Telemachus Rex

An old French lady had a small shop in her village for years until one day a huge corporate supermarket set up across the road from her little shop. They put up signs advertising their prices, including one that said: Butter – 10 francs. In response, the old lady added a sign to her own window: Butter – 9 francs. The next day, the big supermarket had a new sign: Butter – 8 francs. Sure enough, the day after the lady’s sign now read: Butter – 7 francs. This went on for a while until eventually one of the lady’s customers pointed to the sign and said, “Madame, you cannot keep your prices so low for long. These big companies can use their buying power to sell products cheaper, but a little store like yours can never compete.” In response, the old lady bent forward conspiratorially and muttered, “Monsieur, I don’t even sell butter.”

@allenanalysis And why isn’t he dangling from a lamp post ?

🚨 UPDATE: $1.25 MILLION bond for “Chud the Builder.” His real name is Dalton Eatherly. He’s the livestreamer who built a following yelling racial slurs at strangers on camera. Yesterday he shot a disabled Black veteran outside a Tennessee courthouse. The veteran; last name “Fox,” took bullets in the stomach and the shoulder. His wife is now begging strangers online to help pay the hospital bills. The same guy was out on a $5,000 bond from four days earlier. The judge said that’s part of why the bond is so high this time. $1.25 million. Think about this for a second. A man served this country. Came home with a disability. Walked past a courthouse on a Wednesday afternoon. And got shot; because some guy with a phone makes money being cruel to people. That’s the country right now. Cruelty pays. Slurs are a paycheck. And a veteran is in a hospital bed. What kind of country lets a man build a business out of hurting people?

Monstrous behavior by ICE and Alabama police, who blamed a Honduran mother for "abandoning" her child when they arrested & deported her without him. The son, Orlin, a US citizen, was then murdered by abusive relative and Trump admin wont let her return to bury him. Nightmarish.

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding Black Hawk helicopters four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves. So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades. That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA.

“WE NEED TO LET THEM DO INSIDER TRADING TO FEED THEIR FAMILIES” That was the actual argument just made in defense of politicians trading stocks. Members of Congress make $174,000 a year. The median American income is roughly $63,000. (3x less) Meanwhile the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour… also unchanged since 2009. And you’re seriously being told politicians need access to insider trading to survive. The system is designed to lead earth to neo-feudalism. And it’s becoming more brazen by the year. Asset ownership consolidates upward. Living standards decline downward. The middle class gets squeezed from both ends and disappears while the elite class accumulates more wealth, more influence, and more protection. Leaving behind a permanent underclass. And a permanent political-financial aristocracy at the top…

@RepGregSteube Why ? So you can further oppress and terrorize Americans living in their homes and communities ? Fuck you Nazi !

UPDATE: My amendment to pull nearly $482 MILLION away from NATO and put it into AMERICAN military bases just failed… 333 Members of Congress, including 127 Republicans, voted to keep sending your tax dollars to NATO instead of prioritizing our own troops and military infrastructure. America should come FIRST!

They told you the real threat was the guy sweating on your roof in July, or the woman wiping your grandma’s chin for 10 bucks an hour. And you bought it. You waved the flag chanted “USA!” , while they took your healthcare, kid’s lunch destroyed your farms to give billions to themselves. You got conned. They dangled fear like a shiny object, “the border, the migrants, the brown folks taking jobs you never wanted”, while behind your back, they picked your pocket and left your kid holding the bill for generations to come. You lose your Medicaid. Your VA clinics and hospitals shut down. Your grandma gets pushed to the sidewalk with an oxygen tank. But hey, no migrants working jobs you wouldn't do, huh? What a deal. It's a conman's trick, you know, and you're the mark. You traded your & and your kid's future for a wall that didn’t get built and a promise that only delivered to billionaires while bankrupting our nation. This ain’t “America First.” It never was. It’s fear first, cruelty second, and you dead last. Now they're taking your rights. This November election is it. Let's hope you wake up before it's too late.

Help Jackie & Gabi from Elevate Utah out! They're the ladies that confronted Billionaire Kevin O'leary for calling them Chinese Agents. For their epic own of that piece of shit, & to help stop the data center insanity give them some love! @ElevateUtahPAC linktr.ee/elevateutah

@HQNewsNow This november, we need to kick out every single MAGA republican from office, or we're not going to have a democracy left.

@HQNewsNow These men, who care more about their tweets and posts from Trump, than their constitutions, need to be voted out, ASAP.

Voter at a town hall on Republican gerrymandering: "These maps are the wet dream of soft men who won't even look up from their phones to face their voters. These are men who lust for a world where the powerful do what they can and the rest of us suffer what we must. Jesus wept."

ICE rammed a U.S. citizen's car with his infant and toddler inside. They detonated flash-bang grenades. Pointed assault rifles at the family. Filmed the whole thing and posted it online. The man's name is Antonio Valdovinos. He's a carpenter. Born in Long Beach, California. His crime? He attended an anti-ICE protest. A federal judge later ruled the arrest was a "vindictive effort to impose extrajudicial punishment." This is what suppressing dissent looks like when the state has cameras. Who approved this operation?

The GOP is doing that thing again where they pretend the JCPOA (Obama nuclear deal) wasn’t working, despite our intelligence community, the IAEA, and our allies all confirming that it was. And the fact that all Iran’s significant enrichment happened after Trump pulled out. 🤷‍♂️

I still can’t get over that Alito basically said racism was over and then conservatives agreed by deleting every black district in the south in like 2 seconds

Amazon cut 30,000 jobs & got a $7.8 billion tax break Meta cut 8,000 jobs & got an $8 billion tax break PayPal cut 4,800 jobs & paid $0 in federal income taxes Disney cut 1,000 jobs & paid $0 in federal income taxes Corporate tax breaks don't create jobs. They enrich the 1%.

ICE let us walk through the doors of the Otay Mesa Detention Center on Monday. Then they handed us a memo telling us we were not allowed to talk to anyone held inside. The memo, signed that same day by the Acting ICE Director, says members of Congress must now identify detainees by name and obtain signed consent two days in advance before speaking with a single one of them. Federal law gives us clear authority to inspect these facilities at will. We already had to sue in federal court just to get in the door. Now there is a new barrier, invented this week, to make sure we never hear from the people actually being detained. If everyone inside is being treated lawfully and with humanity, what exactly is the administration trying to hide?

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Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area. "If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed a nation. 26 million doesn't mean anything."

@netanyahu Come to the US and file your lawsuit. Americans would LOVE to read the discovery documents from the world’s top RAPISTS, Israel.