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This is an excellent summary of current circumstances

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Two German tourists went on holiday to Hawaii for 3 weeks. But they never left the airport. They were arrested, interrogated for 7.5 hours, accused of intending to work illegally with zero proof. They were held in prison for 3 days then deported. DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE USA.

It's ALWAYS a Republican.

Truly shocking for the Secretary of Defense to trade fucking stocks and (attempt to) profit off of a war he helped start. Firing this drunk idiot is the bare minimum. @PeteHegseth should be prosecuted.

💀 The Lord of the Lies He started this war because he felt like it. That is the truth nobody wants to say out loud but everybody knows. There was no threat. There was no plan. There was a man who wanted to feel powerful and thought Iran would fold in a week like some contractor he stiffed in Atlantic City. So he told you it was a short excursion. Then he told you no ground troops. Then he told you the war was very complete. Then he told you there were productive discussions. Iran said those discussions never happened. He did not care. The futures went green. Somebody got paid. That was the point. And when the whole thing went sideways, when the Strait stayed closed and the coffins started coming home and the markets started hemorrhaging and the entire global economy started choking on his impulse, did he stop? Did he say I got this wrong? Of course not. This man would watch the world burn to ashes before admitting he made a mistake about the weather. So he pivoted. Take the oil, he told the Financial Times, like he was talking about a real estate deal in Queens. Steal the uranium, he told the Wall Street Journal, like it was inventory at a warehouse. Blow up the desalination plants that give millions of people drinking water, he posted on Truth Social, like he was threatening a restaurant reviewer. And bill the Arabs for the whole thing, because why not, he already destroyed their economies by shutting the Strait, might as well charge them for the privilege. And his people steal in the open. They do not even pretend anymore. They announce war crimes like dinner reservations. They describe the racket on camera. “We negotiate with them, and then we always have to blow them up.” That is the President of the United States telling you that your children’s blood is a revenue stream. To your face. Daring you to do something about it. Look at who is running this. Really look. A defense secretary whose biggest job before this was hosting a morning show between drinks. A vice president the country cannot stand. A homeland security chief whose claim to fame is shooting her own dog and writing about it. A president who has never read a briefing in his life. Not one. Surrounded by people chosen for how well they kneel, not for what they know. These are the people Washington warned about. The people the Constitution was built to stop. The people Lincoln would not have let shine his boots. Even Eisenhower, when he warned about the military-industrial complex, could not have dreamed of this: a president who turned the Situation Room into a trading floor and the United States military into his personal volatility engine. And before this war, Iran was sanctioned, isolated, and weak. Now, thanks to this genius, Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and decides whether the world eats or starves. He did not defeat his enemy. He crowned him. There is no shame left in this government. No limit. No bottom. Just a man with no conscience, no competence, and no restraint, holding the most powerful military in history in his hands, playing with the lives of millions because his ego will not let him stop and his greed will not let him want to. The Lord of the Lies. And every devil dances at his command. Hell is empty. They are all here.

@cmclymer And you were dumb enough to believe him how many times ? It’s no one’s fault but your own and all the people like you that can’t spot a con man if he bit you on your ass

We warned y’all. We were quite clear about this.

He doesn’t even get the irony.

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Add France to the list. One by one, U.S. allies are shutting their airspace to American military operations.

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People not in the Epstein files: - drag queens - transgender athletes - librarians - Black journalists - “radical leftist scum” - hungry family needing SNAP benefits - workers on strike - the cast of Sesame Street

Trump & Hegseth are bullies. Which means they’re cowards & crybabies. And the way you deal with bullies is to stand up to them and punch them in the face. And our allies have rightly punched Trump & Hegseth in the face. And now Trump & Hegseth are crying.

Republican voters going apeshit about Medicare fraud that the Biden administration was prosecuting, while the biggest individual Medicare fraud was perpetrated by a man Republican voters elected to the United States Senate. Oh, but he's white and rich, so...

DO NOT Look in the Oval Office.

BREAKING: LOOOOOOOOL! The New York Times ROASTS Trump’s crappy ballroom design, pointing out all the flaws and nonsensical choices in an absolutely brutal analysis! “Trump’s Ballroom Design Has Barely Been Scrutinized” booms the headline of the New York Times’ analysis of Trump’s obsession, the enormous ballroom he’s building next to the White House. “Architects say it shows.” You won’t be surprised to learn that a building conceived of by an idiot has also been designed by idiots. The New York Times points out that the building is full of ornamental stairs that don’t go anywhere, there are faux windows with bathroom stalls behind them, its columns will block views from inside the ballroom, and it is – of course – unnecessarily big. The White House driveway, planned by the famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted will have to be rerouted to accommodate this monstrosity, breaking its symmetry, all to accommodate a southern portico that the architect admits is more “ornamental” than functional. “Is it an absolutely essential part of the program? I would say no, it’s not,” said Shalom Baranes, the architect. “Really it’s an aesthetic decision to have it there.” Thisis a huge problem because Trump is rushing to get the building approved and completed before he leaves office, meaning we’ll be stuck with a $400 million boondoggle that will cost even more taxpayer money to be made to not look like sh*t. The National Capital Planning Commission is scheduled on Thursday to take a final vote on the designs, which were being altered to accommodate more people as recently as October. “The timeline never made any sense to me,” said Thomas Gallas, a former member of the planning commission and an architect. “A building on this scale might take its architects and engineers 18 months to two years from initial concept to completed construction documents, he said.” This building was announced in *January.* Like everything else Trump touches, this is turning into a disaster of epic proportions – and like everything else Trump touches, we’re going to be stuck with cleaning up the mess.