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We really should require an IQ test before allowing people to run for public office.

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I have to align the hole in my Starbucks lid with the seam in the cup exactly - but on the opposite side. I'm not sure something bad will happen if I don't...but it unsettles me so much that I can't focus on anything else. I guess that's when the bad thing would happen.

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They should rather call it "The Gelded Age." Because the GOP is in the process of gelding the Middle Class forever.

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7/ LOOK AT THESE PROPOSALS. Then ask yourself: What would be the logical outcome if we abolished all of these agencies? What kind of country would this be? Every agency or benefit on this list is under assault. Teach this in schools and you might overcome the damage they've done.

6/ What do all these groups share? The drive to "make government smaller." Not to make it more efficient. To make it LESS efficient. To reduce its ability to monitor and regulate oligarchs, who prefer operating without government constraints on their ability to make money. This was their platform.

5/ Movements like these [and others]:

4/ He actually said that to me one night. But JBS never went away and when Koch died, he left his company, Koch Industries, to his sons, David and Charles. They, in turn built up the company, then used profits to fund all sorts of uber rightwing movements...

3/ ...wrote a takedown in his magazine, The National Review. One of my "favorite" quotes of my father's, which I realized later was pure textbook JBS: "The American economy is so complex and difficult to manage that we probably shouldn't allow anyone below the Upper Middle Class to vote."

2/ ...Fred Koch, a dyed-in-the-wool Liberterian and anti-communist wingnut. I saw JBS philosophy on GOP political thought first hand because my father was a charter member. Birchers saw communist conspiracies in every corner of American government and only got marginalized when William Buckley...

1/ To understand how to "fix" the damage will require schools to start teaching how it happened in the first place. MAGA can be traced on a direct line back to the 1950s and the John Birch Society - the organizational version of Sen. Joe McCarthy. One of the three founders was this guy...

So when does Trump throw #NatalieHarp under the bus for provoking him into banning Politico, MSNOW, CNN from the press pool right in the middle of Xi's visit?

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gme11💙 @gme11.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's how my mother walked as she got older. She'd veer at an angle and practically push me off the sidewalk shopping in San Francisco.

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Reposted by Bret Plate 🍁💙📎

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Mind-boggling. Watch it all the way through. Then try to pick your jaw up off your desk. It makes all our puny little politics cat fights seem...well, you decide.

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Even people who shoot movies on iPhones have Sound Engineers - you know, the guy's who hold the boom mic over the actor's head, just out of frame.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Republicans' fear of fake socialism in the United States is bringing about real fascism in the United States. Mainly because they are too ignorant to know the difference.

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I believe that means that one of her breast implants has sagged and is now riding lower than the other one.

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I think he was wincing in pain because the bobby pins holding his hair piece in the back got stuck in his scalp.

The Blockbuster card being held by a man with a GED - or maybe it was Lauren Boebert.

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Sure, Jan. (Brady Bunch Meme)

In honor of Nash posting this. [It's obviously Fake. Right? I mean, it's got to be. Right?]

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ALT: Sure, Jan. (Brady Bunch Meme)

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Well, I haven't bought hamburger in a month...and I don't even look at the steak prices, even at Costco. What you don't know [buy] can't hurt you, right? So, yeah. I guess I'm good with that.🤐

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Did he have help from Kyrsten's girlfriend...or was he acting like a dick all by himself?

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Or possibly just an endless string of Onion headlines. Where is Smoove B when we need him. "Corn will be served."

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The Democrats are introducing a bill or a Strategic Fertilizer Reserve because farmers can't afford fertilizer, thanks to Trump's war in Iran. How soon before we start calling this The Bullshit Reserve?

That's what he does. Stiffs his contractors. Anyone who does business with a Trump deserves what they get at this point.

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What happens when The President gets involved in uniform design and relies on "Star Wars" for sartorial cues.

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But that was during Trump's "Thin Period." He was easier to carry back then.

It is if it buries the GOP in its current form forever.

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I'd buy a ticket for that. I'd even pay the excessive Ticket Master fees for a front row seat.

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🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant. Stealing this for future use!

Yes....because they never took a Critical Thinking class. Even Debate 101 might have helped!

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This is the central fact Democrats should have been hammering for decades. Without fail, Republicans screw up the economy with "trickle down" economics. Then, Dems then have to come in and right the ship... Because "trickle down" is pure bullshit - except for real estate and yacht brokers.

This is the central fact Democrats should have been hammering for decades. Without fail, Republicans screw up the economy with "trickle down" economics. Dems then have to come in and right the ship... Because "trickle down" is bullshit except for real estate and yacht brokers.

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Trump says Iran conflict, which has killed 18 US service members and injured hundreds more, is ‘small potatoes’ | CNN Politics

“It’s small potatoes for us... I would say that it’s intermittent. We do intermittent strikes." WHITE HOUSE ISSUES AMPLIFICATION TO TRUMP REMARKS. "It's like gas prices - intermittent. Right now, they're up. But soon, they will be down...We just don't know how soon." www.cnn.com/2026/09/04/p...

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President Donald Trump on Friday labeled the Iran war “small potatoes,” the latest attempt to minimize a six-month conflict that caused a spike in gas prices and led to the deaths of 18 American servi...

It's tragic. I feel badly for this woman. I also want to tell her to take a Critical Thinking class at her local Junior College.

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WTF happened to this guy? There was a time when he seemed like a pretty stand-up MOC. Then again, I wasn't paying a lot of attention to what he said or did.

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Is this what Hegseth is raging about when he talks about "no more dudes in dresses?"

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Why I never visit Riverside, Bakersfield, and Fresno. That, and the smell of the cattle yards.