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meidastouch, 1 day ago to random

This really does tell you everything you need to know…

ElleGray, 1 day ago to random

oh god it's 6pm on Sunday once again

rebeccawatson, 1 day ago to random

men are such fucking spineless dweebs they took a meme about how women fear for their very lives around strange men and compared it to men thinking women don’t understand their fee-fees

cdarwin, 2 days ago to random

Even More Ignorant Donald Trump Quotes
https://www.theroot.com/13-wild-donald-trump-quotes-that-prove-hes-really-the-v-1851433355/slides/4

cdarwin, 2 days ago to random

Donald Trump now has the most detailed policy platform of his political career -- and it's largely the work of two people you've never heard of.

Trump campaign speechwriters #Vince #Haley and #Ross #Worthington are the masterminds behind most of Trump's policy statements. The two worked under Stephen #Miller in the Trump White House.

Haley and Worthington write the first drafts of scripts Trump uses to record policy videos as well as the text on how a second Trump administration would handle issues from education to energy and immigration.

Those videos and corresponding text on his website go into far more detail than Trump, who famously has little interest in policy, does on the stump.

Trump often goes off-script in his speeches and spends just 11% of the time talking about his policy plans, an Axios analysis found.

His campaign aides frequently say that he is the most gifted politician and ultimately decides how to message on the issues.

Trump and his team are also in frequent communication with a constellation of figures on policy ideas, including Trump's former trade representative Robert #Lighthizer and former White House budget director Russell #Vought, WSJ reported.

The Stephen Miller connection:
Haley and Worthington worked under Miller in the White House speechwriting office for four years, co-managing the speechwriting shop.

"Miller would always go over speech drafts" including both official and political speeches that Haley and Worthington wrote, Worthington told Jan. 6 committee investigators in February 2022 after being subpoenaed.

Though they have next to no public presence, they are known to be very chatty on the campaign's daily internal comms call.

While Miller is not technically on the campaign, his relationship with his former subordinates and his direct line to Trump allow him to maintain a consequential role in shaping a potential Trump second term.

Between the lines: Both men have deep ties to former House Speaker Newt #Gingrich.

Haley, a lawyer by training, served as policy director and campaign manager for Gingrich's 2012 presidential campaign. They co-authored several books together and Haley was an associate producer on Gingrich's documentary Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny.

Worthington was deputy communications director for Gingrich's 2012 presidential campaign and later authored a book with Gingrich.

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/26/trump-campaign-policy-stephen-miller-newt-gingrich

cdarwin, 5 days ago to random

Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another #Alito Home

Last summer,
two years after an upside-down American flag was flown outside the Virginia home of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.,
another provocative symbol was displayed at his vacation house in New Jersey, according to interviews and photographs.

This time, it was the
♦️ “Appeal to Heaven” flag, ♦️
which, like the inverted U.S. flag, was carried by rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Also known as the
💥Pine Tree flag, 💥
it dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into obscurity until recent years and is
👉 now a symbol of support for former President Donald J. Trump, for a religious strand of the “Stop the Steal” campaign and for a push to remake American government in Christian terms.

Three photographs obtained by The New York Times, along with accounts from a half-dozen neighbors and passers-by, show that the Appeal to Heaven flag was aloft at the Alito home on Long Beach Island in July and September of 2023.
A Google Street View image from late August also shows the flag.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

dabertime, 1 year ago to random

I once got a fortune cookie with 2 contradictory fortunes inside.

Years later, I'm still recovering from the impact of the two universes colliding.