Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and VD Jance must be so pleased at this news.

#2: Hi Heehaw: Missouri sounds like a veritable paradise. In 2021, 113,351 firearm licenses were on record and 48.8% of adults have guns at home. In an average year, 1,378 people die and 4,257 are wounded by guns in Missouri. The "Show Me State" has the fourth-highest rate of gun violence in the US. Now there is legislation for people to walk around and pay for groceries with gold or silver? What could possibly go wrong? Are ammunition vending machines coming to Missouri too?

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#41: Thanks, OCU. From Wiki:

In a 1902 meeting with Philippine Governor-General William Howard Taft, Leo XIII refused to allow the United States government to buy land from Catholic friars in the Philippines.

#27: Hi Snoofy: Some of the so-called SCOTUS 'justices' have ties to or are members of Opus Dei. Here are two sources, but there are others:

Luigi Mangione's computer science skills may have been used nefariously by UHC and hence one of his motives for allegedly administering greedy CEO Brian Thompson with a lead bullet treatment. From a 2023 lawsuit against UHC before the oligarch joined the choir invisible:

The improper usage of AI to make coverage decisions, while ignoring clinical determinations made by providers, can prevent patients from being able to afford critical treatments and harm patient health. The potential wrongful denial of claims by health insurers relying on AI tools could jeopardize access to needed health care services.

#18: Thank you, Sycophant. I hope the new pope becomes a sharp pebble in one of Trumpf's shoes.

And this figures that the first non-white to ever direct the FBI is a crass, incompetent lickspittle. Meanwhile, the FBI (which recently did a good job rounding up 205 pederasts nationwide) will be targeting NYS AG Letitia James, a woman from a modest background who began her career as a Legal Aid defense lawyer. What a fkkking country we have now.

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The College of Cardinals must have wanted an American counterweight to Trumpf and hence this historic appointment. The new Pope survived some previous controversies.

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Thank you Republicans for destroying US national security.

Here is the next Executive Order from Dotard Trumpf:

"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1: Each planet in the solar system will be renamed the following: Mercury shall now be called Tiffany, Mars will be Don Junior, Venus shall be Ivanka, Jupiter will be Donald, Uranus will be Melania, Neptune will be Eric, Pluto will be Jarred, and the Moon will be renamed Barron.

It is in the best interest of the Nation to waste time, money, and resources on these megalomaniacal and frivolous contrivances to soothe my over-inflated ego and throw my cult followers red meat to go along with their Kool Aid.

My Administration will work to make the United States the most idiotic and untrustworthy nation in the world while pilfering its wealth on behalf of the oligarchs and Vladimir Putin, and helping Israel rid itself of Palestinians.

The United States Space Force (an imbecilic and unnecessary branch of the US military I established during my first reign of terror) shall provide funding for publication of this order in the Federal Register."

(Signed)
Dotard Trumpf

THE WHITE HOUSE,

May 8, 2025.

Too bad the process was quick and couldn't be delayed until 14 June.

Two perspectives on trolls:

1) "While there are some trolls who are paid advocates for one political camp or lobby, most of them are jejune, sorely-misled, and poor."

2) "Typically roped in from developing countries, these employees are responsible for posting troll comments on various social media forums. They work in organized groups by setting up call-center like operations, later following companies and influencers targeted by their employers. Masquerading as one of us', they then infiltrate the comments section and manipulate the conversation by inundating social media with conspiracy theories."

Did DOGE approve of this cost-saving measure?

#3: Hi Snoofy: This Boeing announcement from Commerce Secretary Slutnick smacks of more insider trading from the goniffs in the White House:

"Shares of Boeing (NYSE: NYSE:BA) climbed 3% following news that the United Kingdom is set to announce a $10 billion purchase of Boeing planes."

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#16: Hi Nixon: This is late stage capitalism eating itself and is unsustainable.

a) Agree. The Trumpf junta is behaving like this is the last time the Republicans will ever be in charge, so they are extracting and transferring as much wealth as possible from the USG and the masses before the 2026 midterm elections. These sales and transfers will be irrevocable, leaving the next Democratic administration an economic Weimar Republic with hordes of poor people struggling or in debt.

"I already have a legacy. I came from a working class midwest family and if I died tomorrow, I leave behind successful children and multi-generational wealth."

Who thinks or writes this way? This reads like a script or weird talking point.

I have blank lines in the thread so I don't know who or what put this canned line into the thread. The Killfile function is a savior.

FTA: "They had no due process whatsoever," the attorney said. "It just goes to show that this administration feels that it can deport US citizens whenever it wishes and however it wishes."

FTA: "US Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted to X in March: "After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID. The 5,200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the US."

And what are these core interests of the US? Enriching the oligarchs, Islamophobia, supporting Israel, and hurting poor people.

In 2015, then-Senator Marco Rubio undermined the ACA (Obamacare) with the provisions he attached to the bill:

Mr. Rubio's efforts against the so-called risk corridor provision of the health law have hardly risen to the forefront of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but his plan limiting how much the government can spend to protect insurance companies against financial losses has shown the effectiveness of quiet legislative sabotage.

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#2: When people disappear from blogs, usually there is nothing nefarious behind it. For example, I rotate my blogging on different platforms or work on my own website, so I'm MIA for a while. But I have noticed permanent disappearances in some blog-sites that may or may not be attributable to natural causes. I have my suspicions.

The Trumpf junta will maximize the publicity of this DEA operation, which would have taken place under any administration, Republican or Democrat. The DEA rendered this group ineffective and took firearms off the streets. But the real solution to the fentanyl problem in the US is reducing demand for this addictive drug. Note in the photo of arrested suspects, the DEA distinguishes US CITIZEN from NON-US CITIZEN.