We listen to political commentators and pundits talk about politics and the state of the nation, but nothing beats the heartfelt words of a constituent challenging their elected representative face to face at a town hall.
Meet Fred Higginbotham resident of Bolivar, Missouri who took time out his day to tell Republican Mark Alford EXACTLY what he thinks about what this regime are doing to the country he loves.
I don’t know Fred, but if I had to guess, I’d say he is a man who has served his country and is clearly not shy to speak truth to power. I salute him for his willingness to tell the uncomfortable truth.
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KNOX COUNTY SCHOOLS: “surprise budget hole… short almost $8 MILLION… considering job cuts & shaving salaries…”
Tennessee is LAST in student spending— as @GovBillLee@WilliamLamberth and Republicans steer hundreds of millions to private school vouchers.
EXACTLY what public schools advocates warned about. (P.S. @MarshaBlackburn will make it even worse)
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Platner is out—good. It should’ve happened sooner.
I want to underscore that Republicans don’t get to take a moral victory lap here. They’re still the party of Trump.
BREAKING: French Senator Claude Malhuret TORCHES Trump and his alcoholic, drug-addicted administration on the floor of the Luxembourg Palace: "Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction!"
This might be the greatest MAGA takedown of all time. Nobody was spared...
"A year ago, here in France, I compared Trump's presidency to Nero's Court. I was wrong. It's the miracle court. An anti-vaxxer, former heroin addict as Minister of Health," he said, referring to RFK Jr.
Malhuret's comparison to the mad Emperor Nero is fitting. It's said that he fiddled while Rome burned. In Trump's case, he's building a ballroom while the entire world goes up in flames.
"A climate-skeptic Minister of Economy. An alcoholic TV host, Minister of the Armed Forces," Malhuret continued, referring to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
"An old Qatar agent, Minister of Justice. A groupie of Putin, Minister of National Security," Malhuret went on, referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Bondi previously worked for the Ballard Partners firm which raked in $115,000 a month by lobbying on behalf of Qatar.
"A Turkish proverb says 'When a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king, it is the palace that becomes a circus," said Malhuret. "His fine team has decided to create a competitor to the UN. Since the creation of the Board of Peace, Trump has triggered more military strikes than Biden during his entire term."
"Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction," he continued. "Bomb more to win more."
This is how the world now sees the American president: as a pedophile desperately exploiting his role as commander-in-chief to obscure the fact that he preyed on children with his long-time pal Jeffrey Epstein.
"There isn't a single country where Trump did not take advantage of the situation to enrich himself without ever forgetting his family. A Boeing plane offered by Qatar," he said, referring to the $400 million jet that Qatar "gifted" to Trump. "Investment in all Gulf projects or elsewhere. Stock market manipulation that only a few insiders benefit from."
"Any one of these conflicts of interest would have caused an immediate procedure of impeachment here," Malhuret. "But we are not here. We are in MAGA's America where public business is conducted in favor of private interests."
Rarely have we heard such an exhaustive yet succinct distillation of the Trump administration's rampant criminality and incompetence. By focusing on individual Cabinet members and what makes them uniquely unfit for office and then expanding the aperture to the broader patterns of corruption and malignancy, Malhuret delivered a master class in political messaging.
Every mainstream outlet in the U.S. should be running this speech to show Americans what the world thinks of our leaders.
Since they won't, please make sure to like and share to spread this far and wide!
NEW: Second Circuit denies Trump request for immediate stay of order directing court to disburse $5 million, plus post-judgment interest, to E. Jean Carroll:
الفيدو دة الفيفا عمال تستخدم حقوق الملكية الفكرية وتمسحة من مواقع التواصل علشان تمحي آثار الجريمة. انشروا الفيديو في كل مكان قبل ما يختفي. خلوه يوصل لكل الناس فيصعب مسحة.
Mamdani: By the time a year rolls around, you will have saved more than two days of commuting time. That means breakfast with your family. That means getting home in time for bedtime. It means agreeing with your friends that Egypt was robbed yesterday.
This is the judge who ruled that I was not allowed to speak my abuser's name out loud. Forever. Past, present, and future.
If I wanted to warn another woman about the man who hurt me, I faced $10,000 in fines and jail time for each warning.
It's adorable that he thought I wouldn't fight back with everything I had.
It took me 441 days to get it overturned. And now I make up for lost time by making him famous. Meet Judge Pickerill. The man who stole my voice to protect a serial predator.
There's some very weird, strange and dangerous sh*t going on in America. A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president.
- Bruce Springsteen
I find it amusing that NBC didn't name me, the journalist who first released the EMS audio, but instead cited Punchbowl News, which cited my reporting after the fact. It makes me wonder why NBC chose not to acknowledge the original source when it had previously declined to cover the story.