Grumpy Liberal
Grumpy, Liberal,🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦
“If we Kant, who will?” Ne te laisse pas abattre par ces salauds
- The Founders feared foreign influence over leaders and assumed Congress would jealously guard its prerogatives. And yet the ostensible proponents of originalism look away.
- Not your lane? Incredible. Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, and Article II, Section 1, Clause 7. Look it up, Mr. Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States.
- OLD: What is a woman? NEW: What are groceries?
- Man, Woman, Camera, Groceries.
- Jeffries: "Millions of people in this country are struggling to live paycheck to paycheck ... and Donald Trump is publicly defending accepting a $400 million flying palace from a close ally of Iran and Hamas? I mean, you can't make this stuff up."
- A plane that is going to cost the taxpayer billions of $s according to consultants who know about Air Force One and what it takes to outfit it.
- Murphy: "He's going to these 3 countries for a simple reason: These are the 3 countries that are willing to pay him. Traditionally a president might go first to Canada or one of our European allies, but those countries aren't willing to write Trump a check."
- What the fuck do we have to pay for them to keep him? I got a few singles and some change ready to go.
- RFK Jr on the cost of drug rehab treatment: "There are many really gold star rehabs that do it for a tiny fraction, like $20,000 to $40,000 a month."
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- Oh. I thought he was offering to pay.
- That’s with the brain worm discount.
- substack.com/@eskvsdisinf... All is not rosy in Russia and if the people had a real voice this war with Ukraine would be over. Putin needs Ukraine’s people and production.
- Schumer on Qatar gifting Trump a luxury plane: "The more sunlight that's brought to this issue -- they didn't want to make it public -- the greater the public outcry there will be, and hopefully that will persuade this administration to not do this."
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- Not enough fiber.
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- Yeah, give ‘em heck, Chuck! Follow on with strongly worded letter. They need another laugh over at the White House of Corruption and Emoluments.
- It’s dangerous. Dangerous. No, Chuck, it’s illegal. Without Congressional approval, he can’t accept this Bride of Qatar.
- In this Ohio diner, cougar still means John Mellencamp. But they do know this: looking at scantily-clad middled-aged Trump-supporting women hurts so good.
- And those are just the Cabinet members — the boys deserve something nice to look at in the club house. Sometimes MTG and Lauren come over as well.
- ground.news/article/tech... What could possibly go wrong here?
- Trump saluting Saudi officials at the Royal Court in Riyadh
- He’s just saluting the dollars coming his way. YeeeeHaw.
- Trump in Saudi Arabia: "What a great place but more importantly, what great people. I want to thank his royal highness the crown prince for that incredible introduction. He's an incredible man. I've known him a long time now. There's nobody like him. Appreciate it very much, my friend."
- And the United States people say, who will speak for us?
- Just FYI because evidently Fox or OAN or whatever is pushing the lie that America accepted the Statue of Liberty and that’s equivalent to the plane. Congress VOTED to approve receiving the statue. So congress should vote on the jet
- And the Statute didn’t go to the Grover Cleveland library at the end of his term.
- Jeffries: China punked the administration and the administration backed down. That’s no surprise because we’ve seen that happen over and over and over again.
- This guy can’t even use “punked” correctly. Sheesh.
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- And who’s to blame for that?
- Hunter Biden was given a role at a small venture capital firm that’s leveraging his father’s presidency and insider knowledge to invest in companies, secure $500 million in funding, and gain access to opportunities. Sorry — I meant Donald Trump Jr. Just shameless, unchecked corruption.
- Fuck you. Hunter Biden was sick and out of control. Don, Jr, is an entitled asshole who thinks he deserves it, whatever “it” might be.
- President Trump's trip to the Middle East this week puts him in a position to make foreign policy decisions that could directly impact his personal business interests, posing serious conflicts of interest.
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- Once conviction for past crimes was off the table and immunity shields him from future prosecution, the “For Sale” sign went up.
- In 2024, Biden signed into law a $105 billion measure designed to end a shortfall in air traffic controllers. In 2025, Trump came in and instead began firing hundreds of them. So you can see how *clear* it is that Biden is to blame for the shortage now.
- Well, I for one, am sick of all the lying!
- "The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- They don’t need the local police to do their dirty work; they just need the police to allow them to do it.
- NEWS: U.S. and China agree to a 90-day pause on new tariffs after shipping to U.S. ports plummeted. Tariffs on Chinese imports will be cut from 145% to 30%. Tariffs on U.S. imports will be cut from 125% to 10%. If tariffs should result in massive job growth and make the U.S. rich, why lower them?
- How will big, beautiful tariffs replace the income tax if they’re already being withdrawn? Are we all richer yet? We were going to be so rich.
- this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"
- As the old proverb goes: sick fucks utter no wisdom. Booby is a fraud and a charlatan.
- Trump says Democrats are losers for not getting hundred of millions of dollars in bribes from foreign dictators.
- You mean the one that goes to Trump AFTER the US taxpayer spends millions to retrofit the plane that will go to Trump after he leaves office? Fuck off, orange boy. We’re done with your bullshit.
- Congress is not going to reverse habeas corpus—-and no, the president can’t do it himself. Why does Stephen Miller bring it up on a Friday? To try to distract us from the havoc they are wreaking across the economy.
- Amy. He’s the never say never guy. You all need to say up front, NEVER!
- Tomorrow Trump will be signing an executive order ending all current and future wars and announcing the concepts of many trade deals.
- Does he need his magic wand with him when he signs these EO’s ? OMG ! 🤦♀️
- OMG. Don’t ask him about his “magic wand.”
- Oh? I thought it was manly trade deals.
- Kleptocracy, “rule by thieves," refers to a form of political corruption where government officials use their power to enrich themselves and their networks at the expense of the public. It involves systematically abusing political power to steal public funds and resources for personal gain.
- Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?
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- The “Air Force” doesn’t pay taxes.
- L fucking OL.
- The gift is bad enough on its own, but can we talk about how insane it is to use a foreign-gifted jet as *Air Force One* Air Force One has a lot of capability that a luxury jet simply doesn’t, and that’s before we even consider the obvious spying/bugging/security concerns.
- What will it cost to “modify” that plane that probably has outdated avionics. This is ridiculous.
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View full threadUnlimited dark money and rampant gerrymandering eclipse all other issues here.
- Agree 💯
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- Yeah. Not advocating for open primaries. Ranked voting is probably a better option.
- www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... If you’re uncertain on what the plan is, here it is in frightening detail.
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- Agreed. Washington in his farewell address warned against parties. He was right on point. Parties have been used to screw up elections for years.
- No parties need to be told what is and isn’t acceptable for elections even their own elections.
- Actually, we need ranked voting that would hopefully do away with these stupid party rules that restrict who gets on a ballot to begins with.
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- States can, through the power of the parties, decide who can vote in a particular primary. Some states have closed primaries that restrict the voters in a party primary to those registered with the party. Parties determine who votes in party primaries.
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- Well, the place to start might be getting rid of all that gold crap he put up in the Oval.
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- Bill, just gotta say that back in the day you would have labeled this as more of the blame America first crowd chatter. Maybe time for you all to admit you were wrong, wrong, wrong.
- Jon Stewart nodding along once again to some dumb ass idea. Primaries and rules for primaries are set by the parties. Once you start dictating what the parties can do, you’re done. Focus on getting rid of Citizens United and the dark money.
- Retired Justice David Souter, a splendid and deeply principled jurist and a kind and gentle man, died at his home last night. He was dedicated to the Constitution and to the living tradition it embodies still — even when a Supreme Court majority betrays its spirit and ignores its enduring text.
- RIP. And another bit of integrity washes from the shore.
- That’s a start.
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- The spending he’s done so far doesn’t seem to have whittled down the pile, so he’s been cheating out on the world all along? Maybe he should have stepped up the spend a bit. It’s always been about him.
- As easy as he/him/they, which, as I understand it, would be the pronouns for the father, the son and the holy spirit.
- So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?
- Some people all about shutting off the beacon of light.
- My seat mate on my DC to SF flight can’t stop won’t stop. Total coincidence but utterly fun.
- Despite the fun of sitting next to KS, sure it’s a come down from the old days as SOTH. I know NP doesn’t get the love these days, but she carried us for a long time.
- Smart hire
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- Or already happened yesterday.
- JUST IN: All Senate Judiciary Dems, led by Klobuchar, complain to AG Bondi about recent rollback of protections against journalists' records being sought by investigators. Changes make it "all too easy" for prosecutors & will "deter whistleblowers." Doc: www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/_cach...
- Way to go Amy! That’s what we’re talking about.
- Never forget!
