Kurt Percy

Lifelong Cincinnatian, political activist, candy connoisseur, Xavier basketball aficionado, science enthusiast, all-around eclectic. RT≠endorsements

[Mora @imjustmora]

There are people who actually believe this. Holy shit that's depressing

[Jamie Walters, CAIA @JWalters314]

See the propaganda move?

Make the image emotionally overwhelming, then pretend the only possible objection is hatred of America.

Nobody has to pretend to be mad at a flyover.

It looks cool.

That is not the critique.

The critique is that cool imagery is being used to launder the structure underneath it.

The White House becomes the set.

The military supplies the emotional force.

UFC supplies the combat aesthetic.

Paramount+ gets the paid stream.

Trump-world and politically connected corporations get the branding halo.

And then accounts like this say: if you notice the machinery, you must hate America.

No.

I like the flyover.

I dislike fake patriotism that turns the country into ad inventory.

This is Don Draper selling belonging after tribal sorting so the powerful concentrate more power.

Working-class people are not props.

Marines are not props.

National monuments are not props.

The issue is billionaires turning the White House into branded regime content, then hiding behind “the working class” when anyone notices the circus.

[Roberto Shenanigans @Rob_Shenanigans]

Back in 2014-2018, Ohio gave 100% tax breaks to Amazon, Meta, and Google for 40 years, for the privilege of hosting their data centers. That's $1.5 billion in lost state revenue.

Corporate welfare is gross. Instead, how about you give Ohioans a 100% tax break for 40 years?

[Leslie Proll @LeslieProll]

DOJ’s actions in Ohio reveal part of their election playbook—abusing the vast, far-reaching powers of the federal government to harass, intimidate & chill the pro-voting activities of organizations. It can happen at national, state & local levels. And it’s on us to stop them.

[Kush @kushika_twt]

The first trillionaire being announced before the end of child poverty is not a success story.

It’s a moral failure.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

I don’t want to jump to conclusions but I’m starting to think he doesn’t like Black people.

[Lunwi @lunwi75]

Remember when Musk challenged the World Food Program to explain how he could solve world hunger with just $6 billion, they did, and he just completely ignored them?

[Rachel Coyle @RachelCoyleOhio]

ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS @JOHNKASICH

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

The most corrupt president in American history, by far.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: Donald Trump has pardoned Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana convicted of insider trading.

Buyer was sentenced to 22 months in prison after being convicted on four counts of securities fraud. Prosecutors said he traded stocks using nonpublic information about two corporate mergers—NYT

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Donald Trump has been fined $200 after he was months late to report buying and selling millions in stocks, per WaPo.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

February 10: Trump buys up to $5 million in Dell stock.

Nine days later he’s telling a rally crowd to “go out and buy a Dell computer.”

All spring, he praises the company at public events.

This week: The Pentagon hands Dell a $9.7 billion contract.

Dell’s stock surges.

The President of the United States profits.

This is not a coincidence. This is not a gray area. A president used the bully pulpit to pump a stock he personally owned, then his administration steered nearly ten billion taxpayer dollars to that same company.

He did the same with Microsoft and Amazon, buying in months before the Pentagon announced deals to deploy their tech. His assets sit in a trust run by his own children, who know exactly what he holds.

Presidents are exempt from the conflict-of-interest laws that bind every other federal employee. That has to change. We rely on a president’s integrity instead of the law, and this president has shown us exactly what that’s worth.

We’ve got to ban this.

The American people deserve a government that works for them, not one man’s portfolio.
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[Luis Moreno @LuisMorenolg]

In what universe is this acceptable and not investigated as an impeachable offense? The presidency is currently nothing but a criminal enterprise to enrich one man and his family. Staggering how much they’re getting away with.

[Baggy Xav @BaggyXav]

They had to make this video because they have no notable achievements since the invention of 4K

[Dean Withers @itsdeaann]

The president cancelling tv shows he doesn’t like & memeing about it on social media is a dystopian nightmare.

10 years, the very thought of this occurring would have been uncontroversially anti-american.

MAGA has destroyed our country.

[Kina🐈‍⬛🪄 @KinaMagica]

He’s literally removing every safety restriction to destroy the planet like a cartoon villain.

[Clarence Thomas the Tank Engine @TheRealJChubby]

It's insane how openly corrupt this administration is. Just so in your face with it all the time. Great reporting here.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

COMMENTARY: Let’s say it plainly: There has never been a president as corrupt as Donald Trump.

There is no close second in our history.
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[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

The slush fund.

The ballroom.

The IRS get-out-of-jail-free card.

Donald Trump isn’t serving the American people — he’s serving himself. And he thinks you’re dumb enough to fall for it.