In July 2016 President Obama established America250, as a nonpartisan, non profit 250th anniversary commission. Congress gave it 150 million to organize it in communities in all 50 states. Trump gutted America250 in favor of his newly created and for profit entity, Freedom 250, then diverted $125 million of America250’s funding, probably all that was left by then, into it. This is essentially why the entire thing’s become a shitshow.
Something to pay attention to is this isn’t just about the way he trashed the celebration in Washington DC, but also how he’s trashed all the state and local celebrations because he stole the money to pay for their organizing.
This is what Donald Trump does. This is what he has always done. But he didn’t do it all by himself either.
There’s the American right wing white supremacist evangelicals, like Franklin Graham, who went all in for Donald Trump because he was cut from the same cloth as them.
There’s the ersatz conservatives who went all in for Donald Trump because he was cut from the same cloth as them.
There’s the tech bros who went all in for Donald Trump because he was cut from the same cloth as them.
And of course the American fascists who went all in for Donald Trump because he was cut from the same cloth as them.
And the pure as the driven snow Left that won’t vote strategically to keep the fascists, the white supremacists, and other hate mongers out of government, because that would mean casting a vote for someone who isn’t as pure as they are.
None of these are hard categories. There’s a lot of bleed between them. They amount to maybe a third of the American voting population, total. But there’s another third who have even less excuse morally. Those I have just described are at least honest, somewhat, in their hatreds, their arrogance, and proud of their moral squalor. They may hide behind a religion, they may excuse themselves on the grounds of some half-baked Randian, technocrat, or leftist political morality and/or philosophy. But they stand openly on their ground. They are proudly what they are. The other third I mention are the totally clueless, the Can’t Be Bothered, who routinely walk away from the task of citizen participation in their own democratic government, and allow themselves to be manipulated by anyone and anything that catches their attention before election day. The ones who think politics is boring. The ones who excuse themselves on the grounds that their vote wouldn’t have mattered anyway.
Both these groups brought us to this bleak place. But the clueless are the worse offenders because they never cared one way or the other so long as their own lives remained untouched. They are the ones Dante spoke of as the neutrals Heaven does not want, and Hell will not have. And I would hope if this really is the end of the American Experiment, it is their names on the roll call of the damned, ahead of all the others. The first would have never thought to stop this because they wanted it, while the last could have but couldn’t be bothered. And they’ll be the ones complaining the loudest when it all comes crashing down, and pointing their fingers everywhere but at themselves.
Full story of how the 250th anniversary turned into a shitshow follows, from Facebook user “Top Disney”…
How the current President ruined July 4th and an historic anniversary in just over a year due to narcissism and delusions of grandeur.
Disney’s 2026 Semiquincentennial celebrations of the United States aren’t going to have the same pop as they did for the Bicentennial in 1976, and here’s one of the main reasons why.
On July 4, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a joint bipartisan resolution from Congress establishing the non profit American Revolution Bicentennial Commission to organize national events for 1976, a full decade away.
His successors in office, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, left the commission alone to do their work, and the result was a year long 200th birthday celebration that people still talk about.
President Barack Obama, following the example of LBJ, signed a resolution establishing America250, in July, 2016.
America 250 was also a nonpartisan, non profit commission, and they got right to work.
Their initial project was reaching out to Americans in all 50 states to record or write their own American life stories, which would be collected, preserved and shared during the Semiquincentennial celebrations in 2026.
Many of these family and individual stories would be from those whose ethnicities, faiths, cultures and groups were traditionally marginalized throughout American history.
The plans also called for kicking things into high gear in 2025, with party planners across the country coordinating with America250 on the best way to have celebrations large and small that included everyone.
That’s the way it was done in 1975, getting communities and their local representatives and media excited a year before, creating a groundswell of red, white and blue leading up to July 4, 1976 with little to no cost to organizers.
Congress allocated $150 million to America250 for that purpose.
And then….
In January, 2025, America250 was essentially gutted, in favor of a newly created for profit entity called Freedom 250.
$125 million of America250’s funding was immediately diverted into Freedom 250, which was also known as “The White House Task Force on Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday.”
Also added in to the new for profit commission were the instructions that the name of the President of the United States and his picture be added to all public materials connected with Freedom 250’s celebrations.
No other President requested that before for any public July 4th celebrations, as the aim was to keep them nonpartisan and more about the nation as a whole rather than one person or party.
Freedom 250 also did something else that America250 did not.
They set up licensing and branding deals and merchandise for profit with groups like the UFC, where the funds would go to undisclosed accounts and not the U.S. treasury.
Some of the President’s family and cabinet members were also given sweetheart deals for their companies, like crypto currency brokerages, that will bring them enormous profits.
The America250 idea of collecting and sharing individual stories and connecting with local communities to generate interest and excitement was scrapped in favor of Freedom 250’s events like a UFC match, a Grand Prix, a military parade and a “National State Fair” all to be held in Washington D.C.
While some events are still happening in cities big and small around the country, they are muted, as is enthusiasm for our 250th.
It’s hard to recreate such a massive success as the 1976 Bicentennial, but when you tinker with funding and programming at the last minute, it makes it even more of an uphill climb.
The Cost Of Fuel, The Cost Of Republican Control Of Government
76 bucks to fill my tank from a tad under half just now. And that’s diesel. Diesel used to be dirt cheap. Ah but then so was gasoline.
I’m having to spend nearly four grand on maintenance for the Mercedes this quarter, first for a brake job, and then the passenger rear wheel bearing is going bad. After having a lot of expensive work done my usual thing is to go take a road trip, but with fuel prices what they are that isn’t happening.
Good thing I can walk to nearly everything I need on a day to day basis here in Charm City. But I’m going to feel suffocated not being able to drive for hours on end just enjoying the open road.
It’s like watching those old Republic serials that start out with something like 12 men in a boardroom or on an expedition and over the course of 12 episodes they get knocked off one by one by a mysterious villain in a skull mask or black hood or something, operating out of a secret cave with a lot of flashing lights and Jacob’s Ladders, and he has two henchmen that wear dark suits and fedora hats, and then you get to the final episode and you find out which one of the 12 was under the mask all that time because the others are all dead by then.
This timeline would be a lot more fun if it was a Republic Serial.
Think Of Constant Stress As The Fire Alarm And Your Body As The Fire
This came across my news feeds just now…
NEWS: New reporting from POLITICO reveals Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons has been hospitalized multiple times for stress while carrying out Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda.
According to officials, Lyons faced intense pressure from the White House to ramp up deportations, amid reports of heated calls and internal chaos. It is also said that Stephen Miller frequently yells at him on calls. In one incident, he was rushed to the hospital overnight. In another, officials feared he may need emergency intervention on the spot.
I went and looked him up only to find he was born in 1981, almost a decade after I graduated from high school. Is this even the same planet I lived in when I was a young man, let alone a teenage boy. I don’t generally feel old, but for a moment there I really felt the years I’ve lived. I guess sometime soon there won’t be anyone left who remembers the America that was, before Reagan promised us that shining city on the hill.
I know stress. I’ve felt its clutches on me. It’s driven me to tobacco and alcohol and I know it’s shaved years off my life. If what this reporting is saying about you is true Mr. Lyons, Get Out Of There. It isn’t worth it. Whatever it is you think you’re accomplishing in there it’s rotting your soul and killing your body. These aren’t patriotic conservative men, they are the bottom of the human sewer, and if you don’t want to spend your last hour in there with them and be remembered along with them then get out. Go find the better man you can still be, while you still have some hours left.
You Don’t Understand…He Throws EVERYONE Under The Bus Eventually
How it started…
“Today, the National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) is honored to announce its full endorsement of President Donald J. Trump for re-election to a second term as President of the United States of America. NRA-PVF Chairman Randy Kozuch announced the endorsement at the 2024 NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits in Dallas, TX.”
-NRA Institute for Legislative Action, May 18, 2024.
How it’s going…
I’m sure there’s a subset of the membership that will happily ignore what he’s saying there, because ultimately the culture war matters more to them then their right to keep and bear arms, or more specifically, the right of their neighbors to keep and bear arms. But the ones I’ve met are fanatical 2nd amendment absolutists and this has got to be making those very uncomfortable if not outright PO’d. And it’s got to be adding up in their reckoning.
The NRA came out decisively against a Trump Justice Department proposal to ban transgender Americans from owning firearms. In the case of Alex Pretti they put out a statement hours ago calling the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for central California’s statement dangerous and wrong and warned against making generalizations and demonizing law-abiding citizens. Now this.
I can appreciate where these might be feeling a bit now like liberals have when the democratic establishment throws them under the bus. Maybe these are thinking to themselves that the republican party cannot afford to alienate them because they are the single most reliable voting block the republicans have. True enough, but that assumes there will be more elections.
Greg Sargent on BlueSky has a killer thread about how public reaction to the Trump/Miller campaign of terror is unnerving some of their advisors that is a Must Read…
Trump is privately worried about the “optics” of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I’m calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it.
There is no recalibrated or sanitized way to conduct the war that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror.
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
The dream of sanitized, popular mass deportations rests on the idea that they can be carried out without mass disruptions. But that is not doable. The Trump-Miller agenda by definition requires prioritizing high removals over all else to achieve ethnic cleansing:
Terror is essential to Miller’s project. It’s designed to dissuade us from showing solidarity with the immigrants getting removed. Stand in the way of ethnic cleansing and you risk violence yourself.
Not With A Bang Or A Whimper, But With The Sound Of Kissing Ass
Jim Wright today on what happened to Jimmy Kimmel…
Here in Florida, when the governor went after Disney for free speech, Democrats, liberals, the left, and people across the country stood up for the corporation and loudly pushed back against fascism.
Yesterday, @Disney sold all those people out and instead threw their Mickey Mouse hat in with the fascist government.
Disney is the Senator John Fetterman of companies.”
I am one of those people Disney sold out. I’m a gay man and a Disneyphile, and I felt directly attacked by DeSantis and the Florida republicans then. And they’re still doing it to us…
Disney stood up for us, after a fashion, and the Pride merchandise kept coming as did the acknowledgement of Pride month and the fact of our being part of the Disney family.
But this year’s Pride was carefully muted at Disney World…I was there, I saw it. You had to dig to find the references and the merchandise, and there were only one or two new items on display. If you know anything about how Disney markets itself and leaves no money on the table, it was striking. And sad. Very sad.
So you could almost see this coming. I appreciate how difficult a MAGA ruling government can make things for a company that just wants to keep doing business with the America that was. But that America is on its deathbed and if they can’t bring themselves to take the hits, stand up, and fight back, it is gone forever.
You are a media company for chrissake. You have a platform, a bully pulpit. Use it.
So with Trump sending the troops and tanks (yes) into DC, the MAGA noise machine is going overtime to explain to the base that cities (especially cities with a majority black population and government) are pits of crime and violence. Except…well…they aren’t. Sure there are bad neighborhoods everywhere, but violent crime is actually down overall. At least according to the last most recent reliable stats. But I’m sure they’re working on fixing the stats right this very moment.
Fox host: “If they had National Guard troops in Times Square it would make me feel safer
AINSLEY EARHARDT (FOX HOST): So the president implemented this Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force and in less than a week they’ve taken 100 violent criminals off the streets. I think it’s great. I wouldn’t mind seeing the National Guard, especially if it’s in areas where there is a lot of crime. I mean, think about Times Square. There is a lot of crime there. We cover a lot of stories there. If they had National Guard troops in Times Square it would make me feel safer.
I don’t think all of this is deliberate hyperbole. There’s some real fear there on the part of this group of Trump/MAGA blowhards. They’re surrounded by too many Not White faces, too much social and cultural representation that isn’t their own. To walk in Not Fox News/Trump/MAGA territory is to be out of their comfort zone.
But there’s something else I think that’s at work here. I’ve walked through Time Square by myself many times. Last time I was in NYC (to see Boys In The Band at the Booth Theater) I wandered around from the Hotel to Hell’s Kitchen, had a great time just exploring somewhere I’d never been before, and the local food was excellent. But I’m used to this. I’m single, an only child, and prefer taking my walks by myself because a companion, unless very good friends or a lover (which I’ve never had), would restrict my wandering. Plus, I might walk their legs off. That’s all well and good, but there is something else I’m used to, and have been since childhood.
Evaluating my surroundings moment to moment.
It happens automatically, and so routinely I don’t even notice it anymore. But it’s there, in the background of my thoughts. Always.
I remember a moment I was walking to Friends bar near DuPont Circle with strike 3. There was nearly no foot traffic at that moment, and 3 and I was chatting easily as we walked. I barely noticed the group of older kids walking toward us, and I only remember in retrospect adjusting my path to take them just out of arm’s reach as they passed us.
I heard a sickening thud. One of the kids, large and heavy set, had thrown an elbow at 3’s chin and nearly knocked him over.
And suddenly there it was, and there was nobody else around to come to our aid. As often happens at these moments, the streets were empty. It was just the two of us and those kids who were laughing at 3. I moved to stand between them and 3 wondering what the hell I was going to do if they turned on me too, but they just kept laughing and walked off. 3 wasn’t badly hurt, and we went on to Friends.
As I said, it was only thinking about what happened in retrospect that I noticed my slight change of course. So they would have to take a step toward me if they wanted to cause trouble and I’d have time to react. That was no result of self defense training. It was the reflex of years of school yard bullying.
It’s with me always. It was beaten into me. Evaluating my surroundings as I walk along just comes automatically and naturally, even now at age 71. And I want to emphasize this: it’s not worry. I’m not constantly worried I’ll be attacked. I’m not constantly afraid. I just…watch. I’ve come to see it as just another part of life. Like putting my wallet in a front pocket when I’m in a crowded place. Like making sure the door is locked when I leave the house.
These people bellyaching about how afraid they are in the cities…I think a lot of it is theater. Performance for the rubes. But not all of it. I am conditioned to be alert. Because I was bullied. By people like the ones looking into the cameras on Fox News. I recognise those faces. I recognise the predatory gaze, and the snear in their voice. I know these people. They are my schoolyard bullies, all grown up now, still playing the old game on their favorite childhood targets. They don’t know how to evaluate their surroundings because they never had to. And it scares them to be anywhere they are outnumbered.
They witlessly gave me a survival skill. What they gave themselves was a false sense of power and security. And you’re really seeing it now.
[Update…]
And just for my classmates to know…I regard my years at Woodward as among the best of my life. The bullying happened in Jr. High. So I’m told, that’s usually where the worst of it usually is.
This thread came across my BlueSky feed the other day…
Yeah. The article in question is from fall 2019, but it seemed staringly obvious to me during the run up to the election and after, especially in how Trump and the republicans were governing. If the base was all about their economic anxiety you wouldn’t have known it by how often the republicans cut the economy out from under their base. But the base loved them anyway, because they were all in on the culture war items: racism, misogyny, xenophobia and homophobia.
That’s what it is about. It is the alpha and the omega of what it is about. “… the core of support is cultural backlash & reaction.”
It was, and is, staringly obvious. Yet it stunned me at the time, and still does, how so many democrats, liberals, and gay liberals no less, keep insisting the republican base is winnable if we can just speak to their economic woes. But no. No. That 35 or so percent of the American polity is not reachable.
I’ve been watching them from a gay man’s perspective since I was a teenager. But even before that, as a boy sitting in the pews of a Yankee Baptist church, singing in Sunday School that Jesus loved All the little children, and in grade school reciting the pledge of allegiance that ends with liberty and justice for All. I’ve been watching them all this time. It was hard to fathom people who categorically rejected the core values of their country and their religion, and yet insisted they were the perfect examples of both. Back in the day one just wrote them off as crazies. And now they have their hands on the levers of power.
They will never accept life an America that they have to share with the hated Other. They will burn it all to the ground first and dance in the ashes of civilization. They’ve been like this since before I was born, since before the Civil War. The white supremacy, the attitudes toward women, gays, other religions, other cultures, science, higher education. They will burn the earth to a cinder if that’s what it takes to rid it of everything they hate. They will never change. They are unreachable.
This is a lie for the base to swallow and maintain their anger at the rule of law. Immigration judges are senior attorneys who work for the Justice Department as at will employees. Federal district court judges outrank them, are confirmed by the Senate, and serve with lifetime tenure. Immigration judges are Article 2 officers (executive branch) who are subject to Article 3 (judicial branch) review.
But the MAGA base doesn’t know or just as likely doesn’t care how the constitutional system works. So Trump’s goons just throw this stuff out there because they want to end the rule of law in this country and replace it with a dictatorship.
They actually played “Fortunate Son” as they marched past him. Which I’m sure went right over everyone’s heads, which makes it even more delicious.
Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Hoo, they’re red, white and blue
And when the band plays “Hail to the chief”
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord
It ain’t me, it ain’t me
I ain’t no senator’s son, son
It ain’t me, it ain’t me
I ain’t no fortunate one, no
“Pick whichever rationale you want, because it doesn’t matter.”
The American Age Is Over
1. Canada
Fittingly, it was the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, who declared the official time of death.
“The global economy is fundamentally different today than it was yesterday. The system of global trade anchored on the United States, that Canada has relied on since the end of the Second World War—a system that, while not perfect, has helped to deliver prosperity for our country for decades—is over.
Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over.
The eighty-year period when the United States embraced the mantle of global economic leadership—when it forged alliances rooted in trust and mutual respect, and championed the free and open exchange of good and services—is over.
While this is a tragedy, it is also the new reality.”
And just like that, the age of American empire, the great Pax Americana, ended.
We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order.
He did this with the enthusiastic support of the entire Republican party and conservative movement.
He did it with the support of a plurality of American voters.
He did not hide his intentions. He campaigned on them. He made them the central thrust of his election. He told Americans that he would betray our allies and give up our leadership position in the world.
There are only three possible explanations as to why Americans voted for this man:
they wanted what he promised;
they didn’t believe what he promised; or
they didn’t understand what he promised.
Pick whichever rationale you want, because it doesn’t matter. Whatever the reason was, it exposed half of the electorate—the 77 million people who voted for Trump—as either fundamentally unserious, decadent, or weak.
And no empire can survive the degeneration of its people.
2. No Going Back
Understand this: There is no going back.
If, tomorrow, Donald Trump revoked his entire regime of tariffs, it would not matter. It might temporarily delay some economic pain, but the rest of the world now understands that it must move forward without America.
If, tomorrow, Donald Trump abandoned his quest to annex Greenland and committed himself to the defense of Ukraine and the perpetuation of NATO, it would not matter. The free world now understands that its long-term security plans must be made with the understanding that America is a potential adversary, not an ally.
This realization may be painful for Americans. But we should know that the rest of the world understands us more clearly than we understand ourselves.
Vladimir Putin bet his life that American voters would be weak and decadent enough to return Donald Trump to the presidency. He was right.
Europeans are moving ahead with their own security plans because they realize, as a French minister put it, ‘We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every four years.’ He was right.
The Canadian prime minister declared the age of American leadership over. He was right.
Instead of arguing with this reality, or denying it, we should face it.
It’s bad enough being a failing empire. Let’s not also be a delusional failing empire. Let’s at least have some dignity about our situation.
The world will move on without us.
Economically this means that international trade will reorganize without the United States as the central hub. Relationships will be forged without concern as to our preferences. The dollar may well be displaced as the world’s reserve currency. American innovation will depart for other shores as the best and brightest choose to make their lives in countries where the rule of law is solid, secret police do not disappear people from the streets, and the government does not discourage research and make economic war on universities.
There’s a reason why countries like Belarus and El Salvador aren’t tech hubs.
All of this will mean slower growth at home and declining economic mobility. The pie will shrink and people will become more desperate to hold on to their slices.
If you want a small preview, look at what has happened to the British economy since Brexit.
The drag we experience will be much greater, because we had much further to fall.
In the security space, Europe will organize apart from us. The Europeans will create a separate nuclear umbrella and will likely include Canada, Japan, and Australia in their alliance. The ‘free world’ as we have understood it for the entirety of our lifetimes will no longer include America.
As a result, America will either drift, or find itself becoming more closely allied with the world’s authoritarians. We may become closer with Putin’s Russia or Xi’s China. We may find that we need them — Russia as a counterweight to democratic Europe and China as a source of cheap manufacturing to relieve some of the price pressure on American consumers.
The end of the American era doesn’t mean everything will become chaos overnight. We aren’t going to wake up tomorrow to the sound of the blaring war rig horn from Mad Max. We are still a rich country, with momentum carrying us forward. But in ways that will soon be perceptible and eventually be undeniable, things will get worse. And facts about America and the world that we have taken for granted since the end of the Second World War will no longer hold true.
3. Idiots
On the day that Trump’s tariffs collapsed America’s position in the world, Secretary of State Marco Rubio went to Brussels to demand that NATO allies increase defense spending to 5 percent of their budgets.
But here is how utterly stupid and unserious our government is:
Europe IS going to rearm. And they are going to do so by building up their internal defense industries so that they do not have to rely on America, which is in the process of threatening military action against a NATO member.
And the American response to this has been to cry foul.
U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers’ participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The messages delivered by Washington in recent weeks come as the EU takes steps to boost Europe’s weapons industry, while potentially limiting purchases of certain types of U.S. arms.
Our government thinks it can simultaneously:
demand that Europe re-arm;
threaten our European allies with territorial annexation; and demand that Europe buy American weapons.
We have a deeply stupid government — from our economically illiterate president to our craven and foolish secretary of state, from the freelancing billionaire dilettante who is gutting American soft power to the vaccine-denying health secretary who is firing as much talent as he can. From the senior economics advisor who thinks comic books are good investments, to the senators who voted to confirm this cabinet of hacks, to the representatives who stumble over themselves justifying each new inane MAGA pronouncement.
But also, we have the government we deserve.
The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it.
-Jonathan V. Last
The Bulwark
April 3, 2025
Bruce here. When I was a younger guy, watching Neil Armstrong plant the first human footstep on the moon, I would never have expected that I would be living in a failed nation in my old age. But here we are. And as Last says there is a lot of inertia left in what was the United States, so hopefully I won’t live to see the curtain rise on the dark ages, just the warm up to them.
But I am so desperately sorry for the younger gay guys I came to know during the Love In Action protests, and all the LGBT kids out there now. They are probably going to have to find somewhere else to live eventually. Preferably before everyone’s passports are confiscated, and/or the rest of the civilized world locks its doors against us. Like we did to the Jews during WWII.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
-H.L. Mencken
It looked for a while like Meta had paused it’s pro Trump counter attack on Facebook posts that weren’t passing politically correct muster with the Donald. I was thinking this was because Facebook’s censorship campaign worked well enough that Trump got his bloated ass back in the white house and all was right with the world and whatever the libtards were saying didn’t matter anymore. But no.
I shared this graphic on my Facebook page back on March 5 and now it’s being “Fact Checked”, along with probably everyone else’s posts who laughed at Trump’s confusing transgender mice with transgenic mice…
The hair splitting being done this time by ersatz Meta/Trump fact checkers “Lead Stories” is that it wasn’t just a case of Trump confusing transgenic with transgender but that he referenced several studies that studied the effects of hormone treatment in mice for the purpose of evaluating the safety of certain kinds of transgender healthcare. But it was never about making mice transgendered, and yes, he did also confuse a study on transgenic mice with the studies on transgender healthcare.
So once more Meta/Facebook is stepping up to the plate to sew doubt and confusion about legitimate criticism of Trump’s behavior. There are lies made of false facts, and there are lies of omission, where some or all critical facts are hidden behind a lot of word salad. But they are all lies and you can’t build a nation out of lies.
We’re on dangerous ground right now, because of our secrets and our lies. They are practically what define us. When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there, but it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.
-Valery Legasov, Chernobyl
Meta is once again covering up Donald Trump’s lies. He must be feeling the heat. Good.
[Update] This from a Reddit user: I guess that’s why it reads disingenuous to me. What Trump said is still wrong and the White House is trying to defend what he said by referencing useful science that is worth funding. His words are anti-science and anti-transgender people. Hormone research and gender affirming care also applies to more people than just transgender people. I worry people would simply read the headline of the Lead Stories article and follow along with his anti-science narrative.
That’s the entire point, to keep the anti science narrative alive, and also hatred toward transgendered Americans. Because otherwise how are they going to keep winning elections.
This is making the rounds online. The story about the man who sold 100k worth of pianos to Trump’s casino was in the news prior to his getting elected the first time, yet people voted for him anyway. This gives us the perspective of the person working the other end of that small business disaster. Check out what Trump did to her son’s class graduation party…
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