#24 And this is your Republican hero, visitor_?

#51 | Flag: 59 words to proclaim I'm not trying to convince you of anything.

We might have been born at night ...

... but it wasn't last night.

#44 | "an officer was run over." | Flag:

#176 | Flag:

Truth in advertising

"Yes, and they must be dry by now. Why don't you pull them up out of the cellophane before they scorch. (stop cellophane) Heh. All right, sir, may I take your hat and goat? (baa)"

How can we be in two places at once ...

... when we're not anywhere at all?

#19 | Flag: This falls into the or something category

#18 Correct. You're not the one who hates America, bell boi.

You're just one of many.

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But here we are. Conspiratorial thinking is no longer a bug in the system; it is the operating system itself. It's the "Big Lie" of the 2020 election on steroids, washed down with a gallon of anti-vax snake oil and a side of "Deep State" paranoia.

Why? Because conspiracy theories are the ultimate political comfort food.

They take a complex, terrifying, and often random world and turn it into a binary morality play. They tell the guy whose factory closed down and whose kids don't call him anymore that it isn't because of automation or his own ------ personality; it's because of Them. The Globalists. The immigrants. The Elites. The shadowy figures pulling the strings.

It's seductive. It's addictive. And it is rotting the American brain (both the right and left hemispheres) from the inside out.

Let's talk about the mechanics, because there's always a dollar sign attached to the delusion. The people peddling this garbage, the podcasters selling survival food, the Sinclair, CBS, and OANN "news" anchors who look like they were carved out of ham, and the orange-tinted deity himself, know exactly what they're doing.

They aren't true believers. They're carnies.

...but cannot make it think.

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We are locked in a cage match with ghosts, hallucinations, imaginary demons, and a very specific, very aggressive form of collective psychosis.

The era of the sane political disagreement is in the rearview mirror, and it's currently being devoured by a pack of feral conspiracy theories that have moved from the damp, mildewy basements of 4chan directly into the West Wing and the halls of Congress.

We've moved past the "fringe." There is no fringe anymore. The fringe is the fabric.

If you'd told me ten years ago that a significant portion of the GOP, the party I spent decades building, for better or (mostly) worse, would believe that the world is run by a child-abusing cabal of subterranean lizard people who operate out of a pizza parlor, I would have told you to lay off the peyote. If you'd told me that once Donald Trump's name appeared in the case, that 90% of them would declare their own deeply held previous beliefs as a hoax, I would have taken the peyote.

#34 | Flag: Third grade taunts

QED

#31 I report, you decide, my friend Corky! :-)

#29 Flag:

"A dividend of at least $2,000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone," says the president

If and when SCOTUS overturns Trump's use of tariffs, the federal government will have to refund that $200,000,000,000.00 to corporations.

Not to those of us who had to spend more because of the tariffs.

Nope. That $200,000,000,000.00 will go to the corporations who imported goods and paid the tariffs.

So, you and I paid more for goods over the past whatever months to corporations who paid the federal government the tariffs.

So, when tariffs are refunded, they go back to the corporations, right?

And, will the corporations be sending checks to you and I, because that would be the right thing to do?

LOL

Just more transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the wealthy.

Almost like it was planned.

And then there's THIS problem:

"A dividend of at least $2,000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone," the Trump.

OK, some simple math here

US Population: 342,000,000

US population minus the 10-15% or so ~high-income~ folk: 300,000,000

So, okay, let's go ...

300,000,000 people times $2,000.00 per person is $600,000,000,000.00

Tariff collection so far in 2025 has been around $200,000,000,000.00

But we've already determined that that $200,000,000,000.00 was going to go to corporations, right?

So, where will the $600,000,000,000.00 come from?

#54 | So, that excuses the failures of the Trump?

#96 | Posted by john_savage john_savage1 john_savage2

Who's asking?

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#3 | Post approved by DEI Major Boazo

#147 So, which one of these MSM headlines are fake?

Which one of these MSM headlines are lies?

CBS: Anderson Cooper to depart "60 Minutes" at end of season, with multiple stories still to run

Walton County News: New documentary series highlights Walton County's beach dispute

Spectrum News: Orlando Poet Laureate highlights mental health barriers in Black community

Yahoo Finance: Garmin Q4 Earnings Call Highlights

KXAN: Austin weather history: The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest Valentine's Days

Atlanta News First: First Alert Forecast: Warm weather highlights the week with rain returning Wednesday

Which ones are fake news?

Which ones are lies?

#28 BJ boi says, "Where does your faith lie? With the government, or with Him?"

#103 Naturally, you open your ignorant mouth and willingly prove what I stated:

The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution has done nothing positive for the United States of America.

If it was to fight off a "tyrannical" government, then why isn't the Symbionese Liberation Army in charge of this country?

Or David Koresh, for that matter?

"Let's just call this what it is. Donald Trump's administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV. Okay? He's like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diapers. So, it's no surprise that two of the people most affected by this threat are me and my friend Jimmy Kimmel.

Suffice it say that this was -------- with hair on it. Trump's second term has been a serial attack on the free press and the speech of his critics. He's ordered the prosecution of members of Congress for a video, filed libel suits with abandon, and used his FCC to bully and cow the networks (successfully in the case of CBS and ABC). He succeeded " very briefly " is getting Jimmy Kimmel kicked off the air.

But last night we saw the latest attempt at state-sponsored censorship " precisely the sort of thing that the First Amendment was supposed to prohibit " and the craven capitulation of a major network that is so, so desperate to avoid the wrath of Donald Trump.

This latest fiasco is the result the new guidance from Trump's loyal FCC toady, Brendan Carr, about enforcement of the "equal time" rule. The rule requires broadcasters to offer comparable airtime to rival candidates if a qualified political contender appears. As Mediaite notes, "Historically, news programming " and in practice " many late-night shows have been treated as exempt under the bonafide news' exception."

But Carr is suggesting an end to all that. And that is what brought us to what we saw last night. Colbert was direct: