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Ah…, love! ❤️
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Not if MAGA is still power, we wouldn’t. Which is even worse…
This surrender by Ukraine would guarantee a wider European war in a few years, and we would be pulled into it.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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2028 debate spoilers:

"I understand the problem now. I'm the son of working-class Appalachians." Vance said. "You're a billionaire from old money. We have nothing in common."

"Perhaps we do."

"What?"

"We are," responded Pritzker, "both traitors to our class."
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
A slob and a pig… merge into a room.
Vance on the economy:

"The thing that I'd ask for the American people is a little bit of patience."
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 AM
There are many ways (for an empire) to die

https://wapo.st/3M1GKCU
Column | In these U.S. groups, deaths now exceed births. What’s happening?
The United States is not far from the point where, each winter, deaths will regularly edge out births.
wapo.st
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Let us simplify…

MAGA is not an ideology. It is a pathology.
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This business about the oil should be clarified. Vz. has huge oil reserves, but it is not the clean flowing oil of Saudi Arabia. It is mostly oil sands (heavy tar) that will require many years and an extraordinary amount of money to actually produce.

If this is “for the oil”, then Maga is v. stupid
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The decline of a Great Power was supposed to take 30-50 years

Not 30-50 “weeks”…

As always, Trump is the bestest and the mostest!!
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
What is the DSM-5 classification and summary for ‘Trumpism’?
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Very subtle data manipulation. Unlike big, bad China..
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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When the leopard starts eating your face 🫣🐆
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
DoD
Hegseth out
Driscoll in
Honestly surprised he hasn't fired more people yet
RealClear journalist also says White House and cabinet officials bracing for massive personnel shakeup soon because of the economy
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Looting — as an economic theory.
See Sir Richard Evans, vol II in his Nazi Trilogy
I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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It is cold and dark outside, and everything has gone out of me except misery.
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Also, I warned last year that Trump’s ‘dictatorship’ would far more resemble the ‘polycracy’ of the wartime Nazi regime — where Hitler was actually a weak center & where multiple fiefdoms were set up over different centers of the society — rather than the “Strong Omnipotence” of the Hitler-myth.
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
America’s greatest defense right now against rising authoritarianism is its deep structural, economic, and historical decentralization.

Against this, Trumps centralizing efforts look — not puny, to be sure — but increasingly inadequate.
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The thing about Vance and Erika is that J.D. really is a pig. Both body- and personality-wise. She can do better.
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The premise behind all this is that Russia actually *wants* a settlement — which is absurd.

They want conquest. Truces, negotiations, and the like are simply means to that end.

Why does the Media go along with this farce?
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🎯🎯🎯
Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.

I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Not Learned Hand…, (it turns out)
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Holy shit! This is what I'm talkin' about. David Clayton is running for congress in North Carolina's District 5 against MAGA Republican Virginia Foxx — and this is how he introduced himself. 🙌💪👏✊️👇
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM