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OK. You failed reading comprehension 101. No, you won't be arrested for showing a voter id card. What they passed is a rogue municipality cannot contradict state laws on voter eligibility not requiring voter id.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 5, 2025
The issue is the difficulty in explaining a vote that makes you look soft on sex offenders or lynch mobs. That's exactly what Musk is naively responding to. The issue is more side effects of relevant legislation, including on individual rights built into our legal system.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 5, 2025
This is not what it seems. Aliens committing crimes are already subject to deportation (8 U.S. Code § 1227). There are some nuances as to age of the offender and prison time served. The bill here is virtue-signaling Trumpkin xenophobic rubbishhttps://t.co/9qlwjnjpBC https://t.co/qqN5teBajs
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 5, 2025
No, Obama wasn't the best, and Trump was not the worst. People draw on their own political experience and on whatever they were taught in school about earlier ones. All the recent Presidents have been bad, promoters of the unconstitutional imperial Presidency. https://t.co/R6DEwy9eIk
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 5, 2025
Congratulations to George W. Bush on the birth of his first grandson, Edward Finn Coyne (mother Barbara). Edward has a 2-year-old big sister, Cora Georgia.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 5, 2025
You know, this partisan obsession with ageist comments about Biden is annoying and hypocritical. Remember, Trump is the same age as Biden was starting this term. Trump says batsh*t crazy stuff ALL THE TIME. He recently confused windmills with windfall profit taxes.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 5, 2025
Schumer
Of course. No one is above the law. Others are prosecuted over falsifying business data.https://t.co/x5YIidTafl
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 5, 2025
If Trump pardons anyone convicted of personal injury or property damage, it will be an impeachable abuse of the pardon power. Let the hypocritical convicted felon explain to police unions why he let his criminal mob assault 140 officers without paying the price.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 5, 2025
The left has hyped the white supremacist threat beyond a statistically negligible fringe. That being said, Trump's mishandling of the Charlottesville was so incompetently handled, defending scum chanting Nazi "blood and soil" slogans, that Trump's failure exacerbated things.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 5, 2025
Hillary Clinton is not my choice for such an honor. I thought she badly mishandled the Benghazi mission security issue, and she used her own email account against policy over government-secured communication systems. https://t.co/8tmOGLa5V5
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 5, 2025
You have got to see the Vele touchdown reception in the Denver game against KC. Hint: it was a multiple deflection.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 5, 2025
Congratulations, Aaron Rodgers, on #500 career touchdown pass.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 5, 2025
Absolutely none of this will happen. Don't believe snake oil salesmen.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 6, 2025
Probably pissed we required him to take the GMAT, he obviously blew off the GMAT and got the lowest score I've ever seen or heard of. We weren't thrilled with his attitude but put him through. I thought given his credentials, the test requirement should have been waived.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 6, 2025
(2/2)
I'm sure that Donald Trump will claim he graduated from Electoral College with a 4.0 GPA. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 6, 2025
There is only so much FNC I can take in one sitting. They kept rotating the headline Trump was the second highest vote getter in history, the first Republican to win the popular vote since Bush, and Kamala is the worst Dem nominee in electoral votes since 1988.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 6, 2025
Maybe Elon should spend more time trying to jumpstart slumping car sales and less time kissing Trump's ass.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 6, 2025
Maybe you might expect Musk would know Soros himself didn't personally attend but sent one of his kids.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 6, 2025
My great-grandparents emigrated from Quebec and never looked back. No, I don't have any interest in Canadian provinces becoming American states. I'm sure Trump just wants access to Canada's oil and minerals wealth.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 6, 2025
"51st State"
I give the Dems credit for fully cooperating in the American tradition of the peaceful transfer of power, unlike the sore loser who preceded Biden in office.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 6, 2025
Well, I got swerved on the first Netflix WWE Raw. i thought for sure after the inevitable Reigns victory over Solo, that the Rock was going to turn on Reigns and claim he was the REAL tribal chief.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
This Trumpkin is arguing that Biden is being 'rude'. Let's be clear: asking procative questions over age is more Jerry Springer than journalism. And Trump is the Jerry Springer of politics. https://t.co/5mqNFb7Dro
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
The fact is, Trump in 3 elections never won a majority of votes and only beat Harris by 1.5 points. Harris barely ran for 3 months. She showed more class in one day today ttan Trump over 10 years. I'm saying this as someone who didn't vote for either of them.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
"VP Harris"
Trumpkin trolls love to parrot everything RINO Felon Trump says. This fantasy that Trump can prosecute federal prosecutors because they were doing their duty in going after a criminal (Trump) ignores the reality of prosectorial immunity. Trump loses more money in frivolous suits. https://t.co/AQaLE6baqe
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
Pence showed more class and patriotism on J6 than RINO Felon Trump has shown in his whole life. https://t.co/GPaoQ4zAng
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
The first WWE Raw on Netflix was okay, but the faces won their matches and no new returns. (Maybe they're waiting for the Rumble.) I think product placenents are overdone; I could have done without Snickers on the mat and Hulk pushing his beer.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
In my lifetime, Eisenhower {2), Nixon, Reagan (2), and GHW Bush dwarfed Trump's 2024 electoral votes. And, unlike Trump, they won a majority of popular votes, something Trump didn't achieve in 3 elections.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
There are legitimate reasons to reject unqualified Pete Hegseth. Cherokee Lizzie needs to stop reading crackpot nefarious meanings into tattoos. My late dad, USAF retired, had a different one done before he married Mom. I didn't repeat his mistake.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
"Elizabeth Warren"
I oppose pushing-on-a-string xenophobic legislation specifically targeting immigrants who overall are more law-abiding than native Americans. All US residents are equally expected to respect the natural rights to life, liberty and property of other Americans.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
"Laken Riley Act"
How old is this clip? Newsom is term-limited.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
I do not believe that a self-serving dismissal of Trump's criminal cases or a self-pardon will pass judicial scrutiny. This is blatantly corrupt.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
Listening to RINO Felon Trump lie his way through a presser. I do not like this hypocritical "law and order" SOB personally attacking Judge Merchan. He incompetently references Judge Cannon's dismissal of the documents case based on a special counsel prosecution. (1/2)
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
I don't care what dumbass RINO Felon Trump calls the Gulf of Mexico. Basically Mexico has no Atlantic coast but its coast faces the Gulf and Caribbean. The access to Mexico was historically important. Spanish explorers explored and/or settled the entire coast.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
"Gulf of America"
No to Trumpist imperialism! No to a US takeover of Greenland, no to annexing Canada or trying to steal the Panama Canal. The territory was always Panama's sovereign territory, and there's no evidence the treaty of neutrality has been violated against US shipping.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
This is Soft Rock America. Peter Yarrow has passed. Here is one of Peter, Paul & Mary's greatest hits; https://t.co/Lqyr4Aa5ax
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
RINO Felon Trump "don't know much about history". None of the Gulf Coast was originally American; nearly all was primarily Spanish or French-settled territory. Mexico was a primary focus of sixteenth-century Spanish explorers and settlers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
"New America"
I never even thought that Dumbass RINO Felon Trump could create even more chaos as if he didn't have his own plate full going into office. The guy is already destabilizing a fragile global economy with trade wars, nobody wants to buy more Trump debt, and he's just started.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
One of my favorite economists, Tom DiLorenzo, has an alternative slogan, 100X better than RINO Felon Trump's: Make America Free Again!
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
If Trump so much as orders even a single soldier to be mobilized to support Trump's lust for Greenland, Panama or Canada, we need to impeach the RINO Felon. So help me if Trumpkins like MTG who ran on Trump's America First hoax stand by silently....
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
"Article 5"
HFCS: "Some researchers say high-fructose corn syrup contributes to obesity, but others have argued that it’s a misunderstood ingredient and no worse than sugar." Not enough human subject to normal diet exposure.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
OMG, people who have never had Blue Bell ice cream have no idea what they're missing. I have to limit desserts because of health. I've lived in over 10 states, and there's a reason I take trips back to my home state of Texas.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
Not only is Blue Bell better than anything sold in Ohio. But you're going to have to pay for it, because Texas chili is also better than Cincinnati's and Texas football is an institution.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
He did in a humiliating way, telling me in front of the whole class: "Do you know why...?" I didn't know I had been nominated although I earned straight A's. I responded I participated in UIL. He responded I did that for myself. I didn't know what motivated his outburst at me.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 7, 2025
Because Biden failed.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
Nope. She is a career politician. She's unprincipled. She tried and failed to pose as a centrist in the general election and came across as unauthentic.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
The MAGA cultists were told America First. But his first term he chose neo-cons. They aren't going to leave him when he lies. This is a guy who told them Mexico would pay for his wall.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
No. He's no saint. He claims to be Catholic but he's pro-abort and openly defies the Church on the issue. If you can rationalize killing babies, your morals are BS. https://t.co/Es2WPrqZh4
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
Nope. The RINO Felon hypocrite pretends to be law and order except when his mob injures 140 cops and damages public property.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
Remember the RINO Felon had Junior meet with Russians in 2016 when they hoped the Russians could give them political dirt on Clinton.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
Well, it never happened before the RINO Felon.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
I think the issue is 2 other defendants in the classified documents case. And Trumpkin pet judge has ruled against it. https://t.co/kRxVC9xi43
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
Everyone who voted for Harris forgot what happened in the 2020 primary.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
NO. Thune should not be playing divisive politics. He may need Schiff's vote one day.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
Yeah. Let's hear the RINO Felon's fix for bird flu.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
Yeah, but is the RINO Felon willing to pay Canada enough to take them off his hands?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
No. This guy has zero military leadership experience. Beyond unqualified and incompetent. Anyone voting for him should lose reelection.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
No. Two wrongs don't make a right.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
If the RINO Felon abuses the pardon power, he should be impeached.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
Oba Femi has won the WWE NXT championship. The best big man wrestler I've seen in some time.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
The Rock's hyped promo at WWE NXT really didn't amount to much. I thought maybe he was there to give the rub to certain talents. It seemed to be more to tell the fans their feedback was critical in promoting the right talent to the main roster.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
Second, we have to learn to be more tolerant of others who disagree with us. I personally consider elective abortion to be an abomination. Two good friends are pro-aborts. We agree to disagree and move on. I have voted for libertarians who disagree. The OP cuts off good people.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
Local workers have some number of advantages: "many places will hire a US citizen over an H-1B worker. It's cheaper and there's less paperwork ." Not to mention H-1B's are not exempt from layoffs and have 60 days to find another job.https://t.co/bKHYEnCnUv
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
I'm seething over Sen. Schmitt (R-MO) on Fox News Sunday spreading misinformation about the H-1B program. i have worked with immigrant tech workers. These Trumpkin xenophobes are trying to cut LEGAL immigration, as Trump did in his first term. So, they pay lip service to legal,
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
Wow, seriously? Someone may be losing her home and your response is to hell with you because we disagree politically? We need to be more tolerant of others. https://t.co/9CUXATNBHI
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
Dumbass Fetterman doesn't understand violent crimes are prosecuted against anyone, citizen or alien. This is just virtue-signaling partisan rubbish. https://t.co/yOAQTHc2jh
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
I had been away from my home state of Texas so long i had never heard of them until a nephew bought me some snacks one Christmas.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
Buc-ees
I don't know why the RINO Felon thinks SCOTUS has any influence over his criminal trial subject to NY state court. No, falsifying NY business records is not an official duty of POTUS. The dumbass thinks, like Blagojevich, SCOTUS gave him a golden ticket.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 8, 2025
i'm sick and tired of RINO Felon Trump being an attention-seeking publicity whore. He didn't run on these crackpot ideas of renaming the Gulf, annexing Greenland, etc. Not to mention all the moronic Trumpkin parrots like MTG shrieking "Eureka!" at every stupid Trump spitball
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 9, 2025
I'm waiting for the Mexican legislature to rename its northern neighbor " The United States of Northern Mexico". #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 9, 2025
I don't know why RINO Felon Trump is trying to insert himself into the California fire tragedy with childish political insults and incompetent analyses like trying to make himself relevant over the pandemic. He thinks he's an expert with his 50-cent plastic fireman's helmet?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 9, 2025
i think we can all agree James Woods is a particularly annoying stupid Trumpkin but finding satisfaction in the man's world burning down is a sickness in our culture. We need to be more supportive of victims in tragic circumstances.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 9, 2025
RINO Felon Trump directly called Justice Alito under the pretext of verifying a relevant job reference. I really think that SCOTUS has a vested interest in avoiding the appearance of collusion between the judicial and executive branches.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 9, 2025
I don't expect Hunter Biden to speak at RINO Felon Trump's funeral when he finally croaks.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 9, 2025
"Gerald Ford"
Tkere is ZERO rationalization for SCOTUS to intervene in a matter of NY state criminal law. The RINO Felon Trump thins he's above the law, and the earlier immunity ruling has no relevance on his private duties while POTUS. Amy Comey Barrett and Chief Justice Roberts were right. https://t.co/42IHHFXJao
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
Judge Merchan has already signaled he will not sentence the RINO Felon Trump to serve time. in the meanwhile the corrupt pathological liar Trump insists he didn't try to pass off hush money to a porn star as a business expense and hypocritically tries to call the judge "corrupt"
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
Oh, hell no. Cannon's amateurish dismissal of the classified documents case is reversible error, and you don't even get nominated to a court of appeal on judicial incompetence. https://t.co/t8itlaLVo8
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
I'm not sure why in the Merchan Trump case so many people seem to think SCOTUS can trump judgments of the state constitutional justice system. There are very narrow grounds for appeal, none of which cover Trump's private business misconduct while POTUS. https://t.co/Pf4TClhK2v
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
No doubt RINO Felon Trump is telling his lawyers to find him a way to fire Associate Justice Amy Barrett for disloyalty over his Hail Mary appeal to avoid the official stigma of becoming the first Presidential felon. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
Trump files so many frivolous lawsuits I wonder if as a teen he tried to go to court to have his virginity restored after he he botched his first sexual experience. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
Let me get this right: Trumpkins are upset "Karen Pence" at the Carter funeral didn't choose to shake of the man whose lynch mob wanted to kill her husband on J6? Trump, whose hands have grabbed women by the p*?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
With all due respect, I disagree with Judge Merchan's unconditional discharge on RINO Convicted Felon Trump's financial records misconduct. I do think it amounts to a double standard & at minimum a hefty fine should have been imposed & some oversight over Trump's business acts.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
This is Soft Rock America. I was watching the CNN countdown on RINO Felon Trump's sentencing:https://t.co/rOL6T2CZqw
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
Stormy Daniels addressed this. She said in effect she was being legally extorted by RINO Convicted Felon Trump's legal team.https://t.co/xUeVDHftvt
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
I generally think that a federal legislator should pay respect to the Office of the Presidency, not necessarily the occupant. Nobody is more Never Trump than me but I'll probably watch the inauguration. The Congresswoman can make her decisions, but she needs bipartisan help. https://t.co/yB7pV1Vj2P
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
Are the Trumpkins predicting his tombstone?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
"Trump 2028"
Only in Trump world does anyone believe Trump wasn't paying hush money to Stormy Daniels. Trump is a self-admitted womanizer and sex scandals have been known to derail political careers. Trump had a tabloid friend catching and killing stories.https://t.co/tl8VYqF2mT
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
A weird down day on Wall Street; one of those "buy the rumor, sell the news", i.e., investors are worried a hot job market might rekindle inflation and end future Fed rate cuts. I'm sure the jobs numbers are overstated, but Dems will try to argue they left Trump a hot economy
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
"Using the Tax Foundation’s General Equilibrium Model, we estimate the Trump-Biden Section 301 and Section 232 tariffs will reduce long-run GDP by 0.2 percent, the capital stock by 0.1 percent, and hours worked by 142,000 full-time equivalent jobs."https://t.co/CmwOLGc52G
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
Trump, by pressuring the Fed into premature rate cuts, could reignite inflation, for which of course he'll try to blame his political opposition.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
It's hard pretending to be as stupid as Trump is on the economy. (He still doesn't understand the trade deficit.) But I guarantee he doesn't like a strong dollar (cheaper imports, more expensive exports). He wants the Fed to supercharge the economy through rate cuts.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
OMG! One should not be making decisions about your family's health based on unverified, anecdotal claims by a movie star or some podcaster with no earned science credentials.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
Ivermectin is no miracle cure beyond its own anti-parasitic evidence.https://t.co/mcs7C8rdgF https://t.co/8Ew76vrQx8
I don't really drink cow's milk much any more (the carbs), but my late dad used to work on a New England relative's farm during his teen summers and would swear by raw milk. It is available in many states. the data behind pasteurization are compelling.https://t.co/TrBZobV9uC
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
Leftists are in a state of denial. The OP is repeating Obama's perplexity at why Midwesterners were clinging to their guns and Bibles when he was offering them a better deal on taxes. The 1% does not explain how Trump almost got 50% of the vote. Households did worse under Biden. https://t.co/1UKcYabdml
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
What the GOP is talking about are more structural reforms. The Dems have spent a lot of money on things like guaranteeing above-market union wages on federal projects, subsidizing EV's only higher-income can afford, overregulation which costs jobs and inflation, etc.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 10, 2025
Leftist Dems may be the only ones more obnoxious than Trumpkins.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 11, 2025
"aging hooker wife"? The Daily Mail published related claims and was forced to retract their story.
This "Christian" was apparently watching Trump while others were praying. Judgmental?https://t.co/jL4WPnpxxK https://t.co/IcNt5F4Qjp
All recent Presidents suck, including Trump and Biden. Our country is strong and resilient enough to survive failed presidencies. Oprah is welcome to exercise her freedom to travel. There are a lot of people willing to help her before she changes her mind. https://t.co/b2eXrCN6OV
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 11, 2025
I'm curious why most on Twitter failed to point out that the Cotton Bowl matchup was ironic because Texas QB Quinn Ewers was initially recruited by Ohio State. He could have been starting for the team playing for the championship.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 12, 2025
just for the record: I as a Texas fan was in the Arch Manning camp before QB Ewers' fatal turnover in the Cotton Bowl. I simply know Manning is a better quarterback. Lots of trolls mocking us arguing Manning is one bad game away from us fickle fans turning on him. Nope.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 12, 2025
Quote of the Day
Some people say that dreaming gets you nowhere in life.Courtesy of Margolis & Cox via Townhall
Tears For Fears - Shout