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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • He backed off very hard on this in line with a bunch of other conservative talking heads. This is from July:

    “Plenty was said this last weekend at our event about Epstein. Honestly, I’m done talking about Epstein for the time being. I’m going to trust my friends in the administration, I’m going to trust my friends in the government to do what needs to be done, solve it, ball’s in their hands. I’m going to trust my friends Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, my friend Pam Bondi. All these guys. Ball’s in their court. I think that there was plenty of, let’s say, speeches that were directed towards this topic this last weekend. So we don’t need to spend our valuable time on this program relitigating it.”

    Emphasis mine because saying “balls in their hands” is hilarious to me.


  • What is giving you the idea that a pardon automatically admits guilt? I’ve seen this so many times and it makes absolutely no sense. There’s one court case from the 20’s in which the court suggested that accepting a pardon “may imply guilt.” And there’s like 528 court cases saying the opposite. There’s also nothing in the verbage of a pardon that states that. It simply removes any legal consequences from relevant acts. I’m not sure why so many people insist that if you accept any type of pardon for any reason, you are confessing to have perpetuated whatever you are accused of. It makes absolutely no sense. You could be guilty as hell. Or you could have been on the other side of the planet and accused of something random. I’m either case, all a pardon does is just get you out of trouble.

    This isn’t to say that I think Giuliani is innocent or anything. He’s a complete and utter dirt bag. But of all things, him merely accepting a pardon is not the smoking gun a lot of people seem to think it is.


  • They said that over and over too lol

    “Roe v. Wade is not going to be overturned. We all know that.”

    • Chris Collins, R - N.Y.

    “I think the likelihood of Roe v. Wade being overturned is very minimal. I don’t see that happening, truly I don’t see that happening.”

    • Joni Ernst, R - Iowa

    “Well, I don’t think anybody is going to overturn Roe v. Wade … it’s a settled opinion … I doubt seriously that that’s really a legitimate concern.”

    • Orrin Hatch, R - Utah

    I could go on and on… Now they’re saying the exact same things about same sex marriage

    Fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.


  • And what the hell is the republican answer for why it was so important that people not get slightly more affordable healthcare that it was worth starving people.

    Immigrants. It was always immigrants. They repeatedly blamed it on immigrants “stealing” tax payer money thru ACA even tho that’s not really possible except for extreme circumstances that typically account for less than 1% of the funding for the program.












  • I mean the entire doge “savings” were instantly wiped out by the $200 billion increase in military spending. And I say savings incredibly generously because there are a ton of studies that say the agencies and people they cut will leave a hole in federal capabilities that will end up costing the American people way more than all of the money they claim to have saved (Some speculate the massive cuts to the IRS alone will end up costing about $1 trillion in lost tax collections).

    But this combined with the cost of the shutdown and the farmer bailout and so much more is just icing on the cake I guess.




  • Everything he does is because of some declared emergency. It’s ridiculous and hilarious at this point.

    Tarrifs - an economic emergency (with every single country with which a tarriff is levied)

    Deploying the National Guard - national emergency of foreign invasion by immigrants somehow invading the usa

    Literally blowing up 4 vessels (so far) in international waters and killing civilians - a recently declared “non-international armed conflict (niac)” with the gang tren de aragua. Basically saying the country is currently at war. Also declaring gangs as international terrorists gives them the ability to indiscriminately do whatever they want according to them.

    Arresting immigrants without warrants, forgoing due process and deporting to wherever the fuck they want - national emergency of foreign invasion by immigrants somehow invading the usa

    Dismantling or destroying any organizations they just simply don’t like and arresting and killing, if necessary, their members - recently released NSPM-7 which basically declares anyone having just about anything to do with anything even remotely left leaning as a domestic terrorist. This includes anything “anti-American, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality” which can pretty much apply to anyone ever.