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Trump's Second Term

JD Vance
@JDVance
Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t funny, his ratings were in the toilet, and his advertisers were revolting.
Also the bellyaching from the left over “free speech” after the Biden years fools precisely no one.

There was a point where I’d watch his show nearly every night. He’s a genuinely talented guy, but like so much good and funny in the world the woke thing destroyed it.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
Oxygen, scientific studies have proven that every single child that has shown signs of autism was breathing before the signs became apparent.
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Blue Bubble said:
Might be best not to tell them that nitrogen makes up most of the air. That's clearly the real cause.
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I'm more inclined to note that DiHydrogen Monoxide was actually found in large quantities in every one of those children. DiHydrogen Monoxide is a deadly chemical that directly causes huge numbers of deaths each year and is well known to be associated with many other harmful things! There have been various petitions to ban it for years, like this one, but still no bans! Corporate Population Control Conspiracy? Savior Trump should take action to ban it!

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Look at the shiney shiney! Look at the shiney shiney!
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The aesthetic sense there... ugh. It feels like that of a small child playing at decorator and mistaking quantity for quality.
 
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Andy_Ross said:
They shouldn't have let him in Windsor Castle, it might give him ideas.

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Opulent, but still far, far more tasteful. That actually looks alright at first glance. First glance at what Trump's boasting about had me recoiling in disgust. If Trump and co learned good lessons from there, that might not be so bad. I have serious doubts about their ability to do so, though, if they're trying to please Trump's aesthetics.
 
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Andy_Ross said:
JD Vance
@JDVance
Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t funny, his ratings were in the toilet, and his advertisers were revolting.
Also the bellyaching from the left over “free speech” after the Biden years fools precisely no one.

There was a point where I’d watch his show nearly every night. He’s a genuinely talented guy, but like so much good and funny in the world the woke thing destroyed it.
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On the flip side of stuff like this...

The Kimmel Move Was Pathetic and is Already Backfiring GNR

Activists tell me that the Disney-ABC website has already gotten so many cancellations their website crashed last night. National organizers have put together a call for boycotting Disney (please join!). Unions are rallying against the censorship. A script with folks to call has been set-up to fight for free speech (it's easy).
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This is even getting pushback from people like Tucker Carlson and Karl Rove! I suspect that their objections stem more from how incredibly hamhanded and obviously against their pretenses the action was. How it pretty well guarantees backlash and thus a setback to their effort to erode and destroy Free Speech is probably more what drives their pushback, rather than whatever "principles" they may pretend to, of course.

Elsewhere from that Good News Roundup, though, I think that a couple things are worthy of further mention.

Or look to Chicago. Despite a crusade of fear and threats, Chicago scared off Donald Trump from sending National Guard. Yes, ICE vans are still prowling neighborhoods, homelessness remains criminalized, and political infighting runs deep. But the National Guard were never sent in.

Trump had made the pronouncement — "we're going in" — complete with fear-mongering and racist overtones. The people said no — sure, with polls showing 68% opposed (but no authoritarian cares about a poll) and so the people also said no with protests in the street and pressure to align their politicians in formation. So the Governor said no, "There is no emergency that warrants the President of the United States federalizing the Illinois National Guard, deploying the National Guard from other states, or sending active duty military within our own borders." The Mayor said no, penning an NY Times article saying, "the National Guard is the wrong solution to a real problem."

A longer dive is needed to tell this story, but it's a remarkable story of Chicagoans coalescing across historic divides and a fractured political scene uniting the Mayor, Governor, other political leaders, and community and labor groups.

Initially many thought it couldn't be done. But the story of Chicago needs to be encouragement (to give courage) that we can face down the bully together.

Because Donald Trump backed down. He slunk away looking for a weaker target.
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Trump is not strong like he pretends to be, despite his bluster and the aiding and abetting that the fascist wing of the Republican Party's been doing. That this has happened to Kimmel and Colbert in the first place really just emphasizes again how very weak as a person he is, too.

And...

Another loss for Oklahoma's MAGA mini-me Ryan Walters.OK's supreme court blocked new social studies standards that included conspiracy theories about covid and about Trump's loss in 2020. And they blocked the law putting bibles in public schools.
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And, well, this story is generally worthy of note, I think.

Finally, I want to tell you a bit of what I heard yesterday from Heather Booth, a friend and mentor who’s been a civil rights activist since she was 13 years old (she’s now 80). Heather came to a group I’m a member of to speak about her long history of fighting for justice. It was absolutely incredible—I wish it had been recorded. I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house.

Among other things, Heather spoke of participating in the Freedom Summer when she was 18. She told us about registering Black workers in cotton fields, workers who had never been taught to read so signed their voter registration forms with an X. She spoke of the fear she and her friends felt when three of their number were killed by white supremacists, but how they determined that they were willing to “die for freedom” if they had to. She told us that they felt afraid every day. But they did the work anyway.

As for despair? It was part of the deal. “We didn’t feel much hope at all,” Heather said. “We didn’t know if anything we did would make any difference.”

You see? They took action despite the fear. Despite the very real threats to their safety. Despite the hopelessness. Despite the fact that what they were doing felt inconsequential compared to the need. Despite the fact that people were literally dying around them—the Black family Heather stayed with that summer lost four members to racist violence. It was a terrifying, awful time. Yet, led by courageous, brilliant Black leaders risking absolutely everything, they kept going.

A year later, the Voting Rights Act passed
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Dark as these times are, there have been darker times, and all is far from lost. Resistance against tyranny is not futile.
 
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It's war with Venesuela if they don't take our prisoners and people from mental institutions

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
We want Venezuela to immediately accept all of the prisoners, and people from mental institutions, which includes the Worst in the World Insane Asylums, that Venezuelan "Leadership" has forced into the United States of America. Thousands of people have been badly hurt, and even killed, by these "Monsters." GET THEM THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY, RIGHT NOW, OR THE PRICE YOU PAY WILL BE INCALCULABLE!
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Andy_Ross said:
It's war with Venezuela if they don't take our prisoners and people from mental institutions
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Andy_Ross said:
...Pentagon says it will require reporters "to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey."...
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Taken together these are very scary. It increasingly appears the United States is becoming a non-functioning democracy with emphasis on "non-functioning." :cry:
 
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