Grumpy Reverend Mike

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

In case you’re wondering why prices are going up

I don’t really think the framers intended for a president to have the power to slap a tariff on products from a particular country because he didn’t like a TV commercial they ran about him, but I suppose it is presently up to the Supreme Ct to decide how far the Mad King can go.

“.. 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑑
𝑎 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛
𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢
𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 ..” 🎶

- King George, “Hamilton”

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President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

I know some might be tired of me repeating this, but it bears mentioning again and again....

Trump is not leaving office.

They are going to go for martial law if it looks likely that the GOP will lose the House.

You just have to listen to them.

This is the clearest way to explain it.

Nah

Can We Spot It? (Question: How can we identify native American fascists at work? ) An American fascist seeking power would not proclaim that he is a fascist. Fascism always camouflages its plans and purposes. Hitler made demagogic appeals to all groups and swore: "Neither I nor anybody in the National Socialist Party advocates proceeding by anything but Constitutional methods." Any fascist attempt to gain power in America would not use the exact Hitler pattern. It would work under the guise of "super-patriotism" and "super-American-ism." Fascist leaders are neither stupid nor naive. They know that they must hand out a line that "sells." Huey Long is said to have remarked that if fascism came to America, it would be on a program of "Ameri-canism." Fascists in America may differ slightly from fascists in other countries, but there are a number of attitudes and practices that they have in common. Following are three. Every person who has one of them is not necessarily a fascist. But he is

The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."

It will always baffle me how easily people will believe that the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the immigrant are the cause for all their problems, rather than the people in the most powerful positions in their country who refuse to fix problems and exploit them instead.

A new survey just revealed that far more Americans blame Donald Trump and Republicans for the government shutdown than Democrats.

These little bitches, and Tucker and Ted and Hawley all acting like tough guys and as if they are the epitome of masculinity, is just the funniest thing ever.

I don’t mean to demean gay men at all. But these guys can fuck all the way off.

These are the bastions of masculinity, according to them.

I don’t mind that he has the loons on; what I mind is when he doesn’t check them when they say their loony shit.

Today in my "Age of Hamilton & Jefferson" course we discussed Jefferson's belief that Americans need to be educated because only by understanding their nation & its history can they recognize threats & defend it

An educated public was a tool against tyranny.

Yup.
Thus current attacks on knowledge.

Was discussing the Odyssey with my 14-year-old daughter, who commented that men will start the Trojan War instead of going to therapy.

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Monte Mader
@montemader.bsky.social

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.

And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension wasn’t “cancel culture.” It was government coercion. Brendan Carr told Benny Johnson, “we can do this the easy way or the hard way,” and affiliates panicked.

Regulatory threats can’t be the answer to speech we don’t like. If we let this stand, no voice is safe.

None of this shit is helpful.

Well of course. People in cities vote blue. Send in troops to intimidate and occupy. This is tyranny.

These fucks won’t bat an eye.

WASTE! FRAUD! ABUSE!

Send the $400 million bill to Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump.

🚨Alligator Alcatraz will be empty within days, according to an email obtained by ABC News.

God dammit, Bill Maher. If you’re going to have these Trump bootlickers on, then at least don’t let them just spew nonsense without checking them.