On this mainly for all things brfc. But sometimes not knowing is better. There are better run school tuck shops than our club.
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.@JamesTalarico’s message to Gen Z: “You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
Your boss cares about politics. Your landlord cares about politics. Your insurance company cares about politics.
And until you care about politics, they're gonna keep using the political system to screw you over.”
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"La única minoría que está destruyendo los Estados Unidos son los multimillonarios
Las personas trans son el 1 % de la población
Los musulmanes son el 1 %
Las personas indocumentadas son el 1%
Las guerras culturales son una cortina de humo" dice
@jamestalarico, senador de Texas👏
john oliver retweeted
I put together a list of everything that broke the back of Trumpism.
The gas prices.
The unsanctioned war.
The massive corruption.
The incompetence.
The tariffs.
Playing nice with Russia.
The cruelty against American citizens.
The overly aggressive deportations.
The accidental arrests of American citizens who were Hispanic.
The ballroom.
The reflecting pool that doesn’t reflect.
The Qatari 747.
The aggressive redistricting push.
The threats against our allies.
By the way, I’m scratching the tip of the iceberg.
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While the wealthy and well-lobbied feast on inside information and official favors, America's forgotten families are treated to systemic corporate disrespect and official indifference, working harder and harder while the treadmill just gets faster and steeper, and the bills get higher and higher.
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SEE HOW EASY IT IS TO SAY “Hey I don’t fully understand this but they’re still people and deserve respect”
Not the best opening statement here
‘We could be talking about double figures, maybe 12 years.’
Former Conservative MP and barrister Jerry Hayes speaks to @MartinDaubney about the potential prison sentence facing Russell Brand, and whether his celebrity status shielded him from scrutiny.
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"I'm not John Eustace's boy" 😤
Aaron and Jobi react to Sammie Szmodic's tense interview with @BBCDerbySport's Ed Dawes 😬 🐏
#BBCFootball #DCFC
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Mensaje para los que vais de cristianos y no amáis al prójimo. Escuchad. Os hará bien.
The most impressive speech and speaker I’ve seen in a while . While speech is worth a watch . Tiny glimmers of hope in the world . Don’t eff it up democrats as we mirror what happens over the pond in politics
“See, when Eva’s old enough to ask why I let this happen, I’m determined to answer truthfully that I didn’t.”
This is not just a masterclass in public speaking from @ossoff but also a masterclass in Democratic messaging for this moment.
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“See, when Eva’s old enough to ask why I let this happen, I’m determined to answer truthfully that I didn’t.”
This is not just a masterclass in public speaking from @ossoff but also a masterclass in Democratic messaging for this moment.
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Steven Bartlett asks James Talarico how Texas chases “equality” without chasing off figures like @ElonMusk.
Talarico’s answer: Musk’s net worth is a “spiritual sickness,” and the rich should pay something closer to the 1950s rate of 90%.
BARTLETT: “What would you have done to stop [Elon from becoming a trillionaire]?”
TALARICO: “We at one point in this country, we had, I think it was in the 1950s, had a top marginal tax rate of 90%. I don’t think it needs to be that high, but we used to have a political system and an economic system that more fairly distributed the fruits of our labor.”
“And I think the thing that really upsets people, particularly about the Elon example, is that Tesla was successful because of taxpayer dollars, right? Tesla got investment from the federal government, which is why it has been so successful.”
CONTEXT: The taxpayer dollars Tesla received were a LOAN from the Department of Energy in 2010. Ford got $5,900,000,000, and Nissan got $1,400,000,000 from the same program.
But Tesla did something those automakers hadn’t. It repaid the full $465,000,000 it had borrowed, with interest, 9 years ahead of schedule, becoming the first automaker in the program to pay its loan back in full.
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JON OSSOFF JUST LAID OUT THE WHOLE SCAM IN GEORGIA — AND IT'S BIGGER THAN ONE DEAL.
At his closing rally in Morrow, Georgia, Senator Jon Ossoff walked through it deal by deal. Georgia is listening: he leads Mike Collins 55-40 in the latest poll, and 2.2 million Georgians have already voted.
While Donald cuts a diesel deal with Vladimir Putin — 300,000 tons now, 500,000 in November, a million more after that, while diesel sits at $6.33 a gallon for American farmers and truckers — his own son-in-law Jared Kushner and his envoy Steve Witkoff are brokering the sale of Lukoil's $20-22 billion in international oil fields, refineries and gas stations to the first family's friends.
The buyers, as Jon Ossoff named them: Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE's spy chief, who paid $500 million for half of the Trump-Witkoff crypto company days before the inauguration. Moutaz and Ramez Al-Khayyat, the Syrian-born brothers financing Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's multi-billion-dollar Albanian resort. And billionaire Todd Boehly leading the consortium. The United States government itself would take a 15% stake — through the same government that is supposed to approve the deal.
Then Marco Rubio: his State Department helped steer up to $1.6 billion in taxpayer backing to the Trump sons' tungsten mine in Kazakhstan — the company's own chief executive says it got 'direct assistance' from Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Howard Lutnick.
Then Pete Hegseth's Pentagon: a $620 million loan to Vulcan Elements, the magnet company Donald Trump Jr.'s fund invested in three months earlier — the biggest loan that Pentagon office ever gave. And Venezuelan oil money routed through Qatari bank accounts — $500 million in the first sale alone, more than $13 billion taken in by late July.
And Elon Musk? Apartheid Clyde is one of these elites. He spent $475 million buying this election, his companies took $10 billion more in federal contracts since he left DOGE, and his Tesla paid ZERO in federal income taxes on $5.7 billion in U.S. profits. That's why he tells poor people America will end if his side loses. It has nothing to do with them. They are just the infantry for an oligarchy waiting to happen.
This is not a presidency. This is the biggest Ponzi scam in American history — and it is a national security danger, because the men running the State Department, the Pentagon and the negotiating table are cutting resource deals for the family while you pay $6.33 for diesel.
So hear Jon Ossoff's closing line, and hear it like it's real: Raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God, in front of the United States Congress? Because next year, that's where this ends. 1 day. EVERYBODY KNOWS IT.
