And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[rareboy]

 

[Alistair]

The GOP really is the Party of peodophiles

 

[Thad1527]

 

[rareboy]

Remember:

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral.

Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”

The result is intended to be “institutionalized hunger.”

And that a starved population will be compliant as long as they are given crumbs off the table.

 

[rareboy]

And more purely performative bullshit from men too stupid and/or venal to get a real job.

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[rareboy]

Senators of the "no new wars" GQP voted to allow Trump to attack Venezuela without congressional approval.

Susan Collins, of course, cast the deciding vote allowing this.

I am sure she has 'concerns'.

 

[rareboy]

All 31 Moms for Liberty candidates lost their election bid.

So. Some good news. People won't have to look at their scowling faces or listen to them scolding their constituents and colleagues.

 

[KaraBulut]

Senators of the "no new wars" GQP voted to allow Trump to attack Venezuela without congressional approval.

Susan Collins, of course, cast the deciding vote allowing this.

I am sure she has 'concerns'.

There are two Senators who are running for re-election who are ranked as being at high risk for losing their seat, either in a primary or in the general in 2026: Jon Ossoff [R-GA] and Susan "I will only serve for 2 terms" Collins [R-ME]. If the Dems can get their act together, and not run a crazy guy or a senior citizen, they could flip the seat.

Meanwhile, expect that Susan Collins will look like a seal performing in a circus for the next year.

 

[rareboy]

Collins is one of the most corrupt senators ever to sit in the chamber. God knows how much she's squirreled away in PAC dosh and bribes over the years, but it is known to be a comfy amount.

But it is her cupidity and naked spinelessness that continue to mark her out for additional censure.

She really doesn't do anything of note for Maine, including her inability to protect them from the huge loss of tourism dollars and premiums piad because of the tariffs against Canada.

The Dems would have to run the perfect candidate against her and at the moment, as usual, the guy running to beat her is also flawed.

My money is on the bet that she won't be primaried and the Mainiacs will vote her in again, because they are more opposed to brown and black people sneaking into their state...and of the raging socialism beyond their north borders than they are of looking like fools for voting her to represent them.

 

[KaraBulut]

Collins is one of the most corrupt senators ever to sit in the chamber.

I wouldn't say that she's more corrupt. That would be like saying that she's the deadest corpse at the morgue.

She is a petty, vindictive, entrenched politician who will do anything to keep her Senate seat. At 72, she should be retiring but she knows she is a critical vote in a narrow majority, so she leverages her votes, not for principle or to represent her constituents but instead to gain a disproportionate amount of power for a lovely State that has 0.4% of the total population of the US but contributes only 0.24% of the annual US GDP.

We should always remember that Collins was a sponsor of the Equality Act. Now that she needs to appeal to MAGA and after she got some big donations from anti-LGBT groups, she has backed away from sponsoring the Act and she likely would not vote for it if it were ever able to get a vote in the Senate. It's an example of how she says one thing but ultimately does whatever it takes to keep her seat in the Senate.

 

[rareboy]

These people are beyond bizarre....

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[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

Home Depot is really just a honey trap for ICE seizures any more.

In Canada, we are looking more and more to non-American alternatives anyway, but it is really troublesome that the company remains silent.

 

[rareboy]

Bari Weiss is a fucking scab.

Bari Weiss Crosses Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Picket Line

This week, Bari Weiss, the controversial new right-wing head of CBS News, crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to participate in a front-page puff piece that painted her as a scrappy “Pittsburgh girl,”

paydayreport.com

Seen

..."so long as Bari Weiss continues as "editor" in "chief" her network shall be known as "seeBS News" "

 

[KaraBulut]

This one is not only on Trump, but it has a Kushner connection...

In the first Trump apocalypse term, Trump commuted the sentence a friend of the Kushners named Jonathan Braun. Braun was a loan shark and drug dealer who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Trump commuted Braun's sentence on the last day of his 2021 term.

Since the commutation, Braun has been arrested 5 times. He was finally sent to jail this week for assaulting a 3 year old child.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/judge-jails-trump-clemency-recipient-braun-child-assault-arrest.html

This guy was granted clemency by Trump during the first Trumpenreich. Jonathan Braun, age 41, was New Yorker who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for large volume marijuana trafficking and a history of violence.

Update: he's back behind bars after a string of crimes. It finally took beating a child to get him sent back to prison.

The history from the Trump Criminal Syndicate and Pardon Mill:

• Used his drug money to hire Alan Dershowitz to write a letter to Trump in favor of a pardon application for him.
• He had attended school with the Kushners and used his connections to the Kushners to get the pardon application in front of Trump in 2021.
• The government had an active investigation against Braun over accusations that he was involved in loan sharking. Trump's clemency of Braun killed the goverment's investigation and allowed Braun to get away with his crimes.

Since his release, he went right back to his old habits. After several brushes with the law, he is finally back behind bars for beating a child and attacking a nanny.

Drug dealer granted clemency by Trump sent back to prison for violating terms of his release

A convicted drug dealer granted clemency by President Donald Trump has been sent back to federal prison for violating the terms of his release after being charged with several new crimes.

apnews.com

A convicted drug dealer who had been granted clemency by President Donald Trump was sent back to federal prison on Monday for violating the terms of his release after being charged with several new crimes.

Jonathan Braun was sentenced to 27 months behind bars. The Long Island man had been accused of swinging an IV pole at a hospital nurse and threatening to kill her, screaming at a member of his synagogue, groping his family’s nanny and evading bridge tolls.

Braun, speaking in a Brooklyn federal court hearing attended by family and supporters, apologized to his victims and loved ones, who he acknowledged had tried to get him help for his substance abuse and mental health problems before he spiraled out of control.

Convicted drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by Trump charged with domestic violence

A New York man whose 10-year prison sentence for dealing thousands of kilograms of marijuana was commuted in early 2021 by then-President Donald Trump has been arrested on domestic violence charges on Long Island.

apnews.com

A New York man whose 10-year prison sentence for dealing thousands of kilograms of marijuana was commuted in early 2021 by then-President Donald Trump has been arrested on domestic violence charges on Long Island.

Jonathan Braun, 41, was charged Tuesday with three counts of assault on allegations he attacked his wife and her 75-year-old father at their home in Atlantic Beach, according to a Nassau County police report. He also was charged with larceny for allegedly evading $160 worth of tolls by driving through E-ZPass lanes in sports cars with no license plates about 40 times, another report said.

Braun pleaded not guilty to the charges in court Wednesday and was released on his own recognizance, despite prosecutors requesting $35,000 bail. Phone numbers for him listed in public records were disconnected.

 

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