James Semaski🇺🇦🇮🇩

News junkie, amateur historian, practicing curmudgeon, Victoria’s dad. Ex-SPGlobal & Dow Jones; Errant NE liberal via London, Paris, Geneva; 2 😼, Good ‘ol GD.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

So, you want me to believe that you voted for a racist, rapist, convicted felon, business fraud who incited a deadly attack on our Capitol after losing the last election because of the price of eggs?
That you voted for the orange-dipped dude who ran with a different VP because the last one was nearly hanged for not breaking democracy, because you’ve been getting fewer hours at your job these days?
You want me to believe that you voted for someone who nearly every economist in the world has said will grow our debt (which he did by the third largest amount ever the last time), increase our costs, raise inflation and destroy our GDP because a burger and fries at Five Guys is more expensive than it used to be?
You want me to believe that you voted for the drink bleach guy who golfed while thousands of Americans were dying a day because you had it so much better then, when you were stockpiling toilet paper, than you do now?
You want me to believe that you voted for the guy who had 4 years to pass an infrastructure bill and didn’t, the guy who promised Mexico would pay for the wall when they didn’t, the guy who promised to bring manufacturing back, lower the cost of prescription drugs and end the opioid crisis but didn’t, because you preferred his “policies”?
You want me to believe you voted for the “grab em by the pussy” guy who wants to destroy the Department of Education and to repeal the ACA despite the fact that he has nothing more than “concepts of a plan” to replace it, the guy who will roll back environmental protections, strip women and minorities of more rights, the guy who will hand Ukraine to Putin and Gaza to Netanyahu, the guy who has said he will be a “dictator on day one”, because you’re worried about losing your gas stove?
I’m sorry, but I don’t believe any of that, and frankly, I’m not sure you believe it either.
Because the truth is that your vote wasn’t about any of that.
You voted for the traitorous embodiment of the 7 deadly sins because when it came to casting your ballot for a Black woman, you just couldn’t do it.
And because you like getting away with being your worst self.
And because life is a whole lot easier to stomach when all that has gone wrong for you, is someone else’s fault.

Let’s be honest here, that is what it was.

So when the price of eggs is $18, and your Latino neighbors have been deported or moved to some f’d up “camp” to pick the strawberries none of you will pick, and your miscarrying wife has to contend with sepsis before she’s allowed to have an abortion, and your autistic child is unable to get the early intervention they desperately need, please remember what it really was that you voted for.

Because I promise you the rest of us will never, ever forget.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Pathetic to hear how republicans lie about the US economy.
1. US inflation is now 2.1%
2. US has the highest growth in the Western world: 2.8% in 2024.
3. US has the lowest unemployment since the 1960s: 4.1%.
The US economy is the envy of the world!
Like Putin Trump always lies.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning senile moment, Donald Trump just suggested it was Kamala Harris who treated Mike Pence poorly. Donald Trump clearly cannot remember anything. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this hypocritical and senile moment.

[Michael Calderone @mlcalderone]

Great points from @ParkerMolloy on the media's “sanewashing” of Trump’s statements

https://t.co/FX7yiNqKca

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

“Trump will never concede defeat, however thorough his loss. Yet the more decisively Harris wins the popular vote and electoral college the less political oxygen he’ll have to reprise his 2020 antics; and the faster Republicans can begin rebuilding.” https://t.co/skHMQ1D9Ee

[Liberal Tear Creator™ @LibTearCreator1]

🚨🚨BREAKING: Video surfaced with Tim Walz claiming “when I was in Afghanistan”! Tim Walz should resign in disgrace! He was NEVER in Afghanistan!

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Has an eight-year-old book been around long enough to be a classic? When it's as great as "Dark Money," by @JaneMayerNYer. Readers responding to @jessbidgood named Mayer's deeply reported look at money and politics one of the best books on politics ever. https://t.co/qi3wBZGE6l

[Jen @JenResistedAGN]

MAGAs are bothered by Harris eating Doritos but not by Trump raping.

That’s weird.

[James Semaski🇺🇦🇮🇩 @jimsem53]

@shanegrigg1 @decman52 @juliegraceb Where was he/she located when hit?

[James Semaski🇺🇦🇮🇩 @jimsem53]

@decman52 @juliegraceb Looks more like he smeared on McDonald’s ketchup. Crowd behind him barely reacted. I’d like to see a diagram of scene. Where’d all the bullets go? Going to be tough to separate truth from propaganda on this one.

[James Semaski🇺🇦🇮🇩 @jimsem53]

@truewhitenorth9 @NChartierET @NTDNews CIA could afford better marksmen back then.

[James Semaski🇺🇦🇮🇩 @jimsem53]

@BlackKnight10k So under new SCOTUS ruling, if Biden ordered this is he immune? Seemed like he’d b able to get a more competent shooter.

[James Semaski🇺🇦🇮🇩 @jimsem53]

@CBSNews @costareports Call me skeptical. Chickenshit trump would never be so defiant if it was real. Probably just popped a ketchup packet from his lunch. Check his diaper.

[James Semaski🇺🇦🇮🇩 @jimsem53]

@CBSNews @costareports Call me skeptical. Chickenshit trump would never be so defiant if it was real. Probably just popped a ketchup packet from his lunch. Check his diaper.

[James Semaski🇺🇦🇮🇩 @jimsem53]

@harrylitman Trump showed an egregious lack of respect for the court and absolutely and no remorse for his actions. That should preclude any consideration of leniency which would only embolden him and his MAGAts. I say 4 full years incarceration and another 4 years probation with counseling.

[James Semaski🇺🇦🇮🇩 @jimsem53]

@officejjsmart Not as long as mullahs rule

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

WARNING. If you received an email message from my assistant yesterday or from this address -- John.E.Herbst <[email protected] -- asking you to read a "Russia strategy paper", do not open it. It is a hacking operation.

[James Semaski🇺🇦🇮🇩 @jimsem53]

@Victorshi2020 @MalcolmNance Wonder what it cost to buy her out?