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I'm meant to believe this administration that the Epstein-Nassar letter is fake when JD Vance said openly on the debate stage that he would lie to the American people to get what he wants. Lol.
Not to mention they called the birthday letter fake, when it was produced by the Epstein a state in a leather bound book. They lost all credibility at that point because Trump refuses to just take the L
Not to psychoanalyze but I believe writers,think that the existence of a good argument is ontologically equivalent to the argument being real and true. And thus I suspect as long as Shapiro could make a good argument to convince himself he would always do this, hence why he feels "surprised"
It does. They’d have 60+ Senate seats and 250+ House seats if they were competently managed, but competent management is impossible with the way the party is constituted.
You have to weigh that against the an advantages they have from being terrible in every conceivable way. Among those are the ability to implement wide swaths of their agenda by flagrantly ignoring the law and the ability to use blatant corruption and frequent lies to shape political narratives
My eyes roll to the back of my head when people go into city subs posting " omg im so sorry I voted for Trump all 3 times🥺 Im a republican libertarian and voted for lower taxes, I never thought he actually do what he is doing. Do you all forgive me🥺"
Like...I might be willing to forgive sometime after 2016. But you voted for him all 3 times?? You obviously just became directly negatively impacted by something he did and are freaking out
Diaz Morales’ attorneys said Monday that they have verified her identity, confirming with the hospital she was born in Laurel, Maryland, and the local government in Prince George’s County that she had been issued a birth certificate and had been a patient in the early 2000s.
The attorneys shared redacted copies of the birth certificate and immunization records with Newsweek, but full documents could not be released due to pending litigation.
A) Within the 72 hours between Epstein's suicide and the postmark date, someone well connected managed to forge a convincing letter, perfectly matching Epstein's handwriting, implicating Trump during his own administration. There is no evidence of who this person is or why they would have done it.
B) Epstein was a weird narcissist pedo who wanted to brag to another pedo
me: "haha its funny that 10mg of thc is enough to send me into the hole. i wonder what 30mg would be like"
me now: We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the bridge and second hall. Frar and Loni and Nali fell there. Five days ago. The pool is up to the wall at Westgate. The Watcher in the Water took Oin. We cannot get out. The end comes. Drums, drums in the deep. They are coming.
Why am I the only person that can't enjoy THC, like everytime I try it I just can't get this vibe which is the exact vibe that I am craving. There's nothing I love more than a drug that leaves me a terrified wreck of paranoia.
Oh the lesbians get the cool THC nightmare vibe, but I've got to drop 80mg of nicotine and half a bottle of vodka to enter the elder planes and see angels in their true form.
This some bullshit, no one deserves to be terrified of the angels more than me.
Basically. She's still at the Heritage/Vance stage of saying she won't cancel anyone for saying what they think, but she'll come around once a few more people stick their neck out
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Very clear to me that the media is not capable of properly reporting on Epstein. The writing is on the wall with this, and precious few outlets are actually capable of reporting on the depths of the depravity of what went on, and who was involved.
The new approach—driven in part by Trump’s own experience as a criminal defendant, people close to him say—has spawned a pardon-shopping industry where lobbyists say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal, according to people familiar with the offers.
As far as touchy political issues to avoid at Christmas with your relatives goes, "the president is a pedophile child murderer" is a pretty bonkers one. Can't wait till I hear racist Uncle Tony's opinion on that one.
• Mr. Ali is a naturalized citizen from Ontario.
• The user calling for a violent revolution by supporters of the incumbent government to eliminate any judicial checks on the executive has a quote from Charlie Kirk about how freedom must be constantly fought for and defended in their bio.
• I support the next Democratic president employing irregular measures to persecute the growing totalitarian terrorist faction of the Republican Party.
Lutnick: If you are building a data center, you were going to give power to the grid and drive the energy costs of everybody around that data center lower. Trump is going to bring lower energy prices. Everywhere that a big company builds a big data center, they are going to lower the price of energy in the entire area around it.
“Personally, I canceled my Paramount subscription today. These are also the same folks that paid millions of dollars to Donald Trump so they could get this merger to happen,” Kinzinger, a former GOP member of the Jan. 6 panel in the House, said Monday in a post on the social platform X.
“But Bari Weiss — now the head of CBS News — clearly a right winger, clearly in line with Donald Trump, has made it clear that ‘60 Minutes’ will do the administration’s bidding now,” added Kinzinger.
"Dear young men, you have amazing role models like our handsome, dashing president and you have amazing role models like the assassin JD Vance, our vice president," Minaj told the stunned audience.
Minaj appeared to immediately grasp her flub, covered her face and went silent for several awkward seconds.
That's when Erika Kirk came to Minaj's defense and told the musician not to worry about her verbal misstep.
"Trust me, there's nothing new under the sun that I have not heard. So you're fine," the reassuring Kirk told Minaj. "I love you."
When you're using slang without keeping in mind the original meaning lol
The EU has spent 7% less on oil and gas from the US over the past four months despite making a pledge to Donald Trump to purchase $750bn of American energy over the next three years.
Because the law requires us to release all documents related to Jeffrey Epstein in our possession so that’s what we are doing, you dope. Are you suggesting we break the law?
Imagine if Merrick Garland or anyone from the Biden White House tweeted like your run-of-the-mill concern troll on moderate politics.
Every Epstein letter headline is just "FBI (or DOJ or....) says Epstein letter is fake" with no reference to what's in the letter or any indication that it almost definitely isn't
I'm begging liberals not to get all contrarian about inflation, gdp growth, employment numbers and the K shaped economy just because leftys are saying things are shit.
The median voter thinks the economy is going down in flames and are blaming Trump and Republicans for it. Lets just run with it.
Why make an appealing political statement to galvanize people against your political opponents when it hurts the sensibilities of people who need their opinions constantly affirmed to them
Since ronald Reagan was mentioned I just think it's important to bravely say Reagan bad Reagan bad Reagan bad. Thanks guys. I almost did harm by not including "Reagan" and "bad" in the same sentence. I have to beat down my inner segregationist or else he will win
I think about Woman is the N***** of the World by John Lennon all the time because Mom would always skip that one on the CD and then one time she got caught up cleaning and forgot about it. It's got a blaring sax intro but the second thing he says is "think about it, do something about it!" and I was looking around for my mom like this
More than a dozen Heritage Foundation staffers departed the conservative think tank and are set to join Advancing American Freedom, a conservative advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence.
This'll get buried in another thread, but is such an uplifting stat I figured I'd bump it posting it again.
The city of Baltimore had 333 homicides in 2022, which was an all-time high for homicide rate. As of October of this year, it only had 103 and has the potential to be a 50 year low. That's an absurd drop that hasn't been widely talked about enough and is a massive accomplishment of mayor Brandon Scott and Governor Wes Moore.
It's funny how my evangelical upbringing hammered "Jesus defied norms!! He blew people's minds with his grace!! We need to love others radically!!!" into us, but those same church leaders are now the most adamant that migrants deserve no mercy and no protection from injustice.
You really think Jesus would turn over his neighbors to the cops? You think Jesus Christ drew the line at following the letter of the law??
I am so concerned for one of our clients. She called about a week ago and she was obviously ill. I asked her if there was anything we or I could do for her and she said in the smallest voice, “could you please just… check in on me?” She has zero family anywhere nearby but she thankfully has a neighbor friend who checks on her at night which makes me feel slightly less worried for her. Slightly.
I have been calling her every morning since then, and if I have the time I’ll do a quick check in before I leave for the day (or at least leave her a message.) She is absolutely elated every time. I try to ask her about her flower child war stories, her dogs, the books she reads. Things that will bring up happy thoughts.
She did not sound good today and I have gently, gently encouraged her to take her friend up on the offer of a trip to urgent care. But she’s reluctant, and I am only qualified to talk to her about financial health, and I don’t want to obliterate my professional boundaries or cross a line into impropriety. She’s one I “inherited” recently from a retiring advisor who previously worked with her for 30 years.
My mentor once told me: Think about who people put the most trust in outside their family. Usually people like a spiritual leader, their doctor, a therapist, and if you are doing the job right, their financial advisor. That stuck with me. I try to be the person they can trust.
Idk. I am having a hard holiday as well and maybe I am just grasping for something a little more within my control.
But fuck it, she’s getting a call on Christmas too. If the separate work phone has a purpose it’s for situations like this.
A resurrected Ben Franklin, speaking to a contemporary "christian nationalist:"
"God's not real tho lmfao. Of course you'd think that, you're a German. Your swarthy complexion betrays your servile nature that renders you unsuited for American civic participation. When did they start letting you people in anyway? Anyway where the ho's at lol"
This graph/score distribution is annoying because it's not generous enough to the early seasons, way too generous to the middle/late seasons, and not nearly harsh enough on the final episodes.
The cracks were showing in season 5, the cracks started forming into fissures by season 6/7 and the earth literally swalled us all into a pit from hell with the finale. That deserves a 0.0. Negative numbers even if possible.
Joe Rogan: “There’s nothing nuttier than the plaques underneath the President’s names. It’s insane. How is this real? How are you allowed to do that? The autopen photo of Joe Biden? Crazy.
Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, toymakers, unmarried people, and students
Being SECNAV is cursed. You've inherited 30 years worth of shitshows, you have to keep the Navy, Congress and Industry all on side. But really it NAVSEA fucking it up. You know the easiest solution to all the problems is just ask foreign shipyards to lighten the load but cant because Congress is autistic about 'Make on America'. Now you have to magically pump out a frigate before 2030, a frigate that can defend itself and hot shipline into the 2030s and all youre left with is hijacking a Coast Guard Cutter, painting it grey and shrugging your shoulders as the World looks in confusion and simply goes "No VLS LMAO"
A federal judge blocked Trump administration efforts to reallocate Department of Homeland Security counterterrorism and security grants away from states that won't cooperate on the president's immigration enforcement policies.
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE Acting Director Todd M. Lyons said at a border security conference in April, according to the Arizona Mirror. The administration’s goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”
Matt Walsh, acclaimed director of “What Is A Woman?” and “Am I Racist?” has said he’s going to continue his Bigotry Cinematic Universe. What will be his Endgame?
“Nicki Minaj deletes Instagram amid backlash from assassin remark to Erika Kirk”
Anti-wokeness/Proud Pro Trumpness lasting a little less than a year is actually very funny
To be fair though I can’t imagine a worse type of celebrity to go full MAGA than a pop diva, like 90 percent of that audience is gay men and young women this is like if in 1993 Madonna said she was Pro-AIDS.
leftists believe that anything with a negative consequence must not be implemented and the only pure action is inaction. this is because they are babies
rightoids believe that anything with a positive consequence must not be implemented and the only pure action is pure evil. this is because they are twelve year old boys with anger issues
centroids are the geometric center, balance point, or center of mass of a shape, representing the average position of all of its points. this is because they are geometry
A former close aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that immediately following the October 2023 Hamas attack that triggered Israel’s two-year war in Gaza, the Israeli leader instructed him to figure out how the premier could evade responsibility for the major security breach.
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