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I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

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  3. 3.

    Elizabelle

    Watching it.  In a sane country, The Heritage Foundation would be declared a terrorist group, for all the damage they have designed.

  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    @Old School: I loved how Van Hollen called them out on their fake margarita bullshit!  Guessing they won’t enjoy having been mocked,  I would like to be the fly on the wall for the next conversation between the presidents.

  5. 5.

    Baud

    Apparently this was on Fox

    Jessica: ”Abrego Garcia’s legal status was approved by the Trump administration in 2019, and every year since then, he has checked in with the departed of homeland security, and no one has said anything about him being a gang banger.”

  6. 6.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Via The Independent, Adam Silverman’s old “pal” Seb Gorka had this fascist garbage to spew on Newsmax:

    Trump’s counterterrorism czar says Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s supporters could be charged with ‘aiding and abetting’

    Donald Trump’s counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka claims Americans who don’t support the president’s anti-immigration agenda and deportations policy are “on the side of the terrorists.”

    He suggested advocates for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran father living in Maryland who was mistakenly deported to a brutal prison in his home country, could be prosecuted for “aiding and abetting.”

    “It’s not left and right, it’s not even Republican or Democrat. There’s one line that divides us: Do you love America, or do you hate America? It’s really quite that simple,” Gorka told Newsmax on Wednesday.

    “We have people that love America, like the president, like his cabinet, like the directors of his agencies, who want to protect Americans. And then there’s the other side that is on the side of the cartel members, on the side of the illegal aliens, on the side of the terrorists,” he added. “And you have to ask yourself: Are they technically aiding and abetting them? Because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime in federal statute.”

    He’s just asking questions! According to Gorka, all of us evil libtards are disobeying the Great Leader and deserve to be punished for defending a man with legal status here who was sent to a concentration camp in a foreign country after being denied due process

    ETA: That Newsmax headline is like looking into another universe: “Media Twists Gang Member into “Maryland Father”

  10. 10.

    Martin

    First (11th now?) they came for Ms. Rachel…

    A prominent pro-Israel group that doxes people it deems antisemitic is calling on Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, to investigate whether beloved children’s entertainer Ms Rachel is operating as a foreign agent after sharing sympathetic content about children suffering in Gaza.

    This is in response to a fundraiser she did with Save The Children. She makes videos for toddlers.

  11. 11.

    Mathguy

    King’s mention of Madison’s 47th Federalist Paper had the right label for the shitgibbon: tyrant. What we are experiencing is tyranny. I think people understand the tyrant/ tyranny label better than calling him and his minions fascists.

  12. 12.

    Jackie

    This is effed up:

    “A federal judge in DC told lawyers for migrants in Texas who believed the Trump administration is about to swiftly deport them under the Alien Enemies Act that he did not have the power to pause the deportations, even though he was concerned about the administration’s actions,” CNN reports.

    During the hearing, a Justice Department attorney said that while no flights are planned, the Department of Homeland Security said it reserves the right to remove people tomorrow.

    “I am sympathetic to everything you’re saying, I just don’t I think I have the power to do anything,” Judge James Boasberg said at an emergency hearing this evening.

    He said that, under a recent Supreme Court ruling, only the courts with jurisdiction over the Texas detention center where the migrants were being held had the power to intervene.

  13. 13.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    I’ve been thinking for a while now with this Garica mess that what started it was Trump watching the movie Sicario, made a fist with his baby hands and said “This is how it’s done” while ignoring the movie was really about how fucked up and pointless the War on Drugs is.

    If Trump really wanted to end the drug problem in the US he would put Don Jr into rehab.  No demand, no drug gangs.

  18. 18.

    Martin

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: I’m increasing of the view that guys like Garcia were there to fill a plane so they could exfiltrate MS-13 leaders away from US justice and have the story be about regular deportations and not helping a fugitive escape justice.

  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    @Martin: They are going too far, to the point of ridiculousness.  Do they have any idea how they look to normal people?

  20. 20.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Martin:

    Imagine actually saying that a person who says, “Hey, Palestinian children shouldn’t suffer, that’s really screwed up.” is “antisemitism” and is spouting “Hamas-aligned propaganda.” and that person should be investigated by the US DOJ

    Utter madness

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    @Mathguy: Tyrant is even better than tyranny.

    Everyone has had a boos or someone in their life who was a tyrant.

    That makes it personal.  Visceral.

  22. 22.

    satby

    @Baud: Jessica is their token voice of reason, she exists as liability defense for Fox. If they get sued they can run clips of her being all factual.

  23. 23.

    Jackie

    @WaterGirl:

    Do they have any idea how they look to normal people?

    Normal people aren’t paying attention. They’re blissfully oblivious for the most part.

    FFOTUS and his Deplorables are counting on that.

  24. 24.

    Jackie

    Some happy news: Former Rep. Barbara Lee is projected to win her special election to become the next mayor of Oakland, CA!

  25. 25.

    Doug R

    @WaterGirl:

     

    They are going too far, to the point of ridiculousness. Do they have any idea how they look to normal people?

    They’re WEIRD

  26. 26.

    cmorenc

    @Jackie:

    Normal people aren’t paying attention. They’re blissfully oblivious for the most part.

    FFOTUS and his Deplorables are counting on that.

    If accounts that the dramatic tarriff impact on the reduction of imports at shipping ports and steep dropoff in demand for truck transports of said goods are true, normal people walking while oblivious of Trump’s negative impact on their own quality of life are about to have a rude awakening soon as they visit stores and find goods they are long accustomed to being cheap and plentiful being scarce and expensive.

    I also agree with BJers who are recently commenting that labeling Trump a “tyrant” rather than a “fascist” will resonate much more strongly and effectively with normal folk – a fascist is someone from long ago in a history book, a tyrant is someon everyone has experienced personally  in their own lives, and will provoke a far more visceral reaction.

  28. 28.

    Ohio Mom

    I sure hope HCR and King are right that the tide will turn before the summer is over.

  29. 29.

    Gretchen

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): And Miss Rachel didn’t talk about Palestine on her show, which is for toddlers. She did a fundraiser for children in conflict zones, including Gaza, and wrote sympathetically about Gaza on social media.

    She started her show because her son had a speech delay and she didn’t find many resources to help him.  She does a lot of speaking slowly, showing how her mouth moves to make a sound. She also does other toddler content like colors and shapes. Real political stuff.

    I’ve watched hours and hours of her show because my grandson also has a speech delay, and loves her.

  30. 30.

    Timill

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    “It’s not left and right, it’s not even Republican or Democrat. There’s one line that divides us: Do you love America, or do you hate America? It’s really quite that simple,” Gorka told Newsmax on Wednesday.

    Simple it is: if you love America, you insist on due process for all. If you prefer lettres de cachet, you hate America and what it stands for.

  31. 31.

    Elizabelle

    @Gretchen:  The “enemies” this ridiculous administration is choosing!  Miss Rachel has a following.

    First they came for Big Bird, and I did nothing.  Then they came for Miss Rachel …

  32. 32.

    Jackie

    @cain: Ahhhh, but FFOTUS is claiming egg prices are suddenly too low!

    When normal people start rebelling, then we’ll see. I haven’t noticed any headlines about normal people rebelling as of now. I do see FFOTUS’ ratings going down, but no real red sirens screaming. My normie relatives are mostly silently bellyaching, but not actively complaining.

  36. 36.

    Jackie

    Heh. Per RawStory:

    “’Complete meltdown’: Top Pentagon staffers fired as ‘chaos’ engulfs Hegseth’s inner circle.”

    An exodus of top staffers reporting directly to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is apparently roiling the Pentagon as part of a growing investigation into potential leaks.

    Politico reported Friday that three senior Pentagon officials have now been fired as part of the leak investigation: Hegseth senior advisor Dan Caldwell, deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll — who was Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg’s chief of staff — have all been officially terminated. And Joe Kasper, who was Hegseth’s own chief of staff, is now leaving the Pentagon for a separate job in the Pentagon.

    With these staffing changes, the top United States military official is now without a chief of staff, a deputy chief of staff and a senior advisor, less than 100 days into his tenure. An unnamed “senior defense official” suggested that Hegseth made poor choices for who to trust in his inner circle, with another source saying there would likely be more “chaos” to follow in the coming days.

  41. 41.

    HopefullyNotcassandra

    @Baud: It occurs to me that in 2019 Mr. Garcia defeated this regime’s first term.  Is it not probable that this entire sadistic cosplay experience has been laid at Mr. Garcia’s door simply because this president pathologically needs to “win?”

  43. 43.

    HopefullyNotcassandra

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Somebody should ask Mr. Gorka who it is destroying America’s economy right now.  Hint: it is not any liberal or progressive.   Actions speak louder than words, Mr. Gorka.  This regime’s actions display an obvious contempt and outright hatred for our country and all of us.  Quite frankly, this regime’s actions against farmers and Medicaid reveal a deep seated loathing against its own voters.

  44. 44.

    Martin

    @bbleh: So, Harvards response was almost certainly not just thrown together in a few hours. Even if things played out as the administration claims, it looks like Harvard was already rejecting whatever requests were coming out of that task force.

  47. 47.

    bbleh

    @Martin: I certainly haven’t seen anything to suggest that letter, though surprisingly extreme, was some kind of bolt from the blue. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the people who drafted it, and the senior people who signed it, were following what they thought were the Orders Of The Day.

    And yeah, letter or no, what they’re demanding in general from Harvard — and others — is unacceptable.  That they’re holding the 75-plus-year scientific research partnership between the federal government and US universities hostage to their childish and bigoted demands is both insulting to academic inquiry and deeply detrimental to the country’s welfare.

    Buncha stupid bigoted goons.  Like their supporters.

  48. 48.

    frosty

    @NotMax: (For the record, tequila is the one type of hooch i . cannot abide.)

    Mi tambien. A bad experience in college. A year later someone gave me a shot and I tossed it within minutes. Never again.

  49. 49.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @NotMax: has Anne Laurie posted recently? I hope she’s okay and just taking time off to recover from her respiratory stuff.

  52. 52.

    coin operated

    @bbleh:

    That they’re holding the 75-plus-year scientific research partnership between the federal government and US universities hostage to their childish and bigoted demands is both insulting to academic inquiry and deeply detrimental to the country’s welfare.

    Buncha stupid bigoted goons.  Like their supporters.

    That deserved to be repeated!!!

  53. 53.

    Ruckus

    @Ohio Mom:

    Most humans have a breaking point.

    Losing your country to a pompous arrogant jackass (even one elected to the highest office) is not in the makeup of this country. We supposedly have road blocks in place to stop this. But Angus King has really hit the nail on the head, that we are not that far away from it happening or at least having it screw this country right into the ground.

    We have to demand to and from our congress critters that we are falling into deep, deep shit and it is going to take a lot to pull us out of the free fall that ends in that pile that none of us want to end up in.

    On my part, I worked and paid into SS for basically almost 60 years so that I’d have a decent amount every month. And I do. But if they destroy Social Security (and everything else) ALL OF US will be in deeper than most can imagine. A country is no longer just a place where someone lives. It is where food is grown, it is where wages are earned, it is where old farts retire, it is where children are educated so that the workforce can continue to exist and food can be grown and paid for and on and on and on and on. And on.

    A society exists because we all work towards the future, making it work, making it better, not towards destroying it. Which is what shitforbrains is doing. He has always wanted more than he has, more than he has ever come close to earning, but his skills to be a normal human are non existent. And his “friends” want it all, control, money, prestige, power – everything. And in a democracy that is the largest and worst kind of thievery that exists.

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