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Quiet Em

Quiet Em's Journal
Quiet Em's Journal
May 12, 2025

So who is the white male candidate that the donors are rallying behind?

Rep. Crockett probably isn't the only person who knows who this candidate is.

May 9, 2025

I think it's unprofessional and inappropriate for Jake Tapper to keep pushing his tabloid book

President Biden does not have dementia nor has he suffered any cognitive decline. There was no cover-up because, again, President Biden does not have dementia and is not showing cognitive decline.

Jake Tapper is not a neurologist and has no business pretending he can make this diagnosis.

The only people who would even be interested in reading his trashy gossip at a time when all hell is breaking loose because of the con artist are MAGA cultists.

Tapper has been a Trump enablist since 2016. He has an obvious bias against the Democratic Party and his credibility as far as I'm concerned is on par with Fox News. Not credible.

May 8, 2025

"I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana"

Those are the lyrics that Kris Kristofferson wrote. Those are the lyrics that Roger Miller, Kris Kristofferson and Janis Joplin sang.

But there are people on the internet who insist it should be "I pulled my harp on out of my dirty red bandana".

No. Just sing harpoon.

May 8, 2025

The Shilo Hendricks event is disgusting.

Shilo is disgusting. The people who are rewarding her are disgusting. Jacob Wells, owner of of the fundraising site who is defending her is disgusting. The fact that Shilo is raising children and having an influence on those children is disgusting.

This is who MAGA is and what they are all about. Disgusting.

May 8, 2025

Have you noticed the complete media silence on Judge Dugan?

Fox News and rightwing outlets aren't talking about it. MAGA influencers aren't talking about it. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel aren't talking about it. The con artist isn't talking about it. And because they aren't talking about it, major media isn't talking about it either.

Once again, I expect all charges to be quietly dropped before the May 15th hearing. The charges will be dropped because the con Administration severely overstepped and they have no case.

But I don't want the public to forget just how atrocious and way over the line this situation was.

I will continue to talk about it. It was wrong and someone needs to be held acccountable for it.

May 7, 2025

90% of car seats, baby strollers and cribs come from China

and the ahole is talking about dolls.

May 7, 2025

Donald Trump has a negative economic approval rating in Texas for the first time, poll finds

The University of Texas at Austin's Texas Politics Project survey, released Wednesday, found that 46% of Texans do not approve of how Trump is handling the country's economy amid new tariffs and escalating trade wars. Just 40% support Trump's economic moves.

It is the first time Trump earned a negative economic rating since UT Austin pollsters began asking about his handling of the economy in June 2019. Even at the height of the COVID pandemic Trump fared better, with a 49% approval rating in April 2020. Just 42% disapproved then.

"President Trump owns the current economic uncertainty lock, stock, and barrel," said James Henson, who leads the Texas Politics Project.

Henson said Trump's approval likely didn't suffer as much during the COVID pandemic, because it was an external shock that couldn't be attributed directly to him.

"He is trying to blame others, like the previous president or the fed chair, for the current disruptions," Henson said. "But that's a hard sell to any reasonably critical observer, and likely to get harder."


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/donald-trump-has-a-negative-economic-approval-rating-in-texas-for-the-first-time-poll-finds/ar-AA1EkGRB?ocid=BingNewsBrowse
May 7, 2025

Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody

I've been stuck in a rut for a few weeks and haven't tried learning anything new. I learned this one today and it was so much fun! Just the pick-me-up I needed.

May 6, 2025

More than 150 retired judges criticize Hannah Dugan arrest in letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi

A bipartisan group of more than 150 former federal and state judges sharply criticized the Trump administration for its handling of the arrest of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan in a May 5 letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.


"Seeing a judge handcuffed, photographed and perp walked highlights the authoritarian playbook of the Trump administration," said Nancy Gertner, a former federal judge and Democratic President Bill Clinton appointee who helped write and signed the letter. "It is something we should never tolerate in the United States."


Another lead signer, J. Michael Luttig, a conservative former federal appeals court judge, said: "I have spent my career upholding the Constitution. I never imagined I'd see a judge treated like this in America. The arrest and prosecution of judges is where rule by law ends and authoritarianism begins. The judiciary is the last obstacle to a president with designs on tyrannical rule."


https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/06/hannah-dugan-arrest-criticized-in-retired-judges-letter-to-pam-bondi/83474518007/

I believe these charges will be quietly dropped before the May 15th hearing. They have no case and the entire episode was outrageous.

Did you know they put the judge in leg shackles? I'm still so very angry about this.

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