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btaf45@midwest.socialOPtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like
17·17 days agoI know lots of people who refuse to get a flu shot because they say it gives them the flu. We were finally going to get a flu vaccine that did not have any risk of making you get the flu. But Trump who got thru college by having his sister do all his homework and drug addict RFK have overruled our entire science community and decided Americans can’t have this. The rest of the world will be getting this for sure.
MAKING AMERICA NOT SO GREAT AGAIN
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btaf45@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•'We Are Going to Run the Country,' Trump Says of Venezuela After Maduro Abduction | Common Dreams
11·2 months ago[behind right-wing opposition leader María Corina Machado]
She is not “right wing”. She is pro-democracy. She was the real winner of the 2024 election is a landslide but Maduro wouldn’t leave office. Which is what people worry about Treason Trump doing. CNN has shit journalists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/María_Corina_Machado
[In 2023, Machado won the opposition primary to become the unity candidate for the 2024 presidential election. The Venezuelan government subsequently barred her from running in the election.[1] She named Corina Yoris as a replacement candidate, who was later replaced by Edmundo González. The opposition presented vote tallies that showed González winning the July 2024 election in a landslide, while the government-run National Electoral Council declared victory for Maduro without presenting evidence.[2] Shortly after the presidential election, Machado announced that she had gone into hiding, citing fears for her life and freedom under the Maduro government.[3]
In 2025, Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She was named one of BBC’s 100 Women in 2018, and listed among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2025. In 2024, Machado received the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize and the Sakharov Prize (shared with González) for representing Venezuelans fighting for democracy]
btaf45@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•US sees spike in flu cases in December, after most severe season since 2018
1·2 months agoMake America Not So Great Again
btaf45@midwest.socialOPtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•NASA's Largest Library Shut Down By Trump Administration. Books Will Be 'Tossed Away'
13·2 months agoMake American Not Great Again
btaf45@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Trump gives a partisan prime-time address insisting the economy is stronger than many voters feel
1·3 months agoTraitorapist Trump effectively said this:
“Why aren’t people believing my lies anymore?? Obviously I need to be telling more lies since people aren’t believing my lies.”
btaf45@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, former Trump loyalist, says she is resigning from Congress
4·3 months agoMarjorie, you are a bully for years and then you reveal yourself to be a sniveling coward at the very moment you stop being a bully. You are pathetic.
btaf45@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Grok generates sycophantic praise for Elon Musk after new update
2·3 months ago“Elon’s intelligence ranks among the top 10 minds in history”“Elon’s narcissism ranks among the top 10 sociopaths in history”
btaf45@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•The 'Surprising' Pro-Slavery Reason Why George Washington Rejected Black Soldiers During the Revolutionary War
3·3 months ago[Ken Burns six-episode docuseries The American Revolution premieres on PBS Nov. 16]
Darn I missed the first episode.
btaf45@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Trump Escalates War on Leftists With Antifa Foreign Terror Label
2·4 months agoAnti-Christianity and anti-capitalism have nothing at all to do with “terrorism”. There are plenty of Christian and capitalist and neofascist terrorists as we all saw on 1-6-2001. The founding fathers said in the Tripoli treaty that the USA is not a Christian country, it is a country with freedom of religion. Even “anti-American” does not necessarily mean anyone is engaged in terrorism. Probably only a small fraction of such people are. Ironically Traitorapist Trump and GOP neofascist’s War On Democracy are the chief anti-American threat in the country today.
btaf45@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Trump Escalates War on Leftists With Antifa Foreign Terror Label
4·4 months agoThe Republican Party needs a terrorism label.
btaf45@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
3·4 months agoThey probably aren’t even counting all the political scams and disinformation. In the past year FB has tried to push right wing extremist propaganda from about 40-50 different sources on me, despite me banning each one, one at a time. What the fuck FB??? Why are you trying super hard to peddle Fascism on Americans? Why are the people running FB such incredible sociopaths? I also got 4 posts from left/liberal sources, and I rejected those too. Why the f*ck would anybody wish to use something as crappy and untrustworthy as Facebook to get political information from? Only if the source was Bernie Sanders himself would I consider “subscribing”.
Zuckerberg deserves the phrase “fascist sociopath” on his tombstone.
btaf45@midwest.socialOPtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•‘Good luck, losers’: Gavin Newsom responds to Republican lawsuit over Prop 50
21·4 months agoAt the same time, nobody loves to fold a winning hand more than the Democrats.
That’s what so great about Newsom accomplishing this. After making some early missteps, Newsom is successfully fighting back and it is so refreshing to see that it’s not just progressives anymore who are pushing back hard against Traitorapist Trump.
btaf45@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson
4·4 months agoHe lovingly caters to a class so wealthy that they feel no allegence to any country or nation. While at the same time decrying globalists.
This is an excellent point.
The term globalist is just another dogwhistle in the long history of fascist dogwhistles.
Traitorapist Trump getting billions of $$ from the Saudis for his “cybercoin” he invented out of thin air makes him quite the globalist also.
btaf45@midwest.socialOPtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Lawrence O'Donnell Brutally Highlights Latest Reason Why 'Donald Trump Is Living In Fear'
3·4 months agoLawrence O’Donnell regularly delivers devastating critiques on Trump, his incompetent flunkies, and the embarrassing failure of the media such as the New York Times and white house press corps to cover him competently. He often compares today’s events with how things worked in the past to show just how badly things have become fucked up today. This is my favorite news show and the only one I record so I don’t miss it.
btaf45@midwest.socialtoYe Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Lemmy.world thinks "(reverse oppression|misandry)" exists
13·4 months agoMisandry exists
Yes. But that still doesn’t justify lemmy.world PTB censoring speech. People need to understand that censoring speech (except for hate speech) is almost always counter productive because it deprives us of a chance to tell those that are wrong why they are wrong and for people to hear why they are wrong. And possibly a chance to learn something new.
btaf45@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Hey, Lefties! Trump Has Stolen Your Game.
1·4 months agoI noticed the striking similarities between the US Republican Party and the Russian Communist Party long ago. The lip service about “smaller government” while in reality loving victimless crime laws and big brother government. The love of dishonesty and disinformation. Encouraging followers to suspend all critical thinking skills and embrace shallow dogmas and cult of personality. Trying to rule through bullying and intimidation. Love of authoritarianism. The ultimate emphasis on raw power over ideology.
This stuff is especially ironic given the false claims of right wing kooks that anything they don’t like is “communist”. Republicans are the actual “communist” threat because they use the same tactics and have the same contempt for democracy as the Bolsheviks.
btaf45@midwest.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•‘I am not done’: Kamala Harris says she may run for president again
11·4 months agoYou fucked things up big time with your incompetent campaign Kamala. You don’t have a clue how to run against Traitorapist Trump and you totally lied when you said you would “prosecute the case against him”. Stay the hell away now.













[ Brett Kavanaugh who wrote the main dissent, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito]
These people are a disgrace to the nation. I’m absolutely ashamed of them for not being loyal to our Constitution and core values.