#4

That's hilarious, if absurdly so... those were mostly songs written by 17 year old boys about 16 year girlfriends.

And much of the terminology was not the modern cynical angst-filled later Gen self-blaming online frustrated incel definitions of today.

"I have been deeply troubled by Paxton's conduct as Texas Attorney General, particularly his decision to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election in other states in an effort to help Donald Trump remain in power," Neil Bush, 71, wrote.

"I have been a Republican for most of my life, and I still believe deeply in many traditional Republican principles.

But character matters more than party affiliation. Our democracy depends on leaders who respect our institutions, tell the truth, accept accountability, and seek to unite rather than divide," Neil Bush wrote.

Neil Bush said he sees Talarico as "a principled, pragmatic leader" who has a "willingness to listen to those with whom he disagrees".

"He speaks with respect, seeks common ground, and seems genuinely interested in bringing people together rather than driving them apart. His faith appears to be a deeply rooted source of humility, compassion, and conviction rather than a political weapon," Neil Bush wrote."

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Character? Character? Trumpers don't need no stinking character in their Big Daddies!

"More than 100 letters thought to contain white powder were reportedly thought to be circulating in the US mail system. Election offices across the US have also reported receiving suspicious mail.

The mailings are under investigation by the FBI, the Capitol police and the US Postal Inspection Service.

The FBI declined to confirm "specific instances or letters", but said in a statement earlier this week:

"The FBI and US Postal Inspection Service are investigating a series of suspicious mailings sent to various addresses nationwide, including secretary of state offices and their related election offices, and congressional offices."

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Whew! I'm just glad the competent appointees of the Drumpf Admin are on top of this!

Michelle could prolly win against Vance or Rubio or DJT 3.O.

But she'd rather not have her daughters assassinated by rwing trash.

"The Kremlin adviser was clearly unimpressed by what he heard.

"In terms of resolving the Ukraine crisis, there wasn't much there that was useful," commented Ushakov.

Later Russian state TV asked him about the prospects for peace.

"I don't know how close we are getting," Yuri Ushakov said, "but things are moving in that direction."

All rather vague.

It seems that President Putin doesn't feel under pressure right now to end the war.

He knows that Ukraine's air defences are under severe strain.

He knows that winter is coming and may well view the cold weather as an opportunity to pound Ukraine into submission.

He knows, too, that there is a US president in the White House who clearly wants a bigger, better, more profitable relationship with Moscow."

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"A Putin-Zelensky-Trump trilateral may not be imminent.

But in China next month a meeting between Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping may well take place on the fringes of the Apec summit.

Some commentators here are already dubbing it "The New Yalta" - a reference to the Yalta Conference of 1945, where Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt met to plan the political and territorial reorganisation of post-war Europe.

"Russia, China and the United States are the only superpowers right now in the world," Evgeny Popov says. "Of course, it will be good for the entire world if our leaders meet in China."

After nearly five years of war, that would put Vladimir Putin exactly where he wants to be - at the top table of global politics."

from the thread link

'Putin's Poodle' is just one of the names DJT will be remembered for.

"Speaking on Wednesday, Trump said:

"The other day I was talking to Vladimir Putin about settling his war with Ukraine, which I think we're getting closer to, by the way, maybe now the closest we've been."

Ushakov also told reporters that Putin reiterated to Witkoff that Russian troops were advancing everywhere across the vast front line and had a "strategic initiative".

Ukraine and its European allies have disputed Putin's claim, pointing to a virtual stalemate on the front.

On Wednesday, Zelensky said he would accept a deal that would freeze the war along the current front line."

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If Vlad weren't targeting and killing civilians, he wouldn't be Vlad.

It's been his MO for decade; massacre the civilians first.

#8

Wise of you not to argue that Elon's Jackboots would stay super shiny around you.

#5

You certainly wouldn't... their boots would always be spitshined around you.

Ok.... so which of you guys dressed up as a Muslim and ate Visitors pu... cat?!

There are a ton of other polls showing DJT and Republicans down in the sewer from which they spewed.

- Thin skinned little fella.
#59 | Posted by eberly

Um... when did he start talking to his penis?

NewsMax, Shady, and LHT... a match made in BS heaven.

Putin killed another child, a 6 year old girl in Kyiv, during DJT's so-called diesel ceasefire.

also:

"Army Media ...
@armyinformcomua

Four civilians killed, children injured, homes destroyed and a university hit. Russia's overnight attacks on Ukrainian cities continue.

On the night of Oct. 20-21, Russian forces launched another wave of attacks against Ukrainian cities, striking residential neighborhoods, educational facilities and other civilian infrastructure.

By Wednesday morning, Ukrainian emergency services had confirmed at least four deaths and reported injuries to civilians, including children, across the affected regions."

article link

"The spiritually bereft rhetoric of AI, like so much tech rhetoric, insists that doing things is hard and we don't want to do hard things.

As the brilliant tech critic Sherry Turkle points out, AI as currently promoted and used threatens to "deskill" us both intellectually and emotionally, if we depend on it for a sycophantic pandering to our egos in place of the challenge of human relationships, if we make it do our mental labor for us.

Like physical strength, emotional and intellectual strength are achieved through efforts tech would like us to abandon in favor of outsourcing the work to their products.

A third new anti-AI organization, launched by longtime climate activist Phil Aroneanu, is called Irreplaceable.org, and while its main goal is to regulate AI, its premise is that we need to protect our incomes, our rights, our freedom, but also our humanity against the tech corporations pushing AI."

"So 2026 probably won't be a red-letter date in the history books. But 2028 could be one. If it is, it will be due in part to groundwork that was laid this year.

So if future historians write of a No Kings era beginning in 2028, those of us who are still around can quietly interject to say: Don't forget 2026."

Politics and strange bedfellows, eh?

#51

Basically, you're a very insipid (look it up) troll .

Do they have Zionist Settlers who bulldoze families in their homes in China? Were you one of them? Which minority did you commit genocide upon?

- But they fell under the spell of a violent Islamic extremist (oxymoron isn't it?)

No, they fell under the control of a few very wealthy men who live in Qatar who made their fortunes overcharging Palestinians for everything and making their children drink sewer water.

Didn't they teach you anything at home? Or were you too busy running away from China rather than staying and trying to change it?

"In response, the BBC's attorneys wrote, "None of [Trump]'s arguments for blocking the deposition of Mr. Smith can withstand scrutiny," pointing out that Smith himself doesn't object to testifying in the deposition and that Trump still has to prove that "he did not foment or incite the January 6 Capitol riot," as he claims the BBC's documentary falsely implied.

"No one forced Plaintiff to file this lawsuit and to dispute that his speech on January 6 incited the violence that followed at the Capitol.

But as long as he chooses to maintain the case, he cannot commit the fundamental injustice of preventing the BBC from obtaining the evidence it needs to robustly defend itself on every element of his claim, including Plaintiff's burden to prove falsity," the BBC's lawyers wrote."

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"Oh, what the tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive" people into thinking 'we' didn't try to steal the 2020 Election.

And won't try again in the Midterms and 2028.

One could just think of Palestinians as Future Native Americans on Reservations.

They'll be able to buy Gambling Licences though as franchisees of the Trump Gaza Casino and Pedo Palace Golf Club.

"It is well documented that there are very few cases of voter fraud. A database managed by the Heritage Foundation, for example, found about 100 instances of non-citizen voting over a quarter century.

But in the factfree world of the Trump White House, hundreds of thousands of
non-citizens cast ballots in 2020, securing Trump's defeat in what Trump

Chapter 4: Discrediting the system

calls, quote, "a crisis of election security".

There is a method to Trump's madness.

These spurious and unverified charges are being weaponized not only to impose sweeping voter restrictions, but to discredit the integrity of the election process.

If the elections go badly for Trump, as many polls indicate, all of these charges will be used in order to order the Department of Homeland Security, which asserts that 278,000 non-citizens are registered to vote across multiple states, to seize ballots and invalidate vote counts, especially in districts where Democrats appear to defeat Republicans.

This discrediting of the election process is accompanied by a slew of other even more fantastical conspiracy theories..."

more at the thread link

Power can be used for good or evil and many things inbetween, but 70 percent of people have come to recognize that what we have in the WH now is more than trending evil, it's force that needs to be retconned with... as peacefully as possible, but the People have to realize that their Gov is now, "of, by, and for" the Moneyed Interests, not the People.

Politicians are bought and sold as a Feature of this Money as Speech, Corporate Personhood System, not a Bug.

Want to know a secret? The far right and the far left both agree on that, in general, but the far right has been sold that there are worse things, like Democrats who are secretly Communists... S'trewth!

The amazing Mr. Hedges starts out

"Chapter 1: Threats to election integrity

"Thank you. Thank you, Scott.

The Trump White House is attempting to put into place a series of mechanisms to fix or invalidate the midterm elections.

Congress, if these mechanisms are enacted, will not save us. The courts will not save us. The Democratic Party will not save us. Our only hope, should the election be rigged or stolen, is nationwide strikes, our only hope is to the machinery of commerce and government.

Although this militancy will be met with severe state repression, otherwise we
are doomed. There will be no exit.

The Trump administration has not succeeded in implementing all its election demands, but it has not abandoned the possibility of declaring emergency powers or martial law to order federal agents to confiscate election materials and ballots.

The Trump administration has already seized ballots from previous elections.

Chapter 2: Data-driven disenfranchisement

(more at the thread link w/ Transcript (which I edited for your lazy asses!)

Thanks for posting this, Truthhurts.

Here's how this fine, suitably radical if the instigation of stolen elections by this, Gold Palace, er, I mean, WH is obvious.

You know if the Media and the political opposition has the balls to report the illegalities of a Pres who's own DoJ testified under Oath tried to steal the 2020 Election.

And the opposition is upwards of 70% of people/voters; centrists, liberals, rwing former MAGA, progressives, conservative Dems and Republicans... social democrats like myself, socialists, communists (mostly imaginary), yellow dogs, Libertarians (aka former GW voters) Obamites, (no Biden voters, they (we) are almost as an endangered species as former GW voters)...

... you name it, most of them are not now, and many never have been, supporters of the Orange Satan.

- I believe the FBI in both cases

Of course you do... you grew up believing DNA sampling and Massive Gov Personal Surveillance are great things.

$30 mil for turning in Felon Musk?