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Well put, AOC ...
Quickly: I looked up the process for invoking Section 4 in the 25th Amendment. It requires both the participation of V.P. JD Vance and "principal officers" in the executive branch to form a real plan. I don't think this will happen. Vance behaves like a loyalist. /1
Hey — at least you guys and the mainstream media have him on the defensive. To offer a comparison; in more unusual times the Orange Idiot wouldn't even be saying anything and would be living inside a military bunker. Remember: he doesn't have to /say/ anything about his war and chooses to, anyway.
The image features a list of companies that did not pay income taxes in 2025. The text reads: "YOU PAID INCOME TAXES IN 2025, these companies DIDN'T…" followed by: Tesla, Palantir, Halliburton, Walt Disney, PayPal, Southwest Airlines, CVS Health. The background shows faint images of tax forms. The source is the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
At least 88 corporations paid ZERO in income tax despite reporting $105 BILLION in profits. Meanwhile the average American paid $14.5% on their income.
Our system is rigged to benefit billionaires. It’s time to fix it.
My late father was an Oregonian and a hippie. They listened to the Grateful Dead a lot and their song named Stella Blue has these lines: "It all rolls into one. And nothing comes for free." Most political stripes agree on this societal/economic premise: nothing comes for free.
Trump is the outlier.
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"But isn’t this what evil is? A projection on to the world not of overbearing and large intent, but smallness and fear?"
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Here's my three sentences of disaster prediction: Trump realizes this war is unwinnable. 🤡🍊 feels cornered and drops a single nuke in the center of Tehran citing irreconcilable differences with Iran. Trump's Air Force One disappears from radar after he jets off to Saudi Arabia in the middle of night
...end of 60 or 90 days Congress shall review the President's actions committed during wartime and either grant extensions or block it from proceeding.
The odds of either chamber stopping Trump seem unlikely. The fossils in Congress will keep approving extensions for Trump until his little war ends
And I'm saying who cares and using words such as carte blanche for some okay reasons pertaining to logic.
Democrats have tried several times to rein in The Donald. They cannot, thanks primarily to the complicity of the GOP/fascist politicians.
The War Powers Resolution stipulates that at the... /1
Who cares... at this stage? Trump has carte blanche to do whatever he wants short of dropping nukes on Tehran.
The Grand Ol' Fascist party does control all three branches. No auditing of The Pentagon is possible due to the national security apparatus which President Ike warned America abt years ago
Both headlines seem to be kind of true...? I'm writing this because V.P. JD Vance was on a faraway trip to Azerbaijan when the Orange Idiot decided to engage Iran. Trump and his dilettantes held a private meeting at the last minute. They didn't announce to others that they were holding this meeting.
The ai embedded inside of the MAGAs own PC's and laptops is literally making them insane.
MAGA is spoon-fed totally made up news from Breitbart and other extreme right-wing news sources that have lost their way. I write "lost their way" because these sites are literally using ai to write stories.
...ripped off by #ai scraping and ai trawlers.
It's a sick system that can barely function. The rest of the world used to not tolerate us. Now they loathe us because we still have the Orange Idiot as our leader.
Half this nation is full of idiots who had to vote for that S.O.B. for no good reason.
The politicians, bankers, and federal government have a fcking monopoly. They also have most of the guns: being the US military.
Before the libertarians joined Trump, they use to say that taxation was theft.
We have #theft of our ideas in the form of our work as intellectual property being... /etc
The media keeps silent because commenting on this further in Op-Eds or asking the better economists like Joseph #Stiglitz to explore this issue will result in headaches: as in people asking more questions and politicians getting flummoxed over the question of wealth disparity and income inequality.
What is there to dispute over what I wrote? I'm not at all ageist.
According to Claude dot ai, "Baby boomers owned 51.4% of total U.S. wealth. They hold more than $85 trillion in assets and make up about 20% of the U.S. population."
That is fucked up, guys. We know why the media is silent here.
⬆️ All of this is completely hypothetical of course.
We won't get that. Instead, we are faced with a poor performing economy for those who actually toil, work, or have to do the thinking for a living.
Baby Boomers "live off the fat of the land." This is rather well known and not written about much.
Yo, I am not threatening anyone, and least of all POTUS. He will get through four years unscathed.
He also won't ever be impeached because Congress is full of old dickheads and cowards.
Our media is a known quantity. They fcked up during 2003. The NY Times bought into WMD. Not a lot changes there.
Mussolini was machine-gunned after he was hanged. They were done w/ fascism at the end of WW2.
There have been four or five attempts on the Orange Idiot's life since whenever. The most famous attempt was an alleged false-flag exercise since someone powerful wanted him gone. The 6th try may get him.
Hassett is another crazy Trump-supporting bald head. The arrival of these vermin were foretold by the great Jamaican musician Bob Marley.
🎶 🎵 " We're gonna chase them crazy bald heads out of town "
Democratic leaders need to listen to the young generation. Out with the old! Progressive politics in!
I was looking at this: floridavotetheft.com
I think the analysis here is correct. I don't know who Adam Zarnowski is or why he worked at cia, but I think this checks out.
If Congress had not certified the 2024 election, then we would not be in this mess: dealing with the fallout from the Iran war.
It's Sen. Chuck Schumer's fault. He is literally standing right in the doorway and won't let the rest of the more progressive Democrats "do their thing."
What the fuck, Chuck?
Step down — you incompetent old fart!
PS - nobody gives a damn on the international scene (including Israel) whether *Pakistan* thinks that Lebanon is included in this ceasefire. Beirut has their Hezbollah fighters, as you know.
Seth: I don't want war. I'm a peacenik like you. There are idiots in charge — both in Iran and in the US.
In point of fact — I don't think that Israel is involved in peace talks between Iran, the United States, and Pakistan being those two nations' intermediary?
Israel is part of the Orange Idiot's "Coalition of the willing."
Lebanon is *not Iran* either. So technically the truce is still in effect.
They won’t try. If they tried, then the idiots in charge at DOJ would claim any intel ppl stepping forward is a direct violation of the Hatch Act. Anyone that claims that is lying. That is not what the Hatch Act is for. Private groups hatched a plot to quietly add votes for 🤡🍊 and got away with it.
Leonard Leo, Musk, and Trump’s allies stole the 2024 election through Pro V&V releasing a faulty upgrade to voting machines so that miscounts ensued. Enough votes were lodged for Trump. A guy named Zarnowski quit his CIA 🗳️ monitoring job to report on this. US Congress certified the last election.
The stupidest people are in charge — both in Iran and the US.
Trump wants to import Iran’s theocracy into the US and remold this as white Christian nationalism.
This occurs after roving militias allegiant to Trump replace the police and the military demures on the question of broad, civil unrest.
You mention Maggie Haberman not doing anything and still getting the President's ire directed at her, and you also cite an article in which the authors write of a secret meeting (one that excluded the United States V.P.) to basically launch the war against Iran.
You're a talk show host. Stow it?
47 will need to watch his back. Liberals can join militias and make citizens’ arrests, too.
I have already almost gotten in a dispute with MAGA in Philomath, Oregon. The town is full of unemployed loggers and shitheads who have no regard for humanity.
I 🚫 an instigator. Don’t shoot the messenger.