Dave Burke

Hi, former Foreign Service Officer here

The Secretary of State might be interested to learn that visa requirements and terms are generally reciprocal. We do it to them, they do it to us.

the issue of drug prices is solved. Dear Leader has already lowered them by a millionty-thousand percent. it’s true! here’s Donny on the tarmac last evening, coming from from his weekend spent cheating at golf at his New Jersey ex-wife cemetery. “one of the things we’re going to be talking about pretty soon are the uhhh tremendous drop in drug prices. you know, we’ve cut drug prices by twelve hundred, thirteen hundred, fourteen hundred, fifteen hundred percent. I don’t mean fifty percent. I mean fourteen, fifteen hundred percent.” oh dear, President Yap Yap is sundowning again. we talked about this at length yesterday, how Demented Donny’s nonsensical insistence that he’s going to cut drug prices by “fifteen hundred percent” is a mathematical impossibility. if you reduce the price of something by one hundred percent, you’ve made it free. you cannot reduce the price of anything by a number larger than one hundred percent, unless you’re suggesting that the vendor pay the customer to take the product off their hands. but did you notice in the clip above, Donny is no longer talking about how he’s going to lower drug prices. now, he’s already done it — “you know, we’ve cut drug prices.” magically, and overnight. you’re welcome. America’s Mad King has completely broken with reality and can no longer distinguish between fact and fantasy. words and numbers have completely lost their meaning. how fucking amazing would it be if some brave reporter stood up and said, ‘Mister President, I have a prescription that costs $100. how much will that be after you lower it by fifteen hundred percent?’ I would pay good money to watch Donny try to calculate the result in his big dumb pumpkin head. I don’t know what his answer to the reporter would be, but I’m sure it would include the words ‘nasty’ and ‘fake news.’

from today's post, wherein America's Imbecile King now claims that he has ALREADY lowered the price of prescription drugs by FIFTEEN HUNDRED percent..
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4orQHbJ
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)

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🧵This is the official transcript of the videotaped deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell.

This is the deposition that Maxwell fought to hide.

Held at the law offices of Boies, Schiller & Flexer, on April 22, 2016 in NYC

The transcript is more than 400 pages long, 7 hours of depositions held over 2 days

This about covers it.

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip

This is a pretty big deal. Congrats to these workers for getting their rights in an increasingly hostile world for it.

abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

Our airports are a mess, but the good news is we have a reality TV show guy and Fox host who is in charge of that and lots of other stuff while building a nuke plant on the moon.

🥴😂🥴

Doctors left Idaho after abortion ban, study confirms • Idaho Capital Sun Idaho lost more than a third of its practicing obstetrician doctors after the state’s near-total abortion ban took effect, a new study finds.

Idaho lost 35% of its obstetricians after the state passed its near-total abortion ban, new study shows. Nearly half of them moved to another state to continue practicing.

Had an appointment yesterday morning with my gynecologist and playfully called him a "privates investigator," which he didn't seem to like very much.

For you people in Texas, a gynecologist is a type of doctor who attends to women's health needs.

Mark my words: Trump will defy our Supreme Court too. It’s just a matter of time.

Every day, the bleak and crazy United States comes up with a new reason for people in other countries to visit Canada instead.

just had to...

EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN

This is Texas Rep. Todd Hunter who submitted the proposed redistricting map to rig the 2026 midterms. His phone numbers are: 512-463-0672 and 361-949-4603. His office address is: 15217 South Padre Island Dr. Suite. 201, Corpus Christi, TX 78418. CALL TO ACTION/ORGANIZING

Party of criminals

Nah, I just think he’s an existential threat because he does evil things, defends pedophiles, and turns people like you into drooling douche canoes. And I’ve been defending this country since i was 23 so why stop now.

Newsom: He knows he’s going to lose in the midterms, and we have the opportunity to de facto end the Trump presidency in less than 18 months.

That’s what’s at stake. That’s why we’re putting a stake in the ground. We’re not drawing lines just to draw lines—we’re holding the line: on democracy.

She was only being that polite because it was a public speech.

🚨 Yet Another American Has Been Killed by Jewish Terrorists in the West Bank He was a husband, a father, and a U.S. citizen. His name was Khamis Ayyad.

open.substack.com/pub/thenorth...
🟥 A U.S. Citizen. A Father of Five. Murdered by Settlers in the West Bank.

His name was Khamis Ayyad.
He was a 40-year-old husband and father of five, originally from Cicero, Illinois.
And now he’s dead — burned to death after Jewish settlers

Congratulations to Kellyanne Conway. She will be providing the new alternative job numbers.

Pretty standard issue for a wild cottontail 😍

I’m Not Panicking. I’m Outraged. Read more here.

Taken literally, the nation’s top intelligence official announced — on a right-wing podcast — that my decision to stop posting on Twitter is evidence that I am not “innocent” and am therefore being reviewed by the DOJ, with the aim of holding me “accountable.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/im-n...

Q: Why did you cut snap and health care research?

Rep. Flood: We do not have unlimited money in the United States.

[Crowd booing]

Finally, a united nation.

"'Clinton, Clinton!!🇺🇸💩"

I’ve always believed that the political destiny of great nations has often turned on weak men’s reaction to the equivalent of “Jenny laughed when I asked her to the Spring Formal”

How the Kavanaugh confirmation saga still haunts the Senate The Senate’s contentious confirmation of Emil Bove to a lifetime judicial appointment shows how a painful moment in the chamber’s history still looms large.

The Kavanaugh confirmation saga still haunts the Senate.

The chamber's contentious confirmation of Emil Bove to a lifetime judicial appointment shows how a painful moment in its history still looms large.