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Perhaps you could add the hundreds of thousands of children and vulnerable people who lost critical food or medical assistance without warning when Trump cut off USAID.
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Perhaps you could add the hundreds of thousands of children and vulnerable people who lost critical food or medical assistance without warning when Trump cut off USAID.
I hear you, but ...
Can we do Ken-doll jokes? It seems so fitting for the Sec Def. 🤣
Can we do Ken-doll jokes? It seems so fitting for the Sec Def. 🤣
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I hear you, but ...
Can we do Ken-doll jokes? It seems so fitting for the Sec Def. 🤣
Can we do Ken-doll jokes? It seems so fitting for the Sec Def. 🤣
Worst negotiator ever. He has 2 plays - bully those weaker than himself, and suck up to those he perceives as stronger.
Bullshit and obfuscate for the cameras because people's perceptions are more important than reality. If they flatter him he believes he'll get stuff in negotiations. So naive.
Bullshit and obfuscate for the cameras because people's perceptions are more important than reality. If they flatter him he believes he'll get stuff in negotiations. So naive.
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Worst negotiator ever. He has 2 plays - bully those weaker than himself, and suck up to those he perceives as stronger.
Bullshit and obfuscate for the cameras because people's perceptions are more important than reality. If they flatter him he believes he'll get stuff in negotiations. So naive.
Bullshit and obfuscate for the cameras because people's perceptions are more important than reality. If they flatter him he believes he'll get stuff in negotiations. So naive.
It seems like Trump is trying to elevate Senator Kelly's profile for a run at the Presidency in '28.
More Americans will become aware of the quiet competence and integrity Kelly exudes.
More Americans will become aware of the quiet competence and integrity Kelly exudes.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
It seems like Trump is trying to elevate Senator Kelly's profile for a run at the Presidency in '28.
More Americans will become aware of the quiet competence and integrity Kelly exudes.
More Americans will become aware of the quiet competence and integrity Kelly exudes.
One of the few horror type movies I have watched. I, too, hate most. Ripley was bad-ass and an icon for the times.
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
One of the few horror type movies I have watched. I, too, hate most. Ripley was bad-ass and an icon for the times.
I had to explain the Ripley scene to my 25 yr old, who has never watched any of the Alien series.
I ruined her for Alien(s) at a young age when SNL did a reprise of an alien emerging in the dining scene when Sigourney was on the show. She never forgot it and she never forgave me.
I ruined her for Alien(s) at a young age when SNL did a reprise of an alien emerging in the dining scene when Sigourney was on the show. She never forgot it and she never forgave me.
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I had to explain the Ripley scene to my 25 yr old, who has never watched any of the Alien series.
I ruined her for Alien(s) at a young age when SNL did a reprise of an alien emerging in the dining scene when Sigourney was on the show. She never forgot it and she never forgave me.
I ruined her for Alien(s) at a young age when SNL did a reprise of an alien emerging in the dining scene when Sigourney was on the show. She never forgot it and she never forgave me.
Complete capitulation to Russia by the (formerly principled and great) USA, to be followed by more US threats against Ukraine.
Coordinated assault, with Russia bombing Ukraine civilians and critical winter infrastructure, as USA squeezes the Ukraine on weapons and their economy.
Coordinated assault, with Russia bombing Ukraine civilians and critical winter infrastructure, as USA squeezes the Ukraine on weapons and their economy.
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Complete capitulation to Russia by the (formerly principled and great) USA, to be followed by more US threats against Ukraine.
Coordinated assault, with Russia bombing Ukraine civilians and critical winter infrastructure, as USA squeezes the Ukraine on weapons and their economy.
Coordinated assault, with Russia bombing Ukraine civilians and critical winter infrastructure, as USA squeezes the Ukraine on weapons and their economy.
Shark or battery. I never understood why he didn't just fix the leaky boat. An apt metaphor for the American journey under Trump.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Shark or battery. I never understood why he didn't just fix the leaky boat. An apt metaphor for the American journey under Trump.
Miller, Noem, et al need to spend some quality time in CECOT. They are responsible for far more suffering than many of the people they sent to CECOT.
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Miller, Noem, et al need to spend some quality time in CECOT. They are responsible for far more suffering than many of the people they sent to CECOT.
The Presidential Walk of Shame? At least that is how I read the gold bling.
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The Presidential Walk of Shame? At least that is how I read the gold bling.
Is he trying for blackface?
His makeup fails are such a inter/national embarrassment.
His makeup fails are such a inter/national embarrassment.
November 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Is he trying for blackface?
His makeup fails are such a inter/national embarrassment.
His makeup fails are such a inter/national embarrassment.
Single payer health care system. State by state with national minimum standards and federal subsidies. Way cheaper than paying profits and 15-30% admin to insurance companies.
Health care is unsustainable because insurance companies are sucking dollars out of the health system to pay shareholders.
Health care is unsustainable because insurance companies are sucking dollars out of the health system to pay shareholders.
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Single payer health care system. State by state with national minimum standards and federal subsidies. Way cheaper than paying profits and 15-30% admin to insurance companies.
Health care is unsustainable because insurance companies are sucking dollars out of the health system to pay shareholders.
Health care is unsustainable because insurance companies are sucking dollars out of the health system to pay shareholders.
Would be interesting to know the GOP/Dem breakdown of the states that have received full SNAP payments vs those that have not.
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Would be interesting to know the GOP/Dem breakdown of the states that have received full SNAP payments vs those that have not.
No birth control for women but viagra for the boys. That tracks. About 83% of single parent families are headed by women. Toxic males play, and women pick up the pieces.
And GOP wants to eliminate support for women as soon as the baby is born (inexpensive child care, SNAP, affordable health care).
And GOP wants to eliminate support for women as soon as the baby is born (inexpensive child care, SNAP, affordable health care).
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
No birth control for women but viagra for the boys. That tracks. About 83% of single parent families are headed by women. Toxic males play, and women pick up the pieces.
And GOP wants to eliminate support for women as soon as the baby is born (inexpensive child care, SNAP, affordable health care).
And GOP wants to eliminate support for women as soon as the baby is born (inexpensive child care, SNAP, affordable health care).
So a lapse as of Friday results in weeks or months of delays? Slow walking federal court order? Incompetence? Vindictiveness?
Trump vengeance tour on the disadvantaged. He can pay National Guard to sit around waiting to terrorize citizens, but feed the working poor, children, and the elderly?
Trump vengeance tour on the disadvantaged. He can pay National Guard to sit around waiting to terrorize citizens, but feed the working poor, children, and the elderly?
November 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
So a lapse as of Friday results in weeks or months of delays? Slow walking federal court order? Incompetence? Vindictiveness?
Trump vengeance tour on the disadvantaged. He can pay National Guard to sit around waiting to terrorize citizens, but feed the working poor, children, and the elderly?
Trump vengeance tour on the disadvantaged. He can pay National Guard to sit around waiting to terrorize citizens, but feed the working poor, children, and the elderly?
So done with CBS. The latest 'DEI' layoffs cemented it. Women, POC, and Trump critics.
November 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
So done with CBS. The latest 'DEI' layoffs cemented it. Women, POC, and Trump critics.
I have 2 parents in their 90s with mx mini-strokes. DJT can't track a conversation or thought to the end of a sentence. He never has - he just babbles with stream of consciousness. he relies on lifelong speech patterns, but can't complete a thought without using crutches ("you know that"). worse now
November 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I have 2 parents in their 90s with mx mini-strokes. DJT can't track a conversation or thought to the end of a sentence. He never has - he just babbles with stream of consciousness. he relies on lifelong speech patterns, but can't complete a thought without using crutches ("you know that"). worse now
I would not call it law enforcement. It is intimidation and decimation of civil rights.
The opposite of law enforcement. Abrogation of constitutional responsibilities.
The opposite of law enforcement. Abrogation of constitutional responsibilities.
November 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I would not call it law enforcement. It is intimidation and decimation of civil rights.
The opposite of law enforcement. Abrogation of constitutional responsibilities.
The opposite of law enforcement. Abrogation of constitutional responsibilities.
Forgotten and buried truths. Thank you
November 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Forgotten and buried truths. Thank you
A friend of mine's mother (Czech) would beat him with wooden spoons. But she had trouble finding them and had to keep buying more. He buried them in the back yard. A graveyard of wooden spoons she never found. Not sure, but maybe it taught him resilience, innovation, and deception. Obedience?? not.
November 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
A friend of mine's mother (Czech) would beat him with wooden spoons. But she had trouble finding them and had to keep buying more. He buried them in the back yard. A graveyard of wooden spoons she never found. Not sure, but maybe it taught him resilience, innovation, and deception. Obedience?? not.
Barack Obama Ballroom. Lots of alliteration there. But I'd vote for the Barack Oballroom too 😆
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Barack Obama Ballroom. Lots of alliteration there. But I'd vote for the Barack Oballroom too 😆