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There's a theme with the America First candidate for President of the United States: He consistently bashes the (checks notes) United States. The felon's last target was Detroit, where he attacked the city to their faces while in Detroit in what was supposed to be a speech about his economic proposals.

Why do Republicans never learn? Are they really this stupid (don't bother to answer)? In another viral moment, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg thoroughly humiliated another congressional MAGA mook who thought he could take Pete on during a live, televised hearing. Oops. Within 30 seconds the GOP tool was a sputtering mess who honestly looked like he might start to cry (I'm seriously not exaggerating).

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appeared via satellite for the daily White House press briefing on Thursday. He was there to answer questions regarding the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Mayorkas was asked whether or not he felt FEMA is perpetually "underfunded" as an agency. Mayorkas gave a diplomatic but laser sharp answer directed at the do-nothing Republicans in Congress. "Let me take a step back and widen the aperture of that question, if I may,” Mayorkas began.

In a letter to Putin, Seagal has asked to be sent to the front lines of Russia's Special Military Operation. With any luck at all, Seagal will be granted his wish. Source: Pravda Actor Steven Seagal, who became a Russian citizen in 2016, declared his readiness to fight for Russia as part of the special military operation. In his new documentary tentatively called "In the Name of Justice," the actor admitted that the day after Russia kicked off the special military operation in Ukraine, he wrote a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin and made sure that it would reach the Russian leader. In the letter, Seagal noted that it would now be clear "who our true compatriots are, who our friends are, and who our enemies are.” "I will be on the side of my president and I will fight on the side of my president," Steven Seagal said. Seagal said that he would be ready to die for his president, if need be.

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Barack Obama is going to be living rent free in Trump's head once again after his constant ribbing of Trump during a rally in Pittsburgh, PA this Thursday. Barack Obama laid into fellow former President Donald Trump so thoroughly on Thursday that more than one X user quipped, “I’d like to report a murder.“ Obama, speaking at a rally in Pittsburgh, ticked off a long list of reasons why voters should reject Trump and vote for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris next month. [] The 44th president continued to blast the 45th, recalling his shock at finding out how much diapers cost after his oldest daughter Malia was born.