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Republicans since Reagan have envisioned a Project 2025 America. Now that they have it, they aren't giving it up. Expect the shutdown to last and end badly.
02.11.2025 16:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0True leadership, according to Sun Tzu, arises from moral rectitude and selflessnessโconcentrating power solely in the service of the mission and people. The leaders in that room other than Trump and his Secretary of War have these traits.
01.10.2025 23:14 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Watching.
21.09.2025 04:18 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts just lit up Farm Aid with their new protest anthem โBig Crime.โ๐ฅ
๐ถโThereโs big crime in DC at the White HouseโฆGot to get the fascists outโฆโ
Vote with your dollars.
20.09.2025 21:55 โ ๐ 28027 ๐ 6770 ๐ฌ 1429 ๐ 624The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Charlie Kirk understood something crucial:
Young voters arenโt tuning into cableโtheyโre scrolling through TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
If Democrats want to reach the next generation, they need to start mastering the platforms where ideas actually spread.
Thanking God for sparing you in a natural disaster is a bit like sending a thank you note to a serial killer for murdering the family next door.
07.09.2025 17:31 โ ๐ 8892 ๐ 1674 ๐ฌ 282 ๐ 92The loss of local news is linked with increased government secrecy, according to a new study conducted by the Brechner Center for the Advancement of the First Amendment at the University of Florida.
localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/0...
I don't think there's enough champagne in the world for when that day finally comes.
24.08.2025 03:04 โ ๐ 263 ๐ 34 ๐ฌ 23 ๐ 3"Autumn Night" - my oil painting
23.08.2025 22:49 โ ๐ 9442 ๐ 722 ๐ฌ 264 ๐ 42Heโs wanted to declare martial law from day one.
Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant.
Many have speculated how heโd do it.
Now his gambit is clear.
DC was a test.
Heโs using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities.
This is not a drill.
Democracy is at defcon 1.
I honestly don't know what I did to deserve this incredible tribute. I can only say I'm honored, flattered, and humbledโand, of course, deeply grateful to everyone who made this accolade possible. I pledge to do my utmost to live up to it. ๐๐ผ๐ค
23.08.2025 23:59 โ ๐ 36193 ๐ 4197 ๐ฌ 3668 ๐ 506The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
24.08.2025 01:07 โ ๐ 37720 ๐ 8451 ๐ฌ 916 ๐ 413Trump is compromised.
On Epstein.
And with Putin.
Almost every person I know outside the US finds this obvious.
Almost everything I've learned in behavioral psychology, supports this.
HIS behavior supports this, daily.
Occam's Razor supports this.
Trump IS compromised.
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
โThe Declaration of Independence
Mortified that the leadership of... Europe... has to come here b/c we couldn't bother to hire a competent woman for the job & instead re-hired a child rapist insurrectionist felon who happens to be Putin's little lap bitch.
What Zelenskyy must sit through is now our eternal shame.
#SlavaUkraini ๐ป
The American Experiment became one of the truly greatest success stories in the history of Planet Earth.
We cannot allow it to be undone by grifters, ideologues, macho morons, and keystone kops - led by a madman.
I may be wrong โฆ. and itโs fine.
But I do believe the pendulum is starting to swing the other way .
MAGA/GOP is freaking out about it .
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
I can't wait until conspiracy theorists discover they're really part of a conspiracy to use conspiracy theorists to spread disinformation - via conspiracy theories.
15.07.2025 21:15 โ ๐ 196 ๐ 30 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 2I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase โThereโs no such thing as a free lunchโ. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is โThe only free cheese is in the mousetrapโ - which is so much better
16.07.2025 06:39 โ ๐ 24705 ๐ 5179 ๐ฌ 311 ๐ 210It was reported yesterday that an Arizona resident near Flagstaff died from pneumonic plague (same bacterium as bubonic plague). Bubonic plague killed tens of millions in 14th century Europe. Today itโs easily treated with antibiotics. But cannot be treated with Ivermectin or prayer. MAGA look out.
12.07.2025 20:54 โ ๐ 210 ๐ 44 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 1Elon Musk 2024: โIf Trump wins, that Epstein client list is gonna become public.โ
Elon Musk today:
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Elon Musk posted that if the GOP Big Bill passes, he will form a new political party. He will call it "The America Party."
Of course, if it wasn't for Musk, there would be no Big Bill and Trump would be facing multiple criminal trials.