Withdrawing a bill to end the war because it may actually pass is MAGA/GOP perversity writ large.

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This is Trump in huckster mode, solicitous to the point of fawning. World leaders have seen enough of him to know that he has no friends. Xi may humor Trump's phony bonhomie, but he won't fall for it.

From NYT: "The Pentagon put the cost of the war on Iran at 'closer' to $29 billion, roughly $4 billion more than two weeks ago." For the arithmetically challenged, that's $2 billion a week added to the national debt, and that's only if they're not low-balling the cost. Your tax dollars pissed away.

Another weak and futile attempt to keep oil prices under control.

Given the hideous alternative, I'm willing to give Bluesky the benefit of the doubt.

It's important to keep in mind that we're funding Trump's needless war at $2 billion a day AND Republicans are letting him do it. Vote them all out. Every single one of them.

“I have the best plan of all,” Trump said. “But I’m not going to tell you what my plan is.” Anybody who believes such infantile bullshit from a lifelong conman has to be dumb beyond belief. He's the most prolific liar to ever walk the earth and too lazy and stupid to create any sort of real plan.

This is COVID 2.0: Just keep claiming that it will end soon, and eventually you'll be correct. This time, however, he controls how it ends, and it's clear he has no idea how to do it. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/u...

Trump and his clown chorus may keep saying the war will end in weeks, not months, but it's not their call anymore. He's a moron, and his clowns are worse, more worried about who he'll scapegoat than in being honest.

It's bad enough that the IC has surrendered its authority to make honest assessments. But it has done so to a decrepit old man who cares only about his wealth and his image. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

Many people talking about how gasoline prices at the pump have already jumped. But what should really terrify Republicans is RBOB — the futures price on wholesale gasoline. This is up 75 cents a gallon since its low earlier this year.

Off the cliff goes his core appeal to voters.

The projection monster strikes again.

Now that they have power again, the Trumpists will never give it up willingly.

Way to punish SCOTUS, Donnie! Make American consumers and businesses pay an even bigger tax than the 10 percent you charged us yesterday. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

Trump's corruption is out of control. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Another day, another disgusting chapter of the GOP's enormous coverup for the unaccountable elite is revealed.

I never thought I'd see a U.S. attorney general treat congressional questioners with such contempt. Pam Bondi's angry invective in response to legitimate questions today is a nauseating new low for the DOJ and provides more evidence that an epic coverup is under way.

Never in his life has Trump wanted honesty in anything. He wants a whitewash. In the meantime, he's trying to bullshit his way out of taking blame for sponsoring state terrorism.

How can it be an insurrection when the only people being shot are the alleged insurrectionists?

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Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world's cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will signal the unofficial start of his pontificate. n.pr/44ykAyM

A new world order based on the mafia economic model: Any crime is OK as long as you kick up to the boss.

Well thank you for elevating the speculation of idiots to a false equivalency with, you know, folks who went to school to learn how comets work. You should be embarrassed NYT.

Can't decide whether this is another grift, or that they know something the rest of us don't.

The health-care conflagration is upon us. www.facebook.com/share/v/1CQT...

This will never replace "I won in 2020" in the pantheon of Trump lies, but "the ballroom will be separate from the East Wing" has to be up there with it. Not since the War of 1812 has the White House sustained so much damage. The man is pestilence personified.

The colonel has a right to choose his path, but the problem is that Trump will now fill his post with someone less devoted to his constitutional oath and more devoted to Trump. It's same process that helped MAGAtize Congress.

Are the Streets of Chicago Showing Us the Future of American Democracy? open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

"Plenary" means absolute, as in power without any restrictions. Miller froze because he realized he gave away the plan. Dictatorship isn't simply an accusation anymore. It's the administration's guiding principle.

How many times has NYT run headlines that contain the word "Trump" and the phrase "may be illegal"? It has to be a lot. Perhaps it should start adding, "but SCOTUS is corrupt."

Another reminder of how corruptly wrong Donald Trump's energy policies are. bbc.com/news/article...

Fat Satan has a healthcare plan — in about two weeks. 🙄

A lifelong coward just hours from closing the government spends millions to fly top brass to Virginia so he can cosplay as a tough guy, telling them to use Americans as stand-ins for people he would subjugate. In reality, though, we're not stand-ins. We're the targets. Release the Epstein files.

The editor at large of the Daily Caller, a member of the White House press pool, wants to see "blood in the streets."

Donnie and his termites will tell their fawning media tools that Democrats are the primary source of violent rhetoric. The lie will then be parroted in diners, cafes and bars across MAGA America as if cultists are trying to convince themselves that they're not the true sources and enablers.

This speaker sums up Charlie Kirk perfectly. We can abhor how he died, but cannot abide how he lived. He was a professional propagandist from the day he left from high school, spreading hate and lies wherever he went. It is a disgrace that he's treated as a martyr. www.facebook.com/reel/1061937...

That's right, Americans. The largest upward transfer of wealth in the nation's history is just a simple marketing challenge.

How did a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery hand absolute power over to Hitler, someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following?

Did anyone ever doubt that the Russian asset would thrown Ukraine under the bus?

Donnie probably was underpaying "the help" and doubtless mistreating them.

Is he claiming to have a residence in Kingston?

Trump Humiliates Himself With Idiotic Question to Liberian President newrepublic.com/post/197770/... via @newrepublic.com

Evidently, their biggest mistake was not giving Donnie his pardon percentage.

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Same old bullshit and cliches. He's posturing for MAGA, but he's absolutely clueless. If he wants regime change, he'll have to put boots on the ground. Then this will be Iraq all over, except that Iran has twice as many people and a much more lethal military than Saddam had.

They blew up empty tunnels. This is what happens when imbeciles and chest-puffing drunks are running the show.

This is what Trump is warming up MAGA to accept. First, a one-off bombing, then defending the fleet, then boots on the ground. He can sell shit, but he's never been able to make it any of it work, from bogus universities to casinos to "trickle-down" tax cuts. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The Death Wish Party begins its preparations to waste more donor money in 2026. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...