Peter A. Grekin

Plenty of Americans have partners and other family members who used to live under authoritarian rule in other parts of the world. Perhaps they are listening to loved ones with first hand experience.

Vance lies as often as he opens his mouth. Trump at least (not that I’m defending him) is genuinely pathologic in his inability to recognize the Truth. Vance seems to know he’s lying all the time. He just doesn’t seem to think it matters and our fellow Americans seem to be proving him right so far.

Easier if you do it the other way around: assume he’s lying and fact check to see if he accidentally told the truth.

Indeed!

There is simply no moral defense for the complicity of the Oligarch and Corporate Executive class in their craven support of the MAGA Agenda and the Trump Self-Enrichment Corruption scheme. Slime. Every one of them. And a shame for their families to bear for generations to come.

Well everyone on “our side of the street” felt that way. But, having grown up in rural Upstate NY, he was always (nauseatingly) beloved by nearly everyone I knew in both Life and Death. Same folks who elected Trump twice. Same folks who cared nothing about the facts of his presidency and crimes.

Well…it must be at least a little nerve-wracking, even for veteran members of the Trump/MAGA Cabal to engage in corruption whilst in open public view.

Trump Says He Doesn’t Know Crypto Billionaire He Pardoned

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Hard to imagine this is what the Founders intended as the proper use for the Pardon Power!

MAGA = Fascism
Trump and Family = Criminally Corrupt Beyond Anything in American Political History

We know this for fact? I’m not doubting it, and there is nothing about ICE that is not evil. There is nothing about ice as the thug army of the MAGA Cabal.

I’m just asking because, if genuinely true, it represents a level of threat that I had not recognized even in my previous level of terror.

Holly M. Berkowitz (@hollymberkowitz)

3 guys control and horde more money than half the rest of the country.

Let them be rich as hell.

Except for their indifference to everyone else’s welfare, I don’t care. But they they can afford to actually pay their fair share of taxes, and “We the People” have the right to demand that they do.

CBS News anchor John Dickerson becomes latest figure to exit network — Guardian US Announcement comes amid concerns about network’s ownership and ability to maintain editorial independence

If we hadn’t already, it’s time to scratch CBS off the list of journalistic counter-weights to the fully corrupt MAGA dictatorship. Amongst everything else, they are reported to be considering recruiting a FOX “News” anchor to deliver the evening news. Walter Cronkite must be rolling in his grave.

Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.

White House’s East Wing to be torn down fully to make way for Trump ballroom - Reuters

Yet another version of Trump breaking what isn’t broken for no discernible reason other than it’s a day that ends with “y.”

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen Trump descends into FULL BLOWN PANIC over No Kings

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It’s not exactly a “let them eat cake” response, but it certainly is as tone-deaf a statement of intent as ever there was one.

MAGA is simultaneously losing its mind and declaring PRECISELY how they feel about the Constitution and their fellow Americans!

They care about pretty much EVERYTHING more than they care about providing affordable and quality healthcare to the American People.

Yeah. This is pretty simple math: If you don’t want to be thought of as racists, Nazis or Fascists…then don’t behave like racists, Nazis or Fascists.

By the way, has anyone noticed that the creepy little Hobbit from Louisiana keeps getting less and less adorably cute?

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

And yet those who voted for the (Christian) MAGA movement apparently see no contradiction between their professed Christian beliefs and the actions of agents of MAGA as directed by the MAGA Cabal.

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

Help me out here. When did Biden take office? Who was the FBI director on January 6th? Who appointed that FBI director?

Apparently being able to tell wrong from “right?”

I’m pretty sure there is a viable joke in there, though I’m not quite sure I nailed it.

Just think how many more diseases you can develop if someone you know takes (or has ever taken) Tylenol while pregnant!

Thoughts and prayers…😖

Do we think that he is conscious of the lazy irony of their imaging, or that he is fully aware and just doesn’t care?

I can’t figure out which would be the more appalling condemnation of him and/or his audience?

I love it when they don’t even try to pretend to be spinning a thing, instead just going for the outright, explicit lie…sigh.

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Hegseth’s sprawling hunt for Charlie Kirk critics spans nearly 300 investigations The inquiry, resulting in a smattering of disciplinary action so far, follows an extraordinary directive aimed at silencing criticism of the slain activist and Trump supporter.

There is nothing about this that that isn’t both disgusting and WILDLY INAPPROPRIATE! All the more so because it’s occurring within the Department of Defense!

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Opposition to DEI is nothing more or less than code for being Pro-Racism and Bigotry.

Asshole Trump.

In 2020, Biden won 509 counties and Trump won 2,500. But here’s the kicker: Biden’s counties generated 71% of America’s GDP. Trump won the dirt, Biden won the dollars.