falling past 20%, then you are in a recession. At present), truck sales have fallen 32% year over year, this is the largest decline since 2009. If you look at the economic history: 2008, sales fell 40% due to the financial crisis (Great Recession), in 2020, sales fell 35% (COVID Recession), in 2025,

A kingdom to the first reporter who just reenacts this scene:

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Look on the plus side, the next D administration will be able to do a page one rewrite on the DOJ because it‘ll collapse by then

Need a fancam edit of Leo McGarry's "I've been down here before, I know the way out" speech from The West Wing with France as Leo and America as Josh Lyman, set to Little Dark Age with b roll from Les Mis.

Monsieur Lafayette, the freedom-loving people of America, in our darkest hour, come to you for aid once again.

"Prosecutors in Paris said they asked Elon Musk to appear for questioning as part of an investigation into the distribution of sexual deepfakes and Holocaust denial content," via NBC news www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

I have spoken with several senior FBI counterintelligence officers who believe that there is a reasonably strong prospect that Tulsi Gabbard is a foreign intelligence asset.

Donald Trump has never looked at a spreadsheet before in his entire life. If you asked him to use a pivot table, he'd think you were talking about an actual table.

Do you believe in anything at all other than power and hierarchy for its own sake? Then welcome to the resistance.

I think reality might officially be beyond parody.

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

National extrapolation is hard and local dynamics, but not sure I'd feel great as the Iowa GOP with this.

Exhibit A of why America is worth fighting for: independents and even the GOP base acknowledge that what is going on is wrong. This is a bipartisan issue. Genuinely, if this voter identity breakdown yields a Dem +14 win in Texas, the sky is the limit and Reconstruction 2.0 is the floor.

Warning: helicopters falling from the sky. The best way to understand the massive gap in capability between the US military and even its near-peer enemies is that air insertion ops are the entire reason the VDV exists and they are still much worse at it than we are.

Yeah if that construction of electorate is even half as blue nationwide in November, the level of omnifucked the GOP is is pretty much unthinkable.

"30-35 point shift blue from 2024 and 2022 in a deep red part of Texas with town names like 'White Settlement'"

1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

"65 year old Belgian-Israeli diamond dealer"

This onion has so many layers that the company owned by one of the guys Epstein was doing depraved shit with did more to curb Jeff's interaction with minors than the fucking US government.

Can't tell if lawyers really are the most principled people among us or if the administration doing a full court press against the best law schools in the country dramatically reduced their talent pool. Maybe a bit of both?

Darkly ironic that the people responsible for the attempted wholesale destruction of the American democratic state were all best friends with a shadowy pedophile with connections to Russian fascists. And that those same people spent half a decade making up conspiracies about a shadowy pedo cabal.

Why were a bunch of media, academia, and silicon valley elites emailing the most notorious pedophile on the planet for career and life advice? Like what the actual fuck is going on here?

These guys have absolutely no idea that, historically, relaxed immigration policy has been America's primary superpower, arguably even more so than obscene wealth because the immigration drove the wealth. It's national suicide disguised as a policy position.

"We have to abandon the only national party friendly to American democracy that has the infrastructure and command of institutional knowledge to potentially rebuild the country."

Jesus Christ

I mean come on, man.

Hot take, but people who engage in vandalism should be shamed. You make a peaceful movement look bad and it turns the local community against you. Aside from being morally wrong, it's also just stupid strategy.

This is true. I am also perfectly fine with the court of public opinion creating an image of Trump that is built upon lies because lol that's what his public image already was in 2015. At least this one acknowledges he's a bad person.

Live look at the DOJ launching Elon under the bus:

This is broadly true but there are also a number of failures by two Dem administrations this century that have made the current situation markedly worse. I do think we need to do the hard work of distinguishing stupid doomerism from legitimate critiques of D inability to effectively wield power.

If you're saying this in the year of our lord 2026, you are an actual weapons grade moron. Just no saving this kind of delusional.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids

this is somehow not an onion headline

We're well past the point where it's obvious that the Executive branch is fully bought into fascism and that's a sin that should stain every soul associated with enabling this. We're going to need very public (legal & civilized) displays of accountability and justice to make it out of this.

Inside the president's mind is a wall. On this wall is every industry in America. Every day, once a day, the president throws a handful or his feces at this wall and threatens to do something that would implode the industry the shit hits. He also leads the most powerful military on Earth.

Yeah bro, the president is a chaos demon. No other explanation for this shit.

An internet that varies from poorly regulated to outright unregulated allowed scammers to relatively easily reach a large pool of people who are either gullible, lonely, or unlucky. Some of these issues do translate to other countries and some are uniquely American, but it's ~80% human nature, imo.

The fact they're giving these concessions is prime evidence that they are weak. A month ago Bovino was strolling down American streets dressed like an SS officer acting untouchable and now he's the administrative equivalent of a paperweight. They've giving an inch. Take ten miles.

I am surprised that no one on here has really pointed out that the breaking point for Republican politicians is, apparently, witnessing the public execution of a white man.

They can try to offload the murders of Good and Pretti onto Noem but it won't work because nothing is actually changing. If people keep getting brutalized in very public displays (which is what the admin wants), it'll stick to Trump one way or another. Tl;Dr: this is an extreme act of desperation.

The next decade of American politics will be defined by the fact that the last year has radicalized people like the Democratic AG from freaking Arizona into saying stuff like this publicly. The GOP just is not ready for an opposition party that abandons kumbaya bipartisanship for pure, raw hatred.

Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.

Philadelphia, 1776: seat of power of the American Revolution. Philadelphia, 2026: level 4 travel advisory. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

"It forces antifa to deploy extended supply lines"

Which one of you had "hearts and minds campaign in an American city" on your 2026 bingo card

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to sell access and military secrets, and neither do we.