Belle

Stop blocking the transition to green energy, and stop lying about Climate Change.

Belle

This shitty economy belongs to Trump and the dog-ass Republicans who aren't just letting it happen - they're helping him fuck it all up.

Belle

Daddy State Awareness

• The Daddy State lies as a means of demonstrating power.
• The lies have practically nothing to do with the subject of the lies.
• Lying about everything creates chaos, which helps condition us to stop thinking, and look to them for "guidance".
• Once we're totally dependent on them, we'll accept the premise that they can do anything they want.

The goal is to destroy our ability

to experience reality directly,

so they can dictate reality to us.

Belle

There are 1,461 days in a POTUS term.

1,461

- 564

  897

There's over 60% of Trump's term left to go.

"Trump has been a disaster for the US, and the Republicans in Congress who co-signed for it are to blame."

Belle

Change your habit for just a month or two, and all of a sudden, you've got yourself a new and different habit.

Belle

Politics is mostly about building coalitions. And building a coalition that can hold together well enough, and long enough, to getting anything done - in a country of 330 million people - is pretty much the hardest thing ever.

But if you can start with a smallish gang of five, organized around one main issue, you can make a lot of trouble for a president - and a whole party - with approval ratings and actions that make it seem like they're bent on self-destruction anyway, so you might as well help it along a bit by touting a third party.

It's different from the rebellion that's going on with the Democrats. The progressives have numbers that keep getting bigger, and they're concentrating on a wider range of issues that touch most Americans, while MTG-Tucker are mostly talking up the vague-tho-still-totally-racist America First thing, with some Epstein Files thrown in as a little extra sauce.

Carolyn Moffa   Brian Glenn  MTG     Tucker Carlson    Joe Kent  Heather Kent  Thomas Massie

MTG and Tucker Carlson announce new ‘movement’ in photo packed with MAGA renegades

‘Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center,’ Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on X

Marjorie Taylor Greene announced a new political “movement” with a group of MAGA stalwarts who have broken with President Donald Trump over the ongoing Iran war.

On August 1, the former Georgia Republican posted a photo on X depicting her alongside media personality Tucker Carlson, Rep. Thomas Massie and Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Also pictured was conservative journalist Brian Glenn, whom Greene married in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

“We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise,” Greene wrote. “But he’s betrayed us all. Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center,” she continued.”

“The movement has begun,” she added.

Greene, who resigned from Congress in January, had previously discussed the possibility of forming a new political party after growing “fed up” with Republicans.

MAGA and WH insiders say cabinet member ‘sucks donkey butt’ and needs to go: report
Trump appears to put himself on Mount Rushmore’s level with latest post

“I think there’s a group of us that if we decide to align, we could launch a true America-focused party that doesn’t fall into the traps of Democrats or Republicans, but could align some serious players from the right and the left,” she told Piers Morgan on June 30.

Carlson, a former Fox News host turned popular podcaster, echoed this sentiment in July, telling The Columbia Journalism Review: “There’s going to be a third party, and I’m going to do everything I can to bring that about.”

Greene and Massie, who lost his Kentucky primary earlier this year to a Trump-backed rival, also vacationed together in May, where they discussed “the future of politics in America.”

Greene, Massie, Kent and Carlson all turned against Trump over the Iran war, launched in February, arguing that it amounted to a betrayal of his campaign promise to end “forever wars.”

Carlson called the war “disgusting and evil,” while Kent — who served as Trump’s counterterrorism chief — resigned in March over his opposition to the conflict.

“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent wrote in a letter posted to X. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

Greene, meanwhile, had already broken with Trump over the Epstein files by the time the war began. After Trump publicly attacked her, she said she would resign from Congress rather than “endure a hurtful and hateful primary.” Massie had also split with Trump over the Epstein files and lost his primary in May to retired Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, a Trump loyalist. His current term ends in January.

In late July, Massie was among several Republicans who voted for a war powers resolution aimed at reining in Trump’s authority to wage the Iran war. The measure passed the House 214-208.

Trump has unleashed harsh attacks on the former MAGA allies who turned against him, calling Greene a “traitor,” Kent a “SLEAZEBAG,” Carlson a “Low IQ person” and Massie “Weak and Pathetic.”

In response to broader criticism of the war — which has led to the death of 18 U.S. service members and thousands of Iranians — Trump has said the conflict is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

While multiple polls show that most Americans oppose a war with Iran, history suggests that a third party would face steep odds of success. No third-party candidate has won the presidency in the modern era, and only a small number of lawmakers in Congress are not aligned with either major party.

The Independent has contacted the White House for comment.

More Numbers

• Inflation is up around 3.5%
• GDP growth is an anemic 1.5%
• We've got the lowest labor participation in 50 years

As soon as the Unemployment Rate pops up around 5%, and people start talking recession, we're going to tip into a round of stagflation that'll have us all wishing it was 1975 again.

Belle

How does it make my life more affordable when Trump's tariffs are driving up the price of most things I need, and when the Republicans cut programs that help people, and they can't figure how to stop that stupid fucking war that he started for no fucking reason?

Belle

When do you finally wise up, MAGA?

Belle

Coming soon - to a propaganda network near you.

They're going to juice the numbers.

Because numbers never lie, but people lie with the numbers all the fuckin' time - especially this Trump gang.

Dead Americans

"Temporary data disruption" --President BF Stolenvalor

Belle

Like pretty much everything Republicans do these days, their push for "legislation" is little more than "Let's pull some shit that makes the rubes think we're trying to do something useful, but is really just the usual fuckery intended to make Democrats look bad, and keep us on the gravy train for a while longer."

Belle

Because Trump is a REMF, and fuckin' loser.

Belle Explains

Belle

We live in a country where 10% of us think the Earth is flat, 15% don't believe we landed on the moon, and 28% think Bigfoot is real.

Stop wondering how 35% of us can still think Trump is a good president.

But anyway - it's the economy, stupid.

Belle

It's not official - it's never official unless it's 100% happy talk bullshit - but DOGE is done.

Trump promised $2T in savings, enough to send every household a check for $5000.

Don't hold your breath.

Trump's fucked up COVID-19 response cost us more than it had to, so he doesn't get a full pass on that one. Let's be overly generous, and just say half of the $3.6T in increased spending due to COVID-19 belongs to him.

All told, in his not-quite 6 years in office, he's bumped spending by $6.6T - a trillion of that is just the increased interest we have to pay on the ten-year T-bills that make up the debt.

So he spends more while his tax cuts for plutocrats means we bring in less, and somehow the MAGA rubes still believe he's some kind of fucking genius business guy.

Real sick of this shit.

Belle

While Trump has no problem packing a room with uniformed service members, his taint-licker SecDef will gladly come down on Maj Watson with both feet.

Belle

The current iteration of the GOP is there to serve the interests of parasite billionaires. If you think more than a handful of them are going to lift a finger to help you make your life just a tiny bit better, then you need to be paying a lot more attention.

They don't give one empty fuck about you or me or anything else - just power and money, and their vision of a Post-Government World Order - that's it.

More Belle

Politics is supposed to be boring. I don't remember when or why I first got turned on to it. Maybe it was when my mom took me out canvassing for Barry Goldwater in 1964.

Maybe I felt it had a strong connection to sales - way before I even knew sales was something I'd end up doing. It's always just kinda turned my crank - talking with people, trying to get them to do something.

IDK. But like Belle says, I'm pretty sure it's supposed be a helluva lot more than entertainment.

We shouldn't be tuning in because we get a kick out of watching the antics of some jagoff who thinks his rhetoric is on par with Cicero, when he's just belching out the banalities he saw in the comments of some 3rd rate grifting "influencer" online.

We're supposed to be doing these things because we want to make life a bit better for each other.

Belle

Let's evaluate policies by who they help, and not who they hurt.