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From the Editorial Board, NYTimes. It's long & needs to be) so maybe start with paragraph 7, which begins "It is worth taking a moment to review the records of both Mr. Trump and congressional Republicans since he returned to office in January 2025." nytimes.com/2026/10/27/opini…
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"He can stay, he can go. He can be impeached or voted out. But removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him, the online radicalization that drummed his army; nor the racism he amplified and reanimated.”
And THAT will forever be Trump’s legacy — making America HATE again.
But don’t worry, someday we will overcome
"We archived it." Now there's an excuse! And he says right out that he works for the president of the United States. HELLO! Officials in government work FOR THE PEOPLE. Corruption in a suit. #Trump appointee.
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JD Vance YESTERDAY: "We have underestimated Iran and we spent $30 billion on war."
Obama TODAY: "All this to stop a nuke that didn’t exist and to open a Strait that wasn’t closed."
Great response. Give yourself a hundred stars for reading all of it. #Trump
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Credit to: Jim Keller
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Trump's family has made billions off the presidency while working families can't afford groceries. And Republicans in Congress? They've done nothing to stop it. Not one thing.
Voters will not forget that at the ballot box.
thenation.com/article/politi…
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They said Hillary was ahead in the polls.
They said Kamala was ahead in the polls.
I don’t give a fuck what the polls say right now. Get your ass out there and fucking vote.
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Yesterday Trump said he didn't care that people were hurting with the high cost of gas because he is "making a freaking fortune." Adding "I was told not to say this because people are hurting but I don't give a damn."
Dems should be playing that whole clip on a loop.
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Note that the new charges against Comey are brought in an information, not an indictment, which means DOJ bypassed the grand jury. The Constitution requires charging via grand jury unless the defendant consents to an information, which does not seem to have happened here.
Pat Fitzgerald, Comey's lawyer "This most recent case involves an October 5, 2016 New York Times article that two different teams of prosecutors investigated during the first Trump administration. Both times the Government determined that no charges should be brought against anyone. Now, ten years after the article was published, the Government filed an 'Information' against Mr. Comey that was not approved by a judge nor issued by a grand jury. It purports to charge Mr. Comey with crimes that he did not commit."
























