Mr. America
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"The Simpsons" is a documentary. Homer is the median American.
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Mr. America
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· Aug 31
We're like a squabbling family whose car broke down in "Hills Have Eyes" country, smoke coming from the hood, and vowing to buy a better brand of spark plugs, or fill the tank with premium gasoline next time.
The engine blew up, son. You either need a new engine or a new car, period.
The engine blew up, son. You either need a new engine or a new car, period.
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Stop asking why corporate Democrats keep failing and pay attention to what they do. Jeffries is openly pushing the party to move further into Neoliberal capitalism and championing an agenda that’s defined by a venture capitalist.
They’re not failing. They’re in on it.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
They’re not failing. They’re in on it.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Stop asking why corporate Democrats keep failing and pay attention to what they do. Jeffries is openly pushing the party to move further into Neoliberal capitalism and championing an agenda that’s defined by a venture capitalist.
They’re not failing. They’re in on it.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
They’re not failing. They’re in on it.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
I'm honestly far less put off by the pathetic, performatively sadistic antics of this monstrous cow, than by the idea there's an audience out there that she's performing *for*, just a swath of miserable assholes out there who get off on this garbage.
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Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I'm honestly far less put off by the pathetic, performatively sadistic antics of this monstrous cow, than by the idea there's an audience out there that she's performing *for*, just a swath of miserable assholes out there who get off on this garbage.
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Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol
Well, it's nowhere near my birthday, but it's close enough to Christmas. Pay no mind to that hyena devouring your face, champ.
As Mencken once famously said, injustice is relatively easy to bear -- what really stings is justice.
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As Mencken once famously said, injustice is relatively easy to bear -- what really stings is justice.
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REPUBLICAN MAYOR IN KANSAS FACING DEPORTATION OVER VOTER FRAUD
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4iwEwYj
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4iwEwYj
December 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Well, it's nowhere near my birthday, but it's close enough to Christmas. Pay no mind to that hyena devouring your face, champ.
As Mencken once famously said, injustice is relatively easy to bear -- what really stings is justice.
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As Mencken once famously said, injustice is relatively easy to bear -- what really stings is justice.
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medical examiner at the trump autopsy making a small incision in his neck and squeezing out a churro-length span of solidified big mac special sauce
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
medical examiner at the trump autopsy making a small incision in his neck and squeezing out a churro-length span of solidified big mac special sauce
To the extent that I might have any Grand Unified Theory of the "elite" corporate media ecosystem, it's that its primary mission that overrides and underpins *every word* printed or uttered is to keep consumers in a constant state of agitation, confusion, and fear.
It's designed to drive us nuts.
It's designed to drive us nuts.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
To the extent that I might have any Grand Unified Theory of the "elite" corporate media ecosystem, it's that its primary mission that overrides and underpins *every word* printed or uttered is to keep consumers in a constant state of agitation, confusion, and fear.
It's designed to drive us nuts.
It's designed to drive us nuts.
Here's the old, decayed, ghoulish face of the Republicon party -- a literal thief, who literally stole hundreds of millions of dollars from the literal pockets of American taxpayers, and got rewarded for it -- lecturing everyone else on "values" and "knowledge."
Fuck that scumbag. 🖕🤡💩
#FloridaMan
Fuck that scumbag. 🖕🤡💩
#FloridaMan
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Here's the old, decayed, ghoulish face of the Republicon party -- a literal thief, who literally stole hundreds of millions of dollars from the literal pockets of American taxpayers, and got rewarded for it -- lecturing everyone else on "values" and "knowledge."
Fuck that scumbag. 🖕🤡💩
#FloridaMan
Fuck that scumbag. 🖕🤡💩
#FloridaMan
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An outrage machine seeking a cause of the day; a media happy to launder it; socials up in arms; administrators rolling over in an instant; all to destroy some random grad student and make them treat every piece-of-shit reaction memo put in front of them as if it were the Federalist Papers. Gross.
November 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
An outrage machine seeking a cause of the day; a media happy to launder it; socials up in arms; administrators rolling over in an instant; all to destroy some random grad student and make them treat every piece-of-shit reaction memo put in front of them as if it were the Federalist Papers. Gross.
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The White House knows they can call the press names, denigrate reporters, all of it — because those same reporters and mainstream outlets are in on the scam. They get access and scoops and book deals and career advancement by cozying up to the people who publicly abuse them. They don’t care.
December 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The White House knows they can call the press names, denigrate reporters, all of it — because those same reporters and mainstream outlets are in on the scam. They get access and scoops and book deals and career advancement by cozying up to the people who publicly abuse them. They don’t care.
Wonder what gives them that idea? 🙄 Can't wait for the inevitable NYT sanewashing, and the tepid Dem response to open war-criming.
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There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Wonder what gives them that idea? 🙄 Can't wait for the inevitable NYT sanewashing, and the tepid Dem response to open war-criming.
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Ah.
Russian collusion continues.
Russian collusion continues.
A lawsuit previously alleged that David Gentile—just pardoned by Trump— was an associate of Russian organized crime figure and oligarch Michael Cherney.
A business news outlet found that Cherney’s daughters benefited from some of Gentile’s earliest dealings.
A business news outlet found that Cherney’s daughters benefited from some of Gentile’s earliest dealings.
December 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Ah.
Russian collusion continues.
Russian collusion continues.
"Trejo," huh? Sounds pretty furrin ta me, maybe we need to check his papers just to be sure.
Anyway, I almost want to encourage them on their quest, because at the rate Old Man MRI is going, he may not make it through 2026....but these monsters have the luck of the devil.
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Anyway, I almost want to encourage them on their quest, because at the rate Old Man MRI is going, he may not make it through 2026....but these monsters have the luck of the devil.
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Roger Stone Ally Shane Trejo of Republicans for National Renewal “Pushes 3rd Trump Term at CPAC…Trejo once co-hosted a podcast called ‘Blood Soil & Liberty’“ [He proposes a constitutional amendment limiting a POTUS to two *consecutive* terms, allowing Trump but not Obama to serve again.] 2/21/25 1/
GOP activist who co-hosted podcast with white nationalist pushes third Trump term at CPAC
Shane Trejo once co-hosted a podcast called "Blood Soil and Liberty" that joked about a "Fuhrer." Now, he's at CPAC pushing for Trump to be Caesar.
www.motherjones.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Trejo," huh? Sounds pretty furrin ta me, maybe we need to check his papers just to be sure.
Anyway, I almost want to encourage them on their quest, because at the rate Old Man MRI is going, he may not make it through 2026....but these monsters have the luck of the devil.
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
Anyway, I almost want to encourage them on their quest, because at the rate Old Man MRI is going, he may not make it through 2026....but these monsters have the luck of the devil.
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
Lol, if that waste of protoplasm can name a single country song other than that Lee Greenwood jingo-fart -- and it's even odds he'd fuck *that* up -- I'll waste money on a Trump flag....just to film myself defiling it in as many ways possible.
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Lol, if that waste of protoplasm can name a single country song other than that Lee Greenwood jingo-fart -- and it's even odds he'd fuck *that* up -- I'll waste money on a Trump flag....just to film myself defiling it in as many ways possible.
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*sigh* it is simultaneously true that 0/25 is probably too harsh a grade AND that if you are going balls to the wall to complain about the difference between a 0 and a F (say, 12-15), you are missing the forest for the trees. the suspension/investigation is the far more important issue.
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
*sigh* it is simultaneously true that 0/25 is probably too harsh a grade AND that if you are going balls to the wall to complain about the difference between a 0 and a F (say, 12-15), you are missing the forest for the trees. the suspension/investigation is the far more important issue.
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trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
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shhh, he is the best option we have right now. a corrupt incompetent is better than a malicious but effective guy.
A leaked 115 page report by current & former FBI personnel describes the bureau under Kash Patel as a “rudderless ship” & says he is “in over his head,” lacking the experience & bearing needed to be an effective FBI director—
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
shhh, he is the best option we have right now. a corrupt incompetent is better than a malicious but effective guy.
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There are two kinds of problems: problems you can solve with money and those you can’t.
We can solve the first kind by taxing the fuck out of billionaires. That’s about half our problems, so it would make a dent.
We can solve the first kind by taxing the fuck out of billionaires. That’s about half our problems, so it would make a dent.
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
There are two kinds of problems: problems you can solve with money and those you can’t.
We can solve the first kind by taxing the fuck out of billionaires. That’s about half our problems, so it would make a dent.
We can solve the first kind by taxing the fuck out of billionaires. That’s about half our problems, so it would make a dent.
Illegal immigrant nazi -- who also happens to be a huge defense contractor -- has thoughts.
#DeportThisAsshole
#DeportThisAsshole
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Illegal immigrant nazi -- who also happens to be a huge defense contractor -- has thoughts.
#DeportThisAsshole
#DeportThisAsshole
It's definitely theater for their audience of angry rubes, but it's also an openly defiant statement to all that "the system" as such doesn't apply to them -- it's broken, it's rigged, it's largely a fiction and when it *does* rule against elites it's mostly unenforceable.
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Every choice these people make is about theater, theater is the only real move they have to support themselves. Either the theater convinces enough people to let them get away with it, or they've just admitted they did crimes in public. That's the whole game.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
December 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It's definitely theater for their audience of angry rubes, but it's also an openly defiant statement to all that "the system" as such doesn't apply to them -- it's broken, it's rigged, it's largely a fiction and when it *does* rule against elites it's mostly unenforceable.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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They lie. It's the most important fact about the Trump administration. All politicians lie, but with these guys lying is their first instinct and go-to strategy in every event -- probably because everything they're about (like this whole "saving America from immigrants" bullshit) is a fraud.
“In nearly all of the examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the Department of Homeland Security narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras.”
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
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Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge
The ABC7 I-Team is taking a closer look at a trove of videos ordered released by a federal judge in her explanation of the preliminary injunction she issued earlier this month restricting use of force...
abc7chicago.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
They lie. It's the most important fact about the Trump administration. All politicians lie, but with these guys lying is their first instinct and go-to strategy in every event -- probably because everything they're about (like this whole "saving America from immigrants" bullshit) is a fraud.
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a new cartoon as we ease into our post-thanksgiving week: donald's war on woke
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Cartoon: The war on woke
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December 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
a new cartoon as we ease into our post-thanksgiving week: donald's war on woke
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Yup. Even if Trump's policies were both effective and popular (lolololol, I know), Trump's pardons *alone* would be ample fodder.
This weekend Trump pardoned *yet another* drug lord and *yet another* infamous scammer!
This isn't low-hanging fruit, it's fruit delivered in a holiday basket!
This weekend Trump pardoned *yet another* drug lord and *yet another* infamous scammer!
This isn't low-hanging fruit, it's fruit delivered in a holiday basket!
And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
November 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Yup. Even if Trump's policies were both effective and popular (lolololol, I know), Trump's pardons *alone* would be ample fodder.
This weekend Trump pardoned *yet another* drug lord and *yet another* infamous scammer!
This isn't low-hanging fruit, it's fruit delivered in a holiday basket!
This weekend Trump pardoned *yet another* drug lord and *yet another* infamous scammer!
This isn't low-hanging fruit, it's fruit delivered in a holiday basket!
Exactly. This has been an openly "ipse dixit" regime from day one -- the law is what they say it is, neither more nor less.
They packed SCOTUS with *actual* "activist judges," to shield them from the enforcement of black-letter law.
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They packed SCOTUS with *actual* "activist judges," to shield them from the enforcement of black-letter law.
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They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Exactly. This has been an openly "ipse dixit" regime from day one -- the law is what they say it is, neither more nor less.
They packed SCOTUS with *actual* "activist judges," to shield them from the enforcement of black-letter law.
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They packed SCOTUS with *actual* "activist judges," to shield them from the enforcement of black-letter law.
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Sunday Follies shows are elites talking to each other -- not to "us."
The only people not in the industry who pay attention to these psy-ops pageants are the goldfish dullards who show up for Frank Luntz's Swingers' Focus Group Hour.
These are pitch decks for consultants.
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The only people not in the industry who pay attention to these psy-ops pageants are the goldfish dullards who show up for Frank Luntz's Swingers' Focus Group Hour.
These are pitch decks for consultants.
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They keep booking these guests thinking that they’re informing Americans by asking “tough questions” into the air, and having them ignored.
If you want answers, invite actual experts. Look some people up. Do some “reporting” and find someone knowledgeable. Come on, already.
If you want answers, invite actual experts. Look some people up. Do some “reporting” and find someone knowledgeable. Come on, already.
Kristi Noem refuses to directly answer a question about what Trump means by "remigration" -- a word that, as Kristen Welker notes, is often invoked by white nationalists in Europe
November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Sunday Follies shows are elites talking to each other -- not to "us."
The only people not in the industry who pay attention to these psy-ops pageants are the goldfish dullards who show up for Frank Luntz's Swingers' Focus Group Hour.
These are pitch decks for consultants.
bsky.app/profile/kagr...
The only people not in the industry who pay attention to these psy-ops pageants are the goldfish dullards who show up for Frank Luntz's Swingers' Focus Group Hour.
These are pitch decks for consultants.
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