So, do I have this right, MAGA want us to pay for a ballroom for an event that only happens once a year, and most Americans will never be allowed inside🤔
If you were mad about Obama giving Iran $1.7 billion (of their own frozen money) to get a nuke deal...
...then surely you're pissed that Trump gave Iran $14 billion of your money while you are at war with them.
Right, MAGA? You hypocrites.
"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
- Charles Pierce
Someone tell Trump if he wants to end another war, tell Putin to GTFO of Ukraine. Just think of all the praise he would get from the world if he did that. Although that might be too much to ask.
BREAKING: Newly surfaced footage shows nurse Alex Pretti reading a moving tribute to a veteran who passed away in his care.
The video was shared by a son of the deceased veteran.
"RIP Alex Pretti, he was my Dads ICU nurse, he read my dad’s final salute at the VA after he passed away," the individual wrote. "Never wanted to share this video but his speech is very on point. Also my Fathers final words to me was continue to fight the good fight. He would be honored in Alex’ sacrifice, and ashamed of this current administration. In my Dads words I encourage you all to continue to ‘fight the good fight’”
In the video, Pretti leads a group of hospital staff in honoring the veteran, who is covered with a shroud emblazoned with the American flag and a bald eagle.
"Today we remember that freedom is not free, we have to work at it, nurture it, protect it, and even sacrifice for it," Pretti said. "May we never forget and always remember our brothers and sisters who have served so that we may enjoy the gift of freedom.
"So in this moment, we remember and give thanks for their dedication and selfless service to our nation in the cause of our freedom. In this solemn hour, we render them our honor and our gratitude," he said.
Tragically, Pretti's powerful words now reflect on his death. He sacrificed himself fighting for our freedom.
Freedom from masked fascists harassing, beating, and killing upstanding Americans in our streets.
Freedom from a government that lies through its teeth and smears innocent victims before their bodies are even in the ground.
Freedom from a tyrannical government that would rather divide us and keep us in fear than build towards a brighter future.
Freedom from MAGA.
Alex Pretti was the best that this country has to offer and he was cut down by the absolute dregs of our society. These federal agents are undertrained, out of shape, low IQ thugs who couldn't find jobs in the real world so they signed up for a badge, gun, and paycheck to terrorize their neighbors. These are cruel, violent people who stand in opposition to everything that Pretti dedicated his life to.
We will not forget him. We will carry on his fight.
Please ❤️ and share if Alex Pretti inspires you to be a better American.
@atrupar He doesn't even realize what's at stake, it's like he thinks you buy healthcare like you're buying a car. And who are we giving the money to when we buy healthcare?
Not the first to say this but it is fuckin crazy that the Democrats spent the last week going after Zohran Mamdani instead of rallying against the bill
🚨NEW: Ukraine’s military drones have destroyed more than 40 Russian warplanes deep inside Russian territory in a clandestine overnight strike.
RETWEET if you are proud to stand with President Zelenskyy and Ukraine against Russia!