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Frankly, even though we all are worried about them, especially innocents, the rest overwhelmingly rejected that notion to get back at people they don’t know but hate anyway who they can scapegoat for their being a failure. Seems like a bad deal but a clear majority of them took it.

Hey buddy, can you spare an unsecured airliner? You know times are tough for fake billionaires and wait til the economy craters for the rest of you for which I take no responsibility at all.

I guarantee by Tuesday morning, when it’s clear it was an act of right wing terrorism, and since the targeted doctor’s name sounds foreign, this headline will change to favor conservatives and blame the doctor. Just a hunch.

One thing is for certain. Since they believe it for you and I, there should be NO DUE PROCESS for Thomas and Alito. None.

Republicans not so hot on capitalism anymore

For the first few months of Trump’s second term, I was outraged by his abuse of power. But then I got bored by it all and decided to go back to writing about woke culture Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.

Analysis | Donald Trump's corruption is breathtaking. But Democrats don't have a leg to stand on because nine years ago, it was revealed that their presidential nominee had used a private email server 13 years ago.

Sharp. DOB Accurate. Though this may have been a retread of a 2017 “Trump fired me” headline.

If he was really rich he wouldn’t need everyone bribing and giving him $40 billion grifts, I mean gifts.

So our tax money is no longer being spent on, you know, running things and paying for npr, food programs, all that and we’re supposed to make up for that stupidity with donations, BUT OUR TAXES STAY THE SAME, WE GET NOTHING FOR THEM, SO BILLIONAIRES CAN LIVE LIKE KINGS ON OUR SUPPORT? Fkn maga dopes

Can’t we at least hold the NYC Dem Party people accountable who went all out to stomp on progressives and moderates to make sure tin pot dictator Eric Adams won, before we let them give us Andrew Cuomo? I cannot fathom why corrupt far right Dems escape accountably for their wake of destruction.

Fkn stupid do not ever think these people are “smart”. Instead of fighting the stupid, this enables and covers for it, while wiping itself out… and then what? That’s WHY you have a foundation, to continue. It’s capitulation, not progress nor helping. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...

American needs more white conservative children. That’s why we are closing hospitals in predominantly white conservative parts of the country and having HHS give dangerous medical advice that only white conservatives are stupid enough to believe.

I thought he was lying about, that he was lying about it.

This country did not have an economic crisis for too long, so the wealthy couldn’t buy up everybody’s dropping stocks, folding companies, foreclosures, & losing assets cheap. So they crash the economy to steal your life’s equity, again. $50 trillion to them, from you, since Reagan like this.

Wow! This is great. Check it out! open.substack.com/pub/paultsha...

Just as you can’t leak a lie, the truth shall set you free, or at least free plus an import fee paid by the consumer.

And with that, irony, merit, history, knowledge, facts, and skills were officially dead.

How it started. How it’s going.

Whether it's Democrat John Kerry flip-flopping about his position on Iraq or Republican Ed Martin flip-flopping about his support for a neo-Nazi he gave an award to, both sides are guilty of flip-flopping.

Opinion | That four-year-old cancer victim is no angel.

We fired veterans who took crisis calls from other veterans and we will abolish the suicide hotline for LGBT+ people. But never fear: revolutionary data management from DOGE will ensure that you’ll never know how many Americans kill themselves this year. by Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr, and Elon Musk

By using his worthless meme coin as an instrument for bribery, Donald Trump risks portraying the crypto industry as greedy and deceitful. by Sam Bankman-Fried

If “they” can do this to George Santos, imagine what “they” could do to any other grifting lying illegal elected official because they’re not kings, numbnutz!

The rate at which America’s government, health, defense, and economy is degrading shows that reality will not conform to the myth of the American cowboy. The Economist today shows a battered and heavily bandaged eagle under the caption: “Only 1,361 Days To Go.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

People are being too hard on Donald Trump for crying out “Vladimir, stop!” Anybody can forget their safe word.

When you say “bald-faced lie” I always think of stephen miller.

Another day, another trumpcrash. Remember when if the market didn’t go up daily under Biden, we had endless articles about how 300 point loss was a crash, how inflation eased and that’s bad news, or why inflation coming down is “too slow”. Today: Media whistling, eyes covered, fingers in ears.

Nailed it.

Bald Rasputin told Trump that egg prices are down 87%. Worse, Trump is telling MAGA this - and they are believing it!! It’s why they don’t like educated people.

Bully: Hey Columbia, gimme your lunch money. Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?) Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia. Columbia: OK, here you go. Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money. Harvard: No. Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.

Tattoos ≠ a conviction.

End Birthright Citizenship? Like expressly stated in the constitution? You’ll have to deport all the trump kids born to foreign mothers. So it will also be lawlessly applied like every other two-faced policy.

Does the president have to obey Supreme Court rulings? This Federalist Society Supreme Court judge says it depends what party they represent.

The median American voter will no longer be able to vote after being murdered in a Salvadoran concentration camp, so it’s hard to see why the media is chasing this story. by Matt Yglesias

Can you imagine what it’s going to take for Boasberg to even “start an investigation” against the person who has been given more chances than the entire history of repeat offenders in America, combined.

When you’re hiring criminals to crime for you, they have to have a criminal record, otherwise you wouldn’t want them.

Opinion | It defies the American dream to give poor people help, but huge tax breaks and exceptions on tariffs for billionaires and personhood for corporations are part of the fabric of what makes us a great country.

It's so selfish that liberals focus on the short-term recession Trump's tariffs will cause instead of on the jobs assembling iPhones that their grandchildren are going to have.

Why Bukele's tieless looked killed, while Zelensky's bombed.

'If Your Church Won't Speak Out About a Deported Father (and Thousands More Like Him)—It May as Well Cancel Easter' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-your-ch...

The president of the United States must be very weak if he can’t convince the leader of a tiny nation to return a single person.

Authoritarianism