@simonmaechling.bsky.social #medsky

This morning, I was at Pearl’s Bagels eating a bagel and lox, chatting with the lady behind me about the war. Her three-year-old chimed in and said that Trump was vastly underestimating the geopolitical consequences that will reverberate from another war in the Middle East.

There’s saying the quiet part out loud and then there’s this from Burgum

Missouri Dems ❤️ Jess @piperformissouri.bsky.social

It's easy (and correct) to say that almost no Republicans in Congress will step up. But I think it's important for us to continue to say they SHOULD. We must not lose sight of the fact that Congress is not doing the job the Constitution requires.

Bernie Sanders: "Non-citizens do not vote in American elections. We are debating a problem that does not exist."

@jamboschlarmbo.bsky.social #satire

TUCKER: “We were told after the 12-day war there was no nuclear threat in Iran… how was it we wound up 6 months later getting another lecture about their nuclear capability and its imminent threat to 🇺🇸?” JOE KENT: “There was no debate. This war was a foregone conclusion.”

COLLINS: Some people might say, why would you ease sanctions on a country that the US is currently at war with? REP. SCOTT PERRY: Do you think Iran is getting the check for that oil and get the money? COLLINS: Yes. That's what's happening

“Mike was in the kitchen handing everyone printouts, and it was the first time we’d spoken since I told him ‘I think Duke’s going all the way’ this time last year,” LQR project manager Lee Zander said

This just needs the Curb Your Enthusiasm music over it

Q: “The war is almost over. Why is the Pentagon going to ask Congress for an additional $200 billion?” Trump: “We're asking for a lot of reasons beyond even what we're talking about in Iran.”

Conundrum with Trump appointees: They're so stupid and ignorant and self-absorbed that you can't be absolutely sure they're lying when they deny knowing anything.

these guys have taken magical thinking to a new level. "if we just say stuff, that makes it happen" is just how he dealt with covid. then we spent two years digging graves.

ICE just hires anybody off the street, gives them minimal ‘training,’ then turns them loose on the American public. Here’s an ICE-hole busting someone’s car window with an assault rifle, his finger on the trigger, accidentally ejecting the magazine onto the ground and leaving it. #ProudBlue #ICE

Tim Cook is gay, worth billions & CEO of Apple. When he says he's "not political," what he means is that his money has built a wall so high that none of the legislation, discrimination or violence aimed at people like him can touch him. That's not neutrality it's the luxury of not having to care.

Ossoff: "The American people need to know that the president is fundraising for his political campaign and his PAC using images of American service members killed in action, and it's a disgrace"

JD Vance: "Yeah -- we've got a rough road ahead of us for the next few weeks, but it's temporary" (Note the complete silence from the audience 😬)

Rand Paul confronts Markwayne Mullin at his confirmation hearing to replace Kristi Noem about his history of advocating for violence to resolve political differences, including caning, fistfights, biting, dueling, and punching people in the face.

No argument here.

Underrated runner here is that some general clearly told him to call it an incursion rather than a war and now he's never, ever going to call it anything other than an "excursion," we are ruled by Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda with tertiary syphilis

Swalwell: "We have a 70-plus-year history of failure not just in Iran, but all over the world, of trying to force regime change. By the way, it's being led by a guy who has more plans for the ballroom he's trying to build than anything he's gonna do next in the Middle East."

If Tulsi Gabbard had any integrity, she would have resigned with Kent because she feels exactly the same war about the Iran War. But she has no integrity.

Lieu: "I want the White House to send Kevin Hassett to every single TV channel and to every single swing House district where he can tell the voters of America that hurting consumers is 'the last of our concerns.'"

This transcribed bit by Aaron undersells it somehow Watch the whole clip Psychotic.

Mike Johnson talks about how Trump encouraged a Republican member of Congress who got a terminal diagnosis to keep coming to work so Democrats wouldn't pick up a seat as though this is a commendable thing

It's only Monday morning but we already have this week's winner of the Internet. Hearty congrats to @unaha-closp.bsky.social. 👏👏👏

"How come all those MDs and PhDs get grants? I'm smart! I know stuff!"

MAGA has now stooped to quoting… (checks notes) Charles Manson. That’s where we are now.

Journalists praising Trump for his ‘accessibility’ when he only uses that accessibility to insult and outright lie to them will never not be weird to me.

Trump’s sycophants are suffering. Come laugh at them with us! 😂

I wonder if there was any way for them to foresee it would happen?

"Jews don't belong in American society." Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America. But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.

Federal Judge to Jeannine Pirro: 🔥 “There is abundant evidence that the subpoenas’ dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass and pressure Powell either to yield to the president or to resign and make way for a Fed Chair who will.”

Even if you planned a war with Iran entirely through ChatGPT it would probably tell you the Strait of Hormuz could be closed as a result. What are we even doing.

Got to keep bringing this up: imagine the reaction of the media (and Republicans) if a Democratic president casually talked about a Russian leader helping an American adversary targeting American troops as if he were subservient to Russia.

Defense secretary openly states that a pro-Trump billionaire taking over a news network (following regulatory help from the administration) will result in coverage more favorable for the administration.

Modern Republicanism is making up a thing to be scared about and then using that as the basis for policy

The multi-national oil companies operating in the US make a lot of money. The average American gets screwed. Which pretty much sums up Trump and the Republican Party’s approach to the economy.

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This is an actual post from the official White House account. We’re being trolled by fifteen-year-old boys playing computer games.

Wow, Gulf shippers are in a real bind here. On one hand, Donald says everything's fine and Gulf shippers should sail on thru. On the other hand: massive boat-melting fireballs. Both sides make good points!

Trump at wartime

This may be the baldest lie ever uttered. There has never been one second of Trump’s life that he has cared about what happens after he shuffles off his spray-tanned mortal coil

SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: 60% of Americans have concerns about election integrity COLLINS: That's because the president spent eight years telling them the election was stolen MARSHALL: You give the president too much credit

Mike Johnson: “He’s absolutely right.”

This dude is the bad guy in every single movie made about high school ever

2 years from now, 5 years from now, 10 years from now, and 20 years from now, Americans are going to be subject to attacks here and all over the world because of what Trump is doing right now.

MAGA is the most toxic, hollow, phony, grifty, obnoxious, fraudulent, culty, soulless political movement in US history built on lies, hate, paranoia and greed. And as it unravels, so many rats will claim they were never really on the ship.