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Patiently furious.
Sure she does. Being deliberately insulting is a flex for psychopaths… as long as you do so ‘politely’, with a civil tone and proper grammar.

God forbid you are perceived as rude while being thrown in a gulag, that’s just not how things are done.
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."

One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.
December 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Cue the sound of every math teacher screaming into the void.

Jesus, this is... just...

This is third grade math.
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you

LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times

F: Not a 600% cut

L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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It gets even more pathetic—

x.com/RepBeatty/st...
December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.

I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
December 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Ghouls slobbering over eugenics, nothing more.
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.

3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.

4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.

It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.

Story to come.
December 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
“Show me your papers!” used to be a signifier of an evil and abusive society.

Oh wait. It still is.
Here's Greg Bovino lying and saying the US citizen arrested by unidentified ICE agents in MN should have been carrying "immigrantion documents per the INA", which is FALSE.

The INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) does NOT require U.S. citizens to carry proof of citizenship.
December 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
In the 'taking credit for the work of the Democrats' category, I present...

Passed by Congress in 2022, as part of the Inflation Reduction Act under Biden.

Every GOP member voted against it, but of course now they want credit.

Group projects continue to suck.

www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Medicare Prices to Drop Up to 85% on Drugs for Weight-Loss, Cancer, Asthma, and More
New prices for enrollees will start in 2027
www.medpagetoday.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This is who they’ve always been. Trump just gave them permission to drop their masks.
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.

This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I've been hearing "They won't learn unless it hurts" from the right for decades.

Time to apply the lesson. Harshly.
Think about all the evil assholes in this administration.

They *all* expect to die of old age, obscenely wealthy, surrounded by family, because that is how the US has allowed *every single previous evil asshole* to live after doing their atrocities.

They learned they will never be punished.
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I have nothing but contempt and anger for these ignorant, racist thugs.

In the end, may their memory be a warning.
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
This is more of the Just World bullshit that is the moral rot beneath evangelicals, Christian nationalism, toxic wellness / MAHA, alpha bros, the works.

There is no reward for doing everything right, only stupid luck if nothing bad happens to you.

Stop being such immoral, pompous dicks.
Markwayne Mullin on healthcare: "What the president would like to do is say, hey, if you take care of yourself -- you don't smoke, you don't dip, you're not drinking, you're not overweight, you're working out -- then you should pay less than the guy that obviously is not taking care of himself."
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
One time I honestly hope history does not just rhyme, but repeats.
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
When something is flawed, leaders fix it, and rebuild it.

Idiots burn it down and dismantle it, because it's all they know how to do. To them, "leaving a mark on the world" means *any* mark, no matter how damaging.

This administration has no leaders, only idiots with an urge to destroy.
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
After the 2024 election, I made plans to shutter my consultancy that I had built up over a decade to being successful enough I could save ahead. 2024 was a *very* good year, but deep concerns over what the GOP would do to the ACA and Medicare pushed me to taking a 'safe' W-2 job w/ a health plan.
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
That which can be destroyed by the truth deserves to be.
If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Referred to that Pentagon-aligned organization as the DoD during a work call, and had someone 'correct' me to "It's the DoW now, Trump renamed it."

"Well, it may identify as such, but it still says Department of Defense on the building, so I'm going with that."

They dropped off.
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Winco is not offering their free turkey with $X purchase this year.

At all.

This is going to hit a lot of families *hard*, particularly those that can least absorb it.

Donate to your local food banks.
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This is just step one. Convince the US populace that sure, this makes sense... then start to cull the same people from the *current* population.

Eugenics is eugenics. And it is evil, no matter what flag it wraps itself in.
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
Immigrants With Health Conditions May Be Denied Visas Under New Trump Admin Guidance
Guidance directs visa officers to consider what might lead to medical costs in the future
www.medpagetoday.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Happy to report that the anti-trans candidates for our local school district got their asses handed to them.

The fact that 25% of the voters went for them is still disgusting, but losing by 50pts is a good start.

I hope they spent a *lot* on those big glossy banners they put up through town.
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
"How are we going to get through the next three years?"

Yeah, that's how I've been thinking too.

Look at him this week though... he's realizing something we should have already known.

He's locked up in here with *us*.

He'll break. He can't help it.

Keep pushing back, every front, every time.
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Don't threaten me with a good time.
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
(SOUND WAY UP)

DAY 5 NOVEMBER 2O25

AMERICA VOTED AND NOW THIS

LITTLE TRUMP'S JOHNSON TODAY

I could listen to this over & over

Yes MAGA MIKE..(he giggles )
Yes We Will Sweep the Midterms
You will lose the majority

And a GLORIOUS DAY AWAITS
IMPEACH AND CONVICT
November 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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From the top rope
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM