Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Zuckerberg is SUCKERberg


Zucky Zuckerberg, what have you done?  You made a fool of everyone.  Especially yourself.  Do you need a good laugh?  All the sucking up the Zucker did to Chump was in vain. Tom Boggioni (RAW STORY) reports:



In a deep dive into Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's face-off with the Federal Trade Commission anti-trust investigation over his acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the controversial founder of Facebook placed a bet that Donald Trump would intervene -- and it never happened.
According to the Journal's Dana Mattioli, Rebecca Ballhaus and Josh Dawsey, the FTC is in the process of getting Zuckerberg to admit he bought the two apps in an effort to "neutralize" them as a threat to his core business and is seeking up to $30 billion in penalties.

Instead, Zuckerberg offered up $450 million which former FTC Chair Lina Khan derided as "delusional" in an interview with the Journal, adding, "Mark bought his way out of competing, so I’m not surprised that he thinks he can buy his way out of law enforcement, too. His proposed remedy, like his market strategy, is: ‘let my illegal monopoly keep monopolizing.’”
The report notes that it appears Zuckerberg thought his paltry offer would get him off the hook with Trump also weighing in on his behalf.

According to the report, Zuckerberg contacted FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson in March with his lowball offer with the Journal adding, "On the call, Zuckerberg sounded confident that President Trump would back him up with the FTC, said people familiar with the matter. The billionaire Facebook co-founder had been developing closer ties to Trump—his company donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration and settled a $25 million lawsuit—and had been pressing the president in recent weeks to intervene in the monopoly lawsuit."



Zucky Zuckerberg, the "Sexy Sadie" of today, the ultimate fake ass.   

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He threw it all away betting on Chump.  David Gardner (THE DAILY BEAST) reminds

He’d paid $1 million into Donald Trump’s inaugural fund. He’d settled a lawsuit the president launched over being blackballed by Facebook for a whopping $25 million. He sat in Trump’s box at the inauguration and shuttled between the White House and Mar-a-Lago to ingratiate himself with his new friend.


FACEBOOK and META were garbage products but he rode their popularity to what passed for fame and prestige.  He lost both and so much more when he got in bed with Chump.  He's been exposed for the hack he is and he's harmed the image of FACEBOOK. 


In Menlo Park, pedestrians are hearing a recording claiming to be Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

“Hi this is Mark Zuckerberg, but real ones call me the Zuck,” the voice announces. “You know, it’s normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated as we forcibly insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience. And I just want to assure you — you don’t need to worry because there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it. Anyway, see ya.”
Meghan Horrigan-Taylor, chief communications officer for the city of Palo Alto, said that tampering likely occurred last Friday. City employees first noticed the voice message Saturday morning.

In all 12 intersections were “malfunctioning,” said Horrigan-Taylor.

“City staff have disabled the audible feature until further repairs can be made,” she told NBC-7. “Other traffic signals in the City were checked and the impact is isolated. Signal operations are otherwise unaffected, and motorists are reminded to always exercise caution around pedestrians.”

Everyone laughs at Zuck.  David Gardner (THE DAILY BEAST) reminds, "He’d paid $1 million into Donald Trump’s inaugural fund. He’d settled a lawsuit the president launched over being blackballed by Facebook for a whopping $25 million. He sat in Trump’s box at the inauguration and shuttled between the White House and Mar-a-Lago to ingratiate himself with his new friend."  He threw it all away. 


Don't miss Ava and C.I.'s "MEDIA: YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS and your non-friends too!,"Marcia's "Tara Reade update," Stan's "Ted Kotcheff," Betty's "Kamala for governor of California? Absolutely!" and Ann's "Musk and Chump and their nasty bro-cest."

"The Snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):

Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Whistle blower Daniel Berulis comes forward with disturbing reports on DOGE, Chump continues to wreck the economy and the American dream, MSNBC's web team is still asleep this morning so could someone please wake them, Dems in Congress talk of going to El Salvador to investigate what's going on, and much more.



Let's start with Alien Musk's DOGE which has existed with no real authority and certainly no oversight.  We've trusted Musk with access to this country's most sensitive information despite the fact that he's a security risk due to his drug usage, despite the fact that he's depended on huge amounts of money from China and despite the fact that he's not an American citizen (he's first a citizen of South Africa, then Canada and then the US).  From yesterday's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED  (NPR):


MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:

President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency team, or DOGE, appears to be collecting sensitive data from all over the government. A whistleblower has come forward by filing an official disclosure to Congress. The disclosure is over concerning activity at one independent federal agency - the National Labor Relations Board. NPR's Jenna McLaughlin spoke to that whistleblower. He described to NPR what he saw and how DOGE appeared to go to great lengths to try to cover its tracks.

JENNA MCLAUGHLIN, BYLINE: It was a Friday afternoon in February when Daniel Berulis got a call from his boss. DOGE, the new federal cost-cutting unit, effectively led by billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk, would be arriving soon.

DANIEL BERULIS: I was working on a spreadsheet for some budgeting stuff, and I got a call from my boss saying, hey, it's possible DOGE will show up.

MCLAUGHLIN: The following week - according to his official disclosure to Congress - Berulis and his colleagues watched a black SUV with a police escort pull into the parking garage of the National Labor Relations Board in Southeast Washington, D.C. The small, independent federal agency investigates and adjudicates complaints about unfair labor practices. It stores reams of potentially sensitive data, such as private legal notes in ongoing labor investigations or confidential lists of union organizers.

Most of that data lives on the Cloud, a virtual computer system that can be accessed remotely. It's Berulis' job to watch over the cloud and make sure no single user has access to data or systems they don't need. But for DOGE, those policies and guidelines didn't seem to apply, Berulis says. They had a very specific request.

BERULIS: Do not log the accounts. Don't log the access and stay out of our way.

MCLAUGHLIN: That was just the start for Berulis and his colleagues.

BERULIS: That was a huge red flag. That's something that you just don't do. It violates every core concept of security and best practice.

MCLAUGHLIN: After his suspicions were raised, Berulis was able to hunt down a few details about what took place while DOGE had access. In his disclosure to Congress, there's a ton of complicated technical detail. But here's what it says.

There's clear evidence DOGE got the highest level of access to the system, that a big chunk of data left the agency's internal case management system, followed by another chunk of data leaving the agency itself and that whoever had done those things had turned off security tools and network monitoring logs. They deleted records and appeared to try and disguise the chunks of data leaving the agency as routine web traffic. And after the DOGE accounts were created, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in to the NLRB system, using a username and password that DOGE had created. Even though the attempts were blocked, Berulis says that made him worried the system was more vulnerable now.

The NLRB tells NPR the agency did not authorize DOGE to access their systems, and that there's no record of DOGE requesting it. They also said there was a recent internal investigation that ruled out a breach. However, the disclosure includes forensic evidence and records of communications that seem to tell a different story.

BERULIS: Why was that done? And that's a purposeful effort. That doesn't just happen. Logs don't just disappear. Tools don't just turn themselves off randomly. Everything in a computer has a cause and effect. That means it has to have a trigger.

MCLAUGHLIN: NPR has talked to 10 outside cybersecurity experts - embedded in companies, government agencies and the private sector - who reviewed Berulis' claims. They say the activity is suspicious and that there's no reason a legitimate user would act this way or remove data that is protected by multiple federal laws, including the Privacy Act. They say it is hard to definitively prove what happened without further access to the NLRB systems or without an investigation by agencies with more resources, like the FBI. But from what they can see, none of this behavior is normal. They told NPR the shadowy tactics described in the disclosure are the kinds of things criminals and hackers from China and Russia like to do. Meanwhile, several labor law experts who spoke to NPR say they believe there's no possible reason why DOGE should have had access to or removed NLRB's sensitive labor data.

SHARON BLOCK: There is nothing that I can see about what DOGE is doing that follows any of the standard procedures for how you do an audit that has integrity and that's meaningful and that will actually produce results.

MCLAUGHLIN: Sharon Block is the director of Harvard Law School Center for Labor and a Just Economy. She has held key labor policy jobs in multiple administrations, including as a member of the National Labor Relations Board. She said she thinks DOGE's statements about cutting waste and its behavior don't match up.

BLOCK: That mismatch between what they're doing and what we know the established professional way to do what they say they're doing - that just kind of gives away the store - that they are not about actually finding more efficient ways for the government to operate.


Last night on THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW (MSNBC), Rachel spoke with the whistle blower and with his attorney.  We'd embed the video here but MSNBC's internet team appears to be sleeping on the job and not understanding the importance of breaking news.

 David Ingram and Megan Lebowitz (NBC NEWS) note:


The whistleblower report, which NBC News has reviewed a copy of, comes as DOGE and Trump’s billionaire adviser Elon Musk continue to face multiple lawsuits questioning their access to computer systems across the federal government.  

Berulis, who works at the labor board, wrote in the declaration that within days of DOGE staffers arriving in March, he noticed a series of “anomalous” events in the board’s computer systems. Those included changes to the use of multi-factor authentication, which is a widely used security protocol, and internal alerting systems being switched off, he wrote in the 14-page statement.  

He also wrote that he tracked what appeared to be the outbound transfer of around 10 gigabytes or more of data — “the equivalent of a full stack of encyclopedias” if the data were all text files, he wrote. He wrote that the removal was “extremely unusual because data almost never directly leaves NLRB’s databases.”   

The database accessed by DOGE contained personally identifiable information of “claimants and respondents with pending matters before the agency” as well as confidential business information gathered during investigations, he wrote. 

e added that after DOGE gained access to the labor board’s systems, there was an increase in attempted logins from locations outside the United States including from a user with an internet protocol (IP) address in Russia. He wrote that the person with the Russian IP address appeared to have a correct username and password, created minutes earlier by DOGE engineers, and was blocked from logging in only because of their location. 

“Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming,” Berulis wrote. 

Berulis included in his disclosure several screenshots from a computer workstation that he says are evidence of data being transferred. He wrote that he has almost two decades of experience in his field and that he has held a Top Secret security clearance.  


Liam Archacki  (THE DAILY BEAST) adds


Musk is currently embroiled in a legal battle with the NLRB over the agency’s ability to enforce labor law. Attorneys for Musk’s SpaceX argued before a court in November that the NLRB’s structure is unconstitutional.

A ruling against the agency could severely diminish its power.

The legal battle began after the NLRB accused SpaceX of illegally firing employees who had publicly criticized Musk.

The nonprofit Whistleblower Aid, which is representing Berulis legally, passed along his sworn disclosure in a letter to Sens. Tom Cotton and Mark Warner, the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, respectively. It asked the committee to probe the matter.

The letter describes DOGE’s actions as possibly constituting a “significant cybersecurity breach that likely has and continues to expose our government to foreign intelligence and our nation’s adversaries.”

It also claims that ”someone physically taped a threatening note to Mr. Berulis’ home door with photographs – taken via a drone – of him walking in his neighborhood” as he prepared to make his disclosure. The note, which Berulis declined to share with Reuters, specifically referenced the impending disclosure, the letter says.


The spying and intimidation attempts?  They started before he went public.  Daniel Berulis' attorney explained that to Rachel Maddow last night.  Which means that DOGE is also spying on government employees.   Yesterday on CNN, Jake Tapper reported on this story and spoke with Daniel.



Alex Shephard (THE NEW REPUBLIC) explains:


It’s worth underlining the caveat that no one quite knows where the data allegedly pilfered from the NLRB is going—if indeed it has left the agency at all. But the information allegedly leaving the NLRB would be extraordinarily valuable to corporate titans like Musk looking for a leg up on rivals, as well as a window into the inner workings of the labor unions they despise. It would also explain why Musk is involved with DOGE to begin with. As a number of his companies, especially Tesla, struggle, the government systems DOGE now controls could provide invaluable information.


The theft of personal information also points to another more nefarious motivation for Musk and DOGE. It’s already abundantly clear that the group will not reduce the deficit. It likely will not even decrease federal spending, which is already $100 billion higher under Trump than it was under Biden at this point in his term. Instead, the group’s slashing of regulations and bureaucracy is aimed not at reducing “waste” but at cutting the many governmental layers that exist to fight risk—and fraud.


In another sense, it really doesn’t matter if this information is being used for nefarious corporate reasons at all. What matters is that unaccountable coders with close ties to the world’s richest man have their mitts on the personal information of millions of Americans—that’s bad no matter what they’re doing with it. 


Some reaction on BLUESKY.







Be really great if MSNBC could get Rachel's interview with Daniel uploaded to their YOUTUBE channel this morning.


Moving over to the topic of the economy,  the elephant in the room is the breasty Donald Chump who continues to wreck the US economy.  David J. Lynch (WASHINGTON POST) reports that, since January 20th, the US dollar is on the decline having lost 10% of its value during that time period -- 5% of the decline occurred in the last few weeks as Chump's tariff scheme was implemented.  "Bad news," Lynch explains, "for Americans traveling abroad and could also aggravate inflation by making foreign goods more expensive." 

On the topic of the economy, we noted yesterday that Chump was destroying travel to the US and the billions of dollars that this travel results in:

Other damage he's doing?  The United States makes a lot of money from foreigners traveling here for various events, conventions and sight seeing journeys.  Dallas, TX?  A magnet for people around the world who want to remember President John F. Kennedy.  And a ton of people do because President Kennedy was a monumental and historical figure -- unlike his nephew Tiny Balls Junior who is an embarrassment.  Florida?  The incredible beaches.  Key Largo, Key West.  DISNEY WORLD, UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FLORIDA THEME PARK, Daytona Beach, The Dahil Museum, etc, etc.  California?  DISNEYLAND Park, the wineries, the film studios, the Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park, Alcatraz Island, Pier 39, the beaches, the San Diego Zoo, Catalina Island, Big Sur, Joshua Tree, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Santa Monica Pier, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Mission San Juan Bautista . . .  New York has the Statue of Liberty, the Museum Of Modern Art, Central Park, Empire State Building, Time Square, Grand Central Terminal . . .  That's just a few things in a few states.  Most of the states have major tourist attractions.  And tourists from outside the US coming here accounts for a lot of money each year. 

Do you get how much money that is?  How many industries that impacts?  You've got the airline industry, you've got the car industry if the visitors rent a car, you've got taxis and Ubers, you've got hotels and motels, you've got eateries, you've got bars, many of the points of interest have fees visitors have to pay, you've got the clothing industry since travelers often purchase an outfit or two (or a t-shirt or two) in addition to what they've packed, you've got shops -- souvenir and regular shops.

Or it did.

Do we grasp how much money Chump's running off?

In 2023, international travelers poured an estimated $213 billion -- billion -- into the US economy.  That amounted to approximately $584 million a day.

And now Chump's making us pariah around the world.  See, sending people to a gulag in El Salvador doesn't really argue for freedom and democracy.  And since Chump declares these deportations and imprisonments require no trials, if you're in Paris, you really think Las Vegas or whatever is worth seeing when, while you're visiting the US, you might accidentally get caught up in one of Chump's dragnets and end up being taken not back to France but a to prison -- one where the are no rules or guidelines and people are tortured.




7.1 million visitors entered the U.S. Jan–March 2025, down 3.3% from 2024.

A consistent downward trend began in early 2025, tied to trade rhetoric and visa delays.
The sharpest declines were seen in Canada, UK, France, Mexico, and Germany.

Expected to hit $198 billion in 2025, down from early 2024 projections.



Ignoring the many tales of horror inflicted upon innocent tourists to the United States, California Gov. Gavin Newsom encouraged Canadians to visit the Bear Republic. Canadians said no.

California depends on international tourism, and the Trump administration's new Draconian policies will hit the state hard. In 2024, nearly 1.8 million Canadians visited California, contributing around $3.72 billion to the state's economy. Only Mexico boasts higher international tourism numbers than the Golden State, and you can be sure they will enthusiastically not visit either. In an attempt to build some confidence in potential international travelers, Newsom took to TikTok with an invitation. Canadians politely shoved it back in his face.


Janna Brancolini (THE DAILY BEAST) points out, "President Donald Trump’s policies could cost the U.S. economy $90 billion this year in lost tourism and export revenue, according to analysts at Goldman Sachs. Many foreign visitors are avoiding the U.S. over concerns about increased hostility at the border, including reports about European tourists being detained for weeks in U.S. immigration centers. Others are angry about Trump’s trade wars and his treatment of U.S. allies -- particularly Canada --  and are boycotting U.S. travel and products."

This topic was also addressed on THE 11TH HOUR WITH STEPHANIE RUHLE when Stephanie spoke with Wilfred Frost about the upcoming series -- Sunday, April 27th -- on his father journaist David Frost -- a six part docuseries entitled DAVID VS.   Stephanie and Wilfred looked at the countries and the drop in travel to the US with Wilfred noting that Denmark had one of the highest fallen rates on travel to the US since Chump was sworn in on January 20th.


Love to post the video but, guess what -- That's right MSNBC's web team just sleeps on the job.  We will note this discussion Stephanie had last night at the start of her program.




Staying on the topic of the economy, 

 Brad Bannon (THE HILL) explains, "President Trump has just reached a crucial stage early in the second term of his presidency. Sandwiched between his abject capitulation on tariffs and the bitter fight over his tax breaks for fat cats and plutocrats, he now owns this creaky economy."   Andrew Stanton (NEWSWEEK) elaborates, "A growing number of Americans are blaming President Donald Trump, rather than former President Joe Biden, for the state of the economy, according to two recent polls."  And what's the conclusion to the growing feeling of mistrust toward Chump and his GOP tariff boosters?  Maria Villarroel (LATIN TIMES) explains, "As the Trump administration continues defending tariffs and the uncertainty they have created in the global economy, voters are reacting, with more saying they trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the economy for the first time since 2021, a new poll shows. The poll in question was conducted by Morning Consult among 2,203 registered U.S. voters across the country between April 11-13. It found that more trust Democrats in Congress more than their Republican counterparts to handle the economy (46% to 43%)."  More bad news for Chump via Miles Klee (ROLLING STONE):

New polling from the University of Massachusetts Amherst reveals that after almost three months in office, a majority of respondents disapprove of Trump's actions in office. Just 27 percent said they "Strongly Approve" of his job performance, with another 17 percent indicating they "Somewhat Approve" of him so far in his second term, for total favorables of 44 percent. By comparison, 44 percent "Strongly Disapprove," and 7 percent "Somewhat Disapprove," for an unfavorability rate of 51 percent.
Trump is also underwater on every issue apart from immigration. At least 40 percent of respondents said he has handled jobs, foreign affairs, civil rights, inflation, and trade "Not Well At All," with the president receiving especially poor marks on the latter two economic fronts: a combined 62 percent unfavorable on inflation and 58 percent on trade, presumably as the cost of household necessities hasn't budged, while Trump's messy tariffs plans have roiled international markets and investment portfolios.


Again, Chump has killed the American dream and few people want to travel into a den of iniquity.  His trashy ways have tarnished the country's image around the world.  And, as we noted yesterday, people don't want to travel to some country that might deport them -- accidentally or intentionally -- to a prison in El Salvador. Daniel Hampton (RAW STORY) notes:

A civil rights attorney sounded the alarm Monday afternoon, warning the Trump administration is essentially engaged in what he called "human trafficking."

Trump publicly said he would like to deport American citizens who are violent offenders to El Salvador, where they would then serve their prison sentences under a deal with the Salvadoran government. Trump made the remarks during a White House meeting with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele.
[. . .]

The idea has been widely challenged by legal experts, including civil rights attorney Scott Hechinger, who took to X on Monday to blast the president.

"Pay attention: This is human trafficking. President Trump is already paying to ship humans to El Salvador & now wants to expand his slave trade. US military contractors like Eric Prince are salivating, now negotiating to privatize deportations/imprisonment to make billions," warned Hechinger.

In a separate post, he called the deportation effort a "clear assault on civil liberties and due process rights."

"It also represents an arguably darker milestone: 'The US government is now in the business of trafficking migrants on the global market.'"

A darker milestone?  Travis Gettys reports that historian Timothy Snyder is also making that argument: 

"Yesterday the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps," Snyder wrote.
"This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror," he added, "and it has to be identified as such to be stopped."
Snyder, who is leaving Yale University for the University of Toronto in the fall, said both Stalinists and Nazis both referred to their own people as "criminals" and "terrorists," as both Trump and Bukele did at the White House, to justify their authoritarian abuse and escape from the law.

"It is that anti-constitutional escapism that enables abuse," Snyder wrote. "State terror involves not just the malignant development of state organs of oppression, such as masked men in black vans, but also the withdrawal of the state from its role as a guardian of law. What aspiring tyrants present as 'strength,' the ability to terrorize innocent people, rests on what might be seen as a more fundamental weakness, which is the withdrawal of the state from the principle of the rule of law. When we have law, we are all stronger; when we lack law, everyone is weaker except for the very few who can direct the coercive power of the state against the rest of us."


In the face of all of this, Democrats can't afford to be a cowardly James Carville.  People want to see leadership and they want to see that some elected official actually gives a damn.  Phillip M. Bailey (USA TODAY) reports:


Democratic lawmakers say if a wrongly deported man sent to a supermax prison in El Salvador isn't brought back to the U.S., they will visit the central American country, adding further pressure on the Trump administration for his release.

President Donald Trump met with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office on Monday, where he praised the foreign leader for opening his country's notorious prison system to alleged gang members and detainees the U.S. wants out of the country.

[. . .]

"I've been clear: if President Bukele doesn't want to meet here in D.C., then I intend to go to El Salvador this week to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's condition and discuss his release," Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-MD, said in an April 14 post on X.

"Kilmar was illegally abducted and deported by the Trump (administration). He must be brought home now."

Other members of Congress say they plan to join Van Hollen's trip, including Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fl., who described Garcia's detention as a "kidnapping and illegal detention."

"We need answers now," said Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., who reshared Van Hollen's post on Monday.


 
This needs to happen.

Brian Taylor Cohen discussed this Congressional trip last night with US House Rep Robert Garcia.



Again, this needs to happen.  

 

And Lawrence Tribe discussed this last night.  Let's post that video.  Oh.  Wait.  We can't.  He did that on MSNBC speaking with Lawrence O'Donnell.  Again, MSNBC's web team is sleeping on the job.


Marjorie Taylor Greene?  She's got some conditions.  Maybe it's because of her recent 'winnings' -- see Elaine's "Lock up MTG?" from last night -- but she is holding a town hall her way.  David Badash reports:



Jake Gittes: I wouldn't extort a nickel from my worst enemy. That's where I draw the line.

Loach Jr.: Well, I'll tell you, Jake. I knew a whore once. For the right amount of money, she'd piss in a guy's face   But she wouldn't s**t on his chest. You see, that's where she drew the line.

Jake Gittes: Well, Junior, all I can say is: I hope she wasn't too much of a disappointment to you.



Oh, wait, it just sounds like they're talking about Marjorie.  That's actually from the Jack Nicholson film THE TWO JAKES (script by Robert Towne).  Here's David Badash writing about Marjorie:


In a social media video, Congresswoman Greene stated, “this is a town hall that’s strictly for constituents. That means you have to live in my district, and you had to sign up on the sign up link. That’s important. Make sure you bring your ID, as we will be verifying that you actually live in the district and have signed up to be in the town hall.”

Greene, under scrutiny over recent stock purchases she allegedly made, is holding the town hall in a county Vice President Kamala Harris carried in November by 15 percentage points, according to Fox News. The GOP Congresswoman established additional rules, namely, no protesting—despite First Amendment protections.
“Also, this is important for everyone attending the town hall,” she said. “You need to understand this is not a place to protest. This isn’t a place to stand up and scream and yell. This is a place to sit and listen, and we have your questions if you signed up.”


Huh? Isn't this the same bull dog who went after AOC? Stuck her ugly face in the mail slot of AOC's office?  I understand Marjorie stuck her face in a lot of slots over the years.  But this is when the burly girl was making her way through the halls of Congress.  And burly butch wasn't one of AOC's constituents.  

Poor Marjorie, she can't handle an honest interaction with her constituents.  Listen to what I just said.  "With her constituents."  As if.  Marjorie can't handle an honest interaction with anyone.  But last night, she had them tossed out of the meeting, had them tasered and much worse.  Let's hope they all remember when the midterms approach.


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