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#3385137 17-Jun-2025 19:03

Jon Stewart, no more needs be said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q08a7BI9XI

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#3385318 18-Jun-2025 15:31

Seems fitting for here:

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#3386403 23-Jun-2025 14:41

Quotes from recently released book from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

"We defied the experts. We bucked the elites. We did it our way, the Florida way ."

"Florida is a “promised land. There's and exodus from blue states – with Florida as the promised land, attracting people who want policies that reflect both the American tradition and basic common sense …"

“The Florida Blueprint is a blueprint for America’s revival. what has worked in Florida can—and should—scale to the nation"

“Make America Florida”

Florida Man Gets Arrested For Sexually Molesting Neighborhood Pool Floats

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#3386407 23-Jun-2025 15:05

“Make America Florida”

Sounds great,

There's just one thing... Its "success" is basically down to migration, and international migration at that.. I'm waiting for the ICE raids in Florida, but maybe they only happen in blue states:)

"While Florida saw large overall population growth, it was one of 17 states that had more deaths than births, with a 7,321 "natural decrease," the Census Bureau said."

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/floridas-population-tops-23-3-million-driven-partly-by-international-migration/

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#3386443 23-Jun-2025 17:20

wellygary:

“Make America Florida”

Sounds great,

There's just one thing... Its "success" is basically down to migration, and international migration at that.. I'm waiting for the ICE raids in Florida, but maybe they only happen in blue states:)

"While Florida saw large overall population growth, it was one of 17 states that had more deaths than births, with a 7,321 "natural decrease," the Census Bureau said."

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/floridas-population-tops-23-3-million-driven-partly-by-international-migration/

I think if you do a quick google on: ICE raids in Florida your wait has been over for quite some time going way back to April when ICE arrested 800 over 4 days and there have been just about daily arrests since then. Plus now there is the addition of troops to assist local law enforcement.

Florida Emerges as the Epicenter of ICE Raids

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#3387795 28-Jun-2025 14:33

This is a story about a Republican Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Tennessee's named Andrew Ogles. He's definitely an expert in willful misrepresentation.

Ogles frequently referred to himself as an “economist” during debates, TV interviews, and at a House Financial Services hearing. He described himself as having studied "policy and economics" at an university, but his transcript revealed he only took one community college introductory class, and received a "C".

He said he earned a degree in International Relations. His actual degree was in General Studies, ironically called Liberal Arts or Liberal Studies at some institutions.

He claimed to run a consulting firm and sit on multiple Boards, but no public records of this.

He portrayed himself as a police officer and “expert” in international sex crimes. In reality, he was only a part‑time reserve deputy for two years.

After Trump's loss, Tennessee Republicans started the “Freedom Matters” tour in 2021. Ogles had this to say:

"A lot of people…know that there was election fraud and feel that the election was stolen and they want to know that they still have a voice. And that’s what the Freedom Matters tour is about."

[Likely New York's next mayor] Mamdani faces ‘Islamophobic’ attacks from GOP lawmakers, commentators: Washington Post

Zohran Mamdani, who is poised to become the Democratic nominee in New York’s mayoral race, is facing a barrage of “Islamophobic” attacks from some Republican lawmakers and commentators, drawing condemnations from Muslim rights leaders.

Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tennessee) referred to Mamdani as “little muhammad” and wrote on social media this week that he “needs to be DEPORTED.”

Ogles on Thursday shared a letter he sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi asking the Justice Department to investigate him claiming “that he may have procured U.S. citizenship through willful misrepresentation or concealment of material support for terrorism.”
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#3387800 28-Jun-2025 15:36

If that was a Democrat with ALL those half-truths and lies they would have been keelhauled through the Conservative Press especially Fox News.

And as for the “Islamophobic” attacks on Zohran Mamdani, this is horrific no matter your political leaning. Now they what to bring back the McCarthyism era scare of the House of Un-American Activities.

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Also in today's Supreme Court News:

Trump freed to pursue even more of his agenda after Supreme Court win on injunctions

Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s ruling on power of judges and birthright citizenship

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#3388349 30-Jun-2025 15:35

If a headline has the word "Florida", you know it's something f'd up.

University of Florida Campus Shaken By Award Given to Openly Anti-Semitic, Racist Student: Daily Kos

If I told you that a student who openly espouses anti-Semitic and racist views, won an award from University of Florida’s Levin College of Law for a legal paper that mounted a defense of white supremacist positions under the guise of free speech, would you believe it? In this political climate … of course you would!

As Randy Gould, editor of the “Oread ‘Not So’ Daily” newsletter recently pointed out, the bestowing of the award “is not an isolated incident. It is the logical outcome of decades of reactionary forces burrowing deep into American universities—particularly in Republican-controlled states like Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis has launched an all-out assault on academic freedom, anti-racism, and any semblance of left-wing or liberatory politics.

“DeSantis’s political project isn’t just about ‘parental rights’ or curriculum fights,” Gould added, “it’s about building a pipeline from far-right ideology into institutional power. The result? A climate where racist ideas aren’t just tolerated but lauded.”

The New York Times reported that “The honor for an avowed white supremacist and antisemite has roiled the campus … in a state where a 2023 law prevents state funding for university programs that advocate for ‘diversity, equity and inclusion or promote or engage in political or social activism.’

“Preston Damsky, 29, received the ‘book award’ for a paper he wrote for a class last fall [in which] he argued for the removal of voting rights protections for non-white citizens and orders to kill ‘criminal infiltrators at the border,’”
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#3388782 1-Jul-2025 19:55

Hard to know where to put this article. It has Peter Thiel's thoughts on Elon Musk.

Remember it was under John Key's leadership that Thiel received his New Zealand citizenship.

Thiel had been a big proponent of "seasteading", the movement to build artificial island nations and create an entirely new libertarian world on the ocean. And Musk’s vision for Mars wasn’t entirely different.

Peter Thiel and the Antichrist: New York Times
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Peter Theil on Musk and Mars:

"I had the seasteading version with Elon where I said: If Trump doesn’t win, I want to just leave the country. And then Elon said: There’s nowhere to go. There’s nowhere to go.

And then you always think of the right arguments to make later. It was about two hours after we had dinner and I was home that I thought of: Wow, Elon, you don’t believe in going to Mars anymore. 2024 is the year where Elon stopped believing in Mars — not as a silly science tech project, but as a political project.

Mars was supposed to be a political project; it was building an alternative.

And in 2024 Elon came to believe that if you went to Mars, the socialist U.S. government, the woke A.I. would follow you to Mars."
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#3388932 2-Jul-2025 09:50

If true, I think this would fit into the "deplorable" category:

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#3389911 5-Jul-2025 09:57

The NY Times - Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Sentenced to Life in Assassination Plot

03 July 2025

A Tennessee man pardoned by President Trump for taking part in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to life in prison for hatching a separate plot to assassinate the law enforcement officers who investigated his role in the riot. *

The life term imposed on the man, Edward Kelley, came during a hearing on Wednesday in Federal District Court in Knoxville, Tenn.

Mr. Kelley was convicted of charges that included conspiracy to murder federal employees and threatening federal agents. ...

Prosecutors said that Mr. Kelley had shown no remorse for his crimes ...

“I’m here unjustly, man,” he said. “I’m a patriot, and I’m never ever going to apologize for trying to keep your family safe. Sometimes there’s casualties. I’m one of them.”

EDIT * Prosecutors say Kelley drew up a list of 37 people who were involved in his arrest, targeting them for assassination.

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#3392718 10-Jul-2025 11:51

Hells kitchen of Political Deplorables.
Roger Stone, Bannon, Elon, Epstein

All calling each other out. Each other's links created by greed, avarice, and ...

Elon, had at least one documented private dinner with Reid Hoffman at Epstein's Manhattan house himself.
Possible other links with Epstein's 'science philanthropy', apparently, he too had a plan to propagate his genetic code.
Common eugenics interest?

Who documents everything anyways, even less get caught up in court ordered discovery?

When leopards run out of others faces, maybe they turn on their own.

"Why are you asking about Epstein files when there is RoboHitler!"

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#3392723 10-Jul-2025 12:01

A 2022 Facebook post

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#3392748 10-Jul-2025 13:35

That is the first mention I've heard of Hoffman in relation to Epstein. I see Hoffman has been a conspiracy thing for Musk for a while now:

https://www.businessinsider.com/reid-hoffman-linkedin-elon-musk-conspiracy-theory-jeffrey-epstein-2024-12

Hoffman has posted publicly against Trump. He's known to be involved in initiatives Musk would definitely identify as liberal woke etc etc.

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#3394005 15-Jul-2025 05:56

The Guardian - Why the Guardian is suing the Trump administration

15 July 2025

On 14 May, our data editor Will Craft filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), asking it to release the agency’s version of arrest reports. ...

ICE acknowledged the Guardian’s request, asked for more time to fulfill it - and then went silent.

As a result of the agency’s stonewalling, the Guardian, alongside the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, filed a lawsuit on 30 June against Ice for unlawfully withholding documents that represent a clear and overwhelming matter of public interest. This is the first such case filed by a news organization against this administration.

In mid-June, ICE data shows there were more than 11,700 people in immigration detention who had been arrested by Ice despite having no track record of being charged with or convicted of a crime. That represents a staggering 1,271% increase from data released on those in immigration detention immediately before the start of Trump’s second term.

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