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Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
“There’s a cost to corruption.”
Appearing on PoliticsNation tonight, Hakeem Jeffries confirmed again that Democrats will launch investigations into corruption on day one, follow the facts, uphold the Constitution, and hold the crooks accountable.
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
To no one's surprise, the gullible Trump fans have only one answer to Tuesday's defeat - imaginary voter fraud
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
The elite media absolutely never talks about how the Mexican left utterly crushed the corrupt narco-establishment in Mexico and instituted a wildly popular democratic socialist government that’s still going strong after eight years because they wouldn’t want to give you any ideas
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
Blue Wave smacked Republicans so hard DeSantis dropped the act and started talking like a guy who went to Yale and got a JD from Harvard again.
Ron DeSantis explains why the GOP "screaming socialism" doesn't work anymore:
"Young people have a very positive view of socialism compared to capitalism. The question is, why is that? Some of it is the education in our universities. But I think a big part of that is, what they're comparing is not free enterprise versus socialism. What they're comparing is how government gets involved in business, and you have crony capitalism. The best kind of indirect supporters of socialism are some of these corporatist republicans who propagate these crony policies. The average person is seeing that and saying, 'Wait a minute, you're trying to bend the government to funnel benefits to this corporation or that industry. What about having a competitive market? ... Young people really aren't seeing that. They're seeing just a handful of companies that have an outsized influence on our economy and on our society"
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
If you’re wondering why counting the votes takes so long – this is normal in Alaska.
It’s a big state where more than 80% of our communities aren’t on the road system. And we’re going to make sure that every last ballot is counted, and every single Alaskan’s voice is heard.
RT @jamesetta_w: Would really love an American journalist to react yo this question. Why is foreign press comfortable calling Miller a whit…
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Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
When you saw the results of the election and you realize you’ll be running in a d plus 450 environment
Utterly bonkers. Someone has truly lost the plot, and that someone's name rhymes with Skeeter Peel.
NEW: In leaked recordings, Peter Thiel argued that Nashville should be a moral alternative to Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church, which he called “a dubious ally” against a hypothetical future Antichrist Democratic president.
“America is the last and final form of the Roman Empire,” Thiel told a closed-door crowd in Nashville’s Masonic Temple. “There is no successor.”
He has attacked Pope Leo XIV at least four times this year, once calling him “a useful idiot for the CCP.” thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-…
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
Russell Vought has found a neat way to make Congress optional: hold approved money until the fiscal year ends, then pretend the calendar did the canceling. In September, OMB sought $810 million in rescissions. The GAO said the administration couldn't use that request to let the funding expire. Somehow the man who lectures everyone about constitutional government keeps misplacing Article I.
The stakes are Head Start, disaster relief, medical research, and the basic promise that laws passed by Congress mean something. Get the records. Put the officials under oath. Close the claimed loopholes. A president doesn't get a line-item veto just because his budget director knows how to wait until midnight.
Russell Vought is the most powerful Trump official most Americans have never heard of. And Democrats are coming for his power.
@crampell explains how Trump’s budget chief helped undermine Congress’s authority and why his reckoning may be coming.
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Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
Couldn’t one make the same argument that he’s trying to do to the United States what he’s already done to the Republican Party?
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
One crucial thing to watch is how many US and Ukrainian assets Trump tries to give to Russia in the next three months. Probably deserving of a real-time investigation of its own.
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
As possibly the only person in American politics less popular than Trump himself, it makes perfect sense. An autocrat's circle always grows smaller as ruthless loyalty out of complicity becomes the only relevant qualification.
Steven Miller's immigration policy has taken arguably the GOP's best issue and made it a liability. He, second only to Trump himself, is responsible for blowing up the multiracial coalition that elected Trump in 2024 and sparked the GOP's dream of a multiracial working class coalition. He's also probably the single most despised person in American politics. So of course, Trump appointed him Chief of Staff after getting humiliated at the polls. It's so perfect.
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
Best piece I've read on why Ossoff will be our next President
Every post-midterm prediction market says Ossoff will be our next President.
A dispatch from the start of his inevitable campaign...
mamathemagazine.com/all-eyes…
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
at least the cybertruck gave us this quote from a 2025 WIRED profile of various owners
wired.com/story/owning-a-cyb…
Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production around mid-2027, CEO Elon Musk says, after years of persistently weak sales for a futuristic model once touted as a rival to legacy pickup trucks. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/t…
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
Harry Enten shows where votes are left in the razor-thin Mississippi Senate race and why he “fully” expects Democrat Scott Colom to flip this seat.
