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CanadaIsNotForSale's avatar

This morning news reported major problems at Newark airport ( and Philadelphia's ATC) due to equipment & personnel problems. Transportation Sec. assures they are investing to update the aging equipment and hiring more personnel. All that was part of the infrastructure bill that DumDum & crew kneecapped. As usual they create or make a problem worse and then come in claiming to solve it. The con& ineptitudes of this Fascists' administration is beyond the pale. I hope there are attack ads coming the Christmas retail season exploiting the hardships of their economic plans. The condescending arrogance of the orange Buffon telling people to buy two dolls instead of thirty. This coming from someone who I highly doubt ever stepped into a grocery store.

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Sabrina Haake's avatar

The 2 dolls vs 30 is trump's let them eat cake moment. Lets hope the media carry it through to Christmas.

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SomeNYDude (he/him)'s avatar

We were part of the EWR struggles. Only one runway and not enough air traffic controllers, so they reduced the number of flights coming in. 3.5 hr delays.

If you want to make maga mad, use Grok to ask some questions and post them back to maga. They will beg you for a ceasefire within a day. They can’t handle their realities being imploded.

Sample. Q: doge claims $4 billion in fraud findings recently from the Department of Education. What’s going on?

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Deepak Puri's avatar

Trump's tariffs are strangling shipments which hurts ports and workers.

We mapped the 150 ports hit hardest by Trump’s tariffs and the MAGA reps who refuse to do anything to stop him

https://thedemlabs.org/2025/05/01/150-ports-hit-by-trump-tariff-tantrum-maga-reps-who-maga-reps-refuse-to-stop-him/

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Sabrina Haake's avatar

thank you

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Dianna McCullough's avatar

If it doesn’t turn out right for Trump it has to be Biden. Talk about “the pot calling the kettle black.” Trump can’t talk without a lie or using deception. If it’s not Biden (which that’s the number 1 excuse) then it’s a witch hunt or the radical left. How long can drinking the Kool aide keep being an excuse when the evidence is plain and clear - Trump is destroying America.

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Hank Napkin's avatar

"Governance" doesn't really suit Sir very well. Is there a word combining Rule by Theft and Theft by Rule? Or perhaps the Greek "Ποινικός έλεγχος"?

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Poinikos elegchos? Does this mean I have to get out my Greek dictionary that weighs about 15 pounds? Okay, okay. "penalty paid by refutation"?? I don't see a citation for this. Is poine the same as poena in Latin? I only have three years of Classical Greek. Sorry to be so stupid...

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Hank Napkin's avatar

"CRIMINAL CONTROL" sez Google Translate.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Hmm, I see the criminal (poinikos). elegchos, not so much... You mean you didn't take Greek???

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Hank Napkin's avatar

I don’t even take feta

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Sabrina Haake's avatar

I like gyros, does that count?

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Hank Napkin's avatar

Part of a balanced diet!

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Ian's avatar

I despair,I adore your output, you guys are the last defence before America implodes.If law and order does not prevail you are f.....d, actually think no matter what you are fucked anyway,I'm learning Cantonese.China and Japan where playing 4D chess long before the Grandmaster came into power.Just sending a hug from the UK keep fighting,adore you the ignorant but loving older brother

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Sabrina Haake's avatar

largely agree. a population this ignorant can't sustain a democracy. that was the whole debate back in socrates' day.

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Gordon Shumway's avatar

Thanks Sabrina - though I'm so sick of seeing Leavitt and Bondi with their crosses I could puke. I was surprised that Franklin Graham wasn't also in attendance at the "Praise Dear Leader" cabinet meeting. Alas, this is the face of American Christianity...............

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Ian's avatar

Spent an a long time getting the reply to you right then pressed the wrong button or whatever, nutshell, I adore you, have from the first time I read what you have to say, also adore so many of the African Americans with the same sense of purpose, same applies to the Latinos. Absolute truth about authoritarianism, find the common denominator as white supremacy,immigrants or whatever feeds the privileged white ignorant, and what truly horrifies me is the minorities that attach themselves to this new regime,wear a MAGA hat I'm safe,no means to an end. It's a utopian thought but maybe if all you guys can get together and give shout outs to everyone to all your communities that are trying to achieve the same goals, you might stand a chance. I adore you as a wonderful spirit, I have read what you've been through in your journey. You should be incredibly proud of yourself, not that I have the right to say that, yeah I kinda do,bite me. Still just an idiot from the UK ,I have optimism that that decency will prevail,.I would love to spend some time in your company, texting sucks. Definitely do not not like the new trend of FAFO nothing wrong with making a mistake, better that people understand they got something wrong. 🫶

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Richard Posey's avatar

There is no such thing as an “alternative fact”

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Douglas Macfie's avatar

Love this, you are getting better and better each and every day, mind you it does appear the President is providing you with more and more inaccuracies to write about as he is like the little boy who does something wrong and then says " it's wasn't me " I wonder if that was the way he was brought up , what ever he did was not his fault , even shooting spit balls at the teacher. OH well four more years, before you know if he will stay on , keep you articles coming I love them

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Hal Brown's avatar

Drinking the Koolaide, indeed, but this well known phrase coming from Jonestown prompted me to wonder what it would taste like. I doubt even Koolaide would mask the taste. The following is from https://www.smh.com.au/world/suicide-note-reveals-taste-of-cyanide-20060709-gdnx7f.html .....

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The case is a tragedy, but a doctor says it solved a long unanswered question - what does the deadly poison cyanide taste like?

An Indian man who committed suicide left a hastily scrawled note describing the taste of the fatal toxin, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported on Saturday.

"Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid," he wrote, according to the paper.....

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This leads me to wonder how brainwashed those who are drinking both his cyanide laced economic Koolaide and all his other poisonous policies have to be not to taste it. The sickly sweet drink may or may not mask the taste of the poison Trump is feeding the country.

Trump is using his poison to murder democracy. We don't need a taste test to verify this. We just need common sense.

After I wrote this I thought I'd elaborate on this for my own Substack: If you can't taste the Democracy killing poison in Trump's Koolaide there's something wrong with you - here:

https://halbrown.substack.com/p/if-you-cant-taste-the-democracy-killing

Check out the AI illustration.

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Alan's avatar

It seems we need to address the source of the manufactured ignorance: the vast right-wing propaganda network.

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pantaleimona's avatar

Can we really call it deception when we already know that Leavitt is thoroughly incapable of telling the truth?

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Ian's avatar

P.S I an blessed that I have a brother in law that worked for what we call SOCA he enlightened me about human trafficking amongst many other social injustices, he also contributed to the slavery museum we have here in Liverpool. If I can find a glimmer of hope in where you at you are all fighting for the the same goal,,by the way there is no DEI everyone you meet is your teacher 🫶may love prevail

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