Wait. They're calling this a ship?
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Wait. They're calling this a ship?
Why didn’t we just track and interdict the vessel in US waters, arrest the crew and seize the drugs, as the US Coast Guard routinely does?
So we've now established when Trump doesn't know the answer to a question, "It was AI" has been added to his bag of obfuscations.
It's like the synopsis to one of those Hulu movies that come out of nowhere, "To fight crime, America elects an unrepentant criminal president. Nicholas Cage in FIRE WITH FIRE."
He didn't lean into a miraculously healed schtick today, but according to Rolling Stone he knew about the rumor fest and clearly had a little fun letting everyone cook.
So Melania is remodeling the White House to be more like Palm Beach for the 12 nights out of the year she spends there?
This looks like a community theater’s attempt at portraying a Russian palace on a budget.
Mad King gonna mad king.
Every time Fox tries to throw an obvious lifeline, Trump just gets tangled in the rope.
The funniest thing about this is Doocy no doubt thought clearing this up would be a softball and instead Trump just launches a new round of conspiracy theories.
At this point I wouldn’t be shocked to discover every impassioned defense of the primacy of X was followed up with a very nice check to the writer. At least that would explain the glaring blind spot.
So you're telling me Covid lockdowns drove a rightwing swing in young men toward the guy in charge then? Ok then.
And mainstream reporters.
Somehow the pundits who insist we're missing something vital but not being on X rarely acknowledge this. It's like playing cards with a guy who brings his own marked deck.
Probably not terribly difficult to turn a Harvard man's disdain for the unwashed masses into a raging MAGA asshole.
Clearly he is a brave iconoclast.
I'm sure the Trump administration has looked closely at Liberty University and Bob Jones and found absolutely not a trace of anti-semitism on campus.
We always imagine this administration is fully staffed by idiots, but even more tragic is the people with obvious intelligence and advantages who chose to serve this master.
Googled this guy and came up with this. He's like a pompous Paper Chase character.
Centrist pundits are very concerned about Bluesky users not getting the minimum daily requirement of Nazi in their social media diet. Let's compare factual grasp of current events from Bluesky users to Fox viewers and talk about THAT.
I think the only economic number that really matters to Trump is he's 6 billion dollars richer now.
When your HHS secretary’s whole deal is that people who get sick caused it themselves and should probably just die, any medical issue is somewhat of a PR pickle.
Just imagine what is being saved for the book this week.
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
I’m now leaning toward Trump is weirdly aware of how Taylor Swift drops clues for her super fans and he wants some of that heat.
In memoriam?
It’s kind of interesting given the dumb chatter about Don Jr. making for a political dynasty he’s instead just
Look, you can’t blame people for wanting to believe in karma for cruelty again.
Eric and Don Jr could make a killing.
New York Times post Trump Covid.
It is wrong to diagnose from afar. It is, however, therapeutic to wildly speculate.
I honestly think there's a not impossible chance we've been set up for a similar stunt.
Yes.
That's what this is from.
No Bud!
Honestly, Trump capping a weekend of fevered speculation with an announcement of an announcement does make me think it's possible some conscious drama queening has transpired.
Announcement tomorrow, 2PM.
But the New York Times has not?
Maybe Trump’s just in a funk because he wasn’t invited to Vlad’s Mad Monster Party.
They are getting closer to looking like literal vampires.
Or would it be unseemly for an anchor to comment on a president’s cognitive state when it could matter?
That’s, um, another point. Not the one I was making, but okay.
For all the Jake Tapper jokes, it is pretty unusual when someone writes a book on a topic to not be booked to opine as an “expert” when almost the exact same situation is very relevant again. Jesus, Woodward and Bernstein are still dragged out to comment on every presidential scandal.
Ideally, your proof of life photo ops don’t come off as proof of sick.
You know there’s a problem when he doesn’t give the old thumbs up. He gave the thumbs up on his Covid ride.
Oh I think something happened. Just don’t know if if it’s grave as the speculation.
“Spending the day at the golf course” not necessarily golfing.
‘Never felt better in my life’
Whistleblowers only dogs can hear in this media landscape.
Any argument that a social media platform run by an unhinged white supremacist is inherently better than anything else short of taking a knitting needle in the eye seems to be based a flawed premise.
One thing they’ve been very successful at is making it so when sober experts put their careers and reputations on the line to issue grave warnings, it gets mostly a shrug.
There is no reading comprehension either apparently
Like, the changes to Twitter were not subtle. And his obnoxious insistence at being the Taskmaster of it wasn’t either.
With Trump you always have to at least consider a WWE scenario is being deployed. Truth and reality are flexible.
Nate Silver criticizing Bluesky as inherently flawed because a large group of people who reject our current sucktopia must interact with the sucktopians or else they are not getting the full sucktopian experience.
I think everything else aside, for decades Trump has put in the work with the press, rolling calls with reporters constantly where he treats his public persona as an act and “only you are privy to the real man.” And they love him for that behind the curtain peek.
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
I just assume the White House window tosser is Laura Loomer purging more staff.
People are saying it’s the best slack jaw. Slack jaw the likes of which nobody has ever seen before.
Has JD Vance been heard from since his big interview?
Heading out to golf!
Venice.
Just remembering when slack jaw POTUS was a red alert situation.
Anything not gold is garbage.
Have the people who put pads on their ear at the convention tattooed a big bruise on the back of their hand yet?
Less Big Brother and more Big Creepy Uncle tbh
Remember this one? The thing is the most terminally online presidency could quickly clarify when the internet gets carried away on something but they LIKE fomenting conspiracies.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Not to be a buzzkill or anything, but
I'm so old I remember when teasing stories was just a sign that you were watching shitty local news.
Remember when obituaries would lead with the deceased's name?
Has anyone asked RFK Jr for his recommendations on Trump's situation?
Anyway...Dems need to break out of the impulse to see 200 white people protesting against Covid restrictions as "the voice of the people which we must heed" while seeing 10X as many people protesting racist police violence as "a niche special interest group that's out of step with real Americans."
What did we ever do without AI?
I always like the too mean to Mitt people, as if he obviously would have been preferable to Obama in retrospect.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
Given he's doing everything the sane staffers and guardrails stopped him from doing last time, have any double XL T-shirts been delivered to the White House this week?
I think there's a real medical issue, but there's also a team devote to any lie that works too.
If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.
The rally crowd that booed him when he tried to get a little credit will be the cause of so much suffering.
I don't *think* this is what's going on, but we should at least be aware that close to death rumors can be useful if you need a strong man saved by God moment to buck up flagging poll numbers.
To work in Trump communication is to embrace a drama queen philosophy as primary.
The only thing that gives me Kremlinology pause is these are the people that turned what was apparently a colonoscopy into days of fevered speculation. Who couldn’t admit cofeve was a typo and tried to pretend it was a mysterious secret message.
I’m sure if Trump is at all impaired by a health issue people will be very understanding.
The thing I don’t get is the same press that is being kept at a distance from an obviously not hale and hearty president isn’t screaming for answers?
It links to the X thread that goes into detail.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Proof of life very strongly
This does a good job ad links to it. But basically, a pretty convincing case for all the weirdness adding up to stroke. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Just read that X thread stroke theory and the gaping mouth, um.
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
He’s obviously not great. But I also seem to remember multiple incidents in his first term where theories flew.
On that level, a masterwork.
Though I can also imagine a hardcore MAGA believer yelling at their spouse for spending more when prices are way down.
I’m curious about the effectiveness of lying about things that people’s lived experience will correct.
