Indeed. Because this is not it. At all.

Ahem ... substack.com/home/post/p-...

I don't do much looking back at my own writing, but I've been thinking about this piece a lot today. From tenderly protecting Trump from criminal consequences to enthusiastically helping him dismantle the administrative state, Roberts owns it all.

ICYMI: We dug deep into what Trump and Republicans are giving the billionaire class for Christmas, and what they're taking from you ... www.youtube.com/live/mqj8itI...

And he's not even sorry. He meant every word.

Many thanks to Delano Massey at Axios for this very cool profile www.axios.com/2025/12/13/j...

Not to mention, there's no general legal requirement for citizens to carry ANY identification on them at all times.

You’re missing the part where they inevitably enact national ID & universal biometric identification. The very things conservatives once claimed would be unacceptable tyranny or even the mark of the Beast, but which they will blindly accept as legitimate because Trump, their god and king, says so.

The U.S. has become pre-1990s South Africa. Or re-emerged as Fugitive Slave Act era America.

ICYMI: On Friday's TJRS, we dive into the ironic MAGA panic over the so-called "war on Christmas", while they salivate for mass deportation and immigrant harassment; and @jacquereid.bsky.social and I do a Reid This, Reid That crossover on the Diddy doc! www.youtube.com/live/JHHxTAq...

This is the leadership this country needs. Get her ass!

Won’t someone think of the poor, beleaguered, neglected, affluent, straight white men? Where is the civil rights movement for THEM, if not at the Ellisons’ and Bari Weiss’ CBS???

ICYMI: Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate and she sits down with TJRS to talk strategy And Charles Booker is making a second run for Senate in Kentucky. He joins us to discuss. And we talk Bari’s latest moves at CBS. (Hint: Bibi and Trump will love it…) www.youtube.com/live/JfLMet_...

Behold, an elderly man in the throws of complete cognitive decline. He is living in an extended delusion that’s being fed and encouraged by the sycophants around him, so that they can run the country for their own evil purposes.

I’m clear on the fact that these reporters know they would be immediately fired by their networks if they were to respond to this diapered demon by saying: “Mr president, there’s no need to be an asshole. Just answer my question.” What I don’t get is why they don’t push back in united solidarity.

"Taking everything for granted" is the main source of our collapsing culture. There is little understanding that we live in a frangible meringue of a moment that we will not be able to protect if we can't look deeply backward and hopefully forward. The illusion of normalcy is destroying the world.

For the record, I will be swearing in on Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower after I’m elected.

BOOYAH!

main economic message from the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it

Rent jumped 30%. Wages didn’t. Landlords get tax deductions. Tenants get evictions. America’s “economic plan” is just wealth pulled upward like a vacuum. #TrumpInflationCrisis

Workers can’t afford the drive to work, but billionaires never pay for gas. Stop calling it a “market correction.” Call it what it is: extraction. #TrumpInflationCrisis

ICYMI: I was on The Breakfast Club this morning! Thank you @charlamagnethagod.bsky.social @djenvyofficial.bsky.social Jess Hilarious & the whole TBC crew! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtq0...

He’s just reracking what he’s been saying about tariffs since at least the 1990s. He’s just old and cognitively decrepit now so his needle is stuck and he just keeps repeating the same things again and again.

ICYMI: Hegseth’s story on the war crimes boat strikes makes no sense … and the pro Jan 6 podcasters in the FBI get an unpleasant surprise after supposedly closing the pipe bomber case. www.youtube.com/live/8VQIAm4...

HAHAHA. Now THAT’s funny. (And yet, also not funny at all).

ICYMI: Ilhan Omar claps back at Trump; Dr. Gartner of Duty to Warn offers a fresh warning on Trump’s cognitive decline, Stephen A Smith is loud and wrong, a Florida congresswoman debates who is a war criminal, and we meet a military veteran candidate to replace MTG. www.youtube.com/live/NVTgKI-...

I am eternally fascinated with Conservative women who are flabbergasted when they cultivate a base of misogynistic men who treat them like shit

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

Didn't realize at first this was the Onion. Too real.

Gavin Newsom lit into an audience full of financial power brokers today, criticizing what he cast as their complicity with Trump’s agenda. He told attendees of the New York Times DealBook Summit that they should look into the kneepads he’s selling, in parody, to those “groveling to Trump’s needs.”

I can't think of a more racist rant from any American in public life, let alone a president. How are all of these journalists and other people just standing there, saying nothing??? And no response. No follow up??? WTAF.

On tonight's episode of The Joy Reid Show we unpack America's war piggys, and their designs on the resources under the soil of Venezuela, Nigeria and more. And I have questions about the shooting of National Guardsmen in D.C., and the MSM narrative about Black Friday. www.youtube.com/live/t7fwKqD...

I approve this message. It's going to be a threshold issue for me. That and completely dismantling ICE, fully implementing the Voting Rights Act, creating a national living wage (with subsidies for businesses that need it,) expanding the Supreme Court, and admitting DC and Puerto Rico as states.

the media went on and on about the price of eggs and milk under biden, meanwhile trump is conducting an illegal war in south america that he says he doesnt know anything about and the media's big concern is their invite to the white house christmas party

Thread.

You and me both. And now folks are treating Bush Jr. like a nice old paintin' grandpa who everybody misses; forgetting the whole "lies to take us into an unnecessary war," literal torture at our Cuba concentration camp, letting the Ninth Ward in NOLA drown, mass surveillance and more.

Trump isn't just any asshole. He's a clearly cognitively declining, sundowning, misogynist, angry, bitter asshole. This unhinged woman hater has no business living in our White House. Also, what a repugnant lack of group solidarity by these reporters; particularly the men.

ICYMI: Peter Thiel is warning about the antichrist … but maybe he needs to talk to the man in the mirror … also, Black Friday weekend is our chance to tell the billionaire class: “we ain’t buying it!” www.youtube.com/live/aztuNXo...

I've shared on here before, why more cops do not and cannot reduce the murder rate in US cities. I've shared that criminal justice reformers have known what does work, and has worked in dozens of US cities. It's now driving record low homicide in Chicago and Baltimore♥️🕊️ Now let's talk cop killings

On the latest The Joy Reid Show, we unpack the MAGA fakes and grifters who are stealing left and right while Americans suffer and enriching themselves while pretending to be populists (hey there, Marjorie Taylor Greene!) www.youtube.com/live/e0tsYLY...

Musk and Thiel are white South Africans whose families quit the country when apartheid ended.

yeeeeah

ICYMI: I dragged @elienyc.bsky.social @jolandajones.bsky.social & @stuartpstevens.bsky.social out of their Friday night festivities to go LIVE with me for a TJRS bonus episode re Marjorie Taylor Greene's surprise announcement & SCOTUS whiffing on Texas www.youtube.com/live/k2x_-vs...

ICYMI: an expert psychologist and a Trump biographer help Joy unpack Trump’s cognitive decline and lack of impulse control which have him trying to hand Ukraine to Putin, while threatening Democratic military veteran lawmakers with death & sucking up to Zohran Mamdani www.youtube.com/live/96RyCh_...

What the actual fuck….

And no sooner did I post this than it hit me in my spirit that E. Jean Carroll is a woman journalist......

On Wednesday's TJRS, we unpack Donald Trump's absolute hatred of women, which he takes out especially on women journalists www.youtube.com/live/y6Q32x4...

ICYMI: The Joy Reid Show interview: comedian Roy Wood Jr. talks father figures and his comedy origin story www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzTG...

On Monday's TJRS we talked Trump's meltdown over the Epstein files with Eric Swalwell and his push to destroy healthcare. Lev Parnas returns with Trump/Epstein tea, and we celebrate Nadine Smith's rise at Color Of Change and Calvin Duncan's victory in NOLA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN3O...

A TJRS Short story: An African student's Harvard dream crushed by Trump's ban on nonwhite visas www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-XI...