Voices of a Diverse America: April 24th, 2025
UPDATED: Re-Read the article
Trump Tried To Fuck the Election Laws: A Judge Said “Hold the Fuck Up, Asshole”
In a stinging rebuke to Donaldo Shitsburger's desperate power grab, Judge Kollar-Kotelly just threw a wrench into the administration's voter suppression machinery. She blocked that bullshit citizenship requirement that would've gatekept countless Americans from the ballot box. The judge crushed their pathetic attempt to force proof of citizenship—a move that would've left legitimate voters gasping for democratic air while bureaucratic tentacles strangled their rights. She also torpedoed the sick scheme to scrutinize public assistance recipients like criminals. But the fight isn't fucking over. The judge let stand Trump's mail-in ballot deadline fuckery and the sinister plan to compare immigration databases with voter rolls. This battle between democracy defenders and the MAGA machine continues to rage like a wildfire across our fractured republic, with your voting rights hanging in the goddamn balance. [TheHill]
Trump’s Toilet: A Shit Brown Rating
The political thermometer plunges as Trump's approval ratings sink underwater, with 51.7% disapproval marking the highest of his second term. The atmosphere in Washington crackles with tension as 54% of Americans feel either pessimistic or afraid looking ahead to the remainder of his presidency. Markets tremble and wallets tighten as weakening business confidence sends Wall Street into its worst day since 2020, with economists warning of potential "stagflation." Even in ruby-red Texas, the ground shifts beneath the president's feet as his favorability plummets 15 points since November, now underwater at -3. The air feels heavy with economic anxiety, the metallic taste of tariff wars lingering on voters' tongues. Pollsters note Democrats should be "cautiously optimistic" as the administration's honeymoon phase dissolves into uncertainty, leaving a residue of discontent across the electoral landscape. [TheHill]
Fox News Now Says Trump is Fucked Sideways
Donaldo Shitsburger's approval rating has plummeted to 44% according to Fox News polling, down 5 points since March and 11 points underwater. This pathetic showing falls below all his 21st century predecessors at the same point in their terms, with 55% disapproving of his performance. Nearly 60% despise his handling of inflation and tariffs, while 56% disapprove of his economic management overall. His only remaining strength is border security at 55% approval, but even immigration approval sits at a measly 48%. The former president whined about the results on Truth Social, attacking both Fox and The Wall Street Journal.
Oh, And the Economy, That’s Still Fucked Too
The economy reels as Trump's tariffs slice through markets like a cold blade, sending stocks plummeting in the worst trading day since 2020. Kitchen tables across America brace for the storm, with households facing a nearly $1,300 tax increase. Factory floors fall silent in Canada and Mexico as Stellantis pauses production, the machinery's absence deafening. Wall Street's air thickens with anxiety, the word "stagflation" whispered like a curse as inflation rises while growth stalls. Global trade relationships crack and splinter, decades of alliances buckling under the weight of reciprocal duties reaching as high as 46% on Vietnam. Business leaders pace sleepless, their phones burning with urgent calls, the taste of uncertainty bitter on their tongues. Main Street shops fill with merchandise soon to bear higher price tags, while Christmas orders from China evaporate in the heat of 125% tariffs. Markets bounce on rumors of negotiation, a desperate roller coaster of hope and fear as the president tweets policy shifts that leave even his trade representatives blindsided. [TheHill]
Nancy Mace is Still a Cunt
The fluorescent lights of Ulta Beauty cast a harsh glow as Ely Murray-Quick's heart races, his simple question about town halls hanging in the air between them. Congresswoman Nancy Mace's face twists, her phone rising to film him as she barks "I voted for gay marriage twice" - words that land like slaps against his skin. The distance between them - six feet of beauty products and political divide - suddenly electrifies with her crescendoing rage. "Fuck you!" she screams, the words reverberating against bottles of face wash and perfume, shoppers freezing in their tracks. Later, her fingers tremble slightly as she taps out her version - "unhinged lunatic" and "daisy dukes" - painting him as an aggressor while the video tells a different truth. Murray-Quick tastes adrenaline, bitter and metallic, as social media explodes with seven million views. "A fire was lit," he says, his voice steadier now, while somewhere in Charleston, constituents who watched the footage whisper about the revealing moment when their representative's carefully constructed facade crumbled on aisle five. [TheAdvocate]
Pope Francis: The Queer Scorecard
In the golden light filtering through stained glass, Pope Francis's historic words echo across marble halls: "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?" The question hangs in the air like incense, a profound shift in the Church's atmosphere after centuries of condemnation. LGBTQ+ Catholics describe this moment as a "seismic shift," a "revolution of compassion" that transformed the institution's relationship with queer believers. In Vatican corridors, whispered conversations turn to hope as Francis extends his hand to LGBTQ+ advocates like Francis DeBernardo of New Ways Ministry, who once never dreamed of sitting in the Pope's office. Meanwhile, in parish pews worldwide, transgender Catholics feel the warmth of inclusion when Francis signs the ordinance permitting them to be baptized, serve as godparents, and witness weddings. Yet beneath this warmth lingers the chill of doctrine unchanged, as the Church still considers homosexual activity "intrinsically disordered" and Francis himself compares gender theory to nuclear war in writings. His legacy remains a mosaic of contradictions, each piece catching the light differently depending on where one stands to view it. [TheAdvocate]
Key Specifics of Pope Francis's LGBTQ+ Record:
1. In July 2013, asked about gay priests, Francis responded: "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?"
2. The Advocate named Francis their 2013 Person of the Year, marking a significant recognition from the LGBTQ+ community
3. Francis told a survivor of clerical sexual abuse, Juan Carlos Cruz, that "God made you gay and loves you like this"
4. He encouraged parents to support their gay or lesbian children rather than reject them
5. In December 2023, Francis formally authorized Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples
6. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith confirmed under Francis that transgender people can be baptized and serve as godparents
7. Francis met with transgender and intersex Catholics for a 90-minute meeting organized by New Ways Ministries
8. He repeatedly spoke out against the criminalization of homosexuality, stating "Being homosexual is not a crime"
9. Francis described gender theory and education about gender-affirming surgery as "ideological colonisation"
10. He compared "gender theory" to nuclear war in the book "Pope Francis: This Economy Kills"
11. Francis was the first pope to communicate directly with an LGBTQ+ group when he wrote back to Kairos in Florence, Italy
12. While maintaining that homosexual activity is sinful according to Church teaching, Francis advocated that LGBTQ+ people should not be marginalized
The Empire Sees Us Strike Back
America's workers are FINALLY getting pissed enough to do something! Sara Nelson just lit a fire under 8,000 people in Montana, calling for a goddamn GENERAL STRIKE against the obscene wealth hoarding by corporate overlords and oligarchs like Elon MicroWeeWee. The income inequality is worse than before the Great Depression, with union leaders drawing a direct line between billionaire greed and the destruction of our government.
Two movements are brewing: one grassroots effort already has 336,000 strike pledges, while UAW's Shawn Fain is cleverly setting up a massive legal May Day strike for 2028. Despite decades of union decline, public support for labor is at a 60-year high with successful strikes across industries proving workers still have muscle.
The message is brutally clear: NOTHING moves without our labor. This isn't about politely asking Donald McStinkface's administration for change - it's about showing the power of workers united against the new Gilded Age bullshit threatening our healthcare, retirement, and democracy itself. [TNR]
Trump is Lying To You: He Isn’t Talking To China
The air freezes in the Oval Office as Trump's words hang suspended—"Actively. Everything is active. Everybody wants to be a part of what we're doing"—a stark contrast to the diplomatic ice forming across the Pacific. In Beijing, He Yadong's denial slices through the rhetoric like a blade, the words "There are currently no economic and trade negotiations between China and the United States" delivered with the cold precision of a chess move. His follow-up lands with equal force: "Any claims about progress in China-US economic and trade negotiations are baseless rumors without factual evidence." Global markets tremble in the space between these contradicting narratives, investors clutching phones with white knuckles as they watch fortunes vanish in real time. The weight of 145% tariffs presses down on shipping containers stacked in silent harbors, while China's retaliatory 125% tax rises like a wall of economic flame. Trump insists a deal “depends on them,” his words echoing through empty negotiation rooms. Trump is too much of a spineless asswaffle to actually pick up a phone and talk to Xi. So what's he gonna do? Lie through his fucking teeth about it, like he always does and say “We are working on great deals, bigly, yuge deals with China.” [Guardian]
Musk is About to Be A Broke Piece of Shit
Tesla is going down like a 5 dollar harlot on 6th street at 2am, and Elon PocketPecker is scrambling like a rat on a sinking ship! The tech billionaire's company just posted a catastrophic 71% PLUNGE in first-quarter earnings while he's been jerking off with Donald McStinkTrump's bullshit DOGE cost-cutting program. Now this corporate parasite is desperately trying to reassure investors he'll return to actually doing his goddamn job. How a Margin Call has not happened yet is anyone’s guess.
"Starting next month, I'll spend less time on DOGE," the billionaire whined pathetically during Tuesday's earnings call, watching Tesla's revenue crater 9% to $19.3 billion - well below what analysts expected from this trainwreck. The stock has hemorrhaged nearly HALF its value since December as furious protesters target Tesla showrooms and charging stations across the country.
Eight state treasurers are calling out this epic governance failure while Musk divides his attention between multiple companies and his little fascist pet project. One analyst brutally noted that even if this spineless weasel returns to the office, "negative polarization is an extremely potent political force" – meaning buyers won't easily "untangle his association with Republicans and Donald Trump."
Despite this unmitigated disaster, TinyWee Musk still claims to be "extremely optimistic" about Tesla's future. What a delusional ass clown. [TheHill]
The president of the United States 🙄