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Maria Cantwell is not meeting the moment when it comes to Trump’s nominees. Not sure if she thinks she will be able to work with them or other nominees would be worse. Or if she thinks they’re greal. But Trump is filling his cabinet and other senior staff with cruel jerks. They deserve to be voted down. If you want to call her, it’s business hours in DC and will be in her local offices soon. You may get an intern or a voicemail. Here’s a quick script.

Hi,

My name is [name] from [city/town in WA]. I am calling because I am disappointed in how many Trump nominees Senator Cantwell has voted for. [I am particularly disappointed with X because of Y, Scott Bessent after handing over the key to Treasury to those weirdos at DOGE, for example.] I hope you will reject more of his terrible nominees going forward.

Thank you for your time,

[Name]

Read it out loud and make it your own before calling, but please do call today.

Comments

  1. 1

    Something even more productive that a “mildly concerned citizen” might do is reach out to their Governor and ask that they explain why they are operating and supporting a clearing house for law enforcement intelligence used by DHS and ICE to coordinate and plan unlawful kidnapping of your fellow citizens.

    https://wsfc.wa.gov/

    While you are visiting the website for the Seattle FUSION center used by ICE to plan and coordinate kidnapping, as a “mildly concerned citizen” you can also report terrorist activity.

    https://wsfc.wa.gov/Report

    A reasonable person with knowledge of heavily armed military age males wearing blackout fatigues, body armor, and masks, traveling around in unmarked vans, breaking into homes and businesses, grabbing US citizens, and renditioning them to black sites in El Salvador might conclude that these could be reportable terrorist activities.
    They might even conclude that a few hundred thousand times. They might even opt to be very proactive about it and ask an AI to write a java script to populate that online form with entries and submit them over and over and over again forever.

    SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING.

  2. 2

    Israeli Occupying Forces shot Sundus Shalabi and her husband Yaza Abu Shola in the Nur Sams prison refugee camp Sunday. Shalabi was eight months pregnant.

    This post is Antisemitic, apparently.

    American Media, “We can’t possibly cover that…it’s the Super Bowl.”

  3. 3

    Lauren “G.E.D.” Boebert twatting she needed subtitles for the halftime show is just the greatest gift God could give his Children.

    He Gets Us

  4. 4

    Later on today, when some dipshit pesters you to notice that some federal judge somewhere has issued an order pausing some horribly unconstitutional thing being done to America by Republican Nazis, just remember this:

    THEY HAVE NOT PAUSED JACK SHIT.

    All the orders are still in effect. People are being kidnapped and flown to Gitmo. People are having their citizenship cancelled. Vital US agencies are being gutted and broken. And nothing meaningful has been done to stop any of it except papers being signed and published. That’s it.

  7. 7

    Mexico isn’t paying for Trump’s border wall; you are.

    Trump and congressional Republicans may no longer be pushing to wholly repeal Obamacare, but big cuts to the nation’s health system are still on the table.

    As GOP leaders in the House and Senate scramble to pull together a massive legislative package with Trump’s pricey priorities, they are looking for ways to offset the costs.

    One of their prime targets is Medicaid, which provides health coverage to more than 72 million low-income Americans.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/politics/health-care-medicaid-cuts-republicans/index.html

  8. 8

    Kanye West denied selling swastika t-shirts on his website, even though swastika t-shirts were sold on his website, and said he would never sell swastika t-shirts because he doesn’t want the people wearing them to come to harm.

    For good measure, he also threw in “a new round of antisemitic tweets on Super Bowl Sunday, including derogatory remarks and conspiracy theories about Jews.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/yes-website-selling-swastika-shirts-boosting-profile-super-bowl-ad-rcna191432

  10. 10

    They should be afraid, because those now in power really do believe if they’re not working for $7.25 an hour, they’re a useless burden on conservative priorities and should be peremptorily disposed of.

    Fear spread through my mother-in-law’s senior housing apartment building last week that the Trump administration’s announced pause on federal funding would strip residents of their Section 8 vouchers and SNAP benefits and end their deliveries from Meals on Wheels. …

    Why wouldn’t people getting federal financial assistance to keep a roof over their heads and food in their fridge feel like their government was treating them as disposable?

    https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-meals-on-wheels-funding-freeze-rcna189920

  11. 11

    A website calling itself “The Federalist” has thoughts about… not federalism:

    Random federal judges in blue state backwaters have no authority to unilaterally dictate who the President may talk to or what data he can access. John Roberts and SCOTUS have two options here: they can bring these inferior malcontents to heel, or they can get used to the President simply ignoring these inferior courts or Congress eliminating them entirely.

    Sean Davis

    On “federalism”.🤡

  13. 13

    So Canada is continuing to mass boycott U.S. Products in grocery stores because Donnie can’t help himself with expressing thoughts of rolling tanks North.

    But think this through. Canada has 10million more citizens than California. Canada would end up with 60is EVs. California would lose some, Texas would lose a bunch. Florida would lose a bunch…

    Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota….you guys are so cute with your 2 electoral votes.

  14. 14

    In his last year-end report, Chief Justice John Roberts called out what he deemed several areas of “illegitimate activity” threatening judicial independence. One of them was “threats to defy lawfully entered judgments.”

    https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-ignore-court-orders-supreme-court-rcna191461

    You should’ve protected the rule of law when you still could have, John. It’s too late now. History may well remember you as the weakest-ever chief justice and the most disastrous.

  16. 16

    The NFL banned the wrong guy for life.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/super-bowl-halftime-protester-gaza-sudan-flag_n_67aa1520e4b0ade4a9a35300

    Dictators are welcome, protesters are not. Don’t forget what they did to Colin Kaepernick, too. The NFL is a backward, reactionary, repressive organization.

    I’m not saying the guy shouldn’t be sanctioned. Sure, don’t hire him for a halftime show again. And ban him from NFL stadiums for a year or two. But a lifetime ban for waving a flag? That’s gross overkill.

    The NFL is trying to send a message that speech is tightly controlled at NFL stadiums (which are paid for by taxpayers), and they have a gulag waiting for anyone who steps out of line. Very Stalinist.

    Or maybe they’re just spineless cowards who are scared shitless that Trump will somehow punish them if they don’t take drastic action against any insult to his dignity.

  17. 17

    @13 Actually it’s three. They get one for each senator, plus one for their representative.

    If we annex Canada, making it “a state” doesn’t make sense. Canada is already broken up into provinces and territories, and each province should be a separate state.

    That’s 10 states and 3 territories, or 13 states if you count the territories as states. That’s 26 senators, and probably all of them would be Democrats.

    Even if Canada and its territories are a single state, and Greenland is another state, that’s 4 Democratic senators. Statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico would make it 8 Democratic senators.

    Somehow I don’t think Trump has fully thought this through.

  19. 19

    America is running a massive budget deficit, and Trump has said the tariffs will make up for lost revenue — in particular, his 2017 tax cuts, which he has said he wants to extend and expand. In a keynote address to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum last month, Trump predicted that his tariffs would bring in hundreds of billions of dollars — perhaps trillions of dollars — into the US Treasury.

    https://www.aol.com/finance/method-behind-trump-tariff-madness-160635463.html

    Tariffs are still a tax paid by Americans. All substituting tariffs for income taxes does is shift the tax burden from the billionaires in Trump’s cabinet to his grassroots supporters, which is fine by me.

  20. 20

    Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and others in the Trump administration are openly challenging the centuries-old power of the nation’s judiciary, foreshadowing a possible constitutional breakdown of American government. It’s not simply that the new administration has flouted a raft of federal statutes and prompted a flood of legal challenges. It’s that some of Donald Trump’s top advisers have cast doubt on whether rulings on those lawsuits would even constrain the president. There are signs that some judges’ orders have been disregarded.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/politics/constitutional-crisis-trump-overhaul-analysis-biskupic/index.html

    The chief justice could put a stop to this right now by revisiting the 14th Amendment, Section 3, stating

    Section 3

    No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

    because this is rebellion against the Constitution of the United States. If he won’t let states disqualify Trump and Vance, then the court should do it.

  22. 22

    20,

    They are ALL being actively disregarded.

    Rest assured this is being done without Fat Hitler or Queen Elonia commanding it. But to please them nevertheless.

    The reason people are discussing the disregard of the judicial branch is because that’s what they are observing.

    The time for debating “balance of power” Constitutional remedies has come to an end. That feature of our Republic has been eliminated by the Republican Party after the American voters handed them the power to do it.

    Face facts. Sooner is better under circumstances such as these.

    And again, ask yourself why is your Democratic Governor in any way participating in a federal system that simply no longer exists?

  24. 24

    I’m not sure how it got started but seeing Bluesky run with “Swasticars” and not a single person needing clarification on what that is….

    Priceless.

  29. 29

    Wholesale egg prices have ‘blown way past’ record highs – average wholesale prices for white shell eggs reached $8 a dozen, beating the previous record by a large degree
    At a time when U.S. inflation has eased broadly, egg inflation has caused anxiety for consumers. The Waffle House restaurant chain began charging customers an extra 50 cents per egg for each order.

  30. 30

    U.S. Travel Association Warns of Economic Tourism Disaster After Thousands of Canadian Tourists Cancel Trips in Protest
    According to state tourism organizations in the states of Florida and Texas, a good majority of foreign tourists who vacation in the United States , particularly in the Sunshine State and Texas, are Canadian travelers, prompting concerns that the proposed tariffs would put a stop to Canadians visiting the U.S. permanently, and decimate the tourism industry.

  31. 31

    Farmers on the hook for millions after Trump freezes USDA funds
    Laura Beth Resnick, who runs a Maryland flower farm, said she signed a contract for the Agriculture Department to cover half of a $72,900 solar panel installation. In late January, she said, she was told her reimbursement payment was rejected due to Trump’s executive order.
    If there is a next time. maybe farmers don’t vote for JimCrow2.0(dot)com.

  33. 33

    $15 million in travel and security expenses so Assistant President Diaper Rash can attend half a Super Bowl.

  36. 36

    Sean? Seriously?

    It’s been a month. Another fatal aircraft incident? What the hell is going on at Transportation?

  37. 37

    @36 You know, I was just reading about yesterday’s accident in Scottsdale, and thinking the same thing you are, until I read that the Learjet’s landing gear collapsed on touchdown and that caused the plane to veer off the runway into the Gulfstream.

    By the way, the Lear belongs to Motley Crue lead vocalist Vince Neil, but his publicist said he wasn’t on board.

    This is a maintenance issue, not something you can blame on ATC understaffing or the DOT. Over time, Musk’s machete-wielding and/or Sean’s management may compromise aviation safety, but I don’t think this accident falls in that category. Its timing is just a weird coincidence.

    The accident investigation could be a different story, though. Have all the competent FAA accident investigators been fired and replaced by Liberty University interns yet?

  38. 38

    This is cute: Fort Bragg was renamed Fort Liberty under Biden, but Trump’s SecDef has changed it back to Fort Bragg.

    Sort of. The sign says “Fort Bragg” again, but it’s not the same Bragg.

    Originally named after Confederate general Braxton Bragg, it’s now named after World War 2 paratrooper PFC Roland Bragg.

  39. 39

    You are directed … to dismiss the pending charges in United States v. Adams, No. 24 Cr. 556 (SDNY)…. The Justice Department has reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based

    That quid quod so fucking quickly.

  40. 40

    @37

    Of course. No one would ever think to use unrelated spontaneous events as a political weapon from the get go.

    ‘Sean, why did you not build a fouls ball net or a luck safety system between those runways. It is grotesque you knew and let those people die. RESIGN’

  41. 41

    Elon Musk openly admitting he intends to vastly reduce Social Security payments now that he is in charge of the Federal Payment system. Why that could backfire on Democrats.

    Some are saying seniors need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. Joe Castallengo who we interviewed at a diner just outside of Allentown agreed, “Joe Biden gave my PopPop too much cash. So much he bought round trip tickets to Sturgis. Why is the Federal Government paying for him to take that gold digging slut he met online on vacation?”

  42. 42

    Definitely don’t go to Google Maps and leave a review of “Gulf of America”

    Snark is not part of the interwebs.

  43. 43

    @41,

    They don’t care. Because…

    “I hAvE aN iMmUnE sYsTeM!!!”

  44. 44

    Remember when the GOP caucus wasn’t a collection of the dumbest motherfuckers around? I mean they were still trying to enact white supremacy and get old folks off ‘the welfare’ but they weren’t comic book stupid.

    Rep Earl “Buddy” Carter, R-GA has introduced a bill authorizing the United States to enter into negotiations to purchase Greenland and Rename it. H.R. 1161 – ‘Red, White and Blueland Act of 2025’

  48. 48

    OPM has been given until midnight to restore web access to datasets from HHS, CDC, FDA as part of a federal ruling on Temporary Restraining Order pending additional hearings.

    The Judge is John D. Bates, a George W. Bush appointee. Of note, Chief Justice John Roberts has twice elevated him to larger roles, once as a presiding judge of The FISA Court and again as Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.

    He made a name for himself as part of Kenneth Star’s team investigating President Bill Clinton.

    Cue Elon calling him a rogue coup plotting leftist.

  49. 49

    48,

    What if Queen Elonia can’t?

    There’s a better than 50/50 probability that access has been broken. The point of all this Nazi subterfuge is not to establish Fat Hitler’s authority to control the purse strings, but instead to force the hand of squeamish, vulnerable Republicans in Congress to fall into line and to do so for them.

    Breaking shit is one very good way to do that.

    And what everyone ought to be asking is why on earth are Democrats everywhere still protecting those vulnerable Republicans? Why aren’t they being named and shamed ahead of what will inevitably become their role in eviscerating the public safety net programs their own constituents depend upon at much higher rates than Democrats?

  50. 50

    The number of American workers employed in manufacturing industries that rely upon imported steel is eighty times greater than the number of American workers employed in manufacturing domestic steel.

  51. 51

    I am bringing back the manly straws for you all to suck. Who wants something flimsy in your mouth when you can have something solid with some girth. By handsome son Don Jr. told me the smell of paper is not the same as using plastic.

    So I am MAKINGS STRAWS GREAT AGAIN.

    Please Clap.

  52. 52

    When Super Villains get bitchy.

    Responding to Elon’s offer to buy ChatGPT.

    Sam Altman
    @sama
    no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want

  53. 53

    “We’re gonna take (Gaza).we’re gonna hold it, we’re gonna cherish it.”

    Sp he’s not buying it. He’s colonizing it.

  54. 54

    @46 I didn’t know you were in the penalty box. I thought you were away for schizophrenia treatment (see #47 for why I thought that).

  55. 55

    @51 Trump’s monument won’t be another face on Mount Rushmore, it will be a mountain of discarded plastic straws still around a million years from now. It’s as if these stupid fuckers WANT to ruin the environment.

  57. 57

    “Jordan’s King Abdullah II said Tuesday that he would take in 2,000 Palestinian children from Gaza who are very sick or have cancer in response to a plan by President Donald Trump to resettle the residents of the war-torn strip,” and Trump will take credit for rescuing them after freezing foreign aid for their medical care.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/jordans-king-abdullah-ii-signals-openness-trumps-plan-move-palestinian-rcna191656

  58. 58

    @ 50

    The number of American workers employed in manufacturing industries that rely uponcurrently utilize imported steel is eighty times greater than the number of American workers employed in manufacturing domestic steel.

    ftfy

    When domestic steel is economically preferable, the industries currently utilizing foreign steel will switch.

    If your argument is silly, you are silly.

  59. 59

    I will also take 2000 and maybe a barrel of petroleum Jelly.

    Jordan is a source, destination, and transit country for adults and children subjected to forced labor and, to a lesser extent, sex trafficking.

  60. 60

    @58 Domestic steel is more expensive. That’s why it needs tariff protection to compete. More expensive steel will make products made from it (e.g. cars) more expensive. What happens to demand when prices go up? Demand goes down. What happens to jobs when demand for the products workers make goes down? They get laid off.

    To quote you, if your argument is silly, you are silly.

  61. 61

    @52

    Sometime tomorrow Bluesky will cross 31.5 million users. Our time to add 1m has dropped from about every 10 days to about every 9 over the last month.

  62. 62

    Today:

    American hostage Marc Fogel has been released by Russia into the custody of Trump’s envoy.

    Also today:

    AFP News Agency
    @AFP

    #BREAKING Ukraine prepared to offer territory swap with Russia: Zelensky

    11:27 AM · Feb 11, 2025

    So three years Biden spent nuzzling Zelensky’s ballsack was for nought.

    [To be fair, it was about 18 months ago that Team Biden was quietly informing that Ukraine would have to make territorial concessions.]

    Biden just couldn’t force it before the election.

  63. 63

    @62

    That’s not the flex you think it is. Tweets are like mainlining a headline without taking in the article.

    Kyiv may consider swapping seized Russian territory for occupied lands of Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
    His claims come as Ukrainian forces expand their control in the Russian region, recently capturing villages near Sudzha.

    “We will swap one territory for another. I don’t know, we will see. But all our territories are important, there is no priority,” Zelensky stated, though not specifying which Ukrainian territory, temporarily occupied by Russia, Kyiv would request in return.

    Zelenskyy explained that he would offer Moscow Kursk Oblast, currently under Ukrainian control, in exchange for temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories, should US President Donald Trump facilitate Russia’s involvement in the talks.

  64. 64

    @ 61

    From pink pussy hats to Bluesky.

    Different color, same nonexistent influence.

    That 31.5M figure is not active users, BTW. And let’s not forget the millions of Brazilians who signed up when X was briefly banned there. Now that X is back up in Brazil, those signees have no reason to use Bluesky.

    Which reminds me: what happened to supposed X-killer Mastodon?

  65. 65

    @ 63

    That’s not the flex you think it is.

    That’s not the swap you think it is

    Ukraine controls about 20 x 25 miles of Russian territory. Five hundred square miles, give or take. Russia is 6.6 square miles. So Ukraine has 0.000075 of Russia.

    Meanwhile, Russia controls 43,307 square miles of Ukraine. That’s 0.1858.

    GLWT land swap offer.

  66. 66

    Zelenskyy explained that he would offer Moscow Kursk Oblast, currently under Ukrainian control, in exchange for temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories

    Nyet, nyet. I beg of you.

    For the first time since the fall of the union we have enough to eat and my teeth have been fixed! My children’s school has heat!
    Is paradise on earth since Ukraine soldiers come. Please let us stay in Ukraine!

  68. 68

    When domestic steel is economically preferable, the industries currently utilizing foreign steel will switch move overseas.

  69. 69

    When jacking up prices is defined as “economically preferable”.

  70. 70

    In today’s political news, Nancy Mace hid behind congressional immunity to slander her ex,

    I couldn’t make it past the part that said there are “candid” videos of the couple getting it on in groups.

    Mommy milky.

  71. 71

    @62 “[To be fair, it was about 18 months ago that Team Biden was quietly informing that Ukraine would have to make territorial concessions.]”

    In other words, swap captured Russian territory for the return of captured Ukrainian territory, and everybody’s back to where they started, except the hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded.

  72. 72

    @62 “So three years Biden spent nuzzling Zelensky’s ballsack was for nought.”

    I guess that’s true if you consider Ukraine retaining its independence instead of reverting to a Russian colony “for nought.”

    By your reasoning, the American Revolution was a complete waste of blood and treasure, because all it did was make us a free country.

    As somebody up above said, if your argument is silly, you are silly.

  73. 73

    @65 Are you counting Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, eight years before the current war began?

  74. 74

    @67 “A Google spokesperson, Madison Cushman Veld, provided the Guardian with a statement that said the listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for their model. ‘Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing – and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable,’ the statement said.”

    Funny how this just happens to coincide with Trump’s “war against DEI” as part of his larger “make America all white again” initiative.*

    * It’s still unclear what he plans to do with America’s black population. Maybe he’s negotiating with an African country to take them?

  75. 75

    Now, I swear by my mother’s son, and that’s myself, it will be the moon, or a star, or whatever I want it to be

    ‘YOU WILL CALL IT HO CHI MIN CITY!’

    Zees place is called VICHY! Nein no France!

    Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s
    executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon AP’s reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing.

  76. 76

    Only a few weeks without “Woke” and “DEI” and airplanes are all falling out of the skies, the Sec Def stole a quarter of a million dollars from enlisted housing to install a liquor well room in his base quarters, we are becomming mired in a shooting war in Somalia (of all places), wholesale egg prices have reached all time record highs exceeding $8 per dozen, the Eagles win a Super Bowl, and the IRS will not be able to process your tax return.

    Cool. Cool.

  77. 77

    @70 Her allegations are disputed, dumbfuck.

    South Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mace delivered a shocking speech in the House of Representatives on Monday evening in which she accused her ex-fiance Patrick Bryant and three of his business associates of engaging in sex crimes. …

    Bryant, a Charleston-based entrepreneur, co-founder of the software development firm Code/ /Trust and previously a chairman of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, responded to Mace’s allegations by telling the Associated Press: “I categorically deny these allegations. “I take this matter seriously and will cooperate fully with any necessary legal processes to clear my name.”

    They’re also libel per se; and in a defamation lawsuit, she would have the burden of proving a truth defense.

    So to get around that, she airs her personal grievances on the floor of the House of Representatives, wrapping them in a fake “legislative purpose” cloak, in order to shield herself from libel law by hiding behind congressional “speech and debate” immunity.

    If what she said is true, and she has proof, she wouldn’t need immunity. Or to use Congress as a platform to shout angry accusations at her former bed partner.

    She’d better get used to the single life, because I think she just ensured she’s never going to have another boyfriend for the rest of her life. No man will have anything to do with her after this.

  79. 79

    While our Dumbfuck is talking about tiny percentages.

    The 2,000 children Jordan is willing to take in when the Israeli Occupying Forces kidnaps them is….

    0.09% of Gazans.

    Heckuva job Brownie!

  80. 80

    @79 I wouldn’t be surprised if those kids are Jordanian citizens, given that Jordan has a large population of Palestinian citizens.

  81. 81

    @64

    That’s 1m UNIQUE posters every day. 2M unique Likers every single day. Mastodon had it’s moment topping out at 2.5M registered users.

    Say, is 32m greater than, less than or equal to 2.5m? We’ve got as many people with us every single day than they had sign up and check it out for a few minutes.

    Have you seen those twats ad revenue numbers lately? My boy Elon claims 250M active users a day but advertisers and independent monitors are saying 120-30. Fuck it was 400m plus before Naziboy took it over.

    Get back to me by the end of the year and see where we stack up.

    And we aren’t even backed by the US and State governments to accept billions in losses before we ever get a hint of profits. Maybe someday Mr. Bezos and Mr. Musk can tell me how hard it is to start a company. And I’ll be around long after those guys twice my age are in the ground.

  82. 82

    Here now is the list of the 27 words declared officially banned in all federal agency websites, documents and emails in an order issued yesterday by Republican fascists in control of the NSA:

    Anti-Racism
    Racism
    Allyship
    Bias
    DEI
    Diversity
    Diverse
    Confirmation Bias
    Equity
    Equitableness
    Feminism
    Gender
    Gender Identity
    Inclusion
    Inclusive
    All-Inclusive
    Inclusivity
    Injustice
    Intersectionality
    Prejudice
    Privilege
    Racial Identity
    Sexuality
    Stereotypes
    Pronouns
    Transgender
    Equality

    And one of the idiot trolls here unironically actually goes by the screen name “Politically Incorrect”.

  83. 83

    @ 82

    If not for the presence of those words in the requirements for selecting contractors I bet the Biden administration would have installed far more than 7 EV charging stations after allocating $7.5 billion for them, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  84. 84

    @83 I didn’t post #82. Have you had your vision checked recently? You may need reading glasses.

  85. 85

    @ 81

    That’s 1m UNIQUE posters every day. 2M unique Likers every single day.

    Half of them are @ 64 in Portuguese, and show off their butt lifts and their male breast reduction surgeries.

  87. 87

    @85

    So which is it? The Brazilians were there for a moment until their government made Elon grovel like a little bitch and then they ran back or they are still there now providing half the content.

    Do be consistent with your fantasy world at least.

  89. 89

    @ 87

    Do be consistent with your fantasy world at least.

    Your fantasy world is that Bluesky is relevant compared with the 245 million daily users of X.

    It all pales compared with FB. But FB won’t be doing much to help Democrats anymore. It’s easy to suggest that the loss of FB and X was enough to cost Democrats the White House.

  90. 90

    Please enjoy this brief video of AOC telling Anderson Cooper that then-president Biden should simply ignore a federal judge’s ruling.

    It’s your basic “he who counts the votes wins” strategy she’s promoting – rulings rely on enforcement, which should be withheld if the president doesn’t like the ruling.

    I doubt she thinks that today. Hell, I doubt Schumer thinks today that what Reid did to the Senate was a good idea. But here we are.

  91. 91

    Toooooooo
    Daaaaaamnnnn
    Fuuuuuuuunnnnnnyyyyyy

    Reporter: You said an example of fraud that you have cited was $50 million of condoms was sent to Gaza but after a fact-check apparently it was Gaza in Mozambique meant to protect them against HIV. 

    Musk: First of all, some of the things I say will be incorrect

  93. 93

    @89

    Touched a nerve I see. Elon claims 285m daily users of X. But he’s selling advertisers at 150m and independent webcrawler data suggests somewhere in the neighborhood between 120-130m.

    At the current rate of growth we’ll have 60M registered users after two years of operations. Elon has lost 300m in those same two years.

    And more every day. The user base over on what has become a shit show is falling. And instead of dealing with the problem Elon’s about to get hit with a whole lot more lawsuits and some criminal contempt charges.

    Again, get back to me at the end of the year.

    How many of those daily users are Russian? Well less now than 6 months ago because they keep dying in the Ukraine.

  95. 95

    Mass deportations @ 86 won’t be needed if the illegals have stopped showing up.

    94% decline in border contacts since DJT47 assumed control.

    Average daily border encounters in Biden’s last 19 days: 2,087
    Average during Trump’s first 9 days: 126.

    Word’s out. Hey, and thanks to liberals, BTW for all of the amplifying hyperbole!

  96. 96

    @91

    Don’t forget, that was $50m over a 35 year span which you let that poor blonde child step up to the podium and say it was per year.

  97. 97

    @ 96

    … you let that poor blonde child step up to the podium and say it was per year.

    You let a demented octagenarian debate for the presidency.

  99. 99

    @95

    Really you whiny bitch? You want to talk about Bluesky and you’re over on Truth Social? Truth Social with it’s 113,000 unique daily users?

    You really, really, really suck at this.

  101. 101

    I also pay girls to touch my junk sometimes.

    You can relate, right?
    Riiiight?????

  102. 102

    @95 “Mass deportations @ 86 won’t be needed if the illegals have stopped showing up.”

    Eh? If border crossings stop, the 11 million illegals already in-country will magically disappear?

  103. 103

    @96 Reagan wanted AIDS to kill off the gays and Africans, and Trump is merely following in the Great Ron’s footsteps.

  105. 105

    Right after the vote I’m ordering a purge of all US systems of all the evidence relating to the glorious patriotic parading of the grandmothers that took place on January 6th of 2021.

    What guns?

    What hockey sticks?

  106. 106

    @ 99

    You really, really, really suck at this.

    And in six months you’ll be freezing payrolls and laying off hundreds.

  107. 107

    @100 “Tulsi Gabbard will be confirmed tonight.”

    I suppose so, which is a damned poor reflection on GOP Senators, especially Senator Tsk-Tsk from Maine, who keeps wringing her hands over Trump’s nominees and then votes to confirm them.

  108. 108

    Sure, it’s true.
    And I can admit it now.

    Republicans can’t really hope to hang onto power without destroying freedom of speech and concealing the truth from the light of day.

  109. 109

    @105 I thought that comes second after you hand over our “Eyes Only” nuclear defense plans to your Russian handler.

  110. 110

    …laying off hundreds.

    Should anyone tell him about Bluesky’s payroll?

    WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?????

    Fucking.

    Idiots.

  111. 111

    @106

    I have better things to do with my time but do you just spend all your day making shit up between swigs off the bottle of Old Grand Dad?

    We’re getting this all done with less than 50 employees.

    Are you thinking I can lay off all the staff of everywhere each of them has lunch once a week?

    What’s your privately owned double wide and horse valued? Privately owned $700m? Yeah sure.

  112. 112

    Look, in Elon’s defense, X has no other choice but to employ tens of thousands of engineers while slowly shrinking into oblivion.

    It requires a thousand just to maintain Elon’s dying hairplugs and another thousand to curate his daily routine of hairloss tonics, creams, pills, injections and and ointments.

    And don’t even start with all the NDAs for the undying parade of bleeding twink rent boys.

  113. 113

    111,

    I thought we had an agreement.

    A completely fucking stupid troll is a more entertaining troll.

  114. 114

    @ 111

    We’re getting this all done with less than 50 employees.

    This from the people who claimed that Twitter would fail if 80-90% of the staff ceased to exist.

    But hey, look how much Big Balls x 5 are getting done. Fifty people can accomplish a lot.

  116. 116

    Geezus H Donkey Balls troll!

    You sure are having an incredibly fucking productive day humiliating yourself up the ass on your first day back from banishment.

    Mind that rake, Forest.

  117. 117

    50 people can run Bluesky?

    Then 16 people can surely eliminate a failed federal agency.

    And as many as 16 DOGE team members have entered the premises as the agency begins to be ripped apart.
    …
    Rep. Melanie Stansbury, (D-MD) described the terror agency staff are feeling after Musk’s team entered to ‘actively dismantle’ the institution.

    ‘They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts,’ she said in an interview with HuffPost.
    …
    She added that she expects the agency to be ‘dissolved in the coming days.’

    Amazing how student performance declined as soon as the DOE was established.

  119. 119

    And if 16 DOGE team members can successfully dismantle a useless failed federal agency like the DOE, why can’t we get rid of Congress and the federal courts?

    Well?

  120. 120

    “I Tried to Trade in the Cybertruck, but Tesla Won’t Accept It”

    “My neighbor who just lost his government job took down his “Trump 2024: Make Liberals Cry Again” sign off of his garage. ”

    “Dearborn mayor denounces Republican White House plan for Gaza, after leading movement to not vote for Democrats that wouldn’t do this”

    ‘Devastating to my state’: Why Trump’s newest steel tariff will be catastrophe for Kentucky bourbon

  121. 121

    I see that Canada’s Buffy St. Marie has won the 2025 Elizabeth Warren Award for Genealogic Historical Honesty.

    Said award comes with a lifetime supply of Pow Wow Chow.

  123. 123

    @117 Well, if you want to argue that U.S. education is failing, I’m going to use you as Exhibit A.

  124. 124

    @119 Yeah, who needs a Reichstag when you’ve got Hitler in the chancellery? Under one-man rule, a legislative body is superfluous. But how would he get along without Judge Freisler?

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