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when they show you who they are, believe them it was never just about illegal immigration

Trump pushes for data centers that barely benefit anyone but his billionaire tech donors & his heavily invested family. He boasts “we’re making a freaking fortune” on high gas prices, not even pretending to care we’re all getting wrung dry to increase obscene profits to him & his billionaire pals.

The Writers Guild on Musk blocking releasee of the documentary "Musk": "A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, and social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration over our news and media threatens democratic discourse."

How many 1000s of times would Trump have bragged about this already if dementia hadn't only just fed his ego the fantasy? Knowing Trump, now he'll probably sue wikipedia & others for failing to list a single Trump (or MacLeod on mother's side) in articles on radar's development in multiple nations

Can anyone say at this point what is NOT okay if you're a Republican?

This is so ludicrous, so poisoned by raging ego, that I had to check if it was a joke. It's not. This golem of ignorance & hubris bragged at a rally he'd called Google to float (no pun intended) the idea of changing Atlantic Ocean to Trump Ocean on its maps. www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/10/24/t...

Shocking how totally Trump shuts out facts that don't suit his ignorant take. Impossible to believe he never heard news reports and/or no one on staff told him mother in question lost custody due to horrendous mistreatment, including rapes husband was tried for before she fled jurisdiction with him.

In the Republican Party, this is your ticket to success. Not policy achievements. Not improving people’s lives. It’s who can kiss Trump’s ass in the most shameless way possible. His cabinet is a perfect example, where they do it every single day. That’s why they have their jobs.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: MeidasTouch obtained NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN photos and videos revealing devastating damage to U.S. bases from Trump's Iran war. Troops and military families describe being abandoned by their own government. “It’s so much worse than people realize.”

The sooner this is implemented the better. I’m sick of seeing houses snapped up by companies that collectively use their market dominance to raise rents beyond any sane measure of worth. Small landlords seize on the cover to raise rents to match, and renters get crushed by artificial rent inflation.

"MK Pritzker, the wife of Illinois’s Democratic governor, JB Pritzker, announced on Wednesday that she would put half a million dollars behind Dr. Acton’s campaign..."👏 as Trump shrugs off the creepy ad & Vance lauds it because it supposedly “calls it out like it is." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

I hope Musk loses the business of every nation using Starlink. When we have a sane government again, I hope it arrests him for treason for enabling Russia's slaughter of Ukrainian children and civilians. I hope international criminal courts try him for every death attributable to his twisted hubris.

CSPAN is going to be busy with all the Trial Coverages...

Congress (if not Trump) still considers Ukraine our ally, entitled to our negotiated support and the contract guarantees of US-based contractors. Doesn’t this make Musk’s sabotage literally treason? Or are sabotage and treason, like everything else in Trump’s America, okay if you’re a Republican?

We are sensing a pattern

Tommy in the El-Sayed video reminded me of the singer & a few other boys in Cabaret's "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" scene. Not just a bit in looks but mostly in his cock-sure smugness, and because assumptions in his question made me feel like scene's old guy in a Greek fisher's cap. youtu.be/OPvB94VqZsQ

Turns out my alma mater was named for someone heinous. With all the "1066" clubs/orgs there, it was easy to vaguely associate the name with King Harold & the Battle of Hastings. (Too bad SCOTUS didn't release decision 5 days ago, on the battle's 960th anniversary) www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

DOJ lawyers tell judge their filing "did not purport to represent the actual position or mental impressions of the President," then refuse judge's demand they sign AG's filing claiming "administration had not taken any final agency action regarding the golf course." Lying or saying DJT's gone rogue?

“'There’s no excuse for treating me that way because I didn’t do anything,' she said." Maybe attending a rally while Black is excuse enough, when Musk is bankrolling the campaign.

Fools and their money et cetera. But there ought to be penalties when someone like Musk, who disregarded safety and reliability to rush to market with cybertrucks that blew up & froze up & rusted out, again targets fools with misleading marketing of improbable new products based on their "coolness."

Raid on Omar’s home was to fish for proof she lied, was 18 not 17 when father was naturalized? Just to skip a test she’d have easily passed? 🙄 At age 11, I helped my parents study for their tests, and I could have passed it. Trump’s birther BS pretext to harass Omar isn’t just scary, it’s ridiculous

Poland’s Foreign Minister Sikorski: basically calling Trump a liar. “The US no longer finances this war since January of last year. In other words, for more than a year and a half. The US has not contributed a single cent to the defense of Ukraine. We are doing it. Europe.”

Trump doesn’t mention the cost to Russia & pressure on it to stop an unpopular invasion that as of July led to 450K battlefield deaths (more than combined US totals in all wars since WW2), 1.4 MILLION casualties, little ground gained, and a furious public sick of being stuck in miles-long gas lines.

The cartoon is by David Sipress for the April 5, 2018 New Yorker, but it's *very* on point today:

He counts on having ignorant research-averse audiences, their common sense smothered by “reporting” from a media owned by his donors & cronies. There’s no limit anymore to his nonsensical claims.

Banned books make wonderful gifts. Trust me on this.

Europe should seize his assets to give to Ukraine.

He usually seems more confident that MAGA voters are dumb enough to believe anything. (On that, he leads by example.)

They are villains, mass murderers, worse than heartless sociopaths. It’s maddening they’ll pay no price.

Yes, one of the all-time great Chinese corporate lawyers

??? Surely in a sane world, posting slop of himself with sweaty bearded quintuplets would trigger 25th Amendment talks.

"Ballroom donors landing $50 Billion in contracts." Wow. RS's examples of Trump corruption are all scandalous, obscene. But till WaPo published the donors list Trump refused to release, I didn't know the payout for funding his $330M gold-encrusted debacle/Hitler-style bunker was $50 F'ing BILLION!!

Wtf? How many adults like me, automatically naturalized as kids when parents became citizens, have parents' applications/relevant docs at home? I have no clue where my parents' forms are. Shouldn't Trump DOJ be checking government document storage sites instead of fishing for crimes at Omar's home?

The concept of lying has been abolished. "How could you have a slogan like 'freedom is slavery' when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought...Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think" George Orwell, 1984

And all her hero-martyr Trump got out of it, these last 2 years, is ... more than $2 billion (that we know of) in his own pocket and $2.4 billion (that we know of) in his children's pockets

It’s not just about affordability. Maybe for the first time since 1974, voters say their main concern heading into the midterms is corruption in government. Great to see.

Trump loves to brag his uncle taught at MIT. "I have great genes and all that stuff, which I'm a believer in." But he never mentions a grandfather deported from Canada for being a pimp & a card cheat. Trump obviously didn't inherit uncle's brains but granddad would be proud of his lechery & cheating

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

Musk may have lost 90% of "followers" liking his posts. 👏 "Throughout October, his posts garnered an average of between 17,000 and 81,000 likes per day — until the past two days, the averages slid to a dismal 11,000 and 8,000, respectively." futurism.com/future-socie...

Elon Musk is despicable. Because he is a crazy white supremacist, he killed hundreds of thousands of people in Africa by having his DOGE teens cut aid for food and medicine. And because he is a crazy authoritarian, he has now killed Ukrainians by hindering their ability to anticipate air strikes.

Does anyone think almighty Musk fears paying a price for, in effect, murdering civilians in a foreign war? In the Trump era, the super rich feel entitled to ignore contracts and break promises based on wrongheaded, greed-tainted political views that match Trump’s.

No, there is no historically-correct way to hang TP rolls. People often cite the "over" illustration on Seth Wheeler's 1891 trademark application for rolls with perforations for tear-off squares. But Wheeler's later trademarks (for decorated paper & multiple-roll hangers) show rolls hanging "under."

Igor reflects a lot of the commentary from inside Russia, in which this "deal" is basically viewed as a huge case of Putin pulling the wool over Trump's eyes for a massive tactical win over a man who is an easily swayed idiot (but "our" idiot).