The more miserable he makes his base, the more they hate the people immediately below and above them, the more they seek out conspiracy theories, and the more they love Republicans
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The more miserable he makes his base, the more they hate the people immediately below and above them, the more they seek out conspiracy theories, and the more they love Republicans
More of this, please.
Trump would not use a medical emergency. Dictators fear looking weak. Remember when Putin launched attack on Hillary in 2016 with video showing her as stumbling or sickly? I was mystified by why that would be a big deal since she had had the flu. But from his dictator’s viewpoint …
Yes, it would be. But remember, I said 10 weapons to Taiwan for everyone sent to Russia. China is not sending its entire production to Russia. Probably just a drop in the bucket for them.
For every weapon that China sends Russia, Europe should send 10 to Taiwan
🚨 🚨 🚨 Elgin, Illinois. Has Governor Pritzker seen this?! 1/2
I sleep, if you (or any of your beltway journalist pals) are reading this, please take stock. Your studied neutrality is not up to the task of helpi by the public understand what is happening to our country. You are part of the problem.
Because blue collar, Christian white people hate “the other“ so much that they’ll sign up for this. They hate gay people, trans people, Black people, and immigrants. They think that if a little girl dies of brain cancer, it was God‘s will, and she probably deserved it
They got theirs: an open door to a country whose scientists saved their daughter. The don’t give a shit about anyone else. Fuck them.
I was in a Facebook group for people with lymphoma. When I posted a request for people to take action on research cuts, the admins deleted it. It turns out they’re Trumpers. They post about greedy doctors and Fraud/Waste/Abuse at the NIH whilst simultaneously asking about access to new treatments
Give us a break. The only action you guys have taken is to weaken gun laws, allowing scores of criminals to get guns; shut down funding for anti-violence programs in our cities; close the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. You've taken action - and it's gotten people killed.
"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com
The military will never be held in universal esteem again. We can’t trust soldiers anymore, and actions like this tell us they are enemies of democracy.
In Israel, hundred of thousands take to the street opposing Netanyahu's planned military campaign in Gaza City and demanding that he accept the hostage release deal already accepted by Hamas. www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/m...
And actually”they share a common history” is also misleading. Ukraine spent much of its history under the control from if non-russians. It has been Polish, Swedish, Lithuanian…and independent. It only came under Russian control in the 1800s. The headline is junk.
Let’s all take a moment to reflect on how this just absolute alpha male sprayed on his hair for TV
Ugh. Ukrainian and Russian are different languages. Just like French and Spanish are. Please revise that!
As obras sem fim na linha do Norte e a falta de um fim para as supressões no Vouga www.publico.pt/2025/08/26/e...
I’m all out of thanks. So I use the legacy media for toilet paper.
Thank you, Biden, for hanging on too long. Thank you, McConnell, for handing us a complicit and corrupt Supreme Court. Thank you tech billionaires for funding fascism. And thank you, ProgLeft, for dividing the Democratic Party over Gaza, then abandoning your cause once Trump won.
That’s the worst part. I’ll bet she didn’t even know that he was wrong.
Folks, he’s not stupid at all. He’s thoroughly corrupt, dishonest and evil. He lies as easily as you and I breathe air. He is a very dangerous man, and he knows that he serves an aging and enfeebled master. He sees himself as Trump’s heir, and as America’s first real king.
What’s maddening is the purists who helped bring us to this awful place.
That’s what he did in Portland in 2019-2020. And the anarchists (a long Portland tradition) and Patriot Prayer provocateurs provided the pretext he needed (burning down the federal building and smashing windows throughout the city).
My friends say they feel safe in their suburban bubbles and that “this will pass”. They’re in for fun times.
Wait until there’s a jackboot on your face, pal. Trump’s just getting started and you have no idea how bad it is going to get. Oh, but not for you; you’re not a vulnerable minority. Just keep your head down, pay your tribute, and the stormtroopers will leave you alone.
Young purists gonna pure. They’ll have a lifetime to learn the consequences. And frankly, they didn’t give a shit about the Palestinians, who are now being genocided. Like the Naderites, they just wanted to watch the liberal ship burn.
I thought the republicans didn’t like the nanny state
If you've ever wondered what you would have done in 1930s Germany you're doing it now.
Fascist thugs
Please don’t conflate eating a dick with an insult. Personally, I love to eat dick. So please leave all the dicks for me. As for Putin: he should eat shit.
What a disgusting perversion of Christianity. Truly terrible people dressing up their vileness with the trappings of religion.
What a fuckin’ pig is o doutor Primeiro Minstro. O melhor dito, a sua majestade.
Burn, baby, burn.
Now, if the EU would only create its own army (without the Hungarians or Slovak), and rationalize its procurement strategies. Oh…and the Germans and Poles need nuclear weapons, fast.
Only if we get half of the nuclear weapons, submarines, aircraft, and tanks.
Please watch and share. Ukraine is winning Ukraine Is Beating Russia: What Putin Doesn't Want You to Know youtu.be/JThTysIZfFc
Red states occupying a blue city
Peço desculpa por escrever em inglês mas o meu português falha quando fico enfurecido. PT is heading down the same road as the US. A pro business party careening to the far right at light speed, led by a crook who doesn’t even bother to hide his contempt for voters, laws or democracy. Há de lutar
Americans: your democracy is dead. Your government is controlled by a dictator with a cult of personality, abd your opposition consists of well meaning but hopelessly out of touch technocratic lawyers. They are no match for your king.
My God. America has become a dictatorship. It just doesn’t acknowledge it yet.
Somebody please give the hurricane a map so it can find its way to Florida
Touché
Take no enemies among the Russian troops. Send them to their maker.
You say “fuck off” in Norwegian?
“His woman”? WTF.
Um estadista
America is now a police state.
ICE, America's first interior police, are not being built up, at the cost of billions, just to monitor immigration www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
An unfathomable humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher. RSF forces are refusing to allow in food The BBC has some of the only video www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PEPFAR has saved 26 million lives and strengthened economies worldwide—proof of what bipartisan action can achieve. So why are we pulling out? Roberto Valadez explains.
There is no doubt that Trump is a vile, disgusting racist. His racism rises to the level of murderous, for example, in the case of the central park five. But I don’t think that racism is the primary motivator for what’s going on in DC. I think he’s preparing to remain in power permanently.
I believe he is talking about Dem leaders. The GOP knows its (sick and twisted) way.
“Dude” sacrificed his career to defend us from Trump. At the risk of his own life, his future employability etc. when you e done the same, then we’ll listen to you.
"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."
I grew up in Washington DC and it has never felt safer or cleaner. Trump's "emergency" is fake, straight out of the authoritarian playbook
Com o apoio da extrema-direita parlamentar, Luís Montenegro tem a soberba de se sentir intocável. Uma governação de confronto com os mais pobres, os imigrantes, as mulheres, os trabalhadores, o ataque ao Estado Social, tudo ao gosto da extrema-direita, enchem-no de presunção e arrogância.
They are not “Democratic socialist“ they are “social Democrats“ which is a very different thing. It’s not simply a matter of word position.
The United States that we knew is dead. We now live in a dictatorial kleptocracy. Basically, we are the western hemisphere’s Russia. Perhaps our grandchildren or great grandchildren will overthrow the regime. But we will not live to see democracy returning.
Let Texans fall off a cliff. Not one penny of my coastal-elite taxes should go to bail them out once again. They deserve this.
It actually does make sense. The CEO‘s benefits are capped commensurate with their contribution. In addition, wealthier people get a smaller percentage return on what they put in. Payments are slightly progressive. Turning SS into wealth re-distribution will ultimately erode support for it
Was Garland complicit?
RFK would like me to die, and he would then dump my corpse in Central Park just like he dump d the little bear he killed while driving drunk (people say)
They were working on a cure for my cancer. Oh well, so much for that. I guess I can just die, since RFK and the rest of the far right consider me to be a parasite due to illness.
Even in power, the Ds can barely enact legislation b/c their margins are thin, and all it takes is bribing one or two turncoats. Sinema sold herself to hedge fund bros, and sunk the reform of hedge fund pro taxation. Kurt Shrader protected his Pharma fortune by sinking drug pricing reform
I’ve been having a few too many conversations like this. Them: Hi Kate, how are things with your work, with the world? Me: the university is under attack, democratic norms being broken in half, so, pretty bad. Them: But everything is going to come back and be okay after the midterms. Me: Uhh, no.
These a reason why Trump declared a trade war against Brazil. All democracies must be extinguished.
Maria Bamford is a truly good person who makes the world just a little kinder just by being here.
I know a lot about the holocaust, probably far more than you ever will. I’ve also spent my entire career working with Spanish-speaking farm workers. I don’t need a lecture from you about empathy or history. I am just kindly asking you to stop comparing this awfulness to the holocaust.
But it ended up extremely different and if you can’t see the difference between rounding up everyone with a single drop of a certain ethnicity, cramming them into gas chambers, and extinguishing almost all of them over a continent… wow. Trump is evil incarnate, but this is not a holocaust.
Boys? You invented that. Not helpful. There’s enough monstrosity in him already. No need to create fictions that undermine discussions of his real evils.
Demigods?
I really wish Trump would stop using antisemitism as an excuse for destroying our democracy. Every single Jewish person I know is aghast at what is happening in Gaza, and in our universities. This madness must stop.
Trump, confronted with images of starving children in Gaza, called it “real starvation stuff” and vowed the U.S. would “be even more involved.” Whether that leads to real action or more empty talk remains to be seen. Brian O’Neill explains.
The US government has sent innocent men to be beaten and raped in a foreign gulag www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Alligator Alcatraz is an abomination, but is more akin to a Gulag or political prison than a mechanized death camp that used cyanide gas to murder 2000 people at a time, day in and day out, in an attempt to eliminate an entire race. Stop appropriating the Holocaust. Just stop.
Too bad Lindsey Graham has no scruples whatsoever. And he’s probably being blackmailed. People say he’s gay, though I fortunately I’ve never had sex with him.
A system that allows a convicted criminal rapist tyrannical traitor to gain full totalitarian control of the U.S. govt without so much as a guardrail in place to protect us from him and his deranged destructive immoral corrupt agenda is a highly flawed and broken system.
Exactly. And please, people, don’t call the Bay Area “The Bay”. Thank you on behalf of me, everyone else who was born there, and especially my new friend & compatriot, Carole Bell
My mother‘s relatives were killed at Treblinka. This is an unbelievably sensitive, subject for Jewish and Roma people, as well as gay people. Be fucking sensitive, please. Yes I am terrified by Trump and afraid this could lead to a second holocaust. But you’re being a jerk.
Please don’t. What Trump is doing is grotesque. But to compare it to the barbarism of the Nazi genocide, complete with gas chambers and crematoria, trivializes the holocaust. He is not conducting medical “experiments“ on people, then killing them. He’s not making lampshades out of their skin.
What Trump and DeSantis are doing is fascist and wrong. But please don’t compare it to mechanized death camps designed to wipe out anyone with the slightest trace of Jewish or Roma blood as well as anybody gay or lesbian.
I agree. I love Mark but this post is offensive.
Excellent point. Either they’re very rich, or very dead.
Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it. Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.
They’re all afraid of being assassinated by Trump‘s followers. And most of them are happy to be bought off as well.
“The Bay”? Geez, just call it Frisco if you’re going to butcher it.
COVID is the deadliest virus ever when they talk about the "lab leak" theory to gin up outrage, but just a mild little cold when they talk about masking and public health measures to gin up outrage.
I am discussing the dynamics within the Democratic Party and the seismic shift this represents. You are obsessed with the fact that the minority party, which has no power, didn’t yield 100% to your view. So take your ball and go home and leave the rest of us to savour the victory.
I always suspected that Prasad, Markary, and the (very pretentiously named” “Great Barrington” crew were frauds. What I didn’t know is that they were also closeted fascists.
Whatever. A seismic event happens in the Democratic Party but all you care about is that some of the old bottle stayed on the shelves.
Because of the political dynamics among their constituents among other reasons. So fed up with people like you and your fucking purity test. You boycotted Harris and gave us Trump, so sit back and enjoy the shit show you created.
FFS. This vote represents es a huge shift among Ds. And one that is still in process. It will reverberate powerfully in 2026 and 2028. And even if 100% of D senators had voted for the resolution, it would only be a symbolic move—and a majority of D flipping off Netanyahu is a symbolic victory .
No. There are some wonderful journalists with integrity. But fewer than the others. Thank you for fighting the good fight
Having gone through a multi wave layoff scheme at a huge company y I can tell you that death by 1000 cuts is immensely destructive to the company and to the wellbeing of its workers. My advice to them: get out now, if you can. And do not believe the severance promises.
Learn to read. I support the Sanders resolution. I am pointing out that no matter how much progress we make in moving Democrats, you’re never satisfied. This is a huge shift and will get bigger. Take your progro purity elsewhere
Lots of allegedly left-wing purists replying. Nothing is good enough for them, not even getting what they said they wanted. Of course, half of them are Russian accounts, trying to divide the D base.