“If you win in November,” a panelist asked, “can you commit to prioritizing legislation to make child care affordable and if so, what specific piece of legislation will you advance?”

Answer- “Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down — you know, I was, uh, somebody, we had Sen. Marco Rubio [(R-Fla.)] and my daughter, Ivanka, was so, uh, impactful on that issue. It’s a very important issue.
But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that — because child care is child care. It’s, couldn’t — you know, it’s something, you have to have it. In this country, you have to have it.
But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to but they’ll get used to it very quickly. And it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us, but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country.
Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care, that it’s gonna take care. We’re gonna have — I, I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time. Coupled with, uh, the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country — because I have to say with child care, I want to stay with child care, but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about, including growth.
But growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just, uh, that I just told you about. We’re gonna be taking in trillions of dollars, and as much as child care is talked about as being expensive, it’s, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we’ll be taking in.
We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people and then we’ll worry about the rest of the world. Let’s help other people. But we’re gonna take care of our country first. This is about America first. It’s about: Make America great again. We have to do it, because right now we’re a failing nation. So we’ll take care of it. Thank you. Very good question.”

This man cannot dress himself or use the toilet without help, you want him to run the free world? In the last month he has admitted at least 3 times in interviews that he lost the 2020 election, and also claimed a few dozen times that he won….almost as many times as he talked about how he’s running against Biden (or Obama) in the last month, forgetting who his opponent is.

Ken Block, another who the felon hired to find election fraud, again found no significant frauds. Every claim was investigated, and no large scale frauds found…only Republicans blocking legitimate votes. He is the third Republican audit to find no fraud, on top of nearly 70 court cases.

Another Republican Party meeting devolves into physical violence between members, this time in the county of Saline in Arkansas. Is this the fourth time this happened this year?

Popular maga influencer couple Isabella and Jason Moody…look em up
Prime maga examples - self described racist to the extreme, misogynistic to the extreme, insulting to the extreme at all times, posted a video teaching their infant to say the n word, and how proud they are it’s her first word, and another where they publicly offered to keep their infant daughter a virgin to offer up to their friends.
These are what popular maga influencers are, these are what your group has decided are your best people, worthy of praise and emulation.
Nuff said

RNC just lost their case trying to invalidate mail in votes or any vote counted after Election Day. Another maga attempt to restrict voting crushed.

Wow. Has any politician ever done worse than the felon trying to appeal to black voters by going to the NABJ convention and disrespecting all the black journalists in such a thin skinned infantile racist manner the crowd repeatedly burst out in laughter at his little tirades?
Doubled down on his racism against Harris (the same racist “she’s not really black” that you parroted recently among others).
Whined about the terrible treatment by “this…”woman””, and couldn’t hide his disgust at being questioned by a black woman who isn’t cow towing and fawning. Whined that she didn’t start with “hello, how are you”…but in fact she started by thanking him for being there and for his time, another pleasantry, but he had to whine about something.
Rambled incoherently and angrily.
“Whatabout BLM” and “whatabout pro Palestinian protesters” when pressed about his promise to pardon all Jan 6 attackers including those that attacked police, and then said yes he would pardon them.
Completely failed to answer questions like “why should the police officer that shot an innocent woman in the face and withheld medical care get immunity?” Or “why shouldn’t the officers that prosecuted you have immunity?” and “Why should black voters trust you?”.
Also insultingly and rudely pretended to not know what his own racist dog whistle “DEI” means (just like he doesn’t know anything about project 2025 and disagrees with that administration outline he knows nothing about and adopted as his platform) despite using it to describe VP Harris constantly.
Then his team immediately cut the interview at the halfway point at the first project 2025 question because they know he can’t keep it straight whether he’s supposed to be for it or pretend it’s terrible and has nothing to do with him when talking to this group and his answers would tend to prove the former. 😂

He overall really came off 100% racist and unhinged. Why did he go there again? The implosion is spectacular!
He’s already using this unbelievable horrific failure as another reason he won’t debate Harris…and who could blame him? If that’s how he acts when questioned respectfully with uncomfortable facts how will he handle Harris destroying him with facts and vitriol and biting wit? Either way he’s going to show who he is, a racist misogynist criminal who has 10 old talking points to trot out but no ability to think or a massive coward afraid to be seen by the public he needs to support him.

Edit: and he just can’t stop, spending the day tweeting out photos of Harris celebrating the Indian half of her heritage because in his tiny gnat brain a person apparently cannot be both Indian and black! Doubling down on racism isn’t a good look, friendo.
Ooof…the hits keep coming, Biden negotiated a massive prisoner swap with Russia that the felon couldn’t get done when he was president…something the felon said only he could ever get done (but didn’t) and Biden negotiated a 2 for 1 deal…2 political prisoners released for every Russian criminal returned including 5 countries and a 16 for 8 prisoner swap. Conversely, the felon traded deadly arms dealers for a basketball player who actually HAD broken the law by bringing marijuana to Russia.

How long before the Republican Party removes him as the candidate along with JP Mandel?
When Biden had a terrible performance at the debate he stepped aside, but despite this being exponentially worse you know the felon is incapable of any self sacrifice for any reason so what are you going to do? He just cut his black support by 3/4 and ruined any possibility of gaining any back! JD has destroyed support among women, and singles, and childless couples, and anyone who doesn’t support born again Christian sharia law. Project 2025 has destroyed any possible support from fans of democracy or America as a sovereign nation.

Very nice.

I completely agree about her music. I'm not exactly her target audience and I haven't had a breakup in about 20 years, but she seems like an amazing person and she has got some great tunes.

I've come across a couple with great videos that I'll have to put up here (a cyberpunk one and a quirky dance one spring to mind, but no idea of the titles). Thanks for the reminder.

It's interesting how this guy mis represents the Trump case.

He repeatedly says there was no evidence and that it's really hard to disprove something that someone just says about you. "He said/she said".

Of course that's not how the case went at all.

Carrol told a couple of friends about the encounter immediately after it, so she corroborating witnesses that confirmed under oath that she had talked to them about the event 30 years ago.

Trump lied and said he would never treat women badly, that he never met Carrol, and that she wasn't his type.

Carrol's team proved that they had met (pictures and people's testimony) and Trump misidentified Carrol as his ex wife in a picture which was used to show that she physically was his type. The Access Hollywood secret audio was used with other evidence to show that Trump had bragged about treating women badly.

Last but not least Carrol offered a stained dress like Monica Lewinski that could be tested if only Trump would offer his DNA. Guess what? Trump would not offer his DNA to attempt a match.

The great part about the case here is that it appears Democrats actually hold each other to the laws instead of just obstructing or using their positions to try and get high profile people off scott free.

Oooff….this did not age well….

Dershowitz WAS named in the Epstein depositions repeatedly as a client, one who Jane Doe #3 was forced to have sex with repeatedly as a 13 year old minor not just in Florida but on planes, in New York, New Mexico, and the US Virgin Islands. The sworn statements go on to document that Dershowitz was also often present on the island alone with Epstein, without his family, getting “massages” from young, like 13 year old girls…not a one time with his wife together couple’s massage by 35 year old women as he claimed.
Not exactly the pinnacle of virtue or brilliant legal mind he once may have been.
His answer…no one can possibly say anything about him unless they first publicly condemn Hamas.

Also *sexuality and *law
Maybe learn that married couples filming themselves making love isn’t a crime or wrong, but surreptitiously recording them and publicly broadcasting it is.

Also please recall Melania Trump did soft core porn films with other women before becoming First Lady, and Donny appeared in soft core porn videos for Playboy too.

Again, the sex crime here was committed by MAGA.

If I remember correctly, on the back of his first couple of videos he started up a business doing decorations, so the yearly halloween one is essentially an ad/showcase of what he can offer.

Of course, I could go looking for evidence to corroborate this rather than relying on my own vague memories, but that's not really in the spirit of the internet, is it?

you can basically see all the movies snyder watched in the last couple years in this trailer.

Interesting history.

My parents, already divorced, travelled on the ridiculously opulent QE2 in the late 80’s…(I thought it was its last Atlantic crossing but google says no.)

I’ve been on one cruise, on https://seadream.com/, which at the time accommodated 100 passengers and the same number of crew. It spoiled me for these giant ships. Crowds, buffets, kids, only major ports…ugh. The personal service, 5 star food and drinks, tiny unknown ports of call on exotic Virgin islands with no crowds, and only older respectful passengers was perfect…we were the second youngest couple there at 50. I highly recommend it despite the price.

Ponder this….how long will it take to post them all???

25 more high powered Republican sex offenders…just gotta love #30!

26 Republican legislative aide *Howard L. Brooks** was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
27 Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old babysitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

28 Republican preacher *Stephen White**, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

29 Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

30 Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

31 Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

32 Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.

33 Republican politician *Andrew Buhr** was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

34 Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16. He committed suicide

35 Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.

36 Republican County Councilman *Keola Childs** pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.

37 Republican activist, McCain office manager Jeffrey Claude Bartleson, was arrested for molesting the child of a campaign volunteer.

38 NYC councilman, Republican-Queens, Dennis Gallagher - rape

39 Republican Mayoral Candidate and pastor - Rambler was accused of having sex with an underage boy and was convicted of soliciting explicit photos from a swingers' group & using the pics to extort money

40 Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15-year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

41 Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

42 GOP Sen aide Ryan Loskarn committed suicide after child porn arrest

43 Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

44 Faith and Family Alliance director, Republican strategist, and lobbyist Robin Vanderwall was convicted in of five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet. It's at the end or article, after all his illegal lobbying schemes https://t.co/gVbGFfAtZe

45 Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter

46 Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison

47 Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr. rape. Dasen has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women

48 Republican Judge and campaign official Tim Nolan for President Donald Trump indicted for human trafficking and forcing a minors (9) to engage in sexual activity

49 Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged with molesting a 14-year old girl.

50: Randall Casseday, HR Director for right-wing Washington Times - caught in an underage sex sting - "The Washington Times is the only newspaper where the moral issues of family and faith are proudly reported on the front page on a regular basis"

well, maybe should have tempered it a bit, 'cause was a bit disturbed about some of the things I've been reading...

1) https://news.yahoo.com/montana-lawmaker-suggested-she-d-182144655.html (some seriously sick stuff)

2)https://www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1184461263/iowa-meteorologist-harassment-climate-change-quits (loons being led by power lushing putz)

3)https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/26/garth-brooks-texas-greg-abbott-twitter-booed-satire (the stupidity and pride in ignorance is stupefying. also being ass hurt that trans people like a (horrible) beer?! lord have mercy...ate at a steak house, at the same table 'W' used previously. didn't put me off enjoying the t-bone. or revisiting the place if'n was in the area again. *did make me think "G** D*** it! why did the waitress tell me that!*)

4) https://news.yahoo.com/6-dead-including-3-children-161756984.html red flag af & TN will do nill

5) https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3kz5/moms-for-liberty-hitler-quote (MFL were more upset w/asscoation then the message. The lack of self-awareness & irony - unreal)

6) & too many women dying from the abortion ban(s). don't get killing the living for the unborn if the unborn are d.o.a. & take mom w/them. lunacy.

a couple of those are pushing the limit. the lack of benignancy being a value among the right - just - ain't - right.

bob the parrot's stormtrooper comment lit the fuse. my gawd. even people in the middle ages had a sense of genetics. greeks, 3k years ago, knew androgyny was a thing. so why can't bobo's buds not bone up on the idea of biology?

it's not a choice, but living well is.

Couple of more angles.

Sart at 1:23:00

This is why the "monkey selfie" photo controversy of a couple of years ago (damnit, it's 10 years!) baffles me... it's not always the artist, it's often the editor that spots the art. I can take 60 shots per second of the waves on the coast of a lake, but that doesn't mean I should own the copyright on the one that happened to look great at 01:05:51.304 on 26/11/22.

Conversely the inverse may also be true.

Art is art. Don't tie me down, baby.

I finished up the season. Really enjoyed it, and I only successfully guessed a couple plot points in advance. It's pretty wild. If you liked Dark, or mind-bending stuff in general, you'll likely dig the show. There's a huge Season 2 setup, so it better get one!

Fairly non-spoilery: holy redshirts, Batman! Srsly...