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[Tom Kratman @TKratman]

h/t Suzanne Wolf

Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:
1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint.
2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
5. First President to violate the War Powers Act.
6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
14. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
20. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
23. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
25. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
26. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
27. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
28. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
29. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
32. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
34. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
36. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences."
37. Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.
I feel much better now. I had been under the impression he hadn't been doing ANYTHING... Such an accomplished individual... in the eyes of the ignorant maybe.!.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

No, President Trump is NOT keeping the Qatar-gifted Boeing 747 (the interim “new Air Force One”) as personal property.

He’s not taking the jet, moron! It belongs to the United States Air Force, dumbass. It’s a “bridge” aircraft designed to provide an AF-1 for this president, and FUTURE presidents, until Boeing can produce a new one (which they are years behind). Certainly a “senator” would know that.

You’ve been selling this lie for months.

How do people like you get elected to anything?

[Tommy2 @t0xmmy2]

Something good is happening at this World Cup.

The Scots turned up. The English turned up. The Norwegians turned up. They sang their songs, got stuck in, and the Americans loved them for it. Glasgow and Boston are getting twinned off the back of it.

For 30 years we’ve been told to view the US as some sort of Great Satan — all imperialism and orange-man clichés. Not everyone buys it of course, but enough do.

And then Europeans actually go, and find a place that feels familiar. Makes sense to them. A bit richer, a bit further ahead, but recognisably ours. Settled by Europeans, still deeply European in its bones.

There’s a gathering-of-the-clans feeling to it. Old neighbours discovering they still like the same songs, the same drink, the same daft humour, and genuinely enjoying each other’s company.

None of it’s a surprise, really. It’s just been buried under so much politics that we forgot we were allowed to enjoy it.

Good to be reminded.

[Angry Cops @AngryCops]

It’s true. My suit has begun.

[lecoder 🇺🇲 @lecoder]

America to brits after reading the rape gang reports.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

The population of Lackland AFB is ~24,000.

160 is 0.6% of 24,000.

The current flu rate across the entire USA as of today is approximately the same (see below from Grok).

It's so easy to disprove these liars, they never even try to check their own facts because of their blind hatred of Trump and his team.

You think you hate journalists enough...

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

BREAKING: Drag queen school board member who was just arrested for alleged sexually explicit communication with a child, was a GUEST SPEAKER at the Democratic Party PA Caucus in 2024.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.

Write that down. 🦋

[Bear with the 248 @EricEricj248]

Same, and same some more.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: George W. Bush

One of my great regrets in life is the way I defended George W. Bush in the early 2000s. This cost me friends and exposed me to relentless personal attacks. I defended his CHARACTER. I thought what I was doing was right. I was wrong.

I did not believe—and still do not believe—that he “lied” us into the war in Iraq. My belief was and is based on my knowledge of classified pre-war intelligence and my service early in the war on the Iraqi base that was most suspected to include WMD storage.

I defended Bush against “Bush lied, people died.” I defended Bush against “Chimpy McBushitler” and all of the other spurious Democrat insults that served only to undermine the war effort I had been fighting.

But while I defended Bush, he NEVER defended himself.

Then, when a true Marxist was elected President in the form of the worst human being to occupy the Oval Office since Woodrow Wilson (i.e., Barack Obama), Bush was SILENT. He never, ever spoke out against Obama, and even cozied up to him and Michelle, which I assumed was part of the tradition of former Presidents never criticizing their successors. (I was wrong in my assumption.)

THEN Donald Trump was elected President by America and suddenly Bush found his voice in criticizing serving Presidents. Why would he do this to a member of his own party other than because Trump was an outsider determined to dismantle the tyranny of the federal administrative state?

I now know that George W. Bush is a Deep State charlatan of extremely low character. Allegiance to the Deep State and The Swamp trumps any allegiance he may have ever had to his own party, the United States of America, the Constitution, or the American people.

He is despicable.

Surprisingly, I now find him more objectionable than the other Presidents in this picture. At least they let us know who they actually were.

One of my great regrets in life is the way I defended George W. Bush in the early 2000s.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

This qualifies as one of the most absurd headlines of all time.

It’s deeply disturbing that the @StarTribune published a piece endorsing the idea that American workers should lose out on decent wages to illegal alien lawbreakers.

Shame on the Star Tribune.

[David Hoffman @TrustlessState]

If USA beats you in the World Cup

That country has to call it Soccer until the next World Cup

New rule I just made up

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

On the topic of why the rest of Utah is no longer going to SLC to spend money-

A couple years ago when Houston Tx Hot Chicken first opened in Utah, I wanted to take my family. The nearest one to us was in SLC. We drove there and the sidewalks were filled with homeless and seedy druggies hanging out and even a couple of dudes doing the fenty fold. IN UTAH. WTF?

The streets were filthy and filled with trash, but by golly there was a pride flag stuck to literally everything. Then I drove around for ten minutes looking for a place to park, and said screw this, and drove all the way to the other one in I think it was Midvale. Where I could park in a normal parking lot for free and not have to play street chicken against a disease ridden drug addict.

I still have to go there a lot for events and business, but other than that I avoid the city as much as possible, because it just kinda sucks. And if you're not constantly exposed to the place each time you return its jarring just how much it keeps degrading. It just keeps getting meaner, dirtier, and dumber.

The further you get off the nice bits, the uglier it gets. The worse the vibe gets. It's like the people who despise normal try extra hard to let you know normal isn't welcome here, like they're bitter they're surrounded by a conservative red state.

And before some dumbass does the old "conservative scared of the big city" meme, I grew up in a shitty poor rural area, and been to every major metro area in the US. I've been in the worst parts of Birmingham, St. Louis, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and while growing up I visited or worked in the shittiest parts of LA and Oakland in the 90s (I spent the Rodney King riots keeping my head down at the Cow Palace). Fucking spare me your sanctimony. It's not fear. Decent people shouldn't have to live like this because liberals think it is mean to arrest criminals.

Seeing Salt Lake City decaying like this is sad, pathetic, and completely unnecessary.

[Chancy Luck @chancy_luck]

The best summer jobs for American teens have been targeted by the J-1 visa. Basically, it's low wage international staffing with a federal tax discount.

The US State Department is in control of that operation.

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

Nobody in America has regularly eaten this stuff in probably 50 years at least but I nonetheless feel the need to defend Ambrosia and Watergate Salads here because they’re slop but they’re delicious diabetes inducing slop that I hope to see make a comeback in popularity

[Bear with the 248 @EricEricj248]

@GoBlueLexi117 @Okochobeef Get some permethrin and soak your clothes in it. Death by deerflies otherwise. Damn things CHOMP when they bite

[Bear with the 248 @EricEricj248]

@GoBlueLexi117 No, no. You'll have to turn left and head West before you got that 9 hour mark. You'll still be in Michigan, just West-er.

[Austin King @AustinKingMT]

Costco needs to get rid of the AT&T people.

Sir, I'm here to buy 8 pounds of chicken wings, 600 paper plates, and a years supply of oil for my truck, not be harassed about changing my phone plan.

[Jack Bridges 🍇 @JackBridgesRZ]

“The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.”
— 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

[Bear with the 248 @EricEricj248]

@Cernovich City center is fine. Great, even. But the schools. The crime. It's still bad. Nice to visit the nice areas. Still shit to actually live and raise a family.

[critter @BecomingCritter]

idk if this sounds crazy but as a man when I'm not wanted it makes me feel unwanted