Barbara HZ

My heart is full! Cary NC has turned out spectacularly for No Kings!!

Today is the day that Trump was supposed to impose tough new sanctions on Russia if they didn’t agree to a cease fire.

"The meeting was reportedly relocated from Vance’s D.C. home to the White House. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel were said to be in attendance, according to MSNBC."

Treasury Secretary Admits Trump's Tariffs Are Paid by Americans Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acknowledged that U.S. importers, or American consumers, pay for Donald Trump's tariffs.

Telling the truth that Trump’s tariffs are taxes on American consumers could cost Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent his job unless he lies and claims he misspoke or was misconstrued. It’s just a matter of time . . .
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Things that will happen when he's gone:

* we're going to learn about shit he did that's so heinous, it makes the stuff we know about look tame

* his many minions will claim to have "always opposed" him and demand sympathy for their suffering at his hands

* dancing in the streets, worldwide

Mississippi ranks #1 in poverty and fetal mortality. Syphilis has been declared an epidemic there, but by all means, close Planned Parenthood, cut Medicaid and make getting condoms and birth control harder for everyone.

The billionaire CEO of the third richest company on the planet gives the President an actual block of gold so his company is exempted from US Government tariffs. And the whole thing is broadcast live on TV.

Anyone who can't see what is happening to this country is unsalvageable at this point.

The GOP's gerrymandering frenzy is a sign of weakness If you can't beat 'em, rig it.

The GOP's gerrymandering frenzy is a sign of weakness www.publicnotice.co/p/texas-gerr...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford: "President Trump wants to hurt the American people, and that's exactly what he's doing."

Doug Ford on impressions of Trump in Canada: "He's probably the most disliked politician in the world in Canada."

Trump's hopeless tariffs confusion, explained by a historian "The president seems to believe he can impose prohibitively high tariffs *and* collect revenue, which you can’t do."

Trump's hopeless tariffs confusion, explained by a historian

“He wants the society of the 1950s with the policies of the 1890s. But you literally don’t get the society of the 1950s without a comprehensive rejection of the policies of the 1890s, even by Republicans."

Conservatism in the United States, summarized —>

Mamdani on Cuomo "conspiring" with Trump: "It is time for us to make clear that what this city deserves is a mayor who when he sees Donald Trump attacking the people of this city will stand up and fight back against that vision, who will not get on the phone with the architect of that vision."

Mike Lawler: "Anti-Zionism is antisemitism."

The GOP's gerrymandering frenzy is a sign of weakness If you can't beat 'em, rig it.

"Even though Republicans won’t admit it, they know that they are extremely unlikely to prevail in the midterms if they compete fair and square. So they’re getting creative, which for them means rigging the game by picking their voters."

This is what happens when they finally sit down with someone who knows how to do an interview, which is extremely rare. bsky.app/profile/atru...

t took six months for a Trump official to be politely forced by a journalist to admit live on air what everyone - including every economist - knows to be true (but which Trump keeps lying about): tariffs are paid in the US by US importers.

What an indictment of our media.

When do they just cut straight to Arbeit Macht Frei?

Trump is doing an event with a quack economist in a desperate attempt to justify his firing of the BLS commissioner

REPORTER: Does your deadline for Vladimir Putin still stand tomorrow?

TRUMP: Say it -- what?

REPORTER: Is your deadline still standing for Putin to agree to a ceasefire tomorrow?

TRUMP: It's gonna be up to him. Very disappointed.

Imagine a German saying they're proud of the Nazi part of their history.

“Hey quick follow up for the History Respecter — what aspect of the Confederacy are you *most* proud of?

The treason against the United States? The defense of slavery? All the losing? I bet it’s the losing.”

In other words: we are paying for the tariffs

He’s the fucking worst:

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You took Harvey Milk's name off a Naval ship

Arlington Cemetery is literally built on the confiscated estate of Robert E Lee as a memorial to our fallen Union Soldiers and a reminder that the Confederacy lost.

Hegseth on restoring a Confederate monument in Arlington cemetery: "We recognize our history. We don't erase it. We don't follow the woke lemmings off the cliff that want to tear down statues ... we're proud of our history."

Trump's Confederacy rises again The Lost Cause doesn't seem all that lost anymore.

New in PN: Trump's Confederacy rises again

"The straightforward explanation for Trump’s Confederacy fetish is that he’s a virulent racist who would’ve enslaved people himself. If you think that’s hyperbolic, just listen to the man."

The rant about inner city people not wanting farm jobs & 'those people' being good at farm jobs & 'they' evidently die if they hurt their backs was a real reminder of how racist Donald really is at his very core.