Every few years starry-eyed Texas Democrats fixate on some bright, well-scrubbed young fellow, dust him off, and parade him around like a prize heifer at the Fort Worth Stock Show. Talarico speaks fluent moral clarity and raises money like a tent revival preacher, but expecting him to unseat Ken Paxton in a Texas statewide race is like entering a jackrabbit into a demolition derby. Paxton could be indicted by Southern Baptists and GOP voters would still elect him just for spite. We're watching the exact same heartbreak express pull out of the station...different conductor, same ol' train wreck.

Yes, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has mistakenly detained and deported U.S. citizens, despite official agency policy stating that ICE has no legal authority over U.S. citizens.

Live Free or Die! has become Submit or Die!

Renee Good and Alex Pretti won't be voting.

Again sacrificing liberty for safety. Can't have people exercise their right to vote in the way they are accustomed. That has been declared unacceptable by the self-declared overseer-in-chief. Everything today is under surveillance.

#22

Soggy rice no taste nice. 18 generations of your ancestors are weeping because of your dishonor. You should be against pedophilia.

BallDinger,

The Statue of Liberty says come. You've sacrificed liberty for safety. That's anti-American. Shame on you.

#3

You're a pedophile apologist. You're anything but classy.

After 67 months of Trump being POTUS, he is the Deep State.

WooHoo! We'll finally corner the asphalt market!

Mission -----------------

Bugger!

"Soggy rice no taste nice."

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The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool should be renamed Lake Trump.

All this because Trump phqued teenage girls.

Everybody wants to save the world, but nobody wants to help mom do the dishes.

I'm gonna miss them.

Ratcliffe warned last year that Russia's war on UKraine risked pulling the U.S. into a direct conflict with Russia. Now he's reportedly in Moscow for undisclosed meetings. Although he doesn't necessarily align with Russian interests, he was a fervent advocate for Trump throughout the 2019 House impeachment proceedings.

Whatever it is, it's not something that can be handled via a phone call.

LaDiamond Lopez

Guilty

Jimmy Carter tried to balance the budget. He regrettably got it down to $994B and then got his ass kicked. After that, all bets were off.

- *Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)*: National debt increased from $759 billion to $994 billion, a 31% increase.

- *Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)*: National debt increased from $994 billion to $2.86 trillion, a 188% increase.

Carter's successors seem to have taken one major lesson from his failings:

The American public may blame the president for a sluggish economy, but when it comes to debt, the sky's the limit.

Quick injection of brain power for the dumb -----, MAGAts and performative fascist Christians: Dearborn, Michigan is an historic Arab American city dating back over a century with immigrants arriving from the Middle East to work for ... guess who ... Henry ------- Ford. And they are Americans, contributing, enlightening, strengthening our country. If you're Arab, if you're Muslim, you are my brother and sister and countrymen.

walked back to the middle.

Not anymore. In order to pay for all the socialist policies, they're going to have to vote for starving the MIC. People are tired of wars, and besides, unless we fight Russia or China, there aren't any -------- countries to fight anymore. Unless we attack Africa. It'll be the same as the Nordic Socialist countries. They don't pay a $trillion military budget. It'll be the same here.

Bernie Bros. revenge.

Democrats are returning to their socialist roots. FDR and Henry Wallace are coming back in vogue.

Now if they could just get the vast corruption of the MIC under control, we could have nice things.

Don't worry, Trump is strangling the military losers into submission.

Oh look, the "winningest war in history" just discovered it has used up 90-plus percent of the good missiles. High nineties, even. That's not a stockpile anymore, that's a mall kiosk.

Trump launched this thing in February like a guy who just found a half-empty bottle of cheap hootch and decided it was champagne night. Now the cupboard's bare, the factories are still ramping up, and the only thing left is the ceremonial "we're making more than ever" press conference while Pete Hegseth stares blankly at an empty shelf and pretends it's full of invisible munitions.

Republicans, remember: you asked for the tangerine narcoleptic diaper filler short-fingered vulgarian who treats national security like a late-night informercial barker. "But wait, there's more!"

Except there isn't. Just the sound of the last Tomahawk whistling into the void and a memo that says "please send thoughts and prayers, and also more billions."

Next up: the Pentagon announces a new initiative to hurl empty shipping crates and strongly worded tweets. That should hold China and Russia for at least fifteen seconds.

Try getting into a Mormon temple.