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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
Skip & Flip - Cherry Pie
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You don't get harmony
Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind
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You can easily judge the character of others
Paul Anka, "My Home Town"
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Politics, n. Strife of interests masqueradingNeil Sedaka - Stairway To Heaven
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Facts are facts and will not disappearBrook Benton & Dinah Washington -- A Rockin' Good Way
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We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling.Bobby Rydell - Swinging School
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When the Japanese mend broken objects,
Among My Souvenirs-Connie Francis
The most recent weekly CDC stats:
[Against the lab leak hypothesis] “At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a concern that the distance between Wuhan and the bat virus reservoir was too extreme for a zoonotic origin,” Wertheim said. “This paper shows that it isn't unusual and is, in fact, extremely similar to the emergence of SARS-CoV-1 in 2002.” The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years before the disease first emerged in humans up to 2,700 kilometers away in Central China, according to a new study by University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues. That’s not enough time for the evolving virus to have been carried there via the natural dispersal of its primary host, the horseshoe bat. This has led the researchers to conclude that it instead hitched a ride there with other animals via the wildlife trade, consistent with what happened during the SARS outbreak in 2002. The study was published in Cell on May 7, 2025. Horseshoe bats are the main hosts of sarbecoviruses. These viruses don’t harm the bats, but are thought to have made the leap to humans through “zoonotic spillover” events. Sarbecoviruses gave rise to severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronaviruses including SARS-CoV-1, the strain that caused the SARS pandemic of 2002-2004, and SARS-CoV-2, the strain that resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic. How they got to the places where these events occurred and whether animals besides bats were involved has been a matter of ongoing debate, however. The researchers calculated that given the distances that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 would have had to cover so quickly, it is highly improbable that they could have been carried there via bat dispersal. Much more likely: they were transported there accidentally by wild animal traders via intermediate hosts. In fact, previous studies have suggested that SARS-CoV-1 was likely carried from Yunnan Province in Western China to Guangdong Province by infected palm civets or raccoon dogs — animals commonly traded for their fur and meat. However, the current study provides the strongest evidence to date that SARS-CoV-2 made it to humans in a similar manner.“The viruses most closely related to the original SARS coronavirus were found in palm civets and raccoon dogs in southern China, hundreds of miles from the bat populations that were their original source,” said co-senior author Michael Worobey, Ph.D., professor and head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at The University of Arizona. For more than two decades the scientific community has concluded that the live-wildlife trade was how those hundreds of miles were covered. We’re seeing exactly the same pattern with SARS-CoV-2.”
The blog is still attracting a dubiously high number of pageviews, although it doesn't show up in the short run for daily posts, struggling to reach double digits. My typing is slower and I haven't published at my pre-interlude clip; I used to publish my media digest and journal posts every weekend. I may return to that pace soon. On X, no high-impression tweets lately but I did reach 100 followers for the the first time. I promptly lost 4, only to regain replacements. I am annoyed at my feed being flooded with Trumpkin posts.
A personal pet peeve: the excommunication of sports heroes who have allegedly engaged in unconscionable behavior. Probably the most obvious example is late WWE wrestler Chris Benoit. who killed his family in a murder/suicide. WWE over the last 18 years has basically censored references to Benoit in programming. I'm not excusing Benoit's crimes, but those are separate from his work as an entertainer. I don't believe a definitive explanation has explained his crimes: steroids? Brain injuries? Some details lead me to suspect mental illness. It's not the only example. Icon Hulk Hogan is highly unpopular in the aftermath of alleged racist behavior.
What brings this to mind is the posthumous reinstatement of Shoeless Joe Jackson, implicated in the 1919 Black Sox betting scandal, and Pete Rose, suspended for betting on games as a manager. There is no evidence that the betting scandal ever affected the play on the diamond. Hopefully they'll finally be voted into the Hall of Fame.
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Pay no attention to what the critics say...
Fats Domino - Walking to New Orleans
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Every truth has four corners:
Brenda Lee -- That's All You Gotta Do
Trumpkins went ballistic when Amazon telegraphed exposing Trump's surtaxes/tariffs to consumers while hypocritically pretending to be the most transparent administration ever. At the same time, they lie telling consumers source nations or middlemen will eat the costs of Trump tax
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 30, 2025
No. Rand Paul has been for free trade from the get-go as a fellow libertarian. In fact. the GOP had been pro-free trade since WWII through George W. Bush. Protectionism is bad economics. https://t.co/lvEuMeQb4P
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
No. Freedom of religion is part of the foundation of America.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
Rubbish. The Constitution has no such qualification.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
I support Musk's opposition to tariffs and cuts in immigration.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
This is lunacy. Direct federal loans vs. guaranteed loans exploded under Obama. Reagan unlike Obama opposed nationalization of student loans. Some try to argue Reagan's cuts to federal funding shifted the cost burden to student debtorshttps://t.co/041NkQAjJM
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
Asylum status is US law. RINO Felon in Chief Trump has to enforce US law, not rewrite it.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
blockquote class="twitter-tweet">The same political whore who is attempting to eliminate the Department of Education is using Harvard as a political scapegoat. He has zero constitutional authority to intervene in the internal affairs of a private educational institution.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
Well, Trumpkins are lying; consumers pay tariffs, not foreign governments. What the trade warriors seem to suggest is that prices may not rise to the full amount of tariffs in a competitive marketplace; foreign producers may cut prices ("eat the tariffs") to protect market share https://t.co/TNZCjfVLJo
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025No. Rand Paul has been for free trade from the get-go as a fellow libertarian. In fact. the GOP had been pro-free trade since WWII through George W. Bush. Protectionism is bad economics. https://t.co/lvEuMeQb4P
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
No. Freedom of religion is part of the foundation of America.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
Rubbish. The Constitution has no such qualification.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
I support Musk's opposition to tariffs and cuts in immigration.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
This is lunacy. Direct federal loans vs. guaranteed loans exploded under Obama. Reagan unlike Obama opposed nationalization of student loans. Some try to argue Reagan's cuts to federal funding shifted the cost burden to student debtorshttps://t.co/041NkQAjJM
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
Asylum status is US law. RINO Felon in Chief Trump has to enforce US law, not rewrite it.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
er-tweet">The same political whore who is attempting to eliminate the Department of Education is using Harvard as a political scapegoat. He has zero constitutional authority to intervene in the internal affairs of a private educational institution.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
Manipulated "fair" trade is toxic to consumers; it schemes to lower competition for goods and services. It doesn't help American producers to contain costs/hold down prices.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 30, 2025It;s amusing to see Trumpkins wanting to nominate MTG to the GA US Senate. It's like a death wish for Ossoff's reelection. It might be interesting if Kemp runs.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 1, 2025Of course, two sides can play Trump's attempts to beggar thy neighbor. One thing is absolutely clear: our economy will be worse off with Trump's trade wars.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 30, 2025
Not a Trumpkin, but keep in mind not only did Biden keep Trump first-term tariffs but added others. So the argument is that Amazon is engaging in one-sided politicshttps://t.co/OVMVMdIl8z
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 30, 2025
Let's see Putin sanction ally China over the purported lab leak theory.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 30, 2025
Well, Elon feeds off the taxpayer teat.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 30, 2025
The Trump regime's unprecedented economic uncertainty has reduced economic growth and dampened consumer confidence. Sooner or later, the GOP in Congress will pay a price for Trump's delusional megalomaniac protectionist economic policies adversely affecting household finances
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 30, 2025
Dumbass Trump is trying to scapegoat Biden for one of the worst stock markets in recent memory. Never mind the fact that the markets have crashed each time Trump has escalated his unprovoked global trade war. His disapproval numbers underscore that reality.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 30, 2025
Congratulations to Mohsen Mahdawi, the freed Columbia student which the rogue Trump regime tried to deport for exercising free expression rights
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 30, 2025
I can recall when the US auto industry shrugged off Japanese competition in the small car market. Then in 80's business schools were citing Japanese quality control and parents had their kids learning Japanese as a second language.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 1, 2025
">The same political whore who is attempting to eliminate the Department of Education is using Harvard as a political scapegoat. He has zero constitutional authority to intervene in the internal affairs of a private educational institution.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
The Chinese graduate a multiple of new American engineers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 1, 2025It;s amusing to see Trumpkins wanting to nominate MTG to the GA US Senate. It's like a death wish for Ossoff's reelection. It might be interesting if Kemp runs.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 1, 2025
No. Educated people differ politically. I'm libertarian-conservative, but I rarely expressed myself while in academia because leftists dominated academic politics. Trump is simply exploiting their hypocritical intolerance.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
The sad fact is Trumpkins smear immigrants with unproven, false gang-related allegations (CNN's Scott Jennings routinely does this). Trump the Idiot routinely slanders unauthorized aliens. https://t.co/rxCMxuE0uW
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
The WH Press Secretary simply parrots Trump's debunked talking points. I don't think you have to respond with personal attacks. Trumpkins want you to engage in elitist condescension. https://t.co/h75ubB1jX9
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
Well, Trumpkins are lying; consumers pay tariffs, not foreign governments. What the trade warriors seem to suggest is that prices may not rise to the full amount of tariffs in a competitive marketplace; foreign producers may cut prices ("eat the tariffs") to protect market share https://t.co/TNZCjfVLJo
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
No. Rand Paul has been for free trade from the get-go as a fellow libertarian. In fact. the GOP had been pro-free trade since WWII through George W. Bush. Protectionism is bad economics. https://t.co/lvEuMeQb4P
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
No. Freedom of religion is part of the foundation of America.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
Rubbish. The Constitution has no such qualification.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
I support Musk's opposition to tariffs and cuts in immigration.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
This is lunacy. Direct federal loans vs. guaranteed loans exploded under Obama. Reagan unlike Obama opposed nationalization of student loans. Some try to argue Reagan's cuts to federal funding shifted the cost burden to student debtorshttps://t.co/041NkQAjJM
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
Asylum status is US law. RINO Felon in Chief Trump has to enforce US law, not rewrite it.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
The same political whore who is attempting to eliminate the Department of Education is using Harvard as a political scapegoat. He has zero constitutional authority to intervene in the internal affairs of a private educational institution.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
Oh. hell no. Two wrongs don't make a right. https://t.co/IlE1QhMer2
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
Not me or any other intelligent American consumers. A product's origin is not indicative of its value or quality. https://t.co/ZUiMpWDegR
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
The same moron who argues there should be no department of education wants to unconstitutionally spend tax dollars on patriotically correct propaganda. https://t.co/uAOWHFhywf
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
Trump spending priorities.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
I support impeaching Blondie Bondi.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
CNN points out, contrary to dumbass Trump, parents aren't buying their kids 30 Chinese dolls. They are paying for quality strollers, car seats, etc., over 90% made in China, and recently up 30% in price because of Trump's taxes on American parents.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 2, 2025
No, I'm libertarian and believe in freedom of movement. If you've been here a decade or longer, you are a de facto American. What the Trump xenophobes are doing is fundamentally immoral and
Idiot Trumpkins are in a state of denial over negative GDP growth in his first quarter and the damage of Trump's disastrous unprovoked trade war hasn't worked its way through the system yet.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
unjust.https://t.co/8mfn2i0KRK https://t.co/6hE864K8hJ— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
I voted against the RINO Felon in Chief, so I have no regrets about voting LP over Trump.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
Nope, union propaganda is not history. Henry Ford and other capitalists competed for workers by offering better compensation and benefits. Ford did not think overly tired workers were as productive.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
Nope. Qualifications for office are set constitutionally and cannot be changed except by amendment adoption.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
Wrong. SCOTUS did not make a finding of Trump nor has a lower court. I agree Trump is violating Garcia's due process rights, but the lower judge is still reviewing the question.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
Two wrongs don't make a right. No, taxpayers should not be wasting money on Trump's birthday. As for research dollars, government resources have competing interests, and the private sector does a good job promoting health research. https://t.co/tvDI6w1JwW
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
Trump's policies are grossly immoral and self-serving. He does not practice his alleged Christianity and gaslights faithful people with his manipulative empty rhetoric for purely political purpose.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
In the Internet age, public funding of news is unnecessary and unjustifiable, an anachronism at best.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
'Congress has the power of the purse. Trump can lawfully only veto the spending. The imperial Presidency is unconstitutional.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
Rubbish! This idiot Trumpkin is begging the question. Asylum seekers are not foreign military personnel. Asylem is written into US law.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
Nope. There are no shortcuts against due process.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
This idiot Trumpkin is wrong as usual. A POTUS cannot simply assert guilt of an alleged unauthorized alien. Trump is not an alien's judge or jury. There are legal ways to deport people; the RINO Felon in Chief is intentionally bypassing them, which is illegal and unconstitutional
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8">Idiot Trumpkins are in a state of denial over negative GDP growth in his first quarter and the damage of Trump's disastrous unprovoked trade war hasn't worked its way through the system yet.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
No. It's unconstitutional. Trump doesn't hold the power of the purse, and the economy was not in an emergency which his executive order relies on.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
As a Catholic, I'm offended by the RINO Felon in Chief posing as the pontiff. https://t.co/egLh8F1GBR
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
The GML guys, Nate and Chuck, made fun of the Trump blue suit kerfuffle at Pope Francis; funeral arguing Biden (wrong) and other guests did the same. Note the billionaire owns dark suits, which the Vatican specified for the event.Remember Zelensky at WH?https://t.co/IAdvttOobp
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
Gullible Trump presenting Photoshopped Garcia MS 13 tattoos as "fact" reminds me as an MIS PhD having to correct every Internet hoax Mom's friends were emailing her and she was forwarding. The problem is dumbass Trump is defying the Constitution over ithttps://t.co/9dJMlum174
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
The idea that government-funded news is independent is absurd by definition. There is a purpose for the First Amendment.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
The ACLU has challenged deportations under both Obama and Trump, Unlike Trump, Obama complied with due process judgments.https://t.co/i8mH6hkvpg
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
No. We insist that income be assessed for taxation under general rules despite the RINO Felon in Chief's corrupt promises to buy votes.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
Clown acts are very popular. Having a clown POTUS is no joke.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
You cannot criminalize political expression. It's unconstitutional
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
[ want Trump to finally go bankrupt.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
In response the COVID Wuhan conspiracy rubbish promoted by anti-scientific Trumpkins, China is suggesting COVID-19 originated in the US.https://t.co/TR3XAAtYaR
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
I was a paperboy. I cleared roughly a dollar per day delivering about 90 daily/Sunday papers across a south Texas AFB in the early 70's. As a work-study undergraduate, I made about $1.60/hour mopping floors and washing dishes.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
Just a reminder about the gaslighting economic illiterate Trump. He's now trying to scapegoat Biden.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 3, 2025
"During the 2024 White House race, Trump was claiming the advancing stock market as his: “THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET” because “INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN.” https://t.co/3ZxLQcgGGF
OP is lying. Inflation rate last year was 3.48%. Average inflation under Biden was 4.95%. Under Trump 1 was 2.46%.https://t.co/w0RlMP4PhQ pic.twitter.com/mJeZx8ZSMv
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
No, although some benefits may be taxed with sufficiently large income and/or some state income taxes.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Leftists fearmonger cost controls like deferring eligibility or reforming COLA increases. Everyone will get a haircut if the reserves empty by 2034 without reform.
"Trump posts AI-generated photo of himself dressed as the pope".
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
That is pretty stupid.
My native Texas grows a lot of watermelons. And also grapefruit.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Trump getting impeached and convicted.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Just a reminder immigrants have proportionately fewer violent crimes than Americans by birth.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Yes. He's a partisan hack.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Voting for Trump.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Trump really tried to seize an old woman's home for his casino parking. You have to be stupid to think he gives a damn about the middle class.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
We have a sexually obsessed, morally corrupt culture. Religion is not challenging the status quo.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Not personally, but I know of Patty Hearst and the SLA
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Marry your girlfriend.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Unarmed Ms. Babbitt was murdered by a cop over a trespassing charge. Leftist OP is objecting to a rumored DOJ settlement.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
You're a fellow libertarian.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Now you understand what we went through when Obama was POTUS.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Hell yes. Trump does not have power of the purse.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
We should not pay El Salvador a dime.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
An umbilical hernia. Imagine a basketball going through your belly button.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
"Drawing on multiple research efforts, including studies by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH), findings suggest that SARS-CoV-2 was likely circulating in the U.S. well before the first known outbreak in Wuhan"
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
No doubt Trump promised Bill Clinton if Trump got elected Pope, blow jobs would no longer count as sex.#sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
No. Sanctuary policies are a legitimate expression of federalism
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
JFK's assassination.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
The Beatles
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
I would love and accept him.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
No. Diplomacy is essential to avoiding wars.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Yes. Only Congress can levy taxes by the Constitution.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Trump was found guilty by a jury of sex abuse.https://t.co/O6JmD3Hx0T.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
When I went out to lunch first day in Yuma. AZ, it was 114 degrees F.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Flipper.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Mr. Ed
Mickey Mouse Club
Nonpareils
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
I don't think Trump wears white before Memorial Day.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
I saw a baby girl today--there's nothing in this world as beautiful, except maybe a baby boy.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 4, 2025
Tuesday Afternoon
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
Come Monday
Saturday Night's Alright For Friday
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Steve Perry
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
No.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
Biden sold his soul to enable murder of the preborn, despite the Church's 2000 year old moral teaching against the abomination.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
No.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
Johnson needs to impeach Trump.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
Trump talking about families not needing to buy 30 Chinese dolls is a variation on Comrade Bernie not seeing a need for 23 varieties of deodorant.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
I'm rather amused Trumpkins are freaking out about Rove pointing out Trump's approval numbers are tanking to about 45% just 100 days into his new term. Trump likes to scapegoat everyone but the man in the mirror.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
"Karl Rove"
Some Trumpkin flunked reading comprehension.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
"Supreme Court denies Trump request to block $2 billion foreign-aid payment"https://t.co/bm9YVT5irp https://t.co/1rOrmJdCYO
Congratulations to former VP Pence for his JDK Profile in Courage Award in fulfilling his constitutional duties on J6 unlike disgraced impeached sore loser Trump.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
Trump doesn't know if he has to uphold the Constitution.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
No doubt Trump is having his DOJ see if his unauthorized aliens at Gitmo can be waterboarded. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
I think Trump may be the most clueless POTUS on prices since GHW Bush encountered a supermarket scanner. $1.98/gallon gas? AAA says 3.16 on average.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
Hell, no. The dumbass was never qualified to begin with.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
Why the hell is Musk flooding my feed with Trumpkin trash?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 5, 2025
Trump surrounds himself with similarly dumbass yes men. He picks up on insane ideas he pulls out of his ass like the Gulf of America or reinstating Alcatraz. God knows where he got that idea--watching an old movie? Not a clue why it was shut down in the first place.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 6, 2025
DOGE would have more credibility if corrupt Trump didn't do stuff like dismissing IG's for totally political reasons. And DOGE seems more populist in nature than a true audit of government. https://t.co/0ucssOB26z
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 6, 2025
I am ar a loss to understand why Trump thinks his Barbie tax is a winning issue.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 6, 2025
No. Let them stand for election on the facts.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 7, 2025
Yes. It's called the Constitution.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 7, 2025
You're trying to fill your quota?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 7, 2025
No. It's unconstitutional for the Congress.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 7, 2025
Not unless Congress does it.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 7, 2025
Not "for being biased". Yes, for exceeding the scope of the general government.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 7, 2025
He also needs to reimburse travel and security spending not on official business.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 7, 2025
I oppose anything tying state-based election policies.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 7, 2025
The IRS and DOJ will enforce compliance.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 7, 2025
Asylum law is part of US Law, and all persons must be afforded due process.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 7, 2025
Most will argue an America First hypocrite should not be proposing a $1T defense budget.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 7, 2025
No. The GOP, post-WWII, was pro-free trade. The US was and is a top manufacturing superpower. Trumpkins like the OP resent other Americans freely choosing foreign products. They re economic illiterates who don't understand the trade deficit. Our economy has greatly expanded.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 7, 2025
Our historical legacy is open immigration, Xenophobic restrictions established over the past century are grossly immoral and fundamentally un-American.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 7, 2025
"One Redditor who works in a restaurant confirmed people's worries about price hikes. "I work in a restaurant and we are feeling it bad. A case of chicken thighs went from $70 to $150 in the past 2 weeks. Avocados went from 40 a case to 90. Bananas went up a lot as well."
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 7, 2025
Gulf of Mexico. Persian Gulf. Period. Names pulled out of Trump's ass? Zero.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 8, 2025
Congratulations on the new US/UK trade pact. Really, a free trade pact has been a no-brainer since Brexit.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 8, 2025
"Leo XIII criticizes[Rerum Novarum]both capitalism for its tendency toward greed, concentration of wealth, and mistreatment of workers, as well as socialism, for what he understood as a rejection of private property and an under-emphasis on the dignity of each individual person."
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 8, 2025
As a young Catholic boy. I remember saying the rosary in the schoolyard after the first Catholic POTUS, JFK, was assassinated. All popes then were Italian. I never thought I would live to see an American pope;
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 8, 2025
Hell no! America is not a brand. Domestic products already have logistical advantages but foreign suppliers provide more varieties & supplies, e.g, Latin American produce during winter, most coffee, etc. My last American made car had to have 6 power window repairs
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 9, 2025
"Buy American"
The buy American bias has some of the same problems as Locavorism. In fact, we know frozen produce can be as nutritious, if not more than refrigerated locally grown alternativeshttps://t.co/uykXAgqYmA
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 9, 2025
Trumpkins are really paranoid the new pope assured the rest of the world he didn't vote for Trump. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 9, 2025
No. Freedom of expression is an integral part of academia.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 9, 2025
Yes, Pope Leo XIV did deliver part of his first homily as pontiff in English. To Trumpkins, that's important.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 9, 2025
There is something profoundly disturbing about MAGA "Catholics" cheering "USA! USA!" in St. Peter's Square.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 9, 2025
The whole supply chain through the retailer may participate to offset the net cost increase to the consumer so the foreign products remain price-competitive in the US market, but Trump/government greed may exceed product margins or foreign products may have enough power to refuse
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 11, 2025
Just wait until Trumpkins discover pro-life Pope Leo XIV is a registered Republican but a fellow Trump critic who has notably condemned Trump's illegal deportation of Garcia. I can already hear anti-Catholic Trumpkins adding "RINO" to the pope's titles.https://t.co/xZDXCQUjPj
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 9, 2025Just a reminder: this is an illegal Trump surtax on American consumers of Chinese goods. There is nothing good about this: government is directly lowering your standard of living for choosing your own purchases. https://t.co/gC5dGP6YPo
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 9, 2025
I do not understand how Trump's discrimination against transgender military service could possibly survive SCOTUS scrutiny. We are not talking DEI ideology but arbitrary eligibility.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 9, 2025
Anti-Catholics like the OP are by definition not Christian.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 9, 2025
Trumpkins are by definition crackpot conspiracy theorists. https://t.co/VZCmyM9WwD
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 9, 2025
Why the hell is the RINO Felon in Chief making the position on librarian part of his corrupt spoils system? What did she do--order a copy of a Biden book? https://t.co/mBR0T4KbgD
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 9, 2025
Smerconish asked whether the election of the first American pope was a Catholic response to the universally despised Trump. No. Pope Leo is no Trumpkin. It's subjective on this Catholic's part, but personally I think his missionary career in Peru, his dual citizenship, was key.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 10, 2025
Trumpkins are insane. We have just had the most divisive POTUS in American history literally start a trade war with every country on earth, even those job-stealing penguins. The warmonger proposed the first $1T defense budget in history. He has attacked Yemen, an undeclared war. https://t.co/OTkLUyDtZD
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 10, 2025
No. This is fear-mongering rubbish at the expense of academic freedom
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 10, 2025
Rubbish! We have a lawless POTUS testing the limits of constitutional power and violating individual rights. We fought a revolution over this.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 10, 2025
Not a Trumpkin. I do have issues with DOGE fire-first, rehire-later impulsive policy.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 10, 2025
No. The judge in question did not keep ICE from arresting their target. POTUS is trying to intimidate the judicial branch, violating the separation of powers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 10, 2025
The whole supply chain through the retailer may participate to offset the net cost increase to the consumer so the foreign products remain price-competitive in the US market, but Trump/government greed may exceed product margins or foreign products may have enough power to refuse
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 11, 2025
No. Discriminating against minorities is an abomination.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 10, 2025
Funny Dail Show take of Trumpkins already unhappy with Pope Leohttps://t.co/JKO0WvCwxO
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 10, 2025
The whole supply chain through the retailer may participate to offset the net cost increase to the consumer so the foreign products remain price-competitive in the US market, but Trump/government greed may exceed product margins or foreign products may have enough power to refuse
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 11, 2025
The suggestion that the rogue unconstitutional Trump regime may suspend habeas corpus means an unconstitutional power grab from the wannabe authoritarian testing the separation of powers. Habeas corpus is an accountability check against abusive detention.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 11, 2025
No. Trump and his rogue personnel remain accountable for unconstitutional xenophobic abuses of power.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 11, 2025
If students violate policies involving building access, etc., they should be held accountable. Foreign policy views are matters of free expression and academic freedom.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 11, 2025
If GOP members of Congress had a spine, the RINO Felon in Chief would be impeached and convicted by now.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 11, 2025
Of course not. She has no federal experience
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 11, 2025
Stop trying to criminalize the political opposition to a lawless tyrant.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 11, 2025
I personally would buy a punching bag bearing Stephen Miller's likeness.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 11, 2025
My latest blog post is a deferred take on Trump's disgraceful misconduct in the Oval Office several weeks back, kicking Zelensky out in a Trumper tantrum. https://t.co/PlNf3TstoF
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 11, 2025
I've been pushing an end to the Dept of Education since the Carter Administration. But I sure the hell didn't vote for the hypocrite extorting Harvard over its intern policies or deporting college students over free expression.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 12, 2025
No. Justice Roberts should wait until we hire a real conservative POTUS.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 12, 2025
The chance that Trumpkin Blondie Bondi will arrest the RINO Felon in Chief is near zero.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 12, 2025
No. "There’s no just way to decide who should pay whom."https://t.co/eb56pJZud9
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 12, 2025
None of the above. Vengeance is not justice. There should be sanctions, but appropriate to situational considerations.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 12, 2025
No. Unlike the incompetent Hegseth, Milley is a patriot, and Hegseth is violating the rule of law in his unconstitutional personal loyalty to the corrupt Trump carrying out personal revenge.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 12, 2025
Unlike the OP, I am not a crackpot conspiracy theorist.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 12, 2025
Qatar's gift of a $400M aircraft cannot be constitutionally be personally kept by corrupt Trump unless the tightwad ponies up to reimburse the USG for its fair market value. Trump has to scam a lot of Trumpkins to come up with $400M.https://t.co/sTKeZFJs3r
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 12, 2025
I'm listening to Trump ramble on economic rubbish. The reason he speaks at a fourth grade level is because his understanding of economics is at a fourth grade level. No, Trump price-fixing is futile just like other statist price-fixing efforts.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 12, 2025
"If President Trump and Congress seek to "fix the injustice of high drug prices" by imposing price controls, Americans will save some money now, but at the long-run cost of living sicker and shorter lives. That would be a real injustice."https://t.co/xhRDto3f7q
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) May 12, 2025