Not rape. Not abuse. Not grift. Not corruption. Not bullying. Not war crimes. Not Treason. But this?

If congress doesn't stop Trump, they're part of the problem. No votes for child rapist supporters in congress.

I'm really surprised that it has taken our brilliant analysts this long to figure this out. He's inept. He's a threat to our republic. A kakistocratic authoritarian. Never thought we'd be here in my lifetime. youtu.be/dK__tC-HRMU

Trump has been inept from the beginning.

Yet, while it is clear that Trump is corrupt, inept and worse the US Supreme Court endorses every thing Trump does. SCOTUS is no longer the guardian of the Constitution, the law or justice, they are simply personal guardians of Trump! No wonder people accept the oligarch.

We know that Trump has no foreign or domestic policy experience. He thinks he's the ultimate businessman. NOPE!

I don't know what the fuck the Atlantic is talking about because I have never put up with the idea of this man. Never accepted it, never tolerated it and think he should be eradicated. Maybe you should know the voters a little better than that

Unfortunate that it's taken some people so long to realize it.

Well laid out, but…Democrats need to share stories of specific people effected? They do, and the republicans do not give a 💩.

not enough people poll numbers have not shifted for months as long as the stock market is doing well.....people don't seem to care

Yes, but the economy is more than the stock market.

100%. It may be too late by the time people figure that out.

Ironic that was one of his most obvious traits.

I want to laud a slight correction to the general’s assessment: Technically corrected but Congress is failing to do anything because Republicans are in charge. That’s who they are now.

Really? He was inept in his first administration!

He doesn’t need their votes, actually it was probably one of the promises he’s gonna keep.

Is the money made more important to these people than integrity or pride? For Congress to just allow a single man to bleat edicts and see it as law? Our Constitution is seriously flawed. We should have built in protection against this. MAGA shouldn’t be celebrating, they will be next.

Well, I'm sorry.... (not sorry) but.... take a really close look at that picture that's accompanying the article. He looks MAD. (As in insane, not angry) He honestly looks as crazy as Hitler did. Just my opinion-- but that's what I see, there.

I think they’re just riding the crazy train and waiting for him to expire. Like, “well he looks like shit, he’s talking gibberish, he’s playing on rooftops, his ankles are the size of barrels, his hands are decomposing, he’s GOTTA have one swollen foot in the grave” Meanwhile, AMERICA dies 😞

Dear general McAffrey: only because Congressional Republicans allow him. Enough stupid ignorant people voted to put Democrats out of majority, so there ain't a hell of a lot for them to try to stop him. The (Texas)Dems found a procedural way to delay him, but that seems to be the only way.

He was always inept, only now he doesn't have the adults around him.

"trump has overwhelmed our Constitution." 😆😆 What a SELF-INDICTMENT. But at least you got the "SLAVERY" part in there. Right boys?

That Trump was/is inept was painfully apparent by his performance during his first term. It's unfathomable to me that many voters chose to ignore this. Yet, here we are.

The man is a literal moron.

I can’t understand elected dems who think standing in front of mics does anything! It’s time to use the other 99% of your body and not just your $&@? lips! The Reps started a gun fight and you show up with a strongly worded letter! No wonder that the Dem party has the lowest rating of all time.

That’s because so many of them feed at the same trough as Republicans.

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Scott Jennings Does not care. CNN does not care The MAGA/QAnon 77 million Voters do not care. The Republican House & Senate do not care. The right wing SCOTUS does not care. The Billionaires do not care. Wall Street Corporations do not care. The Project 2025 Christian White Nationalists do not care.

His focus is treating America as a big real estate empire and he is selling everything we have

I don't think Congress is even looking; all of them have their heads in the sand, and if they do accidentally peek, they quickly turn their heads. They are blindly following their leader...

they are in on the plan. so is the supreme court. they are establishing a republican authoritarian state.

Yeah this current crop of Republicans in Congress are all in for Trump. The GOP purged any Republican that wasn't all in for Trump. Hell my Rep who is not Trumpy made the trip to MAL when he snapped his fingers. She's old school GOP, but she likes her job.

That and their stock and crypto options. Corrupt to the core.

This reminds of The Roman Empire, The Qing Dynasty, The Ottoman Empire, Tsarist Russia.

We are all lobsters in a pot of slowly boiling water! The only solution is insurrection! Logistically speaking a million people would have to overwhelm the capitol! Would the capitol police be with the insurrectionists?

Great article & good that The Atlantic published it. Sending the link to the folks in our county's Democrat group. Trump is killing the country & 👇

He always was and if you didn’t see it you were stupid and blind.

Not the pedophilia?

Congress has become the Roman Senate of our times.

Americans arn’t losing their freedoms they are giving them away. Spineless fucking morons who a year from now will be wandering around saying “what happened “

SCOTUS enabled this, they also enabled the loss of judicial credibility, congressional powers , weakened checks and balances and in the end left themselves weaker to defend and uphold the constitution.

Trump is an incompetent pedophile.

To little to late

But why didn't they already know that? He was inept for his entire first term.

His supporters to this day think he's the greatest president to ever live. Never, ever buy into any narrative that his supporters are turning against him. They never will. Ever. For any reason.

Because what the writer does not understand, and does not get, is that they don't like Trump for being "inept", they don't like him for "not fulfilling their evil genocide agenda correctly".

The US electorate is easily the most gullible and ignorant electorate in the world.

That may be, but also the right wing has spent decades building a hugely powerful agitprop/disinfo machine. Take care that they don't do it in your country too. They are working on it!

Our so-called Conservative Party has failed ever since they took a turn to the right. They used to be much more centrist and they have continually lost elections since embracing the former Reform party. If anything, I see them moderating as it’s their own way to ever win an election.

I'm not talking about the party - I mean the media pushing their propaganda. Rightwing news, talk shows, podcasts, social media, etc. There are millions of Americans who have been brainwashed to believe crazy nonsense. That is how Trump won.

Yeah, Canada’s a much different place than the US regarding media. We have a few lunatics to be sure but anyone familiar with both countries would never mistake Canada for the US politically.

Just be careful to pass laws curtailing the power of the media and propaganda.

We have a publicly funded national broadcaster in the CBC. Canada is way more restrictive when it comes to hate speech. We’ve proven time and again that we reject that which the US embraces politically. We have Medicare, gun control and limits on political donations.

Many of the voters who pushed him to victory were irregular voters. He won here folks that didn’t vote regularly or pay much attention to politics.

But many millions more were regular voters. The problem is that they were all bamboozled by the rightwing agitprop/disinfo machine that kept telling them what a great President he was. And now reality bites.

I think he won because dems stayed home.

Read the TargetSmart report. Harris won more of the regular voters while Trump won more of the irregular voters. Sure, some Dems didn’t vote….but in the end, it’s always about who shows up. The voting electorate for this election was very diff than in 2020.

Not everyone got bamboozled. It's time for that 2nd whatever of yours. Accept that you have a 100 million strong force of evil on your soil, and deal with it.

And too many weren't bamboozled at all. They were willing to accept that he might do what he said he would do in exchange for what they would gain.

Yes. But did he do what he promised during the first term?

Yes he did. He promised lower taxes & he gave the low taxes to the people who need it the least. He promised law & order by way of unilateral force & attempted to use the military on American citizens, who were exercising their constitutional right in the heart of the nations capital.

He promised “great deals” with our foreign leaders & the only “leaders” willing to cozy up to him are despots themselves! His promises are no different than Satan‘s. They sound good, but they are ultimately never for the benefit of humankind.

I can’t help but think of South Park at your mention of Satan and Trump….😂

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Some things he did and some things he didn't. What was different this time was Project 2025. The first time he didn't have a real plan. This time we knew he did. Why would they even gamble after seeing how unstable he was the first time around and what he did when he left office?

That's my question. "The Madness of Crowds"

This is such an unthinkable nightmare.

Yes. And I think a lot of people don't understand yet how bad it is. They are still engaging in the same sniping and griping and political posturing as usual. They have to wake up to the fact that we are in a war.

We’re definitely at war.

Seriously!

Yep. Like Dustin the Vermont farmer who reportedly might lose his farm because his workers keep getting detained, but said he still thinks the apricot taco he voted for is good for guys like him. I can read between lines.

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Why does Trump lie pathologically? A lack of respect for the collective intelligence:🇺🇸 Lying suggests the liar believes the other person is either too naive to see through the deception or not deserving of the truth. 📍Trump fooled the country, not once but TWICE.

Corruption and stupidity have always gone hand in hand. So they listened to ugly lies and many people did not turn out or were suppressed in their bite and we have Trump. The Democrats are to blame for even running Harris against Trump

He means the the Democrats look on with stupor and curiousity in cowardice. sadpac.com for how and why SCOTUS says it can be done at anytime to annul and remove the issue

He’s been inept his whole life and proved it numerous times starting with the bankruptcies in the ‘90s. He did no better during his first term, why did anyone think that he’d improved?

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So shocking that they could not tell this from the Covid epidemic, that infamous press conference where he suggested bring a powerful light inside the body, 😦 It screams incompetence.

Proof that being inept doesn't matter to Republican voters: Ted Cruz Large Marge Greene The Huckabees

It's the economy stupid.

trump is an unforgivable sin

I suspect many MAGA bros are spending more time researching historical stats and scouring through diverse sources of information to field their fantasy football team than they do to select their presidential and congressional candidates.

Yes anti-social and inept is a poor choice for F ing president. MAGA morons.

..."Congress awakening from it's slumber.." yeah, right. Next year maybe when they see the country start to sway and stagger.

The fundraising opportunity presented by Trump is considered by many Democrats as a major windfall: why kill the goose that lays the golden eggs?

They knew what they were voting for. Now we have to figure out how to survive it, and what to do to help prevent this from ever happening again.

JD Vance must be completely inept, or why else would they still back that pedophile?

They all seem to act as though there will be no real consequences for what they do and say. And why would they think otherwise? Until they are called to account, and made to suffer for their crimes, they will continue to say and do stupid shit.

That sums up his entire time in office. And his adult life.

Oh I thought it was the raping kids part.

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He’s “transactional” Oh, you mean “corrupt.”

On the upside, he won't last forever. Will MAGA? I don't think it will.

It will take a while to recover. We know now who the racist hateful assholes are!

Congress loOKs on with curiosity AND COMPLICITY .

Some of us knew he was inept well before he ran for office. Birther dick.

Watched a documentary on TV here in the UK last night about Trump, put out by PBS. It would seem that the ONLY thing that can stop Trump now is the Courts. Not even Congress can stop him. It is entirely down to bringing indictments citing the Constitution and the laws of the United States.

You can lay a lot of this mess at the feet of the House. They’ve abandoned any real leadership—ceding power, dodging accountability, and letting chaos reign. When the branch meant to check the executive becomes a spectator, the whole system starts to rot.

Fuck these most ignorant voters

Spread this article far and wide, y’all.

The usa is not a democracy anymore. It is a dictatorship, it is governed by decree, there are concentration camps, the president is a pedophile. Congress, the judiciary and the senate do not matter anymore. Stop thinking in the old way. Deal with the new way........

His time is almost up, his whole charade cannot be sustained economically and politically.

This didn't prove they were willing to tolerate it. It proves they had no idea what an unleashed oligarch could do with the power of the presidency unfettered by SCOTUS or COTUS.

He has always been inept. The whole first administration was an exercise in ineptitude.

In the immortalized words from Rex Tillerson, the man is a … checking notes … “fucking moron”

Nothing is going to change, until we start laying the blame for this mess where it belongs, the U.S. Supreme Court. For some reason, everyone wants to avoid the subject.

Not sure who’s wanting to ignore it. I see them getting the blame they deserve constantly. Unfortunately Biden was unwilling to take the kind of drastic measures that are needed.

The national media treats the court with kid gloves.

The Supreme Court is in need of a major reform. But the GOP is happy with this MAGA court. We need a sufficient liberal majority to impeach Roberts and his allies and to enact meaningful reforms. This court will never reform itself.

They’ve come to this conclusion NOW?

Kudos to General McCaffrey. Only wish Congress would listen and grow a spine.

It's racism. Majority saw themselves in this racist, primitive rube.

I'll believe it when I see it

He is definally innept

tfg is so corrupt and vile.

The Republican Congress and the Republican Speaker of the House have rolled over and played dead.They are complicit. Voting for garbage bills that make life tough for Americans and there is no accountability

It appears to be complacency and complicity more than curiosity.

Of course he's f@cking inept. Anyone who didn't know that 30 years ago is an imbecile. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AG...

I can’t understand how anyone could look back at his first term and think that he performed even a little bit capably. He’d already proven to be the most incompetent POTUS in our history. Now they’ve given him the chance to to set the bar higher than ever imagined.

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!! Removing a DICTATOR is obviously NOT WORKING, so Continue the momentum to demand the RELEASE OF THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!! THAT may just work!!! Remember they did not take down AL Capone for his horrific violent crimes, but they found an alternative-- taxes. So RELEASE THE FILES

Where are these supposed Republicans who draw the line at him being inept? I have not met one and I'm surrounded by them.

Congress isn’t even curious! They don’t want to know.

When you vote for Pedo-fascism and still pay more for eggs.

Too late..violence or fascism

Inept, I wish that was all his problem. A felon, 13 year old victims speak up and ignored, vomiting fascism, abuse of power, grifting his own supporters. Oh shit I don't have the stomach for this. VOTE.

Listening to this presser I continue to be aghast that ppl thought this guy & these ppl should govern this country. He & they are so very damaged….so many unqualified incompetent socially & psychologically challenged individuals.

He is effective at getting things done. The problem is what those things are. He’s pretty effectively implementing Project 2025.

They have the opposite of curiosity. They are walking around with their fingers in their ears shouting "Na na na I can't hear you!!!"

In an odd way America is reaping what it sowed. By placing so many dictators in different countries around the world, meddling in those countries and totally screwing them up up over time. Taste of its own medicine.

Sad but true.

The issue could have been resolved during his first term in office. A big FU to Merrick Garland!

And to McConnell. And the feckless Congress.

Every. Single. Day. You and others expose the corruption of the GOP and DT regime; however, nothing changes.

That's nothing new. He was an easy read in 2016. Simpleton with major ego problems. Only thing he learned from his first term is that nobody's going to stop him.

I think most Americans have concluded that Trump is not only inept, but he is also about two French fries short of a Happy Meal.

They were told that, too. They didn’t listen.

Lets remove the electoral college and bring back the popular vote -

Bingo … also eliminate Citizens United.

In the article it says the admin is betting on tariffs helping the economy. No they aren’t. If u look at this thru Project 2025 lens, they are aware that it will tank the economy. Why do this, while firing thousands, AND taking away safety nets, at same time? Bc Project 2025. They want desperation.

Near and dear to MY heart: TARIFFS ARE TAXES On this Coffee. bsky.app/profile/opsa...

I’m so not shocked ? Didn’t voter see his BS on his 1st term! F*** them all who voted for the 🍊💩 with CornHairHead !

This evil, corrupt, vindictive person MUST be stopped. Where are any of the GOP that has a sliver of spine left. They know this is not right but as long as they stay in their power and collect their benefits they are OK. They make me as sick as the convicted felon - they enable him. EPSTEIN FILES!!

It's a fantasy to say Trump is inept. If only that were so. It's our normal governmental checks/balances that are inept & unable to cope with the moment we're in. Trump has been bold, decisive, fearless & undeterred by law, custom or decency. Democrats need to change their playbook urgently.

Republicans that control Congress can put a stop to this insanity at any time.

GOP and Dotard a match made in heaven for chaos. Together, they’re busy dismantling the very foundations of the USA 🇺🇸 and democracy itself. Ineptitude at its finest.

They stole the election with a last minute firmware “update”..! They were never “elected”..!

They don't govern by any of those things, they govern by the cowardice of everyone around them.

Criminally inept.

You’re assuming he’s not going to use ICE and the military to block, intimidate, and assault voters in blue cities. That he won’t seize voting machines and say that they’re rigged. No one is going to save us. They’re all going to roll over for Trump. We missed the last exit, folks. We are cooked.

McCaffery's post follows the media's style. Under Dem control, "Democrats in Congress failed to.." When R's are in control, it's simply "Congress." Every time.

Stupid Is As Stupid Does💙

Then get rid of him, indict him for his crimes and then get rid of his entire administration and start over and THIS TIME DO BETTER.

His ineptness has always been forgiven thanks to the almighty hate he wields against "others" that his bigoted base love to hate and resent, blaming the "other" for their own failures. The only way they turn against them is if they finally wake the fuck up and realize he's destroying their lives.

It doesn’t matter how lousy Trump performs or how we all feel about it. Trump is our dictator. The coup happened. We have an imperial leader. Not quite solidified yet, but what’s clear is the presidency, Congress, and the courts are gone.

I don’t know if I believe that. Democrats shanked & pushed Biden out not bcuz he was inept but bcuz he’s old. So, there is that. But Cult47? The Christo-fascists? The techbros? Those stoking white male grievance & those swallowing/lapping it up? No. They see 🟠’s weakness but he’s still useful 2 them

The only way 🟠 gets pushed out/neutered is when the White Christian Nationalists & the techno-fascists no longer need him to start Phase II of the American coup. I think they are nearing that point. I think we’ll know it if, in part, the Epstein files come from that direction, etc.

No shortage of cowardice & consent in this country. Too many mooks whose phone has defeated their brain & have turned into pro subjugation zombies for their Cult King.

Not even with curiosity. I call it indifference @brma64.bsky.social.

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As a fellow Dickens character, I salute you!

How cute... didn't the American voters already gave this a try back in 2020? But yet again they voted for him. I have only one word. FEAR.

Wow, who could possibly have figured out that the OT was inept during the campaign?

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Wishful thinking. Trump is acting as a strongman. Ruling by decree, while ignoring the rule of law and humiliating institutions is what his base craves. It doesn't need to be effective or good for his MAGA followership. It's sufficient if the oligarch-owned media sells it as if it was.

Nichols still hasn't understood that his target audience has lost its influence and has no power to reverse the MAGAfication of the USA. And they have to blame only themselves. They didn't fight right-wing extremism for more than a decade, thinking they could use it as a tool for their own agenda.

Now the genie is out of the bottle. Tweets like that just show that the old republican party is still denying reality - they are not the elite any more. They aren't leading. They are being led.

it's an unforgivable sin to think that American voters wouldn't elect an inept politician - it literally happens every election

Totalitarian states are bad at EVERYTHING. They always are. It's not just personal freedoms, but research, education, health, the arts, even the military of such states are bad at what they do.

Inept George ! What an understatement. Trump inherited a fortune and blew it all ! Trump a 6 time Bankrupt. Trump bailed out by Russia ! ! Trump 34 felony convictions. A photographed accomplice of a world wide paedophile. Trump CANNOT COMPREHEND HOW TARIFFS WORK ! Trump - insurrection - treason

Congress has ceded their power - I hope they rot in hell.

Cruel. Inept. Corrupt. Racist. Vain. There's no bottom for his "subperlatives" (did I just create a new word for the lowest you can go?)

Still unclear which is the 'unforgivable sin'. 😬

It seems the only “unforgivable sin” in US politics is the idea that the rich should be taxed. Oh, and suggesting that there should be universal health care. Other than that, have at it!

We were warned about shithole countries, and thanks to Trump we are now one.😠

“Now?” Now?!? How about “From fucking Day One?”

He is an idiot, a buffoon, a Pedo, digital rapist, Felon, adulterer, sex abuser, etc. & for the US majority not President- he is a "moron" = And God help us, we have to bide our time until he self destructs because current Houses & parties- both Repug & Dems- are incapable of standing up to him...

If anything, our 'Silent Bob' Republicans have shown us how easy it is for Politicians can get rich by Stock Market manipulation, insider trading... Might be a reason??? Just look at MTG... www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Congress isn’t looking on with curiosity. They knowingly and cowardly enabled Trump. Quislings.

No they don't object to ineptitude per se, if that works in their favor. What will be Trump's undoing will be the stagflation, unemployment and other disastrous outcomes of his tariff and other policies that spark rage from voters self-interest.

I don’t care how bad they feel now about voting for him. They don’t get a do-over. They knew what they were voting for and I’ll never forgive them. I hope they wallow in regret and torment the rest of their lives and I’m here for it.

I think the GOP is waiting for the oligarchy to reward them.

He is an idiot

The corrupt part should have been his downfall. The insurrection should have been a defining moment. The fact that none of these things mattered is an indication of a country that has lost its moral compass.

Or maybe illuminates the reality that the whole idea of a “moral compass” directing US policy was a sham from the get-go.

the racism, they will ignore the racism