7PillarWisdom

7PillarWisdom

@7pillarwisdom.bsky.social

A dry perspective from the desert. Phoenix, AZ.

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This is an agreement between one institution in Italy and another institution in Benin.* It is not a cooperation between Italy and Africa. Africa is a continent not a country. * Benin is a country in Africa.

Brazen. And stupid.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Welker: "El-Sayed has denounced the Muslim Brotherhood." Mike Rogers: "No, he has not." Welker: "He did in an interview with me." Rogers: "I get you guys want to defend this guy, but I think it's unbelievable you would not hold him accountable for his beliefs."

At the time when it was reported and confirmed by Democratic senators who were at the meeting, others like Republican senator Tom Cotton, who was also at the meeting, denied that it happened. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

nbcnews.comTrump referred to Haiti and African nations as 'shithole' countriesPresident Donald Trump referred to African countries, Haiti and El Salvador as "shithole" nations during a meeting Thursday and asked why the U.S. can't have more immigrants from Norway.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Libya, Hemen, Haiti, Somalia -- remember what I called them? Shit house countries."

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Imagine being the most unlikeable, unpleasant and creepy politician from a state that has jd vance!

A poltroon from central casting.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Unearthed footage of Vivek Ramaswamy mocking Amy Acton for being a survivor of childhood abuse: "She has no vision other than to complain about what someone else did to her"

This despicable person will likely lose this election. He probably won’t understand why.

The Downballot@the-downballot.com

Vivek Ramaswamy has not only confirmed the commercial with Amy Acton's estranged mother was made by his campaign, Axios also reports he's now spending $4 million to air it.

Several years late and billions of dollars short.

CNN@cnn.com

In a scathing rebuke, Republican Senator Thom Tillis blasted President Trump's willingness to hold a trilateral Ukraine war summit with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, calling the proposed meeting “absurd.”

The politics graphs of the year. On the left Democratic Party spending on TV ads featuring Trump. On the right Republican Party spending on TV ads featuring Trump. 🤔

Good News !

The New York Times@nytimes.com

A day after Pope Leo XIV left the hospital following surgery to remove a tumor from his right lung, he made his first public appearance since the operation to give his weekly prayer and blessing to thousands of the faithful in Rome.

In case you’re wondering, Ted Cruz hates Trump too. He just can’t say so and still preserve his minuscule chance at the Republican nomination in 2028.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ted Cruz: "Right now, if you are left-wing transgender witch, you hate Donald Trump"

So now it’s Friday morning and Ms. Zacharia is out. Yep, she was awful and is awful, but this public humiliation says a lot about the people who put her there.

7PillarWisdom@7pillarwisdom.bsky.social

What is she unqualified for ? The position of press secretary under this president is what exactly ? The lesson here is that someone who was supposedly fine for the job last weekend is being fed through the Hannity wood chipper by Thursday night. That is not a statement about her.

What is she unqualified for ? The position of press secretary under this president is what exactly ? The lesson here is that someone who was supposedly fine for the job last weekend is being fed through the Hannity wood chipper by Thursday night. That is not a statement about her.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Wow -- Hannity is moving in for the kill: "Why not just say 'I went to Pepperdine Law School and then took a different career path'? Why get into this long drawn-out thing about the difference between a lawyer and an attorney?"

“ … very bad and evil man, …” Perhaps Trump knows people who are bad but not evil, or evil but not bad.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I think streaming the execution might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists & SCUM like Hasan but, many very good & well meaning people would rather not watch...He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed."

Gerrymander in haste, repent at leisure.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

missed Mike Johnson yesterday in Texas expressing concern that House Republicans in districts that Republicans gerrymandered have to deal with "brand new voters"

They don’t want to vote either. Low turnout among their base will be a huge factor Republicans this year.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "The polling is wrong ... Republican don't want to respond to polls anymore"

Let’s see. “You gotta wonder …” but “… you don’t want to find out”.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance on Talarico: "You gotta wonder what the internet search history of a man like that looks like. Ladies and gentlemen, you don't want to find out. Neither do I."

My expectations are such that this seemed bad but not shockingly so.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan

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Susan Collins votes with Trump 96% of the time and Mainers are hurting because of it. We know that Maine can't afford 6 more years of Trump's rubber stamp in the Senate. I will stand up for Mainers every day of the week and I'll never bend a knee to Donald Trump or his billionaire buddies.

If the Democrats take the Senate Bessent faces some tough hearings next year. Maybe he’ll refuse to appear, tough guy that he is. A singularly repellent individual.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

Just read it. Bessent wrote Warren a letter

The “take him seriously but not literally” crowd have been looking pretty foolish* for quite a while now. * pretty foolish is generous.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Trump: "We need a river and we need an ocean. So I was thinking either the Atlantic or the Pacific, we call it 'Trump ocean' or 'Ocean of the Americas.' Something like that. We have to. We should have, before I get out, I think we should have an ocean and we need a great river."

The thing about expensive Swiss watches is that they're high quality, last a long time and hold their value. Not for everyone, but there are many who can afford them and like them. Me ? I like my Apple Watch. Sadly, not as much as I used to before Tim Apple started cozying up to "You Know Who".

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If we decided not to buy watches from Switzerland, they wouldn't be elite anymore and we would save about $40 billion"

Given how she got her start at the Daily Wire I was initially skeptical of Kaitlan Collins. But she’s earning my respect with how she’s handling herself at CNN. Definitely one of the very best they have.

4fuxake@blueheartedly1.bsky.social

Love it 👇

Really good news.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social

A major win! A federal court in Texas today temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state’s Big Bend region. The fight isn’t over, but this is a big step toward protecting Big Bend!

Guys like Romo get paid a lot and they could easily have a driver wherever they go. Also CBS could have insisted on it. But the truth is that they're not that valuable a commodity anyway. I haven't tuned into a game based on the announcer since Howard Cosell. www.nytimes.com/athletic/765...

nytimes.comTony Romo, CBS Sports part ways after July OWI arrest (Gift Article)Romo was placed on indefinite leave shortly after the arrest and his place in CBS' No. 1 NFL was taken by J.J. Watt.