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Clayton shouldn't be approved & 12 memes

HCR:

"Ossoff: “You refuse to answer a basic question about who won a presidential election? But you ask to lead America’s intelligence community? Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question? To have to indulge the president’s delusions? We know, you know, everybody in this room knows the truthful answer to that question, why can you not give it?”

Clayton could not answer because, although all of the claims of Trump and his loyalists that he won the 2020 presidential election have collapsed in court, Trump requires his cronies to claim that the election was stolen in order to have justification for rigging future elections. They know the truth—that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden by more than 7 million votes and by 51.3% to 46.8% in the Electoral College. But they refuse to say so because if they do, they will lose Trump’s favor.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Joan Sebastián Guerrero.

 

Loving Mamdani memes and more

7/13/2026

It means something when there's a photo of a sick congressman, and I don't believe the photo. They're saying it's an old photo, and some think it's AI. The current regime is so corrupt that it's trustworthiness isn't there. The regime has no honor. The thing the supporters support is his rudeness to the opposite political instinct. George Will writes about conservatism being about doing unpopular things. Straying this far into unpopularity is really quite dangerous. It's just a toddler wrecking things up. US citizens don't want to support a world war in the middle east. US citizens don't want ICE to not face consequences of murdering Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Citizens don't want runaway inflation and enshitification. So many people regret voting for him. If only they could have seen the signs. 

6 Memes with context

 

Context: Iran is a Shia Muslim government, with no religious freedom for it's citizens. Buddhist retreats were broken into and everyone was arrested. If you imagine America as a beacon of religious freedom, look at this current white house's disingenuous efforts to align with Christian Nationalism which is very cosy with white supremacy. The regime is nihilistic machiavellian, though I'm pretty sure Machiavelli would not associate with this administration. The idea that an administration that obscures American religious freedom could judge Iran is yet another hypocrisy. 

Context: The first lady said, ""The individuals lying about me are devoid of ethical standards, humility and respect. I do not object to their ignorance, but rather I reject their mean-spirited attempts to defame my reputation." The idea that it's the press is lying about her connection with Jeffrey Epstein is yet another lie to come out of this white house. It's just trying to flip the script. She has everything to gain by lying and nothing to gain (except her soul) by telling the truth. 

Context: The abortion laws of republican states has led to some health crisis because the baby's potential life, whether it's viable or not, is given priority over the mother's life, as if it's not her body. These draconian abortion laws don't save lives, it takes them, it turns out. 

Context: Mitch McConnell has been in the hospital and most people think he's brain dead, but the Republicans lie and say they talked to him, because another seat would slim their margin in the legislature, and calling for a special election has a deadline. His wife fled to China and she'll give consent to pull the plug after the deadline. 

Context: He dared America on camera: "Use my words against me." This is his obituary. These are his words.

The facts first, plainly. Graham died Saturday night at his Washington home of what his office calls a brief and sudden illness. He served four terms, chaired the Judiciary and Budget committees, and spent decades as one of the loudest voices in American foreign policy.

By sunrise the whitewash had begun. Trump declared him a "true American Patriot." Netanyahu called him a beloved friend. The eulogies will tell you about his service. They will not tell you about the ledger. So we will.

In December 2015, Graham looked into a camera and called Donald Trump a "race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot." By February 2016: "I think he's a kook. I think he's crazy." That May he wrote: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed... and we will deserve it." He refused to vote for him. Then Trump won, and Lindsey Graham discovered golf. By late 2017 he was scolding the media for calling the president, yes, really, a kook.

His best friend was John McCain, a man Trump mocked for being captured in Vietnam and kept mocking after he was dead. Graham wept for McCain on the Senate floor, then deepened his devotion to the man who spat on his grave. The words he wanted used came in 2016, when he swore that if a Supreme Court seat opened in an election year, the next president should fill it. In 2018 he repeated the promise and added: "hold the tape."

In October 2020, as Judiciary chairman, he rammed Amy Coney Barrett onto the Court eight days before the election. In November 2020, Georgia's Republican secretary of state said Graham had called him asking about tossing legally cast mail ballots. Graham denied it, fought the grand jury subpoena all the way to the Supreme Court, and lost.

On January 6th, with the glass still on the Capitol floor, he announced: "Count me out. Enough is enough." He was back at Mar-a-Lago within months.

He cheered the country into Iraq. Three weeks ago he was on television promising that if diplomacy failed, Trump was "going to take the Strait of Hormuz."

Honesty requires one more line: he was, to the end, one of Ukraine's most reliable champions in the Senate, and he died the day after standing beside Zelensky in Kyiv. Even a ledger this dark has an entry in the other column. But the ledger is the legacy.

A man who saw exactly what Trump was, said so in the plainest English of his era, and then spent nine years kneeling to it for relevance.

Context: The rich say they'll leave but they don't or were already leaving. And rich leaving doesn't kill a city the way they hope. 

5 Memes and quotes

 

"President Donald J. Trump told reporters that Iranian leaders are “scum. They’re sick people. They’re led by sick people, and they’re, they’re vicious, violent people,” Trump said in his comments earlier Wednesday. “Far as I’m concerned, it’s just a waste of time dealing with them. They’re liars.… There’s something wrong with them. They’re cuckoo. As far as I’m concerned, [negotiations are] over.”" HCR

"Oil prices spiked over the course of the day, and Trump appeared to walk back his earlier words, saying: “I think anything that happens is going to be over very quickly, and we’ll only make it safer, including for oil. Oil is going to be very free, very easy, and it’s going to happen very fast. We have the Hormuz Strait; the boats have pulled out. I mean there’s a gusher of oil right now, we have a lot of oil.”

As Tom Nichols noted in The Atlantic, the U.S. emphatically does not have the Strait of Hormuz. “Iran, Not Trump, Is in Control of This War,” the title of Nichols’s article reads. It goes on to say that the Iranians are calling the shots in the war and “are routinely humiliating the American president.” The so-called ceasefire was likely intended to calm oil markets, Nichols says; neither side ever stopped shooting.

Paul Krugman notes in his newsletter, cutting off trade with Spain is simply not going to happen. First of all, Trump does not have the authority to do any such thing. Second, the U.S. actually does a lot of business with Spain, and American businesses would not accept any such cuts. But even more, it is impossible because Spain is part of the European Union. As Krugman notes, this declaration is rather like Europe declaring it is going to cut off all trade with Florida. Trump’s declaration is a “non-event,” Krugman notes. It is “not something that is real.”

“In any kind of normally functioning political system,” he said, “in any kind of normally functioning party environment we would have a massive bipartisan call across the aisle, across almost everybody except for a handful of members of congress who are themselves crazy, to say okay this guy is non compos mentis. We cannot leave the fate of the United States or the world in the hands of somebody who is completely irrational, who is making demands and believing himself to have powers that he does not.”

A German official was more succinct: “Europeans don’t take Trump seriously any longer.”