Fatuous Badinage

I repeatedly overestimate my social intelligence, but I am working on it. This nom de guerre is my id unfiltered.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

This is just locking up your political enemies, and violating their 4th, 5th and 14th amendment rights. This is what fascist governments do.

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

Lindsey Graham'ın, Greta Thunberg'in sadece Gazze'deki Filistinli çocuklara yemek vermeye çalışması yüzünden onu öldürmekle ilgili çağrı yaptığını asla unutma.

[Mike Engleman🇺🇲 @RealHickory]

Mitch McConnell has not been seen in public in 33 days, fake photos don't count.

They' running out the August 4th clock to announce his passing, so they don't have to hold a special election.

Where's ANYONE in the Senate not demanding proof of life?

[Fatuous Badinage @WatchtowerWilde]

So NDAA Section 219 written by and for traitors that will be held to account—

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

Israel has abandoned America.

Finance Minister Smotrich has declared that Israel “has no interest” in joining the United States in the war against Iran.

“the current situation is the best one for us.”

Forces you to join the war and then ditches you. Your greatest allies.

[The Patriot Voice @TPV_John]

Tomorrow.

United States of Israel.

Conquered without firing a single shot.

1776-2026 RIP.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

While Americans are focused on other things, like how to make ends meet in the face of a rapidly rising cost of living, tomorrow the House will vote to merge our military technology and supply chains with Israel’s. Our Founder’s would be appalled at what Congress is doing now.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

The head of JPMorgan Chase defends trickle down economics, declaring: "growth always helps the lowest paid people the most"

He was paid $43 million last year.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

“he had more empathy and compassion for normal people because he was the most normal person to ever occupy the office."

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

😕 says it all, really

(From @Justinjpearson)

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Tom Homan says if you don’t want to be killed by ICE agents, you should just comply…. So here is an example of what he wants you to comply with.

In this video, a woman noticed vehicles in a parking lot that she believed could be ICE vehicles… So, she started filming.

The people noticed she was filming, and drove past her.

She was alone, so she decided to leave.

Then, they started followed her.

But here’s the thing… she wasn’t even 100% sure they were ICE agents.

They were in unmarked vehicles, and they weren’t using emergency lights.

As she was driving down the street, being followed by these unmarked cars, one of the vehicles pulls up beside her, cuts her off, and the cars box her in.

She had nowhere to go without hitting the curb, or hitting the vehicle that had just cut her off.

She honked, but the vehicle just sat there.

Eventually it moved, and the vehicles drove away.

Now, imagine being a woman, alone in your car.

A group of cars, you cannot clearly identify as law enforcement, start following you.

They don’t turn on emergency lights. They don’t clearly identify themselves. And one of them cuts you off and blocking your vehicle from being able to drive away.

What are you supposed to think is happening?

Because from your perspective, it looks like you are being kidnapped by random people.

And that is the terrifying part of what ICE is doing.

They are creating situations where people have no idea whether the people surrounding them are legitimate law enforcement officers, or strangers attempting to abduct, or rob them.

And Tom Homan’s answer to being kidnapped, or robbed, is…

“Just comply.”

Don’t try to drive away. Don’t defend yourself. Don’t try to escape.

Just calmly allow unidentified people, in unmarked vehicles, to follow you, box you in, and potentially kidnap or rob you…

Because if they happen to be ICE agents, and you react like a normal person who believes they are being kidnapped, you could be assaulted, detained, or even shot.

Do you understand how dangerous and insane that is?!?

“Just comply” means women are being told to surrender to potential kidnappers, and hope they turn out to be government agents.

And if they don’t?

Tom Homan says it’s their fault for not complying.

[Domie_Darko 🇺🇦🇨🇺🇵🇸 @Tired_hack]

This is the most insane story i've ever heard. "Yes, he is a threat to everyone including himself, but we're pussies and don't want to risk harm to ourselves, so good luck everyone." Police are genuine cowards and shows that Uvalde was not a fluke and a sign that cops are useless

[Phantom Pain @phantompain1984]

Isræl as a “Jéwish State” Is Officially Dead as a Talking Point

@krystalball didn’t just debate Rep. Adam Smith.

She exposed the contradiction.

She pushed the question Isræl’s defenders struggle to answer: if a state controls the lives of millions of people, why shouldn’t those people have equal rights?

Adam Smith eventually raised his hand and said:

“Totally, totally agree with you.”

A masterclass from Krystal Ball.

@TuckerCarlson broke open the conversation on the right.

Krystal Ball is breaking it open on the left.

The old Isræl talking points are collapsing, and politicians can no longer hide behind slogans.

[Joe Wrote @joewrote]

lmfao this is David Koch's daughter

[Emanuel Fabian @emanfabian]

El random que botaron por "reducción de personal" en Disney, filtrando el guión completo de Avengers Doomsday en Reddit y 4Chan.

[Fortesa Latifi @hifortesa]

I got dragged to hell for reporting this (and told I was going to hell for bearing false witness) but Bloomberg just affirmed my reporting :-)

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich warns that Section 219 of the NDAA is a complete, well-planned takeover of the United States military by Benjamin Netanyahu.

He says the bill will give Netanyahu the ability to direct the U.S. military.

"But the truth is that it is laying the groundwork for an entanglement that has never happened in the history of the United States."

"This is totally unprecedented."

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Whitney Webb just exposed the truth about Palantir’s origins.

It was created to privatize mass surveillance.

“Don’t tell me this is a conspiracy theory.”

“Alex Karp admitted that the CIA was always the intended client of Palantir.”

Webb and Mark Goodwin just broke down the truth about Palantir’s origins:

After 9/11, DARPA launched the Information Awareness Office to develop a government mass surveillance apparatus.

Reagan-era National Security Advisor John Poindexter led the new IAO.

After massive public scrutiny and backlash, Congress defunded it.

But the program never really shut down.

It was moved into the private sector with the help of Peter Thiel and Alex Karp.

Webb: “Peter Thiel comes, fresh off of selling PayPal … he’s got all this money, and he’s like: I’m gonna make this company called Palantir.”

“Palantir … had really started off as the anti-fraud algorithm at PayPal.”

“When PayPal was being created, Max Levchin sort of gave it away.”

Goodwin revealed that Max Levchin essentially admitted in an interview at the time:

“When I was developing all the anti-fraud stuff at PayPal, I was working with every three and four letter agency that I could.”

“Meaning the CIA, and the DOD, and DARPA.”

“They form PayPal in the late ‘90s.”

“They make a bunch of money, and it’s Thiel and Levchin, admittedly working with the CIA and NSA, while developing this anti-fraud stuff.”

“He takes that anti-fraud algorithm, which was built with the CIA in the private sector, and then rebrands it as Palantir.”

Webb: “As they’re setting it up, they go through Richard Perle, who was involved with the Bush-era Department of Defense, and I believe the Office of Special Plans.”

“He’s approached by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp.”

“They’re basically like: we want to talk to John Poindexter, because what he was trying to do is what we want to do.”

“They go and meet with Poindexter, who becomes named basically the godfather of modern surveillance because of this.”

“He advises them on how to create Palantir.”

“And then Palantir gets in bed pretty much right away with the CIA.”

“They were their first and only client for their first six years.”

@_whitneywebb @markgoodw_in

[Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @RepAOC]

Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF.

This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy.

Every member of Congress must vote NO.