Cast of the West Wing talking about modern political storylines plucked from the news that would have seemed utterly ridiculous 25 years ago. And we all know who they mean.
This week alone, Laura Loomer said Lindsey Graham should come out of the closet, that the White House would smell like curry if VP Harris is elected, that MTG, whose boyfriend is Speaker Johnson, paid for Trump's brunch with Kanye and Nazis. Both their broken souls are settling grievances.
"Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people. World leaders are laughing at you. Military leaders say you were a disgrace. Perhaps we do not have, in the candidate to my right, the temperament or the ability to not be confused about facts."
Trump pivots to Orban for some reason.
He'll hear those words in his sleep for the rest of his life.
With a hurricane incoming, the 10 Commandments Louisiana's governor mandated all schools add with taxpayer dollars should at least be flotation devices.
Rep. William McKinley owned a Bloomington streetcar line that refused to recognize unions. Workers on strike called in Mother Jones, 80 (Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living). Her fired up 1917 rally attendees shut down the city power supply. Armed troops were then sent in to camp out downtown.
So shop workers marched to City Hall in solidarity, and refused to work until strikers got mediation. McKinley finally telegraphed: “I recognize the right of men to organize. #LaborDay
Thinking about how inconceivable it would have been 4 years ago that the New York Times would be Nazi friendly, and Twitter would be too far right for Brazil.
It would be a clean sweep for the GOP if Mastadon didn't exist, and we still considered NYT a news source.
JD Vance: "It is amazing to me that you have, apparently, somebody at Arlington cemetery, some [female] staff member had a little [physical] disagreement with somebody [Trump's goons] and the media has turned this into a national news story."
"She can go to hell," he says of Kamala Harris who had nothing to do with Trump's choice of an unauthorized cemetery photo shoot.
Two members of Donald Trump's campaign staff had a verbal and physical altercation Monday with an official at Arlington National Cemetery, where he posed for a Smiling Thumbs Up Over Veteran's Tomb wreath-laying, per NPR.
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