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Ronaldo Salgado, son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo who was murdered by the ICEstapo, on burying his father:

“Today we laid my dad to rest. We were surrounded by family, friends, and members of the community. We played music, horses danced, and we celebrated the life of a man who provided for my mom and my brothers for more than 30 years. Tonight, I visited the site of where it all began. I was alone for the first time in 11 days. I was moved by all the candles, signs, and mementos that people have taken time out their day to place here. Thank you to all who have supported us through prayers, words of encouragement, and simply thinking about my family . I thought to myself, ‘with so much love from the community, how can I focus on any negativity?’ My dad made Houston home. And this city has been nothing but supportive. Thank you.”

The murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should be a crime and those responsible need to be held accountable. He was not the undocumented immigrant who should have been detained and arrested and deported; he is not one of the criminals that the White Men and The Women Who Support Them regime was looking to find.

And to be clear, even if he was a violent criminal I thought the idea was to deport them and not murder them in cold blood.

Fuck ICEstapo; abolish ICEstapo!

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Jon Ossoff, Georgia Democrat Senator, slapping Defense Secretary and DUI hire Pete Hegseth over his lies about the war in Iran:

“You said, ‘Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory.’ You said Iran’s military had been rendered, ‘combat ineffective for years to come,’ and you stated we had ‘achieved every single objective.’ You stated four months ago that Iran’s military had been rendered ‘combat ineffective for years to come.’ Has Iran’s military been for the last four months combat ineffective?”

Hegseth, of course, stammered and stuttered and looked for the nearest bar because he couldn’t answer those questions. He’s lying. Americans are dying, innocent Iranians are dying, and we have clowns in charge.

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Jim McGovern, Democrat Representative from Massachusetts, on the idiotic logic of a demented man:

“[Cankles] says Democrats forgot to rig the election in 2016, successfully rigged it while he was president in 2020, then forgot how to rig it again in 2024. So the only election the Democrats supposedly stole was the one he himself controlled. You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bullshit.”

Seriously … if you think Cankles is right, read this quote again slowly and if you still think he’s right have someone with a higher education than you read it again and if you still think he’s right STFU because there is no help for your bran of ignorance.

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David Reddish, journalist, columnist, commentator, and novelist, on what life would be like if Democrats actually rigged elections:

“If Democrats were truly rigging elections, we’d have universal health care, gun safety, high-speed rail, paid family leave. Billionaires actually paying taxes, a Democratic Supreme Court [and] President Harris would be sipping mimosas in Jackie Kennedy’s intact White House Rose Garden right now!”

We would have arches and drained broken reflecting pools and cage matches on the lawn and his name scrawled on the sides of buildings and plastic gold ornaments everywhere he had space and Superglue™.

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Gavin Newsom, Democrat Governor of California, on Cankles’ big speech:

“Last night America watched the ramblings of a mad king. [Cankles’] address was not about the last election—it was about this one. Before a single vote has been cast he’s already laying the groundwork to rig this election and convince you not to trust the results if they don’t go his way. This is what authoritarians do. Don’t fall for it. Organize. Mobilize. Show up and vote in November.”

Sitting by and doing nothing because you didn’t like the white woman in 2016 or the brown woman in 2024 does no good.

CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!

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I Didn't Say It

Jim McGovern, Democratic Rules Committee Vice Chair on The Felon’s Cabinet Junk Drawer picks:

“Isn’t that usually how things go in authoritarian dictatorships? Purge the military of anyone who might have a spine and refused to obey an unlawful order? I mean, what the hell is going on here? And their cabinet picks so far? I mean, these are like beyond insane. Someone who is credibly accused of having sex with an underage girl. Someone who sucks up to foreign dictators and has attracted major concern that they can’t be trusted to protect America’s secrets from our adversaries. Someone who paid hush money to cover up a sexual assault accusation, you know, to lead our military, he’s picked because [The Felon] likes him on Fox News? Someone who says that tap water turns kids gay? I mean, this is the dream team? This is the dream team? Really? I mean, seriously, it would be funny if it weren’t so sad. And hopefully, you United States Senate has a backbone and insists on a thorough confirmation process. Look, the truth is this. The truth is that this is not what people voted for … I’m reading the newspaper again this morning that they want to issue blank pardons to those who committed crimes on January 6th. Republicans call them ‘political prisoners.’ I mean, these are people who were arrested, indicted, tried, and convicted by juries and judges and courtrooms across this country for violently attacking our brave law enforcement officers people who smashed cops in the heads with metal barricades, who jammed them indoors until blood was coming out of their mouths. And the incoming administration is thinking about pardoning them. I do not believe any of what my Republican friends are talking about on the floor today is in line with what the American people voted for. They voted for cheaper groceries, not whatever the hell this stuff is. They are asking us to vote for a bill, my Republican friends, that we give the incoming administration the ability to revoke the nonprofit status of any advocacy group they want, just by labeling them as a ‘terrorist sympathizer.’ A bill that would give President-elect Trump a new power to just unilaterally accuse an American group of terrorism and then shut them down. My friends on the other side, they want to blame trans people. Guess what? Trans people aren’t the ones raising people’s grocery prices. Big corporations are. They wanna blame immigrants. And here’s the deal. Immigrants aren’t the ones denying health insurance claims … It’s the billion-dollar insurance companies that do that on a daily basis. And they want to blame woke this and woke that, what’s woke about thinking special interests should not be able to buy tax breaks?”

McGovern is new to me, but this is the Democratic party I want; stand up and speak up and tell the goddamned truth about The Felon and his so-called administration.

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Kathleen Sebelius, former HHS secretary, on RFK Jr being nominated to head Department of Health and Human Services:

“I think that we’re talking about magnitudes of danger beyond erroneously making legal decisions. This is life or death. The HHS affects people from birth to their grave and is intimately connected with every state in the country. So this could be very dangerous. I think it’s totally disqualifying for anyone who seeks to lead the major health agency in this country and one of the leaders in the world to just unequivocally say there is no safe and effective vaccine. That in and of itself, from the bully pulpit of HHS, could end up killing people, could end up harming children. My grandson is too young to get a lot of vaccinations yet and having him exposed to unvaccinated people with polio and measles is a terrifying thought. Having eradicated those diseases as a major health initiative, I think this is absolutely terrifying and people should understand how serious it is.”

You let a man with zero actual medical knowledge, who drags dead bears to Central Park as some sort of joke, who cuts the head off a dead beached whale so he can take it home, who believes all vaccinations are unnecessary—maybe he should have gotten the Brain Worm Vax—run HHS and children will die, people will die.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., displaying his hypocrisy and lunacy:

“The stuff that [The Felon] eats is really, like, bad. Campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes onto that airplane is like just poison. You don’t have the choice, you’re either given KFC or Big Macs. That’s when you’re lucky and then the rest of the stuff I consider kind of inedible. And then he drinks Diet Coke.”

He looked pretty happy in that photo, munching down on McD’s so either he’s a liar or a lunatic or both.

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Eminem, rapper and songwriter, on his politics:

"I am not a liberal snowflake. My feelings aren't fragile, my heart isn't bleeding. I am a badass believer in human rights. My toughness is tenderness. My strength is in the service of others. There is nothing more fierce than formidable, unconditional love. There is not a thing more courageous than compassion. But if my belief in equity, empathy, goodness, and love indeed makes me or people like me snowflakes, then you should know—WINTER IS COMING."

And snap!

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