Trump thinking, “You have four jobs? Who the hell is this little pipsqueak?”
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Trump thinking, “You have four jobs? Who the hell is this little pipsqueak?”
You’re right, it’s obviously a distraction, but with this guy that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a strategy. His mind is a natural distraction generator. It’s possible that he posted about Cracker Barrel because he saw the logo while he was scrolling instead of watching a security briefing.
She’s right. It *is* amazing how fast she can get results from the Trump administration. Not amazing in an applause emoji way, though. More in an exploding head emoji way.
This is a gesture of contempt disguised as submission. What must Apple think of someone who can be bought with shiny things? It’s like they’re ingratiating themselves with a cat by getting it a new toy. It’s cheap for them, free for the rest of us, and in no way increases Trump’s power.
I smell another explosive nothing burger on the way. Twitter Files 2.0. I hope the Grok devs have scrubbed their Slack messages, ‘cause Taibbi is on the warpath!
Pretty ridiculous. But, like you say, it probably didn’t cost her a single viewer. Especially since she’s telling most of them exactly what they want to hear.
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A few months ago, yes. Something along the lines of, “Minnesota’s cities are going to hell under Governor Walz. Just look at Milwaukee.”
Laura Ingraham thinking Milwaukee was in Minnesota was bad enough.
When the birthday book story first broke, and Trump was making wild threats, I said he would never actually take Murdoch to court, and I’m sticking with that. He will eat this lawsuit. It’s imbecilic. He has no chance of winning, the publicity will kill him, and he can’t allow discovery to happen.
Did he say this before or after Todd Blanche met with Ghislaine Maxwell? If it was after, then chances are he’s spilling juicy nuggets from her “testimony,” because he can’t not
Right on. Actually, I think he’s covering up many people’s role. Even if he weren’t implicated himself, he would have plenty of reasons to participate in a coverup.
Hell, reporters are still asking Scott Baio what he thinks. They’re still asking Steven Baldwin. Celebrity is the gift that never stops making the world cheaper and dumber.
I’ll still waiting for the book about the Paul Bunyan statue in Bangor coming to life and killing everybody.
We’ll see. Pardoning Maxwell seems suicidal. The people he needs to worry about all hate her already. They all see her as a degenerate and a liar. What value can there be in anything she says? What could compensate for the blowback of pardoning her?
In case it doesn’t go without saying, the SoD will not resign (unless he’s told to), and he will not be fired, at least not for Signalgate. If he’s fired, it will be because Trump hasn’t forgiven him for the shitty birthday parade. No part of me is kidding about any of that.
To be fair, Trump’s first response, whenever anyone is interviewed, under any circumstances, is, “[S]he say anything about me?” And if the answer is no, his second response is to lose all interest.
Right on. And of course if you can live your life in a spirit of lip service and venal competitiveness and fear of failure, then you can read books in that spirit, too. You can say, without flinching, “Arendt and Benjamin? Beautiful thinkers, of course, but this is my *career* we’re talking about.”
Vance is the kind of nerdy asshat 9th grade boy who says “excuse my language” when he curses because he thinks it makes him sounds sophisticated
Well, the cringest portions have of course been left in at the client’s insistence. Some of his lawyers know full well how lame this stuff sounds. They’re not all Habba. But they *are* all shameless. They’re all willing to file motions that are the equivalent of standing in court without pants.
How can I “like” this multiple times? There should be a “like bomb” button that you can use, like, once a month, that sprays out 50 likes, kind of like a camera burst.
Wait. You’re saying she has a job today? Doing…what, ffs?
And it’s not even my birthday. This is what I was hoping for. You KNOW the reporters who undertook the story were in touch with legal every step of the way for exactly this reason. You KNOW that NewsCorp, after the Dominion experience, is well-prepared to a fault. He is 50 kinds of screwed.
What’s the source? Because this sounds like a dream I had once.
At this point, is it really a mistake? I’m not suggesting he knows the difference between psychiatric and political asylums. I’m saying it’s like his Hannibal Lecter shtick. Does he knows how stupid it sounds? Maybe? But he knows it generates a headline, and a distraction, every time he says it.
Thanks for the article. No, there will be no lawsuit. Murdoch, unlike Shari Redstone, can afford to be sued. Trump knows this and knows that discovery would be disastrous for him. So Rupert Murdoch is now the conscience of American political media. Just let that marinade in your head for a minute.
When are you going to write the novel in which the Paul Bunyan statue goes on a rampage? I loved that statue as a kid. Now it terrifies me.
But this gets me thinking. Just hear me out. If you can MST an Ed Wood movie, why couldn’t you MST a Trump admin news conference? Can’t you see it? Call me.
Maybe so, but if she loved her work the way Ed loved his, she’d still be accomplishing…something.
To top it off, the prose style that the bot is using is objectively embarrassing. Cant and troll-speak. Elon has trained Grok to imitate his incel stans.
Yeah, I figured it was something like that. Someone probably saw “The Killing Fields” the other night, and that’s the basis.
Why not? There are so many working farms where most people live. And most poor people have such good ag skills. Especially brown ones. Because genetics.
Are they talking about collectivization of farms? Are they pro or con? I’m confused.
I’ve been thinking about that movie for some reason. Remember how it was supposed to be blazing a trail for everything that came after it? Now it looks like the Road Not Taken.
And what’s up with “Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Why does he end his announcements, or whatever they are, sounding like he’s writing to the HOA to complain about his neighbor’s dog?
Desperate to make herself relevant again, now that her new UN wardrobe has been consigned, unworn, to storage. Remembers that the last time she got on TV was for grilling Claudine Gay. Thinks maybe she’ll try running that play one more time?
Your point is well taken, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that Mamdani is *merely* charming. Mamdani’s appeal is that he intelligently—and, yes, charmingly—discusses things like rent and child care that people actually care about. Like the 2 presidents you mention.
Doesn’t sound like Farsi, either. Khamenei uses the language of a western oppressor?
The number of factually inaccurate statements that Miller is able to pack into pretty much every brief paragraph he writes is really kind of breathtaking. There’s a density of lying that seems like it ought to make the word atoms split and explode on the page.
There’s also the rape thing. Maybe—and I’m spitballing here—but maybe the Nobel committee doesn’t want to be associated with a known rapist. It’s possible.
To be fair, the people who implemented Jim Crow and racist voter suppression in the 19th and early 20th centuries were Democrats. But your point still holds. Today’s racist Republicans are the political heirs of those old Democrats. Strom Thurmond switched parties for a reason.
This is a deranged human being. I know everyone knows this, but it bears repeating. He’s never had an adult level of impulse control, but now he’s in such a state of panic and unreality that he can’t consider consequences before he does something. There’s no distance between impulse and act.
Stepping up to replace Rudy as the closing item on “Cleanup on Aisle 45.”
It would take an eff of a lot more than $30M. Do you realize how much he’s making off his crypto scam alone? If he gets a stable coin that can serve as a reliable laundering and bribery platform, the sky is the limit. Change the M in 30M to a B, and that will get you in the door.
“No neck.” 🤣 But the sad thing is, an earlier indictment would have changed nothing. Roberts crafted the immunity ruling to produce endless appeals and give SCOTUS total authority over whether the case ever even went to trial. Garland couldn’t have done a thing to change that. It was down to SCOTUS.
You raise some interesting hypotheticals. I don’t think that Barr would have allowed Trump to be indicted, regardless, but let’s talk about Garland. If your beef with him is that he didn’t appoint Smith on day one or otherwise get a quicker indictment, what would a quicker indictment have done?
Mueller is another story. I can see where you’re coming from there. But let me put it this way. How do you think things would have gone differently if Trump had been indicted for 1/6 in 2021?
“Ducks on ice.” 👏🏻
Blaming Garland just shows that you don’t understand what happened
You do have to hand it to the Post, though. Best headline writers in American media, week after week, year after year.
*Can* they “get back together”? They can still work together in certain ways, but to what extent have their interests diverged? Who has leverage, and how dangerous would it be to use it? Is this a case of mutually assured destruction? Will their stans even *let* them get back together?
Nice piece. I wonder how many Elon stans now hate the bill just because Elon said he hates it, without even knowing what it is or what Elon’s reasons are. And how many stan-adjacents are predisposed to be suspicious of it, again without knowing exactly why. Our politics are so dumb right now.
Not disagreeing about Trump’s character, but what would folding even look like here? Abandoning his legislative agenda? Throwing the nativists out of his government? I don’t think Trump *can* fold, even if he wants to.
Makes sense. Hyperscale sounds like his kind of solution to everything. So does it mean producing more (and blander) content per week? Or making the opinion section more independent of the writers? Both?
I don’t understand the goal here. Has the Post lost so many writers that it’s trying to do without them altogether? Is this something like networks pumping out reality shows every time the writers go out on strike?
“A few” Democrats? I’ll bet you have names. Blue Sky wants names.
And just because affluent people don’t use Medicaid, or maybe don’t even know someone who uses it, doesn’t mean they don’t benefit from it. Not having tens of millions of sick people with no recourse helps the whole society stay on its feet. It benefits everybody, the rich more than anyone.
That’s an interesting perspective. Can you think of an example? I’m thinking that a lot of their weapons—falsifying facts, dumbing down concepts, appealing to people’s baseness and stupidity—are things we definitely *don’t* want to master.
Sounds like somebody’s been distracted
Maybe what’s creepier is that we say things to people IRL based on ads that our phones have thrown at us.
It doesn’t hurt that the Cybertruck is just an incredibly shitty product.
As someone said, there’s really nothing you can do to a Cybertruck that it hasn’t already done to itself.
I guess the good news is that this isn’t an accomplishment he wants to brag about. If he’s trying to distance himself from it, despite having total immunity from any possible criminal consequences, then he knows it’s a stinker.
I expect more of this kind of thing, from more than just the SoD. Patel, Bondi, Noem…They’re all trying to please a boss who won’t flat out tell them what he wants, because what he wants is illegal or indefensible. So they’re guessing.
Thanks for the photos. Great event, as usual. Do we have a headcount from the drone? I’m sure it’s not as high as 4/5 or 4/19, but I’m just curious
And the president himself is a dog hater. This is probably the most anti dog administration in history
And murdered his dog in the process. Don’t forget the dog.
Blocking = vaccination. Keeping the Good Place good. That’s what it’s all about.
Congresswoman, God bless you, but I don’t think MTG is your dumbest colleague. Or if she is, it’s by a hair. Don’t forget Boebert. And Tommy Tuberville is not going down without a fight.
Absolutely right. I take your point that Hitler saw our pluralism as a betrayal of our sometime racism
The cars were great. The total attendance should include them, too
Not bad for a repeat performance on a chilly, gray day, threatening rain
…though he was a big fan of Jim Crow and the seizure of native lands…
Keep in mind, when Trump snubs her, he’s not just insulting her, maybe not even primarily insulting her. He’s insulting her husband. He would never do this to the wife of a man he respected. Putin’s wife could call him a c—t to his face, and he’d still smile and bow and kiss her hand.
I have a weird question: how will removing Musk from government help matters? DOGE will presumably continue its activities, but in Musk’s absence those activities won’t receive as much coverage and will be harder for D’s and critics in the media to attack.
What exactly is meant by illegal entry of an idea? What do those words even mean?
Amazing, yes. And the people who ran the gantlet in their cars, laying on their horns, some of them repeatedly — I’d call them participants, too.
Every single thing he does, whatever else it is, is also a grift. And it’s always done in plain sight, because he always has to boast about it. He thinks his grifting makes him look clever and strong. He thinks we’re all very impressed. Besides being evil, he’s the most boring person imaginable.
Yesterday’s Leader printed an estimate of 1600, which seems more likely and is in line with other sources. I don’t know where the PDN’s number came from.
Welcome to the Bizarro Senate
From Earth? Yes.
That voice! The low note on “on sale NOW”! Never to be imitated or forgotten
This morning’s PDN story puts the crowd at 3000-4000: www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/hands-o...
It’s going to take this administration a while to realize that you can’t just keep telling people black is white. You can’t just make people think a certain way by telling them that that’s what they think. But they will learn. We are going to teach them.
If the tariff policy is treason? No. It’s bad policy. He seems to think it’s good policy, but that’s not treasonous. It’s stupid and arrogant, but it’s not treasonous. Deliberately selling out our national security - now that’s treasonous.
Define “we.” I don’t remember asking for this.
Are you asking if he can be impeached for being just really stupid, arrogant, and destructive? Or for doing stupid, destructive things that also happen to be illegal? I think the answers are: 1. probably not, and 2. sure, in theory.
There’s a small but important distinction between “not joking” and “serious.” Trump is frequently “not joking” when he speaks. But he’s constantly floating ideas to see how they land without having thought strategically or pragmatically about them, and in that sense he’s almost never “serious.”
#IndivisiblePT #Resist #HandsOff
Port Townsend, WA. Population 10,721.
Cynicism on the part of people who are smart enough to understand systemic problems and do something about them—and I mean simple, low-cost, just-show-up kinds of things, things they refuse to do because “nothing matters”—is at the root of so much that is wrong.
I like the way you make a bullet point for “asshole,” like it was an item on his to do list.
Can you say “Streisand Effect”?
The way we know she’s real is that if an AI behaved this way it would be taken offline.
Of course. The first thing to understand about Musk is that he’s an emotional 4-year-old. Hence the ubiquitous toted children. Hence also the equating of evil with what hurts *him*. The equating of freedom with freedom *for him*.
That’s the sound of the future arriving in your kitchen
Planning is good, but let’s call it something else. Borrowing MAGA language gives it power
What a fucking clown. What a fucking disgrace.
Oh, I know this one! It’s nobody, isn’t it! Nobody got a good deal!
With the old World’s Fair structure in the background. Thanks for this. I miss Spokane.