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[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

Marjorie Taylor Greene just wrote her best tweet ever.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

You can see the exact moment the wheels start spinning.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

I’d like to offer an alternate doomer scenario—that happens to be the timeline we’re in:
A messianic narcissist conman is the US president.

He has dementia which has destroyed what remained of his inhibitions. He knows he’s dying and wants to take the world with him. He lives in an alternate reality created by his own delusions, reinforced by Natalie Harp.

The president of the United States is psychotic.

This is the most dangerous conceivable combination of psychopathologies and neurodegenerative disorders.

With this man as Commander in Chief, we are now facing a converging set of crises that has the potential to be a kind of black swan event far too complex to model the outcome.

Trump has demolished our ability to project power in the Middle East. Our bases are destroyed or damaged. Our former allies in the region are being abandoned. Our ability to fight a war anywhere else has been drastically diminished.

Iran, once a rogue terrorist gas station, has out-maneuvered Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth to the point that it is now a regional hegemon—with control of the world’s carotid artery.

Trump has emptied the strategic oil reserves—and the ammunition stockpile. He and Scott Bessent have abused every federal trick in the book to pump up stock prices and keep the absurd AI bubble inflated. Bonds are rocketing higher. The economy is teetering.

The population is weak, getting sick from diarrhea lettuce and measles, and weary of the unrelenting displays of racism, sadism, and open corruption from our own government.

The oil shock that so many have warned about has arrived, with absolutely no plan to end it. Donald Trump could not care less about the horrific damage it’s already done. Millions of people will die from lack of fertilizer to crops. Economies around the world will fall into recession—just to start.

On top of this we have an unprecedented Godzilla El Niño event that has not been seen in recorded history. Ecologies and agricultures are already weak and battered. The lack of fertilizer on top of this event has the potential to spark a famine of historic proportions. This regime will do nothing to help.

And what is the president focused on right now? Destroying the Kennedy Center because he can’t put his name on it. That is definitionally psychotic behavior.

We are less than two months from an election that has the potential to slow down Trump’s reign of terror. But the Director of the FBI is going to meet the FSB in Moscow three weeks before election day. The president’s son allowed his “good friend” and Putin’s confidante to surveil his wedding for a few hundred grand.

This election will not be about who wins the election but about whether we can still hold elections at all.

But instead of focusing on any of this, the media and political class is freaking out because ChatGPT might be organizing to murder everyone or whatever. Just stop.

No, AI will not kill us, but it may cause a great depression.

But in a risk analysis, even that pales to the fact a desperate, demented, paranoid Donald Trump HAS THE NUCLEAR CODES. He is in a war he can’t win, with no plan to get out. He is an existential danger to the planet.

This is the timeline right here and right now.

So please, people. Focus. Do not let them hijack your attention with futuristic apocalypse scenarios when we’re living in one in the present.

[rOundabOut_rOss @RossRoundabout]

@japan_nobunaga Union Pipefitter - service technician. I’m could be at Whole Foods at 1 am or the power plant on a Saturday. The variance is the appeal for me.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Today Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh will deliver an address in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Jackson Hole is in the richest county in America.

We went to Wyoming to see what's really going on in this shocking center of immense wealth.

[rOundabOut_rOss @RossRoundabout]

@OneOverNever @whiskeyc1one They can be both. Do with the context what you will. I think jamming up the scammers is helpful, but also doesn’t hurt to be aware there are systems that incentivize literal human trafficking and modern slavery.

[rOundabOut_rOss @RossRoundabout]

@prehis_mosasaur @whiskeyc1one You can be compassionate about their situation and still hate what they are doing. Both things can be true.

[rOundabOut_rOss @RossRoundabout]

@TautnP @whiskeyc1one Definitely don’t let them scam. Waste their time by all means.

[Benn Jordan @bennjordan]

Flock takes their privacy very seriously.

But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways.

Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.

[rOundabOut_rOss @RossRoundabout]

@whiskeyc1one No hate. Just giving context. Any time wasted is time they aren’t stealing from MeMaw.

[Badd Company @BaddCompani]

It's why I say 'Maga' all the time; it's a wake-up call, and I told y'all exactly what MTG is saying in this video. She is correct, even if I don't like her, and I don't. She helped Trump con MAGA. Well, the hen is coming home to roost!

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

Pulitzer!! Pulitzer!! Pulitzer!!

[Street-Legal Sicko @Darren__ODell]

Been 5 years. Burnham has still not discussed Inside since. No interviews. Not sure what this says about me, but it’s still the most impactful, thought-provoking first experience I’ve had with a work of art in my adult lifetime.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I’m just going to post this every few days rather than arguing with faceless, nameless trolls in the comments.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight…

We’re now being told JD Vance used the Situation Room to lead “war room” meetings about the Epstein fallout.

Allegations of Trump sexually abusing minors?

I thought the Situation Room was for actual wars.

Trump keeps telling everyone to move on while the Epstein story keeps getting bigger and closer to home.

Then BOOM.

We’re in a war with Iran.

A war nobody voted for, nobody wanted, and few can clearly explain.

Straits of Hormuz closed.
Gas prices skyrocket.
The entire news cycle changed overnight.

Funny how quickly Epstein disappeared from the headlines.

You can outrun a news cycle.

The print and legacy news media is a joke.

You can’t outrun Epstein forever.

WE are watching.
WE are not stupid.
WE are united in the Tired of the Bullshit party.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

There are credible allegations made against Donald Trump that he mutilated a child’s nipples while raping her.
Allegations so serious, his inner circle had to meet in the Situation Room to discuss them.

I mean, how the fuck isn’t this the biggest scandal in the world right now?

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: BRAVO! James Talarico demolishes Ted Cruz for smearing him as not "masculine" enough to win in Texas by listing all of the things that "real men" never do.

And Cruz does every single one of them...

"Ted Cruz basically said he wouldn't use the word 'masculine' to describe you,'" Jen Psaki said to Talarico on MS NOW. "It seems pretty clear what they're trying to do here, at least to me. Not only are they going after you, but they're really trying to attack groups of people you've defended in the past, including trans people and others. What do you make of that?"

In addition to Cruz's pathetic smear, Trump's pet fascist Stephen Miller falsely asserted that Talarico is transgender. Other Republican influencers have implied that he's gay. The strategy here is clear: lean into culture war lies about Talarico rather than contest him on actual policy.

"Yeah, there's been a lot of talk in this race about what it means to be a real man," Talarico said to Psaki. "And recently on the campaign trail, I told the story of my adoptive dad, the man who gave me his last name, the man who raised me as his own."

"Every Saturday morning, Mark Talarico would mow our lawn, whether it was rain or shine, whether he wanted to or not, he insisted on mowing our lawn himself," he continued. "And then without anyone asking him to, he would go next door and mow our neighbor's lawn because our neighbor was elderly, she was a widow. And my dad never talked about it. He just did it."

"Because that's what a man does. A man takes responsibility," he said.

"A man upholds his commitments to his family and his neighbors."

"A man does what's right even when no one is watching."

"And here's what real men don't do... They don't lie and cheat their way through life," he went on. "They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. They don't steal from other people in order to enrich themselves. And so I've said before, and I will keep saying, that real men serve others."

"Weak men serve themselves," he added. "And so I welcome this debate about what it means to be a man. And I don't think Ken Paxton or Ted Cruz are in a position to tell anybody what a real man is."

Someone should tell Ted Cruz that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Donald Trump called his wife ugly during the 2016 Republican primary, only for Cruz to go on to become one of Trump's staunchest supporters. There is nothing "masculine" about selling out your own family in pursuit of power.

Similarly, Talarico's disgraced opponent Ken Paxton is the furthest thing from a good man. He was impeached as state attorney general by his own party for bribery, and his wife divorced him for adultery. If that's what a "real man" does, then we need a lot fewer "real men" in government.

Please ❤️ and share if you support James Talarico!

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.