The red card is now on Epstein Island.

Exactly right. From now on, any controversial decision that goes in the US's favor in this tournament will be seen as an effort to appease Trump. We've gone in the eyes of the world from having a young emerging team ready to reach a new level of success, to being the Germans in Escape to Victory:

Agreed. I'm a firm believer in the need to combat Russian disinformation, but obsessing over a cartoon smacks of outright hysteria. We really need to keep a sense of proportion:

Now the chuds are falling back on the kindergarten Ayn Rand "makers vs. takers" nonsense that was so popular 15 years ago. Contemporary American right-wing sentiment is nothing but a state of perpetual grievance in search of pseudo-intellectual justifications:

“Religious affiliation must never become a reason for discrimination, as if faith had boundaries rather than being a universal call to salvation. “Where there were walls of separation, Christ broke them down. There is no love of God without love of neighbor.“ — Pope Leo XIV

The remnants of irony have officially just immolated themselves:

Trump is now reduced to campaigning as an Idiocracy-era countersubversive. A reality show McCarthy, but way more stupid:

I don’t like this rhetoric because he’s just the man to make communism more popular

As many have noted, the image practically speaks for itself:

On top of everything else wrong with this wretched individual, this is quite possibly the most pathetic attempt at a salute that I have ever seen:

The authoritarian loathsomeness of this regime is surpassed only by its utter incompetence. Trump and his people couldn't organize a two-car motorcade:

But of course she does...

only 7 to go, i'm pretty sure they will make it.

Were we watching the same speech, Bishop Barron?

Bitterly disappointed at how Bishop Barron has turned into a latter-day Father Coughlin, wallowing in white grievance and embracing MAGA fascism:

If the American Revolution’s most important leaders and their most ardent followers agreed on any one thing, it was that no man was above the law. Apropos of, you know, nothing in particular

That's not really fair to 1950. I mean, J. Edgar Hoover would be shaking his head at this half-baked nonsense, peddled by an idiot who likely can't even spell communism:

Precisely the problem facing science, health, and academia. These vitally important institutions will fail in their mission if every criticism must be withheld for fear of aiding [-----]. chronicleofhighereducation.substack.com/p/is-a-new-r...

MAGA is now openly claiming the mantle that the Ku Klux Klan bore 100 years ago:

MAGA Lavrenty Beria can barely hide his giddiness at the prospect of deporting entire racial and ethnic groups:

reminded of the time Newsom went to China and knocked over the kid playing basketball

Extremely disappointed in the youngins' inability to maintain their defensive shape, and especially by the yawning gap between the midfield and the defense:

Nothing but a Red Scare for idiots: case in point:

With MAGA and Trump both clearly in decline, all they have left to offer is an Idiocracy version of the Red Scare:

Expect to hear more about this in the coming days, if they keep up this pace.

The regime is demanding that its secret police force fulfill its politically-driven arrest quotas of suspect sub-populations. Maybe we do have a communist threat in this country after all?

"The past is complicated and rarely simple. But on this matter, there is moral clarity: The Nazis were evil, and D-Day was one of the moments of genuine heroism in American history." America is imperfect - and America is good. NEW from Thomas Lecaque:

Happening right in front of us

On the advice of legal counsel, I can neither confirm nor deny any such reports:

True, these techbro chuds definitely have an idiot-savant quality to them:

The most shocking thing about this is the sheer brazenness. This isn't just spin or stretching things. This is the sort of up-is-down, night-is-day, black-is-white, 2+2=27 Trumpwellian lie you'd expect to see in any dictatorship. They really do expect us to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears:

Exactly. Who could possibly have guessed Trump would engage in corruption, I mean besides anyone paying attention.

Trump has brought a level of corruption beyond anyone's worst imaginings:

We've reached the point where the regime is required to pretend that the mad tyrant's unhinged lies are actually true and act accordingly:

socialism is when you advocate for a functioning electric grid, now

it is sort of fascinating how many people (especially on the more Republican side of things) think affective polarization only goes in one direction

Donald J Trump is an adjudicated rapist who engaged in a vicious smear campaign against his victim. @ejeancarroll.bsky.social Prevails! ✊🏼❤️ Pay up time, Donny! 🧵

Please do not allow whether or not something is “radical” be the guide to your life Radicalism is not intrinsically good and what is good is not necessarily radical

The latest exchange of military fire has downgraded the ceasefire to “tested,” a level below “uneasy.” Further acts of war during the peace will render the truce “shaky.”

"Let us love the Lord God with all our hearts and all our souls, with all our minds, and all our strength, with fortitude and total understanding, with all of our powers, with every effort, ever affection, every emotion, every desire, and every wish." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

Meanwhile, here’s how Ohio’s governor, a Republican, responded to today’s decision.

Normalizing lawlessness, like a true Trump stooge:

This, exactly this.

Stephen Miller is a notorious racist. You want to see real modern day racism, look no further. We all know which side he would have been on in the Civil Rights Era.

And make no mistake, when the Klan was ranting about unassimilable immigrants in the 1920s, they were very much talking about Italians whom they attacked as Catholic pawns of the pope, as a "criminal race" whose members were all tied to the mafia, and as a non-white threat to white women.

I would at least be amused that Seb Gorka, WH counterterrorism chief, is having to spend his time chasing imaginary septic saboteurs, but Gorka probably relishes the chance to prosecute rando tourists who somehow look liberal

lol. lmao. abcnews.com/Health/milit...

I finally agree with Dort about something: I wouldn't want him to be Secretary of Defense either: