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Coalition of Reality Based Citizens™ Politics, Economics, Culture, Music, Books, Sports… shadowboxing the apocalypse and wandering the land

For her first ever prosecution Lindsey Halligan decides to be the first one to indict a former FBI Director. Go big or go home! Good thing we’re finally appointing federal employees based on merit! Do your own research!


“Why tell such an easily refuted lie?” It works. GOP is winning the propaganda war with lies & misinformation. It’s disgusting, unethical, terrible for American democracy, etc., etc., etc., but it’s working for them. Democrats need an answer.

Lutnick claims that GDP growth in "Biden's economy" never got above 3%. But the economy grew 3.3% in the 3rd quarter 2024, 3.6% 2nd quarter 2024, 3.4% 4th quarter 2023, 4.7% 3rd quarter 2023, and was of course above 3% all of 2021. Why tell such an easily refuted lie?

JamesSurowiecki's tweet image. Lutnick claims that GDP growth in "Biden's economy" never got above 3%. But the economy grew 3.3% in the 3rd quarter 2024, 3.6% 2nd quarter 2024, 3.4% 4th quarter 2023, 4.7% 3rd quarter 2023, and was of course above 3% all of 2021.

Why tell such an easily refuted lie?


Nixon was put in his place by Republicans. That is not happening today. The GOP looked dead for a generation until Reagan quickly turned it around. There is no one coming forward in the current GOP who will deliver us from this disaster.

Absolutely. But in 1975 neither of the nation's political parties was a cult, and its president wasn't a sociopath.



Trump is not draining the swamp. He enlarging & deepening the swamp. DC is swampier than ever, but Trump is now Lord of the Swamp, so he thinks it’s ok. MAGA will probably agree.

Tariffs can’t bend the laws of nature. Bananas need tropics, coffee needs altitude. You can't onshore these things, so tariffs just raise prices. The White House just worked this out. So we're getting carveouts. But only if you do a deal with the White House.…

JustinWolfers's tweet image. Tariffs can’t bend the laws of nature. Bananas need tropics, coffee needs altitude. You can't onshore these things, so tariffs just raise prices. The White House just worked this out.

So we're getting carveouts. But only if you do a deal with the White House.…


Maybe we should send them to the forests with rakes?

Pete Hegseth in December on military training: “We’re bringing a war-fighting ethos back to the Pentagon. Everything else that distracts from lethality shouldn’t be happening.”

RonFilipkowski's tweet image. Pete Hegseth in December on military training: “We’re bringing a war-fighting ethos back to the Pentagon. Everything else that distracts from lethality shouldn’t be happening.”


We may well have the funniest South Park ever next week.

Trump: One of the things we are going to be redoing as your parks. I know more about grass than any human being anywhere in the world. We are going to be regrassing your parks, new sprinklers systems. It will look like Trump national golf club.  Grass has a life. You know that?…



The only thing more pathetic than Cook kissing Trumps ass is a POTUS who can be so easily manipulated by public praise. SAD!

Tim Cook pathetically kisses Trump's ass by pretending him with a "24 karat gold" gift



Tell me you don’t understand the global economy in 2025 without telling me you don’t understand the global economy.

No one is forced to buy any tariffed goods. If you as a consumer agrees to pay a premium, that's on you.



PREDICTION: When the impact of the tariffs are actually felt, we will be back to “Biden’s economy.”

Economists in top universities said Trump’s tariffs would be highly inflationary. But they’re not. Where’s the inflation? The obvious conclusion is that economists don’t know a whole lot about economics. In fact, Trump seemingly understands the subject better than they do.



It’s the great mystery of social media. Why do people feel compelled to give monologues from their cars? No one knows. No one. It crosses gender, political, racial, sexual, & religious lines. There’s broad agreement on it. Yet, no one knows why. May more unknowns unite us!

What is it with people doing this in cars?



CONING SOON: Epstein Files leaked!

Wowza. “Here’s what caught my attention: the files were stored on a shared drive that anyone in the division could access. Normally, access is only granted to those working on a project, but because of the hurried nature of the exercise, the usual permission restrictions were…



His analysis of the problem is correct. But the solution is not tax increases on the middle class in the form of tariffs, tax cuts for the wealthy, education cuts, cutting investment in 21st century jobs while trying to bring back 19th & 20th century low skilled, low paying jobs

We have a Treasury chief who understands what unfair, non-reciprocal trade has done to American workers! Bravo ⁦@SecScottBessent⁩!



If Patel or Bongino leave, then it opens up a spot for Catturd.

Guys, why is everyone going through this weird pantomime of Kash/Bongino vs Bondi? Let’s say they successfully push Bondi out. Then what? Kash is going to release what she’s hiding? OF COURSE NOT. She’s doing what Trump wants. And so will they. They’re just trying to get out of…



“We aren’t racist, misogynistic, or anti-gay, we just don’t think black people, women, or gay people should be honored, praised, or remembered, when there are so many very fine Confederate Generals we can honor & remember.”


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