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Trump's Second Term

I appreciated the way Zelenskyy raised his eyebrows at some of Trump's ridiculous outpourings. "Obama gave you [unintelligible]; I gave you eight Javelins."

<Zelenskyy: fx head tilt, double-eyebrow raise> This gesture spoke a thousand words.
 
How much do we think Putin pays her?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
@RepMTG

Have you ever noticed how for decades now Hollywood always made Russia the bad guy in their movies?
It's like Americans have been programmed to believe Russia must be the enemy at all times.
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Andy_Ross said:
How much do we think Putin pays her?
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
@RepMTG

Have you ever noticed how for decades now Hollywood always made Russia the bad guy in their movies?
It's like Americans have been programmed to believe Russia must be the enemy at all times.
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Has she not ever heard of erstwhile WW2 allies against Nazism? Or Joe McCarthy and the "Red scare"?
 
How the GOP is trying to spin their angry voters

Even as voters have begun to flood Republican town hall meetings to voice their anger at the chaos Donald Trump and co-President Elon Musk have unleashed upon the United States with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, Republican lawmakers are still refusing to criticize Dear Leader Don.

Rather than promise to end the destruction the two men are inflicting upon the country and the economy, GOP lawmakers this week publicly defended Trump and Musk and are writing the show of anger off as an astroturf effort by Democratic groups.

"The videos you saw of the town halls were for paid protesters in many of those places," House Speaker Mike Johnson said in an appearance on CNN, which is a lie. “These are Democrats who went to the events early and filled up the seats.”
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In fact, Johnson told The Washington Post that Americans should be thanking Musk for his work—which has led to the firing of thousands of federal workers, including ones that were let go by mistake.

“Elon has said in recent weeks and told me in his office a couple weeks ago, [that] he thinks it’s very possible this year to identify and eliminate a trillion dollars of waste of your taxpayer dollars,” Johnson told the Post. “You ought to be standing up and applauding.”

Because of the embarrassing headlines targeting Republicans as a result of the town halls, GOP leaders are now urging their members to not hold town halls at all—a directive lawmakers seem to be heeding.

For example, Rep. Derrick Van Orden, a Republican who represents a competitive district in Wisconsin, canceled a planned town hall with his staff when he heard that a large crowd planned to show up.
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Rep. Mark Alford of Missouri showed little sympathy for his constituents who lost their jobs due to Trump and Musk's federal worker purge, telling one laid off worker that "God has a plan and purpose for your life."

Other GOP lawmakers are also publicly lauding Musk’s DOGE efforts.

"If I was Elon, I'm asking him to double down, not go slower," Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas said in an appearance on Newsmax. "Think about what Elon did with Twitter. He fired 80% of the people, he changed the name of it, and now today it is worth twice as much as it was before."
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"If I was Elon, I'm asking him to double down, not go slower," Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas said in an appearance on Newsmax. "Think about what Elon did with Twitter. He fired 80% of the people, he changed the name of it, and now today it is worth twice as much as it was before."
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... Classic GOP! Twitter decreased in value by more than half and they proclaim it to have more than doubled? Flip those fractions!

GOP worldviews rely on interlocking falsehoods to work. Brazen falsehoods, much of the time, at that. The kind that fall apart the moment that actual critical thinking and facts in context are applied.
 
Tero said:
This is how it goes:
1 musk ruins the department staff
2 Little Mike spends 4 years deleting the rest View attachment 59277
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Li'l Mikey is that gullible religious putz who remains easily fooled and impressed by the simplest of magic tricks and dazzle. So Elon's "algorithms" schtick will have him thoroughly convinced, no doubt. Elon could tell him anything and he would believe it. But even gullible Mikey looks to be thoroughly regretting ever getting involved with the fascist Trump regime. Mikey wanted The Rapture and Jesus' second coming. But he's getting The Seven Horses of the Apocalypse. And he is now starting to realise he's partly responsible for this. "Whoopsie!" doesn't even begin to cover it...
 
Aridas said:
... Classic GOP! Twitter decreased in value by more than half and they proclaim it to have more than doubled? Flip those fractions!

GOP worldviews rely on interlocking falsehoods to work. Brazen falsehoods, much of the time, at that. The kind that fall apart the moment that actual critical thinking and facts in context are applied.
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NTM that whatever Musk did with his own property that may (or may not) have increased its value in strictly monetary terms for him, there's no automatic guarantee that the same approach will work with government, where the measure of its worth is more properly in how it serves its citizens, all of them- a worth not necessarily measurable strictly in dollar amounts.
 
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Aridas said:
... Classic GOP! Twitter decreased in value by more than half and they proclaim it to have more than doubled? Flip those fractions!

GOP worldviews rely on interlocking falsehoods to work. Brazen falsehoods, much of the time, at that. The kind that fall apart the moment that actual critical thinking and facts in context are applied.
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Next they'll be telling us Trump's casinos are still open and raking in the cash. I mean who among their voter base is gonna go to AC and check?
 
Andy_Ross said:
Donald has officially signed an executive order making English the official language of the United States.
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The United Kingdom should immediately "patent" the English language, and demand royalties for its use in the USA. Backdated to US independence. ;) Such royalties would be worth...perhaps...unlimited free military supplies in perpetuity? Something like that. :)
 
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Tom L. Wellborn (@tomwellborn3) on Threads

What MAGA doesn't understand: Trump and Musk are killing America and its citizens for Putin. That is bad. They aren't owning the libs - they are toppling a nation.
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What MAGA doesn't understand: Trump and Musk are killing America and its citizens for Putin. That is bad. They aren't owning the libs - they are toppling a nation.
 
shemp said:
Senator Chris Murphy (D - Umbbell) admits to being a moron.

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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

BASH: You voted to approve Marco Rubio's nomination to be secretary of state. Did you make the right choice? CHRIS MURPHY: Nope. It was a mistake. It was a mistake. I think a lot of us thought Marco Rubio was going to stand up to Trump on an issue like this.
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Anyone who thought that is a complete ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ moron.
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By the way, I am reminded of something I haven't said in a while about our political system: If I have to choose between a donkey or an elephant to ◊◊◊◊ on me, I'll choose the donkey.
 
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