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Poor everyone, after Trump takes office again.

Do pigeons count? Asking for a friend.

https://x.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1879215247363563731 (video clip at link) If you watch one thing today, it should be this video of Tim Kaine utterly decimating Pete Hegseth.

https://x.com/AmyMcGrathKY/status/1879239285947428877 Hegseth says that Biden has allowed Navy to fall below 300 ships. Does anyone want to tell him that we had 290 "battle force" ships in 2019...when Trump was in office? (according to http://navy.mil) So much of what Hegseth said today was just flat out false.

Re: External Revenue Service https://x.com/ariehkovler/status/1879210473360626083 This is basically a language scam. Tariffs and duties are paid by the importer, the US company bringing in the goods. It isn't "external revenue" and calling the customs agency an "external revenue service" is just another way of tricking people.

https://x.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1879209667949191647 The president-elect appears ignorant of the fact that there’s been an “external revenue service” since July 31, 1789. That’s when George Washington signed legislation creating the US Customs Service, the forerunner of what is now @CBP ⁩.

https://x.com/AhmedBaba_/status/1879232077947867365 If you tuned into this Pete Hegseth hearing with no context, you would think the greatest threat to America’s national security is too many Black people, women, and trans people in the military. These Senate Republicans are consuming their own disinformation. They look crazy.

https://x.com/AhmedBaba_/status/1879215515035685061 We’ve heard more about Pete Hegseth’s plans to take on “wokeness” than we’ve heard about his plans to take on our foreign adversaries

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1879218204809327034 Pete Hegseth dodges questions on whether the U.S. should abide by the Geneva Conventions.

As they did with Trump.

Are you a bigot? (rhetorical question).

The anti-LGBTQ bigotry is in full force in the threads related to the L.A. fires.

There is a definite disconnect here...they complain that eggs are too expensive yet buying Greenland is OK.

Can't say that I blame her. https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1879194364066537982 Breaking AP: Michelle Obama will not attend Trump's inauguration.

https://x.com/realTuckFrumper/status/1879134986592248010 DC hotel bookings way down for Trump inauguration as even protesters decide to skip

I've always felt that Captain Oblivious as a moniker would be more apropos.

Perhaps women haven't complained because they are aware of the origins of the word:

Redundant.

It probably wouldn't have made that much of a difference if it had been full. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/as-flames-raged-in-palisades-a-key-reservoir-nearby-was-offline State to probe why Pacific Palisades reservoir was offline, empty when firestorm exploded [...] DWP officials have said that demand for water during an unprecedented fire made it impossible to maintain any pressure to hydrants at high elevations. Had the reservoir been operable, water pressure in the Palisades would have lasted longer on Tuesday night, said former DWP general manager Martin Adams, an expert on the city’s water system. But only for a time. “You still would have ended up with serious drops in pressure,” Adams said in an interview Thursday. “Would Santa Ynez [Reservoir] have helped? Yes, to some extent. Would it have saved the day? I don’t think so.” A DWP official acknowledged that the reservoir’s absence likely contributed to some diminished pressure and dry hydrants in upper regions of the Palisades.

How can Karen Bass be called a DEI mayor? She was not appointed mayor, she was elected.

Unbelievable isn't it?

Pretty sure I saw that several times in the forum and probably in this thread.

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1877511952940880072 Trump will officially, formally be a convicted felon when he returns to the White House.

According to an unanimous jury verdict he did sexually assault E. Jean Carroll and defamed her over it - so that is true.

Offering $1.5M for sex? That can't be right.