Karen Wagner retweeted
"Hope built this place...and hope still lives here."
This is a beautiful, impactful message and video from @JamesTalarico.
He is playing against the hateful tenor of our times, and betting on Texans to reject an onslaught of hundreds of millions of dollars in negative ads, paid for by @ElonMusk, @MAGA Inc. and others on behalf of Ken Paxton.
Karen Wagner retweeted
Politicians will look working-class voters straight in the eye and promise a $5,000 "dividend check" but only if you hand them absolute control of Congress first.
Think about the mechanics of that pitch for a second:
They control the highest offices in the country right now, yet somehow, lowering your cost of living, fixing the housing crisis, and putting cash back in your pocket is strictly conditional.
It’s contingent on an election outcome.
It’s a financial ransom note disguised as a campaign strategy.
They want you to vote harder, donate more, and ignore your grocery bills for another year based on an IOUs-only policy that history proves never clears.
A government that can instantly fund foreign proxy wars and corporate subsidies with a stroke of a pen shouldn't need a congressional majority stamp to give citizens relief.
When politicians tie basic survival checks to midterm leverage, they aren't running a country.
They are running a protection racket where your ballot is the cover charge.
Karen Wagner retweeted
CHAOS AT THE RALLY - Trump walked right past The Beast; he clearly didn't want to take the ride to Air Force One.
He was surrounded by secret service and directed back to the car.
Same exact thing happened yesterday.
WHY WON'T THEY LET HIM WALK LONG DISTANCES? 🤔
Karen Wagner retweeted
I started making these because people said they couldn’t stand to hear his voice or see his face. I wanted them to know how disordered and confused his language has gotten. I’m not going to write paragraphs about “this is what he meant to say.”
This is what he said.
Karen Wagner retweeted
“We learned this week that Russia inserted a multibillion dollar bribe into the U.S. led negotiations to end the war in Ukraine; a Putin-proposed oil deal that would directly benefit the Trump clan.
As soon as the deal is approved and the sanctions are lifted, the result will be a very lucrative payday for Kushner and company. For the slender princeling with the Plasticine pallor, his recent trip to Moscow was obviously quite profitable.
It’s not everyday someone shows up in white sneakers and jeans to meet with the President of Russia and walks away with an offer to buy up Russian oil for pennies on the dollar - all under the guise of practicing diplomacy on behalf of the United States.
A further entanglement in a long and sordid history.
It was Jared who sought to set up a backchannel with the Kremlin as soon as his father-in-law became U.S. President-elect in 2016, circumventing State Department protocol. He was so eager to get business flowing with Russia he didn’t even wait for Trump to be inaugurated. He knew what had long since been conducted in the shadows between the Trump clan and the oligarchs would now be official business.
This deal exemplifies their corrupt and treasonous mindset.
Several of the Trump family’s Middle Eastern backers, including Emirati royal, Sheikh Tahnoon, an investor in World Liberty Financial, DJT’s crypto firm run by Steve Witkoff’s son Zach, would also benefit immensely from the proposed sale of Lukoil - as would American investors who have donated millions to Trump political causes.
Zach has also been busy working the phones (unsuccessfully) looking for a starchitect for Trump’s presidential library and partnering with Don Jr. in a private members only club (Executive Branch in Washington, DC) designed to sell access to the Trump administration to the highest bidder.” noelcasler.substack.com/p/wa…
Karen Wagner retweeted
The first architect of the White House ballroom resigned after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes, the Washington Post reports.
“I am the code,” Trump said washingtonpost.com/investiga…
Karen Wagner retweeted
This is wild.
Ken Paxton has been in office in Texas since 2003, and he’s trying to blame Talarico for China owning 162,000 acres in Texas?
The ease with which they lie is pretty insane.
Karen Wagner retweeted
I saw this post and wanted to address it.
If you look at social media today, you’ll see good, empathetic people admitting they are losing hope. They look at climate change, rising authoritarianism, and corporate greed and feel entirely powerless. If you feel this way, I want

ALT hate to broadcast this on social media, but I know l am not alone when I candidly state that l am losing the will to live. In my 53 years, I have never known a time when I could not locate a semblance of hope until now. It's only a feeling, but an uncomfortable one, one that makes me feel powerless. The future of the planet, genocide, the threat of being ruled and surveilled by tech overlords, the corruption, amorality, the lack of empathy, fascism on the rise globally w/GOP in support.
Karen Wagner retweeted
“A little known Trumpworld fundraiser, Meredith O’Rourke, is making sure the race to save democracy may in fact be lost ahead of the starting gun.
Shaking down everyone in Trump’s purview, not merely willing donors but also the corporate cowards who wish to compete in this rigged and corrupt, insider-favored economy.
Many perhaps know deep down it is wrong to pour their millions into his grift machine, yet they do it anyway to receive preferential treatment in the most crooked administration in American history.
The real folks getting fleeced by this unbridled greed are the American taxpayers - and anyone looking for an even playing field, equal opportunity and representation in our government. We are handing future generations a rotten husk of a country if this malfeasance continues.
The ‘Princess of Darkness’, a sobriquet given by Trump himself, checks in with ‘the boss’ (as she refers to him on donors calls, ‘the boss wants this money’) nightly to compile a list of who has paid up and who hasn’t.
So far they have raised a staggering 800 million dollars for his MAGA, Inc. super PAC, his Presidential Library and ballroom funds. Unheard of in modern times, and thanks to SCOTUS’ Citizens United ruling, perfectly legal.
The candlelight dinners POTUS hosts at the White House and his Trump properties are not just opportunities for shakedowns and insider trading on the public dime, they seem to be the only thing POTUS puts any effort into beyond his continual destruction of our National Monuments and the White House grounds.
Meredith O’Rourke has no official role in the government, beyond a seat on the board of the National Parks Foundation. The destruction of Big Bend National Park in recent weeks to build a steel barrier wall is in many ways a flex of Trump’s power (no one crosses the border there and the desecration of our public lands is another exercise in grifting taxpayers), as was the tearing down of the East Wing earlier this year.
It is no accident his primary fundraiser, whom he refers to as a ‘killer’, is involved in both of these projects.
The destruction of national monuments and parks is to show potential donors that POTUS can in fact, do whatever the hell he wants and nobody is gonna stop him (so you better f’n pay up, capiche?).
It is the equivalent of mobster walking into a store that hasn’t paid up for protection and taking a baseball bat to the shelves. It is violence in service of profit - and to inspire acquiescence and fear through sheer brutality.” noelcasler.substack.com/p/th…
Karen Wagner retweeted
“Trump’s children were raised in an environment of perpetual criminality which is why they are serving so steadily as the legs to his banquet table of graft right now.
Don Jr., Eric and Jarvanka, (and even Barron with his Polymarket bets and upstairs-in- the-White-House insider trading), are helping themselves to a feast which may, in the end, send much of the world into a famine.
Trump essentially hijacked the armored car and his kids are unloading it.
That corrupt methodology has now seemingly been adopted by our State Department under the greasy guidance of Marco Rubio, a man who seems hellbent on becoming the dictator on deck.
A scary proposition because a more disciplined man with the same immoral attributes as POTUS could do remarkable damage in the world, perhaps even extending out from the calamity Trump has already caused.
All signs point to Rubio’s involvement in the Ceuta migrant situation this past week, which looks like it was a stunt engineered by our own State Department.
In April, under Rubio’s direction, the U.S. sent 20 million dollars to Morocco specifically earmarked for ‘diplomatic engagement’ between Morocco and Spain concerning the ‘future status’ of Ceuta (an autonomous Spanish city on the northern coast of Africa). This week’s stunt was engineered with the seeming complicity of the Moroccan government as a sort of payback to Spain for not opening their airspace to the U.S. military during Trump’s illegal war with Iran.
Most of the shirtless (another tell) young men who were victims of online disinformation campaigns (falsely stating European immigration policy had suddenly changed, creating a “pull factor” for the mass migration event) returned immediately to Morocco. Participants said they had been driven to the maritime and land border (that Moroccan security forces themselves control) in trucks and buses, and pointed towards Ceuta. Where cameras happened to waiting to document their arrival.
Nothing about the situation looked spontaneous; it was political theater and most likely an act of retribution against Spain for standing up to the United States-an opportunity to reinforce Trump’s immigrant rhetoric which he immediately seized upon and said it should be used as an issue to benefit the GOP in the midterms.
A tailor made distraction from the calamity caused by both the United States and Israel in the disastrous war in Iran.
Ceuta provided the sort of ‘migrant invader’ social media agitprop content that is so popular with POTUS and MAGA influencers. It feed the fears of the psychologically stunted men and women to whom the ‘America First’ movement has become a balm.
Too burdened by their own xenophobic dysfunction to understand they are being preyed upon by billionaires who are stoking a sociological disease to strip them of their rights and their economic futures.” noelcasler.substack.com/p/na…
Does the WH have training classes for Cabinet members to learn to humiliate themselves now? I guess it’s a time saver for potus to not have to take the time to do it himself anymore.
Karen Wagner retweeted
I've studied human behavior, abnormal psychology, cults, cognitive dissonance - I guaranty you there are Trump voters all across America - tons of them - tired of the negativity, bombast, lies, whininess, nonsensical riffs, incompetence, self-centeredness, divisiveness and broken promises who want nothing more to do with him.
Many cannot say it openly in their circle; but they feel it.
Karen Wagner retweeted
If you think this ad is ridiculous, you’re not paying attention to what Trump is doing.































