John Cunning

Retired from Missouri State Parks in 2018. Interested in historic music and love to travel.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell, 1984

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

That's a great observation.

The right's screaming outrage about DEI is not about qualifications, it's really all about racism

And this is proof positive right here.

#FightTheRight

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Mike Johnson, you little weasel.

You come for our social security, ALL of America is coming for you.

That is OUR money.
That is OUR future.
That is OUR safety net.
Don't you fucking touch it.

- Gen X

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Hunter Biden SHREDS the media's double standard toward the Trump family in one devastating post — and EVERY word is documented.

Hunter Biden just posted something on X that cuts right to the heart of America's broken media landscape — and it's IMPOSSIBLE to argue with.

"So let me get this straight," he wrote. "Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom," referring to the comments the CNN anchor has made about disbelieving some of the claims in Jill Biden’s latest memoir.

"Meanwhile, Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land." TRUE. Over 100,000 Albanians are in the streets. Anti-corruption prosecutors have opened an investigation. Flamingo habitats are being bulldozed. It BARELY registers on mainstream media.

"Don Jr. married the daughter of Epstein's banker." Also TRUE. While Epstein survivors read their FBI abuse reports aloud outside the Justice Department, Pam Bondi refused to answer a even a SINGLE question about Trump and the Epstein files, and DOJ lawyers intervened to make sure she didn't.

"A startup that Donald Jr. fund backs just got a record $620 million Pentagon loan." FACTCHECK: ALSO TRUE. While Trump's own financial disclosures show him trading stock in companies his administration then hands billion-dollar contracts to, Don Jr.'s SHADY investment connections to Pentagon contractors receive almost NO scrutiny from mainstream media.

"Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5 billion in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted." Also TRUE, but that story got almost NO coverage.

And then Hunter Biden delivered the punchline that lands like a sledgehammer: "And I know: 'But what about your paintings, Hunter?'"

HUNTER IS 100% RIGHT: His art sales, laptop, and legal troubles consumed years of breathless media coverage. The Trump children's CORRUPT overseas business deals, foreign investments, Pentagon contracts, and connections to Jeffrey Epstein's associates a free pass.

And while Jake Tapper attacks Jill Biden is being attacked for a book, Jared Kushner is bulldozing protected wetlands for a $4 billion resort while his father-in-law runs foreign policy, while raising BILLIONS from shady deals with foreign governments.

There is simply NO comparison!

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[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: THANK YOU! CNN's Kaitlan Collins confronts Treasury Secretary Bessent over Trump's insane attempt to slap his own leering mug on $250 bills.

His stuttering answer said it all...

"Politically, do you think it's a good idea, though, when people are struggling to afford gas and groceries?" Collins asked Secretary Scott Bessent during a press briefing.

Earlier today, The Washington Post reported that four current and former Treasury Department employees have revealed that Trump officials are pushing to have his face printed on $250 bills. They have repeatedly pestered the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to work up prototypes. It would be the first time that a living person has appeared on American currency in over 150 years. Under federal law, only deceased individuals may appear on our money.

This is the stuff that third world dictatorships are made of.

"Look, I think it has— I— I think that it's bifurcated," said Bessent. "Do you think we should have a 250th anniversary celebration?"

"Well, that's happening anyway," Collins bluntly replied. "But putting the President's face on $250 bill is a choice."

"But no, no, no, no. No. It— No, no, no, no. But Kaitlan, its not happening anyway," said Bessent. "It's happening because it's being funded by private citizens, by the federal government, by state governments, by municipal governments, to celebrate our country."

"And I— I don't think that there's anything untoward about having the President of the United States, the person who was President of the United States, on the 250th anniversary bill," added Bessent.

With that point, we beg to differ. The idea of putting a mass murdering, pedophiliac, demented, convicted felon, adjudicated rapist on our money is absolutely unacceptable. This is yet another desperate attempt by Trump to carve out a legacy for himself. He's aware of his own looming mortality and the fact that he will leave nothing behind but a weaker America, looted treasury, and enraged populace. He knows we despise him and so he's grasping for immortality on our money.

Please ❤️ and share if you staunchly oppose putting Trump on our money!

[Auntie Ifa Charitie Hartsig 🌷⚖️🌵 @CharitieHartsig]

Out of the mouths of babes!

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[Heather Sutton @heathercsutton]

The United States already owns an official ballroom.

It is Mellon Auditorium and sits, appropriately, on Constitution Ave.

And, fantastically, it was just renovated in 2023.

So, it's time to stop talking about a $1 Billion dollar ballroom.

https://t.co/3MchJGdOGI

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

The US government already has a ballroom just down the street. The Andrew Mellon Auditorium is less than a mile away from the White House is beautiful and accommodates more people than the new ballroom will and is owned by the U.S. Government.
via Shelia Earl

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Yes!

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

For the first time ever, the most famous American in the world is not the president or a Hollywood icon or tech billionaire — it’s the pope.

This is more than a Catholic triumph; it’s a cultural watershed for the United States.

In a society that often equates American influence with might or money or celebrity, now our foremost representative on the global stage is a humble man in a white cassock, preaching love, justice, and mercy.

America’s contemporary image is often tied to loud, combative nationalism and a cult of personality.

How poetic, then, that as we turn the page, the world’s spotlight shifts to an American known for quiet service and spiritual depth.

Pope Leo XIV’s rise doesn’t erase our nation’s struggles, but it does offer a new narrative for what American leadership can mean.

It suggests that America’s greatest export might not be our entertainment or weaponry, but our capacity for idealism and moral vision. https://t.co/VuYOz1Oljw

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

“An actual king, born of the lineage of kings we fought to establish our constitutional republic, had to come back here to remind us to wake the f**k up” @JonStewart

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Gas station concerns

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Very sad when the King of England cares more about America than the United States President does.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Combat veteran Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth TORCHES "incompetent fool" Pete Hegseth for targeting the brave women serving in our U.S. military.

She gave her legs for this country. Hegseth has given nothing...

"Well, Pete Hegseth is an incompetent fool," Duckworth said on MS NOW. "He is a misogynist, and he's been trying to get rid of women's role in our military. He obviously must have lost out a promotion to a female service member at some point, and is, you know, on a personal vendetta."

Not only is the Secretary of Defense an avowed misogynist, he's an alleged rapist just like his boss Donald Trump. These men despise women.

"But bottom line, in the testimony, he said, we are doing this to the highest male standard, as if there were only two standards in the military," Duckworth continued. "And in fact, the physical fitness standards are actually graduated based on age as well. So a 40-year-old serviceman does not have to run the two miles as fast as an 18-year-old serviceman."

"So it is also differentiated by age as well as by gender," she explained. "And frankly, you know, as someone who served in a combat arms branch, and I volunteered to serve in the first combat arms branch that actually accepted women into combat roles, which is as a helicopter pilot, you know, I know what the experience is. I know that our women who have met those standards have met the standards."

Duckworth lost her legs in Iraq in 2004 when the helicopter she was co-piloting was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade. Her arm was also damaged in the attack. This woman has given more for this country that Hegseth will ever comprehend.

"They're doing their jobs," she continued. "They are actually out there participating and taking care of the business at hand. And frankly, our nation's military could not go to war without its female service members."

"And yet Pete Hegseth is on this personal vendetta," she added. "In fact, he's fired every female four-star general and tried to stop the additional promotion of two African-American women generals from getting additional stars. And that's why, you know, the former Army Chief of Staff quit."

Tammy Duckworth is the kind of public servant that America needs and deserves. She's a veteran, a mother, and a staunch advocate for the American people. Hegseth is a drunk, a war criminal, and a sexual predator. The choice here is easy.

Please ❤️ and share if you support Tammy Duckworth!