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 When I think about the failed candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, as well as the attempts of the likes of JD Vance or Ron DeSantis to reach the White House, I'm left with a reoccurring question: why? Sure, the President of the United States can command the military and federal agencies. But other than using them to protect yourself, what good is that? How did Bill Clinton, GW Bush, Barack Obama Donald Trump or Joe Biden use their powers as president to help their citizens in a way that uplifted the country? Not individual people who already had the means or companies/corporations who already had access to power, but people in the 99%?  Who did the Crime Bill ultimately help? What about the Patriot Act? The Affordable Care Act? The Build Back Better Act? The Big Beautiful Bill? And that's just domestically. Not one of these presidents could resist the temptation to attack another nation under the guise of "protecting American interests" which is code for...

More can be found here .  Bonus: Claude McKay 's " If We Must Die " If we must die, let it be not like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

 

 

 

 

 It's not a bombshell reveal if the feds have been working on the issue beforehand. But sure, keep blaming immigration for the problems that capitalism is causing (which includes immigration): Again for those in the back: if the United States stop bombing countries, the survivors would not immigrate to America. The claims of people coming here to "steal" from us may sound rational to the desperate, but the better explanation is they're hoping to move to the one place America won't blow up: itself.

 

 Respect to Ahmed Al Ahmed:

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Like the video explained: he's a Christian and an American, so what could be the problem with him besides ideology and racism?

 

 

 

 If you said, "With an anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant fervor at a level that seems to want to distract from the Epstein story," you are very, very close: