Pinned: ↓How to ruin a mostly-magnificent nation -- over false, mostly-imagined matters. LUDICROUS:

(Excerpt:)"MAGA has a cosmology, a mythology: There is a corrupt elite — in the most extreme forms, it’s a corrupt, pedophilic elite — and that elite controls everything."

(Insert: Ref.: "Pizzagate")

..Much of this because MAGA refuses to take a long hard look at THEMSELVES in the mirror ..(..Too many of the cult's members will not examine a primary source of their troubles.. Perhaps one high-profile example ..though not as influential as before.. )

P.S. Corruption = Donald Trump

(Source link for excerpt:) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-will-sommer.html

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Also pinned: "If the U.S. motor-vehicle sector were a country, it would be the fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, according to the E.P.A.’s own data."

Base data verification source link follows: The U.S. transportation sector (most = 'light duty vehicles') emitted 1,855 million metric tons of CO2 in 2023. Look up that amount on a current list of total CO2 emission by world countries...: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1118464/transportation-co2-emissions-in-the-us-energy-consumption/

(Source link for quote: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-repeal-proposal.html)

↓Ref.: (Copy)

Global temperature reconstruction of the last two millennia with instrumental temperature from 1880 to 2020
(Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Common_Era_Temperature.svg, attrubution: "Efbrazil, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons")

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Also pinned: Do not ever, ever believe a word that Donald Trump - and his sycophants - say. EXCEPT: Their words of HATE and cruelty. Those are real... MAGA 'leaders' are (..to put it mildly) DECEIVERS: (Sample links)

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/06/trump-now-citing-murder-stats-he-used-to-dismiss-as-fake-news/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/fact-check-trump-inflation-lies


..P.S. Also: ..NEVER FORGET, never forgive what really happened on January 6th, 2021. (Violent images:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iludfj6Pe7w&ab_channel=TheTelegraph

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(Excerpt, linked to source:)

"..While the investigation found no evidence that President Trump or any of his aides coordinated with the Russian government's 2016 election interference and there was insufficient evidence of a criminal conspiracy, members of the campaign were indicted, including national security advisor Michael Flynn and the chair of the Trump presidential campaign, Paul Manafort. The investigation resulted in charges against 34 individuals and three companies, eight guilty pleas, and a conviction at trial.."

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A fact-check for yet another MAGA falsehood. Excerpt, linked to source:
"Immigrants in the United States commit crimes at lower rates than the U.S.-born population, notwithstanding the assertion by critics that immigration is linked to higher rates of criminal activity."


Also: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/debunking-myth-immigrants-and-crime/

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(↓Comment:)

..Access Hollywood tape...E. Jean Carroll vs. Donald Trump... Karen McDougal...Stormy Daniels....pageant dressing room "visits"... on and on.

A Donald Trump connection to convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein also was generally well-known prior to 2024.

..NOW some of you are agitated and dismayed ..?? (..For whatever strange reasons..) Know it: 99%-100% certain that we would be getting NONE of this slimy garbage with President Kamala Harris (or family guy Joe Biden). Way, way too many of you actually voted a known sleaze-bag in to the highest government office in the land. (Yeah: Not too much of the Trump (otherwise) well-known smarmy-ness made it onto 'Faux News'..)

..Just more evidence that, collectively, this is no longer a serious or sane, or smart country ↓anymore..

(P.S.
..Sleazy Trump worms his way out of this current mess ..? ..Also more evidence that there is some kind of amoral *cult* in place here..)

(One example: Sane + sound U.S. leadership:)


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Yeah...BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:


YT video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA9CA3nOou0


↑↑ Average polling as of 8/16/25. Linked to source

Defend your right to vote + free and fair elections ...from despots and cheaters like THIS: (Excerpt)

"...Though Trump has insisted his [election] fraud claims are real, there’s no evidence they were, and the lawsuits in the Fox and Newsmax cases show how some of the president’s biggest supporters knew they were false at the time. Trump’s then-attorney general, William Barr, said there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
Trump and his backers lost dozens of lawsuits alleging fraud, some before Trump-appointed judges. Numerous recounts, reviews and audits of the election results, including some run by Republicans, turned up no signs of significant wrongdoing or error and affirmed Biden’s win."


Source link:
https://apnews.com/article/dominion-voting-newsmax-defamation-trump-2020-3b2366dfdae3a8432afe822bf14fe1ef

**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************↓ ..We will be using AI models for fact-checking more often here. ...Will learn if the technology can keep up with the never-ceasing torrent of Trump lies:

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Source article link: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ai/

...7/6/25: Let's start off fact-checking a top Trump admin. misleading 'spin-meister': "ICE Barbie Dodges Blame for Disastrous Texas Flooding on Trump’s Watch" (Ref.: Off-site article link:) https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbie-kristi-noem-dodges-blame-for-disastrous-texas-flooding-on-trumps-watch/

↓↓↓Reposted partial screen-grab of AI evaluation summary of Noem's claims. (Image source is linked:)

7/10/25 reposted article. Yet more...courtesy of the Trump clown car "cabinet" 🤡🤡🤡: "ICE Barbie Delayed Texas Aid While Asking Instagram Which Portrait to Order"

Unaffiliated source link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbies-new-spending-rule-delayed-fema-response-to-texas-floods-cnn/

7/12/25 reports: 🤡🤡🤡🤡 ↓..Worse and worse.. (Recall Donald Trump's history of bashing governors and other administrations about FEMA's disaster responses:)
"'Horrific': Thousands of flood survivors called for aid — but FEMA didn’t answer"


Source article link: https://www.rawstory.com/fema-2673142115/

↓Also: Reposted 7/12/25 AI fact-check summary, per ChatGPT.com:

"In **short**: yes, FEMA did **not** answer thousands of calls during and just after the Texas floods, and the main reason was a **bureaucratic delay in renewing call‑center contracts** under new spending controls mandated by Noem."

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🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 P.S...An actual reported quotation from a supposed "leader" ...someone above you and me..(??):

"“These contracts were in place, and those people were in those call centers, and they were picking up the phone and answering these calls from these individuals. So that report needs to be validified,” Noem said, making up a new word — “validified.”"

(Source article link:) https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/texas-fema-calls-kristi-noem-fake-news-1235384583/

Insert: ↓Excerpts from a plausible explanation for Kristi Noem, and those of her kind:

"...In the world of MAGA, stupidity is a badge of honor for both sexes, but the heads of women need to be thoroughly empty. Book learning, in MAGA-land, is for lesbians and cat ladies. Intelligence gets in the way of the true duties of MAGA womanhood: keeping up your highly artificial appearance and, crucially, defending the man you serve with your whole heart and soul. Especially if said man, in this case Donald Trump, is himself dumber than a box of rocks. It's so much easier to be a yes-woman for such a man if you turn your own brain off completely..."

"...The 20th-century version of the "bimbo" was dim, but almost always good-hearted, exhibiting a childlike generosity to others. The innovation of the MAGA movement, however, is to make the bimbo a nasty figure, as cruel as she is dumb. In the past, what men wanted from a bimbo was someone with dog-like loyalty. For the right-wing man of our time, the craving is more for an attack dog, someone who will charge in to fight your battles, unconstrained by intellectual concerns about whether doing so makes sense."


Unaffiliated source article link: https://www.salon.com/2025/05/23/kristi-noems-proud-maga-bimbo-act-builds-on-the-legacy-of-sarah-palin/


P.P.S. (Excerpt:) ..↓Pretty much all that anyone needs need to know about (too) many current U.S. Republicans:

"A group of Republican lawmakers has complained that smoke from Canadian wildfires is ruining summer for Americans, just days after voting for a major bill that will cause more of the planet-heating pollution that is worsening wildfires."


(Source article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/republicans-canada-wildfire-complaint-letter)

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(↓Off-site article link:)

"USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say"


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↓7/15/25 excerpt:

"The Trump administration has ordered 500 metric tons of emergency food aid—enough to feed 1.5 million malnourished children for a week—to be incinerated tomorrow rather than be distributed as part of its ongoing purge of USAID. The high-energy biscuits, intended for children under five living in war and disaster zones, are currently being stored in a warehouse in Dubai and were meant to be shipped out this year, but will instead go to waste due to cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effectively halting nearly all forms of foreign aid. Current and former aid workers, speaking anonymously for fear of retaliation, told The Atlantic that the sheer scale of waste is unprecedented."

Source link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-to-incinerate-500-tons-of-emergency-food-for-children/

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..Hey, Mr. Stephen Miller, Xenophobe+: Please NOTE ..."Americans have made a U-turn on immigration since 2024 election"

Source article link: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/trump-immigration-crackdown-poll-00448342

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HINT:..NOT at a tin-pot dictator's silly + wa$teful (..up to $45 million cost) vanity parade. 6/13/25 update: ..It's likely going to be millions of people, despite bad weather in some forecasts..

(↓Linked to source:)

..↓6/14/25: Just a couple of representative photos from approx. 2000 separate protests..:
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..↓'Sparse-ness' of "crowd".. ..Desperate to leave..?
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YT video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GscjJWIS9VU



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..Now ↓this↓ cruel zillionaire crazy (..but he is 100% correct, below..) may think of running for president..😱 (Musk is not a natural U.S.-born citizen.. So, NO.) 🥳🥳

(↓6/3/25 copy, no affiliation:)

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Off-site article link: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/us-treasury-auction-debt-interest-rates
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(Reposted 5/20/25 video. No affiliation:)


YT video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMB5OdzKsVg&ab_channel=GOPFootage

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(Off-site link:)"Attack of the Sadistic Zombies"

Also credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbzXaL5aYVo&ab_channel=MSNBC
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↓..Only re-posting two samples from the near-infinite Trump vileness continuum. Copies, no affiliation:



BTW: (5/26/25) ↓INSANITY..The real, actual SCUM name-calling non-scum people 'scum'... (etc.)This isn't normal. ..What if Joe Biden or Barack Obama - or anyone - did this (repeatedly)?? (↓Reposted false GARBAGE:)


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Your first question (..next time): Is the candidate mentally stable? ..Basically sane??

Screen-captured image, April 2025. No copyright, no affiliation. Linked to source
MORE, 4/27/25: "Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades" (https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/politics/approval-rating-trump-100-days/index.html)

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Unaffiliated 2/23/25 source article:https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20250223176/warren-buffett-warning-of-scoundrels-and-fiscal-folly-slashes-his-exposure-to-us-stocks
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2/9/25 article excerpt:

"..The second Trump administration’s brazen pattern of blowing through myriad apparent legal limits has prompted debate about its intentions. One theory is that it is deliberately setting up test cases that would ultimately pave the way for the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed supermajority to expand presidential power by striking down the statutes as unconstitutional.

But the escalating pace of courtroom clashes has raised the question of what would happen if Mr. Trump simply started ignoring decisions he did not like, rather than appealing them. The result would be a constitutional crisis."


Unaffiliated source link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/us/politics/vance-trump-federal-courts-executive-order.html

2/10/25 update: "Judge finds Trump administration violated court order halting funding freeze"(Off-site link:) https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-finds-trump-administration-violated-court-order-halting-funding-rcna191528

(>>>>A couple of suggested links for taking some action. No direct affiliation here: https://democracyforward.org/, and, https://www.fiftyfifty.one/)

...Selected 2/2025 polling result: "Overwhelming majority of Americans say Trump should follow federal court rulings"
(Source link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-poll-unpopular-post-ipsos/)

↑Public domain photo, edited. "Office of Speaker Mike Johnson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons"

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Reposted 1/21/25 news story (link): "Trump grants sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants, including rioters who violently attacked police"
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'“We won in a landslide,” Trump claims, again. In fact, he won the popular vote by just 1.5 percentage points, one of the smallest margins of victory since the 19th century."
Unaffiliated source link for ↑quotation: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/16/us/trump-news/65fa139e-2785-5caa-9e35-272e582b00b1?smid=url-share. Also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-fact-checker-tracked-trump-claims/2021/01/23/ad04b69a-5c1d-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html
P.S. 12/2024: ..The unhinged person that so many actually chose to vote for. (Link) ..Spewing out hate and screwball insults -- on Christmas no less -- isn't "normal", decent or sane. It's SICK in the head, most likely. (..Parental discretion suggested): https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113716074695799383
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↓↓↓↓ 11/2024.... NOPE:
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(Source: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/thomas_jefferson_135369
Unaffiliated source for graffiti font: https://fontmeme.com/graffiti-creator/....REMINDER: How the 10 most highly educated U.S. states voted (overall) in 2024: https://donaldwontlast.blogspot.com/2024/11/headline-rubio-democrats-lost-election.html)
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Monday, April 23, 2018

Retired Justice Stevens is correct. Again. (Updated)

(Commentary, temporarily posted:)

FWIW (not too much, unfortunately), been saying something like - part of - the following (ref. the Stevens quotation below) whenever/wherever I'm able to.  (Even more is near the end of the post, if you dare.)
4/4/18 update: Facts are still being gathered at this point re the YouTube workplace gun-shooting. Early indications though are that the (alleged) perpetrator COULD be an example of one of those "490" (or so) dangerous AND armed "everyday" Americans that I speculate about near the end of this post.
Note that family members very recently expressed concerns (reportedly) to authorities about the (YouTube) shooter....and (the) gun-mayhem still occurred. ..Perhaps because the perpetrator had something of a plan (including the crucial element of 'surprise'..).  ..Plus a gun.... (News story link:)  
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/youtube-shooter-nasim-aghdam-thought-company-was-ruining-her-life-family-members-say/
(Another 4/4/18 article link for consideration:  
 https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/03/us/trauma-surgeon-youtube-hq-shooting/index.html)

4/23/18 update: Details are still emerging, but early appearances are that the alleged Waffle House (Tennessee) killer could be yet another example of the (estimated) "490" or so dangerous and armed U.S. inhabitants typically inside this country's huge population. Please see further below near the end of this post for more information (about this assertion) if interested. Terrible shootings like this latest one will keep occurring absent major societal/cultural changes in the U.S.  Per below... they are inevitable (at this point). Really hate to say that...

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((Previously written text:) Insert: Before (possibly) dismissing this post out-of-hand, take a look at the America that poorly controlled guns/gun-related violence (..including threats of..) has helped create: (Link)  https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/17/us/other-school-incidents-since-florida-shooting-trnd/index.html)

(Continuing:)

3/27/18 article excerpt (retired Justice Stevens quotation), source link follows. Emphasis added:
"...Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that "a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century," wrote Stevens." 
(Source article link. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/retired-supreme-court-justice-john-paul-stevens-calls-for-repeal-of-second-amendment/
Original source link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment.html)

More (via the original article source listed above. Yes, it kind of goes without saying that repeal of the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment is currently very unlikely..):
"....During the years when Warren Burger was our chief justice, from 1969 to 1986, no judge, federal or state, as far as I am aware, expressed any doubt as to the limited coverage of that amendment. When organizations like the National Rifle Association disagreed with that position and began their campaign claiming that federal regulation of firearms curtailed Second Amendment rights, Chief Justice Burger publicly characterized the N.R.A. as perpetrating “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”
"In 2008, the Supreme Court overturned Chief Justice Burger’s and others’ long-settled understanding of the Second Amendment’s limited reach by ruling, in District of Columbia v. Heller, that there was an individual right to bear arms. I was among the four dissenters....
That decision — which I remain convinced was wrong and certainly was debatable — has provided the N.R.A. with a propaganda weapon of immense power...."

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(Comment:)

...Those advocating or "justifying" civilian possession of military-style automatic weapons and/or large caches of guns and bullets (etc. etc.), in order to (if 'necessary') "rise up" and combat - or "overthrow" - a tyrannical  government (...or similar):

You're "thinking" is a relic of the 18th century....

(E.g., ...better possess a significant number of these↓, too.....No civilians (esp. sporadic groups, marginally-trained (at best)) would be able to "out-gun" an advanced country's military -- if it ever came to that.)

(Insert: BTW, if interested, have a read of the following linked commentary article re the U.S Constitution's Second Amendment:  https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-americas-gun-fanatics-wont-tell-you-2016-06-14)





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Simple ( - yes, a natural for me - ) exercise:

Current U.S population = approximately 326 million

Multiplied by my own hypothetical, estimated, conservative percentage of those old enough, capable enough, "interested" enough, and able to own/operate some kind of GUN  = .15 (15 percent.)

(Insert: For this, we assume/understand how ridiculously easy it is to obtain a gun in the U.S.)


326,000,000 X .15 = 49,000,000 (approximately)


"But the vast majority (so, let's estimate... 99.999 percent) of gun-owners are safe and responsible (with their weapons)...!"

Remainder of 99.999 percent: 1 - .99999 = 0.00001

Estimated 49 million U.S inhabitants capable of operating a gun, having access, etc. multiplied by the ".00001" that - perhaps - could/would do so unsafely or maliciously. (We'll assume, at any given moment in the vast U.S.A.:)


49,000,000 X .00001 = 490 (dangerous-with-guns people)


...Yes:  A "back-of-the napkin" estimate. Change some of the assumptions if you might care to. 
But always begin with the actual, 326 million total population figure... 

Some real-life factors to bear in mind, esp. when looking at (the conservative, IMO) assumptions above. Links:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/249740/percentage-of-households-in-the-united-states-owning-a-firearm/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country

The year 1800 U.S. census, showing total surveyed population estimate. I.e., shortly after the Second Amendment was adopted:  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1800_United_States_Census
Hint: The total U.S. population in 1800 was (about) 1.6% of today's population ...of this now-huge country!
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P.S. No one will EVER "reach" every one of those 490 (or so, estimated above) very dangerous AND ARMED people in the U.S., with "mental health" services. 
Or any other services...
"Only takes one." (Especially with the lethal weapons of today, plus some kind of advance plan.)

Parental guidance suggested↓:


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