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Trump Explodes on Reporter: 'You Haven't Asked Me One F-cking Positive Question' “You haven’t asked me one fucking positive question,” he said. “All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative.” The president had been asked about whether Mitch McConnell should resign from the Senate because of his health issues. Trump responded by indicating that videos of McConnell struggling were a “disappointment to a lot of Republicans,” before noting that “Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody.” He then exploded, questioning why they were asking about the White House renovations so much, and griping that they hadn’t asked him about Venezuela. Time pointed out that they talked about Venezuela at length earlier in the interview. “I don’t understand. I’m sitting here. I’ve done all this stuff,” Trump said. “I took the White House and made it beautiful again.” Here’s a positive question about his deeds that a reporter should ask: Mr. President, how good did it feel to rape children?

Flock Cameras Are Coming Down Around The Country Only To Be Replaced By The Same Technology With A Different Name - Jalopnik There’s been a great deal of backlash against Flock cameras, with constant vandalism and numerous reports of crooked cops misusing them, leading to more and more communities to cancel their contracts. While Flock has received the most backlash, there are other ALPR companies out there. Rather than ending their use of technology that spies on you, and in a move that doesn’t really solve the problems associated with mass surveillance, some departments that have dropped Flock have simply switched to other companies that do the same thing, reports NPR. One of those competitors is Axon. If that name sounds familiar, it’s probably because you’ve seen it displayed on body cam videos, since Axon is the leading supplier of body cams to law enforcement, according to The Intercept. After a bit of rebranding in 2017 (the same year Flock was founded), many people don’t know that Axon is the company formerly known as Taser, the electrical stun gun — another technology that police never, ever misuse. While Flock had to develop not only its technology, but also its law enforcement contacts and clients, Axon already had the clients in its Rolodex thanks to its other products. Law enforcement agencies may be fleeing from Flock contracts like rats from a sinking ship, but they still want ALPR technology. In places like Denver, Colorado, for example, switching ALPR providers is easy when you’re getting your new camera tracking access through a supplier you likely already do business with.

'You will eat the bugs': Trump Cabinet member buried over advice on soaring beef prices Rollins’ claim that prices for other protein sources were “coming down” is inaccurate. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of eggs, while lower than in 2025, has increased in recent months, increasing by 4.3% from May to June, falling by 0.5% from June to July, and then increasing again by 2.9% from July to August. Pork and chicken costs both increased by 0.4% from July to August. Meanwhile, prices for ground beef hit a new record after reaching an average price of around $7.16 per pound as of August, an increase of 0.6% from July and 7.9% when compared with the previous year. “If Joe Biden said anything close to this, MAGA would’ve had a total meltdown,” argued Democratic influencer Harry Sisson in a social media post on X to his more than 400,000 followers. “Now this is just part of Trump’s messaging. Hypocrisy at its finest.” Others, like the progressive media organization MeidasTouch, jokingly argued that Rollins was “about two weeks away from telling people they can always eat bugs.” “You will eat the bugs, you will live in the pod,” quipped Damin Toell, a New York-based attorney, in a social media post on X. A multi-millionaire telling people to eat other protein that they also cannot afford is about as close to a “let them eat cake” moment as we’ll probably get.

New Hampshire Libertarian Party posts support the assassination of Democrats

‘You Go To Hell!’: Trump Ends Convention With The Most Bizarre Pledge You'll Ever Hear President Donald Trump concluded his Republican midterm convention on Thursday by leading the audience in a pledge … to himself. Trump asked the crowd to raise their right hands and begin: “I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States.” The crowd dutifully repeated the line, calling Trump “the greatest president in the history of the United States.” Trump added: “that loves us so much he can’t even breathe.” The crowd again repeated the line, but then it got a little harder to follow. “That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it anyway, I don’t care if I’m registered or not. I’m going to try and cheat like hell like they do,” he said. “There’s never been bigger cheaters, they don’t care. I am going to go out and I am going to get my friends, my family, and we are going to vote on November 3rd or we are going to vote before that.” Unable to repeat all of that, the crowd cheered. Trump realized he lost them and reset. “Are you ready?” he asked. “Here’s the way you ― “ But he wasn’t ready himself as he got sidetracked by people in the audience. He tried once more to finish, with the crowd repeating after him, but left them behind as he went off on another tangent. “So help me God,” he concluded. The crowd repeated that part heartily. “You know what happens if you don’t vote?” Trump asked. “You go to hell!” So much blasphemy that he’s telling his supporters they’re going to hell!

The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult. Of all the outside advisers urging President Trump to seize control of federal elections this fall, the attorney Peter Ticktin can claim the deepest ties; the two men went to military school together as teenagers. In 2022, Ticktin helped Trump sue Hillary Clinton. This year, he pushed Trump to secure a pardon for Tina Peters, a former Colorado clerk convicted of charges related to tampering with election equipment. Which is why it might be worth listening when Ticktin says that Trump could do something soon to take over elections. “He’s the only one that I know for sure has the understanding of the severity of it,” Ticktin told us this month before taking the stage at an election-skeptic conference in Las Vegas. The way Ticktin sees it, there are three possible outcomes this fall. The first—a smooth election—won’t happen in his view because, he claims without evidence, Democrats already cheated in the primaries. The second is that Trump takes action before the election to prevent cheating. The last option is that Trump tries to declare martial law on or around November 3. “Either martial law, or step aside,” he told us about Trump’s choices in the last scenario. When we asked about the prospect of riots if Trump tries to overturn the election results, Ticktin said he was not concerned. “Believe me, our armed forces are a lot bigger than they are,” he said. Trump has already tried to claim greater federal control over elections, which under the Constitution are administered primarily at the state and local level. In February, he said Republicans should nationalize voting in at least 15 places. In August, when the television and radio host Wayne Allyn Root pushed Trump to declare a “national-security emergency” to require proof of citizenship, voter ID, and other measures, Trump played coy: “Let me just say that stranger things have happened, okay? I’ll leave it at that.” Later that month, Trump posted a Root column on the topic, with a headline that described the plan as “foolproof.” Peters announced after meeting with Trump in June that the president “basically said to his lead counsel to do what I was asking.” In a prime-time address at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Trump again repeated the false claim that he had won the 2020 election, and sarcastically encouraged his supporters to “cheat like hell” in the upcoming elections.

‘Actual Blasphemy’: Critics Stunned By ‘Repulsive’ Video At Trump Convention President Donald Trump’s Republican midterm convention in Dallas featured a bizarre video that claimed he was chosen by God for a special purpose. The video, which was also used in 2024, is a modified version of Paul Harvey’s 1978 “So God Made a Farmer” speech, but with a twist: In this one, God makes Trump. “And on June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker,’” the narrator says. “So God gave us Trump.” Critics were stunned by the video’s blatant idolatry, especially on a stage where speaker after speaker had attacked Democrats about faith while posturing as defenders of Christianity.

Tuberville calls transgender people ‘deranged’ on Senate floor: ‘Bring back mental institutions’ U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Republican nominee for governor of Alabama, criticized transgender people, their parents and their doctors on the Senate floor Thursday. Tuberville claimed transgender people are mentally ill and a danger to others. He said that airline pilots who are transgender or wear fursuits are “deranged” and suggested more LGBTQ people should be institutionalized. “It is the best interest of our country to bring back mental institutions as a normal part of our society, instead of sweeping it under the rug,” Tuberville said, standing next to a sign that said “Transgenderism is a Mental Illness.” “I want to be clear about this gender confusion,” he said. “It is not normal. It is a cry for help, and our society needs to stop affirming people who are suffering from this mental illness.” Its creepy how obsessed they are with transgender people. Why are they so obsessed? To what point and purpose would institutionalizing these people solve? Like, I’m not seeing how transgender people existing harms people. Also, who’d pay for this? We don’t even have universal health-insurance in America. So, what? We involuntarily incarcerte transgender people and then charge them for their own extermination treatment? Also also, how would the 5th Amendment come in?

Trump gives vague answer when quizzed why he won’t send $5,000 ‘dividend’ checks now President Donald Trump offered a vague answer when asked about the timing of the $5,000 “Trump Dividend” checks he said his administration would send to Americans after the midterms. The Republican, who outlined the plan last night at the GOP’s midterm convention in Texas, spoke with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham about the check plan after his speech. During the interview, the president was asked why he was promising to send the checks after the midterms if the money was available now. “Because the Democrats can’t do it. Because with them, it’s negative growth. With us, it’s so positive,” Trump said. “So, we’re taking in $21 trillion. No country has ever taken in anywhere near that. It’s four or five times higher than the next one. All because of that beautiful word you and I love more than most others, tariffs.” (It is unclear what $21 trillion the president was talking about, but neither his tariffs nor investment commitments to the U.S. have brought in that much money alone during his administration.)

Consumer sentiment is in the dumps despite a solid economy. Goldman Sachs blames ‘lower happiness’ Goldman Sachs identified a potential culprit for sour consumer sentiment readings: A decline in happiness. The consumer sentiment index tracked by the University of Michigan hit record lows this year. The index fell 13% year over year in September, due to a drop of almost 8% from August alone. Economists have widely questioned why sentiment has remained depressed since the Covid pandemic, even as the economy hummed along on paper. Goldman economist Joseph Briggs told clients this week that the downward pressure may stem from broader pessimism in society. “Low reported economic sentiment likely reflects a more fundamental, downbeat assessment of the state of the world rather than the economy,” Briggs wrote to clients. Its not the escalating COLA? It definitely isn’t the coming disel crunch. It’s just a sour mood? You know what helps me when I am in a bad mood? Comfort food. Maybe this Goldman guy should advise that the government let the people eat cake. That sort of advice has always had a good outcome.

Trump entering Mobile rally: “There's never been anybody who's been more persecuted than me.” Pretty sure the person who made that cross you carry into an icon might have been more persecuted. Or, maybe, the people that the Nazis walked into gas chambers (incidentally, the very same types of groups of people your administration targets)?

*Eyeroll* Like, him at the top is bullshit in of itself, and putting Jackson in the top is bullshit too. But, he put Grant in the shitbox. Grant: the man who literally won the Civil War for the Union. Fuck off with that!

A thermal picture of what’s going on behind his back

Trump Says 'Big Decision' Coming on Whether to 'Annihilate' Iran | Common Dreams President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is weighing whether or not to “annihilate” Iran in a renewed effort to end the illegal 201-day US-Israeli war of choice, musings that came on the heels of a report by United Nations experts who said the United States likely committed war crimes during earlier attacks on the Middle East nation. “I have a big decision coming up. Do I want to go in and annihilate them, or do I not?” Trump told Axios’ Barak Ravid. “It’s a big decision. Anything could happen with me.” I’m betting he’s going to nuke 'em. He already moved nuclear bombers into the Middle East. The ecconomic ramifications of that (initial and long term) ontop of the international backlash from that would signal the true end of the American empire, which might cause guillotines to be rolled out. I’d honestly not know how the US would continue on as a country in that outcome. It’d probably break down along partisan lines that mirror the Civil War’s lines. The South would rage and bring back slavery (they really hated losing them such that this grevience persists into today’s politics). Wish I lived in a northern state. Putin would really have gotten a bang for his buck in that situation.

Trump Lies That Medicare for All Would Cost ‘Entire Budget of the Whole Country’ | Common Dreams US President Donald Trump railed against Medicare for All during an Oval Office event on Tuesday, falsely claiming the proposal would be prohibitively expensive and ineffective despite new research confirming it would save lives and cost significantly less than the corporate-dominated status quo. The president’s remarks came during an event touting his limited, voluntary, and secretive agreements with leading pharmaceutical companies, deals purportedly aimed at lowering drug prices. Trump again lied by claiming that his efforts are “much bigger” than Medicare for All, which would provide comprehensive health coverage to every person in the US for free at the point of service, eliminating premiums, copays, and deductibles. Trump said that Medicare for All, which has not been tried at a national level in the US, “doesn’t work,” falsely claiming a single-payer system would cost “the entire budget of the whole country” and send taxes into the stratosphere. Even if it were true, such spending would be better than on endless wars and tax cuts for trillionaires. This kind of spending would also prevent the people spending on guillotines, especially with the ai displacing workers. They’re already threatening guillotines, so it’d be an investment in having a stable society if anything

Conservative Democrats Offer Amendment to Outdo GOP’s Condemnation of DSA A group of conservative Democrats in the House tried to one-up Republicans this week with a competing piece of legislation aimed at condemning the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and socialism in “all its forms,” after the GOP proposed an anti-socialist resolution that called for the passage of their marquee voter suppression legislation. Last week, Republican Rep. Jeff Crank (Colorado) introduced a resolution that calls for the “condemnation and denouncement of socialism.” It calls out DSA, condemning the recent wave of DSA members running for Congress and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and says that DSA’s ideology is “incompatible with American values.” The resolution clunkily segues into a call for the House to pass the GOP’s SAVE America Act, which puts burdensome restrictions on voting regarding ID requirements and proof of citizenship that civil rights advocates say would be the worst voter suppression bill ever passed by Congress. The resolution reportedly infuriated some Democrats in the House — not because of the sweeping condemnation of an increasingly popular ideology among Democrats, but because the resolution contained the clause about passing SAVE America.

Healthcare tops the Democrats’ to-do list if they win control of the House in 2026 WASHINGTON — Vying to become House speaker in a few months, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries outlined four items on the agenda that he said would enjoy “uniform Democratic support” and advance the party’s goal of “making life more affordable.” The first two were about healthcare, and all four set a direct contrast with President Donald Trump. “We have to reverse the Medicaid cuts. We should extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits,” Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Monday in response to a question from NBC News. “We should restore congressional authority as it relates to tariffs, because the Trump tariffs are making life more expensive for the American people. And we should end, decisively, if it’s still going on, Donald Trump’s reckless and costly war of choice in the Middle East.” While there’s agreement on restoring the Medicaid and ACA funds that were undone by Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress, there are divisions inside the Democratic Party about what its own healthcare agenda should be. Ocasio-Cortez is part of a large and influential faction on the left that wants to pursue a “Medicare for All” system that would diminish — if not abolish — private insurance and give the government power to negotiate prices of medication and services downward. Many moderate Democrats have rejected that idea in favor of less disruptive changes, although the center-left hasn’t coalesced around a preferred vision. One outside center-left group floated “free primary care for all” as a way to break the stalemate between supporters of a single-payer Medicare for All system and of focusing on building on the current ACA. So, the party establishment is behind proping up their donors? The entire developed world has universal health-insurance. Even Mexico has it. But not the people in the US? That is one thing that would drastically improve the lives of the American people. Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year. Our government hates us. This is the s#it that lead up to DJT in the first place. Going back to half measures like this is a recipe for: Especially since the AI job losses.

EXCLUSIVE: Candidate accused of trying to plant drugs on opponent JOPLIN, Mo. — Federal charges are filed against Joplin political candidate Thomas Ross for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Ross, won the primary election to replace current 161 House Dist. State Representative Lane Roberts ®. He beat Louise Secker by 32 votes. According to court documents, Ross asked his campaign manager to plant “a mixture or substance containing cocaine and Adderall” on his political opponent Louise Secker. Authorities say that as “early as May 31, 2026, and continuing to, on or about, August 4, 2026,” Ross “conspired and agreed with others, known and unknown, to distribute a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine, a Schedule II controlled substance, and a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of amphetamine (“Adderall”), a Schedule II controlled substance.” Federal case 6:26-mj-02084 USA v. Ross Authorities say the former campaign manager provided Joplin Police with what they say was “a black nylon glove that he stated had been provided to him by Ross.” Police say there was a plastic bag inside of the glove that contained a white powder that tested positive for cocaine. Republicans are now resorting to arrests of their opponents. Of course its fucking Missouri, a real shithole.

Federal judge warns law is being left behind by AI child sex abuse images Archive link The First Amendment protects an individual’s right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using artificial intelligence — if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home, a federal appeals court judge ruled Tuesday. The decision came in a case that tested the scope of laws implemented before advances in AI made it easy to create realistic-looking fake images of children. Judge John Z. Lee, in the ruling for a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, urged the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue of virtual abuse material of children in the age of AI, suggesting that technological advances complicate existing legal precedent. “Given the relentless advancement in artificial intelligence models, we have some concerns about the lines these cases draw, but we are not free to redraw them ourselves,” the judge wrote.

We’d run out of them rather quickly. We could also add on the CEOs, the companies the co-conspirators, the lobbying groups, the politicians, etc.

Guess we’ll be seeing at least some of the unredacted Epstein files soon.

That’s what makes it a solid economy: the Epstein class makes record profits because the costs are so damned high. They can afford to eat the increased expens because their paycheckis enormous. Sure, the workers’ quality of life goes down. But, if/when the workers die off, they’ll be able to afford to gobble up more of the Earth. Heck, climate change is a problem that needs to be solved with less CO² being dumped into the air. Can’t image a better way of doing that than culling the proletariat.

Why don’t they just give ig now? They control all 3 branches.

Brack HUSSEIN Obama

The paid opposition is being the paid opposition? I’m shocked.

His supporters even wear a mark of the beast upon their brow

They’re building up to genocide. They want to kill the T, then the B, G, L. Their base will cheer for it too.

Anyone in the government could get rid of these things whenever they wanted, IF THEY WANTED TO Miller wants to.

Maybe, but the religious right needs to burn and suffer in hell. It’s what they f*cking deserve, especially since they’re wearing the mark of the beast upon their brow in the shape of a red hat.

Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains! -Karl Marx

Such a small minority (1% of 1%) stokes such overwhelming fear.

there is no pihole device There isn’t? So, whats this?

A Republican doing something unethical in plane sight‽ plain* But, yes.

Here’s the post.

Remember when Congress was required for war stuff? Good times . . …

Samuel Alito blames marriage equality for America’s ‘decisive’ turn ‘against religious liberty’ Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the ruling legalizing marriage equality nationwide marked “perhaps the decisive point” in America’s turn “against religious liberty.” In his new book So Ordered, Alito focuses on Obergefell v. Hodges. The 5-4 decision was a landmark in civil rights, establishing a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry nationwide. But Alito, who dissented from the 2015 ruling, portrays it as a turning point against religious freedom. Alito points to disputes involving LGBTQ+ rights as evidence that “support for religious liberty has cratered.” He cites cases involving businesses seeking religious exemptions from requirements governing services for same-sex couples or employee health coverage, including those that refuse to provide wedding services to gay couples or seek to limit health care for employees based on religious beliefs.

Prison? Such a small solution.

I just don’t get the obsession with transgender people. What did they ever do other than just wanting to be left alone? Did a bunch of them bomb a bunch orphanages with burning puppies running out of the flaming building?

I went to the pi hole website, but I couldn’t find where to get the device. Any suggestions?

Trump Ominously Says 'Project 2025' Author Has 'Big Surprises' In The Next Few Weeks President Donald Trump issued a foreboding proclamation during a speech in Maryland on Tuesday, just hours after he predicted a “Midterm Surprise!” in a Truth Social post. “Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, who’s fantastic, he’s on a job, we have some big surprises coming up in another few weeks. Right, Russ?” Trump said. “He’s gonna be one of the very important people in the history of our country, in my opinion. He’s got some great things happening.” Trump did not expand on what these so-called “surprises” would be. Outside his role in the Trump administration, Vought is the primary architect of Project 2025, the conservative Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a second Trump term. While not mentioned specifically by Trump, many critics online speculated that Trump was referring to some sort of plan to interfere in the midterm elections. “Between this and his ‘midterm surprise,’ the time to prepare for him to try to steal an election is now,” Fox News host Jessica Tarlov wrote on X. Other commenters suggested that Vought could use his official capacity to interfere with the elections. “I know nothing about Project 2025” -Trump, 2024

so they quickly passed a bunch of bills stepping power from the governor. That happens more than you’d think, but at least having to do that first might let a few more people squeeze in services and then be protected by ex post facto.

Can’t tell if this is sourced bt tRump’s fear/vanity, or Peter Theil’s malice. Trump is pro-crime, but not cogent. Peter Theil is running everything.

Trump Suggests Letting Iran “Take Out” Los Angeles and San Diego At a rally in Nebraska Tuesday night, President Trump told his supporters exactly what he thinks about the well-being of the American people. Trump first said that the price of goods and services, which have gone up thanks to his ill-advised Iran war and tariff policies, were “just a little bit high. It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe—keeping our country safe. “They can take out a city. Let them take, let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay,” Trump said. “And it’s going to be over with very soon. It’s essentially almost over with.” Conservative activists have argued that Trump didn’t really mean that losing the two cities is a “small price to pay,” but that he was referring to high gas prices. In that generous interpretation, Trump was arguing that his war, which has killed scores of civilians in the Middle East and an estimated 23 U.S. soldiers, is preventing Iran from waging large scale attacks on American cities. But Iran’s targets during the war have been U.S. installations in the Middle East, and it wasn’t targeting American cities before the war either. California leaders, however, have taken his words at face-value. Advocating for the mass death of his own citizens?

That question carries the possibility that he’d wiggle out and say something like, “the world would be much diminished without me!” Question should eliminate that route by asking something like “what is the most substantial benefit the world will see when you die?”

There’s no need for extraordinary explanations. Do the Gimbal video and Commander David Fravor’s tic tac, which were released by the DoD as part of its UAP stuff, have no need for extraordinary?

Remember when Congress had the power of the purse? Good times.

Maybe he didn’t boot rhem himself. Maybe one of the assistants removed the press to keep him from physically attacking them. He has been escalating to that.

Nope! They already have the camps. Next come the pink triangles.

if every trans person suddenly left the US, Trump and co. would continue to find and terrorize enemies because that’s what they have to do to keep the terror machine alive. Last hired, first fired.

The little things: affordable health-insurance, being able to eat, having a job.