Narcissists can be quite good at emulating the emotion of empathy while not actually feeling it at all or acting from it.
Narcissists can be quite good at emulating the emotion of empathy while not actually feeling it at all or acting from it.
Except the ruling didn’t touch on the declaring-emergency part, but on whether the act gave the president unlimited power to set tariffs once invoked. They said it didn’t. And the Constitution clearly separates out taxation, regulating commerce, and diplomacy.
"He chose... poorly."
Jesus Christ.
I went to a chain gym once to explore membership. The similarities to my car-buying experience a few weeks earlier were eerie. Salesman, features I didn’t want, a little room, negotiation, guy leaving to talk to his boss. I didn’t sign up.
Other than the gullibility of believing these things, the more worrisome aspect is that they *celebrate* the idea of a major network cancelling a show to make the president happy. That’s… that’s a bad thing.
She played the woman card. On a woman.
Everybody else gets out and starts chasing, but not this guy. We all know who he was in the group projects.
Lindsey has taken note of today’s wind direction and adjusted accordingly.
This man is #3 in line for presidential succession.
Other than they didn’t pay for endorsements, it’s not illegal for candidates to pay for endorsements. But he’s an idiot.
Who needs it when you’ve got ivermectin, vitamins, bear bile, ground dried squirrel droppings, and preserved vials of your ancestors’ blood?
This sort of weird logic only works if the convicted trafficker *wants* to bring down the network and has a conscience. And she doesn’t.
Yeah, that’s not how monetary policy works.
That’s… that’s not a defense. That’s a self-indictment.
Absolute rambling. Starts off on Obama and then is somehow talking about Biden and the auto pen.
Jesus. The actual clip is so much worse. He starts rambling about his office decor and then just puts out a word salad about how Obama is bad. His brain is mush.
Just wait until we eventually get a chief executive president!
The funny thing is that narcissists and conmen will occasionally tell the truth to the mark’s face, but they know the mark is so successfully conned that they wont believe it. It actually amuses the conman to do this.
I’m sending a letter to Amazon and declaring it a deal. And Apple. Facebook. Musk. My LinkedIn bio is about to be lit.
Uh-huh. Sure, buddy.
Reminder that FDR was just a few months into his 1st term when Grassley was born.
This is the dude who knocks back 12 cans of aspartame Diet Cokes per day? Maybe he’ll spill some on the files.
Anybody who says this, ask them why God didn't save Corey Comperatore. If they appeal to something about not knowing God's purposes, then ask them how they know God saved Trump to save America.
Texas civil liberties are never at greater threat than when Ken Paxton is getting bad press.
It’s always appalling when people point out inhumane conditions for the incarcerated and the response is something like, “It’s not a resort.” Nobody’s asking for an on-call masseuse, buddy, but for basic hygiene, safety, and better conditions than that given to animals.
Well, he’s a narcissist and sees the world in zero-sum terms. You’re either winning or losing and if you’re not doing one, you’re doing the other. The concept of win-win scenarios literally doesn’t exist to him. He has to make the other person lose somehow to feel like he’s winning relatively.
Trump’s Art of the Deal is just to be a low rent used car salesman. If you bother negotiating, he takes that as a sign of weakness and will continually push for more. Then, once a deal is done, he’ll blow it up and make more demands to use sunk costs against you. He has to feel he “won.”
He doesn’t have a clue about the macroeconomic importance of interest rates and what The Fed does. He just sees it as a competition. Other guys are lower, so we should be lowest!
According to Trump, Obama and the libs created the Epstein files to hurt him and MAGA, but didn’t release them because there’s nothing bad in them about Trump and MAGA. And that even though there’s nothing bad in them about Trump and MAGA, he won’t release them.
“You will have war.” Totally normal behavior for what’s supposed to be a think tank.
Still couldn’t even bring himself to say your name.
This is the sort of Karen who thinks every Hispanic man at Walmart is following her and then posts about it.
Powell: I literally don’t answer to you or your boss.
They had plenty of opportunities to put a stake in him. After J6, they thought he was done and so could support him to woo MAGA with little risk of him making an actual comeback. Kevin McCarthy, for one, was desperate to become Speaker and gave him cover. Look how that went for him.
They know he won’t and instead of pushing back and forcing him to comply, they just bake it into their expectations for him. It is indeed maddening.
And Lutnick has to jump in because Donald doesn’t understand what’s being asked.
Glad ICE got the dangerous street vendor outta there. Guy was probably part of some kind of aqua fresca gang.
Between this and at least Texas, Jeffrey Yass has gotten a fantastic return on his “investments” in various politicians.
Could be worse. At least she didn’t spin killing two people in Wisconsin into a right-wing career.
God put coal in the ground, but wind - that’s from the devil.
Oh, good. Blaming communists to get power is the one part we were missing.
The House passes a shit bill hoping the Senate will fix it. The Senate passes a shit bill hoping the House will fix it. And then they jointly pass a shit bill hoping the president will fix it by just ignoring parts. Things are going great.
“The fact that I always do exactly and only what the president says is pure coincidence.”
Read Garret Hardin’s Lifeboat Ethics. Killing the poor is the goal.
The fact that this is being done is already political. Trump and Hegseth have been trying to portray any criticism of them or any skepticism about their claims of damage as instead being people saying the pilots messed up or failed in their mission. The pilots are scapegoats and shields.
I always wanted to smell like an overweight 79 year old man with bladder problems.
Do these people also not realize that Powell doesn’t personally make these decisions? There are 11 other voting members on the FOMC. A Trump puppet as the Fed Chair can and probably will get outvoted.
When you're working off of Hardin Lifeboat Ethics, killing them is the point. They're monsters.
First reports are often inaccurate. Except for our immediate first report that the entire program was obliterated for eternity. 100% confidence in that one.
This would be like an answered prayer for Cornyn. Let those two split the MAGA and try to out crazy each other and come off like the sane one.
Are… are they saying that immigration is ruining NYC? Does somebody need to tell them?
Pretty sure that for Johnson, it’s sexual.
So we’re now at the point where the Russians sound like the reasonable ones.
The eternal quest to find a true Scotsman.
What's funny is even the Texas Agriculture Commission Sid Miller is sounding the alarm on this and that dude is a whackadoodle Trumper who makes Mike Lee's social media slaverings look amateurish.
The problem is that the people at the top just want arrest and deportation numbers and then *claim* it’s all criminals. But most illegal immigrant criminals are already deported or in prison. So ICE and the rest go after easy targets at workplaces, HD, immigration courts, etc.
Substantial, indeed. The chances of negotiations taking place or not taking place are 100%.
Lives everywhere hanging on this bastard’s whim.
They’re desperate for arrest numbers and are exhausting the low-hanging fruit. As they come up empty in raids like these, their desperation will result in more and worse violations of civil liberties for undocumented immigrants and citizens alike.
I feel weird rooting for Tucker Carlson. Is it weird? It’s weird.
This is another example of the corruption of Trump. 10 years ago, a pol would delete and apologize. But now, the GOP pols have to follow Trump’s example and NEVER apologize, never admit they were wrong, and, if anything, double and triple down on whatever they said.
Well, we know he paid attention to at least Tulsi Gabbard’s briefing.
They don’t care. ICE needs numbers for Miller and Trump and are desperate to find them.
Other than his personal ignorance, how incompetent is his team that they don’t brief him on the sort of question they KNOW is going to come up? Or are they so bad that this is what they told him to say?
Donald will personally send one Trump child to each affected state to throw out a pallet of paper towels and water at a presser.
It’s like Garret Hardin rose from the grave.
I like how she holds a reporter to higher standard than the president of the United States, who goes on unhinged rants on the daily.
Ron wasn’t the world’s richest man who owns MAGA’s main media platform.
They’re not even good at this. Middle schoolers could come up with higher quality, more clever names.
Such a bummer to be so stoked for Elon and DOGE and then have your mellow harshed by those Congress dudes, ya know?
I support this. At least then, he'll be only Alabama's problem.
There exist people who take these two seriously.
"Well, if I say I'm gonna follow the law, why would you need me to answer the question?" Because you can't follow the law if you don't know what the f**k it means, you bumbling moron.
In Bo's defense, he was only 11 years old when it was announced in 2018, so... wait... why does anybody pay attention to this kid?
Being openly corrupt instead of concealing it is a weird argument.
One of the dumbest arguments that exists is that rich people are honest because they’re rich and don’t want to be richer.
Tinfoil hat brigade: “That’s what they want you to think!”
Hey, he has it on good authority from Dr. Ron Vera.
You could make an argument that it's a promotion, but it wouldn't be a good one.
Sweet Jesus.
Well, she didn't say anything about bringing her back, so I think we should be able to make this happen.
Deals: A country’s businessman buys some crypto through Trump’s WLF. Trump suddenly lowers tariffs.
"This is a peaceful town hall," she says while some dude is literally being tased.
I mean, it is a Ponzi Scheme, but that doesn't mean it doesn't do positive things or that we should just do... whatever the hell they're currently doing to it.
Someone says something bad about him on the morning news shows and he'll dedicate an entire post to attacking the person. Major news stories happen and "he just now hears about it" when a reporter asks him to comment.
“Alright, Apple, you’ve got one month to move iPhone manufacturing to the US. Also…”
It's not a cult. They just really love artwork portraying the Dear Leader, ok?
Translation: “F**k if I know.”
“…that kind of thing is going to be coming to America. It’s going to be automated.” Whoa, hold up…
God almighty, that's embarrassing. Feeling plenty of fremdschämen right now.
Good money says Putin personally requested it.
Narrator: He didn’t know what the hell he was doing.
The dumbest part of this is that it assumes Stephen Miller, Hegseth, Vance, or other Trumpers needed a backchannel way of insulting Europe and to accuse it of being dependent on the U.S., like they don't regularly say this out in the open in front of cameras.
They won't stand up to Trump, but they'll reformat the courts because they had the temerity to stand up to Trump.
Damn. Not even a Kim would let flattery earn a pass after something like this. Trump is a cheap date.
