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Trump mules over jailing "disrespect" to the American flag ROFL.

It's a scrap of damn fabric probably made in China.

It does not matter if you burn it or piss on it. It's fucking fabric.

"Disrespect" the flag my ass.

Don't pull that bullshit fake outrage card unless you are willing to be equally outraged over US Flag thongs.

You know what's also against flag code?

The flag on Shirts , swimsuits, shorts.

(j) No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen,

https://www.trumpstore.com/product/trump-flag-koozie-set-of-2/?attribute_pa_color=white&attribute_pa_size=small

Last but not least:

Flag Code is not US Law and SCOTUS has held that for DECADES

The U.S. Supreme Court case Texas v. Johnson (1989) established that flag burning is protected by the First Amendment as a form of symbolic speech.

- Now ACTUAL disrespect to the flag would be oh, repeated draft dodges because you paid a doctor to claim you have bone spurs.

- Telling Americans you don't like american soldiers who get captured by the enemy, and calling them “not a war hero” because they got captured by the enemy.

- Mocking tortured POWs.

- getting soliders killed in a political stunt after taking office to try and score points when that stund served no valid goals.

- FUCKING disrespecting the fallen at Arlington Cemetery

- calling dead servicemen “suckers” and “losers"

- states: “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.”

- called for disabled vets to be excluded from military parades because he thought they showed weakness.

Anyway hope Donald Trump enjoys forever burning in the deepest pits of hell when he dies. It can't come soon enough.

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Currently Russia's #1 achievement is creating expensive targets for Ukraine.

1,060 troops and 20 artillery systems lost in a day.

Topping 1 million in losses to Ukraine.

4,000-10,000+ tanks lost.

22,000 AFVs.

28,000 artillery systems destroyed.

38,000 drones lost.

370 airplanes destroyed.

330 helicopters destroyed.

28 ships destroyed including their flagship.

Russia could run out of tanks for offensive capabilities by early 2026.

#1 cause of death for Russians atm:

Not respecting international borders.

#1 disease among Russian military: lead and fire infusions from Ukrainian defenders lines.

#1 import: Surprise Ukrainian Explosive Drones.

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Hey fuckface don't hide in the replies.

I'm not afraid of tiny men like you.

Fascists are all the same: weak, little, insecure, and pathetic.

Trump mules over jailing "disrespect" to the American flag ROFL.

It's a scrap of damn fabric probably made in China.

It does not matter if you burn it or piss on it. It's fucking fabric.

"Disrespect" the flag my ass.

Don't pull that bullshit fake outrage card unless you are willing to be equally outraged over US Flag thongs.

You know what's also against flag code?

The flag on Shirts , swimsuits, shorts.

(j) No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen,

https://www.trumpstore.com/product/trump-flag-koozie-set-of-2/?attribute_pa_color=white&attribute_pa_size=small

Last but not least:

Flag Code is not US Law and SCOTUS has held that for DECADES

The U.S. Supreme Court case Texas v. Johnson (1989) established that flag burning is protected by the First Amendment as a form of symbolic speech.

- Now ACTUAL disrespect to the flag would be oh, repeated draft dodges because you paid a doctor to claim you have bone spurs.

- Telling Americans you don't like american soldiers who get captured by the enemy, and calling them “not a war hero” because they got captured by the enemy.

- Mocking tortured POWs.

- getting soliders killed in a political stunt after taking office to try and score points when that stund served no valid goals.

- FUCKING disrespecting the fallen at Arlington Cemetery

- calling dead servicemen “suckers” and “losers"

- states: “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.”

- called for disabled vets to be excluded from military parades because he thought they showed weakness.

Anyway hope Donald Trump enjoys forever burning in the deepest pits of hell when he dies. It can't come soon enough.

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Trump mules over jailing "disrespect" to the American flag ROFL.

It's a scrap of damn fabric probably made in China.

It does not matter if you burn it or piss on it. It's fucking fabric.

"Disrespect" the flag my ass.

Don't pull that bullshit fake outrage card unless you are willing to be equally outraged over US Flag thongs.

You know what's also against flag code?

The flag on Shirts , swimsuits, shorts.

(j) No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen,

https://www.trumpstore.com/product/trump-flag-koozie-set-of-2/?attribute_pa_color=white&attribute_pa_size=small

Last but not least:

Flag Code is not US Law and SCOTUS has held that for DECADES

The U.S. Supreme Court case Texas v. Johnson (1989) established that flag burning is protected by the First Amendment as a form of symbolic speech.

- Now ACTUAL disrespect to the flag would be oh, repeated draft dodges because you paid a doctor to claim you have bone spurs.

- Telling Americans you don't like american soldiers who get captured by the enemy, and calling them “not a war hero” because they got captured by the enemy.

- Mocking tortured POWs.

- getting soliders killed in a political stunt after taking office to try and score points when that stund served no valid goals.

- FUCKING disrespecting the fallen at Arlington Cemetery

- calling dead servicemen “suckers” and “losers"

- states: “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.”

- called for disabled vets to be excluded from military parades because he thought they showed weakness.

Anyway hope Donald Trump enjoys forever burning in the deepest pits of hell when he dies. It can't come soon enough.

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Reminder:

Our country was founded in large part because we stated federal authority couldn't enter homes, arrest, and deport on a whim.

ICE:

- Not police.

- Not community service.

- Do not have the authority to arrest US citizens.

- Require consent to enter homes.

- Administrative warrents are NOT judicial warrants.

- ICE agents are legally allowed to lie to you.

- ICE gear can be bought online. Gear is not evidence of an agent.

From the Declaration of Independence:

* He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

*He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

*For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury

*For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments

*He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us

...A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people....

Also let's add on to this cause the fascism and all of the US Trump Administration:

-- Bail bondsmen are not cops.

-- They are private citizens.

Warrents of arrest from Bail bondsmen are not judicial search warrents.

Some states allow bail bondsmen to enter a *fugitives* home without a warrant *if* they have a signed bail bond contract.

That doesn't mean they can enter *any* home.

Also again, bail bondsmen ARE NOT cops. If you live in a stand your ground state and they insist on coming inside, well, "assertively" suggest they do not.

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Nothing made me more pro 2nd-amendment than the oligarchy.

Also learn how to use proxy servers people.

And learn how to use VPNs.

Anyway, millions would lose healthcare coverage under Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" in order to give parasitic millionaires handouts.

House Republicans are looking for a nearly $4.5 trillion dollar permanent hand out to the top 2% richest households in America including exempting the first $15 million dollars of a wealthy estate from any tax at all.

Adding trillions of dollars to the federal deficit each year

while gutting:

- Food assistance to needy families

- cutting the child tax credit

- cutting middle-class tax credits out after 2028 (right after the presidential election)

- gutting 700 billion from medicaid funding

- restricts a federal judge's ability to hold government officials in contempt for ignoring court orders

Republicans pass this "Big Bullshit Bill" they'll lose the House in 2026 in a wave that will make 2018 seem laughable by comparison.

Democrats lost 63 seats in 2010 because of a bill they passed that became so popular that with a decade to work on it and Republicans couldn't repeal, replace, or cut anything from it in 2017. A durability that Republicans have never been able to replicate in congress.

Trying to just replace said bill cost Republicans 41 seats in 2018, giving Democrats a 8.6% margin of victory. Republicans haven't had a red wave in the House since. Winning just 9 seats in 2022 and losing 2 of those gains in 2024.

Nevermind the outrage over cuts that'll fuel Senate seat wins in North Carolina, Michigan, and maybe even Maine, and Alaska, and with the right candidates: Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, North Carolina, Montana, and Iowa.

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" will be tied around the neck of every Republican in office before throwing them into the sea of voter discontent.

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Any conspiracy theory about people going missing in National Parks is automatically silly to me. Like "Why are National Parks such a hotbed of disappearances???" because they're full of idiots. You've got thousands of people who've never pissed outdoors in their life wandering around the woods/desert/mountain with zero experience and zero gear and zero understanding that this place can kill them. You don't see as many disappearances in wild areas because people don't go to them unless they have some background knowledge. Whereas you get tour buses full of old folks and suburban families shuttling people into National Parks 365 days a year. If you took the same amount of buffoons and dropped them in the actual wilderness the disappearances would be significantly higher than at the parks. Use your brain.

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House Republicans are looking for a nearly $4.5 trillion dollar permanent hand out to the top 2% richest households in America including exempting the first $15 million dollars of a wealthy estate from any tax at all.

Adding trillions of dollars to the federal deficit each year

while gutting:

- Food assistance to needy families

- cutting the child tax credit

- cutting middle-class tax credits out after 2028 (right after the presidential election)

- gutting 700 billion from medicaid funding

- restricts a federal judge's ability to hold government officials in contempt for ignoring court orders

Republicans pass this "Big Bullshit Bill" they'll lose the House in 2026 in a wave that will make 2018 seem laughable by comparison.

Democrats lost 63 seats in 2010 because of a bill they passed that became so popular that with a decade to work on it and Republicans couldn't repeal, replace, or cut anything from it in 2017. A durability that Republicans have never been able to replicate in congress.

Trying to just replace said bill cost Republicans 41 seats in 2018, giving Democrats a 8.6% margin of victory. Republicans haven't had a red wave in the House since. Winning just 9 seats in 2022 and losing 2 of those gains in 2024.

Nevermind the outrage over cuts that'll fuel Senate seat wins in North Carolina, Michigan, and maybe even Maine, and Alaska, and with the right candidates: Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, North Carolina, Montana, and Iowa.

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" will be tied around the neck of every Republican in office before throwing them into the sea of voter discontent.

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Of note this is also true for almost anything romanticized from the "past" or "golden age" or "when I was-" blah blah.

The 90's, 80's, 70's, 60's it doesn't matter.

The past was always shit.

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Time to feed unprofessional managers what they’ve been dishing out for far too long.

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My followers know I hate talking about politics and current events, and generally refuse to do so, but this is important.

A bill has been introduced in the US that would make all pornography a federal crime. Owning it. Creating it. Distributing it.

Under this law, fanart of nude characters would be a federal crime.

Under this law, depictions of homosexuality or simply being transgender, would be considered pornography and a federal crime.

This bill is not going to pass.

However, the reason for this bill is to continue to push the "overton window". The reason for this bill is to make banning pornography seem more and more normal to everyone until they can actually do that.

And remember, they consider depictions of gay characters and transgenders characters "pornography" in any context, including platonic.

They have been working on this for a decade now and it has been working.

If you are one of the people in fandom who thinks that "nasty" porn on AO3 should be banned because it's "icky" or "immoral", then this mental scam is working on you.

Censorship is never about protecting people.

Censorship is always about control.

Do not let the rising moral panic affect your mind and make you weak to propaganda that lets others control you and control what you watch and read.

Do not fall for the scam.

When they say they are going to ban "pornography" it means they're going to ban anything they don't like by calling it "pornography" and they don't like you!!

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Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you'll see it later that says "it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024." If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032.

Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?" because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.

We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.

If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.

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Watching this "big beautiful bill" grind to a halt in a Republican-controlled congress is interesting.

Hard-line conservatives in the House want more in spending cuts than currently included:

Of note, the bill already includes 600 BILLION in cuts to Medicaid to give handouts to the rich.

The House Freedom Caucus is demanding at least $2 TRILLION in cuts. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tx) has already said he won't back the bill without more cuts.

Swing-district Republicans are revolting about how proposed Medicaid work requirements function and tepid at cost-sharing changes.

Other Republicans balk at a provision that people who fail to meet the planned Medicaid work requirements would allow them subsidies on the healthcare exchanges -- meaning no net cost savings for the government.

Proposed savings in the bill assume that millions will be thrown off Medicaid and cut it's costs as a result -- the so-called "savings". Hard-line deficit Hawks are arguing that this doesn't go far enough. (The CBO estimates it would strip 8.6 million of healthcare coverage). Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Tx) has come out swinging against Medicaid cuts for his constituents.

On the other side, Sen Josh Hawley (R-MO) has drawn a line with Medicaid cuts (around 20% of Missouri residents are covered by Medicaid). Missouri voters overwhelmingly voted in 2018 via ballot initiative to expand state Medicaid coverage.

Most NY Republicans are demanding a full repeal of the SALT (State And Local Deduction) cap Republicans passed in 2018 -- allowing filers to deduct the full amount they pay in state and local taxes from their federal bill. Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) has said "hell no" to a flat $30,000 cap on the deduction.

Republicans have also targeted SNAP benefits to the tune of $300 Billion in cuts over ten years to be able to afford permanently extending tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. Delivering a one-two gut punch to the nation's poorest for handouts to the richest.

One of the methods to enacting said cuts is shifting at minimum 5% of the total cost of SNAP benefits received to the states. Up to 25% based on a state's payment error rate (the amount it accidentally over or underpaid it's residents).

The USDA estimate that this would hit Alaska, Florida, Missouri, and South Carolina hard, the latter two would add over $3 Billion to the state budgets over 10 years. Florida would be on the hook for $15 billion.

The bill also repeals a Biden-era rule that allows beneficiaries to factor internet service into their utility costs.

Notably, the bill punts most of the $300 billion in spending cuts until fiscal year 2028 (aka after the 2026 midterms).

The bill does increase the child tax credit to $2,500, and raising tax deductions for seniors -- but only through 2028 (aka past the next two congressional elections and the presidential election).

Reps Chip Roy (R-Tx), Ralph Norman (R-SC) have said they'd vote no on the current bill, and Andrew Clyde (R-GA), Josh Brecheen (R-OK), and Glenn Grothman (R-WI) refusing to commit to supporting the bill.

Senate Republicans again have gawked at a proposed $200 billion cut to clean-energy subsidies-- particularly nuclear energy, meanwhile several House Republicans have demanded removing tax cuts for green energy enacted under Biden immediately. House Republicans from blue states like Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) have expressed skepticism at such cuts, as have Republicans who just barely won re-election in swing districts last year like Rep Jen Kiggans and urged narrowing the rollbacks approved by the House Ways and Means Committee.

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FAFO.

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New Pope Leo XIV sounds cool. He hates JD Vance.