#they even admitted to voting for trump

[hussyknee]

A second shooter now has the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

[xcziel]

.

[serrennedyanonwriter]

Late night rant. It’s in the tags.

[crookedfandomquill]

This is very situational, and sadly may not be realistic for everyone, but I need y’all to understand that a very important part of political activism is fucking talking to your conservative or moderate friends and family.

My dad voted for Trump in 2016. He’s a middle class white evangelical from Arkansas. He raised me with conservative Christian values, just like his parents raised him. When he voted Trump, he was holding his nose, but he didn’t feel too bad about it, and went on to vote red down the ticket in the 2018 midterms, as well.

But I started college in 2017. Higher education and independence changed everything for me, and I went home over holidays and summers with fire in my belly and a thousand arguments ready at the drop of a hat, to my father’s dismay.

I remember crying in my room after emotional, intense arguments with him. I told him over and over that I felt betrayed by his choice to vote for a man who admitted to sexually assaulting women, who built his platform on dehumanizing immigrants and the disabled, who spread overtly-racist rhetoric, who flouted the values of kindness and self-discipline that I’d been raised on. And my dad always had some justification about the “greater good”: fighting against abortion, bolstering the economy, getting other Christian politicians into office.

But over time, as we grew further apart and I lost my will to discuss anything with him at all, he softened. He started asking me why I thought the way I did about the things we disagreed about. He would listen to my answers without interruption, and mull them over afterward instead of expressing his own opinion. And all the while, he watched the Trump presidency become cruel and absurd and devastating.

The first time he openly expressed regret to me, I had come home for a weekend after Kavanaugh was confirmed to SCOTUS. My dad realized he had helped elect a man who preyed on women… and that man had opened the door to more predators. I can’t tell you what it felt like for him to admit that he’d made a mistake, not just in voting for Trump but in defending him for so long. We kept arguing, but it was more debating than fighting. I knew he was capable of seeing my side of things, even if it took a while, and he knew I wasn’t just a sensitive college student with shallow new ideas about the world.

And then 2020 hit. Specifically, George Floyd was murdered, and the events that followed played out on the national stage. My dad was incredibly shaken by it. He asked me if I had any books from college about racial issues. I loaned him The New Jim Crow, one of the required readings for my Race and the Law class. Then I gave him Just Mercy. Then he watched the documentary 13th. Then he joined a racial harmony group he learned about through one of the few Black families at our church and insisted our whole family come. He held up signs at a protest against Confederate monuments in our conservative southern town. In three years, he went from defending Trump’s comments about “Black-on-Black crime” to publicly advocating for racial justice and opposing the death penalty.

We went together to vote in the 2020 primaries. I couldn’t help asking who he’d voted for; I didn’t even know if he’d asked for the Republican or Democratic ticket. He admitted he’d voted for Bernie. fucking. Sanders, then made me promise not to tell my grandma he’d voted liberal. When the election rolled around in November, he voted Biden. I’m sure he held his nose to do it, just like he held his nose voting in 2016. But I know he doesn’t regret it.

I am, of course, unbelievably lucky to have a parent who loved me enough, and was empathetic enough, to choose his relationship with me over his strongly-held opinions. He kept searching for truth because, as much as he’ll deny it, he’s a very smart and curious person. No degree of intelligence or curiosity makes you immune to propaganda, especially if you were raised not to question the party line. It’s easy to dismiss our conservative, conspiracy-pilled loved ones as stupid, hypocritical, and cruel. Sometimes they are. But sometimes they aren’t. Sometimes they will bend to keep their relationships from breaking. Sometimes, if they can be made to understand that their beliefs and actions are harming someone they love, they will make concessions. And sometimes they just need one person in their life to put a foot down, to be vulnerable and assertive and argumentative, to bring the impact of their politics close to home.

As the most important election of our lifetimes approaches, do not put peace over progress. If you have someone like my dad, someone who is good-willed and smart and loves you more than their own opinions, tell them how you feel. Tell them what their choices will mean for you, for your friends, for your community. Tell them what they could lose: your trust, your affection, your respect. Don’t avoid conflict if it could be productive. Because my conflict with my dad didn’t just win him over–it won over my moderate mom and one of my conservative brothers. And it put us in community with other like-minded people and led my parents to a healthier and kinder faith.

All of this to say, there is hope in conflict. There is hope in our relationships with people who think differently from us. There is hope in exposing your fear and anger and pain to people you love. And hope is a form of activism.

[lesamis]

If you're up for it could you explain what is making the Germany government stuff so funny? I can find news articles about it (a coalition is dissolving? There's been tension for a while?) but they're all fairly serious. Thx!

ohhh, sure thing! i'll do my best!

i'll say upfront: this is a pretty serious thing to happen. our chancellor fired our minister of finance, Lindner, which definitively breaks up the governing coalition. germany will likely have snap elections at a moment in which far-right parties are polling extremely well. if news coverage about it seems like people are Worried, that's because, well, they are.

however. the reason it's funny is because our minister of finance was fired. ministers aren't really... ever fired. like, it's not a done thing. i'll fully admit i didn't even know it was an option until yesterday. and our minister of finance wasn't just anyone, he was one of the most mocked and hated figures in politics to germans who vote anywhere left of center.

the coalition that governed until yesterday was made up of the green party, the social democrats, and the neoliberal party (FDP). the FDP is infamous (and i mean, my parents already raised me to hate them for that) for playing kingmaker in coalition governments: they never get all that many votes, but they get just enough that whoever they agree to form a government with will probably succeed. they then tend to force extreme concessions from their coalition partners, because hey, if we walk off, you can't govern at all! so you better play along!

for the past three years, this behaviour has been extremely frustrating for germans who voted for greens or social democrats, because policy from their faction was constantly being blocked by the FDP and often by Lindner personally. the FDP received 11,5% of votes in 2021, but to many of us, it felt as if they were the only party who really had any say in the governing coalition. it made the green and social democratic coalition partners look spineless and passive.

and now, i invite you to imagine how on the day of the US election results, the day the whole world rolled their eyes at the sheer fucking stupidity and pointlessness of it all, at NINE IN THE EVENING, just as germans are getting ready to settle in to bed to dream of nightmare global politics -

the news suddenly breaks that our notoriously invisible chancellor just decided to fire Lindner for that exact behaviour. this chancellor comes out and says, on camera, to the entire sleepy nation, that acting the way Lindner did - blocking necessary policies, refusing to approve budgets unless his party's interests were met - was childish, selfish, irresponsible, and unfit for government, so, whoops, he had to go. shame. coalition over, i guess.

so, politically, that was a long-needed but never-expected moment of triumph for those of us who think the FDP is a clown show made up of human TESLA shares, and it came at a hysterically funny moment.

on a personal level, i can barely explain how uniquely hateable Lindner has always been. he's what would happen if a stock index graph came to life. he hates poor people with a relish; he mocks welfare recipients and would ax minimum wages in a second. he's everyone's business major roommate who shows up in boat shoes fresh off a yacht to discuss NFTs with you. throughout the entire time that he's used his rich boy policy blackmail strategy, he's been smug about it, and he was never taken to task for it, and millions of germans have been longing to throw rotten fruit in his face since 2017. and now we finally get to do it. via memes. on the day of trump's election win.

so that's why it's funny.

[hug-your-face]

WHY to talk to MAGA: Because the war is not red va blue, it's oligarchs vs the people. Some of these folks could be allies.

Via https://xcancel.com/GoofballWithIQ/status/1889348239410819512#m

How to Talk to MAGA: Understanding the Different Mindsets

MAGA isn’t a monolith. To communicate effectively, we need to understand the different types of supporters and tailor our approach. Some can be reached. Others are lost causes. Here’s a breakdown:

---

1️⃣ The Disillusioned Conservative (Reachable)

These are lifelong Republicans who wanted lower taxes, strong borders, or a better economy—but they never signed up for authoritarianism.

They’re starting to realize Trump’s actions aren’t normal, but they’re defensive because they don’t want to admit they were wrong.

How to Reach Them:

Don’t attack them personally. Instead, ask: “Is this really what you wanted?”

Show them how Trump’s policies hurt them personally—higher tariffs, job losses, cuts to Social Security, etc.

Use Republican sources (Reagan, Eisenhower, even Bush) to contrast today’s extremism.

---

2️⃣ The Single-Issue Voter (Possibly Reachable)

They don’t care about Trump as a person. They just voted for him because of guns, abortion, immigration, or “owning the libs.”

Some realize Trump isn’t delivering on their issue, but they’re afraid to switch sides.

How to Reach Them:

Stay focused on their issue and show how Trump is failing them (Ex: “He promised a total abortion ban—where is it?”).

Appeal to their values, not their identity—they won’t listen if they feel personally attacked.

---

3️⃣ The Hardcore Cultist (Lost Cause)

They worship Trump and believe any negative news is “fake.”

They follow conspiracy theories, think he’s the victim, and will never be convinced he’s doing anything wrong.

How to Deal With Them:

Do not waste your time. They thrive on arguing.

If they’re spreading lies, debunk them for others to see, but don’t try to “convert” them.

If necessary, mock their contradictions to make others question their logic.

---

4️⃣ The White Nationalist (Dangerous)

They don’t just support Trump—they see him as a tool to build a more authoritarian, white Christian nation.

They want the government to punish their enemies (immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, etc.).

How to Handle Them:

Expose their real motives—make it clear to others that their support isn’t about “freedom” or “patriotism.”

Push back HARD when they spread hate speech or target marginalized groups.

---

5️⃣ The “Just Trolling” Edgelord (Annoying but Harmless)

They don’t care about politics. They just like making people mad online.

How to Handle Them:

Ignore them or make them look stupid. They’re only in it for the reaction.

If they cross into spreading real harm (racism, threats, disinformation), report and expose them.

---

🔹 Final Thought: Know When to Engage and When to Walk Away

Some MAGA supporters can be pulled back. Some can’t.

The goal isn’t always to win the argument—it’s to plant seeds of doubt that might grow later.

For those beyond reason, focus on exposing them to prevent them from spreading more harm.

🔄 SHARE THIS. We need to get smarter about how we fight back

[wilwheaton]

This is the endless comedy about the Democratic “bubble” and out of touchness. The primary information source of Red America is Fox News, a news organ designed with top-flight modern engineering to evade self-questioning or contrary viewpoints of any sort. The Trump GOP lost an election four years ago and still hasn’t been able to admit it even happened. Beyond the Big Lie dimension of it, one of the powers of the Big Lie is that millions of Republicans still find it inherently not credible that Joe Biden really won 81 million votes, fully 6 million more than Donald Trump. You’re telling me Democrats are the ones in a bubble only hearing self-confirming information? Really?

Reckonings of Contempt - TPM – Talking Points Memo

[hazbinbabbling4ever]

Trump said he wants to bomb Iran off the maps, that he would make the matter of attacking Hamas "quick and easy to finish the job", and other amenable things. I've yet to understand who are these people who can't see beyond their own nose and will vote to make their own cause 10 times worse than it already is by thinking that Trump is the least offensive option. This is like Hillary in 2016 all over again: all about her emails while Trump as a man got out scots free because whatever a woman does is always 20 times worse than the actual crimes of a man. Now Kamala is worse than a renowned sex offender convicted felon pedo :/ who would obliterate Gaza off the maps to make the conflict "quick and easier". The left has such a problem with checking its own racism and misogyny, it's incredible. They don't even realize how they sound when they say Kamala is "light skinned so she's basically white" and she's "worse than Trump" because "she's supposed to be one of the good guys, meanwhile we all know Trump is an ass, no surprise here". So if she isn't squeaky clean and perfect on every social issue or foreign matter ever, she's worse than him. It's the usual "woman has to perform 1500% better than any man only to be considered half as competent as the worst president ever existed".

You guys are so condescending it's actually ridiculous lmao

[thebreakfastgenie]

You ever think about how Democrats are always judged on their worst policy positions, sometimes (for example with Biden) from decades ago, while Trump and his ilk are given every benefit of the doubt? Yeah Biden voted for a draconian crime bill in the 90s but the fact that he pardoned an incredible amount of nonviolent drug offenders and nominated tons of black female judges, etc? Perhaps he has learned from his mistakes.

Yeah lol. Democrats are never allowed to grow or evolve. When it's even acknowledged it's immediately discounted as not enough or characterized a cynical attempt to score political points. When Democrats actually do something leftists have been advocating for they scoff "well, they only did it because we told them to!" Okay? Isn't that what you want? Nothing is ever good enough because they weren't born already agreeing with every single activism demand. It's weirdly Calvinist and kind of contrary to the entire purpose of activism when you think about it. I also remember seeing Hillary accused of flip-flopping because she changed her position on an issue once. Growth is actively punished.

Biden won the primary because of Black Democrats and when he chose Kamala Harris as his VP her base, which is mostly older Black women, gave him their energy in the general. He didn't forget that, because he's a lifelong politician and he knows you don't forget who got you there. You see that reflected in his appointments of Black women and his determination to put one on the Supreme Court, which he did.

Overall Biden did progress over the course of his long career, which is good! It's what you hope will happen! He was also more progressive on some issues than his "moderate white guy" image suggested, going back a ways. The big one of course is LGBT rights.

Republicans meanwhile... lmao. They get the benefit of doubts they don't even want. There is a deep societal neurosis about appearing "fair" at all costs, which means people are constantly looking for positive things they can say about Republicans and if they can't find them they just make them up. Some of the negativity toward Democrats comes from the place. Republicans are doing bad things, Democrats must be doing bad things too, and if they aren't we'll invent something.

Over the last few years it's metastasized into a bias toward Republicans. I think as Republicans have become so obviously and absurdly evil, and partisan Democrats and their liberal supporters have become more and more frantic in pointing out what Republicans are doing, it's pushed that false "balance" process into overdrive.

Weirdly I think being in a wealthy liberal bubble can exacerbate this, because the mindset is "well obviously we all know Republicans are bad, let's be contrarian by talking about Democrats being bad and Republicans being good!" It's sort of like tumblr producing "let men be masculine" takes. That's not the only place it comes from, though, some of these people just like Republicans even though they won't admit it.

[a-very-tired-jew]

Had a student try and get into politics with me (prior to going in for surgery) the other week and it has stayed with me. If you're unaware, Professors are not supposed to push, espouse, or support any particular political party or rhetoric. We have major policies about it with very considerable consequences. Even courses where things might have a political nature, that are not polisci because they're different, have to be touched upon very carefully lest there be some blowback (e.g. a professor at Texas A&M was talking about Texas's drug laws in a criminology course and how they were ineffective and got in trouble because someone who knew Paxton was a student and felt offended because their "uncle" couldn't be bad).

So of course I didn't say anything. My policy is just to go "yeah, I'm gonna vote" and leave it at that.

Said student went on a mini-tirade though about how Kamala is obviously the better choice, but that they might vote for Trump because Biden and Kamala have been "facilitating a genocide". Said student then had the self awareness to admit that a Trump presidency wouldn't be better, more people would suffer, and it wouldn't "stop the genocide", but they wanted to "punish the Democrats".

My TA and I looked at each other a little wide eyed and the student came out of their fugue state to realize what they'd just said in front of their Professor and TA, gathered their things, and then mumbled something before hurrying out the room.

It's clear they care about the I/P conflict, but also about domestic and foreign policies that would result from this presidency. But their behavior is so quintessential college age activist that I had to highlight it here.

Being passionate about something doesn't mean burning everything down because you don't have the perfect response, especially if you are fully aware that your burning everything would actually make it worse.

Why do that?

It's a completely juvenile and immature response that really shows the quality of the person in that moment, where they are in life, and their intellectual and emotional development.

At least they became cognizant of how unhinged they sounded by the time they were done.

[seancurry1]

Remember, Thou Art Barnacle

A serenity prayer for election day.

Originally posted on my website.

The Ann Selzer Iowa poll, regarded as the gold standard in all of political polling, shows Harris is up +3 in a state that Trump won by +8 in 2016 and by +9 in 2020. 

And you are a barnacle. 

The election better markets have Trump up by +19 (as of noon EST, 11/5/24), and bettors don’t care if people are ashamed to admit who they’re voting for—they’re in it for the money and only the money.

And you are a barnacle. 

Mainstream pollsters have admitted to weighting their polls heavily in favor of Trump, to ensure they don’t end up with egg on their face like they did in 2016 and 2020 again. International whales are taking out huge bets in favor of Trump, swinging the markets, and right wing think tanks are flooding the zone with bullshit polls to artificially inflate Trump’s odds in the aggregate. And even if the popular vote is overwhelmingly for Harris, Trump’s team is already laying the narrative groundwork to support a Stop the Steal campaign that, by the time you read this, will likely already have started. 

All of that is true. 

And you are still a barnacle. 

You are not piloting the ship. You are not the captain of the ship. You are not laying out the potential courses the ship could take, you are not deciding which course the ship will take, you are not scouting ahead. 

You aren’t even a paying, ticket-holding passenger on the ship. You are a barnacle on the hull, deep underwater, and unfortunately, there isn’t really anything you can individually do to affect where this ship goes. Sorry! 

This isn’t an invitation to check out, or become apathetic, or (heaven forbid) embrace doomerism. Quite the opposite: this is a reminder of who you actually are in this entire scenario, of the power you do not have, and of the power you definitely do. 

After the 2016 election, some small part of myself was convinced I could change the outcome if I just posted hard enough. If I fought enough of my friends on Facebook, texted angrily, and tweeted from enough protests and rallies, somehow Trump would no longer be President-elect. 

All it did was, literally, give me a rash. I got so angry for so long that my skin started to break out in hives. A doctor friend more-than-half seriously prescribed that I “get the fuck off Facebook” until my skin returned to normal. Trump was still President-elect, the next 8 years happened the way they did, and here we are today. 

You’re going to hear a lot today: polls are tightening! Votes still aren’t in from this critical precinct! If these trends hold, then we can expect to know something by such-and-such a time! The race is as tight as can be! White supremacists are threatening violence to avenge a dead squirrel! 

(The squirrel thing is 100% real, and my god, I really wish I was joking.) 

Remember, through all of it, that you are not the captain of the ship. You are a barnacle on its hull, and there is very little you can personally do to change it at this point. You’ve already done all you can do—or maybe you haven’t, but even then, you’ve already done all you’re going to do. 

And as you stress, and consider how inebriated you’re going to get, and decide on which web pages you’ll be refreshing every thirty seconds, and stress out some more, remember too that Donald Trump hasn’t ever won the popular vote in his entire miserable life. He only won the electoral college, a racist system explicitly designed to empower slaveholders in southern states, one time, and ever since then, he has lost every election he’s declared for. 

More people did vote for the woman candidate the last time one ran for President, and more people have voted for the candidate of color than their opponent every single time a person of color has run for President on a major party ticket. 

And women have already made up a larger share of early voting than men in this, the first general election post-Dobbs, than ever before in American history. (53% women to 44% men.) 

So as you stress and consider your inebriates and say to yourself, “How can it possibly be this close?!” for the umpteenth time today, remember too that Donald Trump is a fascistic, deeply unpopular person (let alone President) backed by an even more deeply weird party, and that almost the entirety of your experience of this election is being filtered through the lens of a national, for-profit media that doesn’t care who wins, so long as you keep watching. 

Remember, you are not the captain of the ship, you are not the helmsman, you are not the map-maker. 

You are a barnacle. 

Vote for Harris, vote Democrat in your local and state races, and trust your other barnacles.

If you like this, consider signing up for my newsletter to get more writing from me right in your inbox the second it posts: sean-curry.com/signup

[presidentkamala]

Wait til leftist find out that they indeed voted for a genocide lol

Honestly IDK what will finally, finally get them to admit fault in this regard. They refuse to acknowledge their own extreme privilege and insularity, they refuse to reckon with what it means to betray the pro-democracy coalition (fucking AGAIN), they stick their fingers in their ears whenever you try to get them to for once admit the material reality we all find ourselves in...

And obviously OBVIOUSLY any leftist who is committed to the freedoms and civil rights guaranteed by the constitution and seeks to expand those freedoms in this country and who abhors trump trumpism and the MAGA regime is like. Someone who ultimately shares the same side as me.

But for this loud, vocal, online dirtbag type of leftist who helped to FUCK US it is completely over and i mean it. even now im being forced to read about how having ANY border policy at all is the same as trump/miller's completely irregular and illegal abduction of immigrants! Like, MISS ME!!!

And all of it boils down to an almost childlike inability to accept responsibility. When the worst happens (in many ways it already has, but since when have these guys ever cared about the immigrants in their own country?) I fully expect them to fall back into learned helplessness perfect victim mode rather than lift a single finger to save anyone!

Its all fun and games when you're playing pretend thought experiments and rhetorical games at hypothetical situations you KNEW you never had to REALLY worry about under biden.....

[would-you-punt-them]

Aight so JD Vance is a republican that is running for US vice president for Donald Trump and he has repeatedly made racist towards Haitians eating cats and dogs (which is untrue and revealed to be a rumor by a racist white woman) He even admitted on national TV that he is willing to make false statements in order to get more votes and support.

I've just been staring at this for over an hour now

[bogleech]

I'm not going to even gently suggest here how you should vote or whether you should vote because doing so invites the most deranged harassment I've now ever seen on this website but if you expect or for whatever reason hope that the Democrats will lose the presidential election you need to prepare yourself and plan for the four years (or more) that you'll get of conservative presidency, because those ones will seek to fund much more war and crack down more sadistically on any and all protest, with Trump even saying he'd fight to deport all immigrants who admit to standing with Palestine. Not even just those who join a protest, he thinks it should be treason to just express the opinion anywhere.

There absolutely will not be a scenario in which both the Democrats and Republicans lose, ushering in a peaceful utopian third party.

A loss will also push neither party farther left. Neither of them are going to take it as a lesson to ease up on being murderous war pigs. If you're "vote blue no matter who" PLEASE tell me there's a coherent plan to fight their murder fetish from there and if you're "just don't vote at all" please tell me what the other coherent plan is to deal with a landslide maga victory and their hornier murder fetish

[wilwheaton]

Trump can’t win the general election with 78% of the Republican vote. In 2020, Trump got 94% of the Republican vote and lost. The country would be well served if most of the Haley voters either voted for Biden, voted third party, stayed home or wrote somebody in for president. They don’t have to vote for Biden to thwart Trump. Even Fox “News” has admitted that Trump can’t win without Haley’s supporters. Another symptom of Trump fatigue is that Mike Pence has declined to endorse his candidacy. This is huge news. What if Al Gore had refused to endorse Biden? In addition, 41 out of 44 Trump cabinet members have declined to endorse him. These are the people who know Trump best. This gives millions of Republicans a permission slip to not vote for Trump in November.

Republicans In Disarray - Why Trump Won't Win

I don’t believe we can take a single moment’s rest until he is vanquished, and I’m terrified he will find a way to successfully execute the coup this time, but this writer has some good observations that can help keep us focused.

[contemplatingoutlander]

"Donald, this is not the Soviet Union. You can’t change the truth and you cannot silence us."

--Liz Cheney (Jan. 3, 2025)

Unfortunately, trump does want to "change the truth"--and he has succeeded for millions of his gullible MAGA followers.

The Soviet Union might no longer exist, but Trump wants to turn us into the next worst thing--Putin's Russia.

Looking on X at the MAGA hate to Cheney's response, there is still all sorts of disinformation about the January 6th committee, including information taken out of context by the GOP and Trump, and outright lies. Here's an AP fact check to refute all of that.

Below the cut are the full transcripts of Cheney's response to Trump, and Trump's original post railing against Cheney's receiving the Presidential Citizens Medal.

[edited]

LIZ CHENEY: Donald, this is not the Soviet Union. You can’t change the truth and you cannot silence us. Remember all your lies about the voting machines, the election workers, your countless allegations of fraud that never happened? Many of your lawyers have been sanctioned, disciplined or disbarred, the courts ruled against you, and dozens of your own White House, administration, and campaign aides testified against you. Remember how you sent a mob to our Capitol and then watched the violence on television and refused for hours to instruct the mob to leave? Remember how your former Vice President prevented you from overturning our Republic? We remember. And now, as you take office again, the American people need to reject your latest malicious falsehoods and stand as the guardrails of our Constitutional Republic — to protect the America we love from you.

DONALD TRUMP: Biden gave Liz Cheney a Medal yesterday, even though she has proven to be totally corrupt. She, “Bennie” Thompson, and the rest of the Unselect Committee, destroyed and deleted all evidence from their crooked investigation of January 6th. Cheney has the distinction of losing her Congressional seat by the largest margin in History! The people of Wyoming understood how bad for our Country she was, but Biden rewarded her only because she hated “TRUMP.” She’s a Warmonger of low intelligence. All she wants to do is kill people in “Endless Wars,” with no gain other than to defense companies. Liz Cheney, Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, Bennie Thompson, and the rest of these dishonest Thugs have gotten away with horrible things under the pretense of January 6th. Nancy Pelosi refused to accept the help which was offered for security. She is responsible, and admitted as much, for all to see, on her daughter’s tape. They have destroyed the lives of many people, and are rewarded by getting Biden Fake Medals. This is not America. January 20th cannot come fast enough. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Donald Trump Truth Social 01:25 PM EST 01/03/25