Sen. John Fetterman (I-PA) caucuses with the Democratic Party. He is one of three independent Senate members in the 119th Session. He was elected as a Democrat.
At one time, the progressives were excited that he ran for the U.S. Senate. I was strongly against it. He was the tattooed, hoodie wearing, heavily cussing everyman. He won the Democratic primary against preferred challenger Connor Lamb.
Then president Donald J. Trump endorsed Mehmet Oz, a reality television and author.1
Oz was a flawed candidate and Republicans believed Trump’s chef kiss doomed him.
Fetterman was flawed too. He ended up having a mild stroke before the primary. He was uninsured despite being then a state lieutenant governor. He was literally broke.
Giselle and their sons feared he may never recover.
Fetterman did recover and managed to get back in his feet.
Fetterman ended up becoming the senator. Since 2023, Fetterman drifted into the room where Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin smoked. He puffed on that cigar and said "Damn, I like this shit."
Manchin and Sinema introduced Fetterman to their AIPAC handler. He told him that he can offer him millions in fundraising, campaign coffers and everything he wanted.
All he had to do is basically support the apartheid ethnostate of Israel.
Now all this had made Fetterman a walking talking bigot.
I guess all that hate does a number on that heart.
Had they listened to Black women, we wouldn't be stuck with this fool.
The controversial senator sweating. His support for Israel, his treatment of his wife and his big mouth gets him in trouble.
His former aides are telling.
Israel has a dossier on members of Congress. If they follow the line, they will be rewarded. If they step out of line, Israel will make their lives miserable.
Fettterman exposed as a total hack. Like we didn’t know that already.
John Fetterman was found to be at fault for causing a major car crash in Western Maryland that totaled his SUV as well as the car of the woman he rear-ended. This guy's a total mess pic.twitter.com/Vd7DhuY8m5
— Brendan Hartnett 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@BrendanHartnett) May 2, 2025
Fetterman's office said the Pennsylvania senator is under "routine observation" in a Pittsburgh hospital after he fell during an early morning walk Thursday near his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania.
"It was established he had a ventricular fibrillation flare-up that led to Senator Fetterman feeling light-headed, falling to the ground and hitting his face with minor injuries," a statement from his office said.
"If you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now!" Fetterman said, according to the statement.
Fetterman opted to stay in the hospital so doctors can "fine-tune his medication regimen," the statement said.
Ventricular fibrillation is an abnormal heart rhythm, according to the American Heart Association. It can be extremely dangerous and lead to sudden cardiac death. Without treatment, it can be fatal within minutes.
Typically, medical professionals do not use the term “ventricular fibrillation flare-up” as the condition is a life-threatening one. Ventricular fibrillation typically requires shock therapy -- either through an automated external defibrillator or a previously implanted defibrillation device in the chest.
Fetterman suffered a stroke in May 2022 during the Democratic primary for the state's open Senate seat. Despite his condition limiting his campaigning, he won the Democratic nomination and later defeated Dr. Mehmet Oz, now President Donald Trump's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, in the general election.
"I had a stroke that was caused by a clot from my heart being in an A-fib rhythm for too long," Fetterman said in a statement at the time.
The following February, Fetterman was hospitalized for several days of observation after feeling lightheaded, though his aides said testing ruled out seizures or another stroke.
Weeks later, Fetterman checked himself into a Washington hospital for treatment of depression.
"While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks," Adam Jentleson, his chief of staff, said at the time.
The life long civil rights leader Jesse Jackson is preparing for the end.
The retired civil rights leader is in his final days. A man who wanted to change the status quo of politics. A man who fought against Israel and was vilified in his 1984 and 1988 presidential bids.
Reverend-emiritis Jesse Jackson is hospitalized in Chicago and is under medical observation.
The 84-year-old is “under observation for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP),” the Rainbow PUSH Coalition said in a statement on the organization’s website.
Jackson was first diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease before doctors confirmed last year that he had PSP, a rare brain disorder that affects movement, balance, and cognition.
He is a flawed man but a man who fought for a purpose.
In 1968, he was in Memphis alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. when a white nationalist assassinated him as he left the Lorraine Motel. He is a young protégé to the civil rights leader.
King was vilified by the far right as a racial meddler and vowed to silence his tongue.
Jackson founded the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) and the National Rainbow Coalition were merged to serve one purpose, community action.
The organizations pursue social justice, civil rights, and political activism.
He was born from a teenage pregnancy and rape by an older man who was married.
Jackson was born in Greenville, South Carolina, on October 8, 1941, to Helen Burns (1924–2015), a 16-year-old high school student, and her 33-year-old married neighbor, Noah Louis Robinson (1908–1997). His ancestry includes Cherokee, enslaved African-Americans, Irish plantation owners, and a Confederate sheriff.
Robinson was a former professional boxer who was an employee of a textile brokerage and a well-known figure in the black community.
One year after Jesse's birth, his mother married Charles Henry Jackson, a post office maintenance worker who later adopted the boy.
Jesse was given his stepfather's name in the adoption, but as he grew up he also maintained a close relationship with Robinson. He considers both men to be his fathers.
As a child, Jackson was taunted by other children about his out-of-wedlock birth and has said these experiences helped motivate him to succeed.
Living under Jim Crow segregation laws, Jackson was taught to go to the back of the bus and use separate water fountains—practices he accepted until the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955.
Jackson attended the racially segregated Sterling High School in Greenville, where he was elected student class president, finished tenth in his class, and earned letters in baseball, football, and basketball.
Jackson ran for president in 1984 and 1988. He ran on Palestinian freedom, ending the war on drugs, Black reparations, indigenous reparations and Hispanic unity.
During the Reagan years, the religious right sought dominance with culture wars and censorship.
They saw Jackson as a threat.
Israel definitely saw him as a threat because he fought against apartheid in South Africa and Israel. They used every devious trick to sink his campaigns.
Israel had a healthy relationship with then president Ronald Reagan. They worked with Roger Ailes, Lee Atwater and Roger Stone to create a campaign of racial politics. They used the Jackson campaign to tank Walter Mondale in the Reagan landslide and Michael Dukakis in the George H.W. Bush landslide. The welfare queen and the other guy taking your job scared up white voters. It motivated the South to become a stronghold for Republicans. As of today, Republican governors dominate all but two Southern states.
The far right often scapegoats Black grievances to Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton.
Any issue involving Black Americans shot by police, Blacks being discriminated, Blacks being victims of sexual abuse and Blacks being involved in criminal acts, the far right zeros in on Jackson as their boogeyman to scare up white voters.
Jackson was a shadow delegate. When Washington, DC wanted statehood, the federal district elected Jackson as a U.S. Senator. He was not sworn in but allowed to be on the Senate floor in viewing.
Jackson is married to Jacqueline Lavinia Jackson. They have five children.
Jackson is the father of two U.S. lawmakers. Santita Jackson, is a progressive agitator and media personality. He also has Yousef and Jacqueline.
His sons, Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) have served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Jesse served 1995 to 2012. He ended up being indicted on corruption along with his wife Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson. They were convicted and served time in the iron college. Jonathan Jackson is a current member of the U.S. House. Jesse, Jr. host a radio show and podcast.
Jackson had had an affair with a staffer, Karin Stanford, that resulted in the birth of a daughter Ashley in May 1999. According to CNN, in August 1999, the Rainbow Push Coalition had paid Stanford $15,000 (equivalent to $28,310 in 2024) in moving expenses and $21,000 (equivalent to $39,640 in 2024) in payment for contracting work. A promised advance of an additional $40,000 against future contracting work was rescinded once the affair became public. This incident prompted Jackson to withdraw from activism for a short time.
Jackson despite his flaws was a force to be reckoned with. He worked tirelessly to help the vulnerable by pushing for a piece of the American Dream.
For 43 days, President Donald J. Trump and Congress were at odds over funding the federal government for a year. As of today, Americans can still grind their teeth but also breathe a sigh of relief.
The president and Republicans took a victory lap and called it a "Democrat shutdown."
"The Democrats are using the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax to try and deflect from their massive failures, in particular, their most recent one — THE SHUTDOWN!" - President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/DF4OkutJHY
For 40 days, hardworking Americans have endured flight cancellations, missed paychecks, and empty dinner tables — all because Democrats closed the government.
It was foolish, pointless, cruel, and entirely avoidable.
Democrats may have lost their opportunity to get the Affordable Care Act. The demands the Democrats wanted for the opening the government was the subsidies of the Affordable Care Act to be extended. The establishment allowed it to be promised instead of being included.
Over 1 million Americans can return to their federal jobs still not paid, still facing economic uncertainty, still in fear of termination due to criticism of the president or Israel and the stress of the job itself.
Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at some food banks.
Before signing the legislation, Trump said the government should never shut down again, adding, “This is no way to run a country.”
Trump was surrounded in the Oval Office by Republican lawmakers and some former members of Congress who are now heading powerful business lobbying groups.
His signature drew applause, but Trump didn’t answer questions on the Epstein scandal or any other topic before the press was hustled out.
Trump’s signature draws to a close the second government shutdown he’s overseen in the White House, one that magnified the partisan divisions in Washington as his administration took unprecedented unilateral actions — including canceling projects and trying to fire federal workers — to pressure Democrats into relenting on their demands.
The signing ceremony came just hours after the House passed the measure.
Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez (D-WA), Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME), Rep. Don Davis (D-NC), Rep. Tom Souzzi (D-NY), Rep. Adam Gray (D-CA) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) went with 214 House Republicans to reopen the longest and most costly government shutdown in U.S. history.
The Democratic Party won on the highs of governorships in New Jersey and Virginia. The mayoral wins in New York City, Detroit, Dayton, Seattle and Jersey City (via a runoff) have progressives motivated to oust ineffective incumbent Democrats who toe the line with:
Corporate donors.
Israel and Zionism.
Republicans who offer bad faith ideas.
Concessions to issues progressives demand.
Refusal to sign on Medicare for All.
Ignoring the concerns of protesters.
Focusing on culture wars instead pocketbook.
Not fighting President Trump and Republicans.
This week the Democratic Party has sold the base out. The base that showed up to No Kings. The base that worked hard to drive people to vote is now scrambling to keep the momentum back after the voters.
Calls for Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to step down are growing.
Trump said, “It’s an honor now to sign this incredible bill.”
For once I agreed with Trump on the issue. This shouldn't be the way to run government.
We got a lot a work to do.
The Republican Party is becoming a bunch of big government nannies who want to push culture wars into federal laws. This overreach will generate backlash due to the hypocrisy they've carried as small government and freedom loving patriots.
Democrats must focus on issues that matter to all Americans. The economy for one thing is a big issue. We are witnessing the potential for a catastrophic crash thanks to Trump's tariffs, his fly off the handle policies and this government shutdown.
If the Democrats are motivated to talk about how the policies of the past are not working, they better start talking now.
Capitalism isn't prospering for the middle class or the lower class. This trickle down economics is not benefiting the working class. The need to be honest about capitalism being a disaster has to be addressed.
The Democratic Party is still supportive of capitalism which is rooted in white supremacy, economic inequality and greed.
The 45th - 47th President of the United States has suffered the second term curse very early and it appears that it will not ease up anytime soon.
President Donald J. Trump is the emboldenment of white privilege, elitism, entitlement, dysfunctional governance, cultural appropriation and a decline in American dominance.
🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.
Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES. pic.twitter.com/A5XgOHj2Jq
The House Oversight Committee was trying to block the release of an email exchange that had Trump’s name in it but Democrats forced it into the public.
To: Ghislaine Maxwell
From: Jeffrey Epstein
Date: April 2, 2011
“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. Police chief. etc. im 75 % there
To: Jeffrey Epstein
From: Ghislaine Maxwell
Date: April 2, 2011
“I have been thinking about that…”
This dismisses the Trump had no interaction with Ghislane Maxwell and the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. He is balls deep in this and he cannot deny this.
But he will and claim its AI and a Democrat hoax. The same person who said if your rich and powerful
Several emails between Epstein and author Michael Wolff were also released on Wednesday. In one 2019 note, Epstein wrote:
To: Michael Wolff
From: Jeffrey Epstein
Date: January 31, 2019
“[Victim] mara lago. [identifier]. Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. Of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop”
There was also a 2015 exchange in which Wolff alerted Epstein that CNN was going to ask Trump about his relationship with the disgraced financier. Wolff went on to suggest that Epstein could potentially “hang” Trump, or possibly gain “political currency” if Trump denied traveling on Epstein’s plane or visiting his house. Here’s how that exchange played out:
To: Jeffrey Epstein
From: Michael Wolff
Date: December 15, 2015
“I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you–either on air or in scrum afterwards.
To: Michael Wolff
From: Jeffrey Epstein
Date: December 15, 2015
“if we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”
To: Jeffrey Epstein
From: Michael Wolff
Date: December 16, 2015
“I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt. Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.”
The new emails released by House Oversight Democrats come from a batch of more than 23,000 documents the committee recently received from the Epstein Estate.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the committee, said the emails raise “glaring questions.”
“The more Donald Trump tries to cover-up the Epstein files, the more we uncover,” Garcia said in a press release. “These latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the President. The Department of Justice must fully release the Epstein files to the public immediately. The Oversight Committee will continue pushing for answers and will not stop until we get justice for the victims.”
The release of the emails comes amid House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) swearing in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) — who was elected on Sept. 23. Critics accused Johnson of stalling to swear in Grijalva because she is likely to provide the decisive 218th signature on a discharge petition which would trigger a House floor vote on the release of the Epstein files.
That's not me in this video. And even if it was me, I had nothing to do with this guy. You know this a Democrat hoax to distract Americans from the wonderful job I am doing. I am doing more than any other president in the history of this country.
The president has repeatedly tried to write off the Epstein investigation as a “dead issue” and claimed it is a “Democrat hoax.” But questions have plagued Trump and the White House ever since the DOJ announced in early July that it would not be releasing any further information on Epstein. A photo of a bawdy birthday letter Trump reportedly wrote to Epstein for his 50th birthday stirred up even more questions when it was released in early September. (Trump has called the letter — which was written inside the outline of a naked woman — a “fake.”) And now, these emails are likely to spark a new round of interest in a story the White House has tried desperately to move past.
Trump is hinting he may pardon Ghislaine Maxwell and Sean "Puffy" Combs to keep them quiet about his ties to them. I mean he plans on not leaving once his term is over. He wants to inflict chaos upon the United States to protect his fragile ego, he wants to stay out of the federal time out.
Now if they have images of the president with victims of Epstein, how will the Republicans defend it?
Obviously if former president Bill Clinton is involved, the Democrats will immediately abandon him and Hillary Clinton.
While we were discussing the government shutdown and the eight senators who caucuses with the Democratic Party selling out to the Republicans, President Donald J. Trump decides to pardon the morons who tried to help in overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Trump started wielding his presidential mercy powers aggressively on the first day of his second term, when he pardoned roughly 1,500 people who were charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Presidential pardons erase federal criminal convictions, while commutations shorten or cancel prison sentences, and sometimes related fines.
Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Ed Martin, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, Boris Epshteyn, Mark Meadows, Jeffrey Clark, Tina Peters, Kelli Ward and the numerous fake electors were pardoned.
To be honest, I don't think he wanted Trump’s pardon. He literally ruined his life.
The “full, complete, and unconditional” pardon for dozens of Trump allies are largely symbolic. It applies only to federal crimes, and none of the people named in the proclamation were ever charged federally over the bid to subvert the election won by Democrat Joe Biden. It doesn’t affect state charges, though state prosecutions stemming from the 2020 election have hit a dead end or are just limping along.
The move, however, underscores Trump’s continued efforts to promote the idea that the 2020 election was stolen from him even though courts around the country and Trump’s own attorney general at the time found no evidence of fraud that could have affected the outcome. Reviews, recounts and audits of the election in the battleground states where Trump contested his loss also affirmed Biden’s victory.
Trump’s recent action follows the sweeping pardons of the hundreds of Trump supporters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, including those convicted of attacking law enforcement.
Ed Martin, the Department of Justice’s point-man on pardons and a former lawyer for Jan. 6 defendants, linked his announcement of the pardons to a post on X that read “No MAGA left behind.”
Still has to pay nearly $150 million to the women who he smeared.
Dozens of Trump allies received pardons
Among those also pardoned were Sidney Powell, an attorney who promoted baseless conspiracy theories about a stolen election, John Eastman, another lawyer who pushed a plan to keep Trump in power, and Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who championed Trump’s efforts to challenge his election loss.
Also named were Republicans who acted as fake electors for Trump and were charged in state cases accusing them of submitting false certificates that confirmed they were legitimate electors despite Biden’s victory in those states.
The proclamation explicitly says the pardon does not apply to the president himself, who has continued to repeat the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him, used that falsehood to argue for sweeping changes in the way the country votes and demanded his Department of Justice investigate the vote count that led to his loss.
The pardon described efforts to prosecute the Trump allies as “a grave national injustice perpetrated on the American people” and said the pardons were designed to continue “the process of national reconciliation.” Giuliani and others have denied any wrongdoing, arguing they were simply challenging an election they believed was tainted by fraud.
“These great Americans were persecuted and put through hell by the Biden Administration for challenging an election, which is the cornerstone of democracy,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in an emailed statement.
Those pardoned were not prosecuted by the Biden administration, however. They were charged only by state prosecutors who operate separately from the Justice Department.
An Associated Press investigation after the 2020 election found 475 cases of potential voter fraud across the six battleground states, far too few to change the outcome.
While Trump may be immune from Georgia state charges, she isn't.
Impact of the pardons is limited
Giuliani, a former New York City mayor, was one of the most vocal supporters of Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of large-scale voter fraud after the 2020 election. He also is an example of the limited impact of the pardons.
Giuliani has been disbarred in Washington, D.C., and New York over his advocacy of Trump’s bogus election claims and lost a $148 million defamation case brought by two former Georgia election workers whose lives were upended by conspiracy theories he pushed. Since pardons only absolve people from legal responsibility for federal crimes, they’re unlikely to ease Giuliani’s legal woes.
Ted Goodman, a spokesperson for Giuliani, said the former mayor “never sought a pardon but is deeply grateful for President Trump’s decision.”
“Mayor Rudy Giuliani stands by his work following the 2020 presidential election, when he responded to the legitimate concerns of thousands of everyday Americans,” Goodman said in an emailed statement.
While the pardons may have no immediate legal impact, experts warned they send a dangerous message for future elections.
“It is a complete abdication of the responsibility of the federal government to ensure we don’t have future attempts to overturn elections,” said Rick Hasen, a UCLA law professor. “Ultimately, the message it sends is ‘We’ll take care of you when the time comes.’”
His pardon doesn't stop the state of Colorado from holding this individual accountable.
Some pardoned were co-conspirators in Trump’s federal case
Trump himself was indicted on federal felony charges accusing him of working to overturn his 2020 election defeat, but the case brought by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith was abandoned in November after Trump’s victory over Democrat Kamala Harris because of the department’s policy against prosecuting sitting presidents. Giuliani, Powell, Eastman and Clark were alleged co-conspirators in the federal case brought against Trump but were never charged with federal crimes.
Giuliani, Meadows and others named in the proclamation had been charged by prosecutors in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin over the 2020 election, but the cases have repeatedly hit roadblocks or have been dismissed. A judge in September dismissed the Michigan case against 15 Republicans accused of attempting to falsely certify Trump as the winner of the election in that battleground state.
Eastman, a former dean of Chapman University Law School in Southern California, was a close adviser to Trump in the wake of the 2020 election and wrote a memo laying out steps Vice President Mike Pence could take to stop the counting of electoral votes while presiding over Congress’ joint session on Jan. 6 to keep Trump in office.
Clark, who is now overseeing a federal regulatory office, also is facing possible disbarment in Washington over his advocacy of Trump’s claims. Clark clashed with Justice Department superiors over a letter he drafted after the 2020 election that said the department was investigating “various irregularities” and had identified “significant concerns” that may have affected the election in Georgia and other states.
Clark said in a social media post Monday that he “did nothing wrong” and “shouldn’t have had to battle this witch hunt for 4+ years.”
Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan declares she will not take AIPAC funding if she runs for U.S. Senate.
Lieutenant governor of Minnesota announced her bid to replace outgoing Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN). The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota is an affiliate of the Democratic Party.
Peggy Flanagan announced her bid for the U.S. Senate and it is going to be somewhat competitive. Former vice president Kamala Harris carried the state by four points.
She barely won it. It was due to her and former president Joe Biden's refusal to listen to Muslims and Arab Americans who called for them to stop aiding Israel. They're refusal to listen to the 2020 voters cost him his reelection and her presidential election.
The centrists are still not getting it. We are tired of the status quo.
Flanagan is a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe. She is a former state representative who became lieutenant governor for Minnesota governor (former vice presidential nominee) Tim Walz.
She declared on X that she will not accept money from AIPAC. But what about J Street and Democratic Majority for Israel or the rest of the donor elites?
Flanagan can speak a mean game on not taking from the donor elite, but the proof is in the pudding. We must hold all politicians accountable.
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have already endorsed her.
Again, endorsements do not mean votes. Think about how Andrew Cuomo having the backing of President Donald J. Trump, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Elon Musk, Eric Adams, 50 Cent, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY), Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Rep. Laura Gillen (D-NY), the New York Post and New York Daily News. These endorsements shows clearly how out of touch these folks are
Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's trolling is getting backlash. The media mogul and rapper sparked a feud with mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. The election shook the core of establishment politics.
President Donald J. Trump, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, Bill Ackman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Laura Loomer, Eric Adams, Kathy Hochul, Elise Stefanik, Chuck Schumer and even 50 Cent are elitists.
A guy who built his empire on NYC streets (South Jamaica, Queens) now flees to no-state-tax Texas, then memes about "killing" his hometown over a policy hitting the ultra-rich (like him) for chump change relative to their wealth. Mamdani's team calls it "predictable billionaire panic," tying into the broader $55M anti-Mamdani ad blitz from donors like Bloomberg.
X users pile on: "Rich people being upset about elections is a good thing for regular citizens."
Even 50's fans split—some love the troll ("NYC finished!"), others drag: "So you got rich... now you support the opps? Shoulda never given you money."
Mamdani decided to troll 50 on his election victory by playing Ja Rule's New York.
50 got mixed reactions after he made direct attacks on Mamandi.
Any agitator who finds some issue with Mamdani but not the president, Congress, the status quo or how things are not normal are fucking cap.
You can move to Florida, North Carolina, Texas and Arizona. It is your freedom of choice.
50, the media mogul, rapper and producer is a relic of the past. He feels comfortable with Trump's chaotic presidency. It is because he wants to be rich and feels that Trump will keep making him rich.
50 embraced the incompetent president shortly after the Butler attempted assassination attempt. He would use an image of Trump photoshopped on his "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" cover.
Zohran Mamdani artfully trolled 50 after his numerous jabs.
50 visited U.S. Capitol in 2024 alongside civil rights attorney Ben Crump to meet with Republican and Democrat lawmakers. CBS News correspondent Nikole Killion asked him about the “significance of African American men” in the upcoming presidential election.
“I see them identifying with Trump,” he told Killion.
When asked why he believed that, 50 Cent said, “Because they got RICO charges.”
Black men gave Trump one of his largest backing. He pulled 35% of the Black male vote. When it comes to Black women he only pulled 5%. So if you do the math, Trump pulled 25% of the Black vote overall, the highest for a white president of a politicial party that opposes a lot of Black policies.
While we laugh at 50's endless trolling of celebrities, politicians and viral influencers, you start to notice that he is vile in his attacks on Black women, those in the LGBTQ community and immigrants.
And for a man who is two quarters, this is getting old.
Sen. John Fetterman (I-PA) and seven Democratic senators angered the base by voting for opening the government without any compromises.
So the Senate compromise is advanced to the House. The House will vote on it and the federal government will reopen.
Six Democrats and two independents decided to break from the rest with approval of the Senate Minority Leader to vote to reopen the government. The promise is to not let subsidies for the Affordable Care Act to expire which triggers insurance premiums to rise for millions who depend on it when the ACA Marketplace opens.
Okay, Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Jeanine Shaheen (D-NH), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), John Fetterman (I-PA) and Angus King (I-ME) fucked up big time. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) definitely fucked up.
After the Zohran Mamdani mayoral win in New York City, Democrats had energy.
Midterms next year.
These senators not only depressed the energy of the Democrats, they put the competitive Democratic seats in states President Donald J. Trump carried in danger of flipping.
Now the calls are big.
Schumer must step down from leadership or resign from the Senate so New York Gov. Kathy Hochul can find a replacement. The calls for him to leave are big. On top of that, they demand that if Schumer leaves, she better not replace him with a pro Israeli Democrat.
Fetterman is the most vulnerable senator come 2028. He likely faces a Democratic challenger or a Republican challenger. He may take the route of Kyrsten Sinema and end his term so it will be a competitive two person race. But if he stays, he will be a distraction.
The shutdown has resulted in a major disruption to SNAP benefits, leaving millions of Americans in limbo regarding access to food stamps, and has also sparked disarray to air travel across the U.S. Furthermore, thousands of federal workers have been either furloughed without pay, or ordered to still turn up to work despite no new pay checks.
The Democrats will have to build a different ground game now that President Donald J. Trump will get to appoint up to three new Supreme Court nominees again.
No more mocking the white angry voters. No more taking advantage of the non college educated voter. Democrats need to get into the business of troll farming, disinformation, grievance politics and less about identity politics.
No more idol worshiping. The Republicans worship Trump.
The Republicans worship greed, hate, getting in people's businesses and sexual predatory behavior. If a Democrat has a sex scandal that doesn't involve legal ramifications, fucking ignore the allegations. I am serious. If there is no criminal conviction, it's an allegation.
Ignore the calls to leave but clearly state why you carry baggage. Because if you care about changing the city, district or state you want to represent, your personal problems cannot outweigh the actual problems constituents face.
Folks, the Democrats must end the rules of engagement. They need to kick out the filth.
End their support of Israel, stop pandering to win votes, embrace embarrassments and stop trying to be friends with MAGAland.
Blue MAGA is a threat too. Because they are too cozy with religion, apartheid, income inequality and racism.
The Democratic Party is now conservative while the Republican Party is now fascist.
The Democrats are ignoring the progressive base.
No more happy clappy liberal.
I am sorry Stephanie Miller, Laurie Daniels Favors, Zerlina Maxwell, Reecie Colbert, Clay Cane and Thom Hartmann: we ain't winning on being positive. I think it time to go negative and embrace the right's definitions of the left.
I am not advocating for violence but I will no longer condemn it if it's done in the name of politics. I am tired of trying to push for issues that are ignored.
I will now be an independent. I will not support the Republican Party or Democratic Party any longer. I am going to stay progressive on most issues involving domestic and social issues. Show some conservative stances on finances giving that things are more expensive and the focus is more on home meals and no longer eating out.
I am no longer tolerating mass texts from Democrats. No more polls. No more we need you.
I will not worry about Biden, Trump or any future president. They will have costly mistakes and proven successes. I must accept it.
If the Democrats get their act together, maybe they might have a shot in 2026. No reference to gun violence.
The Supreme Court rejects former Kentucky county clerk's request to drop her legal fees and overturn the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. It was a landmark, historical and deceive win for marriage equality.
Gay marriage is legal in the United States. The federal government should have no business in telling Americans who to love.
Kim Davis, the white woman who became a voice of Christian nationalists was rejected by the Court. They were hoping Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito were willing to take up the case.
The Supreme Court on Monday morning turned down a request from Davis to reconsider its 2015 decision recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. In a brief, unsigned order, the justices rejected Davis’ petition for review of a ruling by a federal appeals court upholding an award of $100,000 to a gay couple to whom she had refused to issue a marriage license. That petition had also asked the justices to overrule the 2015 decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, arguing that a right to same-sex marriage “had no basis in the Constitution.”
As is generally the case when it denies petitions for review, the court did not provide any explanation for its decision not to hear Davis’ case. If any justices disagreed with the decision not to take up the case, they did not note that disagreement publicly.
Two different lawsuits followed: one by Moore and Ermold, who contended that she had violated their constitutional right to marry; and one challenging her refusal to issue any marriage licenses. In the latter case, U.S. District Judge David Bunning ordered Davis to issue licenses to both gay and straight couples. That prompted Moore and Ermold to try once again to obtain a license, but Davis and her deputies rejected that request, as well. Kentucky eventually enacted a law that would accommodate county clerks like Davis by removing their names and signatures from the forms used for marriage licenses.
Moore and Ermold’s case against Davis went to trial, and a jury awarded each of them $50,000. Davis then appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, which upheld that award. It rejected Davis’ argument that requiring her to issue a marriage license to Moore and Ermold would have violated her First Amendment right to freely exercise her religion. In that court’s view, because Davis was acting on behalf of the government when she refused to issue the license, her actions were not protected by the First Amendment.
The president, Congress and Supreme Court are deeply unpopular.
Davis next went to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to take up her appeal. She asked the justices to decide whether she could rely on the First Amendment as a defense in the lawsuit, as well as to consider overruling the court’s decision in Obergefell. She contended that the 2015 ruling “had no basis in the Constitution” and left her “with a choice between her religious beliefs and her job.”
Moore and Ermold initially declined to respond to Davis’ petition for review, but on Aug. 7, the Supreme Court instructed them to file a response – a process that only requires the vote of at least one justice. In a brief filed on Oct. 8, the couple urged the justices to deny review. First, they contended, Davis only made the “current version” of her First Amendment argument after nine years of litigation – too late, they said, to give the lower courts “a fair opportunity to address it.” Second, they wrote, Davis “affirmatively waived” her right to ask the court to overturn Obergefell when she told the lower court that she “did not want to relitigate” that decision.
Davis’ petition for review, along with Moore and Ermold’s brief in opposition and Davis’ reply, was distributed to the justices on Oct. 22 for consideration at their conference on Nov. 7. She would have needed at least four votes for her petition to be granted, but Monday’s order indicates that she could not get them.
Y'all frustrated over freedom. The freedom to be yourself as an American in country which claims to represent those very things you pound the ground about.
You are repulsed by two men holding hands publicly. Or them kissing in public.
You mad that a man can wear a dress, high heels and have pretty fingernails. You mad they read to children, perform in the public square, dance in bars and entertaining on television.
You mad that a transgender woman can look better than your wife. They are participating in sports, social media, modeling, acting, government and entertainment.
You claim they are grooming kids. You claim they are woke and DEI. You believe they are pedophiles. Fine.
Stick to your freedoms of speech, boycotts and dissent.
Watch your Christian, Catholic or Jewish religious leaders.
To put the blame on the gay community for the actions of grown adults who had the scene of knowing the risks is a reach.
Gay Americans want to live their lives too. They pay their taxes too.
Why strip or repeal gay marriage? Is there something I am missing here?
We are not a Christian nation. We are definitely a flawed nation with a frustration to the status quo. The status quo is white men and their need to be "problem solvers."
Everyone else is just servants. That is about to end.
The economy uncertainty, government shutdown and President Donald J. Trump being tone deaf has reached a boiling point. We are starting to reject the norms. It is time to change course.
The Democratic Party elected Zohran Mamdani which excited the party. It took almost everything to get him across the finish line. It was the first of many. The progressive base is flawed but not totally compromised. Their goal is to stop the Democratic Party from moving to the center and embracing MAGAland.
They are tired of Democrats caving to pressure.
Folks on social media are promoting bullshit in a massive disinformation campaign to scare white voters, divide cultures and just rage for profit.
Our country is on the path of a civil war.
Eight Democratic senators voted with the Republicans to open up the federal government on an empty promise has infuriates the Democrats.
White Democrats are starting to show their asses out. It is frustrating that we are at the crossroads where most Americans are frustrated with status quo politics.
The party is broken and now the base is demanding an end to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his leadership. They vow primary challenges and backing of any Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania and Maine.
Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), John Fetterman (I-PA), Angus King (I-ME), Jeanine Shaheen (D-NH), Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) proven that the white leadership is failing. They have caved to the incompetent white nationalists in the Republican Party.
They literally put Democrats chances at retaking the Senate at 43%. In fact, it may have put the five seats in play. The Republicans have an opportunity to pick off Georgia, Arizona, New Hampshire and Minnesota.
The Senate voted 60-40 to move forward on a House continuing resolution, which now carries a bipartisan compromise to fund veterans’ affairs, military construction, Congress, and agriculture through the end of the fiscal year, with the rest of the government funded through January 30.
In return, Democrats have been promised a December floor vote on extending the expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits, though it is not guaranteed to pass.
That means Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was the only Republican who voted with the Democrats to prolong the shutdown. Democrats wanted the healthcare subsidies included in the clean resolution not a December vote. Paul had a policy platform involving spending which is totally ridiculous. The Republicans and eight Democrat senators didn't want to stay pass their next recess which is three weeks.
The move left party colleagues furious, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who voted against the CR. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, threatened: “We will not support spending legislation advanced by Senate Republicans that fails to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits.”
Tone deaf.
The move follows days of deadlocked negotiations between Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Democratic negotiators that included Shaheen, King and Hassan.
“After 40 long days, I’m hopeful we can bring this shutdown to an end,” Thune said.
The deal reverses firings carried out by the Trump administration during the funding lapse, guarantees back pay, and freezes “reductions in force” until the end of January.
Kaine, who represents more than 140,000 federal workers in his state, argued that was decisive.
“This legislation will protect federal workers from baseless firings, reinstate those who have been wrongfully terminated during the shutdown, and ensure federal workers receive back pay,” he said.
If the Senate clears final procedural hurdles, the House could return this week.
Do you believe that Democrats are motivated after seeing the results of President Donald J. Trump's return to power?
Will these No Kings protests be a turning point in American politics?
Are you going to vote "Blue No Matter Who?"
If the Democrats are motivated to talk about how the policies of the past are not working, they better start talking now.
Capitalism isn't prospering for the middle class or the lower class. This trickle down economics is not benefiting the working class. The need to be honest about capitalism being a disaster has to be addressed.
The Democratic Party is still supportive of capitalism which is rooted in white supremacy, economic inequality and greed.
The policies the Republican Party are presenting are status quo. They are becoming the big government nannies they tagged the Democratic Party for years as.
The two party system is wearing thin. Republicans have a favorably of 34%. The Democrats have a favorably of 32%.
Both parties are not doing enough to solve America's problems.
If progressives need to divorce the Democrats, the time is now. I am not voting for the status quo.
I am going to vote for a candidate that focuses on issues that impact the growth of this flawed nation. Not distractions or words. Words do not pay the rent. They do not feed the families. They do not pay my bills. Words do not control the movement of policies.
No more slogans.
It's noise.
Folks, the Democrats must end the rules of engagement. They need to kick out the filth.
End their support of Israel, stop pandering to win votes, embrace embarrassments and stop trying to be friends with MAGAland.
Blue MAGA is a threat too. Because they are too cozy with religion, apartheid, income inequality and racism.
The Democratic Party is now conservative while the Republican Party is now fascist.
The Democrats are ignoring the progressive base. It shows how tone deafness and the defense of the status quo will end up hurting Americans.
