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Posts by Pissed Off Optimist

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Trump 100 days: Trump’s whirlwind start to his second presidency The president has begun his second term at a whirlwind pace, slashing the government, upending international alliances, challenging the rule of law and ordering mass deportations

“Law-abiding migrants sent to foreign prisons. Sweeping tariffs disrupting global markets. Students detained for protest. Violent insurrectionists pardoned. Tens of thousands of federal workers fired. The supreme court ignored.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Susan Crawford Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, Despite Elon Musk’s Millions Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court.

🎉🎉🎉 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

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What the accidentally leaked war group chat reveals about the Trump administration | Moira Donegan Thanks to the Signal leaks, we can see how the administration acts when they think they are in private. It’s not a pretty sight

“Of course they’re planning overseas bombings in a group chat. Because the stupidity of this White House outpaces any attempt at parody; and because these guys are exactly as dumb in real life as they look on television.”

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Hegseth Disclosed Secret War Plans in Group Chat With Atlantic Journalist The conversation among the defense secretary and other national security officials on a commercial messaging app mistakenly included the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.

What a bunch of fucking morons.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

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Americans Are Unhappier Than Ever. Solo Dining May Be a Sign. The United States slipped to its lowest ranking ever in the World Happiness Report, in part because more Americans are eating alone. Once again, the Finns came out on top.

“But happiness for us is maybe being content.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

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There’s nothing better than walking through Brooklyn listening to Gangstarr

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No better way to roll into New York than bump to Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… on my AirPods. It might be my favorite Wu Tang album of all time.

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Opinion | A Day of American Infamy A dreadful moment for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.

“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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Full argument: Trump-Zelensky White House meeting descends into shouting match
Full argument: Trump-Zelensky White House meeting descends into shouting match YouTube video by The Telegraph

What an embarrassing, ugly, and crude display of belligerence. Everything that we were warned about is happening. Ukraine is getting sold out right in front of our eyes.

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Trump Plans ‘Gold Card’ Alternative to Green Cards for ‘High Level People’ President Trump said the cards would have “a higher level of sophistication” than green cards and cost applicants about $5 million.

As the saying goes, "Give me your tired, your poor, your millionaires..."

He's just out here casually selling citizenships. NBD.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

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👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 no idea where this originally came from, but it’s perfect

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Elon Musk admits email to government workers was a ruse Department of Government Efficiency head says he wants to test whether federal employees are ‘capable of replying to an email’

What a piece of shit. He's such a terrible man child. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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He nails it.

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Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

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Gov. Pritzker SLAMS Trump and Musk in closing remarks of State of the State address
Gov. Pritzker SLAMS Trump and Musk in closing remarks of State of the State address YouTube video by NBC Chicago

goddamn, I needed that!

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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA

7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

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Ongoing Coup | Attorney General Kris Mayes
Ongoing Coup | Attorney General Kris Mayes YouTube video by Arizona Attorney General's Office

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Thank god for saying it out loud.

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The complete dismantling of our government in real time

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Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the boundaries of executive power.

No fucking shit Sherlock

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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Monday thought:

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Jeffries: "It's unfortunate that many of our Republican colleagues are determined to stand up a shadow government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires that will stick it to the American people. That's what's driving much of the behavior on the other side of the aisle."

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‘It’s been madness’: US federal workers reeling over Trump-Musk takeover Office of personnel management workers say anxiety is palpable amid intimidation and threat of dismissal

“It appears as if there is an unelected billionaire more or less running the federal government right now, who none of us voted for, who seems to be breaking both [the] law and potentially the constitution all over the place,”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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How Trump Is Reshaping U.S. Government, Just 2 Weeks Into His Presidency The new president has left virtually no corner of the nation’s capital untouched in a wide-ranging effort to tear down the federal government and refashion it to his liking.

“Taking a Gatling gun approach to governing, firing shots in all directions at the same time, Mr. Trump has left virtually no corner of Washington untouched as he seeks to tear down the old apparatus and refashion it to his liking.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

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The 👀’s says so much

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Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

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Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”

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FFS

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