Why am I thinking of Boris Yeltsin conducting the band in Germany? At least Boris had the excuse of being a raging alcoholic.

You want to live your life so that everyone doesn't start celebrating when they think you might be dead! 🤣

LOL... no "THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER"? C'mon. Put some effort in there. 🤣 🤣 🤣

A Flying Palace: Tabs, Mon. May 12, 2025 Morning news roundup and things to read, watch and listen to!

ABC reports that Trump is poised to accept a “flying palace” super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar, which is certainly not a bribe and most definitely not going to arrive bugged. (ABC)

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Two and a half "billion". $2.5 million is a rounding error for these bastards.

Clarence Thomas Fears Volatile Stock Market Could Force Billionaire Hosts to Sell Their Yachts “There’s a human cost here that the public needs to know about.”

If it gets much worse, they might have to lay off a few members of Congress.

Clarence Thomas Fears Volatile Stock Market Could Force Billionaire Hosts to Sell Their Yachts www.borowitzreport.com/p/clarence-t...

“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.”

Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

Why'd he pardon all those FBI agents?

" whether the FBI was involved in planning the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump"

Wait, what? By whom?

That's pretty damn rich. 😃

Clarence Thomas Fears Volatile Stock Market Could Force Billionaire Hosts to Sell Their Yachts “There’s a human cost here that the public needs to know about.”

Clarence Thomas Fears Volatile Stock Market Could Force Billionaire Hosts to Sell Their Yachts
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They're not havin' it!

Thank you, sir.

I've been a fan of yours for decades. I actually dropped my subscription after Bezos announced his decision. I appreciate your integrity.

Trump administration says it has no plans to fulfill $400 million 'armored Tesla' contract That's according to a public State Department procurement document. It comes as ethics experts raise conflict of interest questions about the chief executive of Tesla, Elon Musk, who is a close advise...

Nope, wasn't fake, but...
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The State Department said Thursday it is abandoning plans of purchasing $400 million worth of armored Tesla vehicles after a public document detailing federal contracts for fiscal year 2025 gained wide attention.
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The comeuppance is going to be brutal JD Vance is telling preposterous lies that fit easily within a Hitlerian frame of believing that the bigger lie is often easier to believe than the smaller one.

The comeuppance is going to be brutal
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"He is in the "find out" stage."

Unfortunately, so are the rest of us.

Kremlin says it will halt strikes on Ukraine energy sector after Trump and Putin talk President Trump has said he wants to broker an end to Russia's war in Ukraine. This was his second call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the issue.

[trump and Putin] announced a limited ceasefire in Ukraine yesterday, where the Kremlin agreed to stop targeting Ukraine’s energy facilities for 30 days. However, hours after the announcement, Russia and Ukraine launched strikes targeting each other’s infrastructure.

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Trump Wants to Use the IRS to Track Down Immigrants. They May Stop Paying Taxes. Undocumented immigrants contribute billions to Social Security and other programs. That money might fall off because of Trump’s crackdown.

IMMIGRANTS IN THE COUNTRY ILLEGALLY paid nearly $100 billion in taxes in 2022, according to a report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic policy.
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Trump Wants to Use the IRS to Track Down Immigrants. They May Stop Paying Taxes. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-irs-...

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They have set about wrecking something that does not belong to them. It belongs to us. It will never be for sale because what was paid for in blood cannot be cashed in for a windfall of Trump coin, Melania coin or Elon’s stock price.

America is not the CNN panel.
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In today's version, Russia keeps their gains in Ukraine. Ukraine gives up their gains in Russia. Ukraine gives up any hope of joining NATO or the EU. And the US gets half of all revenue generated by Ukraine in perpetuity.

Someone make this make sense as if I've never heard of Hitler or Stalin.

The Soviets invaded Poland on 17 September 1939. The campaign ended on 6 October with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland under the terms of the German–Soviet Frontier Treaty.

BREAKING: The Monitors were just hacked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to display an AI video of Trump licking Elon Musk’s toes.

The caption over it read: “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”

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