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Doug Sewell
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Welcome. Typical gay moderate democrat here, and posts reflect that.
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I would be thankful if all candidates took this seriously.
You wouldn't need to gerrymander every district to win an election if you just ran on improving Americans' lives. Instead of redrawing the map, maybe Republicans should try redrawing their priorities. @karlykingsley
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I don’t need AI in my washer. I don’t even need wifi in it, yet it’s an option.
And I don’t need it in Excel or my vacuum either.
Get off my grass.
Parody of Mean Girls scene: Tech Comps: Al is so hot right now! Us: Stop trying to make Al happen!
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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While I like the idea, some of it might be legally questionable, and I doubt either party would pass this if it means a candidate would be eliminated…
Each party's nominee for president should be required to pass a top secret security clearance background check, show 10 years of tax returns, pass a psychological evaluation and pass an academic test about the role of the three federal government branches: executive, legislative and judiciary. If they tail to any of this, the candidate should be disqualified. Is there any reasonable argument against any of this? Via @ Treason Memes
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan A former Fox News host, who paid a settlement to avoid a sexual assault case, is Secretary of the Department of Defense. The former head of World Wrestling Entertainment, who is accused of covering up the sexual abuse of minors, is over the Department of Education. A former heroin addict, who is accused of sexual assault by a former family babysitter, is over the Department of Health & Human Services. A 34 time convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, who has been accused of sexual assault by 26 women, is president of the United States. When unqualified, morally bereft, white people occupy the highest positions in our government, y'all need to shut up about Black people and DEl.
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Gunther Eagleman™ Food stamps should not be used to buy soda. Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM Wild how a poor person buying a $1 soda with food stamps sends you into a moral panic, but billionaires writing off private jets and yachts on their taxes? Not a peep. Your outrage is as cheap as that soda.
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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They’re called vulture capitalists for a reason.
EDUCATION IS EXPENSIVE, BUT TEACHERS ARE BROKE, HOW?? A CAPITALIST IS TAKING ALL THE WORKERS MONEY. HEALTH CARE IS EXPENSIVE, BUT HEALTH CARE WORKERS ARE BROKE, HOW?? A CAPITALIST IS TAKING ALL THE WORKERS MONEY. HOUSING IS EXPENSIVE, BUT ALL THE LABORERS ARE BROKE, HOW?? A CAPITALIST IS TAKING ALL THE WORKERS MONEY. FOOD IS EXPENSIVE, BUT FARM WORKERS ARE BROKE, HOW?? A CAPITALIST IS TAKING ALL THE WORKERS MONEY. CHILD CARE IS EXPENSIVE, BUT ALL THE CHILD CARE EMPLOYEES ARE BROKE, HOW?? Started to reply as above, scratched it out, and said I'M DONE.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Sex offenders aren't allowed to live in public housing. So why is Trump STILL in the White House?
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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The ads keep writing themselves.
Picture of WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt, saying "It's important to vote in the midterms. If Democrats win, President Trump will be impeached." VOTE BLUE THE LIBERAL AGENDA
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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The United States will soon drop out of the Top 50 nations in terms of life expectancy. Every country above us has a public option for health insurance or a publicly funded health- care system. Not some. Not most. Every single one.
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Politicians on both sides benefit from the status quo in healthcare coverage.
Max Kennerly • @MaxKennerly A notable aspect of private health insurance is the absence of any reason for it to exist. It does not contain costs, expand coverage, or expedite care - it makes those all worse. Its sole function is to profit as a rent-seeking middleman between patients and providers.
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Corporate welfare is a real thing.
Top: person scratching head, text: For all the taxes they take out of my paycheck, the least they could do is send me a picture of the ghetto family I'm supporting to hang on my fridge. Bottom: stick figures with labels Exxon, GE, Walmart, Citi.
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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They follow the rules when it’s con-veeen-yent.
When a politicial party claims to be about rules & law, why does that party become so angry when someone reminds the military troops about rules and laws?
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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That’s not why they were sent to Congress.
What an easy governing philosophy Republicans have. Just blame every problem on Biden, Democrats, and migrants. Then you never have to solve anything and can blame all your failures on other people. This is especially useful when you are grossly unqualified for your position.
November 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Mr. President, I don't think that word means what you think it means... SEDITION is the act of inciting rebellion to BREAK the law. As you did on January 6th. So why would Trump and his handler Stephen Miller object to soldiers being told "don't obey ILLEGAL orders"… ... unless Donald and Stephen plan on issuing illegal orders to them?
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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How does this work? Naivety and cognitive dissonance.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American Citizens." Honestly amazing how every illegal immigrant is simultaneously a destitute ward of the state AND fully approved for 30 year mortgages and soaking up all the quarter million dollar housing stock.
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Still true in 2025, sadly.
LBJ WAS ONCE ASKED WHY POOR, WHITE REPUBLICANS REPEATEDLY VOTE AGAINST THEIR OWN BEST INTERESTS, AND THIS WAS HIS RESPONSE: "IF YOU CAN CONVINCE THE LOWEST WHITE MAN HE'S BETTER THAN THE BEST COLORED MAN, HE WON'T KNOW YOU'RE PICKING HIS POCKET. HELL, GIVE HIM SOMEONE TO LOOK DOWN ON AND HE'LL EMPTY HIS POCKETS FOR YOU."
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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In my military training, I was taught that I should obey and enact all *lawful* orders... I was also taught that, if I was ever ordered to do anything unlawful, that my responsibility was to the law and the Constitution. PETE BUTTIGIEG
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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THE PEOPLE WORRIED ABOUT "SHARIA LAW" HAVE BEEN PERFECTLY COMFORTABLE PUSHING CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM ON THE REST OF US. SEPARATION of CHURCH & STATE
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I’ve worked in IT over 40 years. You don’t just “lose” that kind of data unless you’re instructed to lose it.
ICE 'Loses' Key Evidence The Day After Getting Sued ICE gets sued for detention center abuse... and then oops!—13 days of key video evidence just "go missing" in a "system crash" the very next day. Totally normal behavior for an agency with a multi-billion-dollar budget and the power to cage and deport people….
November 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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LINDSEY GRAHAM: "I don't think I've ever been on a show more unnerving than tonight. You've got US senators and members of the House suggesting to our men and women in the military that they should be disobeying unlawful orders issued by President Trump and his military." Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie Members of the military are required to disobey unlawful orders. If you're upset that members of the military won't break the law, you're admitting the military is being used unlawfully.
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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SCOTUS failed us. Whether the US survives (hopefully) or fails, the current court’s GOP-nominated majority will be viewed as harshly as Roger B Taney and company of the Dred Scott decision.
Just a reminder that we would not be in this position if the Supreme Court had followed the Constitution and enforced Donald Trump's disqualification from office for incitement of INSURRECTION!
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Yup.
When your drunk MAGA relative starts nonsense at Thanksgiving dinner, just look at them and say "Quiet Piggy.” Let us know how it went. AudreyLovesParis
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Members of the military swear an oath to the Constitution. Not the President. They are REQUIRED to disobey unlawful orders. THAT is what Trump is upset about. Let that sink in.
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Miss Piggy speaks her mind.
Miss Piggy muppet pointing to DJT and saying to him, “Quiet, PEDO.”
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM