Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Trump pushes for Russia-Ukraine talks, complicating GOP politics

Former President Trump has emerged as the most prominent advocate in the United States of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia to broker a cease-fire as hostilities between the two sides ratcheted up over the weekend.


Not for nothing, but Trump would have never passed an *actual* security clearance to have access to classified information for exactly the reasons we are seeing now - Asha Rangappa tweet






The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

Only one man in the United States that can single handedly shut down Donald Trump and his continuing demand for fascism.
It ain’t you and me. - Woman in the Moon tweet





Democrats Want To Punish Saudi Arabia. Republican Response: *crickets*







Trump Claims George Washington Kept Millions of Documents in Korean Restaurant. - Andy Borowitz






Republican Shenanigans

Herschel Walker Categorically Denies Ever Playing Football. - Andy Borowitz






UF Students Don't Want Presidential Nominee Shoved Down Their Throats



The GOP has now gone from 
"I am not a crook" 
to "A crook is not a crook" - John Fugelsang






Lara Trump exposed her sobbing 5-year-old son to deadly Hurricane Ian as rain poured down

Republicans praised it as “character-building"

Biden calls Hunter as he struggles with addiction & embraces him with love & compassion

Republicans attack him for it

Ugly is who they are. - Lindy Li







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Tusli Gabbard: "I'm leaving the party."

Democrats:

Tusli Gabbard: "I mean it!"

Democrats:

Tusli Gabbard: "Don't try to stop me!"

Democrats:

- Middle Age Riot





I Wonder How Much Of This Money Red States Will Pocket
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced it will invest nearly $60 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law towards roads, bridges, tunnels, carbon emission reduction and safety improvements in all 50 states.



T-minus 24 hours until Tulsi Gabbard becomes the new host on Fox News. - Liam Nissan







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Make no mistake: Companies are using inflation as a smokescreen to hike prices and rake in record profits. 2021 was the most profitable year for American corporations since 1950. - Robert Reich


Business/Tech News






The new head of CNN had hoped that shifting it to the right would allow them to pick up Fox viewers. Instead, CNN is simply losing viewers to MSNBC. 

This will go down as one of the WORST decisions in cable television history. - Jon Cooper



The Saudis Are Here. The Saudis Are Here. Really.
Saudi Aramco, the state oil company of OPEC's most powerful player, recently announced plans to take full control of the sprawling Port Arthur, Texas refinery. The Gulf Coast facility is the largest refinery in the U.S. and can process 600,000 barrels of oil a day.




Sixty three years ago in October 1959, The Twilight Zone premiered. As my dad said: The writer’s role is to menace the public’s conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time. - Anne Serling tweet










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Almost there!
Many thanks from my security team for keeping their dog bowls full!





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Time To Deflate Photo
Costa Rica from space. The arrow points to the Nicoya peninsula where I live. Pura vida.


Peace.



Monday, October 10, 2022

Trump gave conflicting defenses about the Mar-a-Lago raid, claiming both that all the documents are 'mine,' and that some were planted

Former President Donald Trump addressed the FBI's Mar-a-Lago raid at an Arizona rally. Former President Donald Trump addressed the FBI's raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort at a


It's like watching a serial killer gleefully killing and killing and killing because the cops want to be sure they have an absolutely air-tight case before they arrest him. - Kona Lowell





The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

FWIW, If I owned a bowling alley slash Chinese restaurant I would call it The Spare Ribs. - Jeremy Newberger






These Trumpers Are Domestic Terrorists, Pure & Simple.







Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day!




Our Founding Father’s wore wigs and high heels. Sorry MAGA, they were fabulously the original drag queens. - cjmmn tweet






Herschel Walker Has No Memory of Being Asshole. - Andy Borowitz





Another Trumper Fouling The Judicial System
A federal appeals court judge on Friday said she was joining a boycott of hiring law clerks from Yale Law School proposed by a fellow appointee of former Republican President Donald Trump who said the school was plagued by "cancel culture."






Reality Winner took one classified document and spent more than five years in prison. 

Trump took thousands of classified documents and spent the weekend holding fundraisers disguised as rallies. - KD tweet








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If Donald really wanted Hillary Clinton locked up, he would have hired her to be one of his attorneys. - Mrs. Betty Bowers






U.S. Banks Looking To Democrats and Not Republicans?
U.S. banks are giving far less to federal candidates this election cycle and increasing the proportion they are handing to Democrats as they rethink their political giving, according to a Reuters analysis of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) and more than half a dozen industry officials and lobbyists.








In 6-3 Ruling, Supreme Court Legalizes Abortion for Male Senate Candidates. - Andy Borowitz





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Business/Tech News

Anyone know what's going on with Elon Musk. Publicly supporting the propaganda of the two great genocidal regimes of our day in one week, seems a little…odd. Even for him. - Peter Zeihan










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Friday, October 7, 2022

Biden warns world would face ‘Armageddon’ if Putin uses a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine



In his starkest assessment yet, US president says world is the closest it has come to nuclear catastrophe in 60 years.



I read Russia’s nuke saber rattling as another in a series of threats & a high stakes bluff. Putin would use nukes as a tool of last resort & in a scenario of imminent existential threat… we are far from there. POTUS was musing on the perils of the moment in historical context. - Alexander S. Vindman






The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

So Americans definitely found out that the guy on trial for seditious conspiracy was texting with a member of the secret service who was communicating with the former president of the United States while said president was waiting to see if Mike Pence was hanged. - Rex Chapman





Trump Still Hasn't Turned Over All The Documents After 21 Friggin' Months
The New York Times reported on Thursday a top Justice Department official informed former President Donald Trump’s lawyers that the government believes Trump has still not returned all the documents taken from the White House.








Republican Shenanigans


BREAKING NEWS: Rudy Giuliani To Sell Son Andrew Giuliani For Exactly $225,000 - Liam Nissan






Mr. Alan "I kept my underwear on" Dershowitz Has Something To Say About Hunter Biden
Alan Dershowitz argued the Department of Justice needs to prosecute President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, if they want an indictment of Donald Trump to have credibility.



I'll be honest, guys, I'm beginning to have second thoughts about voting for Hunter Biden again. - Liam Nissan






Biden Releases Marijuana Offenders from Prison to Make Room for Trump Administration. - Andy Borowitz









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Republicans seem to think Herschel Walker and Kanye West represent Black Americans. In reality, they represent white Republicans' views of Black Americans. - Mark Jacob tweet



Biden Pardons Marijuana Users










Dank Brandon's approval ratings just got HIGHer. - Angela Belcamino







So where does Herschel Walker stand on abortion?

At the ATM. - Jeremy Newberger




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Business/Tech News

Joe Biden created more jobs in September than were created during the entire Trump presidency. - Chris Hahn



Oh, look, it's Tom Hanks.







Here’s a quietly wonderful thing I noticed:

If you talk to someone who was in choir or band at a majority Black HS, you’ll eventually discuss those annoying fundraisers for uniforms, instruments, etc.  & a SURPRISING number will casually say:

“Oh, Dolly Parton paid for ours” - Michael Harriot







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Thank you so much! 
Only $349 from the goal!





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May your weekend be as peaceful as this sleeping bear.


Peace.