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Article VI, Clause 3 of the Constitution specifically states that no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
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Grandpa obviously woke up with a full diaper this morning. All of these were sent in the last 6 hours. This does not include the retweets.
Took the screenshots myself.
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JFC.
It was damage control by Secretary Flop-sweat. Once the video went viral, Trump and Hegseth dtd the most politically cynical thing.
Reminder:
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If you think Pete Hegseth was even remotely qualified to be Secretary of Defense you're even dumber than Kevin Sorbo
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Republicans passed a massive veterans bill on Veterans Day, claiming it was a historic victory for the men and women who served this country.
But buried inside that package are provisions that take money out of veterans’ pockets.
Here’s what they slipped in:
1. They changed disability ratings for tinnitus and sleep apnea. Under the new rules, most veterans would lose the ability to receive a separate compensable disability rating for tinnitus.
For sleep apnea, higher disability ratings would become harder to qualify for, potentially reducing compensation for future veterans.
2. They nearly tripled a VA home refinancing fee. The fee for Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loans goes from 0.50% to 1.42%.
3. They doubled another VA home-loan fee. The fee for assuming an existing VA-backed mortgage goes from 0.50% to 1%.
4. They added another 1% fee for certain newly eligible National Guard and Reserve members. The bill expands VA home-loan eligibility for some people who previously didn’t qualify, but that new eligibility comes with an additional fee.
And here’s where the contrast gets interesting.
Democrats are pushing the clean, standalone Major Richard Star Act.
This legislation would end the so-called wounded veteran tax.
Right now, combat-injured veterans who were medically retired with fewer than 20 years of service can have their military retirement pay reduced when they receive VA disability compensation. They earned both benefits. They should receive both.
The Major Richard Star Act would fix that injustice, allowing eligible veterans to collect their full military retirement pay AND their VA disability compensation.
No cuts to tinnitus benefits. No cuts to sleep apnea benefits. No making other veterans pay for it.
That’s how you help veterans.
Republicans bundled some genuinely worthwhile benefits into their bill, but they also attached cuts and higher costs. Democrats are fighting to pass the Star Act on its own, without taking benefits away from other veterans.
Our veterans shouldn’t have to compete with each other for the benefits they earned.
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The Pentagon has backed an Army sentinel who demanded silence and respect at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and members of his group were heard laughing and talking nearby. stripes.com/theaters/asia_pa…
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So maybe one of you Trump humpers can clarify something for the rest of us. If taking a knee during the national anthem at a football game to protest systemic racism means that the person hates America and the Military and should be canceled completely, clearly explain what it means when you’re the Secretary of Defense, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, one of the most sacred places in our nation, ON VETERAN’S DAY, and are so fucking loud, rude and disrespectful that THE SOLDIER GUARDING THE TOMB had to reprimand him by shouting “ALL VISITORS WILL MAINTAIN AN ATMOSPHERE OF SILENCE AND RESPECT AT ALL TIMES”? This worthless fuck is directly responsible for the deaths of Americans, a professions Christian, who has so little respect and honor that he had to be reprimanded by a soldier for being such a disrespectful POS, so please, let us know how you I ❤️ Pedos hypocritical losers are going to hold Hegseth accountable? Because that’s so over the top disgusting and reprehensible that any one of you trying to justify it should self deport as a traitor to our military and our nation. These next two years are going to be fucking amazing, and 2028? The presidency will be the cherry on top. 😈🖕🏼
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I'm going to keep tweeting about this until I have purged my anger. It wasn't just the talking and laughing among Sec. Hegseth's entourage. It wasn't just that they didn't kno what was expected behavior. It's that if you look, you'll see they were there to pose for pictures.
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NEWS: Inflation came in hotter than expected in October, with consumer prices rising 0.4%, above the 0.3% forecast. Grocery prices, electricity, rent, transportation, and medical costs all saw significant increases as Americans continue to grapple with rising costs under Trump. 🥵
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Hating a man because he’s Muslim
and worshiping a man who’s a pedophile is crazy talk.
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James Talarico separates legal tax loopholes from outright cheating, and argues that collecting taxes already owed should come before adding new ones
“You know, there's, there's crazy stuff in our tax code that says you can write off your private jet, your mega yacht as business expenses, right?”
“I mean, this whole tax system that we have now really allows the people at the very top to accumulate and amass more wealth without any taxation.”
“I mean, we, I was reading that if we just collected the taxes that the top 1% owes, no new taxes, just collecting what's already owed, it would raise something like $172 billion every year.”
“It's both, it's both the legalized loopholes that you can get away with, but it's also people who just know they're not going to get, but no one's going to crack down on them.”
w/ @jamestalarico
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Presidents certainly have the right to pick their Chiefs of Staff, but selecting Stephen Miller shows that Donald Trump has learned nothing from the message Americans sent him in this election. Miller is the architect of some of the worst policies of this presidency, from the cruel and chaotic ICE enforcement to the tariffs jacking up your costs. Promoting him isn’t only bad for this Administration, it’s bad for the American people.
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James Talarico draws a distinction between celebrating business success and accepting extreme wealth alongside child poverty
“Some people have asked me if I'm demonizing billionaires.”
“And I've said that I think I'm humanizing billionaires because for one of our own residents to become the world's first trillionaire while one in five Texas children live in poverty, to me, that is a spiritual sickness.”
“I want people to be successful.”
“When businesses are successful, people are successful and I'm all for that, but to accumulate more wealth than you could possibly spend in a hundred lifetimes while we have people starving in this one, to me, that, that means we're not fulfilling our full humanity.”
w/ @jamestalarico
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I came to understand after leaving MAGA that the coordinated, multi-decade demonization, dehumanization and vilification of Democrats, liberals, etc., fuel a lot of the rage and fear within MAGA. I am not defending anyone’s ignorance, but the right-wing propaganda and agitprop have long been effective, consistent and disciplined.
But this backfired on the GOP this election, and enough voters said "enough." Democrats can counter the mis- and dis-information by doing what many of their candidates did this year: going into communities, humanizing politics and showing that we agree more than we disagree on many issues.
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On April 12, 1943, after Nazi defeats at El Alamein and Stalingrad, Hitler named Martin Bormann as Privatsekretär des Führers, formalizing the status of the fanatically loyal and bureaucratically effective Bormann as Hitler's top aide, which he remained for the final two years.
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“If he wants to pass Trumpcare-for-All, I'm ok with it.. Donald, if you're watching, we'll put your name on it. You get to be the American president who finally guaranteed health care for every single American."
@AbdulElSayed to me today, lol.
Full intv: zeteo.com/p/abdul-el-sayed-t…
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Zohran Mamdani just did what most Democrats and Republicans are too gutless to do.
He looked straight into the camera and said the quiet part out loud:
Republicans called Obama a socialist every single day for 8 years. It didn’t stop him.
Now they’re trying the same tired red-baiting on anyone who wants a New Deal instead of the raw deal working people have been force-fed for decades.
People are hungry for something real. Not more corporate welfare dressed up as “moderation.” Not more “public-private partnerships” that somehow always privatize the profits and socialize the losses.
Mamdani is right. The socialist smear is a dead tactic.
The only question left is whether the Democratic Party has the spine to actually deliver for the people who keep electing them… or if they’ll keep protecting the same donors who’ve been extracting wealth from this country for 40 years.
Keep going, Mayor.
The old guard is terrified for a reason, the midterms have certainly proven a new worth. – at District of Columbia, USA
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Stephen A. Smith PRESSES Abdul El-Sayed on Abolishing ICE — Then Gets a Firm Answer on Open Borders
Stephen A. Smith: You’ve said the only way forward is to abolish ICE and start from scratch. What does that mean?
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: Let me be clear: I believe we ought to have a safe, secure southern border.
I believe you ought to enforce immigration law, but not through masked men with AR-15s acting against the Constitution.
ICE didn’t exist before this century. It’s not part of the Constitution. ICE is not about immigration. It’s about making a show of immigration and normalising paramilitary force on our streets.
I believe we need to undo it and build a system that enforces immigration law while respecting the Constitution.
Stephen A. Smith: Is there any condition under which you think open borders are acceptable?
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: No. You have to have borders that you can control. There’s no question about that.
People think ICE is about border enforcement, but it’s not. Customs and Border Protection enforces the border. ICE handles immigration enforcement inside the country.
I went to Minneapolis during the height of Project Metro Surge.
Some of the things I saw, I never thought I would see in the United States of America. We can’t allow that to continue.