The grotesque metaphor of Trump tearing apart the figurative seat of American democracy ... marvelous piece open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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This is a take-one-for-the-team moment. Our country is dying, and Jack Smith knows it. He’s asking to testify publicly, so you know he’s got receipts. Doing this paints an even larger target on his back, and he's saying, "Fuck it." Go Jack!

Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!

The government may be shut down, but Trump is still managing to get some work done in Washington—like illegally demolishing an entire wing of the White House to build himself a ballroom. Lifting a finger to lower your health care costs? Not so much.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 80th day out of the last 92. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Using our money to save greedy failed males, instead of good citizens.

Trump has decimated funding for Medicaid, SNAP, and crucial agencies like FEMA and the CFPB. Now, he's demanding his cronies at DOJ give him a ludicrous $230M in taxpayer funds as "compensation" for past investigations. He's picking your pockets to line his own.

We are so fucked. What he's doing to the White House, he's doing to the country.

Cost of the Argentina bailout Trump is trying to finance: $40B. That same amount could fund almost two years of extended ACA subsidies, or two years of full SNAP benefits, or nearly all of the annual Medicare cuts from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Priorities.

Dear U.S. Farmers and Ranchers: Get it yet? www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

I hope you recognize the narrator's voice:

EPIC.

When Justice Department lawyers lie to Federal Judges and subvert or flat-out disobey judicial orders, we are in very deep shit. Which clearly we are, when a sitting president feels free to post the video that Trump posted last weekend.

All part of a systematic plan to destroy democracy in the U.S. Destroy faith in our institutions -- particularly in our judicial institutions -- and the rule of law dies. All that remains is naked power, and that's what every tyrant wants. Power over the rest of us.

Class Act from Diarrhea Don:

Wow! Love your creativity Ocean Beach (San Francisco)!

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress nearly a month ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in. Why the delay? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

This should be Time Magazine’s 2025 Photo of the Year:

So, the White House opened a Bluesky account: @ whitehouse-47.bsky.social. If you go to their "following list" you'll find a handy list of accounts spreading Trump propaganda. Block 'em all, then block the White House account. It will help keep the vermin down.

WTF?

👍👍Nailed it!👍👍 ⬇️⤵️⬇️⤵️⬇️ #NoKings 10/18 💙🌊🩵

These messages were written by the next generation of GOP leaders. If that doesn't chill you to the bone, you are either one of them, or you have your head buried so far in the sand that you'll never see it coming when they lop it off.

SHUT. UP. IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME.

Was it America First or Argentina First? Somehow there’s $40 billion for Argentina.

He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you? Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18 #NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days. Epstein Shutdown.

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

Take a long look at this picture. It's like something out of a Star Wars novel I wrote, except the bad guys are actually wearing black rather than stormtrooper white. This is how fiction becomes reality . . . how dystopia becomes status quo. No Kings.

“Swear her in! Swear her in!” #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

Tomorrow's GOP:

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

Trump’s rhetoric about people attacking law enforcement officers rings a little hollow from someone who pardoned the criminals who killed police on Jan 6

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸 #FuckICE

Keep in mind that ICE now has a budget larger than every military in the world except the US and Chinese militaries. Things are going to get much worse. I'm not saying this to create fear, it's fact. The administration is at war with Americans.

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…

Just release the files.

Next up: Indictment of whoever filmed him cheating at golf

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.