I am sure it is just a coincidence that Trump started pulling more batshit crazy stuff at the same time that his DOJ was supposed to not only fully release the files but answer questions in front of Congress about their ham-handed redactions. Yep, I am sure this has nothing to do with Epstein.

So apparently it is okay with the GOP that Trump attacks a long-valued ally, possibly starting world war 3 and bringing more suffering to America because baby didn't get his bottle, known as the Nobel Peace Prize. What kind of fresh hell is this? Will this dude please just stroke out again?

Trump plans to break up NATO over Greenland while using a war with Europe over it as a prerequisite to cancel the midterms.

If historical patterns are any indication of how long this insane era will drag out, then I would say we have another 6-9 years, no matter who is in office. This country has a lot of soul-searching to do, and we will be forced into it whether we like it or not. History will have its way with us.

Currently, ICE has a 57% disapproval rating. My prediction is that since they have no refrain and no accountability mechanisms, they will see their disapproval rating as high as 70% by this time next year.

So, how about how Trump and the DOJ are violating their own Epstein Transparency Act? They never had any intention of releasing those files. They will slow walk the hell out of this until we keep pressuring Congress. But we are too distracted with Trumps Greenland bullshit.

Funny how Trump and his minions still live mentally in the mid 20th century in so many ways. One good example is the lack of the Epstein files' release. The "logistical problems" that Bondi referred to are just a bunch of horseshit. The FBI and DOJ are heavily digitized entities. More delay tactics.

One of the main problems with the "manosphere" in the MAGA movement is that they are the most fragile of men. Not the strongest. If they want women, or people in general, to like them, being a total dick and whining about people and how horrible their beliefs are is not going to get you shit.

As any person who has gone through school knows, when someone calls you a slur and isn't your name in a crowd of people, and you are the one to react, that usually isn't a great sign that you knew they were talking about you. Reacting to the term "Pedophile protector" isn't a great look.

We should understand that over the next 3 years, we will not have a sitting President. Rather, we will have a Mob Boss occupying the White House who is more interested in settling scores, lining his pockets, and going on a vengeance tour.

The primary obstacle to our political success is a moral purity test. We won't agree with everyone, nor will we see eye to eye. Locking anyone out who doesn't agree with us 100% on every issue is how we lose in the long run.

I wish the cowardly mainstream media would call ICE out for what it is. A group of paramilitary thugs playing dress up as federal law enforcement, essentially transforming it into a secret police, domestic terrorist like organization.

ICE and its terror campaign are simply not sustainable. Along with the lack of qualified manpower, they are the invaders, they are the ones who are always outnumbered, they will never be able to sustain an endless campaign of camping in the places they hate, no matter how many racists they recruit.

For Trump, the social media age is a double-edged sword. True. It aided in his ascent to power and helped him not be prosecuted as he should have been. However, it also makes it more difficult for him to spread his outright lies without a lot of neck-twisting and double-standard excuses.

If I could ask J.D "Slip it in the couch" Vance one question, it would be when the fuck did white people ever apologize for being white people? As a white person, I have never been compelled to nor felt the need to apologize for my heritage. So wtf is he even talking about?

Ashli Babbitt broke into the Capitol building to commit acts of harm on Congress while a gun was pointed at her, still tried to break in and was shot. Sainted by the right-wing with a plaque, she was, for all intents and purposes, a domestic terrorist. But Renee Good was the real bad guy. Sure.

The truth is, even if Congress grows a spine, it is constantly waylaid by a Supreme Court that is determined to expand its power and trample on our rights through its unelected posts. Nothing can improve in our government until we take the SCOTUS to task over its unbridled power grab.

People do not take the mindset into consideration when it comes to the psychology of economics. Our main economic problem in this world, beyond the obvious, may also be that our pessimism about the future is sapping our energy. The G.D generation always thought tomorrow could be better, but not us.

Forgot about how quick-witted and sharp-tongued Mr Pie is. We haven't heard from them in a while. At least I haven't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=296-...

If Democrats were smart (which they usually aren't when it comes to cut throat politics) they would immediately seek to impeach Clarence Thomas and Alito at the very least. Forget about Trump. Vance is next up. You want to dismantle Trump? Dismantle his protection first and foremost.

One of the root causes of our political dysfunction is that we are dealing with a political body in which the majority of its members are fearful of losing their jobs more than they are of hurting the public through their inherently idiotic actions. We need real leaders who put the public first.

Its kinda nice to have some football with the Draft Kings online gambling broadcast his week.

The problem isn't that people don't know what the problems are; the problem is that we aren't astute enough or have a wide enough attention span to dig down into those problems and actually solve them. Too much talking about what the deal is instead of the deal itself.

Glad to hear Philly telling Trump's ICE thugs that if they commit crimes in that city, they will be arrested and charged with a STATE crime by the DA. Both the Sheriff and DA have said as much. I wish more people would come out swinging as Philly did. Makes me proud to be from Pennsylvania.

In sticking by my Epstein/Trump theory, the day that Epstein is brought up in the general media, he now says he will "take Greenland the hard way." I really hope they stand up for themselves to this piece of shit pedo who is just using national/international crises to distract from his crimes.

Trump's ICE thugs are akin to the colectivos that roam the streets of Venezuela. Just like them, he wants ICE to have authority without accountability. Fear with deniability. And they need terror that can be blamed on security. We need to abolish his paramilitary thug gang as soon as possible.

You have to love how the world is being run by the absolute worst nerds in the world. Not the cool nerds that you want to hang out with because they are mildly interesting. Nope. These are the nerds that never got the memo that they are fucking asshole losers and should just hide away accordingly.

I look forward to the day when we won't have paramilitary thugs with masks on invading our towns and causing nothing but harm to citizens. Renee Good was the 9th shooting since September by an ICE agent. She will not be the last.

Yeah, pretty much. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The most tragic part for me about the recent events in Minneapolis is that a 6-year-old boy is being told he doesn't have a single parent left. His dad died just 3 years ago, not even old enough to remember him. Now his mom will fade in his memory as the years go on. Breaks my damn heart.

No other administration has taken part in reverse DEI by handing out a bunch of jobs to unqualified sycophants while complaining about others who shouldn't be in their positions based on skin color. Hegseth, Kennedy, Noem, and the lot of them are straight-up reverse DEI hires

One has to love the farcical scene of Lindsay Graham on an airplane trying to give a pretext to the Venezuela kidnapping by talking about Maduro and his drug empire/Oppressive regime, only for Trump to chime in and just kill that entire narrative when he talks about oil. You can't make this shit up.

The MSM needs to stop obsessing about Trump's every move and how MAGA will react to it. It is a waste of time and culture war slop. MAGA will drink whatever kool-aid Trump offers them. It is a hivemind. However, they forget MAGA did not re-elect Trump. Independents did.

Trump getting mad at Maduro for dancing better than him reminds me of Trump's dance moves, which are similar to Elaine's in the "Little Kicks" episode, except for one key difference: both she and Maduro move their lower bodies. You can easily tell Trump is a dead ass lay by how he dances.

Prediction: Trump will become more emboldened by the success of his cowboy kidnapping of Maduro. This will, of course, cause him to attempt more operations that are a high success target, and at some point, it is going to go horribly wrong.

Beyond Trump trying to distract from Epstein when it comes to Venezuela, two things come to mind: 1. It was not regime change but extortion. 2. If you want to understand what Trump's "foreign policy" is, look at mobsters, not Foreign policy doctrines of past Presidents such as Monroe/Bush/Truman.

Strange timing with Trump's Maduro kidnapping, considering the Justice Department was supposed to explain the Epstein files and why they redacted people who weren't victims. Oh, what a coincidence. He may think we will forget, but he is sadly mistaken. Gravity will play its role.

Trump can go to Venezuela for oil all he wants. The stark truth is that by the time any of that pays off, he will be dead or in jail. It will take another decade and 100 b in development just to get its oil industry functional. It currently produces 1 m BPD, and all of that would get it to 4 m BPD.

Trump can pat himself on the back and feel like a big man on campus, but he should remember that regime change is avoided almost at all costs for specific reasons. Now you bought it because you broke it, and will now have to deal with a power vacuum of epic proportions, with various factions vying.

It was reported that Grok is now digitally undressing underage people and posting it on the vapid cesspool known as X. If a person did this, they would be in jail. But if a company and a trillionaire do it, they just get to say oopsie we will fix it, or oopsie we are sorry. Absolutely disgusting.

Trump can talk about going to Chicago or L.A, because of crime, but if crime were really the issue, he would have invaded Texas. Both Houston, which stands at 156 % above avg and San Antonio, which stands 146 % above the national avg, act as if their state is the place to be when it just sucks.

We should always remember that Trumps power does not come from policy or competency. It comes from attention and money. Remove those and all that remains is a man facing consequences he cannot spin away.

More of us should also support independent print journalism and eschew CBS for good. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We need to fix this issue. Trump should prove that to us more than any other President has. American democracy and the Constitution are not equipped to deal in an effective and timely manner with a president who aggressively and willfully tramples the law.

It really annoys me how little the MSM covers damning evidence regarding Trump. A Judge who worked on Trump's Teen USA and Miss USA Pageants for years said to look further into Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell and go from there, but the MSM barely mentions this. What is their deal?

After Nixon's disasters with his AGs, I.E, the Saturday night massacre, and Trump appointing his personal attorney as an AG and sycophants who politically and legally serve him, we should consider ways to take away the Presidential power to appoint an AG in general. Elect them is what I say.

I'm not sure why a photo of Ghislaine Maxwell and Trump on Steve Bannon's phone is being redacted. Are any of them victims? If not, it is yet another clear and blatant violation of the Epstein Transparency Act.

Too many of us are asking the wrong question about the Trump-Epstein saga. We keep asking if there is a smoking gun. Instead, we should be asking why so many people in power have done nothing about where smoke has been pouring from for years.

Trump should understand something called the Streisand effect: a phenomenon where an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of backfiring and drawing far more attention to that information than if the action had never been taken. He didn't get the memo.

For all the anti-immigrant nuts out there, they should understand that GDP growth comes from the labor pool, which comes from population growth. In order to sustain any growth, we need 370k- 1 m new immigrants yearly. Otherwise, we risk stagnation and population decline.