Mike B

The idea that it’s lawful for a president to grant temporary protective status, but that it’s unlawful for another president to let it expire remains absolutely insane.

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🇩🇪A tale of two Germanys🇩🇪 🔴The first Germany represents illiterate Syrian migrant Ahmad A. and his 2 wives and 6 children. The entire family received free housing and welfare thanks to German taxpayers. "I would to thank Mommy Merkel very, very, very much," he told Spiegel at the time. When asked how much money he receives every month, he answerd: "I don't know. The money will be transferred. I go to the bank and withdraw it." Spiegel reporter: "How many children do you want to have?" Ahmad: "Me? 10, 20, no problem." Spiegel: "And how many wives?" Ahmad: "Four. By Allah. Peace be with him." 🔵The second Germany involves 79-year-old Roswitha who raised three children, always worked, and became a bottle collector in her old age. "For me, every cent I find, even on the street, is worth a lot... I’ve always worked for my money. And I’m not at all ashamed that I’m poor." These two videos truly sum up the path Germany and the rest of the West has chosen.

@TMZ TMZ a bunch of incels running around with cameras. Leave her alone you freaks.

👀 Mike Vrabel's wife Jen was spotted with her wedding ring on amid the scandal. Photos: tmz.me/tqKxak4

Unblocked so I can call you a moron without the engagement earning you a penny. Moron.

@RepShriThanedar If only your mom's doctor had a favorite.

Remember folks, Republicans are NOT the party of creepy men trying to intrude their way into women's private business, they just want to interrogate you about your favorite abortion method at a national congressional hearing.

Communists lie about everything all the time. And you’re not going to dissuade them by pointing this out. They do not share your moral code at all. They are TRYING to lie because the Revolution cannot succeed without deceit.

It's actually the legacy of the absolute garbage state of the media. You fucking moron.

@Smil3yAngel What country are you? It doesn't sound familiar. Oh Well!

Great news Canadians, March marked the 14th consecutive month where Canadian visits to the US have declined. This time by 32% (compared to March 2024). This is what happens when the President threatens our sovereignty and imposes unfair tariffs 😒 Keep it up 🇨🇦❤️

@Boldyboy1975 Looks the same coming out, just faster

My dad said Indian food was the best he ever tasted. Those were his Dying words.🥴🤪🤣🤮

John Thune has become a punching bag for good reason but there is a more insidious force at play nobody can talk about. Let me explain… The staffers in Thune’s office have been asking Trump Naval and Maritime appointees questions about me before confirmation hearings. I doubt John Thune knows who I am. His staff absolutely does. They track me. They hate me. And they will quietly bleed pushing out any appointee I’m friends with. Someone close to PPO told me a Trump staffer commented that “Konrad should be a HBS case study on someone every in the administration respects but has zero chance of any appointment.” It’s probably because I’ve called out congressional staffers numerous times before. This is how Congress actually works. It’s always the staffers. When we first floated the SHIPS Act, Mike Johnson’s hometown delegation were strong supporters. The minute he became Speaker, his hometown people got bulldozed by the Speaker of the House staff he inherited. Same man, different staff, different priorities. Why do you think they wanted Mitch McConnell propped up after the freezing episodes? It wasn’t McConnell. It was the cartel of people on his staff who needed his chair filled by someone they already controlled. Members can’t read their own bills anymore. Thirty years of capped staff, frozen pay, and brain drain to K Street has left rank and file senators functionally illiterate on the legislation they vote on. Leadership staff fill the vacuum. They are not entrenched because they are corrupt. They are entrenched because nobody else in the building can move a 1,500-page must-pass bill through conference. That is the cartel. And it has rules. If you want anything in the NDAA, the omnibus, the CR, or any vehicle that actually moves, you do not piss them off. You do not name them. Break either rule and you do not get a second omnibus. I’m not even willing to name individual staff. John Phelan is the case study nobody is reading correctly. Phelan was not fired because he was a bad secretary. Phelan was fired because his chief of staff Jon Harrison had deep knowledge of the pentagon that Phelan lacked. Without him, Phelan was walking around the Pentagon naked and he knew it. He pulled back from media events and became too cautious. Then there is Susie Wiles. I don’t know her. Never met her. From everything I can piece together she is doing a great job. The point is not Susie. The point is the Vanity Fair article. It’s not even the article itself, that article contained a lot of BS, it was the reaction that came after. Every single republican & a few democrats stood behind her. Now contrast that with the flood of negative articles about Mike Waltz, Kristi Noem or Pam Bondi. When a politician is the subject of a hut piece is dragged over the coals, the system shrugs. But when it’s a senior staffer, the system closes rank. It is safer to trash Trump in print than to be perceived as trashing Susie. Trump is used to it. Susie controls the schedule, the access, and the door. Multiply Susie by every leadership chief of staff, every NDAA conference staffer, & you have the machine. It is not partisan. Schumer’s staff & Thune’s staff protect each other from outside critics more reliably than they protect their own bosses from each other. Leaders come and go but leadership staff is entrenched. Congress is broken because leadership staff on both sides want it to remain broken. A Congress that can only legislate through 2,000-page must-pass bill is a Congress where the staff who draft the bill run the country. Regular order is their extinction event. They will never let it come back voluntarily. You can call out politicians all day. They are used to it. Call out the staff and you don’t get frozen out of one bill. You get frozen out of every bill, by every office, on both sides, for as long as the cartel decides to remember your name. They remember mine. Now you know why.​​​​​​​​​​​​​ even Luna can’t vall them out.

Democrats had a meltdown over a rodeo clown wearing a mask and got him fired and banned. They gnashed teeth and got a staffer fired for commenting on an Obama daughter’s outfit. None of you now saying “chill out, it’s just a joke” are sincere.

@RepJeffries You lie so easily.

Gas prices are out of control, community-based hospitals are closing in rural America and the Trump Tariffs have made your life more expensive. Things aren’t going well in this era of far right extremism. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Your government has no right to control your car Your government has no right to control your car Your government has no right to control your car Your government has no right to control your car Your government has no right to control your car

Today’s raids by state and federal law enforcement happened because our state agencies caught irregular behavior and reported it. That’s how the system is supposed to work, and our agencies will keep at it as long as there are fraudsters around to put behind bars.

If you commit fraud in Minnesota you’re going to get caught — and that’s exactly what we saw today. We catch criminals when state and federal agencies share information. Joint investigations work, and securing justice depends on it.

@tylerblack32 Obama was in another state when the shots were taken at the Whitehouse. LOLOLOL Damn, did the guy shoot a cruise missile, ya fucking dummy!

Obama: 11, including a guy who fired 25 rifle rounds at the White House. Biden: 5, including one arrested 4 miles from his house with an AR-15 and a checklist ending "execute." Harris: 2 federal prosecutions. Clinton: a pipe bomb intercepted at her home and a militia.

@Zigmanfreud I support every one of these points. Well said!

Here are the top 10 cultural developments over the past generation or so which have left our society vulnerable to eventual collapse, especially in the age of AI: -The definition of loyalty shifted from what someone has done for you in the past, to what they might be likely to do for you in the future -Lying went from being unforgivable and resulting in public shame, to being acceptable and, often, fully expected/accepted -Liberty & Freedom went from being at the core of our nation’s mission statement, to being seen as often a bothersome negative that should be curtailed (COVID Panic) -We went from a society dominated by male values, to one dominated by female values -Parents went from automatically supporting educators in conflicts with students, to usually doing the opposite, causing teachers/coaches to have no real power/control -We exchanged the important goal of racial and gender equality of opportunity, for the ill-advised pursuit of equity of outcome -Our media, which used to be a mostly unifying cultural influence, fragmented into a thousand pieces, thus dividing us along political and demographic lines, while allowing everyone to choose their own “truth” -We somehow managed to fundamentally mess up the dating/mating/marriage process, creating a situation where it is now almost a miracle for a family to be created and maintained with multiple children, and two married adults of different genders -In a remarkably short amount of time, we flipped our value of aging upside down, going from a society where your “prime” years were after 60 and where experience was highly valued, to one where the prime of life seems to be from 5-25 and where inexperience/immaturity seems to now be a virtue -The American Dream went from building a family, home, business/career, to finding yourself in a situation where you are viably able to sue a very rich entity for millions of dollars, ideally without having suffered much real/permanent damage It is very doubtful that any society in human history has ever experienced so much radical cultural change in such a short amount of time, or could ever survive such developments still intact if they had.

@mehdirhasan Somebody send this guy's beeper a message.

They literally don’t understand comedy or free speech. We are governed by snowflake morons.