"Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians..."
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"Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...
This guy is a puppetβ¦
21.10.2025 16:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thatβs not how I expected the second half of this headline to go. βPart of White House Reduced to Rubbleβ should be followed by βWhat the Fuck.β
21.10.2025 15:47 β π 5329 π 1273 π¬ 354 π 69Treasury Dept. tells employees not to share any photos of the White House as Trump demolishes it
(The Treasury Dept is next door to the WH)
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Here are some images of what the White House looks like right now as Trump demolishes the East Wing.
Pics via AP
"According to reporting by [the AP], the project went ahead despite not being formally approved by the National Capital Planning Commission, the federal agency that oversees such operations, which is currently closed due to a nationwide government shutdown." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
21.10.2025 15:45 β π 456 π 167 π¬ 43 π 20These fβing peopleβ¦
21.10.2025 15:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Because heβs a vile human.
20.05.2025 02:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A budget is a moral document.
Trump and the Republicans are set to make ICE the highest funded federal as enforcement agency ever.
$12 BILLION to lock people up while his Core Civic buddies get rich.
Twisted.
Really impressive that so many of the experts on vaccines and election integrity are also apparently quite knowledgeable about urology too.
20.05.2025 02:45 β π 1077 π 130 π¬ 36 π 5Make it make sense. What the fuck are we doing?
20.05.2025 02:46 β π 581 π 137 π¬ 36 π 7This seems like a big deal
20.05.2025 02:49 β π 2840 π 803 π¬ 135 π 54βBut some worryβ is two people in this article.
11.05.2025 23:20 β π 5660 π 748 π¬ 480 π 46Republicans' big tax bill could result in at least 13.7 million people losing their health insurance by 2034, according toΒ analysisΒ from the non-partisanΒ Congressional Budget Office.
12.05.2025 15:20 β π 799 π 331 π¬ 32 π 15If South Africa is a sovereign nation, how are we able to send our own planes we paid for to transport white Afrikaners to the U.S., but simultaneously unable to send a plane to return Abrego Garcia et al?
12.05.2025 16:11 β π 27617 π 7964 π¬ 1011 π 388I'm not a lawyer, nor do I work for the New York Times, but I'm pretty sure corruption does not require an explicit quid pro quo.
12.05.2025 16:39 β π 10542 π 2000 π¬ 1058 π 172So House Republicans are fighting about the Medicaid cuts in the tax bill for the rich - not because it kicks nearly 9 million people off Medicaid - but because it doesn't kick *enough* people off Medicaid. Vote accordingly.
12.05.2025 21:36 β π 4703 π 1648 π¬ 106 π 53We should be ashamed of ourselves for not appreciating him breaking the law. βοΈ π° π
12.05.2025 20:21 β π 29721 π 5038 π¬ 1805 π 306Trump, who is set to accept a $400M floating palace airplane from Qatar, tweeted this about Obama in 2012:
13.05.2025 02:05 β π 6409 π 1969 π¬ 301 π 108Sounds about white, as they sayβ¦
13.05.2025 05:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Jesus... the racism is just right there... overt, unashamed, and vile.
13.05.2025 02:33 β π 1324 π 391 π¬ 106 π 24In other words, in order to avoid angering Trump, Apple plans on lying to consumers. The company will raise prices due to tariffs but invent other reasons.
www.wsj.com/tech/apple-i...
βIndefensible.β βItβs a bribe.β βSuch a stainβ
#SwampForceOne βοΈ
www.cnn.com/2025/05/12/m...
High school students at the Capitol: βWhy is [Trump] so orange?β
GOP Rep. Brian Jack: βUh, thatβs, you know what, itβs, itβs, itβs your perspective...β
RFK Jr., the foolish kook splashing about in raw sewage, is in charge of protecting our health. These are monumentally stupid times we are living in.
13.05.2025 01:10 β π 14949 π 3199 π¬ 1381 π 353Accepting a private jumbo-jetΒ from a foreign nation is a clear violation of our Constitution, which plainly prohibits U.S. officials from accepting gifts from foreign governments.
13.05.2025 00:28 β π 16450 π 3666 π¬ 1426 π 264Remember when the story broke about a worm eating part of his brain and nobody was that surprised?
12.05.2025 22:58 β π 10266 π 2123 π¬ 1250 π 246Itβs pretty fucked up that Trump knows he can lie and take bribes because he knows the press wonβt use the words βlieβ or βbribes.β
12.05.2025 23:03 β π 4273 π 1061 π¬ 153 π 55WHO DID THIS?!?!
13.05.2025 03:02 β π 17189 π 3819 π¬ 505 π 184