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Nothing lasts forever. Today you're in power. Tomorrow you're not. Majority today, minority in a decade. Strong in your 20's. Weak in your 70's. See the pattern? Whatever behavior you want to push on someone else, you better be prepared to have come back at you and your legacy.

@NickBolasFAB @PolitiBunny @jonfavs @mkhammer You’re a liar

@PolitiBunny @jonfavs @mkhammer Theres no moral high ground when the president is a known pedophile

I think if one is trying to figure out if a candidate is sympathetic to Nazis, one of the most important tests is whether the candidate knowingly got a death’s head tattoo signifying an elite, brutal group of SS officers and kept it until the second he wanted to run for Senate and someone noticed. It’s an insult to everyone’s intelligence to suggest otherwise. Sorry, his Medicare thoughts from last week are not permanent body art or absolution.

@NirvanaMonk116 @TMZ @TEARIS_Hall Open your doors and let me in.

@TMZ @TEARIS_Hall We must vote Republicans out of power. They are heartless, cruel tyrants! America is love. America is belonging. America is acceptance. America is tolerance. America is a nation with a storied migrant history. To hell with theocracy and authoritarianism. God bless America 🇺🇸

ICE agents dragged a man out of a hospital in New York City Saturday night ... all while chaos broke out in the streets outside due to a mob of livid protesters. 🎥 FreedomNews.TV

NYT: "You've been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist" Tucker Carlson: "I have not said that" NYT: You said, "Here's a leader mocking the Gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of Gods, and exalting himself above them. Could this be the Antichrist?" TC: "I actually did not say 'could this be the Antichrist?'" NYT: ***plays clip of him saying exactly that*** TC: "I don't know where that comes from, but I know those words never left my lips"

Wow. This guy is an idiot. If this is Democrats and the Left, they've got some problems.

@doermanc @peterbakernyt @BlackiLi @WilliamJBroad the bigger threat is partisanship and ignorance. like yours...

@peterbakernyt @BlackiLi @WilliamJBroad No one EXCEPT Donald Trump has threatened civilization by having control of nukes. The threat is Donald Trump AND Israel.

When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. @BlackiLi @WilliamJBroad nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@drhossamsamy65 Should go for actors, too

⛔️FBI agents have to retire at 57 Air traffic controllers at 56 Pilots at 65‼️ ⛔️But somehow demented 70 and 80 year olds running the country is totally fine. Make it make sense.‼️

@ryangrim @micsolana @mattyglesias Ever get drunk and act like a Nazi? Get a Nazi tattoo? You're probably a Nazi...

@micsolana @mattyglesias You are the dumbest man alive if you think walking into a tattoo parlor and picking a skull and bones tat off the wall makes you a Nazi. Luckily, a good 90% of voters have a better sense of how the world works than you. Ever been drunk and gotten a tattoo? Try to think for once.

What is the upshot of the Platner tattoo discourse? Let's say I find his story fishy. I'm supposed to worry that this seemingly left-wing guy supported by all the left-wing people is secretly a Nazi just pretending to be a progressive populist?

@Retardmaximus @Tracking_Power @Arkanjel thanks, retardius. that means a lot coming from someone as esteemed as yourself.

@DLisshus @Tracking_Power @Arkanjel Okay boomer. Hope your grandson is drafted to fight in iran

Are the Jews indigenous to the Levant? Er, No. The truth is that Ashkenazi Jews come mostly from Eastern Europe, with origins in the Caucasus, Turkey and Iran. Sephardim, are mostly of Arab and Berber origins. They are ‘Arab Jews’ with perhaps as little connection to Palestine as the Ashkenazim.  There is, in other words, no unitary ‘Jewish people’ with any historically continuous claim to the land of Palestine. Sorry about that. english.almayadeen.net/articles/analy…

@Retardmaximus @Tracking_Power @Arkanjel At least you got your account name correct, Retardius.

@Tracking_Power @Arkanjel They arent indigenous to anywhere. They are unwanted pariah gypsies who move to whatever society is gullible enough to accept them. Then they leave when they wear out their welcome by being parasites

@Narjes_Rahmati @Tracking_Power word salad. made no sense. changed no opinions.

The DNA is of Jewish Yemenis = The same as other Yemenis. The DNA of Jewish Iranians = The same as other Iranians. The DNA of Jewish Ethiopians = The same as other Ethiopians. Ashkenazim are descendants of Roman converts to Judaism who later settled in East Europe and intermarried. Jews from North Africa = A mix between Spanish, Berbers and Arabs. This also does not take into account the fact that, every year, tens of thousands of people convert to Judaism. In other words, it is a RELIGION, not a distinct nation or ethnicity.

@kenklippenstein What's up, Kunt? Ooops... Ken. Why you got your panties in a bunch? Are you too weak to ignore things you're not interested in? Rest assured, you're easy to ignore.

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ben sasse being so sick he looks like the ghoul from fallout 3 means you have to listen to his opinions until two weeks from now or whatever. i don't make the rules

@kenklippenstein Man this ken guy is a little bitch.

@awstar11 get over it

Absolutely not!!! Do not call me unless you text first.

@shannonrwatts HAHAHAH.... no. We don't like know-it-all cunts. Just like we don't like know-it-all pricks.

Smart, overachieving women punished for traits often rewarded in men? That tracks.

@Reuters This is fantastic! Now the fish population will have time to re-build itself. Eco Warriors rejoice!

Commercial fishing is an important sector along Croatia’s Adriatic coast. After the Iran conflict choked off the Strait of Hormuz, fishing has now become ‘completely unprofitable,' for some, with fuel burning up operating costs reut.rs/4urqMmK

@ashoswai Silly humanitarians. Don't they know there's a border with Egypt? Just go through that one...

Israel once again breaks the international law and committed a piracy by illegally seizing 20 humanitarian ships and abducting 175 activists, carrying aid to Gaza, near the Greek island of Crete, more than 1000 km from its territorial waters.

@sausagemic @ConceptualJames If we fired elected officials for lying in the US we’d have a handful of people running the country. Id bet less than 10.

Mandelson and others were arrested here in the UK and there were a few high profile resignations, perhaps the bar of evidence is lower here. Having individuals in the cabinet/administration that have been shown to lie about associations with him should be enough to at least lose your job.

I see a lot of people hollering about the Epstein stuff like it's somehow definitive of corruption in Trump's administration, against Trump, Kash, Bongino, DOJ, etc., and it feels overwhelmingly to me like that familiar mixture of agitation and grifty media-guy ignorance. I poked around at it some because I suppose it is a question: why haven't there been more arrests? The answers, if you look, are pretty straightforward and pretty sensible: insufficient evidence to prosecute given the standards of evidence required, some statue-of-limitations concerns, lack of clear evidence of the alleged crimes at all (criminal sex trafficking rings), and a very, very dirty evidence pool. One thing the Epstein Files show pretty clearly is that Epstein associated with a lot of people. Some people have referred to him as a dual-purpose or multi-purpose player, which creates a dirty evidence pool, supposing he is as nefarious and bad as many believe and the heinous crimes are partially or even totally true. What that means is that the met with people, flew them, had them to his island, dinners, etc., for different purposes at different times and had different types of relationships with them. That means lots of people who are effectively totally innocent, others who are maybe sleazy but criminally innocent, and then people who might actually be guilty of crimes are all mixed together in logs, files, emails, etc., without a great way to pull apart who is who and who did what. For example, Epstein is well known to have run with high-end scientists and other intellectual socialites, many of whom probably didn't do anything except incidentally or by Epstein's intention (but not their own) muck up this evidence pool. When you're making federal prosecutions for serious crimes, that's a huge problem. You cannot prosecute easily, or maybe at all, because you don't have clear evidentiary lines, corroboration, etc. None of this is to say there weren't crimes. There very well might have been lots of them, and bad ones, but association and being sleazy aren't crimes on their own, nor is jumping on socialite advantage or taking offers to go to island resorts to talk shop about science and stuff. The difficulty here is separating these things clearly enough to achieve prosecution thresholds, and without that, there won't be charges, arrests, prosecutions, or jail. My own belief is that there are likely some really bad things mixed in there, but both that fact and my beliefs and feelings are utterly irrelevant to ability to prosecute. In general, it would be better for everyone to avoid all wrongful prosecution here, too, and it looks like it would be easily done. Two attorneys general (one, acting), Dan Bongino in his role with the FBI, Kash directing the FBI, plus things Trump has said all corroborate this interpretation, as frustrating as it might be. The "files" simply don't provide CRIMINAL PROSECUTION THRESHOLD evidence of wrongdoing, or do not do so clearly enough. It doesn't matter what you believe about the implications of various connections, nor does it matter what you believe hides behind redacted portions of the files. All that matters to federal prosecutors is whether or not these prosecutions will fly in court. I'm not even a prosecutor (or a defense attorney) and I know this stuff, but I don't think grifty media-guy on the internet shows knows any of it or would even care if he did. He has a grift to run. And forget the agitator. It's literally his mission and/or job to agitate regardless of the facts. So, that said, let's talk about the EPSTEIN PEOPLE, who we might actually call the EPSTEIN CLASS (by turning the Iron Law of Woke Projection back on them), by which I mean the people who keep bringing Epstein-related stuff up like it discredits whomever they want discredited, usually Trump or his administration officials. Who are these idiots? There are a few types, and they overlap: 1) Agitators - People who are knowingly pushing this issue because they know it's divisive and effective political warfare, whether they understand the facts and reality or not. These are deliberate bad actors trying to hurt us. 2) Grifters (grifty media-guy) - Media whores who know they can get clicks and views (plus botted amplification on them) and stake out a grubby niche for themselves by pushing these issues, whether they understand the facts and reality or not. These are sometimes deliberate and sometimes casual bad actors who are trying to steal attention, etc., (grift) with indifference to the damage it does. 3) Useful idiots - Fools who actually fell for the types above, got caught in some psyop loop, or whatever, and amplify, repeat, and fixate on this topic and messaging. They're dumb and doing damage but don't mean to be. Most think they're doing the right thing on a really important topic, but they're actually getting hosed by bad actors, grifters, and bots. 4) Bots - These are really a subcategory of the agitators and reliable aides to the grifters and even useful idiots, reinforcing their dumb, selfish, and bad behavior. Many of these are deployed intentionally by intelligence assets, foreign and domestic, who wish to harm President Trump and his administration. These are legion. Agitators and their bots are obviously the worst actors. They're taking advantage of this situation to inflame people, especially the useful idiots, to create division, to undermine confidence and trust in the only administration in decades that's trying to solve our problems, etc. One way you can tell these play a part is that the Epstein stuff comes up very reliably every time the news cycle starts getting slower, Trump gets any kind of win, or something happens (like an assassination attempt again) that would gain Trump sympathy or cause unity among people. They use specialized vocabulary like "Epstein Class" to try to make out a very specific image of a corrupt upper tier of society that will protect itself while destroying you (classic Marxist oppressor/oppressed class-conflict framing). Ironically, since they're the ones so fixated on Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, irregardless of any facts in the world, they are the real "Esptein Class": the "class" of people who bring it up constantly and maliciously in order to agitate. The grifty media-guy tier is another phenomenon altogether, and they're really gross. Most of our opprobrium really should go to the agitators, but these guys are so gross and nasty and selfish that it's hard not to hate them. They're like the Petit Bourgeois of the Epstein Class, if we're doing that, but that's really stolen valor because they're really more like lumpenpodcasters. These guys are mostly know-nothings, care-nothings who just want to get attention and bucks and to be important while the getting attention lasts. They don't care if what they're saying is true, good, helpful, real, or any of that; just that it gets them attention, clicks, and bucks. They don't care where those things come from either, including from lots of bots, because, hey, numbers are numbers and algorithms are algorithms and monetization payouts are money. They also tend to believe three fantastical things: A) Because they are podcasters or media apparatchiks, that they're highly influential and control things; B) That the tail really does wag the dog; and C) The world moves at the pace of social media and at the speed of podcast. Because of A and B, they think they run the show and really throw huge petulant fits whenever it's demonstrated that they don't. They yelled about Epstein a lot, got a lot of people worked up about it based on speculation, and when reality didn't do what they said, they're throwing a giant fit. It's easier and "more based" than admitting that you over-figged the pudding, I guess. Because of C, they're totally unrealistic about basically everything. They think investigations should be like episodes of NCIS and wrap up with impossible things coming together with evidences appearing deus ex machina or whatever within a single 30-minute episode. Who cares if investigations actually take years and trials take months? Podcasts last about an hour and a half, and they have another show to do TOMORROW. If the case isn't solved, prosecuted, adjudicated, etc., by the end of the week and their current podcast cycle, it's to be treated as evidence of a coverup and further wrongdoing. Of course, hollow coverup and further wrongdoing allegations are great grifter media, great agitation, and great attention-getting vehicles. And it's just media, baby. Everybody's doing it, or they're just not in "the conversation." Because they're grifty media-guys who are know-nothing, care-nothings, they don't care about the facts, reality, truth, goodness, or the negative impacts and externalities of their grifts. They don't know how the world really works and don't care. They know how media works to get them clicks, and they care about that. It's all they care about. The sick irony here is that there really are probably some pretty serious crimes tucked away in the Epstein stuff, and there might even be enough evidence to find and prosecute some of it. Who knows? But that's likely blown now, and the guilty will likely get away, because proper investigations couldn't be done the slow meticulous way and because these agitators, grifters, idiots, and bots are turning the whole subject into some mixture of a pathetic joke and a tedious psyop and petulant political football that's just better ignored. That is, the real "Epstein Class" is the one really spoiling any hope of any real investigations, and it's mostly made of agitators, grifting podcasters, and their idiot rage-addicted followers. How about that! For my part, that's most of the story now. While bits shine here and there about the contents of specific relationships and what they clearly imply about operational behavior (cough, Steve Bannon), the story is mostly dead through rampant abuse by bad actors, grifters, and angry morons. Congratulations! I used to care and couldn't be forced to care now, and many others feel the same. Wake me up when some real evidence shows up. Otherwise, where's my mute button again?

@JeffBeltta60974 @detroitnews She’s running for governor, smarty pants.

@detroitnews Not worried. The constitution gives states total control over voting.

Opinion: Michigan’s Secretary of State is writing her own voting laws. That should alarm every voter. | Opinion detroitnews.com/story/opinion/…

@Inayat01 @jamestalarico Yeah but how has this affected the cost of donkey food? Is it more or less expensive to ride your donkey around Pakistan?

@jamestalarico Gas was $3.13 the day Joe Biden left office. Gas is $4.22 today. Trump’s Iran war has cost $25 billion money as gift to Netanyahu.

Gas prices are surging because of this new war in Iran. I’m calling for a suspension of the federal gas tax — which would immediately drop the price of gas by 18 cents a gallon. Suspend the gas tax. End the war in Iran. Make life more affordable.

@zachqfish @RepThomasMassie Shhhhh.... your ignorance is showing.

@RepThomasMassie Fisa works both ways it allows us to listen to the dirtbags make their plans

The House passed FISA Section 702 renewal yesterday. I voted NO. This was a Uni-Party vote in favor of unchecked government surveillance without adequate warrants or accountability.