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You know Trumpers are losing it when all they can do is post LAME Whataboutisms about the Bidens rather than admit that their Cult Leader is a liar, a fraud, a rapist, a traitor, and a Pedo Pimp Enabler.

It's so sad and inept and stupid that it's funny.

... Several women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have come together for a public service announcement video demanding that Congress release all files ...

From what I understand, there may be to be a press conference tomorrow with many of the Epstein victims and Congresspeople.

Also, I just saw this ...

In reversal, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files
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... President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal as a growing number of those in his own party supported it.

"We have nothing to hide, and it's time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party," Trump wrote on social media late Sunday after landing at Joint Base Andrews following a weekend in Florida.

Trump's statement followed a fierce fight within the GOP over the files, including an increasingly nasty split with Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had long been one of his fiercest supporters. ...

The president's shift is an implicit acknowledgement that supporters of the measure have enough votes to pass it the House, although it has an unclear future in the Senate.

It is a rare example of Trump backtracking because of opposition within the GOP. ...


#10 I think what Corky means are these promises kept ...

- 19th Amendment | Women's right to vote

- Apollo 11 | First manned moon mission (and all of the value-added innovations)

- Social Security | Social insurance program

- Medicare | Health insurance for seniors

- NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization - the political and military alliance between the US, Canada and Europe

- Medicaid | Health care program for low income people

- Securities and Exchange Act Law | Oversee the trading of securities and protect investors

- Rural Electrification Act | Federal loans for the installation of electricity to serve rural areas

- Peace Corps | American volunteers promoting friendship, goodwill and peace around the world

- Unemployment Benefits | Temporary payments to the unemployed

- Fair Labor Standards Act | Ending the cruel practice of child labor

- Servicemen's Readjustment Act | The GI Bill, which has benefited millions of returning soldiers

- Federal Home Loan Program | Guaranteed loans that allowed millions of Americans to become homeowners

- National Industrial Recovery Act | 8 hour workday, minimum wage, paid overtime, and the right to collective bargaining

- National School Lunch Act | Free or low-cost meals for children who might otherwise go hungry

- 1965 Voting Rights Act | Prohibits discrimination in voting

- National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis | Forerunner of the March of Dimes

- Head Start Program | Comprehensive services for low income families

- 1964 Civil Rights Act | Prohibits discrimination and protects civil rights

- Marshall Plan European Recovery Act | Rebuilt a secure and peaceful Europe after World War II

- Financial Aid for Higher Education Loans | Guaranteed student loans that enabled over 50 million Americans to receive a college education

- Family and Medical Leave Act | Temporary unpaid leave and job protection to employees " for qualified medical and family reasons

- Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act | Protect workers against pay discrimination

- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Health care reform: Preventive care screening, lower prescription drug costs, protection for pre-existing conditions among many other benefits

- American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 | Pandemic recovery, economic stimulus payments, free vaccines, funeral expense assistance, expanded child tax credits, block grants for schools, funds for small business and many other benefits

What have the GOPyers given us?

- a $37.000,000,000,000.00 debt

- free taxpayer money to the uber wealthy

You're welcome.

$248,141,620
Total Spent on Pharmaceuticals/Health Products, 2010
516
Number of Clients
1,670 (64.19%)
Number of Lobbyists/Percent of Former Government Employees ?more info

www.opensecrets.org
.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries/summary?cycle=2010&id=h04

Nov 18, 2009 " For all federal elections, the health sector donated more to Democrats (54%) than to Republicans (46%)
www.nejm.org
paywalll

And then there's this:

Alt National Park Service

We wrote this to help you imagine how quickly a city can change under Trump ...
Charlotte was once a place of slow, easy mornings, coffee cups clinking in cozy cafs, jazz drifting through open doors on Tryon Street, families stepping onto the light rail with strollers and soccer bags. A city defined by banking towers and craft breweries, where weekends were measured by Panthers touchdowns, farmers' markets, and late-night debates about who served the best barbecue in town.
By this weekend, that rhythm collapsed.
Before sunrise, unmarked SUVs slid through quiet neighborhoods, and ICE agents moved in like a storm front. Residents described officers sprinting through parking lots, jumping fences behind small bakeries and mercados. Some said they watched people shoved to the ground, grocery bags splitting apart, oranges rolling into traffic, voices shaking as shouts ricocheted between brick storefronts.
A caf known for empanadas and music stayed shuttered, its metal grate pulled tight. A handwritten note hung on the door: Closed for the safety of our community. Just down the street, a weekend lunch spot told customers online: Too dangerous today. Please stay home.
Parents kept children inside. Workers who normally clocked in before dawn called their bosses in fear. City bus drivers said they saw makeshift checkpoints near major intersections, where people waited in silence, shoulders tense, eyes fixed on the ground.
The city that once celebrated diversity through food trucks, cultural parades, and church festivals found itself breathing differently doors locked, windows dark, conversations hushed. Neighbors said it didn't feel like protection; it felt like punishment. Not order, but intimidation.
Operations were no longer about safety, but about fear, fear that reached families, workers, business owners, and even those with the legal right to be here. And in the quiet between sirens, the city wondered what it was becoming.

Where are those great health plans?

Obamacare's Five Broken Promises That Made Health Care Even Worse

Broken Promise #1 " You Can Keep Your Plan

Up to 9.3 million people lost their coverage during the first open enrollment period.
President Obama personally apologized for Americans losing health coverage.
Politifact named "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it," the Lie of the Year for 2013.

Broken Promise #2 " You Can Keep Your Doctor

As many as 214,000 doctors opted out of participating in Obamacare exchange plans.
CNN declared President Obama's claim that "You can keep your own doctor" false.
Obamacare's website revised and then dropped the section entitled, "Can I keep my own doctor?"

Broken Promise #3 " Your Premiums Will Go Down by $2,500

Premiums increased by about 60% in the first four years.
Insurance premium amounts varied in increase from $2,524 for an individual between the ages of 31 and 40 to $12,040 for a family headed by someone over age 60.

Broken Promise #4 " You'll Have More Access to Care

Hundreds of thousands of health care providers opted-out of Obamacare exchange plans.
Studies show that instead of going to a doctor's office for care, people continued to use emergency rooms for non-emergencies.
Over half of the of the uninsured in 2018 were eligible for financial assistance through Medicaid or marketplace subsidies but chose not to be covered.
Access to insurance does not equate to having access to care.

Broken Promise #5 " Those With Pre-Existing Conditions Will Be Protected

Obamacare did not protect patients from bankruptcy. Research from a left-leaning organization found no evidence Obamacare reduced the proportion of bankruptcies driven by medical debt.
Obamacare did not protect patients from dying. A 2019 study found there was no reduction in mortality for those that participated in Obamacare, meaning that enrollment in Obamacare had the same impact as having other forms of coverage or no coverage at all.

The Gen Z anti-cartel protesters have managed to break through the police lines and into the Government Palace of Guadalajara at this moment.
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Do try harder.
#7 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Why? You're a gaslighter thats all there is to your questions. Gaslighting.

@#18 ... Marjorie Taylor Greene has been an enemy to the left for years, and she hasn't had to fear for her life. She's been an enemy to the right for one day, and now she has to hire security. ...

Greene Says She's Receiving Threats as Trump Coins New Nickname Amid Feud
www.newsweek.com

... Amid an escalating feud inside the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement between President Donald Trump and one of his staunchest supporters, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the president has given her a new nickname"Marjorie "Traitor" Greene.

The congresswoman wrote on X on Saturday that because of the president's rhetoric and commentary about her, she has been receiving "a hot bed of threats" from people "being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world." ...



How long before Pres Trump's unidentified masked militia start coming after her ...


Nov 1st.

Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, #Michoacan, made a name for himself by criticizing his own party, #morena, for not doing enough against the cartels. He was just shot a few minutes ago and has been taken to the hospital in serious condition.

#Mexico #Narcostate
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Its like Americans have no idea whats going on in Mexico, but somehow its got to be rightest or Trumps fault.

From everything I have seen Mexico, geography and climate is California, only bigger. Clean up the cartels and Mexico would be a Superpower in its own right.

More from the article ...

... Musk's company xAI launched Grokipedia last month to compete with Wikipedia " a crowdsourced information repository authored by humans that the billionaire and others on the American right have repeatedly accused of ideological bias.

"It is clear that sourcing guardrails have largely been lifted on Grokipedia," Cornell Tech researchers Harold Triedman and Alexios Mantzarlis wrote in a report seen by AFP.

"This results in the inclusion of questionable sources, and an overall higher prevalence of potentially problematic sources."

The study, which scraped hundreds of thousands of Grokipedia articles, said the trend was particularly notable in topics pertaining to elected officials and controversial political topics.

Grokipedia's entry for "Clinton body count" -- a widely debunked conspiracy theory that links the deaths of multiple people to former president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary -- cites InfoWars, a far-right website notorious for peddling misinformation.

Other Grokipedia articles cite American and Indian right-wing media outlets, Chinese and Iranian state media, anti-immigration, antisemitic or anti-Muslim sites, and portals accused of promoting pseudoscience and conspiracy theories, the report said.

"Grokipedia cites these sources without qualifying their reliability," it said. ...

They are also 13 times more likely to include a "blacklisted" source which is blocked by Wikipedia, it added.

" Trustworthiness' "

AFP's request to xAI for comment generated this auto response: "Legacy Media Lies."


DEVELOPING, Mexico : It's being reported multiple states are undergoing mass civil unrest, with states like Guadalajara, Puebla, Mexico City, and others showing clashes between police and anti-cartel protestors.

Puebla, MX "

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So, this most august message board does not appear to be the only place that has comments posted from agitators outside the Country?

Yeah sure blame outside agitators.

Reality: The Leftist Anti-Cartel Mayor, possibly the next President, was assassinated by the Cartel, leftist get upset ......

Gaslighter: Lets blame the online outside the country righty agitators.

Unreal.

FBI Responds to Tucker Carlson Report on Trump Shooter Thomas Crooks
www.newsweek.com

... The FBI Rapid Response account on X insisted: "This FBI has never said Thomas Crooks had no online footprint. Ever." ...

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