20 thoughts on “News/Politics 7-8-25

  1. Let’s face it, too many pervs on both sides of the aisle would be exposed. The FBI leadership is burning video and paper evidence as we speak.

    https://x.com/barnes_law/status/1942035783390543893?t=ZDe11trnteuBv7v6s2Qifw&s=19

    “What a joke. Total disgrace by @AGPamBondi @FBIDDBongino & @FBIDirectorKash as well as @realDonaldTrump to keep hiding the #EpsteinFiles from the American people pretending there is nobody else involved when we KNOW that is false. Promises made, promises broken!”

    https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1942070819276120206?t=OOsvZW96QBT8B4z81KwTbw&s=19

    “The FBI officially concludes Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and there was no client listJeffrey Epstein Victim: “I have spend the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey AND ALL THE COCONSPIRATORS did to me. I was raped repeatedly, I was raped 3x per day sometimes and I was not the only girl on that island. There was a constant stream of girls being raped over and over and over again”

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    And yet now they claim they don’t.

    https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1942169776547037216?t=-Vzne3T2AKNvaJoKo2uOXw&s=19

    “Alina Habba on the Epstein list back in February,

    “It’s incredibly disturbing.

    We have flight logs, information, names…that will come out.”

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  2. Elon, I love ya, think you’re doing great things for mankind and science.

    But this isn’t one if them. Hard pass.

    https://x.com/NotKennyRogers/status/1941896935012470894?t=0gDrjlENliu4NQpw-ENipw&s=19

    “People who have come out in support of Elon Musk’s new America Party:

    – Mark Cuban

    – Anthony Scaramucci

    – Brian Krassenstein

    – Thomas Massie

    – Mike Pence

    That’s pretty much all I need to know about Elon Musk’s new America Party.”

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    • Something is wrong here.

      https://x.com/ValerieAnne1970/status/1942100217521696973?t=NtnJdtmkl5oGBl7ZHnSzcw&s=19

      “100% Of All Teenage School Shooters In 52 Years Were On An SSRI Antidepressant Medication. Dr Bryan Ardis

      Every One Of These Drugs Has A Black Box Warning: To Cause Aggressive Violent Behavior & Homicidal Actions.

      The Warning Stresses Extreme Caution To Those Under Age 24.

      The Black Box is the most severe warning the FDA can place on a drug short of an outright ban.

      Warning that antidepressant usage for children and adolescents may increase the risk of suicidality & violence.

      Columbia University led an independent study. The conclusion of this meta-analysis using the data was that the use of all antidepressants increased the risks of suicidality & violent behavior among pediatric patients.”

      Common SSRI Antidepressants Prescribed To Adolescents:

      Citalopram (Celexa) Fluvoxamine (Luvox) Paroxetine (Paxil) Escitalopram (Lexapro) Fluoxetine (Prozac) Sertraline (Zoloft) Venlafaxine (Effexor) Mirtazapine (Remeron) Nefazodone (Serzone) Bupropion (Wellbutrin) NDRI Add-On to SSRI”

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  3. Another reason Border Patrol wears masks.

    https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1942577113556738118?t=_yrMbNDTIzBRdHhznHvpdw&s=19

    “What’s the argument against designating Antifa as a terrorist organization? It obviously is, and yet the federal government seems to have no interest in declaring it to be a terrorist group. Why?”

    https://x.com/LizMacDonaldFOX/status/1942547000907497970?t=RFscryTXl-NFWnDOGDa4iQ&s=19

    “Check out the sophistication of the Antifa-linked terror cell members in Dallas-Fort Worth charged with attempted murder after opening fire on an ICE facility in Alvarado on July 4th. They were heavily armed with military gear, guns, AR-15 style rifles, 12 sets of Kevlar bullet proof vests, masks, goggles, tactical gloves, two-way radios, and helmets.

    Also had Faraday bags that block all wireless signals from law enforcement trying to track them. Blocks all GPS signals, calls, texts or pings.

    Agent shot in neck expected to survive. “Resist Fascism. Fight Oligarchy” flag and “fight ICE terror with class war” flyers were in their cars.

    This is after the CEO of UnitedHealth was assassinated by a far-left extremist, two staffers at Israeli Embassy in DC shot dead by radical far-left extremist, 13 severely wounded and one dead in firebombing in Boulder by far left anti-Israel radical, far-left rioters destroyed and caused $160M est’ed damage to downtown LA in anti-Ice riots. “

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  4. Q&A: Making government work

    THE FORUM | Longtime government efficiency advocate Philip K. Howard would like a word with DOGE”

    ~ You’ve spent your career calling out government waste, yet you criticized DOGE, the cost-cutting entity led by Elon Musk. What’s the problem? The idea behind DOGE is great. Government badly needs disruption. But in practice, DOGE isn’t about efficiency. It’s about indiscriminate slashing of jobs and programs. Some of the cuts, like the DEI programs, make sense. But the real waste in government stems from red tape. For example, building a transmission line to a city takes 10 years of permits and hearings. That’s bad for business. In healthcare, administrative bloat eats up 30% of every dollar of spending. That’s a trillion and a half ­dollars per year. So far, DOGE isn’t going after that, and that’s a major missed opportunity.

    What grade would you give DOGE so far? I’d give it a “C.” It’s ignoring the biggest inefficiencies of bureaucracy and red tape. And it’s cutting in ways that aren’t particularly thoughtful. At one point, they fired employees who happened to be in charge of the nuclear arsenal. Well, that’s pretty stupid. And they fired lots of scientists. The scientists are not the problem in government.

    Still, you’d agree DOGE has revealed problems worth fixing? Completely. The government is overdue for a spring cleaning. It’s like a household that never throws anything away: Eventually the closets are piled high with outdated things nobody uses anymore. Take federal job training. There are dozens of those programs, but none have proven effective and they cost billions of dollars.

    If you were running DOGE 2.0, what would you do? I’d create small, informal committees of experts to go to each agency and propose new operating structures. Get rid of obsolete programs. Throw out thick rulebooks and instead create a framework where one official makes the decision to give out a permit or not, and another official oversees it, making sure it’s not a stupid decision. That’s about the best that government can do. When law is a framework and not an instruction manual, things move faster and cost less.” ~

    https://wng.org/articles/making-government-work-1748637517

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  5. So we have dueling masked terrorists roaming the streets armed to the teeth now. One of them is government sanctioned, the other isn’t. And at this point I support the claims of neither; both are terrifying to the unarmed who are going about their business. This is a national disgrace.

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  6. Musk’s list starts with Mark Cuban?! Ha!
    Jackson was a DEI appointment and it shows

    Antifa is a militant terrorist group and ICE is law enforcement branch of our government. Big big difference. But we all know that… or should….

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  7. Re. 11:16… Patience. Agencies need to be cleaned out. Deep State folks need to be cleared out. More conservatives need to get into the House and Senate. With the right judges in place. What’s the goal? Leverage. Then the Epstein Files (and a lot of other info) can finally be released, b/c they will then have enough control to bring all the bad folks to justice. It’s terrible stuff that will finally be exposed…

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  8. Satire sites are sometimes more accurate than the news — the Bee, the Onion, etc along with shows like the Daily Show are far closer to reality than anything on FOX or CNN

    Epstein may not have had a client list but it’s not hard to create one from flight logs, banking information etc. There’s just no political will, hasn’t been and never will be. If I was Maxwell’s lawyer, I’d add this to any appeal being filed. If there were no clients, why is she guilty?

    If this was a Democratic administration, one would immediately wonder if this was to protect Clinton among others. However, its a Republican admin, and Trump did associate with Epstein and knew Epstein liked young girls. So questions must be raised……

    It has been a fairly recurrent leftist conspiracy theory that Epstein was employed by a secret police/espionage force and the “list” is in their hands. In one version, the Mossad have the list and Trump’s name is on it and thus he bombed Iran. I’m not buying it but it’s interesting to see/hear his response to a question regarding the list and its possession by unknown agencies. He definitely wants to shut down any discussion. A newer version of this conspiracy has DOGE and Musk possesing the list which he is holding over Trump’s head.

    The American news cycle has become a sordid mess.

    hrw

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  9. SSRIs have their uses and not all users become violent. Nor did all school shooters use SSRIs. The fact some did is more a correlation of the fact many were mentally ill and were being treated.

    If one looked at SSRI use in a global sense, young people outside of the US who use SSRI don’t shoot up schools. With the odd exception, school shootings are an American phenomenon and their cause therefore should be an American phenomenon.

    Use of SSRI by youth under 25 should be cautionary and we should look at youth differently instead of treating them as mini-adults as their brain chemistry is different. However, SSRI use only correlates but does not cause school shooting. As an American phenomenon I suggest looking at what makes America unique among the developed world.

    hrw

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  10. Antifa does not exist. We’ve been through this before. Its a tactic, method and ideology but there’s no central organisation. The Proud Boys are better organised.

    Interesting to note the post at 11:38 does not include the killing of two Democrats as a recent act of political terrorism. Its the most obvious act of terrorism this year. Kill an insurance CEO and get charged with terrorism, kill a democratic politician and get charged with manslaughter. Bizarre.

    However, I am surprised there haven’t been more violent responses to ICE so far. The left (as opposed to the centrist democrat supporters) is heavily armed in the US — although smaller in number, they like their guns as much as the right wing militias. And with the lack of uniforms, ID, and warrants, I’m surprised someone hasn’t shot ICE and then claimed they thought it was a kidnapping or other potential crime.

    A few days ago, maybe yesterday, ICE for some reason cleared out a park in Los Angeles — heavily armed and some on horseback they charged across the park. The only people there was a children’s summer day camp who had to run inside and shelter in place. This isn’t protection or capturing criminals, this is state terrorism. Perhaps its to send a message to potential migrants or maybe its a message to LA to behave; but all they did for now is terrorise children.

    The current behaviour of ICE isn’t about deportation or law enforcement. The Biden admin deported/returned about a million migrants a year. You don’t need to resort to terror, disguises, and militarisation to accomplish the same. Hooman’s threat to send ICE to New York (after in finishes in Los Angeles) if they elect Mamdani is seen by many on the left as revealing the true purpose of a much enlarged ICE — political violence to cower the opposition.

    hrw

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