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Nothing will ever convince me that Musk isn't a giant con man, sitting atop a massive pyramid scheme that will one date crumble.

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It’s worth noting that America was also the wealthiest in the post-WW2 period because the US had abandoned tariffs, beginning with the RTAA of 1934 and continuing through the GATT of 1947.

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Elon Musk--a special U.S. government employee in the White House--has gone all-in to help the AfD in Germany. On behalf of the anti-fascist majority of the American people, I say to the people of Germany: Please ignore him or reject him. He does not speak for America.

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At this point, President Camacho would be an upgrade. Every word of this is lunacy

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If this is really your definition of “servant leadership”, you need a new dictionary.

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Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

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This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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I wrote angry about the purging of the US military. saideman.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-...

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Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“

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My sister's mentor, an Admiral with an outstanding record of service, has been fired by an abusive, drunken FOX News Host.

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Eagles' Nolan Smith suffered torn triceps in Super Bowl. www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

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It’s a cult.

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Jesus Christ.

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This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

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Every frickin time I go to a social media site or take a momentary break from teaching Microeconomics, something new and more absurd hits.

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I'm sorry, but if you STILL believe in the myth of Trump's business acumen from The Apprentice, you are more gullible than an adult who still believes in Santa... or the Dallas Cowboys. At some point, natural selection is unavoidable.

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US losing the hockey game means that Trump has lost the mandate of heaven, right? :V

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As a US Gov teacher, I'm starting to wonder if my life's work is becoming one big fraudulent lie or if it has never been more important...

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This is even more unconstitutional than usual. Article I gives Congress the power to establish the post office. It cannot be "dissolve[d]" by the Executive.

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Russiagate is a theory the way gravity is a theory

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The Good News: we have officially survived the first month of Trump's tyrannical regime. The Bad News: the Eagles can't win the Super Bowl every month and inject me with some much needed serotonin.

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As he fucking should.

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Breaking: The Federalist Society quickly reboots as the Royalist Society.

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The final shitlib victory: “Don’t Look Up” happens in real life

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I guess we know what life would have been like if Sauron had regained the Ring.

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Jesus Christ...

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Worse than Munich 1938. When Chamberlain appeased Hitler, Germany had the strongest military on the continent and hadn’t launched a big attack. Now, US has the strongest military on the continent, and Russia is weakened from 3 years of war. This isn’t from fear and hope, it’s helping the aggressor.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Chamberlain, for his faults, never blamed Czechoslovakia.

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If Joe Biden said this, the entire Republican Party would be yelling about Munich/1938/appeasement, & it would prompt nonstop front page headlines about whether he was mentally unfit to be president.

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There are very few things for which I will ever credit Trump, but I will credit him with this: he was absolutely, 100% spot-on calling Rubio "Little Marco." Everything Rubio has done over the last 9 years has reduced him to a pathetic little worm groveling at Trump's feet.

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Maybe that's why you don't deal with a case of termite infestation by using car bombs...

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I got over being swindled by Rubio a long time ago. He's just like every other miserable Republican cretin who sold out to Trump for scraps off his table. If Trump announced that he was renaming the Florida Straits "The Castro Channel", Rubio wouldn't stand in his way.

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Trump the Deceiver offered him a scrap of power. Blinded by his greed and ambition, he took it without question.

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Anything they can possibly do to fuck over those of us who aren't wealthy.

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My beef is not with the Canadian people or the Canadian government. My beef is with my own government and the legions of morons who voted to bring Trump back.

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Y'okay.

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I have graduated to eating bread. #StomachBug

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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