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@smalls2672 @RightWingWatch @FightingForDem7 Is this asshole pulling a tax free salary?

@RightWingWatch @FightingForDem7 I would give anything to run into this guy in the streets.

Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says that since people will never give up democracy and the right to vote, they must be taken away by force: "Virtuous, ambitious, masculine men have to climb the ladder of power and forcefully take away from the people that which is their detriment."

@maddenifico Will there be consequences or is that too ‘woke’

"Get your fucking hand out of my face." What Scott Jennings said is what happens when a person is getting his ass whopped. It's the equivalent of an NBA player throwing a punch after getting posterized by an opposing player. In this case, Adam Mockler performed the slam dunk. 😂

@maddenifico He’s sick

This is Goebbels-esque propaganda of a delusional D-list reality TV personality with a messiah complex.

@JohnJHarwood These are truly deplorable people

rabid

@zackoryk I never really thought he was evil before but he’s knowingly dismantling the progress of a century for billionaires and a racist political party

This man is happy as hell today…

@JamesTate121 They really do lack all self awareness

She got something right.

@AnnieForTruth A lottery to tear it down would fund the next campaign

He destroyed the Oval Office with this cheap gold and gaudy decor, demolished the East Wing and paved over the Rose Garden. 😡

@JohnJHarwood Why is she given a platform? Media has learned NOTHING in 10 years

sad

@Poppy_Teryy She knew he was gay and the marriage elevated her career path. That’s all

No wonder John Travolta has never fallen in love with any other women 6 years after his wife Kelly Preston passed away

Whether this incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner turns out to be exactly what it appears to be, or something far more choreographed, the deeper rot is already exposed. The real tragedy isn’t just the gunfire, the chaos, or the spectacle, it’s the fact that millions of us, myself included, are now conditioned to question the authenticity of reality itself. That’s not paranoia. That’s pattern recognition born from years of watching a man like Donald Trump bend truth into whatever shape best serves him in the moment. So when I sat there watching the 60 Minutes interview with Norah O’Donnell tonight, I wasn’t looking for clarity, I was looking for cracks. And to her credit, she pushed. She didn’t lob softballs. She didn’t kneel. She did what journalism is supposed to do: she pressed. But what we got in return was the same tired performance, deflection, hostility, and that familiar need to dominate the exchange rather than participate in it. Particularly when that exchange involves a woman not subservient to him. And then came the moment that stopped me cold: when she referenced the shooter’s language,”rapist,” “pedophile,” and Trump, almost reflexively, pointed to himself. Not metaphorically. Not rhetorically. Instinctively. And she fired back: “Are you saying that this is about you?” That wasn’t just awkward television, that was a psychological tell slipping through the cracks of a man who lives in perpetual narrative defense mode. Now layer that over the broader situation. A gunman with a manifesto. Multiple weapons. A breach attempt at one of the most tightly secured events in Washington. A president who claims he “wasn’t worried,” who says he slowed down his own evacuation because he wanted to “see what was happening.” Think about that. Secret Service agents, trained for one purpose in that moment, are telling you to get on the ground, and your instinct is to… linger? Observe? Manage optics? That’s not bravery. That’s either delusion or performance. Possibly both. And this is where the unease creeps in, not because we know something was staged, but because nothing about the response feels grounded in normal human behavior. There’s no adrenaline. No visible shock. No processing. Just immediate framing. Immediate repositioning. Immediate narrative control. It feels less like a man who just experienced a potentially life-threatening event and more like a producer pivoting to the next act of a show already in progress. Again, I am not declaring this was staged. I’m saying the conditions that make people ask that question didn’t appear out of thin air. They were built. Brick by brick. Lie by lie. Performance by performance. When truth becomes optional long enough, suspicion becomes inevitable. And then there’s the larger insult baked into all of this: the White House Correspondents’ Dinner itself. A room full of journalists, people whose job is to hold power accountable, deciding to celebrate alongside a man who has spent years calling them “enemies of the people,” degrading them, especially women, and undermining the very foundation of a free press. That wasn’t unity. That was capitulation in formal wear. You don’t normalize someone who actively seeks to dismantle your role in a democracy. You don’t hand him a microphone and pretend it’s tradition. That’s not courage, that’s complicity. So here we are. An incident that may ultimately prove to be exactly what officials say it is. Or it may not. Time will tell. But the damage is already done in a far more profound way: we no longer trust the surface of events. We scan for angles. We listen for rehearsed tones. We watch for narrative pivots. Because we’ve been trained to. And that, to me, is the real collapse, not just of truth, but of trust itself. Maybe more will be revealed in the coming days. Maybe this all settles into a straightforward explanation. I hope it does. But I’ve been around long enough to know when something doesn’t sit right. And this one? This one sits like a bad note ringing too long after the rest of the band has already stopped playing. — Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

@maddenifico This questioning is why we have Trump in the first place.

Jamie Raskin just schooled CNN's Dana Bash for sanewashing and normalizing Trump.

@ChildPleez007 Propaganda in place of investigation

Our media is complicit and compromised

@tomwatson About time. It may seem silly to some but this is HUGE.

@BookerGWash Agreed but that’s a corporate decision, the price they make her pay for having her own show

Abby contributes as well by consistently platforming an idiot.

@AmoneyResists It’s all performative

You aren’t sorry about anything. All you’ve ever done is mislead people. You’re an opportunist and a liar who no one should ever trust or listen to.

@BrianKarem They have video, a lot of video.

Yes. PT Barnum - a sucker born every minute.

@parkergetajob So do elected GOP officials.

@TheAdvocateMag I’m frustrated. While I have no problem with this new ordinance, it is legislation like this that spurs hostile and provocative reactions. While lgbt rights, and trans rights specifically are being threatened in sweeping legislative agendas nation wide, this feels problematic.

West Hollywood’s new policies recognize multi-partner, multi-parent, and chosen families. Now, state lawmakers must expand those protections across California. advocate.com/opinion/califo…

@ProjectLincoln @RepBrandonGill @SenRickScott @RepBresnahan @RyanBinkley @EricDFloress @MorganwwMurphy A party of grift!

.@RepBrandonGill @SenRickScott @RepBresnahan @RyanBinkley @EricDFloress @MorganwwMurphy still do business w/ a fundraising firm led by a fraudster who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud & lying to the FEC. Would you trust any of them to represent you?

@ddale8 @gtconway3d Thank you once again, not only truth to power but creating an historical record.

Trump said Friday that the Strait of Hormuz situation was "over." It very obviously wasn't. Trump said Friday that Iran agreed "to never close the Strait of Hormuz again.” The next day, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again. Trump said yesterday that Vance isn't going to Pakistan for the talks. Officials quickly said Vance is going to Pakistan for the talks. Trump said this morning that Vance had left and would be there tonight Islamabad time. Officials quickly said Vance is actually leaving tomorrow. Trump said Iran has no military anymore and that "everything's gone." Iran continues to have a military with destructive capabilities. Trump said the pope issued a statement saying Iran can have a nuclear weapon. That never happened.   Trump said nobody expected Iran to retaliate against Gulf countries. That was widely expected. Trump said the only planes the US has really lost in the war have been to friendly fire. He said this at the same event at which he had spoken at length about what happened after Iran shot down a US plane. Story on the president's ever-growing number of false claims on big and small matters related to the war – and his triumphant claims about supposed Iranian concessions that we just can't assume are based in reality: cnn.com/2026/04/20/pol…