Carol R Swenson

[Carol R Swenson @swensoncr]

@principalhoops Way to go, Korbyn!

[Carol R Swenson @swensoncr]

@principalhoops Designed his own lures?

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

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I'm sick of hearing Trump supporters say something along the lines of, "How you all feel about Donald Trump is how we felt about Obama!"

That's bullsh*t.

Most of them hated Obama for two main reasons.

1. He's a Democrat

2. Because he's half Black

When Obama was in office, Republicans went after him for the dumbest crap I've ever seen. I saw segments mocking him shopping for Christmas gifts for his daughter. There was one where they belittled him for wearing a helmet while riding a bike. They pushed conspiracies about whether or not he was an American that were completely unfounded. They called him a Muslim, even though he had a well-documented history of Christian church attendance — unlike Trump. Many still believe Michelle Obama is actually a man and called her a communist for trying to encourage Americans to work out more and eat healthier. You know, what Trump supporters today call "MAHA," proving, once again, that they don't really have any real values other than opposing whatever Democrats support.

Then we can't forget the unforgivable — tan suit. No president will ever do something as scandalous as wearing a tan suit.

Yes, it's normal for Republicans to oppose a Democrat. But don't even try to compare why we all oppose Trump to how Republicans were against Obama.

Obama never publicly and personally attacked judges when they ruled against him.

Obama didn't sue his own IRS, of which he is the executive, for $10 billion, only to have his Department of Justice "settle" the lawsuit for $1.8 billion in a slush fund he planned to personally control.

Obama didn't name his personal attorney the acting attorney general.

Obama didn't defend the killing of unarmed American citizens by federal agents, labeling those unarmed Americans as "domestic terrorists."

Obama didn't sue universities that taught material that he disagreed with.

Obama didn't sue media outlets for reporting stories about him he didn't like.

Obama didn't gut funding for medical research.

Obama didn't appoint his top political donor, and the richest man in the world, to a very powerful position within our government.

Obama never tried to put his name on U.S. currency, get a new piece of currency produced depicting his face, put his face on passports, put banners of himself on government buildings, or push for the construction of ballrooms or arches he wants named after himself.

Obama didn't even come up with "Obamacare," that was Republicans trying to slander the former president. The bill's actually the Affordable Care Act. So, even his signature piece of legislation, he didn't name after himself. But Trump did name his online prescription site and child savings accounts after himself.

Obama didn't constantly call for media personalities to be fired for criticizing him.

Obama didn't have his FCC go after networks for not firing those individuals.

Obama didn't order the Department of Justice to go after his enemies.

Obama didn't fire attorneys general for not bowing down and doing everything he told them. He damn sure didn't call files related to child predators a "total hoax," as Trump's called the Epstein files.

Obama wasn't out blatantly manipulating the markets and engaging in insider trading.

Obama didn't accept a $400 million plane from Qatar he then used hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars to fix up, which he plans to take with him when he leaves office.

Obama didn't call elections that didn't go his party's way "rigged."

Obama didn't order "blue states" to unethically redraw congressional maps, trying to give Democrats an advantage in midterm elections.

Obama didn't constantly attack our allies while kissing the ass of dictators like Vladimir Putin.

Obama didn't start a war with Iran he promised he wouldn't start.

Obama didn't run up record deficits, he actually reduced them.

Obama didn't try to take over the Kennedy Center and put his name on it.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Hunter Biden SHREDS the media's double standard toward the Trump family in one devastating post — and EVERY word is documented.

Hunter Biden just posted something on X that cuts right to the heart of America's broken media landscape — and it's IMPOSSIBLE to argue with.

"So let me get this straight," he wrote. "Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom," referring to the comments the CNN anchor has made about disbelieving some of the claims in Jill Biden’s latest memoir.

"Meanwhile, Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land." TRUE. Over 100,000 Albanians are in the streets. Anti-corruption prosecutors have opened an investigation. Flamingo habitats are being bulldozed. It BARELY registers on mainstream media.

"Don Jr. married the daughter of Epstein's banker." Also TRUE. While Epstein survivors read their FBI abuse reports aloud outside the Justice Department, Pam Bondi refused to answer a even a SINGLE question about Trump and the Epstein files, and DOJ lawyers intervened to make sure she didn't.

"A startup that Donald Jr. fund backs just got a record $620 million Pentagon loan." FACTCHECK: ALSO TRUE. While Trump's own financial disclosures show him trading stock in companies his administration then hands billion-dollar contracts to, Don Jr.'s SHADY investment connections to Pentagon contractors receive almost NO scrutiny from mainstream media.

"Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5 billion in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted." Also TRUE, but that story got almost NO coverage.

And then Hunter Biden delivered the punchline that lands like a sledgehammer: "And I know: 'But what about your paintings, Hunter?'"

HUNTER IS 100% RIGHT: His art sales, laptop, and legal troubles consumed years of breathless media coverage. The Trump children's CORRUPT overseas business deals, foreign investments, Pentagon contracts, and connections to Jeffrey Epstein's associates a free pass.

And while Jake Tapper attacks Jill Biden is being attacked for a book, Jared Kushner is bulldozing protected wetlands for a $4 billion resort while his father-in-law runs foreign policy, while raising BILLIONS from shady deals with foreign governments.

There is simply NO comparison!

Please like and share!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump's corrupt DOJ moves to DISMISS seditious conspiracy charges against Oath Keepers leader Elmer Stewart Rhodes – with prejudice!

In a jaw-dropping act of degeneracy, the Trump Justice Department has filed a motion to permanently dismiss the seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III and several other convicted January 6 defendants.

By filing the motion 'with prejudice,' the Trump DOJ has permanently dropped the seditious conspiracy charges, meaning Rhodes and the other Oath Keepers can never be prosecuted again for their central role in the January 6 insurrection.

Trump loves to scream about “law and order” and “backing the blue” but he has now ordered his own DOJ to let the key figure behind the violent coup attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 6, walk free on the most serious charges.

Rhodes and his co-defendants were convicted by a jury of seditious conspiracy for plotting to use force to prevent the certification of the 2020 election. They were part of the mob that attacked the Capitol, injured police officers, and tried to overturn the will of the voters.

And now Trump’s hand-picked simps are trying to simply erase it.
This is the state of justice in the United States of America today, nothing but retribution and reward for fealty. Trump is using the power of the DOJ to protect his lowlife foot soldiers from the January 6 insurrection while punishing those who investigated it.

The message to the country is loud and clear: if you commit violence on Trump’s behalf, you will be protected. If you try to hold him accountable or call him out, you will be targeted.

This is an outrage. And it doesn’t look like one we can fix with respect to Rhodes and his gang of neanderthals.

What we can do is rededicate ourselves to the restoration of constitutional governance through the ballot box, and until that day, work to hold Trump to account by any legal means.

If you agree, like and share this post.

[Carol R Swenson @swensoncr]

@principalhoops Way to go, Kyzer!

[Carol R Swenson @swensoncr]

@DScottFritchen Congratulations! Sorry I couldn’t be there!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: SOUNDS OF SILENCE — Senate hearing goes deadly quiet as Trump’s federal judicial nominees REFUSE to admit third term is illegal.
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Donald Trump is nominating people to lifetime federal judgeships who won't confirm that he can't run for a third term when they come before the Senate for their approval hearings.

Let that sink in.

Senator Chris Coons of Delaware asked what should be the easiest constitutional law question in American history at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week. He asked Trump's judicial nominees about the 22nd Amendment.

The first nominee, John Marck, said that his career had been in criminal prosecution and that he hadn't had occasion to use that particular amendment.

A federal judicial nominee. Unfamiliar with the 22nd Amendment. Seeking a lifetime appointment to interpret the Constitution.

Another candidate eventually offered that it "deals with the two-term limitation." Correct. Gold star.

Coons then asked the simple follow-up: is President Trump eligible to run for president again in 2028?

Marck's response was a masterpiece of evasion: "Without considering all the facts and looking at everything, depending on what the situation is, this to me strikes as more of a hypothetical."

Coons was patient. He walked Marck through it like a kindergarten teacher explaining why you can't eat paste. Has Trump been elected president twice? "President Trump has been certified the President of the United States two times." Is he eligible to run for a third term? "I would have to review the actual wording of it."

A man seeking a lifetime federal judgeship needs to review the actual wording. Of the 22nd Amendment. Which is 61 words long.

Coons then turned to the full panel and asked if anyone — anyone — was willing to simply state that the Constitution of the United States bars Trump from seeking a third term.

A heartbreakingly long silence ensued.

He asked again. Anyone willing to apply the Constitution by its plain language?

More ominous silence.

Nobody. Not one of Trump's judicial nominees would say out loud, under oath, in a Senate hearing, that the 22nd Amendment means what it plainly says.

This isn't ignorance. These are lawyers. They know what the 22nd Amendment says. They know Trump has been talking openly about a third term. And they calculated — correctly, based on what happens to people who cross this president — that telling the constitutional truth was more dangerous than staying silent.

The frightening thing is that these are the people who will be interpreting your rights for the next 30 years.

Please like and share this post if you think federal judges should be willing to say the Constitution means what it says — even when the president doesn't want to hear it.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The Catholic Church HUMILIATES J.D. Vance and Mike Johnson by releasing a brutal statement explaining "just war theory" after they both tried to invoke it to defend Trump's illegal Iran War.

This is like arguing theoretical physics with Albert Einstein...

“For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church has taught just war theory and it is that long tradition the Holy Father carefully references in his comments on war," Bishop James Massa, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine, said in a statement.

"A constant tenet of that thousand-year tradition is a nation can only legitimately take up the sword ‘in self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed’ (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2308)," he continued. "That is, to be a just war it must be a defense against another who actively wages war, which is what the Holy Father actually said: ‘He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.’"

“When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ," he added. "The consistent teaching of the Church is insistent that all people of good will must pray and work toward lasting peace while avoiding the evils and injustices that accompany all wars.”

The statement offers a sharp rebuke to Vance, a man who claims to be a Catholic, after he argued at a Turning Points USA event that the pope was wrong to criticize the war.

“I think it’s very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology‚” Vance, an adult convert to the faith, said. “If you’re going to opine on matters of theology, you’ve got to be careful, you’ve got to make sure it’s anchored in the truth." He added that there is a “more than 1,000-year tradition of just war theory” within the Catholic Church.

Speaker Johnson, an Evangelical, echoed similar sentiments earlier today when he said that he was "taken aback" by Pope Leo's anti-war remarks.

“It’s a very well-settled matter of Christian theology. There’s something called the just war doctrine," said Johnson.

While Vance and Johnson are correct in the very narrow sense that just war theory exists, they are dead wrong in their application. The Iran War meets none of the criteria under the time-honored framework and in fact violates every single one of them.

According to the Catholic Catechism and traditions dating back to Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas, a war must have a "just cause," which this one clearly does not. Trump attacked Iran because Israel wanted to destabilize a regional adversary in order to make their territorial expansion easier.

It must be waged with "legitimate authority" but Trump didn't seek Congressional approval in blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution.

It must be motivated by "right intention" but the White House can't even articulate coherent goals for the conflict. One day they pretend it's about nuclear weapons (despite our intelligence agencies concluding that Iran was not seeking such weapons). The next day it's about bringing democracy to the oppressed Iranian people (a claim that's dramatically undermined by the killing of those very same civilians by American bombs).

It must have a "probability of success" which this war did not. Trump was never going to bomb Iran into submission and a ground war would end in unmitigated disaster for the United States. This war was always going to be a terroristic bombing campaign that resulted in nothing but the loss of innocent lives.

A war must have "proportionality," meaning that it prevents more harm than it causes. In the case of the Iran War, no harm has been prevented but mass suffering has been inflicted, not just in Iran, but also in Lebanon where Israel has launched a brutal invasion, slaughtering civilian populations and seizing land.

In other words, Pope Leo is absolutely right to condemn this war as a moral atrocity. Vance and Johnson have abandoned the true teachings of Jesus Christ to pander to the demented pedophile in the White House. They have chosen political power over truth and revealed themselves as fraudulent Christians in the process.

Please ❤️ and share if you staunchly oppose the Iran War!

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

This is comedy gold 😂 I’ve never seen a political leader get roasted this badly especially after posting himself as Jesus.

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

The White House deleted this embarrassing video. So whatever you do- * DON'T REPOST IT. * Donald wouldn't like it if you hit "repost."

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

[Carol R Swenson @swensoncr]

@principalhoops Thanks, Eric!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump attacks Texas Democrat James Talarico — and gets a FIERY sermon in response that he won’t forget

Donald Trump thought he could score cheap political points by calling James Talarico an “insult to Jesus” because the Texas Democratic Senate candidate is “beyond woke” and believes that God does not discriminate on the basis of gender.

Unfortunately for Dementia Don, he picked the wrong person. Standing in a Black church in Texas, Talarico didn’t just clap back — he delivered a moral reckoning.

“The president of the United States just said that I insulted Jesus,” Talarico began. “You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their health care while cutting taxes for billionaires.”

And that was only just the start.

“You know what insults Jesus?” he continued. “Deporting the stranger and separating babies from their mothers.”

Then he went even further — taking aim at war, corruption, and hypocrisy.

“You know what insults Jesus? Bombing innocent school children in Iran and sending our brave men and women off to die in another forever war… Covering up the Epstein files and then refusing to prosecute a single person in them.”

This wasn’t politics as usual. This was a full-on moral indictment.

Talarico — who has been attacked by Trump for supporting transgender Americans and saying “trans children are God’s children” — flipped the script entirely. Instead of backing down, he grounded his message in the very teachings Trump tried to weaponize.

“I am not a perfect Christian,” he said. “There’s only been one perfect Christian and he was crucified on a cross 2,000 years ago.”

And then came the line that hit hardest: “Jesus told us to love our neighbors as ourselves… Can we imagine war in heaven? Can we imagine bigotry in heaven? Can we imagine poverty in heaven? Then why do we tolerate these things on earth?”

That’s how you respond. Not with insults. Not with fear. But with clarity — and conviction.

Trump tried to smear him. Instead, Talarico delivered a sermon that’s now echoing far beyond that church.

Please like and share James Talarico’s inspiring words!

[Carol R Swenson @swensoncr]

@principalhoops Carp, catfish, ?

[Carol R Swenson @swensoncr]

@McPherson_XCTF Look forward to seeing Isaiah as a Bulldog!

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Repost if you want Donald Trump to testify before the House oversight committee in the Epstein probe.

[Trump Lie Tracker (Commentary Account) @MAGALieTracker]

BREAKING: Trump just attacked American Olympian Hunter Hess as a “loser” after Hess said “there’s obviously a lot going on [in America] that I’m not the biggest fan of, and I think a lot of people aren’t.”

Hess is capturing the mood of a strong majority of the American public.

Trump’s Truth Social post does not accurately characterize his remarks and tries to vilify a patriotic Olympian who is taking a brave stand against the cruelty of this Administration.

Retweet if you stand with Hunter Hess!

[Carol R Swenson @swensoncr]

@KSHSAA @CapFed Congratulations on a fantastic career!

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Travel ball seating chart ⚾️🧢

[D. Scott Fritchen @DScottFritchen]

K-State track and field head coach Travis Geopfert on K-State’s No. 1 ranking: “Obviously it’s exciting for the program and the K-State community. I’m proud of everyone within our program. We’re just going to keep focusing on the process and have fun doing it!”