THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS
EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CRITTER
RULES IN THE DIARY
WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE
YOU CAN REPOST IT AS COMMENT in the DIARY
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OK, I'm dipping my toes back into politics. This is hard to read, but needs to be said.
I, like many of you, have been contemplating our predicament since election night.
We are in a losing war for our democracy and I'm not sure we collectively know who our true adversary is.
It's not the voting blocks...white women, Latinos, Gen X. It's not MAGA. It's not even Trump. It's an insidious power that has been hiding in the shadows for some time...and when the stakes were at their highest in this election, it fully revealed itself.
The American Oligarchy. They control our Supreme Court, much of Congress, and the flow of information to the masses via legacy, mainstream and social media.
They decide the national conversation, how to keep us at each other's throats while they continue to amass wealth and power completely unchecked.
They put their thumbs on the scale of justice and poured billions into this election. They chose Trump because he was desperate and would capitulate to their demands. They chose a running mate to replace him in case he became too unhinged to control.
Consider how many disqualifying facts about Trump never saw the light of day...or didn't get the attention they deserved...or got drowned out by propaganda. They took a mentally spent buffoon and presented him as a hero to the masses.
Despite Biden successfully steering us out of a global recession and strengthening our economy, they maintained the national tone about the price of groceries being too high.
Despite Trump's obvious mental decline, their media outlets remained reticent to press the issue.
We struggle to unite as a nation because they're too good at keeping us divided. We are drowning in disinformation because they control all of it.
They have successfully created imaginary villains for us to fight...each other.It seems like we are a democracy careening towards fascism, when the reality is they're using the specter of fascism to keep us on edge while they turn America into a compliant oligarchy.
Whether you are a democrat, republican, independent or MAGA, we have a common foe.
Some of us just don't know it yet.
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Now I need a brain cleanse.
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Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
“I hereby resign as a US representative.. effective immediately and I do not intend to take the oath of office for the same office in the 119th congress. To pursue the position of attorney general in the Trump administration. Signed, sincerely, Matt Gaetz,”
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Never forget: Kevin McCarthy said, “I'll give you the truth why I'm not speaker. It's because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old.” That member is Matt Gaetz.
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A-fecking-men!
ATTN DEMS ON THE HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE. RELEASE THE GAETZ REPORT. #ReleaseTheGaetzReport
@RepSusanWild
@RepEscobar
@RepDeSaulnier
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Finally. Senate Democrats are now demanding that the House Ethics Committee must release their conclusions and any supporting evidence in the Matt Gaetz investigation. Every Senate Democrat should do the same. Time to play hardball.
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GOOD!
Matt Gaetz.
We're going to hear a lot more about his connections to the teenage sex ring (Venmo, Joel G, etc.), "The Game" in Tallahassee, the dead guy in the dorm room, the DUIs...it's going to be a long, long confirmation.
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Cool, Rick Wilson provided this brain cleanse.
Trump cabinet picks vs Idiocracy.
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I know BlueSky is rising fast as an alternative to Leon Skum's platform, but I don't know enough technically to share posts yet. I just copied and pasted this, so excuse the lack of pretty formating. But this is a really good question:
h_christopher @h-christopher.bsky.social Follow
Wikipedia: "Some officials have been impeached and convicted for crimes committed before taking office, and there have been instances where a former official was tried after leaving office."Since Cannon has killed the classified docs case, could this truly High Crime be the basis to Impeach DJT?
Sorry, I don't know the answer...yet.
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I hope Sen. Warren can convince some of her GQP colleagues.
Elizabeth Warren on Tulsi Gabbard: "Do you really want her to have all the secrets of the United States and our defense intelligence agencies when she has so clearly has been in Putin's pocket? That just has to be a hard no."
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Congresswoman Crockett has a really good observation.
Crockett: These are people who have railed against diversity equity and inclusion, trying to say that diverse candidates are somehow unqualified, but the reality is that what they want to do is more of this, put people that are not qualified in
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Ironically, this is not from The Onion.
Alex Jones announces this morning that The Onion has purchased InfoWars at public auction and the show is now being shut down.
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Steve Bannon says that Roger Stone put in a competitive bid with a group of investors to buy InfoWars in Alex Jones’s bankruptcy auction, and thinks that it may have been higher than The Onion’s bid but it was rigged to keep Stone from getting it.
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Okay, I need another brain cleanse. Nature through a kaleidoscope.
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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy National Seat Belt Day! Buckle up, everyone!
Happy National Pickle Day!
Happy Family PJ Day!
AND, Happy Spicy Guacamole Day!
Tomorrow is National Clean Out The Refrigerator Day. Who knows what all I'll find in there...
