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Vice President-elect Donald isn’t even in office, and he’s already creating chaos in the U.S., Canada, and Greenland. Donald’s bootlickers in Congress even proposed a new bill dubbed ‘Make Greenland Great Again’ to expedite a negotiation process with Denmark, which protects Greenland’s autonomy.

Coke Jr. visited Greenland to prove that the territory was MAGA, but unsurprisingly, that event was staged. And Greenland is not for sale.

Fox News dispatched a reporter to Greenland’s capital city, only to be underwhelmed by the support for MAGA.

HuffPost reports:

A Fox News correspondent went to Greenland and said “most” people she spoke to were critical of Donald Trump’s push to take control of the Danish territory.

Reporting from Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, Alex Hogan said on Tuesday there had been a “lot of mixed reaction” there about the president-elect’s pitch.

She started by sharing snippets of an interview with an “avid Trump supporter,” Jørgen Boassen. He was kitted out in Trump merch and said Greenland is the “front door” to the U.S., suggesting the island could need protection from Russia and China.

It seemed as though Fox News could not find many others who shared his views.

“Most other Greenlanders we spoke with quickly bashed Trump’s comments, calling them offensive,” Hogan reported.

The conservative network showed clips of several interviewees saying they would prefer to remain with Denmark. Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark with its own parliament.

Trump has in recent weeks revived his call for the U.S. to purchase the territory, despite pushback from Danish and Greenlandic officials.

In a rambling press conference last week, he declined to rule out using military force to take control of it, saying, “we need Greenland for national security purposes.”

Donald wants to start a war with Greenland, but I doubt they’d give up the territory where they enjoy free healthcare instead of a “concept of a plan.” Canada, too.

Nelk Boys too.

A group of YouTubers from the US went to Greenland hoping to show public support for a US invasion, but upon arrival, they were insulted by locals. pic.twitter.com/AwauhPE4BS

— red. (@redstreamnet) January 15, 2025

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Walter Masterson went to Trump Tower to find the mythical Felon merch that was actually made in the US of A. While most of the crap was made in China, Masterson did find one thing made in Bangladesh and one without a named source. Boy, I feel pwned, don’t you?

I went to the TRUMP STORE inside of TRUMP TOWER and nothing is Made in the USA. Where will MAGA move the goalpost on this one? pic.twitter.com/DHVCc8n4s1

— Walter Masterson (@waltermasterson) January 13, 2025

Open thread below…

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During Sen. Marco Rubio’s confirmation hearing Wednesday, he was asked by Democratic Sen. Patrick Murphy a simple yes or no question: “Do you believe that the president should refrain from doing new business deals with Middle East governments during his term in office?”

Rubio is Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State. As a senator, he’s been vice chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence and a senior member of the Committee on Foreign Relations. The fact that he’s obviously willing to toss out everything he knows about the importance of not having a president conflicted on foreign policy tells you everything you need to know about this cowardly weasel.

Even worse, he pretended Trump always put the country over his personal interests.

RUBIO: My understanding, again, I’m speaking out of turn, but the president doesn’t manage that company. His family members do, and they have a right to be in the business. That’s the business that they’re in. They’re in the real estate business. They’ve been for a very long time, both domestically and abroad. They have properties in multiple countries. So, at the end of the day, I don’t know, his family is entitled to continue to operate their business.

The fundamental question is not whether his family is involved in business. The fundamental question is whether that is in any way impacting the conduct of our foreign policy in a way that’s counter to our national interest. And the president’s made abundantly clear that every decision he makes and every decision we are to make at the State Department should be driven by whether or not it serves the national, core national interests of the United States.

Did Rubio miss Trump’s $10 million “donation” from Egypt that was coincidentally followed by remarkable camaraderie toward President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi that broke with previous U.S. policy? That time Trump killed an investigation into a Chinese company renting space from “his family” to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars? That’s not counting how Trump put his country last by undermining the 2020 presidential election because his pathetically fragile ego couldn’t handle the loss.

I’m sure Rubio didn’t miss any of those things. He just cares more about his personal status, power and maybe cutting government services for regular folks to pay for tax cuts to billionaires than he does about this country and our democracy.

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Meta made a number of changes to suck up to Yambo. The company ended its fact-checking program in the United States, stopped scanning new posts for most policy violations, and created carve-outs in its community standards to allow nasty speech about transgender people and immigrants. (Naturally, the company also sacrificed its DEI program on the Altar Of Orange.) Via Platformer.com:

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer.

The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

In 2016, of course, Meta hadn’t yet invested huge sums in machine-learning classifiers that can spot when a piece of viral content is likely a hoax. But nine years later, after the company’s own analyses found that these classifiers could reduce the reach of these hoaxes by more than 90 percent, Meta is shutting them off.

Isn’t that sweet. Figure out some alternate delivery system for pictures of your family, and get the hell off toxic Meta products. If I find a good one, I’ll let you know.

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The Republican Party of Wisconsin is slated to hold their state convention on May 17, 2025, and it’s already shaping up to be something to behold, based on this Xitter post by Brett Galaszewski, who happens to be involved with both the Republican Party of Wisconsin and Turning Point Action. Old Brett ain’t too happy about a proposed amendment to the party’s constitution:

What has Galaszewski riled up is this:

Basically, the GOP establishment is saying that you cannot serve both on the party’s executive committee and work for or contract with a PAC, a 501(c)4 or a 527.

To be honest, the proposed amendment does make sense. They have to be careful about illegal collaborations. More likely, their concern lies with being coopted by the Orange Felon and his MAGAlytes. Too bad that they didn’t think about that before they hitched their wagons to those psychopaths just to help them win some elections. But then again, that is what FAFO is all about.

The truly sad part is that no matter who wins – the GOP establishment or the MAGA cultists – they’ll be the same CHUDS that the rest of us will have to deal with.

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Growing up in Oakland, California, you learn early that Black women have rules. They mean what they say. They lead by example. You do NOT disrespect them.

Take for instance Michelle Obama:

Michelle Obama Just Announced She Will Not Attend Donald Trump’s Inauguration After Also Missing Jimmy Carter’s Funeral

Michelle Obama will not join her husband, Barack Obama, at Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration, a spokesperson for the former first couple confirmed to PEOPLE on Tuesday, Jan. 14.

The announcement comes days after Michelle made headlines for missing Jimmy Carter’s state funeral, where she would have been seated next to President-elect Trump.

She’s done wasting her time with his foolishness.

Our second example is from Vice President Kamala Harris, who is a fellow Oakland acorn:

Harris declines to invite Vance for courtesy visit to vice president’s residence before inauguration

When JD Vance, his wife Usha and their three young children move into the Naval Observatory residence on Jan. 20, it will be their first time inside the white Queen Anne-style mansion that has been home to vice presidents since the 1970s.

Vice President Kamala Harris has not extended an invitation for a formal sit-down or tour, multiple Democratic and Republican sources told CBS News.

This is not just sour grapes, it is also that she meant what she said about Vance being a threat to democracy (little dee). The article also mentions that in the previous (not so peaceful transfer of power) that Mike Pence and family also did not welcome Kamala Harris:

But people close to Harris say she was never afforded an opportunity to visit the home before she was sworn in in 2021. However, she took office during the COVID outbreak, just after the Capitol riot — and Donald Trump had refused to admit he had been defeated in the election.

[…] No formal sit-down between Pence and Harris ever took place, Democratic and Republican sources said.

So Harris gets to serve the 4th Reich II the same dish she was served, and good for her! Now, I’m not gonna sugarcoat my distaste for the polite meeting President Handsome Joe Biden had with The Orange 🤡 welcoming him to the White House. President Biden spent literally years (correctly) saying that Hair Füror was a threat to democracy and even once said (correctly again) that he was a fascist.

And then there’s This Picture:

That frosted my cookies. I bet it frosted Michelle’s cookies, too. I bet Barack heard about it when he got home, in the most Black Church Lady way possible. Ans as People Magazine reports, she’s NOT going to Hair Füror’s second inauguration.

We need more strong Black women to show us the way.

(Honestly, it would be cool if NONE of the former presidents/first ladies showed up. I bet Mel would be OK with that, too. )

Republished with permission from Mock Paper Scissors.

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It’s been a long time coming, but negotiators were finally reached on Wednesday to end the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. The complexity of that region made this especially difficult, but according to reports, the ceasefire will take effect on Sunday, and the hostages can be released soon.

Of course, Donald immediately pounced on Truth Social to grab the credit after the Biden administration, including the tireless work of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, secured the deal.

“This EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November,” Donald wrote, along with an exhaustingly long post that included this bloviating gem, “We have achieved so much without even being in the White House.”

And his superfans, like Handsy Rep. Boebert, are crediting Donald, too. To MAGA, Donald posting on Truith Social last month that there would be “hell to pay” if the hostages being held captive were not released means their hero secured the deal. That’s it. That’s all Donald did.

Why didn’t Biden think of THAT? Or Secretary Blinken? Only the Stable Genius™ could have figured out that those three words would solve this complex issue.

A reporter asked President Biden who deserves credit for the ceasefire deal.

Reporter: “Who gets credit for this? You or Trump?”

Biden turned with a smile on his face and asked, “Is that a joke?”

And again!

It’s going to be an incredibly long four years.

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2020 election denier Pam Bondi, Trump’s pick to be the Attorney General, refused to say the words when asked if she knew who won the 2020 presidential election.

It’s no surprise that Trump nominated a woman straight out of the Roger Ailes playbook preferences.

Sen. Hirono has been on a roll holding a mirror up to the dregs Trump has nominated.

HIRONO: I want to ask you a factual question. Who won the 2020 presidential election?

BONDI: Joe Biden is the President of the United States.

HIRONO: Ms. Bondi, you know that there is a difference between acknowledging it and, you know, I can say that Donald Trump won the 2024 election.

(Bondi sat mute, like a MAGA sculpture made of compost)

HIRONO: I may not like it, but I can say it. You cannot say who won the 2020 presidential election.

It’s disturbing that you can’t give voice to that fact.

It is disturbing in more ways than Bondi supports Trump’s BIG LIE.

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Fox News host Jesse Waters stooped to a new low by claiming California is destroying Western civilization and that there should be strings attached to any Palisades wildfire relief efforts.

Fox News is furious that California is trying to protect itself from the incoming Traitor Trump administration, and for good reason.

Jesse Watters lied about looters having their way with destroyed homes. That’s the exact opposite in reality. That’s Watters’ schtick.

WATTERS: Are we just going to keep destroying western civilization and then paying to rebuild it over and over again? No. There has to be strings attached to this money because we’re not going to go bankrupt because California’s stupid. They have lost $24 billion on the homeless, $50 billion on COVID jobless claims. They lost, what, $23 billion on a train that doesn’t even go anywhere. So they completely fail every leadership test in California from natural disasters to COVID to the riots and we can’t let it happen again.

Who is “we,” Jesse? You fucking imbecile. Let’s go over what Florida lost from their recent hurricane devastation. As a Californian, I can’t stand Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and their entire legislative body of Evangelical right-wing, book-burning, homophobic know-nothings. Still, I wouldn’t refuse their aid after a hurricane attack.

California’s economy is the 5th largest in the world and the #1 economy in the country. It’s an incredible state to live in.

California pays more federal taxes than any state in the Union. In contrast, red states depend on government funding far more significantly than blue states.

Fox News continually demonizes blue states during times of natural disasters and crises. It’s despicable.

If anyone is destroying Western civilization is the MAGA cult and those who enable them in the media.

Jesse Watters, come to Pacific Palisades or Altadena and make those same remarks to residents who lost everything.

Let’s say how you make out.

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During Sen. Mazie Hirono’s cross-examination of nincompoop SecDef nominee Pete Hegseth, he confirmed that if ordered by Trump to shoot protesters, he would comply.

This is the type of subservient sycophantic behavior Trump requires from his cabinet nominees. Anything less, and he’d likely face criminal and impeachment charges.

HIRONO: In June of 2020, then President Trump directed former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot protesters in the legs in downtown D. C.

An order Secretary Esper refused to comply with.

Would you carry out such an order from President Trump?

HEGSETH: Senator, I was in the Washington D. C. National Guard unit that was in Lafayette Square during those…

HIRONO: Would you carry out an order to shoot protesters in the legs?

HEGSETH: I saw 50 Secret Service agents get injured by riders trying to jump over the fence, set the church on fire and destroy….

HIRONO: That sounds to me that you will comply with such an order. You will shoot protesters in the in the leg.

Hegseth refused to answer the question and deflected.

Secret Service are there to protect and serve. Not fucking shoot, duck and cover.