I Got Popcorn

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I got popcorn to watch as they FAFO. dictator-hater, cynic, Sci-Fi fan, occasional sarcastic twit. 🚫 Crypto 🚫 Porn 🚫 Other stupid shit. 🚫 magas. I swear a LOT, you have been warned.

NEWS: Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) just dropped out of his re-election race at 3:32 a.m.m. He said he’s done running but will finish out his term. This after the House Ethics Committee found “substantial reason to believe [he] violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces.”

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Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

Blanche Pledges To Make Post-Dobbs Abortion Restrictions ‘Permanent’ in ‘Every Single State’ The likely soon-to-be attorney general has faced questions from anti-abortion rights groups about the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol. www.nysun.com/article/blan...

Blanche Pledges To Make Post-Dobbs Abortion Restrictions ‘Permanent’ in ‘Every Single State’ | The New York Sun

The likely soon-to-be attorney general has faced questions from anti-abortion rights groups about the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol.

nysun.com

Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.

The man’s insanity will plague us for decades. (Gift Article) The Coast Guard risks ending up “like a lottery winner who spends all their money buying the mansion, and then goes broke once they realize they don’t have the money to maintain it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c...

Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts (Gift Article)

The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.

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Let me get this straight. We can afford: →$1 trillion tax breaks for the richest 1% →Billions for Big Oil →A White House ballroom We "can't afford": →A COLA that actually covers rent →Social Security that isn't forced to cut benefits →Medicare It's being rigged.

Trump sued Capitol One for Slander. In discovery, we learned Trump sold multiple condos to Russians who paid in cash. The Money Laundering Desk at Capitol One closed his accounts. Republicans of course are not investigating this.