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I think the media should show pictures of each person killed.
Let the public see what a high powered round can do to a 10 year old body.
Show the horror.
Show a picture of a smiling child then the blown apart body.
Every politician espousing 2A rights will be voted out. – at Crofton, MD
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DOGE's numbers never added up. Trump knows it. But Musk helps keep him in power, and Trump helps keep Musk in money.
Watch the full episode of the LP podcast with @therickwilson and @alexgibneyfilm, the director behind the Elon Musk documentary, here: bit.ly/4ydY75P
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Unfortunately, a lot of vendors get caught up in situations like this with wealthy individuals or companies who don't pay their bills. Trump famously doesn't pay his bills & bankrupted vendors.
A Bay Area restaurant owner says Elon Musk’s SpaceX owes him $70,000 for two dinners he catered in Palo Alto. “That’s not even a penny for them,” he said.
sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…
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Dear Republicans in DC,
As you sit behind closed doors expressing your frustrations, and stay awake at night trying to figure out how to brace for the big punch you all know is coming, let me remind you of something:
This is your fault.
You’ve known who he is all along. You’ve bet on the same deeply currupt man over and over again, convincing yourselves that somehow, this time, it would be different.
He isn’t breaking you. He has destroyed you.
And you are just as responsible for where you find yourselves today. You enabled it. You defended it. You stayed silent when you knew better. You made the calculation, again and again, that protecting him was worth the cost.
Now the bill is coming due.
Thank you for your attention.
And we won’t let you forget it. 😑
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Many thanks to Brian Krassenstein!
“The weirdest thing about leaving America is realizing how much of America is just a sales pitch.
You spend your whole life hearing “greatest country on Earth,” then you go overseas and see clean trains, safer streets, affordable medicine, cities where people can walk without playing Frogger with an SUV, and workers who take vacations without acting like they committed treason.
And then you come home.
You come home to potholes, medical debt, school shooting drills, $17 airport sandwiches, people living in tents under highways, politicians wearing flag pins (or worse, gun pins) while doing absolutely nothing for the people standing in food bank lines, and billionaires being treated like they’re the fragile ones.
And somehow we’re all supposed to stand there, hand over heart, and pretend this is normal.
I don’t hate America. I hate what America has been taught to tolerate.
I hate that we call basic things “radical.” Healthcare? Radical. Paid leave? Radical. Clean air? Radical. Kids not getting shot in math class? Somehow political.
Meanwhile, the loudest “patriots” are usually the same people telling struggling Americans to shut up, stop complaining, and be grateful.
Grateful for what? A flag doesn’t pay rent. A bald eagle doesn’t cover insulin. Fireworks don’t fix bridges. And chanting “USA” doesn’t make a broken system less broken.
America has incredible people. That’s the tragedy. The people are better than the system they’ve been forced to defend.
So no, I’m not going to call America the greatest country on Earth just because it has the best marketing department.
Real patriotism isn’t pretending the country is perfect.
Real patriotism is being angry that it isn’t”
- Brian Krassenstein
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Dolly Parton on supporting the LGBTQ+ community (2016): “I do not believe we should criticize and judge other people. If you’re the fine Christian you think you are, why are you judging people? I just think we should be more loving, more caring. We are who we are. If you’re gay, you’re gay. If you’re straight, you’re straight. You should be allowed to be how you are and who you are”
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And just like that, the most damning Epstein files completely VANISHED from the media.
A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.
Lets make this viral again 👇
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I’m happy to share this because I don’t care what side of the aisle you sit on, this is a fact.
Speaker Mike Johnson this is for you.
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for over 50 years on every salary I received. From my first part time job until I retired. I always had a job.
The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too.
It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
Congress took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking.
They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
99% of people won't forward this to their timelines…..will you?
Please, for the sake of our country, repost this.
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Defense Secretary Hegseth just told the press that the reports of atrocious conditions on the USS Lincoln were "completely misrepresented."
Meanwhile, our actual sailors are posting 4K video tours of rusted sinks, filthy moldy showers, and broken toilets.
This is exactly why that Iranian Lego propaganda video stung so much—because it’s based on absolute reality.
How embarrassing is it that foreign adversaries know more about the squalor our Navy is living in than our own administration? When you abandon your troops and then call them liars to their families' faces, you don't even need enemies to ruin your "historic legacy"—you're doing it yourself. 🤦♂️🚢
#USNavy #USSLincoln #SupportOurTroops #RealityCheck #Incompetence
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In March of last year Donald Trump sued Capital One for closing over 300 of the Trump Organization’s bank accounts in 2021. Trump and his sons claimed it was political.
Capital One Financial hit back on Friday this week. In court filings they stated that they closed the accounts after a review by anti-money laundering experts.
In their filing Capital One stated “documents and Plaintiffs’ own allegations make clear that Capital One closed Plaintiffs’ accounts for anti-money laundering (“AML”) reasons. The closures were the result of months of analysis and a careful review by Capital One’s AML team in accordance with bank policies and regulatory guidance.”
This should be a surprise to no one. Donald Trump has been laundering money for years for Russian and Chinese entities and his hotel in Panama is known as Narco-a-lago after a Global Witness investigation revealed that Trump had made millions laundering money for Colombian drug cartels through the property.
#truth #news #america #President #UnitedStates #governmentplaylist
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I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.
Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.
Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.
People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.
Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.
He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.
That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.
There is a name for it.
So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.
The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.
And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.
Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.
And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.
Just another joke at our expense.
