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06/04/2026
The House passed a bill to end the Iran war. Contact your senators now and tell them to end the war in Iran! From The Ne...
06/04/2026

The House passed a bill to end the Iran war. Contact your senators now and tell them to end the war in Iran!

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A measure to direct an end to U.S. engagement in Iran was adopted with a handful of Republicans in support, sending a signal of opposition to the president’s handling of the war.

In a coup, you control the media first:“CBS News fired Scott Pelley on Tuesday, jettisoning one of the network’s best-kn...
06/03/2026

In a coup, you control the media first:

“CBS News fired Scott Pelley on Tuesday, jettisoning one of the network’s best-known journalists in a clash over the future of ‘60 Minutes,’ the country’s top-rated news program.

“Mr. Pelley, 68, a ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent and a former anchor of ‘CBS Evening News,’ joined the network in 1989. At a staff meeting on Monday, he accused the network’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss, of ‘murdering ‘60 Minutes,’citing the ouster last week of the program’s leadership team and two on-air correspondents.

“It also raises the stakes of Ms. Weiss’s surprising decision to replace the entire leadership team at ‘60 Minutes,’ CBS News’s most successful franchise, and hire Mr. Bilton, who has no experience in broadcast TV, to oversee the show. The program’s viewership was up 9 percent this past season from a year prior, and the show is routinely among the nation’s highest-rated weekly broadcasts, according to Nielsen.”

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Mr. Pelley, a former “CBS Evening News” anchor, was ousted after months of tensions between staff and Bari Weiss, the network’s editor in chief.

Alright, Trump supporters, I've got a few more questions I'm going to need you all to answer for me. I'm not looking for...
06/03/2026

Alright, Trump supporters, I've got a few more questions I'm going to need you all to answer for me. I'm not looking for a debate — I'm looking for actual answers so I can better understand a "baseline" of what I should expect from MAGA world.

1. How many cognitive tests would Donald Trump need to admit taking (he's apparently been asked to take four so far) before you all admit that something is clearly wrong considering his doctors keep asking him to take these exams?

2. In a bit of a follow-up to #1, with him claiming that these exams are "very challenging," and we know that they're only supposed to be difficult for those suffering from cognitive decline, is your take that he is suffering from early-onset dementia, or that he's lying about the difficulty of these exams to make himself look smart?

3. In another follow-up to #2, if your answer is that he's lying about the difficulty of these tests, not that he has dementia, to make himself appear more intelligent, then why does he feel the need to lie about this?

4. Can you explain to me how a private equity guy mostly known for his links to Pulte Homes makes him qualified to run our national intelligence?

5. After 10+ years, I'm still a bit confused by "Make America Great Again." Can you please tell me specifically what period of time in this nation's history that refers to? It would be helpful to know so I can compare the policies of that time, especially economically, to what this president is currently pursuing. I mean, it's only logical that if we're trying to "get back to greatness," then we would be passing tax and economic policies that align with that time, right?

6. You all think Trump's a "strong, alpha male" type. Okay, fair enough. Then how much of his online social media whining about things being "unfair" or "totally rigged" is too much? Do you all know many "tough alpha males" in your social circles and families who constantly complain that things are "unfair" and play themselves up as perpetual victims?

7. If Donald Trump truly can't be kept safe anywhere but a ballroom, then how come he seems to be fine going to public golfing events, such as a PGA event in Miami, a LIV Golf event in Virginia, UFC events in the past, and his upcoming plans to attend an NBA Finals game in New York City? Aren't those all very public spaces that exist far outside of the White House and the safety of a ballroom?

8. Assuming you've justified Trump's lawsuit against the IRS over the release of his tax returns — even though he promised he would release them but never did — how does that justify the provision in this "settlement" that the IRS is then barred from being able to audit him, his family, or their businesses? What does that have to do with the leaking of tax documents?

9. Trump skipped his son's wedding after going golfing the weekend before and after — can you please justify that for me? If he was too busy to go to his son's wedding, couldn't he have skipped golfing on the weekends surrounding that event to make time to be there for his oldest son?

10. If the 2020 election was "totally stolen," and he's been president for over one-third of his current presidency, when are we going to see all that "overwhelming evidence" he claims exists? How much longer are you going to keep buying his stance that the 2020 election was "rigged" without showing the public this evidence, before you would admit that he's been lying this entire time?

Again, I'm not looking for a debate — though I'll gladly accept one. I would just appreciate some feedback from MAGA folks so I can set a true baseline for how I'm supposed to approach Trump supporters and set proper expectations, since they all seem to believe the rest of us are just "dumb libtards" for believing what we believe.

So I'll use their words and answers to these questions to gauge where their thresholds and justifications are, to either set proper expectations or set the record straight that they're willing to justify anything and everything simply because Donald Trump says so.

Which would then just prove it's a cult, and we can settle that "debate" — even though I don't believe there's much of one — on whether or not the majority of Trump supporters are part of a cult called "MAGA."
….Allen Clifton

06/02/2026

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