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You simply do not get rich enough to buy a $60k watch as the Gov of South Dakota or as Cowgirl Barbie. Methinks there’s been a payoff here…
It appears that Kristi Noem may have worn a $60K Rolex during her visit to the El Salvadoran prison camp today.
March 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
You simply do not get rich enough to buy a $60k watch as the Gov of South Dakota or as Cowgirl Barbie. Methinks there’s been a payoff here…
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Trump's in full retreat today as his poll numbers slip:
He convened the cabinet to limit Elon after voters pressured Congress.
He delayed the tariffs b/c the market dropped out & created fears of a recession.
He's losing in court b/c DOGE didn't follow the law.
Keep fighting.
He convened the cabinet to limit Elon after voters pressured Congress.
He delayed the tariffs b/c the market dropped out & created fears of a recession.
He's losing in court b/c DOGE didn't follow the law.
Keep fighting.
March 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Trump's in full retreat today as his poll numbers slip:
He convened the cabinet to limit Elon after voters pressured Congress.
He delayed the tariffs b/c the market dropped out & created fears of a recession.
He's losing in court b/c DOGE didn't follow the law.
Keep fighting.
He convened the cabinet to limit Elon after voters pressured Congress.
He delayed the tariffs b/c the market dropped out & created fears of a recession.
He's losing in court b/c DOGE didn't follow the law.
Keep fighting.
I said the FCPA would be next. Clearly, I need to STFU.
Bloomberg: Trump signed an EO today directing DOJ to pause enforcing the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits American companies and foreign firms from bribing officials of foreign governments to obtain or retain business.
Bloomberg: Trump signed an EO today directing DOJ to pause enforcing the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits American companies and foreign firms from bribing officials of foreign governments to obtain or retain business.
February 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I said the FCPA would be next. Clearly, I need to STFU.
Bloomberg: Trump signed an EO today directing DOJ to pause enforcing the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits American companies and foreign firms from bribing officials of foreign governments to obtain or retain business.
Bloomberg: Trump signed an EO today directing DOJ to pause enforcing the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits American companies and foreign firms from bribing officials of foreign governments to obtain or retain business.
Can you say “projection”???
Trump: "I don't think you can work from a home. Nobody is gonna work from home. They are gonna be going out, they're gonna play tennis, they're gonna play golf, they're gonna do a lot of things. They're not working."
February 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Can you say “projection”???
USDA inspector general didn't order 'mass extermination' of birds to drive up cost of poultry, eggs www.snopes.com/fact-check/u...
Share with your indoctrinated friends.
Snopes is a trustworthy resource.
Share with your indoctrinated friends.
Snopes is a trustworthy resource.
USDA inspector general didn't order 'mass extermination' of birds to drive up cost of poultry, eggs
Although it is standard procedure to kill flocks with the outbreak of bird flu, posts on social media twisted the truth.
www.snopes.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
USDA inspector general didn't order 'mass extermination' of birds to drive up cost of poultry, eggs www.snopes.com/fact-check/u...
Share with your indoctrinated friends.
Snopes is a trustworthy resource.
Share with your indoctrinated friends.
Snopes is a trustworthy resource.
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The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.
February 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The real scam: making you fear the “the other” while the rich rob you blind. I wish every American understood this.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FPCA) is one of the most critical pieces of international trade law we have. Of course they want to trash it. Next up, the ITAR and the EAR.
Stopping FARA is opening the door to massive corruption
AG Bondi, day 1:
-- disbands the Foreign Influence Task Force
-- stops FARA (foreign govt lobbyist registration) enforcement except when actual espionage suspected
-- Stops FCPA (bribing foreign govts) enforcement unless to further drugs or terrorism
-- disbands the Foreign Influence Task Force
-- stops FARA (foreign govt lobbyist registration) enforcement except when actual espionage suspected
-- Stops FCPA (bribing foreign govts) enforcement unless to further drugs or terrorism
February 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FPCA) is one of the most critical pieces of international trade law we have. Of course they want to trash it. Next up, the ITAR and the EAR.
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Trump doesn’t care about any of those things. The sooner our elected officials realize that reality the better chance we will have of mounting a serious resistance.
February 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Trump doesn’t care about any of those things. The sooner our elected officials realize that reality the better chance we will have of mounting a serious resistance.
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This. But one man. One unfathomably rich and morally bankrupt man.
December 26, 2024 at 9:31 AM
This. But one man. One unfathomably rich and morally bankrupt man.
This post says it very plainly. Soon there will be no news outlets that can be trusted to report without bias towards an authoritarian regime.
GOOD LORD CNN, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU
Threatening to take over the Panama Canal, annex Canada and force a purchase of Greenland isn't "teasing expansion"
It's contemplating unprovoked armed conflict-and against our allies, no less!
This is what Putin does!
YOU'RE NORMALIZING A POTENTIAL WAR
Threatening to take over the Panama Canal, annex Canada and force a purchase of Greenland isn't "teasing expansion"
It's contemplating unprovoked armed conflict-and against our allies, no less!
This is what Putin does!
YOU'RE NORMALIZING A POTENTIAL WAR
December 24, 2024 at 12:51 PM
This post says it very plainly. Soon there will be no news outlets that can be trusted to report without bias towards an authoritarian regime.
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holy hell this is sad stuff from CNN
Here’s how CNN is covering Donald Trump’s threats against our allies:
December 24, 2024 at 1:20 AM
holy hell this is sad stuff from CNN
Already massively sick that major media is obeying in advance - when I only learned that term a couple of months ago.
Oh, did he “tease” seizing other countries’ territory, @cnn.com?
What a little scamp he is. What an incorrigible rascal.
What a little scamp he is. What an incorrigible rascal.
this is insane
December 24, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Already massively sick that major media is obeying in advance - when I only learned that term a couple of months ago.
Let’s try to remember this.
As for the popular vote, according to the latest tally from the Cook Political Report, Trump won 49.8% of the vote, a margin of 1.47% over Harris.
Harris, interestingly enough, "won a higher percentage of the popular vote than Trump received in 2016 or 2020..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Harris, interestingly enough, "won a higher percentage of the popular vote than Trump received in 2016 or 2020..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Pretending he has an electoral mandate, Trump keeps making stuff up
Donald Trump keeps lying about the margin of his election victory because the truth is too inconvenient to leave intact.
www.msnbc.com
December 23, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Let’s try to remember this.
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Gas prices Dec. 23, 2024 Sam's Club Longview, Tx. Thanks President Biden and VP Harris.
December 23, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Gas prices Dec. 23, 2024 Sam's Club Longview, Tx. Thanks President Biden and VP Harris.
The truth matters. Vaccines save lives.
December 23, 2024 at 9:17 PM
The truth matters. Vaccines save lives.
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December 23, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Mark Cuban - making a real difference.
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Since details of the smear campaign broke, initially in a big feature in The New York Times, then subsequently in dozens of articles on major news sites, not one outlet has used the word misogyny. www.usermag.co/p/blake-live...
Why won’t the media use the word misogyny?
Misogyny is at the core of these smear campaigns targeting women, yet news coverage consistently avoids naming it.
www.usermag.co
December 23, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Since details of the smear campaign broke, initially in a big feature in The New York Times, then subsequently in dozens of articles on major news sites, not one outlet has used the word misogyny. www.usermag.co/p/blake-live...
Absolutely. It is child rape.
FFS it is not “sex with an underage girl.” Girls are underage. It is sex with a child or actually just rape. Trump wanted an ( alleged) child rapist as AG
December 23, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Absolutely. It is child rape.
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A little piece of knowledge that touched me years ago when I first heard about it: In Japan, people who arrive early to work park further away from the entrance so that those who arrive later can arrive on time.
Our world needs more of this lived compassion. Much, much more.
Our world needs more of this lived compassion. Much, much more.
December 22, 2024 at 3:05 PM
A little piece of knowledge that touched me years ago when I first heard about it: In Japan, people who arrive early to work park further away from the entrance so that those who arrive later can arrive on time.
Our world needs more of this lived compassion. Much, much more.
Our world needs more of this lived compassion. Much, much more.
For those of you who shot me a gimlet eye when I posited that Elon would walk into his first day at DOGE carrying a kitchen sink and fire thiusands of Federal Employees the first day:
HE ALMOST SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT…
WITH A TWEET.
HE ALMOST SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT…
WITH A TWEET.
December 22, 2024 at 3:02 PM
For those of you who shot me a gimlet eye when I posited that Elon would walk into his first day at DOGE carrying a kitchen sink and fire thiusands of Federal Employees the first day:
HE ALMOST SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT…
WITH A TWEET.
HE ALMOST SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT…
WITH A TWEET.
Wow. Carl Sagan was absolutely prescient 30 years ago!
December 19, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Wow. Carl Sagan was absolutely prescient 30 years ago!
This Stephanie agrees as well. Talk about “obeying in advance!”
I knew it was going to be a disaster but I didn’t expect it to be a shit show a month before DJT took office.
December 19, 2024 at 5:36 PM
This Stephanie agrees as well. Talk about “obeying in advance!”
What I notice about offices with RTO Full Time mandates: Everyone continues to be on Teams, Google Meet and/or Zoom most of the day. These offices are silent. If the goal was improving interpersonal engagement, because…”collaboration,” … it’s a big fail.
But the point is really control.
Right?
But the point is really control.
Right?
December 19, 2024 at 5:32 PM
What I notice about offices with RTO Full Time mandates: Everyone continues to be on Teams, Google Meet and/or Zoom most of the day. These offices are silent. If the goal was improving interpersonal engagement, because…”collaboration,” … it’s a big fail.
But the point is really control.
Right?
But the point is really control.
Right?
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"The new arrangement represents one more step toward cooperation between political and economic development." -- NY Times 11/21/1938.
December 14, 2024 at 8:22 PM
"The new arrangement represents one more step toward cooperation between political and economic development." -- NY Times 11/21/1938.
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They said Let’s Go Brandon.
He did!
Largest climate bill in history & it reduces the deficit $300bil
An infrastructure bill for the first time in 40 years
Gun control for the first time in 20 years
CHIPS Act spurred nearly $1TRIL in investments
#DemCast #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE
He did!
Largest climate bill in history & it reduces the deficit $300bil
An infrastructure bill for the first time in 40 years
Gun control for the first time in 20 years
CHIPS Act spurred nearly $1TRIL in investments
#DemCast #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE
December 15, 2024 at 2:28 PM
They said Let’s Go Brandon.
He did!
Largest climate bill in history & it reduces the deficit $300bil
An infrastructure bill for the first time in 40 years
Gun control for the first time in 20 years
CHIPS Act spurred nearly $1TRIL in investments
#DemCast #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE
He did!
Largest climate bill in history & it reduces the deficit $300bil
An infrastructure bill for the first time in 40 years
Gun control for the first time in 20 years
CHIPS Act spurred nearly $1TRIL in investments
#DemCast #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE