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On a flight back from Las Vegas, I found myself sitting next to a man that decided to watch Fox News on his monitor while also streaming conservative media on his phone. During this time, I couldn't help but pay attention to the parade of lies I saw on both screens, even without audio. It was obvious that this passenger was so far gone that he couldn't function without conservative media being constantly pumped into his brain, and this made me come to unfortunate conclusions. 

In an interview that was published this week, Marjorie Taylor Greene admitted that Republicans are going to lose the midterms next year, and the thought of actually gaining any seats is now a distant memory. Greene is continuing her assault on her own Party, but her hatred of her own side aside, she actually has a good point that is rooted in all of the available data - an unusual coincidence for her.

ICE was gifted an additional $170 billion from the "One Big Beautiful Bill" this summer, and they have already gone on a massive spending spree. The spending is mainly focused on weapons, but they aren't just settling for routine cop gear - The agency has gone all out buying military weapons that include "guided missile warheads." ICE is not supposed to be attacking anyone, as their job is to apprehend and detain, but they are clearly aiming to become an extension of Donald Trump's domestic warfare. 

Alina Habba is still fighting to keep her job as the temporary US Attorney for New Jersey, and the courts in New Jersey heard her appeal on Monday. There is a lot riding on her success or failure with this case because it could determine whether all of Trump's political prosecutions get immediately thrown out. The prosecutor in Virginia, Lindsey Halligan, is serving under the same circumstances as Habba - so if Habba can't prosecute then neither can Halligan. 

It was only a month ago that nearly every conservative pundit and politician was sounding the alarm about the so-called violent and hateful rhetoric from the Left. But they clearly have forgotten how much they hate the meanness, because Karoline Leavitt recently decided to go full fascist during an attack on every Democrat in the country. This is reminiscent of Hillary Clinton's "deplorable" line, which caused conservatives to collectively wet themselves for years after it happened. 

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Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down one of the most dangerous rulings in modern American history — declaring that anything a president does as an “official act” is protected by presidential immunity, even if it’s illegal. That means Trump — or any future president — could commit crimes while in office and never face accountability. 

Under Donald Trump’s new administration, many Americans are finally doing what they once only threatened to do — leaving the country. From families moving overseas to LGBTQ+ parents fearing for their children’s safety, Trump’s America has become a place where millions no longer feel secure.

What happens to MAGA when Donald Trump is gone? 

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According to a real YouTube comment from a self-identified MAGA supporter, basic grammar may be the latest casualty of the MAGA movement.

Calls for the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump are growing louder as his mental health continues to decline — and as he increasingly behaves like a wannabe dictator, sending the military against his own people. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has called for it. So have multiple Democratic members of Congress. But there’s just one problem: the 25th Amendment can only be invoked by Trump’s own Cabinet and Vice President — and that’s never going to happen.

The new Supreme Court term is already packed with explosive cases — and one of the biggest could decide whether Donald Trump has the power to unilaterally impose tariffs on other countries without Congress.

Donald Trump promised to release the Epstein files — and so did his Cabinet, his advisors, and his media allies. But months later, nothing. No transparency. No accountability. No files. Instead, Trump’s team and House Speaker Mike Johnson appear to be blocking their release entirely. 

After years of division, corruption, and chaos, Americans are asking the same question: Can the United States survive Donald Trump and the MAGA movement?

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Marjorie Taylor Greene has decided to go scorched earth against her own Republican Party, as well as some of Donald Trump's signature policies, and the reaction from voters might surprise you. Rather than being angry about her attacking Trump on issues ranging from tariffs to the Epstein files to Obamacare subsidies, voters in her district are actually THRILLED that she is standing up for the things that they want. This is getting a little too weird for comfort as Greene seems to be maturing as a person and a member of Congress.

Dr. Phil McGraw decided to end his popular daytime talk show a few years ago so that he could launch his own media company that went full MAGA. It didn't work out well for him, as the company had to file for bankruptcy this summer after laying off tons of employees. But that's just the beginning of the problems that Dr. Phil has faced since trying to become the new voice of conservative politics, as his latest business venture is also facing hard times after only existing for a few months. 

Cheryl Hines, mediocre actress and current wife of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., went on The View this week where she was finally asked to explain the brain worm that her husband brought up - unprovoked - on the campaign trail last year. Hines insisted that the worm only "ate a little bit" of her husband's brain before dying, making the statement as if it were the most natural thing in the world to admit.

Thousands of text messages have been obtained by Politico showing the disgusting group chats happening between leaders of Young Republican groups across the country. The messages are filled with racist comments and slurs, adoration for Adolph Hitler, and even fantasies about assault and murder and torture. These young people are clearly deeply disturbed and need mental health services immediately, but they instead found a home in today's Republican Party and they were shaping up to be the next generation of leaders of the GOP. 

Time Magazine ran a litany of articles in their latest issue this week praising Donald Trump for things he probably shouldn't even be getting credit for. But in spite of the praise, he still took issue with the magazine and had a meltdown over the cover photo that they used. Trump whined on social media that it made it look like his hair had "disappeared" and how much he never liked photos from that angle. But what's really upsetting Trump is that he realized that he actually looks like that.

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Multiple airports across the country are refusing to air a lie-filled video message from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem where she blames the government shutdown on Democrats in Congress. TSA employees said that passengers were sickened by the message that she recorded, as were airport employees. Noem is trying to use the shutdown to hurt Democrats, much like Trump, but their efforts are failing as most Americans squarely blame the Party in charge - The Republicans - for the shutdown. 

While surrounded by leaders from across the globe in Egypt on Monday celebrating a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, Donald Trump decided that this would be the perfect time to publicly humiliate the Prime Minister of Italy. But unlike usual, he didn't do it by insulting her - he did it by getting overly creepy with his compliments of her. He talked about how beautiful she is and even admitted that he shouldn't be saying that. The worst part is that this isn't even the first time he's done this with her - or the second. 

The deadline for media outlets to sign onto Pete Hegseth's new, First Amendment-violating press requirements hit this week, and most media outlets surprisingly refused to sign on. What's even more shocking than learning that some outlets still have remnants of a spine is that even pro-Trump MAGA media outlets are also refusing to give in to these demands. Newsmax announced that they would not be signing the agreement, putting their credentials at risk along with the rest of the media. This is a small stand, but it is one that should be celebrated.

Donald Trump's political prosecution of James Comey is off to a much worse start than expected, as the judge overseeing the case has already dealt a fairly crushing blow to the prosecutors. Prosecutors had requested that the deadline for turning over their discovery (evidence) be extended to give them more time, but the judge absolutely refused to do it, suggesting that if they had the evidence they claim to have then it should already be ready to go. The judge knows EXACTLY what's going on, and that's going to end poorly for the prosecution

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Late last week, Donald Trump threatened to slap 100% tariffs on China on top of the 30% he had already imposed after the country announced that they were tightening restrictions on the export of rare earth metals. The markets immediately went into a tailspin, causing Trump to have to chicken out of his latest threat - even though China didn't make any concessions and is keeping the new restrictions in place. 

Donald Trump showed off his dementia once again this past weekend when he declared on Truth Social that "Biden" placed 274 FBI agents in the crowd during the Capitol Riot, alleging that the former President implanted these agents to instigate a riot. The only problem, obviously, is that Trump himself was president on that day, and Biden had absolutely no control over the FBI at the time. To complicate things further for Trump, his own FBI Director, Kash Patel, debunked this conspiracy a month ago. 

The Trump administration has effectively killed special education (ESE) funding for the United States by firing every member of the office of special education at the Department of Education. Education Secretary and former wrestling magnate Linda McMahon said that she wants the entire thing shut down so that the states can run their ESE programs on their own - without any federal assistance. This is a disaster waiting to happen, and the backlash from teachers and their unions has already begun. 

Trump's Department of Labor quietly made a rather shocking announcement recently about how Trump's immigration policies, raids, and mass deportations are ruining your life. The Department pointed out that there is now a massive labor shortage in the agriculture sector, and there aren't enough Americans willing to take those jobs. Add all this up and you end up with a massive spike in food prices in the United States due to the increased cost of getting food from farm to table - along with the scarcity created by the loss of crop yields. Those are the warnings coming from Trump's own government.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is facing major public and corporate backlash after her latest stunt. The Department put out a meme video set to the theme of Pokemon and they also used the catchphrase of the popular game by captioning the video with "Gotta catch 'em all!" The company came out and said they had nothing to do with the video and that the department did NOT have permission to use their copyrighted materials. Members of the public are calling on the company to sue Noem and her department over the stunt, but that may be the least problematic thing about the video. 

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Following the immigration raid of a South Korean Hyundai plant in Georgia last month, South Korea is now warning the world that America is not a safe place to send your workers. This is a major blow to manufacturing in the United States and to global investments in the country - which Trump claims will total in the trillions under his guidance. But companies are now running scared after watching in horror as hundreds of legal workers were treated like criminals and shipped out of the country.

Donald Trump's immigration policies have been a complete and total disaster. Economically, morally, and politically speaking, his immigration raids and deportation quotas are not working at all, with the public turning against him. And now insiders in the administration have found a scapegoat for all of the failures we've seen: Corey Lewandowski. Lewandowski has been the alleged mastermind behind the deportation and detainment plans, and now that things are falling apart, the administration is letting him take the fall for all of it. 

History seems to be repeating itself with the Trump administration using the same lies and shoddy legal justification to strike alleged cartel boats in the ocean - the same way that the Bush administration justified their invasion of Iraq. The targets may be different, but the tactics remain the same. And now the administration's secret war memo has been leaked, revealing the legally dubious ways that they have justified blowing boats out of the water, in spite of the fact that it is clearly a violation of international law. 

Speculation about Donald Trump's health continues to get worse for him, and he's not helping the situation by repeatedly talking about wanting to get into heaven. Trump repeated his claim recently, and then also made a shocking admission: People, including himself, have "no reason to be good," other than to get into heaven. This is an absolutely disgusting statement to make that tells us everything we need to know about Trump's own moral compass.

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Members of the committee that determine the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize are reportedly having a good laugh at Donald Trump's expense. Trump has whined for years about how much he wants to win the award, both publicly and privately, and he's still eaten up by the fact that President Obama received the award many years ago. But the Committee is not impressed by anything that Trump has done, and in fact they are rather repulsed by his outlandish claims of accomplishment and his actions at home in America. 

White House officials were forced to admit this week that Donald Trump made a MASSIVE mistake by sending out his Truth Social post to Pam Bondi last month where he demanded that she go after his political enemies. The White House confirmed that this post was actually supposed to be a private message to Bondi, but the damage is already done. That public post is going to be used in every single trial that comes about from Bondi's actions from now until she leaves office, and it's going to get a lot, if not all, of the prosecutions thrown out. 

Lauren Boebert has officially launched her campaign for reelection, and she did it in the most Boebert way possible: By sending out a campaign email asking "Are Aliens real?" While there are plenty of people that want answers to that question as well as what the government knows about the issue, it is hardly a kitchen table issue for the vast majority of American families. Boebert is trying to distract people from the fact that Republicans are complete failures at governing.

According to the members of the House who are trying to force a vote on the release of the Epstein files, the Republican coalition that is standing in the way is falling apart, and they are about to revolt against Donald Trump. This information came from Democrat Eric Swalwell and Republican Thomas Massie, and it shows that Republicans are feeling heat for not allowing the files to go public. This whole mess could come to an end soon, as Mike Johnson cannot continue to hold things up forever. 

Attorney General Pam Bondi was hauled in front of a Senate committee hearing this week, and she bombed harder than anyone could have predicted. It was so bad that even Republican senators were bashing her. But the humiliation didn't end when the hearing ended because a photographer was able to capture her handwritten notes that she brought into the meeting, and they were the most pathetic talking points possible. She even had to write down her insults in advance so she wouldn't forget them! 

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A clearly mentally disturbed Donald Trump got on Truth Social on Wednesday morning and demanded that Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson be put in prison. Their crime, according to Trump, is that they aren't "protecting" his precious ICE agents that are disappearing people off the streets. ICE does not need "protecting," they are the ones that people need to be protected from. And with the way the agency has been attacking police officers, it seems like the ICE agents are the ones that need to be imprisoned.

During an interview with Chris Cuomo on News Nation this week, Eric Trump went absolutely ballistic when Cuomo asked about the hypocrisy of Donald Trump weaponizing the federal government to go after his political enemies after spending years falsely accusing the Biden administration of doing that. Eric lost his mind when this was pointed out, and started yelling about all of the alleged offenses that Biden committed - with these examples being either exaggerated, fabricated, or happening long before Biden even ran for president. 

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell announced this week that he is completely broke and can't afford to appeal a judge's recent ruling that found him liable for defamation against voting company Smartmatic. Lindell said that if he doesn't appeal it within 22 days, it'll go to a jury trial to determine the damages. The only problem, according to Lindell, is that he's completely broke, and now he's promising to go door-to-door to beg for money in order to get the cash to pay his lawyers. 

Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came up with the perfect way to demoralize MAGA men, and it might be the most simple thing that a person can do: Laugh at them. She said this was particularly effective against Trump ghoul Stephen Miller, who was forced to watch her make fun of him on an episode of Laura Ingraham's Fox News show this week. Miller could barely muster a response, and Ingraham was slurring so much it was difficult to tell what she was saying, so it looks like AOC's method definitely worked. 

The official Twitter account of the Oregon Republican Party was busted using fake photographs to claim that Portland is under siege by the Left and that Trump's deployment of the National Guard was necessary. The only problem is that the pictures weren't from Portland, or from the US, or even from this year. Some of the pictures were nearly 20 years old and featured riot police in South America - obviously not modern-day Portland. The Oregon GOP deleted the post after being called out, but the damage has already been done. 

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Donald Trump refused to rule out issuing a presidential pardon to convicted child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell when asked by CNN's Kaitlin Collins about it this week. Trump lied during part of his response, claiming that he didn't know the Supreme Court rejected her appeal or that she even wanted a pardon. The man's refusal to deny a pardon likely means that he's already considered it and will likely do it before he leaves office. 

Believe it or not, Marjorie Taylor Greene actually came up with a good idea that she promoted on Facebook the other day, calling for all social media influencers to reveal who they receive funding from. She likened it to the fact that politicians have to say who paid for their advertisements and approved them, and social media influencers should have to do the same. Again, not a bad idea, but it still doesn't go far enough. If social media influencers have to reveal who funds them, then politicians like Greene should be required to do the same.

Local police officers in Chicago are furious after a group of incompetent ICE agents ended up tear gassing them while confronting protesters (who also should not have been tear gassed.) This is not the first incident where police officers have been gassed by ICE, according to the sheriff, and the mistakes that these federal agents are making are putting everyone's lives at risk.

Donald Trump had a meltdown this week after Fox News host Peter Doocy spoke with Democratic Senator Mark Kelly about the government shutdown, and Kelly was able to explain that the shutdown is about providing healthcare to Americans. Trump lost his mind at this truth bomb (which completely blew up his narrative about the shutdown) and he took to Truth Social to air all of his usual grievances against the conservative network somehow being "so bad for Republicans" by allowing a truth to slip out. 

Donald Trump put out a video from the Oval Office this week where he told young people that they "owe" him because he's the one who "saved" TikTok. This type of loyalty demand is absolutely unAmerican, but most importantly, it completely ignores the facts of what actually happened. Trump may have prevented TikTok from going offline, but he's already pledged to turn it into a right wing propaganda outlet owned by two of the biggest purveyors of misinformation on the planet - who happen to be rabid conservatives.

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