whdaffer

Just a guy who likes dogs and likes to comment on politics.

[whdaffer @whdaffer]

A prediction from Barry Goldwater.

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise.

[whdaffer @whdaffer]

@Sassafrass_84 I agree that lots of racists became in emboldened when Obama was elected.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

If any other president accepted a $400 million jet from a foreign government, made taxpayers spend hundreds of millions more to secure it, and then had it transferred to his own foundation after leaving office, it would be a full-blown national scandal. 

This is NOT NORMAL. 

Neither are the billions he is making while in office, the deals his family is profiting from, or the companies connected to his sons benefiting from massive federal support. 

We cannot normalize a president making billions in office. We cannot normalize his family cashing in on federal deals. And we cannot normalize corruption just because Trump does it every week.

[whdaffer @whdaffer]

@bigbabolat @holland_tom Thank the lord we won't have your braying ass in the theater. We can do without your goose stepping, um-pa-pa band, Nazi -saluting, white bread 'culture'

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

My last comment on this whole business (which I hadn’t realised was a lightning rod for an entire culture war) - if you like Nolan’s other films, you will love The Odyssey. If you didn’t like them, then miss it.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The government just paid a French oil company $2.5 BILLION of YOUR tax dollars... to kill American wind energy.

Not to build it. To make it disappear.

TotalEnergies had two offshore wind farms ready to go. One off North Carolina, one off New York. Combined, they would have powered hundreds of thousands of homes.

The Department of the Interior paid TotalEnergies $795 million to walk away from both, and banned the company from ever building offshore wind in the U.S. again.

Here's the part that should stop you cold:

That $795 million isn't just a payout. It's a condition. TotalEnergies has to take that money and pour it into oil, gas, and LNG projects instead.

The government is paying a company, with your tax dollars, to convert clean energy into fossil fuel. On purpose, by design.

And it didn't stop there.

Invenergy took $765 million to drop four more offshore leases, same condition attached: oil and gas only.

Bluepoint Wind, a 2.4 gigawatt project off New York, folded too. So did Golden State Wind, a floating wind farm planned for the waters off central California.

These weren't early-stage ideas. Ports were already being built to support them. California alone has sunk over $100 million into port and mooring infrastructure for a project that may never get finished.

Over $2.5 billion in taxpayer money, across four separate deals, all pointed the same direction: away from wind, straight into fossil fuel.

Meanwhile, a wind farm that did get finished, Vineyard Wind off Massachusetts, is already saving families $1.4 billion on their power bills over the next 20 years. That's the version of this we're not choosing.

Seven states are suing over the TotalEnergies deal alone. California's Attorney General just filed a separate case over the rest.

Since when does the government bribe companies to pick oil over wind?

#DemsUnited

[whdaffer @whdaffer]

@adamcarolla https://t.co/VxeAtr84UL

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

- The East Wing is Ruble.
- The Reflecting Pool is green.
- The Country is $39T in debt.
- We destroyed the Middle East.
- Ukraine & Russia are Fighting even more.
- Everything is unaffordable.

It’s everything you’d expect from a convicted felon and rapist who bankrupted multiple casinos.

[whdaffer @whdaffer]

@adamcarolla More of this garbage, Adam? What happened to you?

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

Ok, Mainstream Media. Let’s Talk About Biden (AND Trump’s) Age and Compare Their Fitness for Office
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[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

This woman is reciting Trump’s words exactly as he said them during the NATO summit.

We have become so inured to Trump’s incoherence that is sanewashed by the media 24/7 that we fail to recognize just how much he’s declined.

Reading a transcript of his words makes it SO CLEAR.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board tears apart Trump’s tariffs in a blistering editorial:

“The President is right that his tariffs are at work—in destroying U.S. jobs and raising prices. The U.S. has lost some 75,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2025, including 25,900 in motor vehicle and parts production...

there’s no question his tariffs are raising costs for U.S. manufacturers.…Mr. Trump and his advisers claim that foreigners pay his border taxes, but the evidence shows that U.S. companies, workers and consumers are picking up most of the tab.

The Anderson Economic Group estimates that auto tariffs on Canada and Mexico alone added about $1,600 to the cost of each car made in the U.S. last year. While auto makers absorbed some of the Trump tariff costs, they also passed on a large share to customers…Call it the Trump tax.”

[whdaffer @whdaffer]

@Trina4golf @HalfwayPost Tell us you have no sense of humor without using the words "I have no sense of humor"

[richard mcvay ☮️ @richardmcvay]

@HooverInst

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

President Trump repeats his false claim that more money is being spent on US factory-building than ever before. In fact, US factory construction spending has steadily declined this Trump term after a spike under Biden (that had tapered off by the end of Biden's term). https://t.co/t2chpkKT94

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

I CALLED IT, ANIMALS, AND YOU LAUGHED!!! Months ago I told you ICE would buy facilities DIRECTLY from the prison companies at north of $150,000 per bed — and I was WRONG, folks, it was BETTER!!! ICE just bought TWO facilities from CoreCivic — $CXW — for $1.47 BILLION!!! That's $286,000 per bed in California City, $371,000 PER BED at Otay Mesa, $323,000 a bed COMBINED — DOUBLE what these things cost to build!!! Even I underestimated the beauty, and I NEVER underestimate!!!

AND WHO OWNS $CXW??? DONALD TRUMP!!! It's RIGHT THERE in the disclosure, folks — the man holds CoreCivic AND GEO Group, the two companies running America's ICE detention centers!!! Follow the bouncing ball: HE runs the immigration crackdown!!! HIS DHS just wired $1.47 billion to a company HE OWNS SHARES IN, at DOUBLE replacement cost!!! The buyer is his government, the seller is his portfolio, and the taxpayer is the ATM!!! That's not a conflict of interest, that's a CLOSED LOOP!!!

And the STRUCTURE is a masterpiece: DHS buys the buildings, but CoreCivic KEEPS OPERATING them under the same contracts!!! Sold the real estate, KEPT the revenue — like selling your house and the buyer pays YOU rent!!! Gain north of $1 BILLION on assets carried at PENNIES!!!

THE DE-LEVERING — exactly like I told you: $716 MILLION of debt GONE overnight!!! Credit facility, GONE!!! The 2027 notes, GONE!!! And that puts them under the covenant thresholds that unlock UNLIMITED BUYBACKS with the $400 million left over!!! Fewer shares, folks — and whose shares get more valuable??? DONALD'S!!!

AND THE SEQUEL IS COMING: CoreCivic says it's in talks with ICE to sell MORE facilities!!! The machine runs forever: sign the orders, fill the beds, sell the buildings to yourself at double price, buy back the stock, watch the disclosure GLOW!!! One catch the animals should know — ICE can cancel those operating contracts anytime, so read the covenants before you chase!!! Do your own research, NOT advice!!! Is ANYBODY looking into this??? The SEC??? He APPOINTS the SEC!!! I called the trade, the price, AND the de-levering — GREATEST prison analyst in American history, maybe ever!!!

[Michelle @Michell33650674]

Donald Trump's name appears 1 million times in the Epstein Files. JD Vance's "sugar daddy," Peter Thiel, is in the Epstein Files. Elon Musk, who rigged the 2024 election for Trump, is in the Epstein Files. Melania Trump is in the Epstein Files. Cabinet members Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Mehmet Oz, Howard Lutnick, and over 30 others are in the Epstein Files. Trump's Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, previously worked for Benjamin Netanyahu, who is in the Epstein Files. Long time supporter, Steve Bannon, is in the Epstein Files. I suspect that Karoline Leavitt's husband, who is an ultra wealthy Trump associate more than twice her age, is in the Epstein Files. Pam Bondi was the Attorney General in Florida who let Epstein and other child sex traffickers evade justice. Clarence Thomas is in the Epstein Files. Many of Trump's wealthy donors are in the Epstein Files. I can guarantee that several GOP members of Congress are in the Epstein Files. Trump's entire 2nd administration has been about covering up the Epstein Files...including bribing Ghislaine Maxwell, by moving her to a low security prison with special treatment, to keep her silence. This is no coincidence. The Epstein Class had to cover up their crimes, so they installed Trump, the Pedophile King, as America's President. It's time we all acknowledged that America has been taken over in a coup to hide a decades long, murderous child sex trafficking ring that was used to blackmail and control wealthy, powerful men from around the world.

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

Social Security Statements are sent out by mail.
But they want us to believe mail-in ballots aren't safe.

Social Security cards are sent out by mail.
But they want us to believe mail-in ballots aren't safe.

Social Security Payment summaries are sent out by mail.
But they want us to believe mail-in ballots aren't safe.

IRS Tax Return Information is sent out by mail.
But they want us to believe mail-in ballots aren't safe.

IRS Form 1099-R (for pensions, retirement plans, etc) are sent out by mail.
But they want us to believe mail-in ballots aren't safe.

Medicare Summary Notices with private personal information is sent out by mail.
But they want us to believe mail-in ballots aren't safe.

VA Benefit Payment summaries are sent out by mail.
But they want us to believe mail-in ballots aren't safe.

Voter registration forms and voter cards are sent out by mail.
But they want us to believe mail-in ballots aren't safe.

Drivers licenses are sent out by mail.
But they want us to believe mail-in ballots aren't safe.

U.S Passports are sent out by mail.
But they want us to believe mail-in ballots aren't safe.

STOP LETTING REPUBLICANS LIE TO YOU!!

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[whdaffer @whdaffer]

@Sandra_G_Loftis @DineshDSouza You are beyond stupid

[whdaffer @whdaffer]

#InYouFaceCorruption

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: You’ve reviewed many presidential financial disclosures. What did you make of this monstrosity of 900 pages from Trump? 

Norm Eisen: “We’ve NEVER seen corruption like this in American history…Donald Trump is MONETIZING the presidency for himself, for his family, his cronies in and outside of the government, and the American people are the losers because these massive crypto deals, people have lost hundreds of millions of dollars when the value of these Trump-associated crypto currencies bottom out. Some of these companies have cratered, like ALT5 Sigma, associated with Trump’s family, with Witkoff’s family, massive losses in the value of that. You shouldn’t have a president who is regulating, or in Donald Trump’s case, failing to regulate crypto companies, or any other industry, while doing enormous profit taking…”

[whdaffer @whdaffer]

The tragedy of Oligarchy!

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[whdaffer @whdaffer]

@SecretaryWright Your'e are a monumentally stupid person. But then any ardent support of Trump is, by definition.