theylie

Patriotism is NOT a shield. Patriotism is actively critical to the point of cynicism.

You can't be a patriot and be willfully illiterate.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: A group of Democratic lawmakers have asked the Pentagon’s watchdog to open an investigation after it was shown that 15 companies with investment from President Trump’s sons have garnered $3.2 billion in federal contracts, investments and loans.

[theylie @TheyL1e]

@JDVance Bwaahahahah

The utter lack of self awareness

YOU FOOLS ARE SELLING CITIZENSHIP ...LITERALLY

YOU FORGOT THE GOLDEN TICKETS??

IDIOTS

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I went to the Senate floor today to ask a simple question.

Can any of my Republican colleagues defend the President's disgusting new scheme to sell early access to White House announcements about the war for $100,000 a month?

Of course they can't.

[i Expose Racists & Pedos @SeeRacists]

🚨 “Friends” allegedly got a Black girl with epilepsy so drunk she blacked out — they brutally beat her and threatened to kill her.

According to the victim, the girls invited her over knowing she had epilepsy and mental health issues.

They got her extremely drunk until she blacked out.

She says she has no memory of the night and couldn’t press charges at the time because there was no proof until this video came out.

They called her a friend while using her vulnerabilities against her.

How do you call someone a friend after this?

Source in comments only.

[🔥Reverend Aiden @SweetFnLucifer]

JESUS CHRIST, CORPSE ON A FUCKING STICK! Todd Blanche and the Trump DOJ are ACTIVELY preventing the New Mexico government from investigating reported DEAD BODIES of victims being buried at Epstein's former ranch.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

A group of females went to the Capitol and brought pictures of all the people that have lost their lives by the hands of ICE. They were immediately put in handcuffs and arrested even though they were there being peaceful exercising their second amendment right to free speech.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw tells Americans struggling with high prices to "stop whining, get a job, eat Ramen."

During his 7 years in Congress, Dan Crenshaw's net worth has increased by an estimated 65% to $1,340,000.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Capital One says it shut down roughly 385 Trump-linked bank accounts after its financial-crimes team flagged them for money-laundering concerns.

That should be a massive story all by itself.

Trump responded by suing the bank and claiming political persecution. And Capital One is not the only bank his businesses are suing over closed accounts.

But now Trump controls the federal agencies that regulate those banks, and his Administration is going after the very banking practices at the center of his private company’s lawsuits.

Think about what is happening here:

Trump’s business runs into serious problems with major banks. Trump becomes President. Suddenly, the federal government starts working to change the rules in ways that could benefit Trump’s business.

The presidency is supposed to serve the American people, not function as the enforcement arm of the Trump Organization.
https://t.co/zZ1If9HTWI

[theylie @TheyL1e]

@FBIDirectorKash Credibility = 0

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🇮🇱 NEW: The bullying of a Palestinian child by Israeli soldiers has drawn massive outrage on social media.

[theylie @TheyL1e]

@marceelias Champion 🏆 🥇 🏅

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) took its latest blow in a failing voter roll crusade as a federal judge Thursday dismissed its case targeting Washington, D.C. This marks a 0-21 record for the DOJ. https://t.co/aL9Y4SlIgT

[Jean-Claude Damn Van™ (commentary) @ChaosAgent_42]

Here's a good cognitive test:

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

Wow.

ALL flock cameras in Winona MN have been removed by patriots.

ALL OF THEM

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

CNN's Jake Tapper show waited 55 minutes of a 60 minute show...

And buried the story about the Trump/Capitol One money laundering investigation.

The pattern of coverage (and "news" priorities) is there every single day for anyone who looks.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨ICE agents pulled a man over, accused him of a traffic violation that his own DASH CAM disproved, then illegally used that stop to demand his immigration status, in Pittsburgh.

And this is exactly what it looks like when a traffic stop becomes an illegal fishing expedition… for immigration status.

In this video, ICE agents surround the man’s car, with what appears to be a police vehicle behind him. A masked ICE agent aggressively approaches the passenger window while another ICE agent goes to the driver’s window and demands his ID.

ICE agents are federal immigration officers, they aren’t local police…

So, why are ICE agents the ones surrounding this car, confronting the people inside, and accusing the driver of a traffic violation… while the cop appears to walk up afterward?

If this was actually a traffic stop, why is the cop not initiating and enforcing the traffic violation?

The driver asks why he is being stopped.

The agent tells him he was “riding that guy’s ass” and claims he was following the vehicle too closely.

Except there’s a problem… his dash cam video shows the exact opposite.

He was traveling in his lane when another car… coming from a merge lane… pulled directly in front of him.

That is the moment ICE agents appear to turn on their lights, since the driver slows down and pulls over.

So, he understandably says, “Me? I wasn’t following anybody.”

The agent doubles down, claiming he was too close and that he “has to be a car length away.”

Then, they demand that both people get out of the vehicle. The passenger is taken by ICE, while another agent asks the driver whether he has any weapons.

And then comes the real reason for the stop…

“Are you allowed to be here? Are you illegal? Are you allowed to be in this country?”

The driver tells them he has his resident card and hands it over.

Eventually, they let him go.

And THIS is where the constitutional violations become impossible to ignore.

The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures. A traffic stop is a seizure, meaning the government needs reasonable suspicion that a traffic violation, or crime, actually occurred.

Even during a lawful traffic stop, officers cannot prolong the stop to investigate an unrelated matter without additional reasonable suspicion.

So, when the alleged traffic violation turns into demands for identification, orders to exit the vehicle, questions about whether the people in the car are “illegal,” and an immigration-status check… the Fourth Amendment comes into question.

And the fact that they eventually let this man go, after determining he was lawfully present, makes this even more disturbing.

Because what exactly was the point of stopping him?

He clearly wasn’t violating any tailgating law.

So this wasn’t a legitimate traffic stop…it was a fabricated pretext to investigate his immigration status.

And that is precisely why the Constitution exists.

Because the government doesn’t get to say, “We wanted to check who you are, so we made up a reason to stop you.”

And ICE does not get a free pass to stop Americans, and legal residents, and demand they prove their citizenship.

The government has to follow the law, too.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Two Americans are DEAD from eating Cyclospora contaminated lettuce - AFTER Trump’s FDA tried to bury a positive result blaming Taylor Farms. Taylor Farms CEO gave a million dollars to Trump’s MAGA PAC.

And it’s happening AGAIN, this time with Pork standards 🧵

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Absolutely disgusting! Police officers around the country have been found using flock cameras to stalk women. They are using their power and access for all the wrong reasons. 🤬 https://t.co/aQFCFBcjdL

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

BREAKING: The U.S. Selective Service will be automatically entering ALL males aged 18-26 into the draft on December 1st.