Brian McCarthy
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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?
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Is there ever going to be an interviewer who pushes back and tells him that immigrants seeking asylum is different than insane asylums?
O'DONNELL: Are we going to war against Venezuela?
TRUMP: I doubt it. They emptied their mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States of America
TRUMP: I doubt it. They emptied their mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States of America
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Is there ever going to be an interviewer who pushes back and tells him that immigrants seeking asylum is different than insane asylums?
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Eminem must not care much for the Orange Turd in DC
September 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Eminem must not care much for the Orange Turd in DC
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“They can only win when we don’t all stick together.”
Fear is contagious, but so is COURAGE.
NO THRONES.
NO CROWNS.
NO KINGS.
🗓️October 18
📍Everywhere
Fear is contagious, but so is COURAGE.
NO THRONES.
NO CROWNS.
NO KINGS.
🗓️October 18
📍Everywhere
September 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“They can only win when we don’t all stick together.”
Fear is contagious, but so is COURAGE.
NO THRONES.
NO CROWNS.
NO KINGS.
🗓️October 18
📍Everywhere
Fear is contagious, but so is COURAGE.
NO THRONES.
NO CROWNS.
NO KINGS.
🗓️October 18
📍Everywhere
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Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.
April 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.
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The British got to vote on Brexit. They decided to punch themselves in the face, but at least they got to decide.
Here in America, we have one guy deciding that we're all going to punch ourselves in the face.
Here in America, we have one guy deciding that we're all going to punch ourselves in the face.
April 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The British got to vote on Brexit. They decided to punch themselves in the face, but at least they got to decide.
Here in America, we have one guy deciding that we're all going to punch ourselves in the face.
Here in America, we have one guy deciding that we're all going to punch ourselves in the face.
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This is a good example of the cartoonish idiocy (and cruelty) of the Trump tariffs *relative to their own stated purpose.*
(Note that the actual tariff rate on imports from Madagascar is 47 percent, which is still one of the highest for any country.)
(Note that the actual tariff rate on imports from Madagascar is 47 percent, which is still one of the highest for any country.)
We import a boatload of Nickel and Vanilla from Madagascar - not stuff you can grow/mine everywhere.
We don’t sell them a much cos the average income is $510 per year.
Because Trump’s Tax is based on trade deficit, not tariffs, we’re now slapping a 90% tariff on Madagascar.
We don’t sell them a much cos the average income is $510 per year.
Because Trump’s Tax is based on trade deficit, not tariffs, we’re now slapping a 90% tariff on Madagascar.
Question: Réunion island is a French region. Why doesn’t it get tariffed with the EU?
Could the administration be confusing things with how much extra it costs to send things there UPS?
Could the administration be confusing things with how much extra it costs to send things there UPS?
April 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is a good example of the cartoonish idiocy (and cruelty) of the Trump tariffs *relative to their own stated purpose.*
(Note that the actual tariff rate on imports from Madagascar is 47 percent, which is still one of the highest for any country.)
(Note that the actual tariff rate on imports from Madagascar is 47 percent, which is still one of the highest for any country.)
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Fact-check of Trump’s tariff speech finds some doozies. Why tariffs? Speech suggests they could replace income tax, benefiting wealthy over lower income Americans. When a choice makes no apparent sense, it’s usually about $$$.
Analysis | The false things Trump said about tariffs during his announcement
The president relied on claims that have been debunked many times before.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Fact-check of Trump’s tariff speech finds some doozies. Why tariffs? Speech suggests they could replace income tax, benefiting wealthy over lower income Americans. When a choice makes no apparent sense, it’s usually about $$$.
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Yes but tariffs are not a tool of econ policy to reduce the deficit at the expense of the economy. They are a fascist tool—in line with bullying universities and law firms and deporting protesters—to compel fealty from business by forcing companies to beg for exceptions. See the bigger picture!
One way to reduce the trade deficit is to crater the U.S. economy, thus reducing our ability to buy goods from abroad. Is that the Trump team's secret weapon? U.S. merchandise trade deficit fell by a 1/3 in 2009 because of the Great Recession.
April 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Yes but tariffs are not a tool of econ policy to reduce the deficit at the expense of the economy. They are a fascist tool—in line with bullying universities and law firms and deporting protesters—to compel fealty from business by forcing companies to beg for exceptions. See the bigger picture!
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It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future.
March 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It is absolutely right that we do not need Greenland (or Canada) for natsec reasons because they are already close NATO allies. So the only rationale to turn the US into an aggressor in our own hemisphere is if you don’t plan on NATO being a US alliance in the future.
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Meanwhile in Canada...
March 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Meanwhile in Canada...
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