So we are officially at the Nixon retcon stage of GOP brain rot now? thehill.com/homenews/hou...
Chris Henry
Chris Henry
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This would be like be putting a stone slab over my clogged toilet and telling people I have complete control over the flow of water.
Trump, who clearly feels he isn't getting enough attention this morning, lies that "the U.S.A. has total control over over the Strait of Hormuz. I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT! ... Praise be to Allah!" Completely demented.
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If Trump had real evidence he’d do something official about it right away and not tease it like it’s some reality show prime time reveal.
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."
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this court would authorize all-white primaries if it could find some facially neutral means to do so
This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
This is brutal. Thank Trump.
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OK. So it’s time for the Democrats to actually have a message. That’s not simply “we’re not Republicans“
The Virginia redistricting ruling is real, and the structural headwinds are real. But so is the path forward. What today's ruling actually means, what the right will lie about, and why the only answer is the oldest one in politics — persuasion, coalition, show up. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Well now it’s up do the Democrats to be better. They can’t be content to just sell themselves as “not republican”(which seems to have been the game plan since GWB was in office). They have to prove to be such an attractive populist option that voters can’t stay away.
Roberts' Court just issued 3 major decisions gutting the Voting Rights Act, continuing to spend Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of the president's way.
These guys are such dorks. And why the obsession with Kid Rock. Aren’t there MAGA celebs cooler than Kid Rock? Does hanging with Kid Rock provide them with ANY cultural or political capital to spend? It’s so strange.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Kid Rock flew in military helicopters together on Monday, weeks after the Army came under scrutiny for a flyby at the singer’s home. nyti.ms/4e9lG9I
My god these guys are such fucking dorks.
Rep. Warren Davidson: "We had essentially the whole chain of command in one place. People say, 'That's a lot of vulnerability,' but it's also a flex, saying, 'Iran, there's really nothing you can do about it. Shed tears, whatever, but you can't influence things in the United States.'"
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Spare me. The GOP (plus Fetterman) will approve it
Exclusive: The Pentagon asked the White House to approve a more than $200 billion request to Congress to fund the war in Iran, according to an administration official, a new ask that will likely run into resistance from lawmakers opposed to the conflict.
Trump diplomacy: insult our allies, hold them hostage financially, tell them we don’t need them, fuck something up royally, beg our allies for help, cry when they refuse, invent a fake “peace board” to collect bribes from corrupt countries.
Excuse my language, but Trump is a delusional, narcissistic, lying piece of shit.
But what if the underwriters still won’t insure the ships? Will anyone risk going through?
Here’s my plea to the national security press: don’t report what he announces at face value. You’ve been suckered over and over to cover his fake trade deals and ceasefire “announcements” like they are real. He’s desperate to look like he’s got a plan. Make sure it’s not fake.
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Like the promise of voting on health care subsidies that ended the last shutdown? Jesus grow a spine. Make they reign in the federal agents NOW. Then fund the government
A spending agreement under consideration in the Senate would temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security while lawmakers negotiate provisions to rein in federal immigration agents. n.pr/3NOyIya
Been saying this for a while now and it’s 100% true. Shame is a useful tool that helps us change into better people. Without it, we get MAGA.
The most depressing lesson of the Trump era is that scandals don’t matter if the perpetrator and their supporters don’t feel shame. Shamelessness is now a political superpower.
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love...
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love... The fucking supporting cast in this movie is absolutely insane. Sig! Baranski! Dukakis! Batt! Lane! Garber! Klein! (Robert, not Kevin.) Manheim! Najimy! And Patrick Steward steals every frame of the movie he's in. An absolute banger.
So it sounds to me like the plan is to invade Venezuela, steal the oil, turn the nation into our own sweat shop, and then - I assume - deport any undocumented immigrants to Venezuela so they could work in that sweat shop. Is that right?
Salazar: "In Congress we've understood that China, we need to bring those jobs back. Maybe to the United States, but maybe near-shoring or rear-shoring. Maybe it's time to bring those jobs to Venezuela and to Chile and to Bolivia and to Central and South America. They happen to be in our back yard."
If the fraud is this bad and this rampant, where are the arrests?
Brooke Rollins on food stamps: "We know the SNAP program is rife with fraud... what we've found is stunning. 186,000 deceased individuals receiving benefits, 500,000 getting 2 times the benefit, we found thousands of individuals getting benefits in 6 different states. It is one thing after another."
First of all, I’m pretty sure you can still get drugs I to this country. So these strikes are meaningless. Second, narco-terrorist is a bullshit made up term in this context. Third, this is murder.