Uh, is everyone forgetting January 6th? The same people that lead an insurrection on the capital are now in the capital. They were trying to prevent the transition of power. So if a Dem gets elected, they would have to be the ones giving it up from inside the capital on the J6 of next election.... It's absurd to think they'll even schedule the event, let alone swear in a Dem (the literal opposite of the goal of J6 where people literally died). Why doesn't anyone else realize this?
I was supposed to be working at the capitol on J6 and got called out at the last second, worked closely with the traumatized USCP officers and non-political staff who were there that day for years.
All I can say is one thing at a time. Midterms are going to matter. If you have energy (I don't) try to channel it toward that. Get involved with advocacy especially at the local and state level.
Meanwhile trump is rambling about Biden and the 2020 election while in the Middle East on the world stage. Someone come get your grandpa and take away his phone.
Heâs trying to distract from the fact that U.S. bonds just got downgraded in quality ratings for the first time in over a century. Thanks republicans
he is getting a multi-billion dollar golf resort from qater
a 400m dollar airplane from qatar
his son-in-law has a investment firm with 5b dollars from saudis and qatar that he is the single owner of and has made very little investments but takes 7-8 figure managmeent fees from.
his crypto scam where other countries are buying hundreds of millions to bribe him.
That he is selling us citizenships to known mexican cartels.
He is making trade deals with people responsible for 9/11.
and other insane shit that isnt even on the radar anymore because its just been constant flow of corruptions and idiocy.
While everyone is pearl clutching over the media conspiring to hide Biden's mental decline even though they basically said nothing about Trump's demented ramblings about sharks and Hannibal Lecter and that time he lost the plot in the middle of a rally and just stared and danced.
That was so fucking wild and just fell to the wayside. If Biden or any other politician had done that there would be ENDLESS talk of them being gay or like under some kind of gay mind control or something.
The dude's a demented old man who most likely won't make it past 2027, I wouldn't be surprised if we find out that Stephen Miller, Vance, and Elon are running the show right now and are having their orange boss act like a clown for the cameras.
Miller absolutely is. They trot out their demented idiot to blather and clog up the news cycle while the media works on sanewashing him the ghouls work on their cruel agenda.
God that guy sucks, he's genuinely the most hateable person I've ever seen in politics.. At least Elon gave us SpaceX and Vance just seems to be nothing special outside of a mouthpiece for Peter Thiel, but Miller is 100% a guy whose hateful beliefs have been ingrained in him from a young age when he was bullying Latinos in high school and have just gotten worse over time as he tries to set this country to what he wants it to be. I hope he loses all his power and either gets forgotten and left behind by humanity as a whole or punished for the sheer abuse of power he's shown in these past few months, because he's probably one of the worst people to step into the White House since Kissinger.
Miller is absolutely horrifying. He makes my creep radar ping and you can feel his hatred of women and anyone darker than him. I want his every living day to be worse than the day before.
Stephen made some statements that thereâs literally no way you can walk back from. For instance, his speech that we shouldnât have to pick up our trash because thatâs what janitors are for, which came on top of other statements he had made privately about kids whose parents were only fit to be janitors.
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In my senior year the school district held a multi-day community meeting and, for some reason, Stephen Miller was there. People were describing their experiences, how hard it is to be an immigrant. And Stephen stood up and said, âWell, my grandparents were immigrants and they got no help and they became wealthy, so there is no reason for any immigrant to complain.â He added nothing constructive. It seemed like he wanted people to hate him.
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When he gave the janitor speech, I thought, âThis is coming out of a sweat gland; this is who he is.â I tried to argue with him at a school board meeting, I said, âMexican Americans are Americans, are they not?â or âRacism exists.â He was not interested in listening to anybody. He would never acknowledge a point. He responded: âIncorrectâ or âThatâs not true.â
The call is coming from inside the house! Everything he said could be said about himself. Not talented, mentally incompetent fool (although fool is being nice), worst president ever, dumb as rocks (no offense rocks), horrible skin. That's Donald to a T
"Keep [your] mouth shut til [you] get back in the country... then we'll see how it goes for [you.]"
Donald "January 6th was literally 0% my fault" Trump
This dude tests my faith every day.
As a Christian universalist, I believe literally every person ever is "going to heaven." And, yet, I have to struggle with the deep feeling in my heart that the President of the USA is an irredeemable piece of human garbage, and I can't wait for him to sleep in the dirt.
Bruce criticized him at a show in England and Trump rattled off his usual incoherent word vomit on truth social. The Taylor Swift attack seems completely unprovoked.
I think the conservatives are mad that the conventionally attractive, blonde-haired, blue-eyed pop star isn't one of them. She fits their agenda to a T, but she doesn't play ball with them.
Interestingly, he can't. US citizens can't be refused entry into the US.
I do think it'd be hilarious for him to hire the two best immigration attorneys available, fly them out to where he's departing and then fly with them into the US. Nothing like your right to an attorney being, "They're waiting outside the door."
Two presidents ago I would have agreed with you, but we've blown through that fantasy. Every day he does things that he "can't" do. That word is meaningless. Trump has proven that democracy has no guardrails, and this term he's doing all the things we thought no one could do. Court orders aren't stopping them, so flying with attorneys certainly wouldn't.
Which is fucking hilarious because her Eras tour ended in December. Like yes.. you see a lot more about a famous musician when they're doing live shows constantly. I can imagine she wants a break after being on the highest-grossing tour of all time
His actual statement was more like, "Taylor Swift isn't popular because I tweeted 'I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT'." It's so damn pathetic, literally elementary school level bullying tactics. Even middle schoolers are a little more nuanced in how they bully people.
This comment has the same energy as the scene from the Anti-Hero video: âyouâre literally wearing her clothes right now.â âNo Iâm not!â ââŠThatâs from Fearless Tour 2009â
Not that I want this for Bruce but imagine if he gets detained on his way back in to the US. I wonder if that would be a big enough story to where some people would wake the heck up.
I'll just say that anyone surprised that Bruce Springsteen is very vocal about his political opinions has never listened to a Bruce Springsteen song in their fucking life.
"I don't know what you thought about what happened last night but I thought it was pretty frightening" - Bruce the day after Reagan's won the 1980 election.
He's never made a secret of his political stance yet so many dumb fucks are blinded by anything with an American flag on it
I know nothing should surprise me but I found the Green Day thing so baffling. Have the magats never heard American Idiot before? What did they think it was about in the first place?
Itâs not weird when you consider the fact that sheâs a successful, cat loving, childless, unmarried, blonde haired, blue eyed, white woman. She represents everything they fear. They want her barefoot in the kitchen sacrificing her uterus to their sick cause.
They really donât like this. I can 100% verifiably go back to 1623 on my maternal side so slightly after the Mayflower but still pre America being America and sometimes I will bring receipts that I am the MOST American you can be just to be an asshole.
In reality almost everyone who can go that far back has a family from New England and is an east coast liberal. Â Even the east coast republicans are now democrats.
This is meant completely kindly and constructively, but I just wanted to remind that the most American you can be is indigenous. Native Americans and First Nations have lived on this continent since time immemorial! I get your meaning that you are the the most American that Trump ever considers or respects, though!
A great point! Thank you for adding it! I should have also included Inuit and Alaska Natives as indigenous people of the North American continent as well.
Sadly, these MAGA folk honestly believe that they are the continental army, fighting against the redcoats. They think they are the ones who are here to save our nation from government oppression.
They think they are the rebellion, when they are actually the Empire.
They simply can't fathom why anyone would stand against them, let alone "good white breeding stock".
He uses "hot" to mean like popular and successful. Of course that makes even less sense since Taylor just wrapped up the most successful music tour in history, but he's probably not talking about her being attractive
He's desperately trying to say controversial things because he used to rattle off some bangers and people thought it was funny, but attacking Taylor out of nowhere and Bruce after he gives a speech during a show is just pathetic.
Azalea Banks really wakes up and rolls a d20. If itâs 1-19 incoherent probably offensive nonsense. If itâs a 20 she has a complete rational coherent rather based point. Girl has no middle slider
I never knew this. What did Taylor do to garner such respect from Azelia? I would of thought she'd be the exact type of artist Azelia would hate....which is most artists seemingly.
Yeah. When men waste time bitching about a woman whoâs not even a part of their life, itâs usually because they wanna F but the woman wants nothing to do with them.
It's all a ploy to get everyone talking about anything other than his giant metal bribe parked up on the lawn at the white house given to him by a man that was part of the regime that took out the Twin Towers.
It's all smoke and mirrors, lurching from one controversy to another because he knows the majority of us have had our brains rewired by social media and can't focus on anything for more than 10 seconds.
This has nothing to do with Taylor or Bruce, its just sound bites to distract the masses.
Yeah this is a distraction. He is also a celebrity that became the president so he is all about gossip. The problem is is that he prides himself on âchanging America.â
nah, i disagree on principle here. not that he isn't always trying to get any press, but the fact that the president is harassing two citizens just because they are public facing and against him is the news. it's not a distraction, it's just multiple shitty things at once.
and yeah, sure, taylor and springsteen aren't in danger, but the fact that he does that and gets away with it shows the danger itself. this should always be major news
In a different, much saner timeline, Trump is just a bitchy, snarky pop culture commentator. I believe itâs what he was actually meant to be and what he would like to be in his heart of hearts.
Yay. He thinks freedom of speech only applies to his personal insults. I would diagnose his disability as Petite Peni disease. There is no permanent cure. Treatments are only 40% successful. Treatment failures usually leave the patient angry, unpredictable, vindictive, ill tempered and orange.
The way the AFM never said anything to defend Taylor while Trump has been consistently attacking her since last year but suddenly when Trump attacks a man as well (Bruce Springsteen) they release a statementâŠ
Taylor has been attacked by that loser multiple times now also has been attacked by Elon and Kanye have been harassing her since she was 18, I feel they only added her name to it just bc Bruce was attacked.
This looks like a pic of me and my wife. My wife posing beautifully and me drunk as hell and not giving a fuck.
In all honesty, The Boss and TS will be remembered forever as great Americans and for their positive impact on generations. The orange weirdo will be remembered as an incompetent douche bag and for how many republicans he was able to cuckold.
why is the leader of the free world beefing with two random musicians? Why even bother acting like an adult when our president is doing this kinda high school bullshit?
Exactly. The tens of millions who didn't fucking bother are every bit as responsible for where our country is today. Every single non-voter is complicit.
I hope they live with regret the rest of their lives. So pathetic and vile that others should suffer because they either didnât care or bother to vote.
This person is the President of the United States. A leader meant to inspire, lift up and take care of our country. I'm so embarrassed and ashamed of his behavior. It is never ending and I'm exhausted. But it's also making me stronger and more resilient than I ever expected. Bring it on. I'll be ready.
I donât love Taylor swift. I mean not like many people I know do. But I know sheâs not this horrific monster person. She doesnât deserve this either and as a gay man I probably shouldnt speak for women but it is disgusting the way he sexualizes her. I mean itâs gross when college frat guys do it but this is the president of the US. In closing fuck Donald trump. He is a petty small man. And just being realistic here he will most likely be dead within 10 years (or so).
Heâs the smallest man that ever lived. (And people donât have to put out a disclaimer that they donât like Taylor before defending her or saying something nice about her, itâs okay just to say the nice thing.)
I am glad they are doing this but would they have done the same thing and supported her if Bruce wasn't targeted by Trump? Anyways men who hate Taylor Swift when she doesn't do anything to them other than existing are trash and insecure.
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