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@bambibristol Well its not surprising he thinks this is a thing. Trump's had the entire country going downhill for a while now.

As an experiment I shall spend today ‘only driving downhill whenever possible’… Stay tuned to see if I have to eventually drive up hill to return home.

💥BOOM! Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Washington, D.C. ... is run by the secular government of Israel" "Serving in Congress, in the Republican Party... changed everything for me... seeing on the inside what a bunch of liars they all are" "[Both Democrats and Republicans] are bought and paid for. They don't work for you. They work for the giant industries that fund their campaigns" This clip of Greene (@FmrRepMTG) is taken from a video posted to The RonPaulLibertyReport YouTube channel on May 2, 2026. -----------------Partial transcription of clip-------------- "And I'll tell you, not only was it Donald Trump that changed everything for me, it was serving in Congress, in the Republican Party that changed everything for me. It was seeing on the inside what a bunch of liars they all are. "Not just Republicans, but Democrats, too. They have no intention of doing the things that they promise you on the campaign trail. None. "Right now, we have a Republican president, a Republican House, and a Republican Senate. They have the power to do everything they want to do right now, and they refuse to do it. Do you want to know why? They're bought and paid for. "They are bought and paid for. They don't work for you. They work for the giant industries that fund their campaigns. They work for the special interest groups that give them fundraisers. They work for the lobbyists that make best friends with them. Because many members of Congress are lonely in Washington. They're easy to make friends with. They're away from their homes, they're away from their families. They're away from everything that made them who they are. "They're taken to Washington D.C. which is an international city. It's like a foreign country. Washington, D.C. is a foreign country. It's run by a foreign country. It is. It's run by the secular government of Israel and some other people and some other things, but it is."

🔥Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls out Trump for blocking the Epstein Files, says "That's when MAGA died" "[Epstein] was a convicted pedophile and we knew there were many with him" "[But Trump said] my friends are going to get hurt... people [at] Mar-a-Lago [and in] in Palm Beach" This clip of Greene (@FmrRepMTG) is taken from a video posted to The RonPaulLibertyReport YouTube channel on May 2, 2026. ----------------Partial transcription of clip--------------- "So, wow. When we started talking about releasing the Epstein files, I'm like, this is a no-brainer. President Trump will just roll them out on a big cart himself. Stacks and stacks and stacks of the Epstein files. Because obviously Bill Clinton is all in there and Hillary Clinton. That's what I had been told all along, right? "Well, it was the most shocking thing when I sat in a conference meeting, and I learned that the President didn't want to release the Epstein Files. I was like, what? Yeah. "Come to find out, he was very much against it. So we kept on trying and kept on talking about it. And then the President told Mike Johnson, no, do not bring that resolution to the floor for a vote. He told the Rules Committee, and Johnson told the Rules Committee, no, you will not mark up any bill and in the Rules Committee that will allow the Epstein Files to be released. "And the resistance built and built and built. He told Pam Bondi, don't release the Epstein Files. He told everybody, don't release the Epstein Files. So we persisted because that's what we promised. That's what we campaigned on. Transparency and accountability, especially to pedophiles. How is that complicated? "So it got to be such a gigantic amount of resistance coming from the President and the speaker and everyone, the DOJ. I said, fine, I'll do the unthinkable. I'll go over there and I'll sign my name on a discharge petition that all the Democrats are signing their name on. Talk about crossing the aisle. Me, a general in the MAGA army, crossing over to sign my name with a bunch of Democrats. Yeah, I did. Because women were raped when they were 16 and 14 years old. And he was a convicted pedophile and we knew there were many with him. "So I signed my name on the discharge petition. Oh, did I get my name on the naughty list then, let me tell you. That became a real issue at the White House. Well, I'll never forget it. I was in my office in the Rayburn Building and I got a phone call from the President and he was at the White House and he wanted to talk to me about the discharge petition that I'd signed my name on. And he said, Marjorie, you're going to have to take your name off that discharge petition. We can't let. This is a hoax. We can't carry this. This is a hoax. It's a Democrat hoax, and we've got to just put this away and stop doing this. "And he said, my friends are going to get hurt. He said his friends would get hurt if we released the Epstein Files. He said, Marjorie, these are good people. These are people, you know at Mar-a-Lago, people in Palm Beach. They're going to get hurt by this. "And I said, Mr. President, people have been hurt. These women have been hurt. I, said, have you talked to them? I said, you should talk to them. You should have them in the Oval Office. Mr. President, you have everybody in the Oval Office. You have sports teams, you have world leaders. You have Al Qaeda terrorists that are now leading Syria. You have Mamdani. I mean, you have everybody in the Oval Office. Surely you can have these women who were raped as teenagers. Talk to them. I talk to them all the time. As a matter of fact, many of them voted for you. "That's what I told them. They voted for you. Epstein victims voted for Donald Trump and he wouldn't have anything to do with them. And he told me his friends would get hurt. And I said, not taking my name off the discharge petition. "Because this crosses party lines. It crosses— As a matter of fact, it crosses all the lines when it comes down to victimizing some of the most innocent people in America. These were young girls that were teenagers that desperately wanted to be models one day. They wanted to be seen as beautiful. They wanted to be rich, they wanted to be famous. And, of course, every teenager wants things like that. And they were victimized by Ghislaine Maxwell and others. "They were victimized by the richest, most powerful men, not only in our country, but in the world. And they were used by Jeffrey Epstein as sexual tools for his own satisfaction and his friends' satisfaction to actually be asked by the President of the United States to back off and not help these women. That's when MAGA died. That's when the entire thing shattered for me."

@nerdypursuit Can you PLEASE put Pete B. or something? For the first few seconds I thought this was about Hegseth and I was like WFT????

See, Sarah gets it about Pete.

@RosinaMostardi1 Great. Me too.

@david_etheredge Im going to post and repost this ad. Why? It's the best ad coming from one of our best Senators. Sincere and real. Georgia, you really need this man on your team of senators. You have two great ones right now. #VoteOssoff

The best political ad ever made. Possibly the best ad ever made.

Wow! She cracked the case and boy did she nail it! Whether or not you believe the correspondence dinner shooting narrative, you should listen to her explain all of the moving parts and subsequent events and ask yourself if this is just another coincidence.

Fuck yes. THIS.

@estherzelda0514 They didn't just make things up. These were all thing that Fox news TOLD them Trump would do for them. Ten hours a day 7 days a week, 365 days a year for the past 4+ years.

As I listen to Americans explain why they voted for Trump or refused to vote for Harris, it strikes me that they just made things up in their heads that were not true, and the media did nothing to dissuade them. Trump never said anything about the education system other than attacking it. But this voter thinks he did, because the traditional media and social media was myopically concerned with whether Haitians were eating pets, and if Biden was old. There was no discussion of either party's platform, or the candidates' legacies. That was old news, and uninteresting. How can we blame this on the candidates themselves? They don't control the media, and have little if any power to direct it or correct the record once something goes viral. Voters themselves bear some responsibility to verify that their impressions are correct, but they have abdicated all civic responsibility, not that we ever had much to begin with. Truly, however, trying to explain the results of 2016, 2020, or 2024 without giving the media itself the majority of the blame is ridiculous. Trump lost in 2020 because the media never strongly attacked Biden, and Trump's poor handling of the early pandemic was widely reported. Trump won in 2016 and 2024 because the media was relentlessly negative about Clinton and Harris, giving Trump endless amounts of free press without scrutinizing his record or platform.

@notcapnamerica Fox news says it all the time. This is how they created MAGA in the first place, by just straight up lying to the American people about what Trump says or does. Most don't watch any other news and so what Fox says, they believe. And Fox says Trump is the 2nd coming of Jesus.

In what universe did Donald Trump ever say he was going to improve education?

@Gerashchenko_en It comes from dementia.

President Trump after his call with Putin: Militarily, they're [Ukraine] defeated, okay? Remember, you wouldn't know that by reading the fake news, but militarily, look, their navy. So they had 159 ships. Every ship is right now underwater. UPD.: He might have been saying that about Iran, although he was talking about Ukraine in his previous sentences. Comment from me: Putin's aide did say that Putin "updated" President Trump about the situation on the battlefield. Ukraine is not defeated, we inflict losses to Russia's troops, equipment and lots of Russian military locations in Russia's rear. Russian advances on the battlefield are paid for with very heavy losses on their side. As for the ships - I'm not sure where this number comes from and what does it have to do with Ukraine.

@johnstribe Yes it should.

@david_etheredge This is how politics should be!

This is a Democrat supporting a Republican initiative in a Red state and loudly and vocally saying that the people in that state are doing the work of Democracy. This is what made American great in the past. The only thing that Buttigieg is partisan for is America.

@newenhuyse @SeitterSimora Thank you! :)

@david_etheredge @SeitterSimora Well said! Yes!

@joeyjguarino @SeitterSimora Thank you! :)

@david_etheredge @SeitterSimora This is really well said. I think a big topic of discussion lately has been Democratic snobbery and partisan focus blinding us to bigger points. Pete seems laser focused on the parts of the country Democrats often ignore, tackling things everyone says they want.

@vinivinidogo @sephius1999 Assuming they are ignorant regardless of what info they get means we're fucked. Assuming they were mislead and can be brought back to rational behavior means we have a chance. I'm hoping for the latter.

@david_etheredge @sephius1999 Both can’t be true?

These ppl literally made up shit in their head that Trump never spoke to in order to vote for him. How can you feel betray by a promise Trump never made. They literally ignored Trumps rhetoric on the campaign trail...he said he was gonna hurt people...did they not hear that!!!!

@ramit The fact that you are calling them stupid instead of understanding why they believe this way isn't helpful. The real culprit here isn't voter stupidity, its the fact they've been brainwashed and manipulated by Fox News to believe these things.

The entire article is hilarious if only to show you how dumb MAGA voters are. In many cases, they voted for someone DIRECTLY OPPOSED to them. They still don't realize it But do not pity them. They chose exactly what they're getting nytimes.com/interactive/20…

26-year-old Republican Franceska is shocked that Trump has defunded education instead of "tax breaks or helping with the education system" Let's see what else MAGA voters have to say

@SwannMarcus89 Actually a good thing. Since their rationale isn't political or philosophical, these folks will change their votes based on their perception that things have gotten worse. It means they aren't cult members who are choosing Trump because of his depravity, which means there's hope.

It really puts into perspective how little our esoteric political discussions on here matter when the median voter is literally this

@SarahLongwell25 Sarah - what is the 10% that does?

This is why there’s no point in sweating what happens *on here*. If there’s one thing I’ve learned listening to voters week in and week out, it’s that 90 percent of whatever we’re arguing about bears no relationship to the way average voters experience politics.

@AdamKinzinger You are really being unfair to white trash. I've never seen a trailer home that had decor this ugly.

The White House now looks like white trash FYI the next president needs to have a public burning of all this garbage