msc429

msc429

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Regular guy, observer of humanity, lover of history, art, music, amazing places on earth, and truth.

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With everyone up in arms about AIPAC influence, it’s worth noting that other lobbying groups spend much more on candidate support. Yet no outcry on the US CoC which supports businesses over people, or the National Assn of Realtors (relationship to high cost of housing?) or medical organizations?

According to the Daily Mail (not the greatest source), the White House is blocking the FBI and top US intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about new terror threats to the homeland tied to the war with Iran. Is this true?

I believe that Trump will try to use ICE goons to seize voting machines in democratic districts and states on Election Day this year. I hope I’m wrong but I don’t think I am.

So Maduro is captured because why, he’s a drug trafficker? Yet the Honduras president, who was actually convicted of drug trafficking, gets pardoned? This is all bullshit and watch a US-friendly government take charge of Venezuela and let us have access to all that oil. Follow the money.

In Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces are responsible the violence and suffering in Sudan. They have killed tens of thousands of people. They are backed by the UAE. We sell billions of dollars of arms to the UAE. The NBA and Disney do business with the UAE. I wonder.... where are all the protests?

SERIOUS QUESTION: Where can I get my fair and truthful video-based news summary in the morning now that I can't trust Morning Joe (my former go-to) and gave up on CNN long ago? Recommendations anyone? #MorningJoe

Wow, Morning Joe really went all in on the Charlie Kirk is a saint nonsense this morning, didn't they? How does Scarborough and his sycophants sleep at night? I lasted two minutes then said no and turned it off. Any mention of Kirk's nasty quotes about gays, trans people or black people? Nah.

Who was Charlie Kirk? Here's who he was: “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”

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During an appearance with Trump in Georgia last fall, he claimed that Democrats “stand for everything God hates,” adding: “This is a Christian state. I’d like to see it stay that way.”

He had also called white privilege a “myth”, labelled the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a “huge mistake” and criticized Martin Luther King as overrated.

Who was Charlie Kirk? Here's who he was: “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”

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He said incorrectly that there was no scientific consensus on global warming. He also rejected the idea that climate change posed an existential threat to humanity, describing it as “complete gibberish, nonsense and balderdash.

Who was Charlie Kirk? Here's who he was: “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”

He was critical of gay and transgender rights and the separation of church and state. He encouraged students and parents to report professors whom they suspected of embracing what some on the right refer to as gender ideology.

Yamamoto throws one bad pitch for a HR, then Dave Roberts pulls him? Then puts in Tanner Scott after Treinen didn’t have it? #Dodgers are a bad team right now and somebody’s head needs to roll at some point. (Roberts, Friedman cough cough).

It took less than five months for Trump to order troops against citizens protesting. Just wait folks, summer is riot season. Only a matter of time until some amped up National Guardsman, masked ICE goon or Marine shoots and kills protesters. Yay America! 🥵

Today’s News: Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope, destruction of American democracy, Pope, Pope, random celebrity story, Pope, and Pope.

From the WP: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt falsely claimed Wednesday that the Atlantic has conceded that messages sent among top Trump administration officials in a Signal group chat regarding a strike on Yemen did not amount to “war plans,” calling the magazine’s reporting a “hoax.”

What Bernie Sanders and AOC did in Arizona yesterday is what EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE AND SENATOR should be doing all the time. Where are these democrats? Why aren't they pushing this message in red and purple states as well as blue? Are the democrats this bad at messaging?

azmirror.comSanders, Ocasio-Cortez rally thousands at ASU against 'billionaires buying elections'Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez headlined a packed Tempe rally against billionaire influence in politics

Just wasted five minutes of my life watching Rick Scott spout bullshit on Jake Tapper’s show. “We have to rein in the size of government. Then we have to make sure everybody can get a job.” The man speaks like he’s on drugs.

Being a cynic has its advantages. We are able to see the full truth of matters great and small, and we never believe in the fantasy of happy endings. Sure, we want happy endings, but don't expect them. We are cursed with the ability to see worst outcomes.

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What can we do? I don’t have the answer but personally, I tend to look to practical and efficient solutions. Yes, I’ve written to my senators and congressman. Yes I can hold a sign in a small local protest that achieves nothing. Yes I can write social media posts.

But I fear these small acts of defiance do little or nothing to fix what is broken. So I ask again: what is the most practical way to stop this awful future from being a nightmarish reality?

Being a cynic has its advantages. We are able to see the full truth of matters great and small, and we never believe in the fantasy of happy endings. Sure, we want happy endings, but don't expect them. We are cursed with the ability to see worst outcomes.

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suddenly people are afraid to speak freely. And then Martial Law somehow becomes permanent. If we play this string out to its logical conclusion, we can see elections being canceled for “safety reasons.” This is surely the worst outcome.

I can hear your protests now: Why, this can never happen here, this is America, Land of the Free! Yeah, it used to be. I believe we are heading down this most dangerous path. But how do we stop it from happening?

Being a cynic has its advantages. We are able to see the full truth of matters great and small, and we never believe in the fantasy of happy endings. Sure, we want happy endings, but don't expect them. We are cursed with the ability to see worst outcomes.

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They do this by closing multiple SS offices across the country, thereby delaying payments through lack of proper staffing, or by decreasing benefit payouts directly. Many Americans then say “Enough!” and start demonstrations across the land. Demonstrations get angry, then violent

then Trump calls out the National Guard or the Army to “restore order.” More violence ensues, people get killed, and then Trump declares Martial Law. And suddenly we are living in a dictatorship. Media outlets are forcibly shut down, law-abiding citizens are rounded up on trumped-up charges.

Being a cynic has its advantages. We are able to see the full truth of matters great and small, and we never believe in the fantasy of happy endings. Sure, we want happy endings, but don't expect them. We are cursed with the ability to see worst outcomes.

Here is an outcome that I can clearly see and it’s not a happy ending. Trump and Musk, with the mindless nodding of approval by a spineless Congress, successfully cuts Medicaid and somehow manages to cut Social Security benefits.