Beyond the strategic idiocy, Trump will see this picture and feel like the kid who didn’t get invited to the birthday party. He wants to grow to be a real dictator like his heroes.
Logician in a pandemic of illogic. Could be a Republican but refuse to follow them into Qrazy Traitorville. Enjoying the trip through nature on the way to eternity.
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Beyond the strategic idiocy, Trump will see this picture and feel like the kid who didn’t get invited to the birthday party. He wants to grow to be a real dictator like his heroes.
Russia has been fighting Europe for two decades. Europe is slowly realizing the need to fight back.
How does this comport with the mysterious hospital visit in Trump's first term, for which the public was given no details? Was this ever pursued by the press pool?
Insert “Giuliani…Hold my beer” reference.
“Trillions” How has tariff income been about as much as our total federal budget since April??? FFS, maybe RFKJ could work on a sanity vaccine and test it on MAGA, starting in the Oval Office.
Trump’s 5-year plan is proceeding perfectly, with record harvests as far as the eye can see!
In this experiment of bizarro competence we’re in, Kennedy’s statement makes perfect sense.
Don’t ignore the group that has no idea what was just done. I have long noted that the Founders saw the importance of an informed electorate, and we’re increasingly missing the crucial ‘informed’ part (some ‘not,’ some ‘mis’).
When I began using twitter, for my mental health I committed to not argue with people who are just trying to argue. Their comments mean nothing until you take them up. It has worked well (not perfectly!).
Yeah, a lifetime of sociopathy.
The next Dem president will be challenged to distinguish “We leave independent agencies alone” from “This guy is an unqualified MAGA plant.”
The attempt to stay united fails more than it succeeds. The lesson must be that it doesn't just happen, it takes work and discipline.
Also, battery failures are far lower in current EVs than fearmongerers would have us believe.
Beyond Trump’s precise role, part of our national recovery has to be removing every trace of his ugly, destructive presence in the people’s house.
That throw had shades of Eli in the Super Bowl. Unfortunately Arch followed it up with crucial misses.
Ooohh, “considerable questions.” We’re just a few years from “noteworthy concerns!”
Miller complained to Trump that the limestone wasn’t white enough.
And they said Americans wouldn’t do these kinds of jobs!
Redeploying NASA as an intel agency leaves a SpaceX-sized hole where our space agency used to be. (SpaceX OR whatever oligarch’s rocket company is in Trump’s favor at the time)
We didn’t need any more evidence that MAGA is refighting the Civil War, and on the wrong side, but they keep providing it.
The truthteller has been unpersoned by the regime.
Trust me I'd be cool with that, but it's not how things are going in this period of MAGA ascendancy.
The 2nd is definitely worse sportsmanship. I was only commenting on the article's implication that etiquette is passe and can be ignored.
They're only 90% reliable, so they're back in Fed Soc obedience school.
Why Wikipedia and not, say, Fox 'News'? Because MAGA has Fox's propaganda well in hand, like when they platformed Comer and his lies every week during the Biden years.
Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are all sitting and wagging their tails. I don't like that signal!
We will outlast Trump; have you seen his cankles and pallor? Without him his ugly cult turns on itself. We will never be what we were, though.
Wouldn’t be shock if Hegseth schedules a posthumous promotion ceremony and pays his descendants $100M for their suffering.
So wait, it’s not a U.S. national emergency that Brazil is prosecuting the leader of a coup?
And Miller is one of the world’s foremost male supermodels.
It IS the end of something, sadness is appropriate. It’s also the start of something.
“We’re shutting down CHIPS funding!” “No wait, we’re accelerating CHiPS funding if you socialize your company!” Incoherent except for the corrupt favoritism.
Repub Congressional abdication falls into "I never expected it but in retrospect it makes perfect sense." The gang that for years behaved anti-democratically has seen the opportunity to exert authoritarian powers if they just...do...nothing.
The ship sailed last November, for a four year tour.
Our chance to avoid global embarrassment was last November. Now we just need to limit the damage.
(and a few more MAGA grumble that their country is being taken away from them, pledging their fealty to authoritarianism)
Yet the problem was they wasted all that money while NOT making the airport suitable.
If Trump had any ability to self-reflect, he’d increase mental health funding. He’s failing Step 1: “Admit you have a problem.”
Correct. A key measure of our return to democracy will be how thoroughly ICE is dismantled and its agents prosecuted when warranted.
If Love is Blind, how come they’re all good looking?
Let’s hope the Supreme Court fairly applies one of their favorite principles, “Lack of standing,” which they regularly go to when they’re on the other side of an issue.
Another petty display from an evil man. As presidential candidate who was shot at, anyone but a sociopath would have empathy for a fellow candidate.
4 years ago the Repub criticism was that Biden didn’t rescue all of these heroes while leaving Afghanistan. Now Trump is actively deporting them to possible torture and death. Follow a sociopath, sacrifice your principles, your decency.
Given that “U.S.” doesn’t exist outside of Trump, this is Trump asserting that Trump is right.
Every time I see a Fox ‘News’ article in my feed their spin is immediately obvious. Everything they publish is intentional; it’s not news, it’s narrative. “Radical Dems, White Christians under attack, Trump protecting real Americans…be angry, be scared.”
A lot of etiquette is long-standing and may not survive strict scrutiny. It's still etiquette and a breach if it's not followed -- and it would've been so simple.
NBC 'News' is pushing pure product placements on Bluesky, and has me rethinking my involvement w/them.
That'd be the nuclear option -- effective toward the goal, but hugely consequential to patients.
As long as we're probing the limits of recission, the Senate should reconsider a few cabinet nominees and vote, "Never mind, they have to go." Impeachment is another way to the same end.
I don’t think Trump will run, but if he does we’ll have to sweat the decision from a SC that treats the Constitution as convenient when it supports them, but are perfectly prepared to ignore it when it doesn’t.
CDC staff are walking out for all of us.
BRILLIANT, submarines don't squeak!
"Here's my fascistically edgelord hot take. Look at me!" "Wahhh, they're reporting what I said!"
It’s a mitochondrial thing. See, I’m smart because I use big science words.
Javier at Home Depot with a load of roofing tiles? Mass murderer in the school sanctuary with a load of bullets? Choose your priorities wisely, America.
More high speed trains please. As expensive as CA’s buildout has become, it could be completed for ~1/3rd the cost of one year funding Trump’s armed goon squad. Choices. We’re making self-defeating ones.
“The Man in the High Castle” meets “Idiocracy.” I’d watch it, but living it kinda sucks.
To me his strangely reflective (for a sociopath) “I hope I get into heaven” was additional evidence of his mental state.
Lots of adults over 65 are healthy…careful with your terminology.
When Jade Helm and jack-booted thugs were fantasy, conservatives were outraged. Now that they’re real… Silence. Disgraceful silence.
Worse than the red carpet, which can be explained as protocol, was the clapping. It was totally Trump’s choice and revealed his emotional dependence on his KGB handler and war criminal.
Meanwhile Fox 'News' cherry-picked results to claim that the US supports Trump's "strong" crime policies.
Bronze, pink, with a touch of purple. Perfect!
Putin refuses to allow EU troops in Ukraine. How? EU should set a firm deadline, after which their troops enter as peacekeepers, w/air cover and escalation threats if they're attacked. EU must use the leverage of the economic and force advantage they have.
Despite their complaints about all things Biden, Foxworld was consistent in "Biden Crime/Inflation/Border CRISIS!!!" and rode those through 2024, even as they improved or dissipated as actual problems. That type of megaphone is unavailable to the other side.
Watch out for a black Sharpie moving Uganda within 200 miles of the court.
Aww Tom, I’m getting verklempt!
Like a dog peeing throughout his walk, dictators want to leave their mark on the world map. Trump already marked “Gulf of America” (until the next Dem president), Putin’s trying the same with Ukraine and the region.
Not only will fewer people be protected by the vaccine, they’ll be exposed to more people with full-on covid because they also weren’t vaccinated. Buckle up, folks.
Judging by the cumulative polls, crime is up 20,000% since 1970. It’s actually down.
What’s more embarrassing, Trump wanting/demanding Greenland, or him not being able to get it, even with his newly coined Department of Offense? (to be clear, pursuing the 2nd would be awful)
DEI and corruption, all in one move. I thought Repubs were against those...sigh.
“Trump provided no evidence to support his push for charges…” Hang onto this phrase, you can use it every day.
A man elected with broad support from farmers is devastating farming communities by enacting ill-designed tariffs and shutting down gov’t support services.
A talented outlet receiver would seem to be an important safety valve for a young QB. Maybe Thielen’s got less left than it appears.
Correct. The sycophants aren’t groveling, they’re feeding.
Solution: Issue chainsaws to the National Guard! I mean, the litter’s pretty much gone by now.
Testing our new Dept of Offense, many people are saying.
One could make the same defense of Bread & Circuses, but in the current moment I’m not going to do that, what with football season and the next Masked Singer coming up.
When it comes to sandwich crime, Dems are softer than a Subway footlong just out of the oven.
This is why trumped up charges are trumped up and broadcast live on State TV, with political targets slandered in blatant violation of DoJ norms. That’s the publicity win for our big, strong and definitely healthy leader. The charges will not stick.
More like “Orban did it!” I was working in Hungary while Soros’s university was being persecuted, and saw the pure anti-Semitism of the gov’t’s publicity push against it. Including sinister face and hook nose…it was a disturbing throwback.
Details are different, but when I heard the felony charge I immediately thought of O.J.
Are the influencers going to be secretly paid by Russians, like was done for Republicans?
Should Trump just get his 6 a meeting room next to the Oval Office, to make things more efficient? Or do they have to retain a fig leaf of separation of powers?
This is true. What is undisputable is that Fox views their task as making sure none of their viewers end up voting for a Democrat. At this they work unceasingly.
Wow...the degradingly ridiculous paths you have to walk to submit yourself to Trump.
Any history of the Nobel Peace Prize going to leaders who deploy armed troops on the streets of their domestic opposition's cities? Yeah, didn't think so.
I went to the NYT website to make a similar comment. In the entire article there was no mention of Trump’s corrupt weaponization of departments to persecute his targets — not prosecute, because that would require defensible charges — just slander.
Waiting for them to "Do their job" against Tuberville, Paxton and other MAGA scofflaws.
Incel: "Cat Lady Taylor needs to reject feminism and submit to Travis" Also Incel: "Women won't date me, I think it's my jawline"
Nope. You only get prosecuted for burning the symbol of the republic, not its Constitution.
Just another area where we’re unilaterally ceding progress, where “America First” is nothing of the sort.
That’s the face of a guy trying to figure out how to get good with Jesus after 79 years of pressing the Down button.
Given that these tariffs are essentially a tax on Americans, and the Constitution puts taxation power in the hands of Congress, will ANYONE step up and declare it as unconstitutional? Anyone?
Trump savors the word “Dictator” and lets it circulate slowly through his mouth. He insists he doesn’t like dictators while proudly claiming them as friends, writing love letters and protecting them from justice.
Finding obscure tax law to persecute your enemies (regardless of validity) is very Putinesque. US justice now resembles Russia, except for the windows.
Hilarious to watch the fantasy storytelling Trump supporters have to engage in to avoid the fact that he was taken to the cleaners by Putin. “If he got this big secret concession (that nobody thinks he got), then he could stop this war and SO MANY OTHERS! Our HERO!!!”
None of the people on that couch have any qualifications on which to inform the public. Unless hair and legs are qualifications.
3) Democracy must be defended everywhere, esp. against Russian meddling 4) Character is the essential trait in a leader 5?) I’d mention fiscal responsibility, but they never acted as though they believed that