The Irish Times (@irishtimes.com) reposted
Trump’s persistent idiocy has hugely diminished America’s standing in world affairs
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Trump’s persistent idiocy has hugely diminished America’s standing in world affairs
Adam Isacson (@adamisacson.com) reposted
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
That bruise is getting bigger. He must have been shaking A LOT of hands over the week...
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
That bruise is getting bigger. He must have been shaking A LOT of hands over the week...
Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) reposted
cc @jaketapper.bsky.social our number one cognitive concern troll
Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) reposted
If Joe Biden had a now near constant hand bruise--likely from some sort of regular IV--gave the press a flimsy excuse of it being "aspirin therapy" and from "shaking too many hands," and regular tried to hide it with makeup, I'm not sure the news media would be covering anything else.
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh they absolutely are.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
Can some journo at his presser please ask him again about the Epstein Files? It just might be enough....
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
He hasn't lived here in 45 years. Why would he want, or anyone want him, to be President of a country he doesn't live in?
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
Ah Benny. No wonder the Russians are paying him money to tell his moron fans their lies. It comes so easy to him.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
Where's his hair? He looks like he's on death's door. He needs to address the media.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
How do you spot a right winger? By the fact that they will double down when they make a mistake 100 out of 100 times. Guaranteed.
Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (who’s “ripping apart” CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
When things are bad it's the Deep State Soros funded Obama led cabal, when things are good, it's Trump's genius. They repeat so often they just believe it.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
Jaysus, Casper Gabriel can play anywhere. 😏
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
A few pictures and news reports of the Lord Mayor and some local immigrant community groups putting up Irish flags would very quickly make these "patriots" have complicated feelings about the tricolour.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
The council should buy more and put them up. Don't let these scumbags take ownership of our flag amd claim that authorities are taking them down. Put more up. Everywhere. These idiots have short attention spans. Nothing will end this quicker than council workers putting flags up.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
Still haven't heard a good explanation about how he was allowed leave the country. I mean, just because he had high level Israeli security clearance, there's no way Epstein's best bud would let a pedophile caught in the act just return back to Israel because Bibi asked him to?
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
That is a wild story. Be interesting to hear what actually happened
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
Plain straight up lies and delusion. Fuck RFK
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
Presumably the first time this will happen is just before the next Presidential election
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
In case people were wondering why India suddenly has high tariffs from the US ...
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
He may be alive, but he’s definitely not well.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
If a large diseased orange tree falls in the wood and no one on Blue sky sees it, does that stop us from making memes about it?
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
It may possibly be ...
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
That's so the devil can drag him down to hell easier
Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted
History shows us the opposite: Undermining and censoring scientists and experts is a central feature of authoritarianism.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
Like the Wicked Witch but slower.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
Tell Trump about Jesus quick Charlie, before it's too late!
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
Millions of people typing with their fingers crossed ...
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
"And if you look closely here, you can see where his cankles are growing over the sides of his shoes."
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
Just as mean, but not as stupid. So worse, but JD Vance is at least despised by even those on the right. Trump has his Cultists, Vance has never had that. But the Cultists are not the brightest, so I am sure our German right wing friend Thiel can convince them that JD is the man going forward
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
Yet Stephen Miller has just said that RFK is the foremost expert on health policy. It's almost like they are all talking out of their asses to their moron supporters and none of it actually has to make any sense.
Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted
What will America be under President JD Thiel, excuse me, I meant JD Vance? Time to start seriously thinking about this as Trump’s health continues faltering.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
But RFK has just said himself that we shouldn't trust the experts, that that is a sign of totalitarianism. It's very confusing. It's almost like these pieces of shit are just talking out their assets to their moron supporters who will just gobble whatever bs they speak.
The Journal (@thejournal.ie) reposted
The extraordinary move shows how US President Donald Trump is continuing to indulge its close ally, Israel, which is totally opposed to the establishment of a state in Palestine. http://jrnl.ie/6803314
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
This is why people like RFK. Fucking morons can say that those who have worked and studied their whole lives on a subject are evil, and that they, who get their info from pdf screenshots on Twitter are the ones who are right. Hate filled shit for brain dumbasses get to make policy now.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
You really should Bertie, everyone else has. You've done enough damage already.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
Its always easy to fool people when they are Cult members whose lives revolve being tricked every day by utter fucking morons.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
You're engaging in this. So why cant he, you're both politicians who can comment, you lickspittle little f*ckweasel.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
Ah, accountability only when the shooter is from a minority you dislike. Got it. Otherwise its just thoughts and prayers.
David Simon (@audacityofdespair.bsky.social) reposted
You cannot shout "I am a down-in-the-gutter, race-baiting shitpiece" any louder than this. You can try, but your voice will not carry any further than this twisted swine's wail.
Tony Yates (@t0nyyates.bsky.social) reposted
At least this clarifies that the attempt to sack Lisa Cook was not for 'cause'.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
A Thiel funky? Oh good.
Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@badideas.bsky.social) reposted
Fucking losing it how little of the reporting I’m reading about the CDC not mentioning how an anti-vaxxer gunman killed a police officer and fired hundreds of rounds at the building 2 weeks ago. An end to end ouroborous of delusional mania. The GOP will probably give the shooter a posthumous medal.
Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) reposted
They're now saying it out loud: The Administration's goal is to undo the political independence that Congress granted the Fed, so that the President can directly set rates.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
But of course, Trump famously hates dogs.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
Well they are trying to burn it all down....
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
There are a couple of artists I can't listen to anymore except for their earlier stuff. That's how I justify it to myself, "Well they weren't a complete tool when they made THIS album".
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
Hah!
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
Well shit, I did not know that. Was always more of a fan of his son, but still.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
My god, the idiocy.
Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
Fools and their money...
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
Unsurprising how little Trump's health issues have been discussed by the media. The man's ankles are hanging over is shoes at this stage. Imagine if it was Biden...
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
A whole new country for Netanyahu to murder, and he has two years to plan it.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
But surely there are multiple crimes being committed while they are doing this! Thats what Trump said! Crime ridden, nowhere safe, yet they are picking up trash from a very pleasant park. Very confusing!
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
The second hand embarrasment watching grown humans debase themselves like this to that dying, rotten skinsack of a human. Ugh.
Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social) reposted
Trump's false claim here--about how "radical left globalists" (i.e. Soros) are the puppeteers who fund & organize civil rights protests--is the same basic story that the fascists of the 1950s and 60s told about the civil rights protests of that era. It's a familiar cocktail of racism & antisemitism.
davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.bsky.social) reposted
Why haven't there been front page stories about the bizarre, North Korea-like 3 hour Trump "cabinet meeting"? The absence of such coverage of the conduct of Trump and his cronies explains why most people don't know how truly dangerously unhinged our government has become.
The Irish Times (@irishtimes.com) reposted
Michael McDowell: Trump shames America and Americans with his pathetic pandering to dictators
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
Amazing being able to say all those big words clearly when you are gargling Trumps balls like that. That's a talent.
Murshed Zaheed (@murshedz.bsky.social) reposted
The fact that the President of the United States is saying this is not ok. It will never be ok. This is not normal - and everyone in DC who is still harboring delusions that they can keep doing politics (and legislating) either in denial or pretending this is all normal - are enabling this.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
We are only a few weeks away from Trump mentioning summary executions of criminals in DC
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
Always tell the Emperor his new clothes look great minions
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
What are you doing America?
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
So utterly, utterly predictable. I said yesterday this is exactly what he would do. What a fucking loser.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
Jeffries strenously objecting by letter is always pretty scary.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
I can see why MAGA is so worked up about losing this iconic image
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
And the fact it shows the blatant illegality of the police. They can't answer why he is being detained because they know what they are doing is illegal. Men like him need to do the same in their thousands, every day. Waste police time and show how the US is becoming a police state.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
When even Trumps makeup can't hide how ill he is .
Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted
Openly mocking him to his face. LOL. He doesn't get it.
Andy Ostroy (@andyostroy.bsky.social) reposted
Quick Q for MAGA: if everything in America is so great right now…if we’re the hottest nation in the world, if the economy is booming, if the stock market’s soaring, if crime is now gone from DC/ LA, if the border is closed… why does he keep saying we’re in a national emergency? Think about it…
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
As we on the left have always said, Trump and his Cultists are complete hypocrites. They talk about free speech being taken away when they are not in power, but it is always utter bullshit.
Brendan Nyhan (@brendannyhan.bsky.social) reposted
As always Trump turns subtext into text. He knows his base. (Goes on to say "I'm not a dictator," etc. but this is a classic way he floats ideas he wants to normalize.)
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
Drip, drip, drip. Next week it'll be another off hand remark about dictators, again by "many people". Then he won't qualify the statement. Then he will say "maybe it's not such a bad idea". Trump is very, very predictable.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
Astonishing that this, as with so much else.has just zipped by with so little attention. A government forcing a private business to give it a portion of it so it can do business there without interference. Straight up gangster shit.
Jessica Tarlov (@jessicatarlov.bsky.social) reposted
I don’t want to hear a single word about Democrats and socialism ever again. EVER.
Benjamin A. Engel (@benjaminaengel.bsky.social) reposted
If you’re wondering why Trump may be talking about purges and revolution in Korea, some MAGA folk have been trying for months to get Trump to help impeached and imprisoned former Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol who has espoused election fraud conspiracies after declaring martial law last December
Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social) reposted
That's exactly what it is. Between this and Brazil, it seems that Trump is practicing a kind of authoritarian identity politics — going after any democracy brave enough to punish its would-be authoritarians the way the US tried (and failed) to punish him
Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) reposted
Tech oligarchs oppose the idea of any supposedly undeserving person getting financial help from the government in 2025. But they want you to believe they’ll give *everyone* free money in the future. It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s the techno-utopian lie they will keep selling.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
Clear "double tap". First attack, wait til journalists and rescuers in site, then attack again. Just add it to the very long list of war crimes that the IDF has committed.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
God, Musk is the worst.
David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) reposted
Vance can’t be this ignorant, can he? WWII was not ended with a negotiation. Germany and Japan were dictatorial and genicidal regimes that had to be crushed by the military might of the US and Russia. FDR did not sit down and negotiate with Hitler.
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
Not sure why some people are so mad about this. I could give a shit about politicians reputations, Democrats or Republican. I will agree with Trump on one thing, people will be named in Epstein court docs that are completely innocent. Not every1 who had contact with them are dirty. Trump is though
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
But Donnie said it wasn't complicated to him and he would solve it in one day. Confused!
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social) reply parent
TACO !
Croohur (@ballaug.bsky.social)
So much stupid bs goes on in this admin you quickly forget how Trump said he would invade Greenland. Then his moron Cultists had to make up reasons why this was SO necessary and would definitely happen as there were secret bases there they needed to secure. Now, not a peep. But wasn't it essential?
Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) reposted
It’s clear that the main goal of the Maxwell interview was to get her to say that she didn’t see Trump do anything wrong. Which can only mean that there is something in the files that suggests that he did. Why else would she need to say that? The interview is more incriminating, not less.
Jess Calarco (@jessicacalarco.com) reposted
Let me get this straight. Maxwell spent days meeting with the Justice Department and didn't implicate anyone. But she got moved to a minimum security prison anyway. So, what exactly was she rewarded for? This ought to be a scandal, but it seems like nobody cares.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted
No matter what you think about Mr. Abrego Garcia, if you believe in due process you should be infuriated by this. The Trump admin is threatening to dump him in Africa as punishment for not pleading guilty to criminal charges they brought to avoid complying with a court order.
darth™️ (@darthbluesky.bsky.social) reposted
well she did not consider pedophilia inappropriate so what does this even mean
JJ in DC (@jjindc.bsky.social) reposted
🧊😲✈️ CHILD IN CHAINS‼️ 👉 Thursday August 21, 2025 at Boeing Field in Seattle, we spotted this apparent girl in chains being directed up the steps of an Avelo Airlines 737 (tail: N805VL) on the live web cam feed from the airport 👀 (clip courtesy lalabote.bsky.social)