Trump did promise to run the government like one of his businesses, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that it shut down again

👀 / chasing TikTok

“Shiny Happy People“ / the strange salvation

strutting and fidgeting —- It takes a lot to stand in front of a group like that and tell them, “We [??] are not civilians. You are not civilians.” / how to spam your audience

Falling output yet rising prices… the story of the GOP and their Big, Ugly Bill.

2 in a row -> Oh, how the heady days of RUSE (aka “DOGE”) are over except for the prosecution(s). The first 100 days of lose-lose economics: quasi-racist pain now for pain later.

If you think that “trans” as a public policy q matters more than a felony phony in a room that prizes and teaches integrity … you might be getting suckered by MAGA and need to wise-up.

#election2026, the dirtiest yet to come

Since talking about inciting violence is all the rage, should we, could we, must we say something about the decades long, almost knee-jerk “blame the media” that the rightwing has indulged in to take the pressure off having to actually argue/debate…?

America is through the looking glass, y’all. / next up for the regime dead-enders: John Thune is going to be giving a talk on how to bake potatoes….

Concurring. You can’t set the highest standards with the lowest people in charge in the same way it’s near impossible to honorably serve a dishonorable man.

War and Peace Neither of them know what peace is. And they can’t finger Putin as an adversary, so what the hell good is a loaded gun, well shaven or not? An International Board of Peace for Stinky? Mockery. it’s like giving an opera stage to someone who can’t sing.

Under the pain of Trump-tax hikes, a faltering jobs market, falling living standards, retreating health security, rising hunger & minority disenfranchisement, and allies that feel abandoned/resentful, what are we getting from all the bling we are pouring into the GOP military drain? Shaved beards?

With our guard let down *deliberately* to corruption and foreign influence and with Putin handing America its ass daily on the frontlines of freedom, Hegseth is a bouncing clown on a stage that's too big for him and his cup-of-suck-up. (But we can't criticize, b.c. we just don't understand.)

this whole speech is ... corny. *Stunning* how "a force where anyone capable can serve" just burns the ass of so many turds among us.

So, in the World of Proto-fascist dangerous clown-emo, have we definitively moved on from the imaginary flow of Canadian fentanyl to the Siege of Chicago and the Fillip of Portland?

the rightwing’s cynicism about government is like a self-fulfilling prophecy bc they vote for a dead-end political party whose core proposition is, “vote for us because of emo and then we’ll tell you how we’re going to screw the National Interest”… / “conservatism” and the scrap heap of history

What a childish concurrence…so out-of-touch and up in their own heads like the bow-tied swells of the Federalist Society. Shorter: have you boofed yet? / idealized opinions that don’t survive first contact with reality

When you need everyday proof why the anti-DEI campaign just feels racial/racist, because it’s so transparently not about hiring the best and the brightest or the most dedicated. / bright, shiny incompetence of the GOP

Why does it feel like the price of everything keeps going up, partly because GOP Senators are deadwood? / so much flooding and fire in KY, just like other moral vacuum red states www.tpr.org/live-updates...

both these teams look sweated out!

Standards of living, life expectancy are falling in DeathCult DOGE-America, and preventable death and suffering and hunger all on the rise (with joblessness soon to follow..), but by all means let’s pretend that the Military is a .. solution, not a cost.

Remember when Obama let a cabinet secretary go because a website was late? Behold now the toxic combination of MAGA jurisprudence and lick-the-floor heard round the world. # impeach and remove

Investments that aren’t going to pan out are powering the sputtering GOP economy…

Country-risk premium on the rise. (once they go up, it will take more than just kicking him out office to restore faith in the rule/role of law, possibly including removal of MAGA Justices) / long, painful road back from the MAGA debasement

Having ‘secured the toilets first’ (see Small Wars Journal April, 2025), everyone knows that the modern warfighter is in a fight with body hair and Stinky-Heathbar appear poised to take the freedom fight against body hair global…in no uncertain terms, while Putin kicks their asses.

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… My god…

Scott Bessent talked a lot of smack about this and the Biden administration. Who could have thought that a Cabinette that has to spend 90% of their time praise-alleviating the anxieties of a sociopath-in-chief might have bad kitchen-table outcomes?

Why does the cost of everything seem to have gone up with Stinky-at-large? Even the cost of decency …

No one wants to say it because they don’t want to hear it, but the fastest growing segment of “antifacists” are in red states, not Portland OR, among MAGAheads who have wised-up. And no amount of celebrating whatever is going to alter that.

…the images from Portland are shocking and real… So the question becomes, was the request for force the psychotic break or the approval, because we’re waayyyy past incompetence, even criminal incompetence with this dis-administration… # sanctuary moon

Near as one can tell, it’s like making fart jokes #inbreathiate # the lurching male adolescent

Stinky’s visit to the U.K. was a visible black eye and the speech at the UN was a similar, galactic failure. Rather than drag America EVERY DAY through the mud for the decrepitude of one man, he should be impeached and removed. / summary judgement

He’s going fishing to push through red lines… There is no such thing as “full force”, only the lawful use of force. What’s more, no one has ever ”won” fighting terror with terror - by the facts, it’s always a mission for law-enforcement, not “war fighters” or extraordinary means.

Forced into stenography. All this time later - years on, years - and still thinking that “Trump says” is either news or can lead news coverage. smh

QOTD: is there any part of the MAGA rape-adjacency, including an enabling SCOTUS, that is operating with a written code of ethics?

It doesn’t matter what your capabilities, potential, or talent amounts to, but for your choices/acts…that’s what matters. -Ted Lasso

It’s hard to fathom how far up your own you have to be to come up with ‘because trans exists, we’re have to dismantle the Republic and go all atavistic’… 75% of the nation thinks that’s f’d up. The GOP is finished.

/ purge tactics watch

”MAHA” reminder: about 50% of the people in M Makary’s self-vaunted study thought they had ‘acquired immunity’ but did NOT - 50% walking around a risk to self and others.

Three quarters of the country have something muey bad to say about the would be King/diktator - he and his party couldn‘t survive a recall election rn. Something like 50%-ish of felony crime is not happening “in the streets” - mad-dumb crimefighters and so morally compromised they should be fired.

Conjecture: until this starts happening to the kids and grandkids of Supreme Court Justices, it seems like it’s not going to register (that they’ve got some wrongheaded ideas about what is required).

When you look at how poorly the Hb-1 visa changes were rolled out, you’d fire the Chief of Staff in an Apprentice minute. The only “mass firing” in order would be for the criminally incompetent Trump-Cabinette.

If there were a time for those gazing like (Catholic?) borg into the perfection of the Classical Liberal Hellscape to throw over the guardrails, the onset of patrimonialism is NOT it. / the enabling acts

Or of the blue, I was missing Jesse Norman the other day. She had such light and beauty in her soul, a kind of radiance. It created a long history of fond memories, like her singing of this song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqlD...

Gonna save this bit of research for all the whining about the liberal bias in the media…which has to end factually about now, right?

As a question of Oklahoma politics, this is so Vichy, right? Compared to the Oklahoma, Americana that we all love..:

It’s Republican “infrastructure week”, or ‘we can destroy American infrastructure and competitiveness faster than you can build it - just vote for us, suckers.’ If it’s not cancer r’srch infrastructure, or sapping the golden age of virology, they suck at transportation and education too!

To all those people who defended him during his first impeachment, in whatever capacity and with whatever bona fides, he’s doing it again. Shame on you.