuck in the 18th century, the more more innocent children will be murdered.
And. He. Told. Us. What. He. Would. Do.
Yeah, where are those fucking Bundys? Sorry, for all my cussing but I've had it with dead children and the fucking gun fetishists who fight to make sure the NEXT one, will happen. Those are the fucking cunts with the blood on their hands. "Good guy" gun owners my ass. FEARFUL COWARDS, all of you.
This is EXACTLY what it means. Americans and the second amendment, love guns more than they love children or other people. It's not even debatable. You ARE fucking deplorable, if you fight for gun rights, if you CHOOSE to ignore "well-regulated militia" and argue those words mean nothing. FUCK YOU.
Last night my wife (and dogs) were woken by a bang that she realized must have been lightning. (I slept right through). Amazingly, someone appears to have captured the very strike. This is from downtown PDX, looking East. We're somewhere towards the back right of the pic.
That Farage guy, is as compromised by Russia as all the rest of them here. Their entire eco-system is funded, the same way as the Republican party, through oligarchs both Russian and otherwise.
Please amplify Sen. Patty Murray's comments. Unless you're cool with all this, and haven't had enough yet. www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...
It's a Fox News - like thing. Newspapers and Sky News, done with a little more subtlety, but the same vibe. Last time I went back, I had a (brief) shouting match with my dad (we'd both had a couple), over their trans folk comments. It's the same drip by drip, fear based brainwashing.
I do hope so. Stay strong Ivey.
I've heard it said that Grand Jury's are set up so favorably to prosecutors, that they could indict a ham sandwich, which makes Pirro's failures particularly delish.
Ah yes, so much better than the crotchety old guy on the logo, who undoubtedly smells of urine, a little bit. I mean, it's obvious that dude pisses on the barrel, right? There is no way he goes inside.
There are Stephen Millers everywhere. Britain is getting sucked down the same path. When I visit my family in Scotland, I can feel and hear some of it coming through. It's tragic, and sometimes I wonder if I was born into the wrong world.
People must vote for a Congress that will take action, and for a President who will appoint SCOTUS Justices, who will recognize those pesky "well-regulated militia" words, for what they are -- the entire fucking context to the "right to bear arms" bit.
A less cowardly one, for sure. Americans who value guns more than people, are the biggest cowards of all. They are frightened to face facts. They are frightened to lose their identities, because they often have nothing else but their gun lovin' ways. They are too cowardly to say "enough is enough".