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Charley Kirk: “I think empathy is a made-up, new-age term that does a lot of damage.” & “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every year or so that we have a 2nd Amendment to protect our God given rights. That’s a prudent deal. It’s rational.” Don’t cry for me, MAGA.
Thanks to the right wing zealots and the weapons industry, “Horrific Killings” are now commonplace in the USA, today. Does anyone really believe that they are immune to the inevitable consequences of the corruption of our government by CITIZENS UNITED?
One party rule in Tennessee! What could possibly go wrong?
Tim Bottom of the Barrel Burchett demonstrates his indignity.
Professional liar and inveterate racist, Jack Posobiac, bemoans evidence of religious freedom end stage capitalism in the USA.
The predominance of right wing radio broadcasting in the dissemination of information in rural Kansas is a major factor in the shaping of opinion there.
“What’s The Matter With Kansas?” Misanthropes like Roger Marshall.
PROJECTION has always been a reliable tool of the hypocritical, perverted “Christian” right.
Republican ELECTED officials do not represent the interests of voters. They only represent the interests of Trump and Trump’s puppet masters.
Geraldo Rivera does it again! The fascist shill, once again, encourages us to consider Trump’s motives to be benign and worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize even though he folded entirely to the Russian dictator’s intentions of annexing Ukraine and denying it NATO or any real viable protection from Putin
Ah, RELIGION!!! Where would we be without it???
The misidentification of working class MAGAs with the Republican investor class instead of being in solidarity with ALL working people will not improve their lot. Those Project 2025 fascists will scrape them off their shoes on their way into the Country Club.
Marsha is a total disgrace and a threat to our democracy. What has she done to improve the wellbeing of working Tennesseans? She has abdicated her responsibilities to voters in subservience to a criminal, treasonous, incompetent, wannabe dictator. Don’t buy the Republican “cultural warfare” BS.
Oversimplification is a popular way of obfuscating facts among the underhanded and the entitled. Notions that the unregulated, untaxed accumulation of wealth is some kind of “natural law” are the wet dreams of sociopaths.
Heres the deal, “Give us some names and evidence and we’ll get you a cell with a window to spend the next 16 years in.”
Our two party political system is just a game of “good cop / bad cop.” It’s gonna be either “Highpapalowa” or “Lowpapahigha.”
If the Democratic Party can’t overcome its corporatist obstructionists and propose strong legislation and social programs that promote equitable redistribution of wealth in their 2028 platform, it will have nothing to offer the working poor or middle class and it will be absorbed in a new US fascism
Today’s Democratic Party leaders, with few exceptions, are Republicans of 20-30 years ago. The corporatists paint anything short of monopoly capitalism, deregulation and billionaire tax breaks as communism. Few voters really know what communism is and many think capitalism is synonymous with freedom
It’s time to see if Ghislaine Maxwell has any recollections or proof about who attended functions on Jeffry Epstein’s island over the years. It is less important that we keep her in jail than it is to discover who was among her clientele.
Trump finally, publicly, describes his own BASE as “stupid” and “foolish.” Those voters who sided with billionaires have undermine their own interests over obvious lies. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds can’t change anything.” -George Bernard Shaw
Tell the Senate: Judges Must Be Allowed to Prevent our Rights From Being Trampled act.indivisible.org/sign/senator...
It’s not as if there aren’t more important issues that are vital to us that deserve more in-depth coverage by a legitimate press.
The corporatist Democrats are desperate to thwart progressive change in our society. They are the Republicans of 20 years ago. They are partly responsible for our current political catastrophe.
A coup d’etat.
NO, generally speaking, Dems are weak and too conservative, including Schumer, Pelosi and Hakeem Jeffries. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are doing best.
You didn’t mention the waterline valve in your complaint. So, maybe it’s you who knew more than “everyone else.”
No price up front, no job, very simple. Shop around. Google it and do it yourself. It takes less than an hour. It’s not brain surgery.
Trump’s Dept. of Homeland Security will be his Gestapo. ICE will enforce his orders.
Smoke & mirrors to cover Trump family grift
Not the open one, please.
Why can’t Vatican City be the 51st state?
Maybe, he pooped the black suit.
. . . . same for Mike Johnson and the whole Project 2025 crew, too!!!
Who did this? 😂
James Carville to David Hogg: “GET OFF MY LAWN!!!”
It’s the same with transgender people. The fact of it was so misunderstood and so deeply hidden from society for so long that it is perceived as a new phenomenon today. It’s the uncomfortable, frightened ignorance that is most unnatural.
Why is that up to Musk?
Trump and his lackeys are nothing but thugs.
“Christianity neither is, not ever was, a part of the common law.” - Thomas Jefferson
“Religion was invented when the first conman met the first fool.” - Mark Twain
Why only anti-Christian bias? What about Christian bias against anything not Christian? What about Sunni Islamist bias against Shia Islamists or Protestants bias against Catholics or believers bias against non- believers? Oh! No problem. That’s forbidden in the First Amendment of our Constitution.
If Hegseth is that careless with what he shares on his phone, imagine how careless he is with what comes out of his mouth, especially since it’s always 5:00 PM somewhere.
“Contemporary culture includes everything from climate change denialism, Christofascist evangelism and economic elitism to environmentalism, freedom from religion and economic justice. Pope Francis seemed to promote the latter.
These self-righteous busybodies are incapable of understanding that their beliefs and opinions are not law. They don’t care that they are a very small minority in the USA. They insist that their fanatical so-called “faith” grants them authority over other people’s lives. It’s a form of mass insanity
Fear, prejudice and ignorance are the tools of fascism.
Hypocrisy, thy name is religion.
Support The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF).
At what point will the “free press” in the USA publicly recognize that Donald Trump’s essential mission, his ultimate assignment, from his puppet master Putin, is to destroy the USA’s economy and its position as a world leader. So far he is succeeding.
Idiot
If you don’t have capital, you can’t be a capitalist.
Transgender and homosexuality in humans and other species occur naturally on Earth. Only religious dogma, ignorance, fear and hate could create conditions and social systems that make such non-issues controversial.
Correct! The Democratic Party & the Republican Party are two wings of the Capitalist Party.
The TWO PARTY SYSTEM is inadequate as a representative form of government. It easily lends itself to corruption. It thwarts serious dissension. It protects regressive social & political ideas that would be challenged in a more pluralistic political system. It’s become a “Good Cop/Bad Cop” trap.
Today, leaders of the Free World rebuked the USA for having been so unreliable as to elect such a president as Donald Trump. Some have said that our standing can never be repaired, that they never dare trust us again. Seems the stupidity of our citizens has finally exposed our phony exceptionalism.
Republicans have always been in favor of exploiting our resources for the maximum profitability of a few, with little or no regard to how the destruction of our environment would impact future generations. It’s been a “smash & grab” approach the allocation of our sustainable, collective wealth.
Karoline Leavitt is a vacuous mannequin.
CLOWN
Escort Ms. Noem into that cell so she can charm her way into their hearts like she has the MAGA criminals.
@gregpalast.bsky.social As we watch voter suppression efforts throughout the states, to disenfranchise women voters by way of maiden/married name voter registration/birth certificate discrepancies, what is being done or can be done to eliminate this state by state challenge to voting our rights?
@rostymanson.bsky.social Howdy!
This organization is a right wing, Libertarian group that seeks to eliminate all income and payroll taxes and, instead, fund a skeleton federal government through a regressive 23% federal sales tax on the purchase of all retail goods and services. That is an oligarchs favorite wet dream.
GIGA
How long will the courts tolerate the vacuous arguments and insolent behavior of Trump’s punks?
They will first blame Musk for the Trump administration’s failures that affect them. They will never blame themselves for the hatefulness, gullibility or stupidity that caused them to support Trump.
Just how interested must one be to “check out” the incel’s huge size?
Misogynistic? Berniebros? Ha! Now, you have revealed yourself as a troll. Maybe you should get dressed, go outside and try to get a life.
There is nothing “far left” about Bernie Sanders or AOC. Neither universal single-payer healthcare nor free quality education are far left policies. They are standard, common and successful throughout the developed world. Progressive taxation is also common and beneficial to successful societies .
Equal rights, pro choice, etc. still enjoy majority support in the USA. The bell curve you cite is a figment of right wing propaganda. Recognizing Trump as a traitorous criminal psychopath is only the first step out of the fever swamp that has enabled and excited his oligarch friends and his minions
Democratic Party conservatives have controlled the party since the ‘80s. Citizens United has allowed them to be bribed like Republicans. They have enabled monopoly capitalism, the unchecked concentration of wealth and the decline of the middle class. Our working class has few champions among them.
Today’s Democratic Party is the Republican Party of 20 years ago. Our TWO PARTY system is nothing but a game of GOOD COP / BAD COP.
If anybody is going to give classified information to our enemies, Tulsi wants it to be her.
It can take years of abstinence for an alcoholic’s brain to recover from long term, severe alcohol abuse. Jesus doesn’t take the wheel the day one claims to have quit drinking.
Breathalyzer, please!
It’s the job of the left to keep Schumer out of office.
Like a clot in the artery of progress.
Still no word about this miracle/pardon from God, himself, though.
BREAKING NEWS!!! Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Survives Attempted Mugging at United States White House
Aside from his lifelong megalomaniacal narcissism, Trump the politician has never been anything but Putin’s puppet. His successor, who is much younger and in better health is already in waiting. Only serious campaign finance and tax reform can possibly rescue our vulnerable democracy from oligarchy.
SCOTUS has already granted Trump blanket immunity from prosecution for CRIMES he commits while “performing presidential duties.” SCOTUS has allowed the destruction of their own reputations for peddling influence and engaging in bribery. They are the Achilles heel of our democracy.
Because Trump will try to run again and his hand-picked Supreme Court justices might just make it possible. He has managed to do so many things we thought he “couldn’t do,” like get elected in the first place or get reelected after a failed first term. Our Constitution is inadequate to the task.
Merit? As long as we’re concerned about the competence of DEI hires, shouldn’t we be at least as concerned about the competence of those lucky stiffs hired due to nepotism and cronyism?
Dolan is a Chtistofascist.
From your lips to . . . . .
Given the deliberate and successful suppression of many millions of votes in the seven “swing states” in the years and months prior to the November 2024 presidential election, it is clearly inaccurate to describe Donald Trump’s victory as legitimate. You were cheated. Don’t be afraid to say so.
SCOTUS has always been and still is the Achilles heal of our democracy.
Apparently, our rights under the Constitution have relied more on norms than on laws for adherence and has been made of moldy Swiss cheese and papier mache held together by snot.
@arimelber.bsky.social Each funding cut is sought to reduce the federal budget in order for Trump & Congress to pass a 10-year extension of Trump’s expiring 1/1/18 tax cuts without Congressional legislation. It is MOST important that your audience be reminded of it with every assault on all programs
The legal protections granted to the citizens and residents of the USA by the U.S. Constitution need some serious updating to deal with the new realities of the 21st Century. Our Constitution must be a “LIVING” document, representing the interests of today’s electorate, not one trapped in the past.
Trump’s & Musk’s minions, including the delusional lowly social climbers and the ill-mannered nouveau riche, are the human equivalent of the cheapest tissues a pretentious, phony dictator/oligarch could use to blow his nose.
Twitter, Facebook & TikTok are attractive nuisances, at best. We got along better without them. They only enrich the worst among us. They create unaccountable oligarchs who finance democracy’s destruction with your personal information. Quit, Delete & Bankrupt them. Stop playing their game.
Republicans are hypocrites and thieves and they know it.
Republicans are hypocrites and thieves and they know it.
They are attempting the cuts in various social programs in order to reduce the budget enough to renew expiring Trump tax cuts without LEGISLATION, but by way of RECONCILIATION. They want to steal your tax $$ from other programs to cut taxes for billionaires for another 10 years. Pay attention.
Republicans can’t pass legislation to extend Trump’s expiring 10 year tax cuts in 2025. So they attempt budget “Reconciliation,” which requires that tax cuts don’t increase the federal deficit. Eliminating programs from the budget might creat enough room to accommodate those tax cuts. Its your money
Schumer is a relic of the calcified corporatist, unrepresentative Democratic Party that has been complicit in defeating the truly PROGRESSIVE legislation that is needed to remedy the continuing takeover of our economy and democracy by the morbidly rich 1%. Let’s get modern, here. Kick out the jams!
I would like to warn everyone about subscribing to “The Advocate,” a newspaper based in Baton Rouge, LA. They make it impossible to cancel your subscription. Phone #s that don’t answer, put on long hold and hung up on, claiming they can’t cancel your subscription. Avoid “The Advocate” at all cost.
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” - From “The Mass Psychology of Fascism” by Wilhelm Reich
Hey, Bible thumpers: “Thou shalt not kill.”
In France, all the cigarette packages are BLACK, with warnings.