btaf45

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[–] btaf45@midwest.social 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They probably aren't even counting all the political scams and disinformation. In the past year FB has tried to push right wing extremist propaganda from about 40-50 different sources on me, despite me banning each one, one at a time. What the fuck FB??? Why are you trying super hard to peddle Fascism on Americans? Why are the people running FB such incredible sociopaths? I also got 4 posts from left/liberal sources, and I rejected those too. Why the f*ck would anybody wish to use something as crappy and untrustworthy as Facebook to get political information from? Only if the source was Bernie Sanders himself would I consider "subscribing".

Zuckerberg deserves the phrase "fascist sociopath" on his tombstone.

[–] btaf45@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

At the same time, nobody loves to fold a winning hand more than the Democrats.

That's what so great about Newsom accomplishing this. After making some early missteps, Newsom is successfully fighting back and it is so refreshing to see that it's not just progressives anymore who are pushing back hard against Traitorapist Trump.

[–] btaf45@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago

He lovingly caters to a class so wealthy that they feel no allegence to any country or nation. While at the same time decrying globalists.

This is an excellent point.

The term globalist is just another dogwhistle in the long history of fascist dogwhistles.

Traitorapist Trump getting billions of $$ from the Saudis for his "cybercoin" he invented out of thin air makes him quite the globalist also.

[–] btaf45@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Is he claiming that there are 3 years he’s got his hands glued together?

Nope. Its not claiming that. The article is pointing out a significant thing just happened. For the very first time in this term, GOP congressmen rejected a major demand of Traitorapist Trump. That is the definition of "lame duck" status. The implication is that now that GOP congressmen have successfully rejected a major Trump demand without any negative consequences at all, its going to be much easier to do this in the future. It doesn't mean that every Trump request will be denied, just that Trump's bullying should be much less effective now. Not only does Traitorapist not have unlimited powers, even his own party is rejecting him now.

 

On Tuesday, California voters overwhelming passed Proposition 50, a statewide redistricting measure that lays the groundwork for Democrats to pick up five additional House seats. The measure was drawn up in response to similar redistricting efforts mounted by the GOP in Texas.

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by btaf45@midwest.social to c/usa@midwest.social
 

“If you don’t terminate the filibuster, you’ll be in bad shape,” he told them over breakfast in the State Dining Room.

It was classic Trump dominance theater, like many other occasions this year where he successfully muscled recalcitrant Republicans to confirm controversial nominees, support divisive policies and enact sweeping domestic policy legislation.

But upon returning to the Capitol, the senators made it very clear: They planned to blow Trump off. One GOP senator, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, laughed out loud when asked about the anti-filibuster push.

Welcome to the dawn of Trump’s lame duck era.

With Tuesday’s stunning election losses crystallizing the risks to downballot Republicans in 2026 and beyond, there are growing signs that lawmakers are contending with the facts of their political lives: He’ll be gone in just over three years, while they’ll still be around.

[–] btaf45@midwest.social 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Lawrence O'Donnell regularly delivers devastating critiques on Trump, his incompetent flunkies, and the embarrassing failure of the media such as the New York Times and white house press corps to cover him competently. He often compares today's events with how things worked in the past to show just how badly things have become fucked up today. This is my favorite news show and the only one I record so I don't miss it.

 

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell delivered a scathing “Last Word” monologue Wednesday after Democrats swept key races in this week’s various elections, arguing that the Republican wipeout has left President Donald Trump “living in fear” of the 2026 midterms.

[–] btaf45@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

totally just summarized the article apparently few on here bothered to read.

Yes. My opinion of David Brooks is not very high but he did have some actual points here that you summarized well.

[–] btaf45@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

Jordan was definitely thought policing you though. He made it obvious when he argued against it while also banning it.

Yeah he does that a lot. If you wrote out a list of all his unwritten rules and banned opinions there would probably be over a hundred.

[–] btaf45@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you want clear rules and fair leadership, make your own community.

Or just use a non lemmy.world site where they don't have a widely despised terrible mod.

[–] btaf45@midwest.social -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Misandry exists

Yes. But that still doesn't justify lemmy.world PTB censoring speech. People need to understand that censoring speech (except for hate speech) is almost always counter productive because it deprives us of a chance to tell those that are wrong why they are wrong and for people to hear why they are wrong. And possibly a chance to learn something new.

[–] btaf45@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I noticed the striking similarities between the US Republican Party and the Russian Communist Party long ago. The lip service about "smaller government" while in reality loving victimless crime laws and big brother government. The love of dishonesty and disinformation. Encouraging followers to suspend all critical thinking skills and embrace shallow dogmas and cult of personality. Trying to rule through bullying and intimidation. Love of authoritarianism. The ultimate emphasis on raw power over ideology.

This stuff is especially ironic given the false claims of right wing kooks that anything they don't like is "communist". Republicans are the actual "communist" threat because they use the same tactics and have the same contempt for democracy as the Bolsheviks.

[–] btaf45@midwest.social 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

You fucked things up big time with your incompetent campaign Kamala. You don't have a clue how to run against Traitorapist Trump and you totally lied when you said you would "prosecute the case against him". Stay the hell away now.

[–] btaf45@midwest.social 3 points 4 weeks ago

He falsely accused me of being "transphobic". Then censored me and when I called him out either banned me sitewide or caused me to be banned when I was closing in on 2000 lemmy submissions. Then I later read how JL went to a trans community and acted like a jerk to the people there. Incredible. I've never posted to a trans community but if I did I would be fully respectful of the people there.

I returned to reddit for awhile and made a post about it. So because JL didn't want a few people on a lemmy.world submission to read my reply to him, a much larger number of people on reddit have read my reply to him. And on reddit a lot of people don't understand the difference between lemmy and lemmy.world, so this guy has done lots of damage to lemmy's reputation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditalternatives2/comments/1n07owd/banned_from_lemmyworld_sitewide_for_agreeing_with/

 

Democrats say that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s massive overhaul of the Justice Department “will take decades to recover from,” in the wake of a contentious Senate hearing with Bondi this week.

Bondi’s defensive and combative attitude during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, in which she repeatedly refused to answer Democrats’ questions, has left many concerned about the future of the department.

Under Bondi’s leadership, more than 4,500 Justice Department employees have left, task forces dedicated to probing criminal activity have been disbanded, resources have been re-allocated to support Trump’s targeting of political opponents and more.

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