I Didn't Say It ...

Charlamagne tha God, radio host, trashing The Felon for planning an expensive military parade while the economy is crashing and prices are skyrocketing:

"All these federal jobs lost, the economy is in the toilet, people’s 401(k)’s being slashed. Nothing to celebrate right now, my guy. Isn’t that wasteful spending? Where’s DOGE at when you need them? DOGE can’t intervene in a situation like this? That seems like wasteful spending to me. You need to have a nice little light party at Mar-a-Lago for family and close friends. Don’t involve our military with that foolishness."

There have been widespread reports this week that The Felon is planning a military parade on June 14^th, his birthday. The estimated cost for the parade is around $92 million while average Americans are suffering under his tariffs and watching their retirement funds evaporate and consumer goods increase in price.

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Jake Auchincloss, Massachusetts Democrat Congressman, shreds The Felon’s tariffs and exposes the "corrupt" reason he instituted them in the first place:

"How rare and fleeting courage can be. It's the same lesson we are dealing with with Russia. Appeasement does not work. Only strength works. These businesses need to band together and speak in unison. That's why they have trade associations. That's the whole point, is to do that. Same thing with law. Because ultimately trying to court the bully one on one is not actually going to win them any special favor and all it's going to do is embolden [The Felon] to take further damaging action. We know how transactional he is and frankly we know how corrupt he is. This is an element that we need to watch carefully because at the beginning of his presidency [The Felon]  and [his] family issued meme coins, basically monetized the presidency to the value of their net worth. And the reason that I bring that up is because that allows every business and every country to purchase shares in [The Felon]'s net worth secretly. So now that they have tariffs levied against them and tariffs that were calculated inscrutably, there’s going to be a tremendous market for buying influence with [The Felon] because it's very clear that he's not listening to his Treasury Secretary about how these tariffs are set. He's assigning [the tariffs] upon a whim and if they can show him a receipt for 'hey I gave you a billion dollars worth of crypto' he may change his mind on that. That further undermines any sense of credibility or certainty in our economy about how these tariffs are set and further undermines his argument that somehow we're going to reshore businesses. If you're a textiles manufacturer in the United States right now, you have no confidence in what these tariff rates are going to be over the next several years because of how corrupt and incompetent this administration is. So you're not going to make the capital investments necessary to really redomesticate any industry."

And, yes, the tariffs are on pause for now, while his billionaire friends see their portfolios increase and average Americans see theirs shredded, but it doesn’t mean he won’t continue destroying America for the wealthy.

Resist. Vote Blue. Demand impeachment.

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Doechii, rap star and Grammy Award winner, at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, on how Lady Gaga inspired her as a kid:

"Growing up, I was nothing like most of the people I was around and everything about me represented a community of alternative kids ... I was considered weird, but it's OK, because things worked out. As a kid that identified as an artist, as queer, and as a Little Monster, Lady Gaga wasn't just a pop star, she was a lifeline. Gaga taught us that it was OK to be our real selves, to try new things, to try anything, to speak out and to create. Gaga was and always is new, fresh, and different. And not only is that OK, but it's ideal. Over the last two decades, her music, her art has constantly evolved from dance floor anthems to pop rock to jazz standards. She has pushed boundaries, including her own and made all of us feel like we belong. Lady Gaga is an innovator because she has to be. She was born that way, and we love her for it."

Gaga has shown that you can do many things artistically and personally, and none of them are wrong; they are your truth.

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Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat Senator, speaking out on behalf of the lower and middle class, blue-collar workers, and marginalized communities, in the face of this new regime’s antics:

“It’s sort of a Senate tradition where senators sign their names in the drawer of their desks. Ted Kennedy’s name is signed in my desk drawer, and his brother’s name is signed above it. When I have had some hard days on the floor of the Senate, when the Republicans are really doing some horrible stuff and sometimes getting some help from the Democrats, I will sit at that desk and pull the drawer out a little and just run my thumb across where those earlier senators have signed in. I remind myself that we are in this democracy for the long haul. Let's start with [The Felon]'s game of red light, green light on tariffs. It's bad for everyone. It's bad for buyers. It's bad for manufacturers. It's bad for workers. It's bad for everyone because no one invests in building more jobs and more capacity here in the United States if they don't have some understanding of what the business landscape and the rules will be going forward over the next few years. Tariffs can be a valuable tool in the toolbox when they're used, for example, to protect a supply chain that we need to bring onshore or to support a business that's just getting started, but broad across-the-board tariffs just raise prices for families everywhere. The estimates for what these tariffs will cost are conservatively now running into the thousands of dollars for every middle-income family in this country. Co-presidents [Leon Skum and The Felon] want to deliver $4.7 trillion in tax giveaways for billionaires and billionaire corporations, and they want to pay for it on the backs of everyone else, including seniors who are in nursing homes, little kids who are in public schools, your neighbor who has a disability and needs an aide to come by so that they can live independently. [Leon Skum and The Felon] want to pay for tax cuts for billionaires by ending student loan debt forgiveness for people who've been in public service for decades and cutting medical research across the board. Already, the [Felon] administration has canceled at least 68 grants focused on LGBTQ+ health questions. We're losing an entire generation of science all so that billionaires can get more money and everyone else can get less. I want to be clear, for me, every member of the LGBTQ+ community is valued, and I will keep fighting to make sure that everyone can live freely and safely exactly as they are."

While one side tries to literally erase us from history and erase our rights, the other side stands with us and for us.

There is no comparison.

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The Felon, responding to Fox News hack Harris Faulkner with utter gibberish, on what the Hands-Off protestors want:

“Protestors for different reasons. You’re protesting also because, you know, they just didn’t know. I’ve watch—I watched very closely. Why are you here? They really weren’t able to say, but they were there for a reason perhaps. But a lot of them really were there because they’re following the crowd. A lot of them were there because we witnesses was a terrible thing. What we saw was a terrible thing. And we’ve seen it over the years. We haven’t, you know, this was one horrible example, but you’ve seen other terrible examples. You know that better than anybody who would know it. And I know it too. I’ve seen it. I think it’s a shame. I think it’s a disgrace. And it’s got to stop.”

And Joe was too old? This Adderall-addicted, Diet Coke guzzling, Big Mac slurping, lump of illiterate flesh couldn’t string a coherent sentence together if his life depended on it.

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Triston Casas, Boston Red Sox player, on why he paints his fingernails:

Bottom of Form

“Pretty much anything that bothers people, I wanna do out there. I get certain looks about it, and people say certain things about it. There’s a stereotype about it. People call me this and that and say I’m this and that. But it’s so superficial and doesn’t change anything about me. It doesn’t change anything about the person I am, or what I bring to the table. It’s just my video game character. I have trusted my routine since I’ve been a professional baseball player. It’s what’s gotten me to this point, physically, mentally, and production-wise out on the field, and I’m going to continue to do it until my playing career is over. It makes me feel confident for the games, and whatever articles of clothing are included throughout my routine is all part of the process, as well.”

He knows that insecure men criticize him for his self-expression and sometimes call him gay slurs but he doesn’t care. Standing at 6’5″ and weighing 250 pounds, Casas casts an intimidating frame and knows that anybody jeering him online is unlikely to approach him on the street. And the Red Sox are embracing Casas’ idiosyncrasies: he was recently honored with his own bobblehead, naturally, in a yoga pose with his nails painted.

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