ShiftyRider
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Trump: We have certain things in common, like bungling Covid to the tune of over 100,000 Americans and over 100,000 Russians.
Putin: Get back to me when you do a Navalny...
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Trump: We have certain things in common, like bungling Covid to the tune of over 100,000 Americans and over 100,000 Russians.
Putin: Get back to me when you do a Navalny...
This just in:
www.nytimes.com
Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’
The remark, made as the president has ordered a wide-ranging review of museum exhibits, added to his pattern of minimizing Black history.
How about this?This just in:
Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’
The remark, made as the president has ordered a wide-ranging review of museum exhibits, added to his pattern of minimizing Black history.
Trump admin DHS account accused of referencing avowed white supremacist
The ICE recruitment post on X appeared to reference the 1978 book of a known white nationalist, whose title has grown into a meme.
www.newsweek.com
Here's the first Instagram post from DHS/the Whitehouse that is referenced in the Newsweek article:
Appalling.
ShiftyRider
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When folks go and vote, do they ponder worst-case scenarios?
DOWNFALL
When someone's life just falls apart, things tend to get out of hand. Like Epstein, suicide. Good thing he didn't have silo codes, right?
Anybody remember Nixon's downfall? Everything seem to be working and then it was revealed that he had tapes. America figured that's okay there's prolly some logical explanation...until he refused to release the tapes then it was game over.
What is the downfall worst-case scenario today, when we already saw on live TV what happened in 2021?
DOWNFALL
When someone's life just falls apart, things tend to get out of hand. Like Epstein, suicide. Good thing he didn't have silo codes, right?
Anybody remember Nixon's downfall? Everything seem to be working and then it was revealed that he had tapes. America figured that's okay there's prolly some logical explanation...until he refused to release the tapes then it was game over.
What is the downfall worst-case scenario today, when we already saw on live TV what happened in 2021?
jasoncapecod
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Difference was Nixon wasn't a cult of personality.
ChrisC
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#Brisbane2032. Street Dancing
Access Hollywood?
Bingo!
Or an issue that's REALLY important to them, like Epstein!I'llagain here but no one in the MAGA base is bailing until it affects them personally.
For more traditional conservatives like jimk, it will be interesting to see what particular issue changes their minds. As I mentioned long ago in this thread, I was somewhat of an outlier among lifelong Republicans, bailing in 2010 in response to the over-the-top reaction of the GOP to what struck me as a somewhat moderate Obama. I can also mention that most of the conservative intelligentsia my generation read frequently (George Will, Bill Kristol, P.J. O'Rourke, Max Boot, Bret Stephens, David Brooks, etc.) became Never Trumpers even if they had been GOP loyal up to 2015. The same applies to those GOP campaign operatives (Steve Schmidt, Rick Wilson, Mike Madrid) who founded the Lincoln Project.
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jimk
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Drove into downtown Wash DC twice in the last three days. Marked reduction in visible street people. My wife and I were loving it! This is a view in a nice part of town a couple blocks from the Kennedy Center (white building in background) and less than one mile west of the White House. All the medians and green spaces in this area used to be littered with tents, tarps, carts, trash, and dozens of street people much of the time. All that is gone now, except for this one obviously homeless guy still hanging around. I have sympathy for the unhoused, but letting large numbers of them roam around our cities to fend for themselves while sporadically receiving public assistance to sustain their street lifestyle is not the answer.
Photo from this morning 23 Aug 2025:
Photo from this morning 23 Aug 2025:
ShiftyRider
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Yes, thank you, that's what I meant to ask. How do voters fall for cult leaders? Their life is not going well, that's a given.
Pragmatically, if those around us make such potentially dangerous decisions, shall we presume they make dangerous decisions just once every four years? Or is that their new life? Give them plenty of room out there on the roadways. Keep them in front at all times, on the descent...
Where do you think they are now?
ShiftyRider
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"Top 3 Reasons for skipping Field Trip to prove trains run on time"
3. Need video, photos keep making train look like it's parked.
2. Damn gates practically guard the whole station, not just the insides of the trains.
1. Mussolini sought to prove trains run on time.
3. Need video, photos keep making train look like it's parked.
2. Damn gates practically guard the whole station, not just the insides of the trains.
1. Mussolini sought to prove trains run on time.