Brent Butler

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.

Almost there…

“Lower prices” ≠ “refunds” though.

I'd like to say to these people, and this comes from a genuine place of a lesson I myself had to learn:

It is all right to have these sorts of thoughts. But they're inside thoughts.

By BEN LEFEBVRE 03/05/2026 05:00 AM EST f • • • President Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is telling his advisers to bring ideas to the Oval Office to lower gasoline prices in the wake of the U.S. attack on Iran, according to two energy industry executives familiar with the conversations. The White House is "looking under every rock for ideas on improving energy prices, especially gasoline prices," said one of the executives, who was granted anonymity to describe internal administration discussions.

I have an idea. Here’s my idea: We should have had this meeting last week before we started bombing Iran. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Steve King 9 @SteveKinglA + Follow Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. ESTERN ILIZATION Voice of Europe @V_of_Europe Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel RETWEETS LIKES 516 688 10:40 AM - 12 Mar 2017 from lowa, USA

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

Keep it up. The longer it goes, the more attention I think you’re likely to get. Keep being public about it.

Anti-vaxxers are bad parents. Not vaccinating your child is abuse.

We should eliminate all non-medical exemptions for vaccines.

Sorry, not sorry.

I'd like to purchase some political risk insurance in case my country elects idiots to run the government.

How Tariffs Fucking Work The government has done a horrible job explaining this, so let's get into it. Swipe

1. Tariffs are federal import taxes paid by American businesses directly to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (part of the Department of Homeland Security). 2. These taxes must be paid by an American company before a shipment of products made overseas can enter the USA. 3. The tax is based on a shipment’s “value” (how much it cost to make the products). If a tariff rate is 50%, and a business wants to import products that cost $500,000 to make, then the business must pay the American government a $250,000 tax before the goods can enter the country. 4. In other words, a shipment that was supposed to cost a business $500,000 now suddenly costs $750,000 due to tariffs. 5. In 2025, Trump often changed these import tax rates while shipments were in transit. His tariffs got as high as 145%—which means businesses were being asked to pay Donald Trump more than the people who actually made the fucking products.

6. Some American businesses literally could not afford to receive shipments they had ordered, because they didn’t have enough cash to pay the unjustified, illegal taxes the government was now demanding. 7. At a tariff rate of 145%, a shipment of products that costs a business $500,000 to make requires a tax payment of $725,000 to import, bringing the total cost up dramatically to $1,225,000. Yowza! 8. American businesses pay Trump’s tariffs. Other countries don’t pay them. Foreign factories don’t pay them. Trump doesn’t seem to understand this, and he has been misinforming the American people for years. 9. Of course, many businesses passed all their tariff costs onto their customers by raising prices. And now, those companies and their shareholders––not the customers who actually paid the tariff costs––stand to get refunds. 10. Is that fair? We don’t fucking think so: GetYourFuckingMoneyBack.com

www.GetYourFuckingMoneyBack.com

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

Probably just need to armageddon harder.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

At least the families of the fallen have this to comfort them.

The First Amendment already “bans Sharia law.”

It also bans the government from imposing any religious law — including the Christian nationalism that Senator Tuberville is so eager to codify.

Raise your hand if you think we deserve a president that has a better response to American troops dying than “that’s the way it is.”

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I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

Is Convicted Felon Donald Trump’s super-duper secure SCIF with soft banquet-hall curtains, open air top, unsecured electronic devices, and roving guests located next to the bathroom where the classified documents are stored?

No name change is necessary.
“See? B.S. News.”

Bloody backpacks. Your tax money at work.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

It was literally just tweaking a program that's existed in New York since the 1880s: he upped the pay and publicized the program.

It's wild how little it required.

I’m doing this because I love you @katmabu.bsky.social

and because it almost physically hurt my head that it wasn’t in there the first time around

I swear if all the nonsense that’s occurred in the last 12 years is just magically all better tomorrow…

Well, at least they apologized for the inconvenience.

There will be a day, at some point in the future, when you will go from sun up to sun down without once reading his name, seeing his face, or hearing his voice.
Feels impossible now. But it will happen.
Just hold on until then.
You can do it.

Please tell me she was the 5th person to talk.