@edmundmcmillen Edmund for some reason when I play online in repentance+ with my friend, we can’t restart with R or it kicks one of us out of the lobby. Do you know why this is?
By David Abbruzzes:
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."
Very well stated.
Christopher Columbus was so infamously cruel that the Spanish crown paid to send someone to Hispaniola in 1500 to investigate. This resulted in a 48-page report detailing the testimony of two dozen witnesses, and the investigator himself, of how Columbus had mismanaged the colony, cut off ears and noses, tortured colonists that questioned his authority, paraded women naked, and sold natives into slavery. He was arrested, tried, and stripped of his titles.
Some people that witnessed his barbarism, who had initially supported and participated in his colonization efforts, became so disgusted by Columbus's behavior that they also published accounts of his atrocities and began advocating for the rights of Indigenous populations. In particular, a contemporaneous Pope, and many other lesser Catholic figures, condemned Columbus explicitly, viewing his behaviors as grave offenses against G-d.
Matt, you are literally more of a cretin than people that died before 1600 BCE. I wouldn't call you a conservative, I would call you a barbarian.
"This is a war not just for Iran. This is a war not just for the Middle East..
This is a war for human consciousness, it is a war for the very soul of humanity."
Professor Jiang
insecure people absolutely hate when fat people have normal fulfilling romantic lives because it destabilizes the hierarchy they rely on to build their shallow and uninteresting identity.
Pam Bondi: Did you ask Merrick Garland that, the last four years?
Thomas Massie: This goes over four administrations. You don't have to go back to Biden. Let's go back to Obama. Let's go back to George Bush. This cover-up spans decades, and you are responsible for this portion of it.
@JDVance Sorry but you were the only baby ever worth choosing crack over. Every time your mom neglected you was justified. Sorry. Amy Adams sucked in that movie too, sorry. Nothing you touch ever goes right. You should try some of Elon’s medicine sometime. Sorry.
If the government fucks up and kills you tomorrow, even if it’s through no fault of your own, you have to live out your last moments knowing the President of the United States will head a coordinated smear campaign aimed at villainizing you in the eyes of 300 million people.
Government agencies and even some civilians will spend hundreds of hours digging through your past, finding your darkest moments and bringing them to light to the public with the sole intent of making people care less about your death.
Whatever legacy you have built prior to this has now evaporated. It doesn’t matter if you were a mother. It doesn’t matter if everyone who knew you thought you were incredibly kind, hardworking, and loving. None of that matters anymore.
You will be reduced to a “radical left lunatic”. A domestic terrorist who hated their country and is better off gone.
This could happen to any of you, at any time. This is the country you live in. Do not forget it.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
You have no idea who this woman was. You have no idea what she believed. You have no idea what an actual investigation might show. A 37-year-old American citizen was killed. Her 6-year-old son has been orphaned. Her family and friends are going through the worst moment of their lives. And all you can do is call her a "deranged leftist"?
Seriously what the fuck is wrong with you?
WAIT.
HOLD up.
You're telling me @MAGAMilf42069DD isn't really a Christian 1A 2A Trump fangirl but instead is a shitposting, chainsmoking Macedonian incel?
Get OUT.
Here are the SIMPLE FACTS about the Republican Shutdown:
1️⃣ Republicans control everything — and still can’t govern.
They hold the White House, the House, and the Senate. When one party runs the entire government and it grinds to a halt, there’s no one else to blame. As one Republican once said: “The president needs to get a deal.”
2️⃣ Republicans don’t even have their own team together.
They need 60 Senate votes to pass their own bill — and they can’t even get 55. This isn’t a Democratic blockade. It’s a Republican meltdown.
3️⃣ Republicans are lying about “healthcare for illegal aliens.”
That claim has been debunked by every major fact-checker: AP, NPR, PBS, KFF Health News, and Georgetown University.
➡️ Undocumented immigrants do not — and never have — received Medicaid or ACA subsidies.
What Democrats are fighting for:
* Affordable coverage for 24 million American citizens whose premiums will skyrocket.
* Restoring coverage for lawfully present immigrants — refugees, asylum seekers, and DACA recipients — that Republicans stripped away.
* Protecting Medicaid from nearly $1 trillion in GOP cuts that hit veterans, seniors, and families.
4️⃣ Republicans are using the shutdown as political revenge.
They’ve frozen $26 billion in infrastructure and climate funding — targeting mostly blue states — while threatening SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans and putting thousands of federal workers out of a job. This isn’t fiscal discipline. It’s extortion.
5️⃣ Republicans admit their own message is collapsing.
Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters the GOP’s talking points are “getting old.” Meanwhile, the House remains on vacation while families go without paychecks and critical services shut down.
6️⃣ Polls show America knows who’s at fault.
Every major poll says the same thing: Voters blame Republicans more. Even conservatives admit it. Because when you control everything and still fail to lead — you own the chaos.
7️⃣ Here’s what Democrats are fighting for:
✅ Keeping health insurance affordable for working families.
✅ Restoring funding for hospitals and public health.
✅ Stopping the GOP from weaponizing the shutdown to punish blue states.
🚨🚨 This is a Republican Shutdown — built on lies, cruelty, and political theater.
When you cut healthcare, freeze aid, and hold the country hostage to please your donors, you don’t deserve to govern.
The Receipts
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like. https://t.co/uts7JpJZzN