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Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.

let it shut down. then in a couple of years or however long it takes seize the copious ill-gotten gains from all the various cronies and use it to fund knocking down the ballroom and arch then airlift the rubble to mar-a-lago and dump it on the lawn

[John Cleese voice] "And now for something completely hypocritical..." Nathan J. Robinson is the guy that got taught trying to help Tara Reade take down Joe Biden so Bernie could be the 2020 Democratic nominee for president.

Conservatives: The epidemic of male loneliness is a scourge and we need to have compassion for all the incels worshipping Nick Fuentes. Also Conservatives: Men who have male friends are gay.

This line in particular makes me feel ill: "The dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional." SCOTUS' Republican majority has long required elections to be held under illegal maps—when it hurts Dems.

Hegseth: Our fighting men understand that hardship is part of the warrior ethos. As it says in the bible: "In prison, dinner was always a big thing. St Paul had a wonderful system for doing the garlic. He used a razor and he'd slice it so thing it would liquefy in the pan."

Pope Leo XIV: "Even the holy Name of God, the God of life, is being dragged into discourses of death. A world of brothers and sisters with one heavenly Father vanishes, as in a nightmare, giving way to a reality populated by enemies"

The stages of climate denial I - It's not happening; you're crazy. II - You're crazy, but here's some science* showing it's fake. III - Scientifically disproven. BUT if it was happening, it might be good. IV - Here's my plan to get rich off our Waterworld reality. (We are here.)

Remind me how Reagan did it in Nicaragua again...

In 4 weeks Trump has transformed Iran from a country where people poured into the streets to overthrow the regime into a country where people poured into the streets to stop America. Great work.

what happens when you say genocide joe and killer kamala in the mirror three times? you look in the mirror and see the face of someone responsible for the genocide of 90 million Iranians.

Iran Imposes New ‘Cash, Grass, Or Ass’ Fee For Strait Of Hormuz

I don’t want to hear anything from Theo Von and Joe Rogan besides an apology.

People say Trump has no war strategy, but his strategy is quite clearly a criminal one of destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure (and killing a bunch of people in the process) unless they capitulate. We -- the United States of America -- are a rogue state and global pariah.

Iran won’t close the Strait Iran better open the Strait Iran has 2 days to open the Strait Iran has a week to open the Strait NATO, open the Strait I’ll bomb your critical infrastructure if Strait isn’t opened I don’t care about the Strait No ceasefire till Strait is open

Horrible Bitch Of An Ex-Girlfriend Missed Terribly https://theonion.com/horrible-bitch-of-an-ex-girlfriend-missed-terribly-1819565162/

we're supposed to believe the Trump administration has spent more than a year doing a mass deportation of the worst of the worst criminals, but also there are sleeper cells of undocumented Iranians in the country that constitute a grave national security threat. the math ain't mathing.

Only MAGA allowed

I’m not trying to hear “Democrats caved” from mufuckas who’ve been walking around bragging about not voting or voting third party for ten years. Fuck all that. You gave up years ago. Why are we fucking listening to you?

NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.

NOEM: I would disagree with the judge CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree? NOEM: A what? CROCKETT: A law degree NOEM: No I do no- CROCKETT: Okay

We've reached the unethical human experiments stage of fascism.

We are literally living in this Fd up times

crazy that basically every person complaining about "woke overreach" over the last 12 years is also in the epstein emails being like "thanks for the pussy, jeff ;)"

When government agents choose to mask themselves, use 5 year olds as bait, send people to countries where they don’t know the language, separate families and so on, the consequence of that is to be compared (rightly) to the gestapo. When they murder citizens, they prove the point.

Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government

Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law

TIM WALZ: I feel you anger. I'm angry. They want a show. Don't give it to them. If you protest, protest peacefully. Please stand with Minneapolis. Know that we will stop at nothing to seek justice. We do not need any further help from the federal government. You've done enough.

the one cool thing about OG feudalism which we should bring back in this version is the rich guys actually had to put on armor and go fight each other

MacCALLUM: You're implying that Trump might do something they wouldn't want to uphold. What are you talking about? CROW: The protests at Lafayette Square where he said, 'Can't you just shoot them in the legs' MacCALLUM: That's not an order. That's a comment CROW: That's coming from the president

Odd that the DoJ is opening an investigation into the Epstein files since they said in July that there was no client list and nothing to release.

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.

At least they FINALLY admitted why they refused to negotiate on the shutdown. First they lied and promised Dems they would “negotiate” this, but only AFTER they voted for the CR. But Dems were correct when they assessed that Republicans NEVER intended to extend these subsidies.

They do not have a plan, they’ve never had a plan. They’ve also never had the votes to repeal the ACA which is *OVERWHELMINGLY* popular, nor have they been able to get the Supreme Court to overturn it, so instead they’ve just shut down the entire government to try forcing Dems to stop funding it.

The current GOP lie is that they’re going to replace Obamacare with something better. Bullshit. In all of the majorities they’ve had since Obamacare passed, they’ve never once tried to replace it. They’ve tried to repeal it a whole bunch, but never actually make it better.

Republicans waged a relentless, decades-long campaign to privatize Medicare and Medicaid They fought even mild efforts to expand public insurance Now they are objecting to extending extra ACA subsidies, supposedly because money flows to private insurers We are supposed to take this seriously?

FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, lied about firing tear gas at protesters in Little Village and tackling a man outside the Broadview ICE facility, a federal judge said Thursday. @wttw.bsky.social

This is the equivalent of my entire local PD showing up to bum rush one guy who's standing there minding his own fucking business.

Analysis | Democrats' calls for higher taxes on billionaires could have a chilling effect on boosters' ability to buy out college football coaches' 9-figure contracts.

Let’s keep this simple so everyone will understand… This is what happens when folks vote for reproductive rights and also for Republicans on the same ballot. [Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO)]

Obama: "The weird videos of a US president with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet & dumping poop on American citizens - that's not even worth booing about. Because all of that is a distraction from the fact that your situation, your life has not gotten better. They do it so you won't notice"

Obama: When I think back to a year ago, I remember talking to some people, who would say, this election doesn't matter all that much. That however the next president ended up being, it wasn't going to matter to them. If nothing else, the last nine months should have cured us of that idea.