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Satchel

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  1. Bari Weis is eradicating bias…even though it doesn’t feel like it.
  2. Texans won’t mind paying out of the ass for energy so long as Abbot and Patrick keep DEI at bay.
  3. Was Pete consorting with Captain Morgan when air space above El Paso was ordered closed?
  4. Anybody still laboring under the misapprehension that Pam Bondi is “the people’s lawyer.”
  5. Because Hillary and Kamala were awful people. It’s their faults. Not ours.
  6. I believe Pam Bondi is going to leave the hearing assless.
  7. Flipping through her oppo research on each Democrat while completely ignoring their questions…she’s awful.
  8. Satchel replied to Derka's topic in Cloak Room
    These increasing costs make it harder for families to meet their obligations, and the effects are being felt across the broader economy. In a new analysis of data from the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, the House Budget Committee finds that the number of people filing for personal bankruptcy increased by 11 percent during the President’s first year in office. Bankruptcies have not been this high since 2019, during President Trump’s first term. https://democrats-budget.house.gov/resources/report/personal-bankruptcies-are-their-highest-levels-years-under-president-trump
  9. Republicans won’t rest until higher ed in Texas becomes more of a laughing stock than it currently is; https://www.chron.com/politics/article/uh-professors-educate-not-indoctrinate-21335673.php
  10. Boy, if I had a dollar for every act of contrition…
  11. This Is Just Who Trump Is What motivates President Trump? Not what motivates Trumpism, whatever that is. Not what motivates his MAGA supporters. Not what motivates the infrequent and marginal voters who delivered him his victories in 2016 and 2024. No. What specifically motivates Donald J. Trump? What brought him into national politics? What drives him as a national political figure? His allies say a love of country, but this is betrayed by his indifference to the nation’s ideals, traditions and symbols. It is unclear whether Trump has even read the Constitution, and there’s no evidence that he understands its history and significance to the nation he leads. (It would be unfair to ask whether he’s read the Declaration of Independence — we all know he hasn’t.) The best way to understand the president’s motivations is to find him at his most unfiltered, which is to say, on social media, late at night. And Thursday night, Trump posted a video to his Truth Social account that depicted President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes. The clip, which runs for roughly a minute and shows the Obamas at the end, is set to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” I try to avoid superlatives in my writing, but there is simply no question that this is the most flagrant display of presidential racism since Woodrow Wilson screened D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” in the White House in 1915. And for a sense of the racism of Griffith’s film, recall that it both reinvigorated the Ku Klux Klan and gave the organization its modern iconography. I doubt that Trump’s video — less a creative product than half-baked agitprop — will have the same effect. But it carries many of the same messages. It uses an old white supremacist trope to denigrate the Obamas and, by extension, every American who shares their racial background. It presents people of African descent as little removed from beasts, an insult used to great effect in “The Birth of a Nation,” as you can see in this clip from the film. Initially, the White House defended the video as a joke. “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, said. “Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.” But then Republicans began to speak out. “Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House,” Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only Black Republican in the Senate and the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, posted online. Representative Mike Lawler, an otherwise stalwart Trump ally, said the video was “wrong and incredibly offensive.” Representative Michael Turner of Ohio decried the “racist images” as “offensive, heart breaking and unacceptable.” Here, I should probably note that Barack and Michelle Obama are among the most popular political figures in the United States. Trump, on the other hand, is barely treading water with the public, and majorities of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction. It makes sense, then, that some Republicans would use this as an opportunity to distance themselves from an unpopular incumbent. Let’s walk back to where we started. What motivates Trump? The answer is simple: racism. You might also say ego and raw self-interest, but the two are connected. Racism, among other things, is a kind of chauvinism, a belief in one’s inherent superiority, based on nothing other than a meaningless accident of birth. It’s an ideology that papers over feelings of inadequacy, that tells you that — no matter what you have or have not accomplished in your life — you’re still better than someone, some group. Let’s suppose you’re the spoiled son of a self-made man. Let’s suppose that, despite your flash and bravado, you’ve failed at virtually everything you’ve tried. You’re the laughingstock of polite society, a punchline for the privileged. You think you’re superior enough to be the president of the United States — the highest honor in your country — but the actual president is a man of humble origins, a minority of the kind your family didn’t even rent to when you were in the landlord business. And he is claiming power that rightfully belongs to you. He’s even mocking you, ridiculing you for all the world to see. For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career — from his embrace of birtherism to his hatred of birthright citizenship — cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism. Trump is not profound. He has been the same person this whole time. The question is why so many others have refused to see what he has never bothered to hide. https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/signup/JBO
  12. Evangelicals need to take back control of their sect: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/peter-wehner-evangelicals-see-trump-s-viciousness-as-a-virtue/vi-AA1VZhGn?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=698ab73a7f7d4a47a128c070e464b25c&ei=58#details
  13. And Les Wexman is well known and was reportedly one of Epstein’s major benefactors.
  14. Steak Tartare, anyone?
  15. It’s time for the resistance to start wearing Katie Johnson T- shirts
  16. You better preach!
  17. Amen. Say Amen again.
  18. I fully expect Rice to be the only AAU school in Texas once Republican get through gutting the best schools in the state.
  19. This simply can’t be true since Europe is in a post Christian status and the US is the most Christian nation in the world.
  20. The only people who view Trump as a Nazi more than Americans are Germans.
  21. They are so disrespectful of their followers in that they rely on them to believe the dumbest, most ridiculous shit.
  22. Waiting for the Texas US Senators to weigh in…
  23. Sec! Sec! Sec!
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