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For years Trump has been open about his desire to receive the Purple Heart and the Nobel Peace Prize.
On Thursday, Trump got Venezuela’s María Corina Machado to give him her Nobel Peace Prize and back in 2016 he took the Purple Heart from Lt. Col. Louis Dorfman (Maybe he earned it for his bone spurs injury).
What an honor, you Trumper's must be soooo proud of him.
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Rob Reiner and his wife were tragically murdered, the next day, sick fuck Trump makes it about him of course, and gloats about it.
The President of the United States' response to the tragedy:
"Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and MIchele rest in peace!,”
What do you think about this?
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Trump says Netflix-Warner Bros. deal could be a 'problem' and he will be involved in approval
Of course, "he will be involved in approval", no way an 80-billion-dollar deal goes down without Trump getting his piece of the action.
The "problem" is they haven't agreed to eliminate any and all DEI programs, to appease his white supremacist base, and of course, there's Trump's approval mantra "Show me the money!".
The Paramount-Skydance deal was only $8 billion, and they had to pay him $16 million, the Netflix-Warner Bros deal is ten times bigger, under no circumstances will that get approved till he gets an airplane, or at least a payoff of hundred-million-dollars or so. And as always, they will need to name a bunch of stuff after Trump, and perhaps a new logo.
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Just so you know, I am a master sourdough bread baker, quite possibly the greatest sour dough bread baker in the world.
As far as sourdough bread is concerned, I look down upon you inferiors with disdain.
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Trump got his ass kicked last night and he wasn't even on the ballot.
EVERYONE Trump endorsed got their ass kicked, if he wanted to demolish the East Wing quicker; he should have just given it his endorsement. For NYC Mayor, Trump endorsed his brother in sexual assault per the adjudicated rapist code, Mamdani crushed it, after 911 only Trump could get a Muslim elected mayor.
Between now and the midterms it's gonna be fun watching Republicans scramble to put distance between them and Trump, stay loyal and the voters destroy you, don't stay loyal and Trump will destroy you, they earned it.
Democrats only need two house seats in the midterms, I'll bet we pick up a dozen or more. We need 4 senators to flip, harder but I think we will do it.
Finally, the tide has turned, we might just save democracy after all.
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This is a great article that helps explain Trump supporters, link and full article pasted below:
How Donald Trump broke the American mind
Opinion by Sophia A. McClennen
President Donald Trump’s decision to demolish the East Wing of the White House to make way for a ballroom is classic Trumpian theater — grandiose destruction packaged as vision. But the stories of the institutions, buildings and legacies that Trump and his team have destroyed aren’t the most disturbing threats our nation faces. What’s truly at risk of collapsing is the country’s cognitive infrastructure.
The real wreckage of Trumpism isn’t political chaos or partisan decay — it’s the slow demolition of the American mind.
The success of any autocrat lies in their ability to mesmerize their supporters and mentally paralyze the resistance. Opposition depends not only on organized protests, but on the collective capacity to think through the crisis. Despots, knowing this, endeavor to do everything in their power to shut down our ability to think outside of their established narratives.
This means that, while turnout for the “No Kings” protests is cause for optimism, effective resistance will require more than clever signs and animated crowds. It will demand careful attention to the cognitive toll of living under an absurd autocracy that claims to defend democracy while simultaneously dismantling it. How can the collective consciousness of pro-democracy Americans withstand the mental assault of Trumpism?
The first step is to understand how these attacks on critical thinking take place.
Trump’s assault on the American mind operates on five fronts, with each one designed to distort perception, drain attention and degrade the nation’s collective reasoning. While it can be easy to think that these are simply incidental habits or stylistic quirks, it is critical to note that they are strategic modes of cognitive domination and they have been on display since well before Trump began his first term as President.
The culture of lies
Feel tired of making sense of Trump’s lies? If that resonates, it’s because mentally processing constant lying wears you down and, over time, becomes hard to resist.
Trump’s politics depend on what psychologists call cognitive overload. He lies so relentlessly that even his detractors become mentally fatigued as the brain’s basic truth-tracking mechanisms begin to short-circuit. Research by psychologists Gordon Pennycook and David G. Rand shows that repeated exposure to falsehoods erodes the brain’s resistance: The more often we hear a claim — true or false — the more familiar, and thus believable, it feels.
Consider one of Trump’s repeated falsehoods: That his tariffs on China brought in “billions and billions” of dollars in revenue. Fact-checkers have debunked it hundreds of times, pointing out that tariffs were largely paid by U.S. consumers, not China. Yet repeated lies often become the message. The cognitive labor of constant rebuttal — the fatigue of knowing and re-knowing the same facts — slowly wears down public reasoning.
The real cognitive toll, though, comes in the exhaustion the mind suffers in the constant rebuttal of falsehoods. Each day the administration saturates the public sphere with a constant litany of lies. Psychologists have proven that processing a culture of lies results in cognitive fatigue.
The faulty logic
If Trump’s lies weaken truth, even greater damage is done to our capacity to use reason to make sense of information.
Trumpian rhetoric relies on a rotating arsenal of cognitive traps: Whataboutism to deflect, false equivalence to confuse, red herrings to distract and gaslighting to exhaust. In fact, the Trump administration offers a constant lesson in all of the most common flaws in logical reasoning.
For example, when it emerged that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth discussed classified U.S. military operations using the encrypted messaging application Signal, the faulty logic of the administration was on full display. The same administration that once led chants of “Lock her up!” over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server now dismissed the breach as “no big deal” and a “witch hunt.”
It isn’t just that the Trump team offers an incessant flood of faulty logic. They also create an environment that makes thinking critically exceptionally difficult. As cognitive scientists Keith Stanovich and Richard West have shown, humans possess two systems of thought: One fast and emotional, the other slow and deliberative. Trump keeps the public in the first mode — triggered, reactive, impulsive. Under Trump, critical reasoning collapses from emotional overload.
The threat, then, isn’t just misinformation; it’s misreasoning.
The misrepresentation of opponents
Trump doesn’t argue with opponents; he distorts them. Former President Joe Biden becomes “Crooked Joe.” Journalists become “enemies of the people.” Any prosecutor investigating him is “deranged” or “corrupt.” The point isn’t persuasion — it’s reframing identity. Once the label sticks, the opponent gets mired in defending themselves from the attack, leaving the control of the narrative entirely in Trump’s hands.
As I have written for Salon, Trump doesn’t just reduce opponents to absurd caricatures; he also creates false versions of their positions, a tactic that destroys the conditions for reasoned debate. By misrepresenting the views of his opponents, Trumpism forces them into a cognitive trap: They get stuck refuting the way they have been misrepresented rather than advancing their ideas.
For those of us watching these manufactured debates, our minds get distracted by the back-and-forth between misrepresentation and defense. The result is that we can risk losing sight of the real issues we need to follow to effectively defend our democracy.
The barrage of spectacle
Trump and his team don’t just lie, twist logic and misrepresent their opponents — they never stop. The chaos is not incidental; it’s the method.
Long before his career in politics, Trump perfected the performance of power and honed his skills at becoming an ongoing source of attention. As Guy Debord warned in “The Society of the Spectacle,” when social life becomes mediated by images, “the spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.” Trump is that principle embodied. From “The Apprentice” to Truth Social to his daily barrage of inane memes, Trump has turned politics into a show — collapsing governance into entertainment and politics into virality.
Processing an ongoing spectacle simply fries your brain. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin explains that constant novelty and interruption deplete the brain’s executive functions — the very ones essential for critical thinking and judgment.
The swagger of impunity
If Trump’s lies corrode truth and critical thinking while his spectacle exhausts the mind, it is his swagger of impunity that leaves us in shock. Every smirk that follows a scandal, every boast of getting away with it, threatens to rewire the public’s moral compass.
From claiming that he “could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and [not] lose any voters” to watching his administration violate one norm, regulation and protocol after another, Trump and his team don’t just brag about breaking rules, they get away with it.
Hannah Arendt warned in “The Origins of Totalitarianism” that when the absurd becomes normal, thinking itself collapses. Trump’s defiance of norms, laws and political consequences boggles the mind. His followers see his shameless disregard for the law as proof of strength, not guilt. Yet, his critics reel from a growing numbness. Each unpunished act dulls outrage until the mind struggles to believe in effective guardrails to democracy.
If you’ve found yourself burnt out, exhausted, confused, dejected and dismayed as you process the daily onslaught of the Trumpian team, you now know why. And while it might be tempting to allow awareness of these authoritarian tactics to sow depression, that would be playing right into Trump’s hands.
Understanding the power of authoritarian confusion must breed clarity, not despair. The more we grasp how Trumpism corrodes thought, the better equipped we are to defend it — because the fight for democracy always begins in the mind.
The post How Donald Trump broke the American mind appeared first on Salon.com.
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According to a Gallup poll taken in May, 40% of Americans believe in Ghosts, the article I read began with "If you say you saw a ghost, 40% of Americans will believe you.
So, first, do you believe in Ghosts, and second, have you ever experienced one, if so, please share it with us.
I've got to go run some errands so I will have to share my own experience later. I can tell you I was skeptical until I had an experience that made me a believer.
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Assume debt, (sure, debt is high, but you don't even have to make payments).
Doesn't run, badly needs to be cleaned and refurbished, but previous owner monetized it to the tune of billions.
If you are OK with taking money from your children and grandchildren, this is an unbelievable bargain, act fast!
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I'll admit that I didn't even know who she was untill my wife dragged me to see Wicked", but I read a news story titled "Ariana Grande has a question for American voters", and it's a damn good question: The singer reposted a list of questions to her 373 million Instagram followers first posted by podcast host and makeup artist Matt Bernstein.
Since Trump had now been in office for 250 days, the question was: following ICE raids on immigrants, anti-trans commentary, and attacks on free speech, would Trump voters say their life had improved?
Has life got any better since Donald Trump was returned to the White House?
“Have your groceries gotten cheaper? Has your health insurance premium gone down?”
“Has the widespread suffering of others paid off for you in the way he promised it would, or are you still waiting?”
Do any Trump voters have an answer?
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It's about an hour long, I challenge any Trump supporter to watch it and then try to tell us that man is fit to be President. Anybody have the balls to do that?
FULL SPEECH: Trump addresses United Nations General Assembly
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To everyone left and right, the assassination of Charlie Cook is a tragedy, but to Trump, it’s a welcomed opportunity to invoke anger and deepen the divide in the “us/them” siege mentality he has created. He is exploiting the opportunity, for his two favorite things, money and revenge, he is raking in unorecedented donations and he’s vowing to go after “the radical left”, and “groups that contributed to this atrocity and other political violence”. This assassin played right into Trump’s little hands, and Trump will use his violent rhetoric to insure the violence increases, and that it is aimed at his opponents.
There has been a lot of condemnation of those who are cheering it, but frankly, I haven’t actually seen anyone cheering or gloating about this. There has certainly been nothing like the joyous celebrational way that Trump and his MAGA followers responded to the maniac who tried to kill Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer, there has been no jubilant reveling with mocking conspiracies about nudity and gay lovers. The MAGA insistence that the left is cheering Charlie Kirk’s death is about like Trump’s assertion that he saw Muslims in the streets of New York cheering the 911 disaster, a typical MAGA lie to create outrage at the people they hate.
Biden, Obama, both Bush’s, Clinton, all of our previous presidents would be consoling the country and presenting a healing, unifying message, but Trump lacks the empathy to even understand anything less anger and hatred, and the only thing he knows how to express his vow to go after the "radical left.", he wants to be seen as a warrior, not a conciliator, he’s a populist, and populists dwell on anger, Trump crafts his follower’s rage like an artist, and he sees Charlie Kirks death as an opportunity, nothing more.
We are told “the radical left” killed Charlie Kirk, and Trump and his MAGA people are vowing violent revenge against the “groups” on the left who are responsible. This is all predictable, and it is a bald-faced lie. The assassin, Tyler Robinson was not a democrat, he has never had any affiliation with any left “groups”, he has registered as unaffiliated, hasn’t voted, but friends and neighbors say they thought he was an avowed Trump supporter. In 2017 he dressed as Trump for Halloween, and his grandmother has said that the entire family are Republican, and that they don’t even know a single democrat.
Tyler Robinson’s hatred and violence were developed in the pressure cooker of right-wing vitriol of their own self-created media echo chamber; he lived in lie-filled and toxic MAGA universe and that is what killed Charlie Kirk, the left had nothing to do with it.
This horrible act, and many others like it, are a direct result of the hate mongering and violent rhetoric that the right has been engaging in for years now. Trump and his far-right fascist allies have worked hard to empower and normalize a dangerous set of antisocial, anti-civil, retrograde and anti-democratic values and beliefs, creating an environment where political violence is seen as an acceptable way to accomplish ideological goals. His speech condemning the killing of Charlie Kirk, was the ultimate hypocrisy from the man who sent his followers on a murderous rampage into the capital on Jan 6th, calling them heroes, patriots, and of course pardoning all of them while characterizing their vicious attack as a day of love.
In the sharp difference in his response to the killing of Charlie Kirk and Melissa Hortman, he is explicitly encouraged the public to apply a partisan lens to the value of human life. He has excused right wing terrorism as justified because it is “fighting crime” and called on his base to avenge Kirk’s death with violence against the left. In context, it’s easy to see how right-wing extremists could reasonably expect political violence against the left to be appreciated and even pardoned.
The dramatic increase in political violence is a direct result of Trump’s vitriolic rhetoric and glorification of violence. That is what killed Charlie Kirk, it was not the “left”, it was Donald Trump and his MAGA movement.
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Desperate to look like a tough guy as the whole world laughs at him, Trump has made a military strike against a small Venezuelan boat with no evidence whatsoever that it involved drugs, gangs, or any other reason to strike it in international waters, which is an act of war either way. To which, JD Vance stated he "doesn't give a shit if it was a war crime".
In a post yesterday Trump threatened war with Chicago LOL, here is the President's actual post..
I don't think there's any way to get the rest of the world to stop laughing at him, but at least, maybe we should stop worrying why he is protecting pedophiles before he sets the entire world on fire.
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Donald Trump's disastrous governance has successfully tanked America's labor market, the economy only added 22,000 jobs in August, meaning there are more unemployed people than there are jobs. 1.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also revised down the numbers from June to show there was negative job growth for the first time since...well, since the last time Trump tanked the economy.
Time to fire people over at BLS AGAIN, for the crime of telling the truth, which is strictly verboten in this administration.
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Interesting article, I think 1,3, and 8 are the biggies. What do you think?
Inside the Minds of Climate Deniers—10 Things Psychologists Have Learned
1. They Only Pay Attention to Facts That Support What They Already Believe
2. They Need to Believe Our Current System Is Working Fine
3. Rejecting Climate Science Is a Way to Fit in With Their Group
4. They Hate the Solutions So Much They Reject the Problem
5. Believing Climate Science While Living Normal Lives Creates Mental Stress
6. Future Problems Don’t Feel as Real as Today’s Concerns
7. Smart People Think They Can Figure Out Complex Science on Their Own
8. Conspiracy Theories Make Complex Situations Simple to Understand
9. Denial Protects People From Feeling Anxious and Helpless
10. They Only Read News Sources That Tell Them What They Want to Hear
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Cracker Barrell has changed their logo causing the worst MAGA Snowflake meltdown since the Great Mr. Potatohead Crisis of 2021.
The company has also announced menu changes to enhance the brand. New items on the menu include Woke Waffles, He/She Hashbrowns, Gay Grits, and Scrambled Gender Eggs, and introducing Trans Thursdays, featuring half price discounts for men wearing women’s clothes on Thursdays.
Donald Trump said, “For years it has been known that Cracker Barrel’s biscuits are a gateway food to becoming a Drag Queen, and their meatloaf has always been made of people’s pet cats and dogs.”
Sydney Sweeny and Kid Rock vowed to never eat there again, and Lindsey Graham was quoted as saying, “Whoa, Gay Grits sound awesome”.
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https://theonion.com/white-house-evacuated-after-trans-alarm-goes-off-2/
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To appease Trump’s YUGE ego, GOP sycophants have made great efforts to flatter the incumbent president.
What do you think, is he deserving of any or all of these”
The list includes:
• A bill to create a $250 bill that would feature Trump’s face.
• A similar bill that would put Trump’s face on $100 bills.
• A bill to make Trump’s birthday a federal holiday.
• A bill to carve Trump’s face into Mount Rushmore.
• A bill to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after Trump.
• A bill to name the Washington, D.C., subway system after Trump and his MAGA slogan.
• A bill to name the Kennedy Center after Trump.
• A bill to amend the Constitution to let Trump (but not Obama) run for a third term.
• Efforts to nominate and bring pressure on the Nobel Prize Committee for not one, but two Nobel Prizes.
I’m particularly interested in the input of our MAGA folks, if you think any or all of these are justified, please explain.
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I can't seem to create an avatar, I follow the same process from Deate.org, in my profile it seems to work, but it disappears when I leave the profile page.
Looks like everybody else has figured it out, what am I doing wrong?
