The evidence Trump wanted this brand new "assassination attempt" as a ruse to fast track his ballroom simply increases.

Our president is a psychopath who governs accordingly.

#186 | Posted by Zed at 2026-04-27 04:23 PM

I suspect that he's trying to get it finished before he leaves office, which if it wasn't, it would be a big embarrassment for him, and besides, perhaps his diminishing influence and the likelihood that he's going to lose Congress in November, to say nothing of potential cost overruns, that his 'donors' are starting to have second thoughts about what it is that their money is actually buying, so he's now going to need the taxpayers to foot the bill.

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Could Thomas Crook, the Butler, PA shooter, have been programmed to carry out his actions that day. Short answer: yes.

#83 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2026-04-26 10:25 AM

As in the 'Manchurian Candidate', eh?

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You are all a despisable lot.

#55 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-04-26 12:52 AM

And what exactly does 'despisable' mean?

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From what I've heard and read, the intruder was NOT armed. They were shot after they attempted to pass through a security line without having proper ID. This took place outside of the ballroom at the security perimeter. It's reported that there was some shouting taking place just before the shots were fired.

The last word is that they're going to try and resume the program. Whether Trump and his people will be returning, there's no confirmation of that at the moment.

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The House of Representatives is so supposed to REPRESENT the people of America. It would help if it actually LOOKED like America.

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It's reported that someone tried to 'crash' the White House Correspondence Dinner and they were shot and killed by security. Trump and his people were evacuated and the remainder of the attendees are being held in the ballroom. There are armed uniformed officers in the room keeping everyone from leaving.

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The last time I filled-up was April 9th and I paid $5.399 for regular at our local COSTCO. According to their app, if I were to fill-up today, it would cost $5.359.

For the record, I live in Southern California, and at the name brand stations, like Chevron, the gas there is over $6 a gallon.

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It does have a certain smell to it...

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We would have gotten most of the new 'Senior tax credit' if it hadn't been for a $33,000 capital gain form the sale of our shares of Palantir Technologies.

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Today you will on average pay 14 percent of your income in taxes, while the weathiest 400 families will pay 7 percent.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2026-04-15 11:19 AM

For this past year, 2025, the percentage of our income paid in taxes was 10.7%, but since my wife and I are both retired, we no longer have to pay any payroll taxes, only income taxes.

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This is not the sort of quality which we should be looking for in an Attorney General, who is supposed have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution and represent the interests of the citizens of the United States.

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But it's the public perception of something like this that's undermining any sort of rationalization. If she was indeed working through the legal channels, why not let that proceed without having to arrest and detain her? Irrespective of whether this will speed up the process, the optics are terrible, the wife of an American hero who has already been deployed overseas multiple times and who's currently preparing for another deployment, perhaps to the Middle East.

And what about the story about ICE agents checking 'the papers' of people attending the graduations of Marines from basic training? How does anyone think that this isn't going to look bad? Particularly when Trump is taking the country to war where these same soldiers and Marines are being sent to a part of the world where they may be asked to lay down their lives for what, Trump's ego over trying to pull a 'Venezuela moment' in Iran?

I wonder how many of those "hundreds of troops" who participated in rescuing the American airmen have family members who have already been detained or who are under treat of being arrested?

This is almost as bad as during WWII when Black troops from the South were dying in Europe and the Pacific defending a country where if they were back home they'd have to ride in the back of the bus and get water from fountains marked 'for coloreds only'.

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I hate to ask this question, because I'm 100% positive that all four crew members are completely qualified for this mission and got to where they are based on their skills, knowledge and determination, but looking at the photo of the crew, how is it that the far Right media, to say nothing of MAGA in general and certain individuals close to Trump, if not Trump himself, are not suggesting that the make-up of this crew was the result of DEI polices at NASA?

I'm just asking...

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Just in time for the midterms...

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Republican Senators John Kennedy and Ted Cruz had a tentative deal with Democratic Senators which would have gotten the funds DHS needed to pay TSA's payroll, but when Senator John Thune briefed Trump on what they were doing, Trump killed the deal as he refuses to sign anything which is bipartisan in nature. It's either a complete compilation by the Democrats or nothing (sounds familiar when it comes to Trump's Iran strategy):

Who says that this is the first time that they've done this...

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Heck, if I could teleport myself, I'd pick a lot classier place than a Waffle House...

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This just keeps getting murkier and murkier...

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While dyslexia, which Newsom admits that he suffers from, is often considered a 'learning disability', it rarely effects an individual's intelligence. In fact, there's evidence that people who suffer with dyslexia often become very high achievers. For example, some famous dyslexics include Albert Einstein, Richard Branson, Pablo Picasso, Cher, and it was rumored, but never confirmed, that George W Bush was dyslexic. And a bit closer to home, our oldest son is dyslexic, yet he served four years in the Army Infantry and is now an executive at one of the largest dining and entertainment companies in the world.

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And yet, there are no funds for TSA and FEMA, eh?

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In a word: barbaric!

#2 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-03-11 06:54 PM

More likely, 'barbecue'...

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Just another Trump family grift...

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They're creating smoke where there's no fire...

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Isn't this where at the end of a month long hand-recount, Biden's margin over Trump INCREASED by 210 votes?

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Um, even the Joads?

#40 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-05 05:18 PM

Keep in mind that the Cherokees were in Oklahoma, after their forced displacement from the Southern states and they enduring the infamous 'trail of tears' during the 30+ years prior to the Civil War, and 60 years before the opening of the Oklahoma territory to white settlers during the famous 1889 Land Run, and so Oklahoma has always been associated with being the home of the Cherokee Nation. And since the Cherokee Nation has always been open to accepting people from other lessor known tribes who had no other place to go, even welcoming former slaves from those same Southern states well before the large influx of white settlers near the end of the 19th century, it's not unusual for people who would appear to have little or no Native American ancestral ties, but who will still often make a claim of having ties back to the Cherokee Nation. Elizabeth Warren being perhaps one of the more notable individuals who's made this claim.

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