Hildy
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Republicans have proven that they're not just willing but eager to inflict pain for power. Democrats surrendering now just feeds that sick mentality. What kind of coward trades 40 days of hardship for empty promises? We know better, why don't our elected representatives?
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Republicans have proven that they're not just willing but eager to inflict pain for power. Democrats surrendering now just feeds that sick mentality. What kind of coward trades 40 days of hardship for empty promises? We know better, why don't our elected representatives?
Seems like the right day to post pretty much every scene from All the President's Men.
July 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Seems like the right day to post pretty much every scene from All the President's Men.
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🚨🚨🚨Friendly PSA: I, like everybody else, am thoroughly enjoying the live action soap opera going on today. We have earned our giggles. But don’t forget that they are known to use distraction techniques to try to sneak stuff by us. So enjoy, but don’t lose all focus. That is all. Resume giggling 🤣🤣🤣
June 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
🚨🚨🚨Friendly PSA: I, like everybody else, am thoroughly enjoying the live action soap opera going on today. We have earned our giggles. But don’t forget that they are known to use distraction techniques to try to sneak stuff by us. So enjoy, but don’t lose all focus. That is all. Resume giggling 🤣🤣🤣
This seems too much like a performance for our benefit. But then you consider who these two shmoos really are and, who knows, it might be real.
June 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This seems too much like a performance for our benefit. But then you consider who these two shmoos really are and, who knows, it might be real.
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Remember when Republicans fought central planning?
Now they’re applauding a president who tells Apple where to produce and Harvard who to hire.
They've trading in limited government for micromanagement, freedom for fealty, and market forces for Mar-A-Lago favors.
Now they’re applauding a president who tells Apple where to produce and Harvard who to hire.
They've trading in limited government for micromanagement, freedom for fealty, and market forces for Mar-A-Lago favors.
May 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Remember when Republicans fought central planning?
Now they’re applauding a president who tells Apple where to produce and Harvard who to hire.
They've trading in limited government for micromanagement, freedom for fealty, and market forces for Mar-A-Lago favors.
Now they’re applauding a president who tells Apple where to produce and Harvard who to hire.
They've trading in limited government for micromanagement, freedom for fealty, and market forces for Mar-A-Lago favors.
The stupidity we are dealing with (or, frankly, not dealing with) is stupifying.
The *economics* of the special tariff carveout for British-made luxury vehicles is a bit too revealing.
May 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The stupidity we are dealing with (or, frankly, not dealing with) is stupifying.
I like this guy. Even better, I understand this guy. (3, count 'em, 3%)
My guess: The US-UK almost-a-deal may have reduced the average tariff rate Britain charges on American exports from 1% to 0.8%.
And the UK is only 3% of US trade.
"So if this sounds like small potatoes to you, that's because these aren't potatoes. These are tiny little peas."
And the UK is only 3% of US trade.
"So if this sounds like small potatoes to you, that's because these aren't potatoes. These are tiny little peas."
May 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I like this guy. Even better, I understand this guy. (3, count 'em, 3%)
Better, more wonderful than anything you’ll see here today. (Sound up, because that’s the best)
March 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Better, more wonderful than anything you’ll see here today. (Sound up, because that’s the best)
It was a tough day and then, well, Darth was back. So that’s good.
March 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
It was a tough day and then, well, Darth was back. So that’s good.
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🔥 PETE ON HEGSETH-GATE: “An epic fuck-up… these are not serious people… if there are no consequences, all the bluster from Trump about merit was bullshit… we deserve so much better…”
March 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
🔥 PETE ON HEGSETH-GATE: “An epic fuck-up… these are not serious people… if there are no consequences, all the bluster from Trump about merit was bullshit… we deserve so much better…”
Considering the speed with which the downhill slide is happening, is it far fetched to think that US citizens (us, not them) will be targeted soon? Doesn't sound crazy now.
Underscoring the slippery slope aspect of Trump’s recent Alien Enemies Act declaration…
Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
March 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Considering the speed with which the downhill slide is happening, is it far fetched to think that US citizens (us, not them) will be targeted soon? Doesn't sound crazy now.
Collaborators.
And there it is.
Accommodation and acquiescence. Learned helplessness and preemptive surrender. Retreat and complicity.
In the midst of an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, the nominal opposition party fails to use the one key tool in its arsenal to push back. What a disaster.
Accommodation and acquiescence. Learned helplessness and preemptive surrender. Retreat and complicity.
In the midst of an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, the nominal opposition party fails to use the one key tool in its arsenal to push back. What a disaster.
The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38.
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
March 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Collaborators.