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Let's get into the absurd, silly, stupid, and sarcastic quotables from around the web. Enjoy! or just roll your eyes.
How insane is it that Republicans can link Tylenol to autism but can't link guns to mass shootings?
We interrupt this mass shooting with news of another mass shooting.
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Donald Trump, despite numerous bankruptcies and failed business ventures, still deserves the Nobel Prize in Economics for his ingenious use of tariffs.
This year's Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Donald J Trump whose lifetime of fiction has earned him this prize.
If you want to win the Nobel Peace Prize, you might not want to kidnap fathers in front of their children, zip-tie kids, shoot priests, rip moms from car pool lines, and terrorize entire cities of otherwise peaceful cities.
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Your daily reminder that Republicans in Congress have gone on vacation while they force thousands of Americans to go without a paycheck this week.
I'd like to say I'm optimistic when I say that watching soldiers go on literal bread lines is why I think that what the Trump administration is doing is unsustainable. Fascist regimes tended to provide bread and circuses and such for "desirable" citizens.
The fact that anyone needs food banks is fucked up, but active military?
This shutdown is proof that Trump and his MAGA Republicans don’t care about the American people. They don’t care about federal workers who aren’t receiving paychecks, they don’t care about your flights, and they don’t care about Americans being able to afford health care.- Gov. Newsom
If Dems were solely interested in politics and the midterms, they could let Republicans kill off the ACA subsidies, let consumers suffer, watch the public blame the GOP, and reap the rewards of the election-year backlash. Instead, they’re at least trying to govern.
Donald Trump's reckless and cruel leadership has pushed families to the brink.
So Trump is sending National Guard troops to sweep leaves and watch inflatable frogs? The same guys who left behind their jobs in the real world to do Guard duty. Many of these guys are not paid by their employer for their time in the Guard, only some like federal workers are paid. But now the federal workers are not getting paid. And these Guardsmen are leaving better paying jobs for lower paying jobs as Guardsmen. They left behind those higher paying jobs where they could barely make ends meet in this failed Trump economy with rising food, housing, and utility costs. Bet it's a real morale buster to stand guard or sweep the streets while your family stands in line at the food bank and the bill collectors keep calling.
You don't have to do anything to make Trump seem weak and stupid. He does it all on his own.
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Tom Homan's $50K bribe:
So they're leaving Homan holding the bag? (I know, I know. I'll show myself out.)
"What's $50,000, anyway? You can barely buy a pound of coffee and a dozen eggs for that."
The most amazing clips are when both Bondi and JD Prance are asked if Homan kept the money and they refused to answer. So Homan takes a bribe, Bondi shuts down the operation. Homan keeps the money and doesn't have to pay taxes on it either. This is one huge criminal syndicate with a literal Don in charge.
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Of Pam Bondi and her testimony before Congress: "What a repellent snit, staged primarily for President Trump, who relishes any surrogate who can sulk, scold and rage as contemptuously as he does. He doesn’t want good-will ambassadors. He wants ill-will amplifiers. Bondi got the memo and spread the bile."- Frank Bruni, NYT
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NYT headline: Trump’s Two Minds on China Sow a Chaotic Few Days. Reader response: Inside Donald Trump there are two minds. Neither of them work.
Every piece of evidence indicates that the Republicans are not and never have been the party of fiscal responsibility. 10 of the last 11 recessions have been presided over by a Republican president. Since 1977, both parties have held the presidency for roughly the same amount of time, around 24 years. During that time, Republicans have created approximately 17 million jobs, while Democrats have delivered almost three times that amount, 50 million.
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Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.” Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.
So Trump gave Argentina a $20 billion bailout and is now building a Qatari military facility in Idaho While Americans can’t afford groceries.
Muslims are the greatest danger to our nation.---Pete Hegseth
Here’s why I invited Qatar to build a military base on US soil.---also Pete Hegseth
Of Pete Hegseth: "When you are driven by a sense of urgency you must still try to act like a normal person — normal in your comportment, which means sober, judicious. Not like some pumped-up drama queen who makes everything more jarring and fevered, and who comes across as the living answer to the question, What would it look like if Captain Queeg took Adderall?"--- Peggy Noonan, WSJ
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Trump is using presidential power and his platform to do a giant pump and dump- hollowing out our country and taking its wealth. This is Bond villain level shit.
In any sane world, the Securities and Exchange Commission would be investigating, assisted by the FBI. The agencies would be independent and free to take the case right to the top if that's where the evidence pointed. Our Republican friends would never allow that now, while their team is profiting.
Martha Stewart was sent to prison for making 51K from insider trading, yet absolutely nothing happens when Trump, and his inner circle, regularly manipulate the market and pocket millions.
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MAGA is full of ignorant confidence.
The simple fact is that Trumpers live to lie. It gives them physical pleasure. Their lives are based on lies; their identities are based on lies. They worship Donny because he tells them the lies they need to hear.
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You can't spell "COWARDICE" without "ICE."
Be thankful I've instructed my ICE agents to treat immigrants like violent criminals. I could have said to treat them like puppies---by Kristi Noem
OMG, have you heard about Portland Oregon? It's a ruin, filled with criminals. Also street musicians and people in dinosaur costumes---Obviously the reason to send in the military. What's going to happen on the last day of October? Mass carpet bombing of costumed people everywhere?
I support invoking the insurrection act to stop the epidemic of protestors wearing inflatable animal suits.
Kristi Noem is complaining that her ICE brigade can't find any place to sit down for 5 minutes, any place to use the restroom, any place to eat out because of the 12,000 restaurants in the Chicago area NONE of them want the fascists at their businesses. Well done Chicago! Never thought anyone would ever need to invoke the 3rd amendment!
Kristi Noem complained about South Park going after her based on her appearance. Does the bitch not realize that her ICE troopers are targeting people based on their appearance? Literally kidnapping, jailing, and denying due process rights BECAUSE of their appearance. What a clueless cunt.
Liberals say that how Trump is governing is no way to run a democracy. They're wrong—it's no way to run a republic.
The Nazis are terrified of the protests. Ergo, the protesters are terrorists.
How is this fascist takeover so scary and yet so incredibly stupid at the same time?
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Word Salad as tossed salad: ‘We took the freedom of speech away, because that’s been through the courts, and the courts said you have freedom of speech but what has happened is when they burn the flag it agitates and irritates crowds,’ Trump said during a roundtable discussion on Antifa.
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Donald Trump is a wartime president. War on women. War on voting rights. War on Latinos. War on California. War on institutions. War on history.---Gavin Newsom
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When asked about habeas corpus, Trump replied, "Who?" Pressed on the possibly suspending habeas corpus, Trump said he’d leave it up to Kristi Noem. Among the problems: Noem has already made clear that she has no idea what habeas corpus is.
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Best sarcastic headline: It's time to stop promoting people on the basis of their gender or race---by Bari Weiss and Clarence Thomas
Whether it's Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to the White House briefing room, or RFK Jr wearing jeans to his gym workouts, both sides have caused consternation with their sartorial choices.
Trump's insistence that Joe Biden was president on January 6 raises new questions about Joe Biden's memory.
Opinion | It's time for corporate America to end DEI and choose its leaders on the basis of merit alone----by Barron Trump
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Young Republicans say they love Hitler. But Democrats calling Republicans fascists is dangerous and THE biggest problem of our time---by Bari Weiss
What does this Young Republican love for Hitler tell us about Biden’s cognitive decline?
Young Republicans say they love Hitler. But what does that tell us about their politics?
WHAT WE'RE HEARING: Young Republicans are frequently praising Hitler in racist group chats. WHY IT MATTERS: Republicans are in charge. BE SMART: It'd be pretty stupid to piss off a bunch of Nazis who are in charge of everything, right?
Just liking Hitler isn’t revealing. I mean do they like the dictatorship, the invasions, the racism, the anti-intellectualism, the poor military performance, the ability to unite the world against you, the anti-Semitism, the snappy uniforms, the employment opportunities as thugs? Or is it the $50K signing bonus for ICE and a chance to be a real life storm trooper?
Young Republicans profess to love Hitler. We went to a Klan rally to get folks opinion on this controversial take.
Young Republicans say they love Hitler. Here's why this doesn't bode well for Biden.
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When will the hypocritical woke mob extend their tolerance to the much-oppressed measles virus? by RFK Jr
Barring a measles-infected child from Golden Corral is a violation of basic freedoms ---- by Tucker Carlson
Measles is making an appearance at Turning Point USA's alternative super bowl halftime!
Stop viral genocide? What did the measles virus ever do to you? The wokes should fight to preserve measles viruses, not destroy it.
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It's back....
Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way---by Ezra Klein
The Qatar military base would have been the 24/7 scandal of the century for at least 6 months if a Democrat president did it. Here's why Trump is doing it the right way---by Ezra Klein
Young Democrats need to praise Hitler more often in their Telegram chats, if they want to try to understand young Trump voters, who are doing racism the right way---by Ezra Klein
Young Republicans are embracing Hitler in exactly the right way---by Ezra Klein
Young Republicans are practicing Nazism the right way---by Ezra Klein
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Sen John Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... " And the problem with that is what???
