gAlienLifeform

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Donald Trump is probably the only human being in the world that could make Bill Clinton temporarily seem honest and decent in comparison

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe because it's AI

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Absolute nonsense, anyone would have beaten Trump in 2020, and the four years of Biden failing to hold Trump accountable or help the working class at all (while braying like a jackass about how great the economy was) totally handed the White House back to the orange asshole. He is without a doubt one of the worst presidents we've ever had.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I mean, who do I vote for if I want the country to learn from history and hold all of our war criminals and torturers and traitors accountable? Obama didn't hold anyone in Bush's administration accountable like he should have, Biden appointed Garland to make sure Republicans would be protected (and, like, he'd been mister forget and forgive going all the way back to Strom Thurmond), etc. This country desperately needs to reckon with its history, but there are no influential voices in either party really interested in doing that.

e; Yeah, just had to double check but both Hillary and Joe voted for war with Iraq in 2002. If we learned anything from history scumbags like that couldn't get a volunteer position with their local United Way, let alone be presidential nominees.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eh, it's a lot of "If you stupid hippies keep complaining about Palestinians being mass murdered and taxpayer money being thrown at for profit companies then we'll let MAGA beat the everloving shit out of you and everyone you care about for a few years and see if you're more agreeable," a little "Holy fuck that is depraved and we need to kick you out of our party somehow," and a lot of "Yeah, look, that is depraved, but we currently don't have the votes to do anything about them, and organizing those votes would be a lot of time and effort, so please just shut up... but, uh, don't forget to vote!"

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, also they probably spent a ton of time trying to figure out which FBI agents they could trust to cover up their dirt for them. Also, just generally speaking, I'm pretty sure Kash Patel is even stupider than he looks.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, this should go without saying but I think there's a 100% chance that anyone who says anything that could be construed as a threat in those threads will definitely be getting a visit from law enforcement

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

"Doing a human sacrifice every so often is good for the poll numbers, but let's hurry it up and not spend too much money on that prison thing, it's not like it really matters who we kill." - pro-death politicians (basically)

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

“In our conversations with stakeholders from across the Democratic ecosystem, we are aligned on what’s important, and that’s learning from the past and winning the future,”

And you're showing that commitment to learning from the past by refusing to have a conversation about it.

“Here’s our North Star: does this help us win? If the answer is no, it’s a distraction from the core mission.”

Being dishonest and refusing to engage with your voters does not help you win.

 
[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I don't know, Trump isn't very big on pardoning people /s

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah yeah, I'm sure all those super smart fascists have all sorts of great things to teach us (/s), but as long as you're so hopped up on learning shit how about you read something for once in this misbegotten thread and recognize the fact that Patton got removed from his post for being so antisemitic, so, no, he wasn't just a man of his times or whatever the excuse is

Fascists are not smart, period. If they were smart they wouldn't be fascists. If they occasionally luck into effective behaviors and strategies, fine learn from those, but calling fascists themselves smart or strong or good or any crap like that is a harmful and misinformed thing to do because it builds their bullshit mystique and makes them more influential, and it is just not true under any circumstances. Their regimes always implode eventually and leave whatever society that was unlucky enough to have them in a worse place than before fascists came on the scene.

I am probably more pissed off by this exchange than you deserve, but like, damn, there's a dril tweet for this

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Dr. Kenneth Haller, a pediatrician based in St. Louis, called HHS’ actions “anti-science” during a press briefing held by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, on Tuesday. He said efforts to restrict access to such care still allow the treatments for children with other conditions that affect hormone production, for example.

That is a verifiable fact, NBC. He didn't just say they still allow those treatments for cis children, he pointed out the fact that they do and used that as evidence for his statement that their policies have no science behind them.

Of course, when Trump issues an executive order declaring the moon is made of cheese and you'll be all like "Moon is now made of cheese" for a headline and wait until halfway through your article to quote a scientist.

HHS also announced Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration will issue warning letters to 12 manufacturers and retailers of breast binders for minors for the purposes of treating gender dysphoria, which is the distress that results from a misalignment between a person’s gender identity and birth sex, alleging that the manufacturers are participating in illegal marketing, the department official said.

What's next, going after the parents of any assigned masculine at birth kid whose hair grows too long for their tastes? Just incredibly dumb and creepy authoritarian nonsense invading families' lives for no reason whatsoever.

 

The remarks are a stark contrast from Jeffries’s criticisms of the scores of other pardons Trump has offered — mostly to his political allies — throughout his second term. Jeffries, joined by most Democrats in his caucus, has bashed those reprieves as both an affront to the nation’s criminal justice system and more evidence that the Trump administration is the most “corrupt” in the country’s history.

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Cuellar and his wife Imelda were indicted in May 2024 on federal charges of bribery, money laundering and foreign influence peddling. The Justice Department accused the pair of accepting $600,000 in bribes from two separate businesses: a Mexican bank and a petroleum company run by the government of Azerbaijan. In return, Cuellar used his influence in Congress to push for policies beneficial to both, according to the Justice Department.

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In announcing his pardon Wednesday, Trump [accused] Biden of using the Justice Department to target Cuellar because he “bravely spoke out against Open Borders.”

“Sleepy Joe went after the Congressman, and even the Congressman’s wonderful wife, Imelda, simply for speaking the TRUTH,” Trump wrote Wednesday on his Truth Social account.

Archived at https://archive.is/1Zsoa

 

TPM spoke with executives at nonprofits advocating for immigration reform, action on climate change, democracy, civil rights, and other causes that are largely opposed by the administration. Each described the threats as thin cover to launch investigations that could bring their nonprofit status to an end or even prompt criminal prosecutions of their staff. They also saw the saber rattling, at least in part, as a use of the bully pulpit that will drain their resources without the government ever having to bring a case to court.

Archived at https://archive.is/5SYZX

 
 

The memo—drafted by the Office of Legal Counsel—notes that the government has designated some Latin American drug cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations,” which is itself unprecedented. The memo then takes a step further into La-La Land. It claims the White House’s characterization of cartels as waging war on the U.S.—which few legal experts accept as legitimate—itself provides the legal foundation for treating the drug cartels this way under Trump’s wartime powers as commander in chief.

Archived at https://archive.is/Mpwic

 

In the mayoral race, Wilson and Harrell diverged greatly on a number of issues, starting with homelessness policy. Wilson was sharply critical of Harrell’s track record, including his unprecedented scaling up of homeless encampment removals. As Bolts reported last month, Seattle conducted more sweeps under Harrell than under his four mayoral predecessors combined.

Wilson told Bolts she’d curb these sweeps and pledged to roll out 4,000 new units of shelter over her first term.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20251117120810/https://boltsmag.org/progressives-win-in-seattle-wilson-evans-public-safety/

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