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@ettingermentum His base will continue to swing Republican primaries, perpetuating the mirage a little while longer

Nobody in the media can get that MAGA could be terminally unpopular without it being a result of his base abandoning him. They have turned his hardcore partisans into the main characters of the world.

@Brando_G2 @kylegriffin1 Always? Four of the last 44 years? What do you mean?

@kylegriffin1 They always have you stupid idiot

BIG: Democrats will control the Michigan state Senate through the remainder of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's term.

@TheRickWilson Any place that would have him is further degraded, cheapened, stained by his presence. So it’s actually impossible for him to be somewhere exclusive. If it were exclusive it would exclude him.

The very fact you use the words "high class establishment" means you've never been in one.

@RealStevenSlate @misfitpatriot_ Godspeed penetrating the shield of willful self delusion. I'm afraid this is a closed system of liars and idiots feeding off each other.

I’m an American. I have an American business and hire Americans. The tariff is a tax. We absorb the tax and don’t pass it on to our customers, but it’s damaged our business pricing model, caused massive delays in product releases, and has limited our ability to hire due to the uncertainty. It’s also had zero affect on our ability to manufacture domestically because our product’s components aren’t made here. And while we don’t pass on costs to our customers, many other businesses have to in order to stay afloat. So you could have saved some time and just written “I love taxing Americans”

Let’s debunk the whole “tariffs are a tax on Americans” talking point. A tariff is a “tax” on the IMPORTER of goods to the U.S. which means by definition, it is NOT a tax on Americans, its an additional fee in the form of a percentage added on to the cost of the product being shipped into this country. Essentially, it’s the cost of doing business. As stated in the latest SCOTUS ruling, the president has the authority to impose tariffs on goods through multiple avenues. This authority was given to him by congress in 1922, 1934, and 1974 through different pieces of legislation. Tariffs are paid to the U.S. by the country importing the goods, and they are collected by customs and border protection. The money then goes into the treasury, and is added to the general pool Congress uses to allocate for funding the military, Medicare, etc. In 2025, Trumps tariffs brought in 287 BILLION dollars. So, why do people say they’re a tax on Americans when they’re clearly a tax on other countries who import goods into America? The answer is simple, they’re lying to you. What these liars are implying is because the cost of goods will go up for a country like China, THEY will raise their prices and charge American companies who buy the product more, which they will then roll over to the consumer, and they claim that is essentially you being “taxed”. This is like calling the rise in price of a lobster based on season a “tax”. When in reality it’s just market value fluctuating due to mitigating factor. The part none of these talking heads will tell you is tariffs hurt the importer way more than it will ever affect the consumer. If we charge China a 15% mark up, and they try and recoup 100% of that by passing it to the receiver in America, they’ll just find a new supplier that isn’t so expensive or make their product in America and avoid tariffs all together. Retailers will never raise prices to the point where they lose customers. Nobody is gonna pay 15% more for something that was 15% cheaper the day before. What most businesses will do when we start imposing tariffs on other countries is build their product in America. That creates jobs, manufacturing, and over time, LOWERS the cost of goods across the board because now we have a competitive market instead of a market reliant on cheap shit from countries with no quality control and slave labor. Tariffs aren’t a tax on Americans, they’re a tool to incentivize American exceptionalism, and put America first over the countries who have been ripping us off by stealing our production, innovation, and manufacturing, and then selling it back to us for 10 cents on the dollar.

@olson17522 @CamEdwards You correctly imply that ICE agents are under trained and under vetted. That’s unconscionable, and the reason why ICE is increasingly unpopular and likely why they shot an unarmed man in the back 10 times yesterday

@badartent @CamEdwards Sure, how much would it cost for everyone to be trained and vetted? How many after traing act in an unpredictable way under stress? Wouldn't it be better to make interfering illegal? Let the lawyers work it out?

Tens of thousands of Virginia gun owners who showed up at the state capitol in 2020 would disagree with everything he said up to "you do not get to touch law enforcement."

@olson17522 @CamEdwards You can train for control in stress situations and every law enforcement and combat military position in the US engages in that training. To be unable to act rationally in stress environments is to be unfit for duty

@badartent @CamEdwards It's simple, as stress levels increase, adrenaline becomes the driver and reason goes out the window. The cerebral cortex is a chipmunk riding the 800lb gorilla of evolution. It happens to highly trained pilots, most CFIT is pilot error. You can't untrain survival instinct.

@olson17522 @CamEdwards Speaking of false equivalencies, ICE agents are not wild animals and should be held to a higher standard. They have pre frontal cortices and should be expected not to shoot an unarmed man 10 times

@CamEdwards I think that's a false equivalency, he showed up to disrupt a legal arrest with a firearm. In shark or bear attacks people often say that it isn't the sharks fault the victim was in its water. He approached armed officers making an arrest, a high adrenaline endeavor, with a gun.

@SteveL3385 @HillGirlTN @gatewaypundit the writer of the article got it completely wrong. the tweet they reference says that the state of Maryland receives $190M for such services, not this one person.

@HillGirlTN @gatewaypundit You are correct. 1.9 million is outrageous but the article said 190 million.

@kylegriffin1 Was this written before the the access Hollywood tape came out?

New doc: A letter Epstein appears to have sent from jail to Larry Nassar referencing "our president." "Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

@Acyn Acyn the absolute GOAT of these posts finding figures on the right being insanely wrong, and teeing up a clip for others to write the huge dunk quote retweet

Vance: The only thing that is truly served as an anchor of the United States of America is that we have been -- and by the grace of god we always will be -- a Christian nation.

@TheStalwart This tracks with my last experience logging into TikTok. It was at least 30% ads, maybe 50 including affiliate-slinging content

Incredible *TIKTOK OWNER BYTEDANCE ON TRACK FOR $50 BILLION PROFIT IN 2025 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@DogsBczPplSuck @MZHemingway what a wild thing to tweet. I've somehow managed to go my whole life so far without joining a riot

@badartent @MZHemingway I wonder where the video is of you trashing neighborhoods along with BLM and Antifa. I bet they're out there. We'll find them.

I am trying to come up with a reasonable explanation for why Chris Wray’s FBI sat on this info on the ***pipe bomber*** while spending millions of dollars and moving heaven and earth to destroy the lives of grandmothers who entered a public building on a workday.

@RadioFreeTom At the risk of picking nits, calling it cope is generous. It’s sophistry. I doubt he suffers under any delusions about the defensibility of what he’s defending.

This is a truly desperate level of cope. Americans are not seeking mustard gas and paying billions of dollars to shove it up their noses - but even operations to destroy mustard gas require more than a presidential ukaz.

@MikeIsaac bridging the gap, maybe a long-term budget option, for hearing loss until cures via stem cells and gene therapy get the go-ahead

didnt use earplugs for years and am paying for it with tinnitus (not nearly as bad as some whose ears are shot, thankfully) this is an interesting application...

@RyanPMcGowan @MikeIsaac I know you can be moderately creative with Suno - I'm talking about their new stated business model of becoming a vertically integrated music distribution system for the masses. I'm saying the masses don't want to be creative, they want to be entertained.

@badartent @MikeIsaac You've incorrectly assigned the motive as curation instead of novel creation. The idea that it's just a simalcrum of existing content is just as big of a strawman. You could say the same thing of every song written using 1 4 5 or 12 bar blues or any other song writing convention.

recoiling so far away from the act of creation that you accidentally invent the radio station

@RyanPMcGowan @MikeIsaac repetitive terrestrial radio programming is the strawman argument to the alternative of burning compute power creating one-off AI simulacrums of songs already written by humans every time you press play. There is a third way and it already exists

@badartent @MikeIsaac Sure but have you heard the mandatory Metallica at the top of the hour yet followed up the top hits including Radioactive by Imagine Dragons and Click Click Boom for the last ten years?

@MikeIsaac Tech world and music producers have long wanted to revolutionize music listening by making the listener an active participant. Active is very different than passive. Most people don’t even want to know what song is next. But they want to sell us the Donda Stem Player

@MikeIsaac Okay so this is exactly what I’ve been thinking. Suno isn’t happy having their customer base be music makers. They’re pretending their base is “music listeners”. So it’s not creation, just curation, but without the element of surprise and the music’s worse

@MikeIsaac "The Thing" (1982)

lol this rocks taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves