I'm sure it wasn't her intention, but Oprah has done FAR more damage than good to this country. Carelessness, particularly by a person with such an enormous national platform, is almost as unforgivable as ill intent.
A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.
I'm glad you added, "Does it matter?" That's exactly the point: A healthy democracy cannot survive with a president who is EITHER a liar OR delusional, much less one who is BOTH, as is our current "president."
That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
We NEED to do this — we cannot sit idly by while the fascists finish dismantling our democracy. Sadly, though, it will almost certainly lead to Trump invoking the Insurrection Act and declaring martial law.
Why does ANYONE ask him questions? He responds ONLY with lies, just as he has done for a half-century with zero negative consequences. These "press conferences" are nothing more than expanded opportunities for him to spread lies and propaganda.
In today's Guardian: "Trump says six were killed in US strike on another boat [near Venezuela]. UN has condemned US strikes on small boats it believes to be trafficking drugs as extrajudicial executions." — This murderer STILL insists he should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The gov't is shut down for lack of funding, but US taxpayers are funding the retrofitting of Trump's private Qatari jet, the massive White House ballroom and patio, a massive arch/monument, a $20 billion gift to the authoritarian ruler of Argentina, and $2 billion to fund his private army (ICE).
"While the US gov’t is shut down — right now — the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, just sent $20 billion US taxpayer dollars to Argentina. We are funding another country’s government while we are NOT funding our own." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
So a female Rupert Murdoch now runs CBS News, and its owner, Larry Ellison, is on the brink of also acquiring CNN and HBO. We saw ABC cave to Trump earlier this year. That leaves just NBC, whose two largest shareholders (20%, dwarfing the remaining shareholders) are worth $24 trillion, combined.
