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Sunday, April 20, 2025

Links - 20th April 2025 (1 - Donald Trump)

Meme - Axios @axios: "Trump's flurry of orders restricting immigration and promising mass deportations violate core Christian principles of caring for the poor and needy."
"Trump's immigration orders rebuked by Christian leaders"
Auron Macintyre @AuronMacintyre: "You spent the last week saying Trump was a Christian Nationalist who would bring about theocracy"

Meme - "Bishop Marianne Budde. Single- handedly convincing leftists that the separation of church and state is wrong, and that God is no longer an "imaginary sky daddy." Amen."
Religion should only be kept separate from politics when it threatens the left wing agenda

Meme - "People are afraid out there that you won't let them multilate children's genitalia, breasts, and pump them full of hormones, warns Pastor."

Theresa Mullen on X - "Reverend Benjamin Cremer tweets: “Notice how ‘free speech’ and ‘religious freedom’ suddenly doesn’t apply to a Christian bishop in her own church.”"
Weird. Left wingers used to claim that freedom of speech only applied to government censorship. and that freedom of speech did not mean freedom from consequences. And that freedom of religion did not mean no one could criticise you. Without double standards, left wingers would not have any

Meme - "AND JUST LIKE THAT THE ANTI-CHRISTIAN LEFT SUDDENLY FOUND RELIGION."

Paul Sperry on X - "BREAKING: While anti-Trump National Cathedral Rev. Mariann Budde claims to champion the poor and decries the "appalling disparity between rich and poor," property records show she lives in a $2 million+ colonial mansion with 6 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms in a leafy DC neighborhood"

Publius on X - "🚨 BREAKING:  Bishop Mariann Budde's Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) collected $53 million from Govt programs in 2023 for "Immigrant Resettlement".   Now we know why she gave Trump the Multi-Cultural Marxist lecture - she warned him because money was on the line.  The "Immigrant Resettlement" programs are much larger and more profitable than even Gavin Newsom's "Homeless Resettlement" programs.  Has this program been deleted from Federal Govt spend yet?   @elonmusk  @DOGE"

The Redheaded libertarian on X - "“Donald Trump is trying to repeal parts of The Constitution. Like rights.”
“Which rights?”
“I don’t have all the information.”
He also claims Elon Musk is not American because he was born in South Africa. So apparently immigrants don't count as Americans. How xenophobic

Meme - Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy: "This is what authoritarians do, they see bunches of people protesting them and calling them fascists and worse stuff and they don’t do thing to stop it, they just let it happen and then the people are all allowed to leave when it’s over  Classic authoritarianism, textbook even"
"HANDSOFF APRIL 5TH 2025"

Meme - Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok: "Lauren Young, a Democrat campaign strategist who worked on Hillary Clinton’s campaign, made a Facebook post suggesting that Iran target President Trump at his home in Mar-A-Lago.  The Democratic Party is the party of violence."
Proof that Trump incites violence!

Meme - Murk More Ceos: "People think they're Black Dahlia Murder fans but you give me that MAGA child and I absolutely WILL snap it's neck and drink the blood from it's stupid fuckin little broken neck. I'm done. I will fucking hurt your kids. So be smart and leave your Trump shit at home."

New bombshell study reveals 'assassination culture' spreading on the left under President Trump - "A disturbing new report reveals that violent political rhetoric online, including calls for the murder of public figures like President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, is being increasingly normalized, particularly on the left.  The report, from Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), found that a growing number of people are willing to justify and even applaud killing in the name of politics and a warped sense of social justice. The chilling change appears to have accelerated in recent months... The NCRI study traces the cultural shift back to the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione in December 2024. What followed, researchers say, was a viral wave of memes that turned Mangione into a folk hero.  According to the study, these memes have sparked copycat behavior targeting other figures associated with wealth and conservative politics. "It’s not just Luigi anymore," Finkelstein said. "We're seeing an expansion: Trump, Musk and others are now being openly discussed as legitimate targets, often cloaked in meme culture and gamified online dialogue." A ballot measure in California, darkly named the Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act, is just one real-world outgrowth of this online movement... Some 38% of respondents said it would be at least "somewhat justified" to murder Donald Trump, and 31% said the same about Elon Musk. When counting only left-leaning respondents, justification for killing Trump rose to 55% and Musk to 48%.  "These are not isolated opinions," the report states. "They are part of a tightly connected belief system linked to what we call left-wing authoritarianism."... When asked whether destroying a Tesla dealership was justified, nearly four in 10 respondents agreed it was, to some degree. Among self-identified left-of-center participants, support for vandalism and property damage was significantly higher.  "Property destruction wasn’t just an outlier opinion, it clustered tightly with support for political assassinations and other forms of violence," said Finkelstein. "This points to a coherent belief system, not just isolated grievances."... "What we found was a statistically higher endorsement of political murder on the left, 41% more than among right-leaning participants."  The report singles out BlueSky, a social media platform favored by progressive users, as a major amplifier of extremist ideation.  "BlueSky was modeled as a safe alternative to Twitter for the left, but what it’s become is an extremist platform," Finkelstein said. "It functions today much like 4chan or Gab once did for far-right ideologies. These platforms are now lead indicators of violent real-world trends... A key predictor identified in the study is external locus of control, which is the belief that one's life is governed by outside forces.  "Combine that with extreme partisanship, and you get an explosive mix," Finkelstein said... The NCRI report ends on a sobering note: The normalization of assassination ideation is already spilling into real-world violence. Whether it’s attacks on Tesla dealerships or assassination attempts on public officials, the NCRI warns that political violence is no longer fringe but culturally fashionable in some corners of the internet."
So much for there being nothing wrong with destroying property. Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people too
Left wingers don't believe in personal responsibility, so it's no wonder they blame the world for their problems and want to kill others

Meme - "Whoopi Goldberg warns Trump will break up interracial marriages by deporting the spouses of White men. "The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg shared a message to immigrant women th... "going to deport and you put the White guy with someone else.""
"anyway, here's a picture of JD Vance and his wife"

Theo Jordan on X - "This is where we are. It's the "You seem closeted 👶" meme on national TV to the VP candidate who is married with kids (instead of separated after impregnating the nanny or running Queer+ clubs in schools as a teacher). The scope of propaganda we are under is jaw-dropping."
"“The View”'s Joy Behar asks if J.D. Vance is gay after 'normal gay guy' comment: 'How does he know? Is he one of them?'"

Nemesis 2024 on X - "When whites have allegiance to their race, it's Nazism. When men have allegiance to their gender, it's oppressive patriarchy. When whites have allegiance to the community they were born into, it's xenophobia. But everyone else should do these things!"
Daniel Friedman on X - "Usha didn’t make a deal with the devil in pursuit of power, she decided to date the brokest guy at Yale — a guy who had nothing and came from nothing. The fact that the guy she fell in love with as a student became a bestselling author and a Senator just means she picked well."

Meme - memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus: "There are around 17 streets named after Obama in the US alone, 14 animal species are named in his honor, 2 mountains also share his name. Barack Obama day is an official state holiday in illinois and an official country holiday in Kenya (yes really lol). A building in the neighborhood I grew up in had a three story mural of his “Hope” campaign painting. Netflix gave him hundreds of millions of dollars for shows no one has watched. I had teachers and students openly weep the day after he was elected. If you ask any mainstream news outlet other than fox they will still tell you he had no controversies beyond wearing a tan suit."
vo @vanillaopinions: "joe biden, or even obama, never really got the kind of slavish devotion from every institution in american life that trump is getting right now"

Dump press secretary says the constitution is unconstitutional https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8FoLACV/
'Birthright citizenship is unconstitutional' says White House Press Secretary
As usual, left wingers have terrible comprehension skills. Of course, since the interpretation of the US Constitution cannot change, this means that they'll stop complaining about how the current jurisprudence around the Second Amendment is wrong. Right?

Peachy Keenan on X - "Over $4 billion to Haiti but Haiti only got 2% of it. The rest went to firms in DC and "other""

Thread by @TexasLindsay_ on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Bill Gates’ vaccine organization ‘GAVI’ was awarded $4,880,000,000.00 from USAID.  Nearly $5 BILLION in tax payer money to a single organization.  Two grants are still active; the $4B dollar grant ends Aug 2030.  No wonder Gates is speaking out against DOGE dismantling USAID.
Nearly $5B in tax payer money was given to a man worth over $100 Billion—to fund his vaccine org that he profits from due to his pharmaceutical company investments.  Where are the investigations into Gates’ latest monopoly scheme? .@JoeRogan goes off on Bill Gates vaccine monopoly scheme and compares it to being the same business strategy he used with Microsoft"

Andy Ngo on X - "A former USAID-funded employee whose job was cut when @DOGE  audited government waste is revealed to be a far-left activist.   Erica Gibson ("she/her") took to X to lament how she now feels "psychologically unwell" and has no future job prospects. Gibson previously posted photos from luxurious trips overseas with her job position. She most recently worked at DAI, a USAID-funded consulting company."

Bill Kristol on X - "The deep state is far preferable to the Trump state."
DataRepublican (small r) on X - "@BillKristol Hello Mr. Kristol, For you, the deep state is preferable because you are listed as the President of Defending Democracy (EIN 831567380) which is an indirect beneficiary of USAID through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. You are exposed. Hat tip to @DannyCampsalot"
Of course, conflict of interest is only bad when it threatens the left wing agenda

Mario Nawfal on X - "🚨EXPOSED: USAID FUNDED FUTURE AL-QAEDA LEADER'S COLLEGE TUITION  Declassified documents reveal USAID provided "full funding" for Anwar al-Awlaki's Colorado education after he falsely claimed Yemeni birth despite being U.S.-born.   The future Al-Qaeda leader, who inspired multiple terror attacks, exploited taxpayer aid before becoming the first American targeted by CIA drone strike.  The revelation highlights USAID's troubling history of insufficient vetting as the agency faces Trump administration scrutiny.   Awlaki later mentored 9/11 hijackers and pioneered digital jihad propaganda.  Source:@browne_pamela  @C__Herridge"
No wonder left wingers are upset about the scrutiny on USAID

emily may on X - "can yall imagine if kamala was president and she was allowing bill gates to casually dismantle our government and then he took over the payment systems in the treasury."
Matt Walsh on X - "Yeah wow can you imagine if billionaires like George Soros and Bill Gates were given defacto control over public policy in this country for like 30 years. Wow that would be crazy. Hard to imagine. Yeah good point Emily."

Catherine Herridge on X - "EXCLUSIVE: @SecRubio on Canada, 51st State and the Hot Mic Moment
HERRIDGE: “In a hot mike moment, Canada’s prime minister said that absorbing Canada “is a real thing.”  Is it a real thing?”
SECRETARY RUBIO: “Yeah, look, you know how that came about?  President’s meeting with Trudeau and Trudeau says, well, if you impose – if you even out our trade relationship, then we will cease to exist a country, at which point the President responded very logically, and that is, well, if you can’t exist without cheating in trade, then you should become a state. That was his observation there.”
QUESTION:  “That’s how it started?”
SECRETARY RUBIO:  “It is how it started.”"

Cynical Publius on X - "For eight years I watched the FBI act like the Stasi, and all I heard was "There are plenty of good people in the rank and file." But other than 3 whistleblowers, I never saw or heard them. Now we have an entire federal bureaucracy rebelling against the Constitutional will of the American electorate, and I keep hearing "There are plenty of good people in the rank and file."  Why am I not hearing any of them speaking out against what their peers are doing?"

Kaitlan Collins on X - "After this tense exchange between President Trump and Gov. Mills today, the Department of Education’s civil rights division has announced it's launching a Title IX investigation into Maine’s Department of Education amid allegations it's violating Trump’s executive order banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports."
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on X - "Obey me or I harass you and deny you funds. Classic authoritarian tactics. This will backfire. A reckoning will come."
Phil Labonte on X - "the reason there is a nationwide min drinking age of 21 is because states will not get federal funds for their highways if they don’t comply"
Dan 🇺🇸 on X - "Obama took nuns to court over birth control."
Weird. Left wingers used to like to say that receiving even a cent of federal money meant you had to obey federal guidelines

Meme - End Wokeness @EndWokeness: "You did not see this plane accident chart on TV because it didn't fit the narrative"
"NTSB. Accidents by Calendar Year and Month *fewer in Jan and Feb 2025 than in all prior years*"

Meme - Trump: "DON'T DRINK YOUR PISS"
Liberals: *drinking piss*

Glenn Greenwald on X - "Those who failed or refused to see the massive opportunities from this Trump-led realignment -- and instead enslaved themselves to the broken, ossified, unimaginative, status-quo perpetuating Democratic Party -- are some of the dumbest people on the planet:"
Ken Klippenstein on X - "Trump proposes trilateral agreement with China and Russia to mutually draw down military budgets by 50% "One of the first meetings I want to have is with president Xi of China, president Putin of Russia. And I want to say, let's cut our military budget in half.""
A classic telltale sign of a fascist is wanting to shrink the military

Nate Hochman on X - "These are Trump's best approval numbers ever. But look at the generational breakdown. Boomers are 50/50. Millennials are +4. Gen Z is +10. I'll keep saying it: Zoomers are going to be the most right-wing generation in recent memory."

Libs of TikTok on X - "REPORTER: You’re targeting people! 😡
TRUMP: "I was the target of corrupt politicians for four years and then four years after that. So don't talk to me about targeting."
BOOM"

Counties that voted more Democrat in 2024 than in 2020 : r/MapPorn - "Still plenty of people who say "this country just won't vote for a woman" forgetting that Hillary won the popular vote in 2016."
"POTUS is literally the only office left in America that hasn't had a woman yet. We've now even had a woman as vice president. Numerous women have been governors, senators, representatives, cabinet-level secretaries, etc. My own state now has our very first woman governor, not that I'm a fan of hers for certain reasons.  I'll never understand how people say we can't make a woman president when we've had women for absolutely everything else. It's just crazy."

Counties that voted more Democrat in 2024 than in 2020 : r/MapPorn - "Does anybody on Reddit actually talk to actual Democratic voters that didn’t vote for Bernie Sanders? You know, the majority of them?"
"Oh, it's either Bernie or AOC.  Reddit does not understand that you need to sway the people "in the middle" to actually win an election."
"Why? You can just look down your nose at them."
"Reddit would prefer to brand centralists as "literally fascists" and "closeted conservatives""

Counties that voted more Democrat in 2024 than in 2020 : r/MapPorn - "Democrats have a few years to come up with a platform that is more convincing than not Trump"
"20 pages on DEI initiatives.  9 pages on the climate.  2 pages on the border.  You can look at polling and see which issue was more important to the voters this last election."
"Reddit libs are genuinely the most out of touch group of people I have ever interacted with in my whole entire life. I live in a deep rural southern state so that's saying a lot.  These people actually think their twisted sick ideology is supported by the majority of regular people whilst they dig their heels down on the 30% of 70/30 issues."
" The GOP platform was a little more than a slideshow of 'immigrants are bad' 'DEI is destroying america'. And you know what platform won? Not the one with all the policy details.  Democrats needs a message that can be stated in ~5-7 words."
"Here I was being told that the 900-page Project 2025 was the GOPs platform by everyone a few months back."

Meme - "Counties that voted more Democrat than in 2020 *most voting More Republican*"

Dan Pfeiffer on X - "So what happens when the Trump Administration just ignores a court order? Do Pam Bondi and Kash Patel enforce the order? Or does Trump get to do what he wants without checks or balances?"
Stephen L. Miller on X - "I don't know. What happened when Biden ignored the court rulings and moved ahead with student loan scheme? You guys are getting a lesson in living with the slippery slopes you created."

Meme - Tracy Luttrell @nursetracytalks: "Husband just admitted he is worried that I will do or say something in my resistance to this coup that will negatively impact my family. I admitted to him that I'm worried he won't."

Oilfield Rando on X - "I watched the world go absolutely insane over Covid and a junkie career criminal in Minneapolis. I lived it. I watched everyone lose their minds. So when normies try to tell me “things are just so crazy” under Trump, I kinda want to just slap them."

Toronto Star on X - "It's time to speak up for Canada, Wayne, and denounce your friend Trump's treatment of your country"
Jonathan Kay on X - "This thing where our media lectures a retired athlete about what he needs to say, and not say, about politics has got to be the stupidest Canadian thing I’ve ever seen in a long time. We are such a petty little country sometimes."

Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "In over a dozen years working in the political arena, I have never seen a poll like this."
1/29/25 - Trump Begins Second Term Stronger Than The First, 6 In 10 Voters Approve Of Sending U.S. Troops To Southern Border, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Majority Disapprove Of Elon Musk's Role In Trump Administration - "President Donald Trump is starting his second term in the White House with a job approval rating ten points higher than at the start of his first presidential term, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University national poll of registered voters... Just over a week after being sworn into office, 46 percent of voters approve of the job Trump is doing, while 43 percent disapprove and 11 percent did not offer an opinion. In Quinnipiac University's January 26, 2017 national poll, 36 percent approved of the job he was doing, while 44 percent disapproved and 19 percent did not offer an opinion... A majority of voters (54 percent) say they are generally optimistic about the next four years with Trump as president, while 42 percent are generally pessimistic. These results are nearly identical to a January 26, 2017 Quinnipiac University poll conducted following Trump's first inauguration... More than 4 in 10 voters (44 percent) support deporting all undocumented immigrants and sending them back to their home countries, while 39 percent only support deporting undocumented immigrants convicted of violent crimes, and 6 percent oppose both scenarios...  Voters' views of the Democratic Party and Republican Party set new records since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking voters about the parties in November 2008.  In today's poll, 31 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, while 57 percent have an unfavorable opinion. This is the highest percentage of voters having an unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking this question.   Forty-three percent of voters have a favorable opinion of the Republican Party, while 45 percent have an unfavorable opinion. This is the highest percentage of voters having a favorable opinion of the Republican Party since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking this question.  This marks the biggest favorability advantage the Republican Party (43 percent) has held over the Democratic Party (31 percent) since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking these questions...   Voters 62 - 31 percent disapprove of former President Biden issuing preemptive pardons for five members of his family who haven't been charged with any crimes."
Clearly proof that Trump cheated and could not have won the election, as left wingers are claiming. Also clearly proof that most Americans are xenophobic fascists and racists and need to be banned from voting to "Save Democracy"

Meme - Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein: "BREAKING: Large Anti-Trump protests are forming around the State Capitol Building in Minnesota. The Crowd has been chanting anti fascist slogans as well as "F-ck Donald Trump," among other things. I fully support people taking to the streets to protest things they disagree with coming from our government."
Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein: "Not much offends me except when my 6 year old asks me what does "F**k Biden mean on that flag" at the beach."

Libs of TikTok on X - "Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib, held up a sign during Trump's speech demanding that Trump "Start by paying your taxes."  In 2014, Rep. Tlaib was forced to pay back more than $4500 after she was caught underpaying property taxes on a rental property for 6 years.  They always accuse Trump of what they themselves do"

Meme - Reddit Lies @reddit_lies: "Redditors are now claiming Trump stole the 2016 and 2024 elections. It's still a bannable offense on Reddit to suggest Trump stole the 2020 election btw."
boholuxe: "AND they folded in 2004 & 2016, they let them steal the elections at least 3 times, and an attempt in 2020, in 20 years. Like WTF? I feel like we have been lied to over and over, that everything I grew up thinking America was is a BIG FUCKING LIE! The amount of evidence out there for El, rigging and straight up stealing is astoundingly massive and they did NOTHING. Reality Winner did more than our fucking democrats and she went to prison for over 5 years. Watch the movie Reality on HBOmax or Hulu, it's a great movie. Hillary Clinton tells all about how the election was stolen in 2016 in the documentary, Active Measures, but she did NOTHING!"
Only far right conspiracy theorists spreading misinformation think Reddit has a left wing bias

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