Is this Mitch McConnell person in the room with us right now?

Exactly this. For the sake of the team as well as his own reputation Balogun needs to bench himself, feign injury, not play at all to avoid that permanent stain. The team would have already been preparing their game plan without him anyway.

Based on all his pardons, Trump regards both fraud and pollution as legitimate business tools and not crimes.

You also don't need to be an economist to conclude that one monkey hoarding all the bananas while others starved is not good for the long term health or viability of a monkey society, especially if they have to compete against other societies where all the monkeys have bananas.

A true rival for 'Piss Weak World'.

Seems it is a winning strategy for them and going exactly to plan just like Elon did to Twitter - totally killing off the large liberal ecosystem first and using its credibility for a much smaller but solid far right one.

Somebody should do a "Persuaders" opening montage of Obama vs Trump.

This is so dystopian.

He's been having this intravenous treatment causing the bruising for at least a year and a half now so it's ongoing longterm. This image is from Jan 2025.

The jewel thief complaining they've been robbed of their stolen loot.

I've always contended that the crowds at Trump's rallies were mostly the same people every time, like groupies. All those MAGAs setting up chairs in the mornings in the parking lots 'in anticipation' aren't locals, it's because they drove all night from other states.

The Epstein class.

EKA. Earth Killing App.

He's exactly right. In a one-party state, be it a communist country or a gerrymandered deep-red US state, the real and only election is the party selection/primary.

Incredible symbolism.

He's just so tiresome.

No visible holes or damage in the facade in the photo just published by the Wapo, at least from the angle of the camera.

Just for reference when they show their little RISK maps of the Persian Gulf, the outlined area would cover from Denver to DC and Texas to Canada.

The advertising for funding universal health care writes itself. At least nine law enforcement officers and a police horse just to give a guy a citation for touching the water in a public pool. They got the money, they just choose to waste it on this shit.

There's this disconnect between believing $6 a month for vegetables is fraud and waste by poor people but millions on pompous displays of grandiosity is befitting and deserved for him.

Too many of these Trump guys, Roger Stone is a prime example, identify with and like to emulate the villains in movies.

Take this $300 billion or we'll blow the shit out of you.

It's images like this that really drive home that he's just an actor, a frontman, the host of The Apprentice, waiting for the director's instructions on where to stand and what to do when the cameras start rolling for the next scene. He's not the one running the show.

The enshittification of shipping.

There's still going to be a lot of damage to the pristine masonry from the holes drilled to mount those huge metal letters. Visible scars.

Called it. Up goes the tarp. So predictable. #KennedyCenter

If the headline begins with these two words, I don't even bother clicking it anymore and wasting my time.

This is a massive multi-level undergound complex. Elevator shafts, air-circulation conduits, would take years of designing and planning to get every detail right. There's no way this was something he just came up with six months ago when he was standing on the roof to 'plan his new ballroom'.

My feed is literally a video of Trump complaining the US is a third world country, followed by a news article of his GOP voting to reduce fruit and vegetables to pregnant mothers down to $3 a week.

All our lives we were taught about impenetrable Soviet airspace with movies like Clint Eastwood's Firefox, only to now watch these slow propeller model planes putt-putting towards critical targets and all they face is some guys on the ground firing their AK-47s into the air.

The Epstein class.

Reminds me of the video rental store boom. A new one opening almost daily on every street. Big ones like Blockbuster. Small ones, just some guy. Sometimes even right next door to each other. So many, it became a race to the bottom of price undercutting to compete. Ten video Tuesdays. Unprofitable.

The Epstein class.

CCCP. Creepy Conservative Cuck Porn.

This is not enough.The contractors who damaged the masonry to install Trump's named should be arrested and charged. 'Following orders' is not an excuse. They knew they were illegally vandalizing a monument, just like if he ordered them to jackhammer Washington's nose off Mt Rushmore.

I really didn't have the fossil fuel industry having their own incompetent guy making them commit hara kiri on my bingo card. A radical Green POTUS couldn't have instigated a swifter global transition to renewables even in their wildest dreams.

So many unanswered questions about how any govt employee can request and receive 300 gold bars and millions in cash for 'work expenses'.

This sums it up in one sentence. Should be every headline about this story.

Whatever this is, it's not a 'ballroom'. It's a huge bunker complex. Why's he building it? He oversees top-secret military ops from behind a draped curtain at Mar-a-Lago weddings, and it's hidden underground so nobody can admire his name on it, so why would he be spending a billion dollars on this?

The Epstein Class reveals itself again.

Tiberius wants gladiatorial battles at his imperial residence.

Elect a clown, expct a circus.

In the first pic, they were a disorganized rabble. They should have been dealt with so the second pic shouldn't exist.

Makes me wonder if things we were around for and still actually remember can be so easily re-written to the exact opposite of what they were, I can only imagine how much older history has been warped and twisted.

The Epstein Class.

It takes me more than 30 minutes to compose and edit just one reply or post.

@diedrichbader.bsky.social, Pete Hegseth is Chet from Weird Science.

I've always believed the discrepancy between Trump getting more votes in 2024 vs the downticket candidates to be highly suspect. This Kait Justice substack on the election manipulation via Starlink is a long slog of a read, but if it's true, Elon Musk should be facing the death penalty.

The speed this bunker complex is being built is akin to Chinese hospitals during the pandemic. There must be thousands of people working on every detail of this complex. There's no way all this was drawn up and set in motion in just the past few months. This is years in the planning.