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Elon Musk is a clown shoe so I’m here now.
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Said it before, I’ll say it again, tell people Republicans want to take away their tax refunds.

Project 2025 raises taxes on a family of four with two parents earning a combined $100,000 by $2,600, in order to fund a tax cut of over three times their combined income for someone earning $5m. x.com/SteveRattner...

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Again, on top of being just straight up evil it should not be lost just how deeply weird and cringe the GOP is.

I looked it up and this is fucking real. And Amber Rose is involved lmao

Hard to believe this is a winning strategy. Are there really enough people who feel unsafe outside of the GOP’s horseshit gun control leading to mass shootings? How many more people can they fearmonger into Trump who they haven’t already?

Reporting from Milwaukee: tonight at day 2 of Trump’s coronation, the evening’s theme — with the crowd hooting and smiling along — was just a deluge of gore, blood in the streets, xenophobic scapegoating, terror, unstoppable bloodshed (unless we elect Trump!)… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s RNC Revels in Graphic Demonization of Migrantswww.rollingstone.com The Republican National Convention's "Make America Safe Again" night was rife with fear-mongering over undocumented immigrants.

It was a blessing from God that only you idiots in the crowd got killed and not our supreme leader. Helluva message.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the convention God intervened to save Trump from an assassin. I guess God just didn't care for that guy who was killed.

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scientifically proven that this is the most red flags per letter possible in english “a nationalist who worries about America's low fertility”

Genuinely possible that Vance is too gross and clammy and weird even for this moment.

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They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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AFL-CIO: "Sen. JD Vance likes to play union supporter on the picket line, but his record proves that to be a sham ... A Trump–Vance White House is a corporate CEO’s dream and a worker’s nightmare." aflcio.org/press/releas...

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Hello, 911? I'd like to report a murder:

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Every part of the Republican agenda is off-putting and theoretically a slam-dunk to campaign against www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

It’s an indictment of mainstream media that so many people still don’t know their very livelihood depends on stopping Project 2025. Social Security will go away, VA benefits will go away, public education will be gutted (even more), federal workers will be fired for not supporting Trump. It’s *bad*

if you’re trying to engage with politically disconnected people about project 2025, identify a specific part that you think will resonate with them. i just told my friend who’s a public school teacher about the plan to abolish the department of education and that got her hooked.

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Live look at America, a big dumb garish metal piece of shit with no safety features burning from the inside while it sinks into the ocean

timeline cleanse

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This is the guy who tried to overthrow the government when he lost the last election

Jesus Christ

Another reason to vote against Trump… make Elon waste more of his money that he refuses to use on addressing world hunger despite the UN laying out a plan to do so after he goaded them to do so.

"Elon Musk has said he plans to commit around $45 million a month to a new super political-action committee backing former President Donald Trump’s presidential run, according to people familiar with the matter." www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

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This seems like the absolute worst guy to pick when Dobbs has been a clear loser at the ballot box for these jabronis

From the JD Vance (Senate) campaign website. JD Vance would ban every single woman (or girl) from receiving an abortion, no matter the circumstances by which she was impregnated or the danger to her health. Maybe (just maybe) if she risks imminent death.

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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Who the fuck looks at the Catholic Church from the outside and says let me in

J.D. Vance Becomes Catholicwww.theamericanconservative.com Exclusive interview with 'Hillbilly Elegy' author, who was baptized and confirmed today

The coup is ongoing…

The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...

Really illustrates the depravity of the GOP where a guy can go from calling Trump “America’s Hitler” to fawning over him for political gain.

I really believe Trump picking Vance is the first huge break the Democrats have gotten in this election in forever, because Trump would've done himself an enormous favor by picking someone diverse and instead he picks a white guy who's said a slew of terrible things about him.

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The latest cover of the New Yorker:

I’m genuinely frightened for our future (and present) as a Christian nationalist plutocracy

The Founders anticipated all of this, and that is why they buried throughout the constitution various secret hints and rules that would, centuries later, make it illegal to notice or get mad when a powerful and extremely dumb guy repeatedly commits obvious oafish political crimes.

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This is written like an exaggeration to make a point but it is actually just a clearly worded statement of the mainstream GOP position

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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hey remember when the FCC tried to implement some really basic consumer privacy protections for telecom but AT&T convinced GOP Senators to kill those efforts before they could even take effect? good times

Nearly all AT&T cell customers’ call and text records exposed in a massive breach | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com The call and text message records of hundreds of millions of AT&T cellphone customers in mid-to-late 2022 were exposed in a massive data breach, the telecom company revealed Friday.

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If employees steal from employers, they get fired and can be sent to prison. When employers steal from employees, they get tax breaks and government contracts. One is considered a crime, the other is considered profit. Lawmakers should answer why. www.propublica.org/article/new-...

In New York, Wage Theft Violators Get Millions in Government Contractswww.propublica.org ProPublica and Documented identified 25 employers that, despite histories of wage theft, have received contracts worth more than a collective $500 million from city and state agencies since 2018.

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Biden has done 3 live tv appearences related to the shooting since where he calls for unity. Trump has disappeared and done nothing. The resulting press coverage is covering an imaginary version of Trump as if he had said unity stuff. Like literally they are making up a fake guy to praise.

I have never read anything more credulous than Axios’s thing about Trump this morning. Like…

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so basically what I'm hearing is that going forward, every law has to specifically say "this applies to Donald Trump as well" in its text or Trump gets a free pass. what the fuck

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And this, from the Philly Inquirer: "The majority of the class were on the liberal side, but Tom, no matter what, always stood his ground on the conservative side" inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

"A third classmate...said that Crooks was very smart, took honors classes, and was shy. She said that he had a group of friends who were fairly conservative, some of whom would wear Trump hats." nothing so far differentiates this from a garden variety school shooting www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/u...

What we know about the Trump rally gunman so far | CNNwww.cnn.com Interviews with a half-dozen former classmates and neighbors of Thomas Crooks painted him as quiet and aloof, with some remembering him as a misfit in high school.

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If you’ve shared this but haven’t read it yet, you should. PEOPLE isn’t pulling punches. Just printing “Christian Nationalism” in relation to the platform of a presidential candidate is more than many pubs have done.

Just a reminder that People mag has a great Project 25 write up that you can share with your less politically aware friends and fam people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

*everything* the GOP says and does is a bad faith attack. Everything.

A few hours after posting on Facebook that “the left” was responsible for the assassination attempt (without any evidence for the claim), the OR GOP then issued a statement calling “on the media to stop feeding the contentious us-against-them culture amongst Americans.”