If your name is “Buddy Carter,” you belong on The Dukes of Hazard,” not in Congress.
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If your name is “Buddy Carter,” you belong on The Dukes of Hazard,” not in Congress.
Sounds like it’s time the Guard went rolling through Oklahoma then.
We're fast approaching a "Patterns of Force" scenario.
And there still was no answer to this question: bsky.app/profile/litt...
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
Great callback.
Hold my beer.
Came here to say this. As a victim of the Equifax hack, my credit has been frozen for years. It's free, by law. If you've got enough tech sense to have a Bluesky account, you've got enough to manage a freeze. Do it.
There’s no going backwards in time. It marches on. “So what I told you is true—from a certain point of view.”
Cankling in his golf cart.
His office now looks like a Kremlin bordello.
And the character spouting the fluoride conspiracy theory was instantly recognizable as crazy to anyone watching the film. His same was “General Jack D. Ripper” ferchrissakes.
This freak can’t lead the cult. The GOP will eat itself.
Trump Tax. At minimum how have we not managed to brand this shit.
Make (Benedict) Arnold Great Again
Make it make sense.
She died a traitor, so of course they’re going to lionize her.
Thanks for this, and by all means, stay active in the public discourse. You can’t be President again, but you can still be a leader. We need you.
“Did I fall or was I pushed,” as Thom Yorke once sang.
“…eliminating Spanish-language courses.”
But there's no denying that at this very moment we're experiencing life under authoritarianism: people having to measure what they say and in front of whom, secret police snatching people into vans, president completely unconstrained by Congress -- this is the real deal...
Do you have any idea how many MAGA parents, uncles and grandparents have alienated their families? Theses stories are all all over the place. People post about it every day. Technically, the final decision to “cut off” the family member(s) may rest with the victims—after they were left no choice.
Medivated. That’s a new one. 😄
Uhh…if the person was actually treating their emotional issues, that’s…usually a positive? I’d be more worried about someone who was untreated/unmedivated. Ferchrissakes.
Bill Cassidy, you’re up, pal.
Hope the DOJ In Exile puts a pin in this one.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
I'll give them this, I felt the daily firings would start within about 60 days. Either firings or abrupt resignations. But we're there now. He seems to have picked a cabinet of MAGA lifers, though, so if anyone drops out it will likely be due to health or substance use.
Unsurprisingly, when I asked this earlier I didn't get a response. bsky.app/profile/litt...
I admire your compassion. I’m just sick—especially having grown up in the Bible Belt—with the way people cheapen other people’s lives and their own in these moments. One can have a relationship with God without having to view every tragedy through a “it was his time/he’s in a better place now” lens.
I do appreciate your sharp eye. There is some nuance to what he said. But it’s a totally inappropriate thing to say in the eyes, I think, of most people. It’s on the same page as “thoughts and prayers.” Better not to say anything at all.
The implication is the children passed into the arms of someone who loves them. Is this not an unknowable thing, potentially a comforting lie?
Guess he should speak to our wonderful, totally qualified, totally trustworthy, totally not a political flunky FBI director.
I'm a miserable, cynical, pessimistic motherfucker on my best days, and that is some self-destructive, life-denying bullshit. I'd rather worship Godzilla.
So, Fox News, your guest is implying mass murder of children isn’t so bad since the victims will meet Jesus. Is that what I’m hearing? Because not even the most hardass stoic in antiquity would have said anything that cold.
I’m glad she references the financial community as having agency and responsibility in the Trump II era, because *YES*
The only props I’ll give Mao is that he obviously wasn’t insecure about it his hair loss.
Wired, exactly who is “Democrats” referring to here? Elected officials? Party apparatus folks? Prominent people/investors who align with the party? Registered voters? You seriously need to add clarification.
Who made this man “tha god?”
I even feel guilty saying that something is unforgivable. I can’t imagine I wouldn’t forgive someone if they asked and I felt they showed a sincere willingness to change. I would never have believed 20 years ago that I’d one day look at Bill Kristol as a wise resistance figure. But here we are.
We don’t have to forgive these people in our hearts (I find voting for Trump in 2024 to be unforgivable in concept), but at the same time we don’t have to actively harm these people and their kids. Nor do we have to wish harm upon them. This shouldn’t be difficult.
Presidents aren’t kings, GOP.
Which totally warranted coverage by (checks notes) the freaking Chicago Sun Times
Hey Siri, show me a textbook example of over-the-top insincere obsequiousness
That news alert appeared exactly when I opened Bluesky to your post!
Your timing—and theirs,apparently—is impeccable, sir!
I’m definitely ok with other options. I hope other Dems will start speaking out more forcefully.
That’s gonna gain traction if he continues to be one of the few Dems effectively doing it.
You’re sidestepping my point. I’m not endorsing him other than to say he’s publicly and rhetorically rebuking the Trump Administration in ways the general public can clearly see and understand.
I’m agnostic on his suitability, but again, he’s a face of the resistance. Moreso than most other Dems.
People need to come to grips with the fact Newsom will be running, and he’ll be a serious candidate whether you like him presently or not. He’s a face of the resistance, he’s putting in the work. 🤷♂️
Baldy is telling on himself again.
Terrorists is what they are.
".. unless Pulte somehow had particular knowledge about issues with Cook's application, which is unlikely, then one has conclude that Pulte handed Fannie and Freddie a list of political enemies and asked for their loan files for review."
If it's a "legally dubious" move, then Trump clearly doesn't have the authority to fire her and thus she has not been fired, you hacks.
Yep. Just like Trump digging-in after his mistaken tweet about that hurricane. Next thing you know, he's taken a sharpie to a NOAA map. This time, he's renditioning an innocent man because his people royally fucked up.
Gramps is getting infusions. Probably serious ones. We can’t trust the WH medial staff to level with us, so who knows if we’ll ever find out the seriousness of his condition. Though we can probably guess.
Will there be a WaPo Pitchbot?
Trump wants—at this particular moment in time—to talk with authority about the subject of “comfort women?” Remind me again why the MSM constantly tells me this man has good political instincts.
In re: the utterly abject poverty of the "Democrats talk funny & don't use the right words" discourse that will never die. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
One of my most moral panic style opinions is the use of “NPC” as a slur is a symptom of a societal sociopathy epidemic.
Narcissistic self-sabotage.
Trump II articles of impeachment would more resemble a plate of spaghetti.
“Let’s make a pending economic slowdown worse by destroying tourism!”
She wants to see “governors like Newsom, Hochul, and Pritzger on TV…” Those three—the first three she mentioned—are three of the most vocal.
An avalanche of bad news.
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" Cicero, Orator, 120
I’m sure an NYT “These Trump-Voting Cracker Barrel Patrons Oppose Rebranding” article is currently in the works.
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
Oh count me with that too, I’ve just been forced to talk to everybody for 25 years now and the same people who are saying “people should be authentic when they talk” um are some really surprising people!
This is a well-worn trope at this point, is it not? Plenty of “distancing” over the last decade, not enough actually doing anything about the problem. “How GOP Lawmakers Are Privately Distancing Themselves From Trump’s Tariffs” - The Wall Street Journal
If you go back to WWII, it ended with the Germans and Japanese… absolutely getting their asses handed to them.
The author of this article even falls victim to a framing that existed at the time: “lockdowns.” There was no “lockdown” in the US!
Ta-da!
That’s a rough 38 years you’re sporting there, pal.
Love how the criminal gets a pass even though everyone saw him commit crimes at the scene.
This was only five years ago. Five years! Probably the most memorable year of our lives. And it’s somehow being re-written for…what? Clout? To stick it to the libs? For financial gain? apple.news/AiD42OQhvQsm...
This is part of what I mean. If we have a recession *and* investors (and the world) lose confidence in government economic data — that’s *bad* for businesses.
The mob boss in White House is the biggest crime problem, actually. The kidnappers work for him. And he's got a whole lot more criming of all kinds going on.
When the economy craters and no one can afford their products, then what will they do?
Well, that and the economy cratering.
Had a thought that if this ICE/ Natl Guard thing continues, eventually some prominent white conservative’s kid is gonna be swept up in it. Maybe the child of a state-level, elected official, maybe somebody else prominent. Maybe a celebrity or athlete’s family member. That may wake Red America up.
Nichols.
But what I’ve come to realize over the past 10 years is, to many “Americans,” their patriotism is rooted more in their favorite superficial aspects of American culture. Regional stuff. Sports. Restaurants. CLINGING TO GUNS AND RELIGION, AS THE MAN SAID. Not the Constitution nor due process.
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Not the best and the brightest, huh.
I’d let go of that dream. He’s never going to prison. That doesn’t mean life will be sunshine and happiness for him, though. To say nothing as to whether he even makes it to the end of his term.
He looked really bad today. For a day he was on camera, meeting people in the Oval? He was almost disheveled. Completely sunken, exhausted-looking. It doesn't bode well.
Is the world not watching this football stooge?
He's covering up spots on his hands from IV and blood test pricks
He's getting Dr. Feelgood infusions, a-la JFK. Seriously, a chemical coctail. We'll likely never know what was in it.
It’s not just “the death of expertise,” it’s the wholesale *execution* of expertise
That’s the tell.
Trump loves gold and tech bros, but suspiciously he owns no C-3PO. Curious.
This is gonna wind up in the Louvre of Bluesky, isn’t it?
Well, I wouldn’t put it exactly that way, Daniel.
John Bolton is a prick and a kook. But never once has it stuck me that he’s a criminal or a traitor. This is straight up lawless intimidation on a (currently) soft target. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
