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Mark Slattery's avatar

Don Taco clearly believes "suckers" and "losers" don't deserve food, water and a place to rest.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

No shit. Between Dump and the drunken dick who cares more about makeup and hair than his troops, they continue to show the world that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. On a funnier note, did anyone catch that video of the old stumblefuck climbing the stairs of his plane and falling? The caption was perfect. Taco fell.

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PAUL's avatar

One of the videos clearly shows his 3" heel lifts

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RandomHuman's avatar

Taco Felon.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

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arne link's avatar

Oh, Lord. I watch it on repeat. What a toxic Maroon.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

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Charles Austin's avatar

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

What infuriated me was that it was not on national news 24/7 like when Biden did the same thing. The mainstream media is no longer our friend.

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Tom Clements's avatar

That photo of troops huddled on the cold floor of a warehouse should be featured in every Dem response, juxtaposed by a photo of Taco Don in his gilded luxury.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Tom should be hired by the DNC to craft

DemтАЩs messages!

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Douglas's avatar

The laconic Democrats need to get their lazy asses in front of cameras NOW as they are losing the narrative. The undercover right wing trash heap called NewsNation just had Donny two scoops yammer for 15 minutes about insurrection and his fever dreams. It worse than NEWSMAX.

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PTW's avatar

IтАЩm relieved IтАЩm not the only one who gets some very Fox news Lite energy from News Nation. They claim to be moderate, middle-of-the-road, тАЬjust the factsтАЭ but the few times IтАЩve turned to it, I get a bad vibe. Giving Bill OтАЩReilly and Chris Cuomo time on there is a bad look if you are claiming to be a neutral news source.

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Mary Lou Williams's avatar

I had hoped NN would have more integrity when it came on the scene but quit watching when Bill OReilly was announced As a regular contributor. Cuomo implies heтАЩs in charge of his own show. True?

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Ellyn's avatar

I donтАЩt think the corporate ms media overloads making $$$ off trump in power will feature strong democrats stating truths- just my opinion, ya know- but I havenтАЩt seen much opportunity offered to democrats since the media brought the creature on the fake gold escalator to power. (Well all know the clown show gets MUCH higher ratings than boring government working for all of us.)

Which is why independent media is doing so very well right now. Did you completely miss Brian Tyler CohenтАЩs interview with Newsom?

Just sayin.

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Ellyn's avatar

I meant тАЬoverlordsтАЭ but overloads works ok too. Thanks, spellcheck!! ЁЯджЁЯП╗тАНтЩАя╕П

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Tess ├Йtouff├йe's avatar

The only alternative to main stream media is fringe media. I don't know how else to explain this, but MSNBC and CBS are main stream and they're reliable. So this Main stream media talk is pretty silly. It's like talking about Neo liberalism. Work it out.

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Ellyn's avatar

PS- are you attending a тАШNo Kings DayтАЩ rally tomorrow? Even my S/O is going!!

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Ellyn's avatar
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My thought is that a media corp that settles with trump for millions (CBS) or fires a reporter for speaking the truth (ABC) or regularly sanewashes, doesnтАЩt mention at all or mentions things in such a soothing tone that you think itтАЩs normal (MSNBC) are not helpful to us at this time. Since Reagan did away with the Fairness Doctrine and mainstream media committed to the practice of тАШboth sides MUST be presented with equal weightтАЩ while not giving any weight to whether there are actual, verifiable facts involved or not, the quality of тАШjust the factsтАЩ reporting has clearly eroded.

IMHO- MSNBC does a great job with this last description. They regularly feature supporters of the current admin spouting actual lies with no to very weak push back at all (granted, some presenters are better than others- you may note Katie Phang is now allied with MeidasTouch). My S/O is quite attached to MSNBC, so I am exposed to them on a daily basis. Sometimes I can keep my mouth shut while watching- sometimes not. Since running my mouth during the shows, my S/O has begun to critically examine them and while he doesnтАЩt agree with me 100%~ he can see some times where they appear to be actively working against our democracy in preference of a more oligarch-centered form of government (appearing as if the owners- corporate overlords- much prefer permanent tax cuts despite the harm to the average American).

ItтАЩs good to get info from a large number of sources- I love to read, so a lot comes from that venue. I also subscribe to Ground News- which gives me a little тАШout of my siloтАЩ perspective.

I guess you could call me silly-and in many parts of my life (particularly as Gigi to my 3 yo granddaughter) I absolutely am- but when it comes to our democracy, our rights and our civic responsibilities- I will completely disagree with you. I am quite serious that mainstream media is not helpful at this time.

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RandomHuman's avatar

Pres Plump gets all the food, water, gold toilets and mattresses. No soup for you!

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Betsy L's avatar

And two scoops of ice cream on his chocolate cake.

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SethTriggs's avatar

As always the "troops" are just a jingoistic talisman for Republicans to hide behind as they crush the freedoms of vulnerable minorities in the unreconstructed hellholes that they control. That's also why trash companies like the NFL hide behind them too even as they flagrantly violate the health of their players.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

ЁЯСЖЁЯСЖЁЯСЖЁЯСЖЁЯОпYes they pretend to love the troops, but hate the soldiers, and deny them care whenever they can.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Oh SO LIKE.

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Douglas's avatar

Oh I freekin loathe that big mouth Commissioner

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Irascible Ink's avatar

Not to mention a place to shit. Are the cops going to arrest the first one that gets tired of clenching his buttcheeks and drops a deuce on the sidewalk like the homeless they love to hate on?

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arne link's avatar

Wish they would line up on a 2x4 and do their business on the sidewalk.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

We should win this. Obviously, they can't plan for the obvious, not even a minute in advance. No toilets, food, water and cots? Even in Berkeley in 1969 the NG had that under Reagan. Maybe we should offer the NG places to stay. Of course, it might be hard to get them together again, but, oh, well....

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KiminMN's avatar

Reagan wasn't president in 1969... First you say to shame anyone in a NG uniform, and now you're going to offer them places to stay? I'm so confused.

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Cyndi Merrill's avatar

No, Reagan was the governor of California at the time!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I don't know who you are, how old you are, and where you live. Of course, Reagan wasn't president in 1969. He was governor of California, and Berkeley is in, surprise, California. I'm not offering them places to stay, I'm just saying that if Reagan, not the brightest star in the sky, could do it right, it just gives you an idea how mentally challenged Hegseth is. The National Guard--on May 20, 1969, they penned 2000 peaceful demonstrators in Lower Sproul Plaza at the University of California in Berkeley, and flew a helicopter over and dropped tear gas on those people. The National Guard is not a group of nice people when they do that. Perhaps you'll have a chance to have it done to you some day.

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KiminMN's avatar

I am sorry, I stand corrected. I was alive in 1969 but only 4 years old (but I do know where Berkeley is). I know things were much different then, but I just can't imagine not thanking someone in uniform, especially now, with this whack job of an administration. I will be at a demonstration on Saturday, not my first, and hopefully not my last--unless there wouldn't be a need for them, wouldn't that be nice.

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GeorgeC's avatar

Proof once again that the GQP only тАЬsupports the troopsтАЭ as backdrops.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

They are toys to him, and he treats them like the bully "Sid" in "Toy Story".

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Cheryl Seybert's avatar

Or poop!!

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