"Accepting the responsibilities of public service requires acknowledging when the time has come to pass the torch willingly, gracefully, and responsibly. To stubbornly refuse this is not merely personal vanity; it represents a direct affront to the public good."
24.10.2025 21:03 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.
slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross
01.10.2025 19:24 β π 7027 π 1248 π¬ 177 π 162
01.10.2025 04:07 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Politician admits he campaigned on vibes and no real knowledge of complex geopolitical situation
Serious policy chops
24.09.2025 12:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
the only AI i need is an earpiece i can wear at my kid's birthday party that tells me the name of the parent i've met like four times before
14.09.2025 14:11 β π 2052 π 197 π¬ 72 π 35
I just love how a nation can come together to agree that "political violence is never, ever, acceptable" and then, hours later, watch the administration promise retribution because their buddy got convicted of an assassination plot.
What a fucking disgusting joke.
12.09.2025 00:23 β π 40 π 12 π¬ 1 π 0
Reminder that this is what Don Jr posted.
12.09.2025 01:33 β π 3807 π 1341 π¬ 163 π 51
CNN: VP JD Vance arrives in Arizona with Charlie Kirk's casket
Sept 11, 2025
People: Donald Trump Skips Dignified Transfer of Fallen U.S. Soldiers to Attend Luxury Dinners in Florida
The president left Washington on Thursday to attend an LIV Golf dinner in Miami and stayed overnight at Mar-a-Lago for a candlelight MAGA dinner on Friday
By Meredith Kile Published on April 4, 2025 03:07PM EDT
Charlie Kirk's body gets a personal escort home from the vice president.
Meanwhile, back in April, neither President Trump nor anyone else from the White House bothered traveling to Dover Air Force Base to greet the bodies of four fallen soldiers.
12.09.2025 01:43 β π 447 π 188 π¬ 19 π 7
Just read it (Iβm a few days behind). This is the best Jamboroo Iβve read. Thanks for publishing it, the first half had me in tears.
08.09.2025 02:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This week brought wins on all fronts: Catelin Drey flipped a Trump district in Iowa and broke the GOPβs supermajority in the state senate. A federal judge protected Kilmar Abrego Garcia from deportation. And yes, even βAlligator Alcatrazβ is about to be empty. Not bad for one week.
31.08.2025 19:01 β π 2110 π 254 π¬ 44 π 9
How is anyone supposed to reasonably believe these people are law enforcement? They're masked, anyone can buy a CBP hat and a POLICE patch, and why would a real gov't agent wear insignia suggesting they're both federal border patrol AND state/local police? They're dressed like amateur carjackers.
17.08.2025 16:13 β π 4921 π 1736 π¬ 144 π 79
Trump is tough on crime.
Also, Trump has moved sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to a Club Fed where she can take yoga classes, play tennis, and is eligible for βworkβ release.
12.08.2025 18:53 β π 1000 π 317 π¬ 64 π 16
Iβve had nothing to do with that pedophile since he stole all of my teenage masseuses.
29.07.2025 22:34 β π 14757 π 2548 π¬ 177 π 79
Weβve fetishized combat now so much that we have no Ikes and it shows. Bureaucracy requires a different style of leadership same as combat: Patton would have been an absolute dogshit CSA or SAC (and thatβs okay as long as you place people in spots that suit their strengths)
29.07.2025 23:13 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
An eloquent image:
Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.
I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.
29.07.2025 13:26 β π 6854 π 2808 π¬ 40 π 34
When you hear stories of government agents refusing to show their badges, understand that a wave of imitation robberies and crimes will follow.
23.04.2025 14:36 β π 459 π 172 π¬ 6 π 15
Also let's not forget that they are trained on datasets procured via what amounts to the largest intellectual property theft of all time
25.07.2025 16:01 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
If we want to remain the partner of choice we need to be a partner worth choosing.
06.07.2025 05:38 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
All roads lead back to Project 2025. All anybody had to do before the election was to read the damn thing.
06.07.2025 06:08 β π 10180 π 2186 π¬ 481 π 142
No name. No badge. No ID. No warrant. Face covered. Thatβs not an officer thatβs an armed thug with government protection. If you canβt show who you are or why youβre detaining someone, you have no business laying a hand on them.
29.06.2025 18:06 β π 8647 π 2664 π¬ 325 π 116
no amount of free money is going to get people to have children in a stagnant society of rampant corruption and dwindling opportunity
27.06.2025 22:57 β π 14599 π 2728 π¬ 312 π 94
not a single person's job, not a single grant, will be saved by surrendering instead of fighting. ask columbia.
27.06.2025 21:24 β π 1111 π 198 π¬ 22 π 3
>people didn't sign up to "sense and target "
Paul Van Riper is going to be in for a shock when he learns how guns work.
25.06.2025 22:19 β π 238 π 11 π¬ 13 π 0
Are we really using SM-3s to defend Israel? Thereβs, uh, not a lot of those.
24.06.2025 17:25 β π 175 π 34 π¬ 8 π 15
itβs even more demoralizing when the history youβre repeating is history you were around for the first time
22.06.2025 01:44 β π 36870 π 7813 π¬ 397 π 309
United States of Amnesia. It's as if this country and its establishment have completely forgotten the past 25 years and the disastrous "War on Terror."
22.06.2025 08:10 β π 2492 π 449 π¬ 114 π 20
The hardest rule of Beltway journalism is that Republican public officials have no agency and bear no responsibility for choices fully within their discretion
22.06.2025 05:24 β π 2203 π 501 π¬ 24 π 27
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