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You probably saw on the 6pm news yesterday that Democrats released a flood of Epstein's emails wherein he and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell mentioned Trump's name a few times. Nothing incriminating sadly but the White House has gotten increasingly worried that no distraction has so far managed to quell the demand to release the Epstein files... and even those countries currently being attacked by Trump's military are calling the US out on it:
"Clan of pedophiles" :D
Two Republicans, famous for being both batshit crazy and loyal Trump supporters have recently turned on Trump by signing the declaration for the Epstein Files to be released. I already mentioned Marjorie Taylor Greene (who then started acting paranoid and told her followers on social media not to believe any stories about her being suicidal if she were to die...) but there's also Lauren Boebert.
My best description of Boebert is she's a Tina Fey SNL skit character of a Republican come to life. Both MTG and LB are your typical right-wing hypocrites: they criticized Biden's plan to forgive $10,000 of university and college student loans while they themselves happily took PPP loans during the pandemic and had the loans forgiven:
Marjorie Taylor Greene: $183,504
Boebert: $233,305 <--- remember this is in US dollars
And there's this:
Dash Dobrofsky @DashDobrofsky
Lauren Boebert posted a Veteran's Day video and told the Veterans "you are more loved than you will ever know." 2 months ago, Boebert and her Republican colleagues voted against a bill that would provide dying veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits with free healthcare.
Boebert is also one to preach family values and of course, is part of the political party that is all about "law and order":
Mayo @MayoIsSpicyy
REMINDER: Lauren Boebert didn’t graduate from high school and failed her GED three times. She’s been in jail and married a sex offender.
Boebert is also among the Republicans who were in favor of dismantling the US Dept of Education. Clearly education was never useful to her.
Oddly enough, I remember her best for a fairly laughable scandal wherein she went on a date at a Denver theater showing the Beetlejuice musical (with an audience of children seated close by) and the two proceeded to grope each other's crotches. Both were escorted out of the theater when caught, she denied that she was doing anything wrong and began to lambast the theater owners and then quickly had to shut up when the owners released the security footage. TMZ has the video here:
More of that great family values from the Republicans.
Suffice it to say, I am no fan of this woman or any of the Republicans that are a part of this government. But she refused to cave into the Trump government's pressure tactics to not sign the discharge petition in the House and signed it.
Whatever their motives are, both MTG and Boebert have at least taken a stand against the sexual exploitation of women. Let's see if it will lead to anything concrete.
EDIT: a small tidbit from 2023 that never got much attention here in Canadian news:
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@politvidchannel
it has been revealed that Trump tried to have 'sex' with female staffers when he was in the white house former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said she stopped Trump from having sex with female staffers when he was in the white house
Stephanie Grisham: "There was one specific staffer that worked for me, and Trump would request for her to be on constant trips when it wasn't her turn — I would rotate the staffers to go on foreign trips."
Stephanie Grisham: "He one time had one of my other deputies bring her back 'so that they could look at her ass' is what he said to him ... I tried everything I could to ensure she was never alone with Trump."
Stephanie Grisham: "When you're dealing with the President of the United States, again, there's no H.R. group or H.R. representative to go to, to talk to about these kinds of things."
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Sure enough, Trump has officially now dumped MTG, a former ally, for turning against him, badmouthing her as expected for being a complainer:
Trump ditches longtime ally Marjorie Taylor Greene
On to other news:
For a couple of months now, Trump has hinted that he would bail out the farmers who voted for him and who have paid dearly, sometimes with their lives, for doing so as they watched their farming businesses go bankrupt due to tariffs and China's counter-tariffs. Still nothing concrete has emerged and as I said previously, I have my doubts that he will genuinely do much to save them. The Trump administration only seems to care about a handful of things (beyond just turning America into a North Korea-style country that is predominantly white Christian nationalist right-wingers).
One is getting access to rare earth minerals from any other source other than China (like absorbing Canada as its 51st state to get it for free), and the second is AI and building a huge AI infrastructure across America - which I am guessing is so that Peter Thiel can install AI-powered monitoring systems on every corner of the country and begin his social credit system that will dictate the lives of every well-behaved American -- those who don't obey get sent to a prison in El Salvador or that water-logged one in Florida.
AI infrastructure means only one thing: AI data centers, gigantic warehouses for row after row of computer chips specializing in doing very fast math calculations but which come with a huge drawback: this kind of hardware requires insane amounts of fresh water to keep the chips cool (so that they don't literally melt or just break down and stop working). For any place within America which have hosted these centers the residents soon learn that it comes at a huge price: skyrocketing energy and water bills every month as well as a huge amount of environmental damage. Nobody in their right mind wants these things in their neck of the woods. That became obvious to me when back in September I happened to see a Facebook post from Alt National Park Service:
We wanted to draw attention to an issue affecting Menomonie, Wisconsin. A proposed $1.6 billion data center on 320 acres of farmland (located between 650th and 690th Avenue) has drawn strong opposition. The City Council quickly annexed and rezoned the land to “Restricted Industrial,” even though the developer, Balloonist LLC, has not revealed who will operate the facility or provided detailed site plans. This secrecy and the speed of approval have eroded community trust, leaving many residents feeling shut out of the decision-making process.
Residents have mobilized through a Facebook group called “Stop the Menomonie Data Center,” now with over 2,000 members, and in community meetings where concerns about transparency dominate. Many question why prime farmland is being sacrificed and whether city officials truly weighed the long-term impacts on people living nearby.
The environmental and public health concerns are substantial. The data center is projected to use around 75,000 gallons of water per day, making it one of the area’s largest consumers, rivaling major industrial users like Cardinal FG and UW-Stout. Residents also warn about noise and light pollution, strain on local utilities, heavier traffic, and disruptions to rural farmland.
Altogether, residents argue that the project threatens farmland, water, air, and quality of life in Menomonie while being pushed forward without clear answers. For many, it’s not just the scale of the facility that’s troubling, but how city officials’ lack of transparency has deepened community mistrust!
There usually aren't a lot of replies to a post like this which seemed to only affect a region of farmland in Wisconsin. Then I started scrolling through the comment section and scrolling and scrolling and scrolling... the responses came from Americans all across the entire country, with so many replies that even the long list I'm about to post here only captures a modest amount of the anger and worry that people have about seeing their state infested by these warehouses:
It happened to us here in KY. So far, we’ve managed to squash it, but they are still trying to sneak it through. Stay tough!
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They are fighting a Google one in Franklin Township (Indianapolis), IN also. They seem poised to deny it
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Any association with AcreTrader??? A Peter Thiel backed company that at one time, JD Vance was associated with as well.
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Beaver Dam, WI where I live has a data center being built right now. HUGE!! Many farmers increased their wealth exponentially!! I don’t recall any open meetings on this or any chatter before ground was broke. Guess we wait and see.
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if you live close to it, the amount of heat, noise pollution and loss of access to water will be a huge problem for you. Not to mention the cost of your own utilities and taxes going up
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the facilities use millions of gallons of water daily. That is a huge part of the problem. The water they use usually becomes contaminated. We fight hard to keep a Great Lakes protected. They are just very terrible for the environment.
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I've seen that the citizens nearby end up paying for all their water and electricity usage on utility bills as well. One video I watched people were saying it smells awful.Terrible for the environment and for the surrounding communities.
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It could be, but also, it could be a Data Center, something for crypto mining etc. This is becoming a major issue here in the Midwest, with investment firms, places like Amazon, Microsoft, Meta etc sweeping in to buy hundreds of acres of land to build these centers to run their AI or mine for crypto. It’s ruinous.
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No, these are all going to be AI computing centers. There are A LOT planned.
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Peter Thiel and the tech bros are branching out like cancer from Silicon Valley.
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no, data centers are used for housing computer systems, and they’re terrible for the environment.
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Data centers are cropping up all over the country fueled by the demand for AI services. It has nothing to do with ICE. They produce an immense amount of heat, and consume huge amounts of water and electricity to operate. Stop using ChatGPT to ask questions, quit using AI assisted search. Everyone using AI integrated tech is fueling the rise in utility prices and will lead to water shortages if growth isn't checked.
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No, it's an actual data processing center. Will most likely be AI related. The computers require huge amounts of energy and water.
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No, that amount of water is for an AI data center
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it’s a tech company that bought the land so, probably not a detention center.
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no, these are huge complexes which operate 24/7 and it's usually tied into AI. They want to be in my Wisconsin because of our rural space and water supplies. They're cropping up right and left. If you're not familiar with them, do some research. They're awful, and hide behind "we're creating jobs", but that's mainly for construction.
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WOW - until this thread, I had no clue that there were sooo many data centers in the works, spread out all over our country!
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Google St Charles Mo data center and see also that an “unnamed party” tried to put in a large data center. The proposal failed due to lack of transparency and the regional impact.
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People in my home city of St. Charles, MO successfully managed to get one of these sketchy data centers blocked. It can be done
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Happening everywhere. The rich benefit. The rest of us donate our resources. Clean Air. Water. Quality of life.
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A very similar situation is happening in Sulphur Springs, Texas. Looks likely to happen, although since folks discovered the plan and are speaking up, the city council has called an emergency meeting for next week.
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So basically the plot of Eddington
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This is also happening in North Mankato, Minnesota. The water issue is huge there because it will affect an aquifer key to most of the state.
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Southeast Indianapolis is currently trying to fight one as well.
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On a smaller scale, this same thing is happening in Harwood, ND with Applied Digital.
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Also Google facility in West Memphis Arkansas and X AI facility “Colossus” in Memphis Tennessee
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Data centers use a lot of water for cooling, but it doesn't all go up in steam, they just can't reuse it immediately because it is already hot. I wonder if there isn't a way to do a quick collection and send it back into public water work systems with minimum clean up (not have to go through the full sanitation process that grey water needs to go through) Someone out there probably knows more than I do about it, just random ideas.
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who knows. There is no longer an EPA to provide oversight so that water could end up anywhere and with any amount of contamination and nobody will know.
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There was a similar plan across the street from us in Guilford County NC - luckily the public outrage was early & organized.
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Same thing is going on in Harwood, North Dakota… just a few miles north of Fargo.
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Similar situation near Amarillo, Texas with a proposed data center.
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It's a closed loop system. It won't be using 75,000 gallons daily.
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They're trying to build one in Monticello (or Otsego) MN as well. They're in the community meetings phase of it all and I really hope my community can band together to stop the project. There's the Project Bigfoot data center being built in Rosemont MN as well.
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some data centers use the evaporation of water to cool the data center hall. Not all use evaporative technology but some do. Closed water cooling systems use little to no water but that technology tends to be more expensive up front for the equipment.
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from what I understand it is used to cool down the equipment. They are building data centers under the ocean to use water more "freely" where they don't have to pay utilities for it.
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There talk of a data center in Bucks County, PA... Thinking it's either an Amazon place or a Meta place. Being built in either Levittown or Langhorne.
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They are doing one in the Farmington, MN area...keeping all info. secret from the public.
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I live in Northern Virginia in the heart of the biggest hub of data centers in the world. Their environmental impact is ALWAYS greatly underestimated.
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Cody Gentz - Menomonie City Council
Menomonie City Council member here. I voted against the annexation and rezoning. I appreciate that this important story is getting covered, but there is more nuance than is being reported. I am quite confident that every member of the council is taking this extremely seriously, and nobody is interested in getting steamrolled by a megacorporation. A big part of the problem is the system in which we operate - a system skewed to the benefit of capital and corporations.
It is common practice for developers and companies to be very secretive about projects, utilizing shell LLCs and NDAs to hide from the media, their competitors, and so forth. This can end up causing cities who refuse NDAs to miss out on economic development, jobs, tax revenue, etc. I do not support the practice. The city council has the same information the general public does. We are still a long way off from any data center taking root, and we'll all be paying very close attention to our constituents' feedback.
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This why you need to show up for local elections! People forget the implications by thinking municipal elections do not matter - it is your city government that determines taxes, school funding, zoning, police & fire, etc.
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I’ve read that the data center in Port Washington will use in excess of 1M gallons of Lake Michigan water per day.
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The same thing is happening in Blakely Borough, PA and throughout Lackawanna County, PA. local community members are fighting back!
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Currently happening in Adamstown, MD as well.
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One proposed in Delaware City, Delaware.
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This is exactly the same in Port Washington, WI. There has been plenty of opposition but the elected officials have just railroaded it through. This is projected to be the largest in the state and would use over 1 million gallons of water per day.
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Good luck to people down wind of the exhaust smokestacks now that pollution restrictions have been gutted by MAHA / EPA. And hope farmers have good water rights. Seems like the area is going to be tapped out soon. But the city council members will be flush with nice new cars and vacation homes soon.
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Happening here in Harwood, ND as well.
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Same as in Caledonia, WI!
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This is also happening in Janesville Wisconsin. It was uncovered the city manager sent an email setting expectations for our council members to "support the city's position" after residents started asking questions and pushing back.
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This just was thwarted in St. Charles, MO.
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same in Canaan valley, WV.
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Something similar is happening in Janesville, WI too at the old GM plant. That land is still contaminated from GM.
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Yorkville, IL
3 proposed in a town of less than 30,000
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All over Ohio too
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Check out College Station, TX. Same thing. Just came out as a possibility, no communication, people are showing up to meetings big time. They are not happy.
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Happening in Sulphur Springs, Tx too
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Add to everything, that is on the Great Lakes. It's one of the largest freshwater sources in the world. It would decimate the lakes.
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Same thing happened in St. Charles, Missouri. We were able to stop it and became the first city in the United States to ban the application process for data centers. Sadly, it’s only a one year ban.
I also drove by one being built just outside of Southbend, IN this weekend (Notre Dame). It was…alarming.
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I lived in Menomonie and went to UW Stout and grew up in that area. It’s an absolutely gorgeous area, I can’t minimize that. And SO many companies have tried to come into the area and steal the water and land from us.
Thank you for sharing this and amplifying their efforts, it’s so sad potentially seeing an area you love being destroyed. John Menard of Menards hardware stores has already done his best to destroy the environment in the area. When I was younger he dumped toxic waste into our water table and has done SO much environmental damage but keeps just getting fined. So the city council and surrounding law enforcement already doesn’t have a history of caring about environment over money. So let’s fight this with the might of the people and hope we can scare this company off.
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UGH We are dealing with something similar right here in our little corner of the world.
We live in a *residential agricultural* zoned area and a developer bought 150 acres and wants it rezoned "light industrial" ... we have goats and dogs and came out here for the quiet farm life..
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In Oregon we are seeing this in Hillsboro to North Plains, I believe. Whats left of prime farmland (some historic land/buildings) are being dozed for data and large industrial like Amazon, which has already built one center. I don’t have stats but I know many have tried fighting it and are concerned about the impact. When
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If St. Charles, MO residents could block the one that was destined to be built on farmland and threatened their water source, Menomonee can too!! It was a big secret too and passed through board approval process quickly.
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This has gotta be some kind of AI generated super-snoop op. That kind of water use is only reasonable for cooling super hot computing systems like those used in AI and crypto mining. Better also check yer electric bill. AI uses exorbitant amounts of electricity. AI, like its cousin crypto mining is likely to replace things like gold mining as the most polluting human activity on the planet.
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They voted Republican :-P
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Say goodbye to your water supply
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Here in Cherokee County, NC also- county commissioners are so quick to approve without doing adequate research/due diligence. Started with bitcoin and evolved to AI.
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The promise that the politician, almost always a right-wing politician by the way (because you know he's probably been paid off by Meta or Amazon or OpenAI to push for it), makes to the community is that having the AI data center will bring jobs to the local community, but a few people disputed the long-term benefits:
Data centers only employ a good amount of people during construction. Once built, very few people are required to operate.
Fun fact: the number of sustainable long-term jobs at data centers is extremely limited. Maybe 25-50. Mostly automated with centralized maintenance functions and the skill levels are far beyond local candidates. The contribution to a local economy is virtually zero and the impacts to utilities are huge. Governments are clueless about how to tax these things as the revenue flowing passively through them is significant but with zero local billing they can’t be taxed appropriately.
Canada isn't immune to this AI push either, so keep in mind the negative consequences if you see your local political leader advocating for it all of a sudden. But it all goes to my point that I suspect Trump doesn't really want these farmers to thrive, he'd rather their farms go under and those huge acres of farmland then be sold off and used as AI data centers since anywhere as you've seen above, the residents oppose their construction with extreme prejudice. There's a lot of money to be made in erecting these centers, far more than growing soybeans and carrots, the Republicans just need the farmers out of the way.
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US ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, reminds us why Doug Ford is an idiot and the cause of the stalled federal trade negotiations with the US:
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra said Canada inserted itself into American electoral politics with Ontario's anti-tariff ad that led U.S. President Donald Trump to cut off trade talks. 'You do not come into America and start running government-funded political ads and expect that there will be no consequences or reaction,' he said.
Speaking at the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters’ national conference in Ottawa, Ambassador Pete Hoekstra took aim at an Ontario government-funded ad campaign that aired in the U.S. last month and quoted former U.S. President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs.
The ad prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend trade negotiations with Canada.“As far as we can tell, it has never happened in America before,” Hoekstra said, saying Trump and his administration were right to be upset over the ad.
“If Canada wants to assert itself and create a new precedent that you’re going to participate in our electoral politics, through advertising targeting the president of the United States and his policies, I would suggest that you seriously consider whether that is the best way to try and achieve your objectives in the United States of America.”
Hoekstra noted the ad aired on American TV weeks before November’s elections in several states and the U.S. Supreme Court hearing over Trump’s tariff powers, which include the tariffs laid on Canada over fentanyl trafficking allegations.The ambassador suggested the timing of the ad amounted to political interference.“I’m sorry, that does not happen in the United States of America,” he told the crowd.
I'm no fan of Hoekstra, his attitude mirrors the arrogant attitude of all the right-wing politicians right now (Trump, Abbott, DeSantis) about US superiority over Canada, but he's right: running political ads in a foreign country to try and influence the political balance is a bad idea, about as bad as, say, a right-wing Republican billionaire buying up 90% of Canadian news media and slamming our left-wing politicians, while pushing their right-wing viewpoints constantly:
Getting rid of Ford and American money in our news media would be better for both countries:




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Hoekstra was the same jerk during his tenure as US Ambassador to Netherlands, 2018 - 2021.
Netherlands was his birth country. His family emigrated to the US when he was 12. I guess he slept through the school classes on the liberation of Netherlands by Canadian troops.
On January 20, 2024, Hoekstra was elected chair of the Michigan Republican Party. He is listed as a "contributor" to Project 2025...yeah that infamous piece of work.
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Binson Echorec wrote:
TomTV wrote:
US ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, reminds us why Doug Ford is an idiot and the cause of the stalled federal trade negotiations with the US:
Putting aside Douglas Ford Jr's smarts for a sec, I'm baffled that no Canadian has replied to Hoekstra's tirades with, "What did you expect? You started it."
They kicked a hornet's nest and are blaming the hornets. Typical of politicians, really.
The responses on social media whenever Hoekstra's comments about Canada or trade arise effectively mirror what you said. There are few, if any, Canadians who will shrug their shoulders and agree with his points. Like I said, the Republicans are arrogant right now because the US is the economic center of the planet and have the clout to screw other countries however which way they want, until the rest of us get our act together and learn to bypass these sods altogether.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all those who celebrate (where are the really good Black Friday sales?)
As per the happy and celebratory mood befitting the season, the US president called for halting immigration from poor countries and probably the most scary for any non-white legal citizen in the US right now, touted the nutjob right-wing concept of "remigration" to expel those who don't love America enough in his eyes, sending them back to their home country after revoking their US citizenship... maybe they should start with Melania Trump.
In a move that I'm sure won't make Forward Power happy, I'm going to post Trump's insane rant on social media so you can read it for yourselves:


More from CTV and the Associated Press here:
Trump says he wants to ‘permanently pause’ migration to the U.S. from poorer countries
Since the shooting not far from the White House, administration immigration authorities have pledged to reexamine millions of legal immigrants, building on a 10-month campaign to reduce the immigrant population. In a lengthy social media post late Thursday, the Republican president asserted that millions of people born outside the U.S. and now living in the country bore a large share of the blame for America’s societal ills.
“Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. “Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for -- You won’t be here for long!”
Trump was elected on a promise to crack down on illegal migration, and raids and deportations undertaken by his administration have disrupted communities across the country. Construction sites and schools have been frequent targets. The prospect of more deportations could be economically dangerous as America’s foreign-born workers account for nearly 31 million jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The president said on Truth Social that “most” foreign-born U.S. residents “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions,gangs, or drug cartels” as he blamed them for crime across the country that is predominantly committed by U.S. citizens.
There are roughly 50 million foreign-born residents in the U.S., and multiple studies have found that immigrants are generally less likely to commit crimes than are people who were born in the country.
The perception that immigration breeds crime “continues to falter under the weight of the evidence,” according to a review of academic literature last year in the Annual Review of Criminology.
If there's a huge reason why I stopped being a right-winger myself, other than the non-stop examples of hypocrisy from the politicians (Trump, Doug Ford, Poillievre, etc) it is that they routinely blame immigrants for pretty much all of society's ills. Note that these right-wing politicians or those aspiring to be political leaders are always white, usually Christian (Stephen Miller being Jewish is probably one of the biggest surprises, to me at least), and they use it as a way to dupe a naive voting public into voting for them so they can get rid of the "problem". They also make sure that once in power, they amply reward themselves and their close friends for that "service" to society with huge salaries and taxpayer money (again, see Doug Ford).
Immigrants always make a convenient and safe scapegoat and anyone who uses that tactic should never get your support because you end up putting the next Hitler or Trump in charge of your society and as I've been slowly alluding to in my "From Russia with LEXX" articles, the kind of society that those hateful a-holes will create, will ultimately harm you too - the MAGA idiot or the everyday right-wing voter, as much as it harms the immigrants you want expelled, shot dead, or incarcerated. It just takes longer to happen to you than it will to the scapegoats as those US farmers are finding out in Trump's second term right now.
As the AP article pointed out, evidence is to the contrary that immigrants are the ones eroding society. Just for the hell of it, I recently took inventory of who is an immigrant in my everyday life that I regularly interact with, especially the non-white immigrants, who perform a service to me week after week:
- my doctor (from Iran) and her receptionist who books my appointments (Phillipines)
- the concierge in my apartment who handles my incoming parcels (Pakistan guy in the daytime, Nigerian guy in the evenings)
- the very friendly cleaning lady (Turkish?) who greets me with a hello every time I'm leaving in the morning
- my banking rep (Phillipines)
- my other banking rep (Korean) and her 2026 replacement (Japanese)
- the men doing the restoration work outside my building, fixing the brickwork (various, but all of them are brown-skinned, not a single white dude)
- the plumber(s) who arrive in the middle of the night to fix burst pipes/leaks (I live in an old building), usually Indian or Pakistanian
People easily forget that immigrants do some of the lowest-paid, back-breaking, and least spiritually rewarding jobs in our society, while the kids who grew up here go off to be social media influencers and eSports videogamers. Due to our declining birth rates, it will be the immigrants who will be the ones working in our long-term care homes and hospitals to look after us when we're old and feeble, ranting about how immigrants are taking away our jobs and committing all the crimes.
Just a reminder of what to be thankful for in this holiday season, other than the fact that Canada is not the United States and hopefully never will be,so long as we choose our leaders wisely.
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For a political party that is always complaining about how the Democrats waste taxpayer money (on useless things like social services and forgiving students loans) the Republicans sure love to waste money on protecting a pedophile:
FBI Spent Nearly $1 Million in Overtime on Epstein Files Redaction
Around 1,000 agents from New York and Washington offices trained quickly and logged 4,737 overtime hours from January to July, peaking at $851,344 in one March week to process nearly 100,000 pages. The work followed demands for openness, leading to President Trump's signing of the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 19, which mandates releases with protections for victims and investigations. FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi guided the phases, balancing disclosure against privacy in the high-profile 2019 sex-trafficking probe where Epstein died by suicide.
@allenanalysis
NEW: The FBI quietly burned nearly $1 million in overtime to comb through and redact the Epstein files, a program they literally named the “Special Redaction Project.”
You don’t spend that kind of money hiding nothing.
Keep in mind that those redactions were all to hide Trump's name specifically in the Epstein Files, so jeebus christ just how many times did his name appear if they're spending $1 million...
AND:
@levparnas
BREAKING: Trump moves to TERMINATE all of President Biden’s autopen-signed pardons.
I'm not sure yet if this means Hunter Biden is no longer pardoned or protected from Trump's insane campaign of revenge, since I've not heard if his was done with auto-pen or not. But if one president can cancel an earlier president's pardons, then the Republicans and Jan 6th rioters should quake in their boots when the Democrats someday return to power.
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The GOP mantra, for decades, has been illegal voting. And yet, when arrests happen, guess who are usually the ones being arrested.
A recently-deceased nut-job from Calgary, Alberta was busy preventing home-grown Americans from legally voting. Cancer got her this month, but the damage she has done to voters' rights and democracy are incalculable. That's her holding the assault weapon at the bottom-left of the Youtube teaser below.
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I was never a fan of Wayne Gretzky as a kid, primarily because he really didn't seem to have any issue with ditching Canada for the US so long as whichever team he played for nabbed him the Stanley Cup. To me he was always more about his own fame than loyalty to his home country, he's no Mike Myers that's for sure.

Yup, when right-wing Republicans vote against bills for mental health, to lower drug costs, to establish universal health care for the poor, lunch programs for school kids in low income neighbourhoods... the excuse every time is "We don't have the money!" Maybe if they golfed a little less.
The Trump family themselves certainly have enough money, courtesy of the crypto rubes that have paid up for the latest Trump cypto coins:
I doubt Trump has any fans who'd buy his crypto junk in New York. His reputation there during his real estate magnate days was of the guy who would never pay his bills, he'd pay you half and tell you to sue him for the rest. Some of the contractors who worked for him ultimately ended up going bankrupt when Trump didn't pay what he owed. It was well-established that if you were going to work for Trump, you'd have to demand at least half the money up front and take your chances on getting the rest after the work was completed.
Even when he was on trial during Biden's term, many law firms refused to represent him unless Trump paid out a huge retainer up front, knowing that reputation.
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It's almost the end of the year and Trump has been making a LOT of claims about the greatness of his presidency. Let's start with how well respected he is:
The rest of his exaggerated proclamations have been debunked in this post be Daniel Dae:
Here's a fact check of 13 of the false claims President Trump made at his Cabinet meeting today:
- He claimed he's secured more than $18 trillion in investment commitments since he returned to office. That fictional figure is nearly double the $9.6 trillion figure the White House uses on its website, and a detailed review shows even the smaller WH figure is wildly inflated
- He claimed grocery prices are down. They're up: 2.7% year-over-year as of September, 1.4% since January
- He claimed he is cutting prescription drug prices by 500% to 900%. These numbers make no mathematical sense; they'd mean people would get paid to acquire their medications
- He claimed every military attack on a (purported) drug-smuggling boat saves an average of 25,000 lives. Experts say this number also makes no sense, even aside from the fact the administration hasn’t publicly proven what was on the boats; the US had a reported total of 82,000 overdose deaths last year
- He claimed he has "stopped inflation in its tracks" since January. The September year-over-year inflation rate, 3.0%, was the exact same as the rate in January (actually a tiny bit higher if you go to more decimal places) - and September was the fifth consecutive months the year-over-year rate had increased
- He claimed he inherited the worst inflation of all time. He didn't; he inherited 3% inflation, same as the most recent rate, and even the Biden-era peak, 9.1% in June 2022, wasn't close to an all-time high
- He claimed he ended eight wars. Among other issues, his list includes two supposed wars that did not actually exist during his presidency, Egypt-Ethiopia and Serbia-Kosovo, and a war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that has not actually ended
- He claimed China “doesn’t have gasoline.” It’s true China doesn’t produce enough oil to meet domestic demand, but China has domestic oil and refines oil into gasoline
- He claimed that, under Biden, “By 2030, everybody had to own an electric car.” Biden’s push for EVs did not include a requirement for anybody to buy an electric car or abandon their gas-powered car; Biden tailpipe rules sought to have EVs make up 56% of new passenger vehicles sold in 2032
- He claimed the US gave $350 billion in wartime aid to Ukraine. Not even close. A US government inspector general says $187 billion was appropriated for the war response through June...including billions spent in the US and broader Europe
- He claimed Washington, DC now has "no murders," which wasn't true even before the deadly attack on National Guard troops last week
- He claimed the 2020 election was a fake election. It wasn’t, he lost, this is a lie
- He claimed his big domestic policy bill included “no tax on Social Security.” It didn’t eliminate tax on Social Security; it temporarily increased the standard deduction for people age 65+, which means some people 65+ (and beneficiaries under 65) continue to pay tax on their benefits
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Is this really a shocker? The White House has set up a website "hall of shame" to embarrass news outlets and newspapers that air or publish negative coverage of his presidency:
From CTV News:
The White House launched a web portal it says will spotlight bias on the part of news outlets, targeting the Boston Globe, CBS News, The Independent and The Washington Post in its first two “media offenders of the week.”
It’s the latest wrinkle in the fight against what Trump, back in his first term, labeled “fake news.” The Republican president has taken outlets like CBS News and The Wall Street Journal to court over their coverage, is fighting The Associated Press in court over media access and has moved to dismantle government-run outlets like Voice of America.
Trump has also engaged in personal attacks, last month alone saying “quiet, piggy,” to a female reporter who was questioning him on Air Force One, calling a reporter from The New York Times “ugly, both inside and out” and publicly telling an ABC News journalist she was “a terrible reporter.”
Meanwhile, during today's FIFA broadcast, Trump finally got the peace prize that he's been yearning for. Not the Nobel Peace Prize, but the ...FIFA Peace Prize, which only came into existence a few months ago apparently. Congratulations Trump, you've finally gotten the peace prize that puts you on equal footing with President Obama AND according to Trump, has become the president of Europe too!


He has also changed the free access to the US national parks to celebrate his glorious rise over lesser historical figures like MLK:
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He's such a needy, sad little fat man. Living with himself must be a constant battle between self-hatred and self-pity. No wonder he doesn't sleep.
His health is running out fast. Thank you McDonalds! Please hurry up. He's got an appointment with the Devil.
P.S. when he gets there, no doubt he'll declare himself the King of Hell. If I were the Devil, I'd be worried.
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I heard he’s also up for the Froot Loops peace prize as well, winning!
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He's such a needy, sad little fat man. Living with himself must be a constant battle between self-hatred and self-pity. No wonder he doesn't sleep.
He also repeated the same "joke" about renaming the Kennedy Center after himself the other day. Usually the pattern is that he repeats something that he wants (Nobel Peace Prize, renaming some building after himself or his wife) over and over again during press tours or White House briefings, until one of his Republican allies then makes a motion to make it happen.
Thankfully the only renaming that I'm aware of that happened this year was the U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters in Washington, which added his name to the front of the building. I'm amazed that he wasn't championing for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed to the Gulf of Trump instead of Gulf of America.
There is certainly a desperation on the part of the right-wing wealthy to try and garner accolades for unearned work. Elon Musk suffered one of the most embarrassing moments of his life earlier this year when it was revealed that he had been secretly paying a pro videogamer to play Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2 under Musk's account, in order to make Elon appear to be one of the top players in the world. I believe there was some kind of falling out with that top gamer who then came out and revealed the truth. Elon then tried to recover by live-streaming himself playing PoE2, a basic game tutorial, and he couldn't even beat the boss character. It was a TUTORIAL boss character, for pete's sake.

People like Trump and Musk rely on very naive, very gullible young men to worship them. They need that ego boost, because apparently stealing billions of dollars and rigging elections to win insane amounts of political power, isn't good enough to salve their fragile egos. The problem is that once you are exposed as a hypocrite and liar, those same young men turn against you pretty hard just as I have against the right-wingers, as Musk found out when someone hacked his livestream and humiliated him in front of millions of his followers.


There's an old saying that I've adapted as my personal mantra when it comes to these kinds of people: "If you meet the Buddha in your travels, kill him." And no it doesn't mean literally kill him. But when someone appears before you, usually in the political arena, and claim to be a messiah, the one that will solve all the problems, the one and only one, that can save society and make it great again, and asks you to idolize them, just remember that they usually will turn out to be a Trump or Elon Musk.
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Watching the 6pm newscast today, I saw the press briefing with Trump declaring that he wanted to tax potash from Canada. Now, the reason this statement caught me off guard is because he had tried this sort of thing before with our potash and got an earful from the US farmers (his most loyal base) and the Republicans governors that get yelled at by those farmers. He backtracked quickly.
So why bring it up again? Taxing potash from Canada would only inflate American food prices even more than they are right now (if you think we have it bad up here...) and Trump is already facing intense anger over soaring inflation despite his insistence that food prices are down (which he may actually believe is true, who knows what lies his caretakers feed him to keep him placated and under control. And Trump certainly doesn't shop at the local grocery store, so I doubt he knows the day-to-day cost of any food).
As usual, the internet provided the most logical answer:
Trump is either beholden to Putin or being blackmailed by him. Either way, Russia needs money badly to keep its disastrous war going long enough until Ukraine runs out of financial support from its allies or they can assassinate President Zelenskyy (which they actually tried to do using drones just a few days ago).
So, if Trump puts tariffs on Canadian potash so that Russian potash suddenly becomes cheaper by comparison... guess which country gets a new, badly needed revenue stream while Canada's financial fortunes sink into the ground? It kills two birds with one stone: 1) helps Putin continue the war, and 2) pushes Canada closer to financial ruin, making it easier for us to become the 51st state (just elect a Reform Party Conservative to be Prime Minister in a few years and see how fast we roll over to become that 51st state).
Of course, right-wing supporters in the Trump camp have tried to (falsely) tell the American people that Trump has HELPED the farmers, only to get corrected very quickly:
For anyone who was watching 60 Minutes this past Sunday, the news programme actually interviewed the loud-mouthed Marjorie Taylor-Greene about her exit from the MAGA camp. I watched most of it, before her unbearable grating personality finally took its toll on my mental health and I turned it off.
Nonetheless, the orange lizard clearly must have watched the entire interview and came out swinging on Truth Social:
"...your favorite President, ME!"
Okay grandpa, time to go back to sleep and pretend that everyone loves you... Also, his habit of just capitalizing the first letter of a random word that isn't at the beginning of a sentence, would drive any english school teacher to suicide. Imagine if Joe Biden had become president. Even with cognitive difficulties in finding the right words, he would never write something as man-childish as the drivel coming from this administration.
The final cap to tonight: the internet has not stopped its ridicule of the make-believe "Peace Prize" awarded to him a few days ago, it continues:

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Remember that sad, old "Sleepy Joe" whom tRump had such great fun ridiculing? Yeah, I remember too.
Well, here's MAGA's super-human man-god, sent from on high to "save America".
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Please never wake up!
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Please never wake up!
Yup, no one really minds if Sleepy Don takes his naps, what they mind is that he always wakes up.
And now for this week's Trump spotlight: the wrecking of America continues:
A bad week for the Republicans is a good week for the rest of the world:
First the Republican chairman warns that they're certain to lose next year's mid-terms:
Trump held a rally a few nights ago, attended by only 200 people, and attempted to lie about how well things are going in the USA:
As Dan Rather puts it, Trump can get away with other lies and his gullible right-wing voters will swallow it up, but when his MAGA base can feel their own
poverty then you can't spin it to them as easily:
Indeed, his biggest supporters are far from "getting rich" as Trump claimed:



The tariffs have devastated businesses that have been operation for almost 100 years:


Kristi Noem also attempted to lie and testified that no US veterans have been deported so far by ICE, but those questioning her knew she'd lie and had a veteran who got deported ready on stand by on a Zoom call:
The myth that right-wing governments are somehow better at managing taxpayer money?
Democrats have also released thousands of photos related to the Epstein case:
None of the people seen here should be a shock. Bill Gates was rumored to have ruined his marriage because he had fooled around and I have a friend who worked at Microsoft who confirmed to me that it was an open secret that Gates would hit on the female Microsoft employees (while married at the time).
And finally, the White House continues to act like some kind of juvenile high school student:
So while Canada has suffered under Trump's tariffs, take some comfort in knowing that his supporters are getting it just as bad.
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Tom, I appreciate your detailed contributions. Sadly, even when it hits some of his supporters, right between the eyes, they still can't bring themselves to smarten up. Such a sad state of affairs in the so-called "greatest country on Earth".
Fat Nixon has entered his lame duck stage, months earlier than would normally be expected. Gradually, GOP politicians are turning against him, blue voters are taking formerly-solid red districts, and many are no longer falling for his threats.
I'm so proud of Canadians for standing up for this country and resisting the maniacal blatherings of a very damaged, soon to be ex-human being. It all fits into the death-of-an-empire theme and it took a New York conman to speed up the swirl down the drain to Hell.
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More failures for the Trump admin, reported by BonkDaCarnivore:
So to recap MAGA's last 24 hours:
- Indiana refused to gerrymander any more than it is
- The military told him to stop threatening Mark Kelly
- He pardoned Tina Peters - and Colorado laughed at him
- His favorite illegal alien (Kilmar Garcia) got released from holding and Trump was told to leave him alone
- They failed to indict Letitia James...again
- New Epstein photos that are leading to a big to-the-surprise-of-nobody reveal that Trump is a pedophile
No wonder they're so mad today.
A reminder that Mark Kelly got into trouble simply for participating in a Democrat video telling the US military that they don't have obey an illegal order given by the president. That's it. Republicans called him a traitor and have been trying to persecute him ever since.
Kilmar Garcia was languishing in an El Salvador concentration camp under heinous conditions, sent there by the US government without due process.
I'm glad to at least see Indiana isn't cooperating with the Republicans' attempt to cheat their way to victory for next year's mid-terms. This is a huge win, considering it is a stronghold for the right-wing and if they aren't willing to accept outright cheating, maybe other red states will too (once their constituents have been burned by the tariffs enough).
In regards to the Netflix vs Paramount war to gain control of Warner Bros, I'm going to side with Netflix. There are good reasons to be fearful if the Ellison family were to get control of yet another news media outlet:

Both the US and Canada are already awash in right-wing propaganda as it is from both traditional news media, podcasts, social media... I'm just as tired of hearing the words "inclusion" and "diversity" as the next guy (and I'm a non-white dude so what does that tell you) but young audiences don't have the critical thinking skills or life experience to discern propaganda from truth. And right-wing pundits are, to my chagrin, notoriously good at charming and entrancing their audiences with "common sense" arguments. I'd rather Netflix prices go up a few dollars a month than cede control of the belief systems of the next generation of youth to a gang of right-wing nutjobs who want to remake America and Canada into a far-right ultra-Christian nationalist state.



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The power of A.I. commands you...
Soulless Train
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What a piece of filth. No respect for the dead whatsoever. He can expect the same treatment when he hopefully dies soon of a stroke.
When even Marjorie Taylor Greene is able to show compassion for someone from the opposite side of the political spectrum...

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I try, very hard, to not let this steaming pile get to me but this is just vile, disgusting and unpresidential to say the least. He actually made Reiner’s murder all about him, or tried to. I feel sorry for them having such a total toolbox as their leader and hope hell has his special place ready.
Shameful.
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Trump was asked by the press today about his comments regarding Rob Reiner and he is still unrelenting:
The video:
I will transcribe for those who are not on Facebook:
R: A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Truth Social after the murder of Rob Reiner. Do you stand by that post?
T: Well I wasn't a fan of his at all, he was a DERANGED person as far as Trump is concerned. He said I was a friend of Russia, controlled by Russia, the Russia hoax, he was one of the people behind it. I think he hurt himself career-wise, so he became like a deranged person. Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner in any way shape or form, I thought he was very bad for our country.
Yes he did refer to himself in the third person. Do you know what kind of people do that? Deranged narcissists, that's who.
Here's what Reiner had to say about Trump back in 2023:
Rob Reiner @robreiner
The difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is: Joe Biden is a decent law abiding person, and Donald Trump is a pathologically lying criminal.
BONUS: here's what Samuel L Jackson (Mace Windu) said about Trump and his right-wing friends:
@RollingStone
Samuel L. Jackson talks to Rolling Stone about Donald Trump.
"When I see Trump, I see the same rednecks I saw when I was growing up who called me “n*****” and tried to keep me in my place. That’s what the Republican Party is to me."
Jimmy Kimmel interviewing Michelle Obama and she mentions that she and her husband were supposed to be seeing the Reiners that same night of their deaths:
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis reposted a New Yorker article about Trump's gross behavior:



and others are moving away from any institution supporting the deranged orange loser:
And, Jimmy Kimmel's reaction (courtesy of brobible)
During his opening monologue on Monday night, Kimmel slammed Trump’s response as being so insensitive that he didn’t even think he was capable of saying such a thing and thought it was fake.
- “It’s so hateful and vile, when I first saw it, I thought it was fake,” Kimmel said. “My wife showed it to me this morning, and I was like, even for him, that seemed like too much. Just when you think he can’t go any lower, he somehow finds a way to do that,” Kimmel said.
“[Trump’s] description of what happened, of course, is not at all what happened,” he added. “And this is exactly what I’ve spoken about before, this rush to pin the tail on the donkey in pursuit of the Trump-friendly narrative.”
“I know from my personal interactions with Rob Reiner that he would want us to keep pointing out the loathsome atrocities that continue to ooze out of this sick and irresponsible man’s mouth, and so we’re going to do that over and over again until the rest of us wake up.”
Kimmel also had former First Lady Michelle Obama as a guest on Monday night, who revealed that she and her husband, former President Barack Obama, had dinner plans with Rob and Michele Reiner on Sunday, December 14 — the day they were found murdered.
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If this story hadn't come from NBC News, I honestly wouldn't have believed it. Anytime you think that Trump couldn't be more immature or juvenile or petty, he finds a way to top himself:
White House installs plaques mocking former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden
The Biden plaque refers to him as “Sleepy Joe Biden” and calls him “the worst President in American History.”
The White House has installed plaques on the exterior of the building bashing President Donald Trump's predecessors, including Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, and promoting disinformation about their administrations.
The plaques were hung up below presidential portraits that have been on display on Trump’s recently added "Presidential Walk of Fame" in the White House colonnade.
The one placed under the portrait of the “Autopen," which stands in for President Joe Biden's portrait, refers to him as “Sleepy Joe Biden” and calls him “the worst President in American History.” The plaque contains a number of derisive statements about the former president, referring to Biden’s “severe mental decline,” “the Biden Crime Family” and his “Radical Left handlers."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told NBC News in a statement that Trump wrote the text of "many" of the plaques.
It also references Biden's poor performance in the 2024 presidential debate, saying, "Following his humiliating debate loss to President Trump in the big June 2024 debate, he was forced to withdraw from his campaign for re-election in disgrace."
Biden's office declined to comment.
Obama’s plaque names him as “Barack Hussein Obama” — the former president's full name, which is often used derisively in right-wing circles. Calling him “one of the most divisive figures in American history," the plaque details what the Trump administration paints as his failures, including Obamacare, which it calls "the highly ineffective 'Unaffordable' Care Act."
"He presided over a stagnant Economy, approved the terrible Iran Nuclear Deal, and signed the one-sided Paris Climate Accords, both of which were later terminated by President Donald J. Trump," the plaque says.
Obama's plaque also repeats Trump's conspiracy theory that Obama "spied" on his 2016 presidential campaign and says he "presided over the creation of the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, the worst political scandal in American History."
Obama's office didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.