Pedro L. Gonzalez

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Pedro L. Gonzalez
@emeriticus
Aug 16
The right sees itself as being in a struggle against a coalition of nonwhites, immigrants, and their white allies. It uses terms like "Third Worldism" to describe the opposing force, and it is willing to accept unlimited abuse of power, unprecedented corruption, and cruelty as
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Pedro L. Gonzalez
@emeriticus
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A year ago, Milo was posting “I fucking love tyranny” and “tyranny please.” Well, MAGA is tyrannical. He got what he asked for. And the people who defended Milo when he got what he wanted were opponents of tyranny on the left and libertarians. I sincerely hope he comes away from
Eric Michael Garcia
@EricMGarcia
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Milo Yiannopoulos says he's "ashamed" of supporting Trump. "I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would never have got involved in supporting Trump in the first place and I'm very ashamed that I did.”
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Pedro L. Gonzalez
@emeriticus
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I think the GOP has convinced itself that it can galvanize the public to support the war in Iran by vilifying Muslims in general. It's obviously not working and you get bizarre moments like this where Mike Johnson just says that Muslims lie as a rule, like it's the most casual
FactPost
@factpostnews
16h
Mike Johnson on Iran negotiations: "It's part of their religion that they can just lie"
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Pedro L. Gonzalez
@emeriticus
15h
Let he who has not allegedly tossed scalding hot water on his wife and broken his daughter's collarbone and then posted possible CSAM material of said daughter online while holding her stuffed animal hostage throw the first stone against this "great member of Congress"
Manu Raju
@mkraju
Aug 31
Asked Speaker Johnson if he supports GOP Rep. Max Miller’s reelection bid. “Yes,” he said. “He has been a great member of Congress. He has some issues in his personal life he's working through.” Says there’s an Ethics Committee probe and “we have to let due process play out.”
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Pedro L. Gonzalez
@emeriticus
16h
She's good at this
Acyn
@Acyn
Aug 31
PabloReports: What do you make of Trump saying Americans who oppose data centers are backwards and poor? AOC: I mean, how about we put one in Mar-a-Lago? I love that. Let’s put a data center at Mar-a-Lago, and we’ll see how backwards and poor he is in response to that.
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