#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “You know, you live long enough, you realize that there are some days, there are some times, when the bill comes due. You know, you’ve done things in the past, perhaps ill advised, things you kinda knew at the time weren’t a good idea, and sometimes you are able to skate by for a little while, you get away with that stuff for a little while, but eventually you learn in this life, that the bill comes due. We’re having one of those times in the news right now. So for example, when we as a country elected this president, he decided in his infinite wisdom, that he would immediately allow his top campaign donor @elonmusk, to cut whole swaths of US government capacity based on nothing but Elon Musk’s own say so, and his gut feelings. So things that took decades if not generations to build up, some of these things the gold standard government capacity for the whole world, President Donald Trump just said hey, you’re my top campaign donor, as far as I’m concerned, that gives you the right to sledgehammer the US government to your heart’s content. I don’t care, you enjoy yourself. And that is how thousands of subject matter experts, and forest rangers and specialist lawyers, and prosecutors, and scientists, and and and, it’s how all these people lost their jobs and their careers in the US government. But it’s also how we as a country lost things like say a project that had been funded, that was shovel ready, expertly planned, much needed, ready to go, a project to build FIRE BREAKS in the Superior National Forest in Minnesota. Elon Musk and Donald Trump did not care enough or were not bright enough to understand what a project like that might conceivably be for, and so they [killed] it…Trump in his wisdom literally stopped funding last year for the shovel ready project to build fire breaks in the Superior National Forest in Minnesota, so there would be less to burn, so it would be EASIER to fight any fire that did break out…He and Elon Musk stopped the funding of that project and so now, the bill has come due. The Superior National Forest in Minnesota, as we speak, is on fire. Thank you DOGE. Thank you Donald Trump…”🙄🤦♀️
Let me repeat for those in the back:
If you were Jeffrey Epstein’s very best friend for about 20 years, made 4,725 wire transfers to Epstein totalling more than $1.1 billion and are mentioned in the Epstein files a million times, I’m pretty sure you’re a child-raping pedophile.
Garcia: Now there is currently a $14 million renovation underway that's been plagued by algae and a bottom that's chipping away and falling apart at the Reflecting Pool.
The pool has been drained twice in just three months for repairs. It was built so incompetently that they're trying to put an innocent man in jail to cover up their shoddy work, with contracts going to Donald Trump's friends and donors.
What a disgrace and completely shameful.
Republican Steve Scalise:
“If you want to go to Olive Garden and get unlimited pasta, you gotta show a picture ID.”
Who here has ever had to show their ID to eat pasta at Olive Garden? I’m pretty sure Republicans have lost the narrative.
Richard Gere: “Trump uses the same words that Hitler did. Calls them vermin. They’re not vermin. These are human beings. I’ve met them. He’s never met a refugee or a migrant. These are human beings like us who are usually running from a fire of one kind or another”
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’
It’s our duty to know.
🚨WORLD WIDE HUMILIATION:
Trump hands the World Cup trophy to Spain, then refuses to get off stage, despite Gianni Infantino trying to direct him off of it.
This might be the most embarrassing thing I have ever seen.
Tonight at SPAC, Dave Matthews stood center stage, voice full of fire, and spoke the truth we’re all carrying in our hearts: “I am sick of this fucking President.”
He called out the ongoing ICE killings, the cruelty, the heartbreak no one can ignore anymore.
The whole amphitheater rose up with him — singing, shouting, fists in the air — a sea of real people united in exhaustion and hope.
This is what love for humanity sounds like.
We see you, Dave. We feel this. America is done.
Share this if your soul is screaming the same thing. ❤️🔥
People ask me this all the time, and it’s the right question.
Why would billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, who has never done any public service (except DOGE, from which he was fired), moved his business and jobs to Texas, declares that Ohio isn’t the best state, won't even drive our roads, has an out-of-state area code, and thinks Ohioans are lazy and mediocre and envious of his riches, run to be Governor of Ohio?
To help everyday Ohioans? To protect our communities from his billionaire class and their big investments? To end the corruption? To lower the costs everyday Ohioans face as the big shots buy off the politicians and make out like bandits?
Of course not.
And why would a billionaire like Musk, with no ties to Ohio, support this guy and ads smearing his opponent?
To help everyday Ohioans? To protect our communities from his billionaire class? To lower costs?
Of course not.
It’s to keep selling Ohio and its assets off for parts to the billionaire class.
While we suffer the consequences of failing outcomes and higher costs.
This isn’t complicated, folks.
There’s a lot of ballistic missiles coming from a country that had them all destroyed a month ago.
Maybe that’s why the administration should just start telling the truth. It works out better in the long run