"Talarico has repeatedly criticized the influence of wealthy donors in American politics and said Wednesday that his victory gives him a mandate to pursue campaign finance reform.

"Texas is not for sale," Talarico said.

"The power in this state, in this country, belongs to the people. And we got to make sure it stays that way. It's why this is a mandate to clean up government, to overhaul our campaign finance system, to get this big money out of our politics."

During his campaign, Talarico also pledged to serve no more than two six-year terms in the U.S. Senate.

He has called for congressional term limits, an issue that would require significant changes to federal law, including a constitutional amendment to impose mandatory limits on members of Congress."

"The Only Instrumental Banned On American Radio

Rumble is one of those songs that hit at the right place in the right time, and it influenced some of the most legendary rock musicians out there. It's is one of the best riffs ever written, and it was truly a pivotal moment in rock and roll history."

'The following is a conversation with legendary guitarist John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service in the infamous Haight-Ashbury home of my good friends Joanie Levin and photographer Alan Blaustein, in San Francisco, California, USA, on June 30, 1985 at 2 AM, PDT.

I had the pleasure of knowing John Cipollina during his last years while I was living in San Francisco. We always had a mutual affinity for 1950's pioneer guitar legend Link Wray.

Just a few weeks before his death, and a few years after I conducted this informal interview,

I had the opportunity of playing drums with John at a friends wedding in San Anselmo, California, at which John, an ordained Minister, performed the wedding ceremony. We of course performed the classic Link Wray song "Rumble."

I thought it would be nice to share this with the world at large. Enjoy!
- David Gross:"

Rats/ships.

The Trumptanic is going tits up.

#156

What... you can't afford your own?

He's going to run out of Loyalists sooner rather than later.... and the one's he still has are the dumbest of their breed.

But he'll always have Visitor.

"Wiles resigned Thursday night, a senior White House source told MS NOW. Wiles told Trump, who was said to be angry with her following the GOP's huge election losses, "let me make this easy on you - I am going to resign," MS NOW reported"

Puleeeze! The only person DJT is NOT angry with is DJT.

Nothing bad is ever his fault, just ask him.

TrumperBJ concerned about, "revenge politics."??

Where's that concern been the last two years of Trump doing more of that than anything else?

#189

Absolutely not... and even if it were, that's a distinction without a difference to your 100th (at least) claim on this site that Nazis were actually Socialists.

Was Lenin a pretend socialist like Hitler? I ax'd... and even AI knew the answer:

"Vladimir Lenin was a committed Marxist revolutionary and socialist, unlike Adolf Hitler, whose use of "socialism" in the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party was a tactical branding strategy rather than an adherence to actual socialist or anti-capitalist economics."

He must have a really nice butt!

He's Trump's Goebbels.

"To say that Hitler understood the value of language would be an enormous understatement. Propaganda played a significant role in his rise to power.

To that end, he paid lip service to the tenets suggested by a name like National Socialist German Workers' Party, but his primary - indeed, sole - focus was on achieving power whatever the cost and advancing his racist, anti-Semitic agenda.

After the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch, in November 1923, Hitler became convinced that he needed to utilize the teetering democratic structures of the Weimar government to attain his goals."

more at the above link

Speaking of MB's famously lame canards:

"Were the Nazis socialists? No, not in any meaningful way, and certainly not after 1934. But to address this canard fully, one must begin with the birth of the party."

"Unlike any other president before him, Trump and his family have sought to monetize political loyalty, invoking Make America Great Again (MAGA) adherence in investment pitches involving equities and crypto ventures.

He has lent his name to a social media company, a meme coin and cryptocurrency tokens.

Investors in four major Trump-backed crypto projects"including the president's meme coin, the Trump family's crypto exchange, World Liberty Financial, its bitcoin mining operation, American Bitcoin, and a blockchain company, AI Financial-lost a combined $2.3 billion through April, as the value of their digital tokens crashed, Reuters reported earlier."

"Even as retail investors lose money, President Trump's 114.75 million shares of the company, which he received without paying any cash in 2024 as a part of Trump Media's merger with a special purpose acquisition company called Digital World Acquisition, are still worth about $460 million at the Thursday closing price of $4.02 per share. Trump's stake had a paper value of more than $6 billion when the stock was trading near its high."

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Trump Scam Cult

I Know Who Trump's Going to Fire in MAGA Massacre | Inside Trump's Head

- Corky, what do you think, should Jeffries and Schumer step aside?

I think that all Dems should sign onto a Pledge to support a War on Citizens United and all such big money in politics Laws (also to promote Universal Healthcare and Education!) or get the F out of the way.

"The files offer fresh insight into Russian-Iranian military cooperation at a sensitive moment as Washington weighs its next steps in its war against Iran after the US midterm elections.

Observers widely regard Moscow as one of the main winners of a prolonged war in Iran, which has brought Russia strategic and economic advantages.

Russia has benefited from an increase in global energy prices triggered by disruptions to shipping through the strait of Hormuz and attacks on energy infrastructure across the Gulf.

Higher oil revenues give the Kremlin an additional source of funds for its war in Ukraine and could help ease pressure on Russia's strained budget.

The war has also diverted international attention and western military resources away from Ukraine, further straining Kyiv's access to crucial US-made Patriot air defence interceptors.

Donald Trump has repeatedly played down the extent of Moscow's support for Iran. Last month, the US president wrote that Russia was doing "very little, if anything" to help Tehran, arguing that he did not want to drive Moscow away from negotiations to end the war in Ukraine."

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Agent Krasnov indeed.

- persecuting Musk

Visitor kissing Elitist arse yet again.

Here's someone who just cost the Naxi Salute Artist half a billion dollars for NADA:

James Talarico's Message to Texas After HISTORIC Win

THE LINCOLN PROJECT: POST-ELECTION TOWN HALL (2026)

HERE's your Gov Tax Dollars going to Crass Political Propaganda on Gov.com:

"President Trump Will Again Defy the Odds, the Fake News, and the Radical Left"

Every time the Radical Left, the Fake News, and the professional panic class have written President Trump's obituary, they have been wrong. They will be wrong again."

"Still, most MAGA influencers proved not quite ready to criticize Trump directly, which led them to spin bizarre theories about what could have really resonated with independent voters.

As an example, podcaster Liz Wheeler said Republicans would have won if only the Justice Department had arrested more deep-state operatives from the Biden administration.

Surely that would've saved Kansas!

AMONG ALL THE HORRIBLE developments for Republicans that took place Tuesday night, perhaps the most alarming for online MAGA was the collapse of Texas Republican candidates.

The state has been a bastion of the modern conservative movement, not just reliably red and with leadership willing to gerrymander the ---- out of congressional lines, but also the right's favorite contrast to hedonistic California.

So when it became clear that Democrats were romping there, it led to an onslaught of white identity politics that could make the movement even more radioactive to voters. Like Johnson, personalities at the Blaze blamed nonwhite voters for sabotaging the Texas GOP."

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After seeing some racist graffiti, LBJ remarked to Bill Moyers that:

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

... in condemnation of politicians who did just that.

"Late that night in a hotel room, Johnson explained to his young staffer (and future press secretary) Bill Moyers exactly how he believed Southern elites weaponized racial bigotry to divide the working class and maintain political and economic dominance. Moyers later recounted the conversation in a 1988 article..."

(69!!!!)

(for LeetheAgent)

This is 2 mins of Deliciousness!

The Midterms
Jesse Welles

"Inside the White House, senior aides were bracing for staff departures, possible Cabinet changes and Democratic investigations, according to a senior official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"It absolutely sucks to be here right now," the official said. "Morale is as low as it can get."

The official said internal polling had warned six weeks before the election that Republicans were headed for losses in both chambers, but Trump refused to change course on Iran despite warnings about the political consequences.

"Ultimately, he just didn't care," the official said. "He refused to listen to anyone."

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Ultimately this, and everything else, is to him about him and him only.

There's still that PM job in Israel if the heat gets too hot in this kitchen.

Let me just leave this song here for all the heartbroken Trump Cultists: