Holy Cow! CNN just explained how Donald Trump is more socialist than the Democrats.
"In his second term, Donald Trump has pulled a page out of the socialism playbook and made the government an investor in private companies. Trump has used taxpayer dollars to acquire stakes in a variety of companies. Moore, one of the president's long-time economic sounding boards, is telling Trump to stop. Stop buying into companies. And he likens it to socialism. He says that the nation can't afford it with a $40 trillion debt. The Cato Institute has a whole report on this and if you look at this chart we're up to 34 companies now that the government has stakes in. Prior to Donald Trump taking office, it was zero. So what are we doing here?"
Just talked to an Ohio voter who said she didnāt care about the Vivek ad. Voting for this loser, creep, chud anyway, because she didnāt like Actonās Covid response. Iāve also heard from lots of Paxton voters who are happy to hold their nose to keep the state red. Donāt count on anti-Trump turnout. GO VOTE.
This probably hits hard if you failed history in high school.
Hitler was a far-Right fascist whose party was named the National Socialist German Workers' Party to attract working-class voters.
Then he banned the Social Democratic and Communist parties, and sent socialists and communists to concentration camps.
This Forbes investigation is a must-read.
Donald Trump pulled in roughly $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025, plus more than $200 million from real estate, and faced a projected tax bill north of $500 million. So his company donated the "development rights" to his Jupiter, Florida golf course to a land trust, argued the course was a natural habitat worth protecting, and kept right on running the club. Forbes estimates the write-off could land around $825 million.
He has done this at least five times since 2005. New York's attorney general alleged two of those appraisals were inflated. In Doral, he claimed a deduction of up to $323 million, more than double what he paid for the entire resort.
A month after the Jupiter deal, he sued the IRS. The settlement his own Justice Department signed bars claims against him over matters that "could be pending," language that appears broad enough to cover this year's taxes. A federal judge found the case was brought to manipulate the judicial process. And the man now running the IRS, who took the job as this deal was being assembled, has a home backing onto those same Jupiter fairways.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Nobody should be able to use the presidency to write his own tax bill.
https://t.co/0MzmPI2AE3
So, to be clear, the letter written by the mother who actually raised Pete Hegseth written 6 years before he was confirmed as SECDEF saying he was an abuser of women was just a trivial family dispute but a statement by a mother who lost custody of her child for abuse and neglect and hasnāt seen her in 50 years is āfair gameā and the mother who abandoned her child for an indicted child rapist was āso braveā to trash her child.
Thatās the @GOP
Lawrence OāDonnell: āElon Musk will have to testify under oath in televised hearings where he will be presented with evidence that his destruction of USAID led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people through malnutrition, starvation, and disease because they were denied lifesaving medicines by Elon Musk and literally denied food in the middle of a famine by Elon Musk personally. Democrats do not fear the empty lying threats of Elon Musk who has no sword that he can threaten them with��
Anyhoo. In a world that wants to take punches at women and flood their phones with abusive language and death threats, and where attack āadsā like this get made? Letās vote in more women like @amyactonoh and do some cleaning up.
.@amyactonoh: I'd hoped he wouldn't sink this low, but of course he did. I had a childhood of extreme physical abuse and sexual abuse. As a kid, my brother and I were frequent flyers in children's services. We were finally removed after a grand jury saw evidence that was so, so, so, shocking that we were removed from my mother's custody age of 12.
For all the lovely humans whoāve shared their own journeys and such generous feedback and kindness, I adore you. I see your DMs, Iām reading your stories, and I am sending you all so much love! 10/27 is coming quick ā https://t.co/2iTeJSzpdL š¤
The manosphere is big mad over something one of their minions claims I said on CHD. But their ragebait quote isnāt something I said. Nor did Alex. Youāre really telling on yourselves and how much you hate a woman with agency. Yāall? You are allowed to outgrow your life. You are allowed to be unhappy and make a change. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO GET WHAT YOU THOUGHT YOU WANTED AND REALIZE YOU DONāT. Adjust accordingly. You are a human being, not a checklist. A whole movement of trolls that want you submissive and small and miserable? Those people donāt care about you, they just want you to fall in line. If they want to chatter so incessantly about someone they claim you should never listen to anyway? Itās because theyāre afraid of the point. Seems theyāre up in arms that the truth could illuminate something for you that they donāt like. Itās such embarrassing beta behavior, yikes. But keep driving views to the pod, I guess. Book comes out Tuesday lol
Funny how Republicans have spent months telling you how great their tax cuts are, but suddenly the IRS data showing who actually benefited is months late.
This information was supposed to be released in July.
But here we are, three weeks out from an election and the Trump Administration still wonāt release it.
If the numbers are really as great as they keep telling us, why wonāt they release them?
Oh wait, I know. Because they know exactly what it shows: the tax cuts disproportionately benefited BILLIONAIRES and GIANT CORPORATIONS, not you.
And Republicans paid for them by ripping away healthcare and food assistance from hungry families and exploding the deficit.
That was not a tax cut for working people. It was a giveaway to the wealthiest people in the country, paid for by everyone else.
https://t.co/k81s04zs8t
These machines have notoriously bad touch screens.
But it is concerning that people in multiple states are reporting this error consistently and only in one directionā¦
Especially since we know Trump asked the DHS about hacking voting machines and the company was bought out by a MAGA supporter.
I assume this is still horrific touch screen calibration on cheap sensors - but it is worth it to be paranoid this year.
Check your vote carefully and request a paper ballot if any doubt!!
This article broke my heart. This is what regular Americans are going through under Trump.
After the hottest summer on record, residents in Oklahoma are getting letters from their local utility giving them a fixed number of days to pay their summer bill or face disconnection.
NYT: āāThe summer had just ended, and they had just gotten the bill for all of that electricity, and it was far more than their monthly income, almost $1,500.
It also came with a bold lettered disconnection notice that said they had nine days left to pay.
My colleague Eli Saslow says that for the couple he met, Genia and Darryl, it's not just about the lights may be going off.
A disconnection would mean they also couldn't run the oxygen machine or the CPAP they depend on. Eli says he saw how the couple tried to limit their electric bill by more or less moving their whole life into the living room where the AC is, hanging curtains from the doorways to keep the cool air in, sleeping there, eating there, but all that still wasn't enough.ā
The couple tried to go to churches charity thrift shops, tried to get doctors notes, to help pay the bill, but everyone was overwhelmed by clients having the same issue, and facing having their electrical turned off.
The utility said they needed the higher rates to perform maintenance on their system, in part to keep up with increased demand coming from data centers:
āBut the utility company in that part of Oklahoma, which is called PSO, says it's facing its own pressure.
The grid is old and needs updating. These hot summers also are straining electrical companies because they need to provide more power. And also, there are a huge number of what they call large load customers coming onto the grid.
These are new businesses and in some cases, new data centers for artificial intelligence that are going to increase the demand for electricity like never before.ā
What an incredible and heartbreaking story about what regular Americans are facing.
https://t.co/HFDGHgQS32
50 years ago, the Attorney General went to prison for covering up the criminal actions of the President of the United States. Watergate's fallout led to the building of a wall of independence at DOJ that lasted half a century. That wall has been shattered by Trump's people.
Ramaswamyās GOP gubernatorial primary right-wing and problematic rival Casey Putsch will now vote for Amy Acton: āIn light of the most recent attack by Vivek, I have considered this: Vivek and his friends cover up human and child trafficking while attacking Amy Acton over the abuse she endured as a childā¦Iām a Republican, but Iām crossing party lines to vote for Amy and end Vivekās political future in America.ā
https://t.co/kwC18fWQxj
As a child sex crimes prosecutor nothing was more heartbreaking than when a victimās mother took the side of her boyfriend or husband against her own daughter. And this woman decides to do it all over again to her. Shame on her. And shame on Vivek Ramaswamy for being this desperate for power.
NEWS: While working at Trumpās Justice Department, Alina Habba accepted a $50 million bribe to help a billionaire banker charged with bribery get a pardon from Trump. Weeks after she started cashing his checks, Trump handed him a full pardon, and nobody in this administration batted an eye. Lock them all up and throw away the key.
Amy Actonās stepfather was indicted for raping her from ages 9-12, and her mother chose to stay with her rapist until he died. Actonās mother lost custody of her and her brother following her stepfatherās arrest for rape. She had not spoken to her mother since this happened.
Politics can be dirty, but this is so utterly despicable and such a POS move that if you support this clown, that says a lot about you as a person.
Hillary Clinton: āThe profit that the Trump family has made off of the presidency could pay for a full year of SNAP benefits for about 1.3M people, 600M free school lunches, or three months of groceries for the 5.2M people who have been thrown off SNAP. Wasting your tax money, the corruption is rife, itās undermining government services, even our national defense, and hurting people who should be able to get support because of their needs for food or to pay their bills. We already know that heās a fraudsterā
Wow, the $100,000 bribe for Kimberly Guilfoyle looks like childās play! Alina Habba was paid $50 million for a pardon, AND it worked! This whole regime operates more like the mafia than a federal government!
I gifted this so you can read it
https://t.co/tHEpZtcFju
1/3 Musk ordered last week's slowdown of Starshield, which Ukraine fights on, after talking with Trump, per @WSJ. In '23 the Pentagon signed a contract with SpaceX to āprevent Musk from turning off the switch," per fmr Under Sec of Defense Colin Kahl.
https://t.co/spSZRuaowe