Ukraine redux, just like everyone predicted. The minute he favored Russia the message was sent loud and clear to Xi. Trump just doesn't give a fuck about any country as long as his dictator buddies give him presents and treat him like he's one of them (even though they actually think he's a fool.)

Trump confuses Taiwan and Iran: Q: President Xi said there was a risk of conflict with the US over Taiwan. What's your response? TRUMP: I don't think there's a conflict other than we don't need their strait Q: But on Taiwan

As long as they treat him like the toddler he is and give him his treats he's happy. The rest is too complicated for him, especially the part about Xi being a mature, sophisticated world leader who can see that we have a narcissistic man-child for a president who is easily manipulated.

I'm pretty sure Taiwan thinks it's independent.

He's going to give it away, isn't he?

Everyone knew it except for Trump and his team of morons.

I'm sure she and her supporters will be so impressed with the Democratic governor's generosity and empathy that they'll immediately see the errors of their ways and rethink their whole, selfish, cruel MAGA worldview. When they go low ... oh whatever.

Everyone's going to start saying "mutilization" now aren't they? I actually heard a TV pundit use the word "strategery" unironically the other day. And that one was from SNL.

I knew that Enten segment was going to stick. And it's particularly bad because it validates his belief that only MAGA matters.

With that chyron! Lol.

CNN chyron: as Trump admin. targets fraud, Democrats target broken system from another angle: corruption. And, I hate to say it, but the commentary doesn't really go much beyond that.

It is an obscene, irrational, irresponsible, and unprecedented massive increase in military spending not seen since 1942 after we entered a World War on two fronts with a small military. It also comes at a time when our national debt accelerates and zooms past $40 trillion.

Yes, this is the single best insider story I've read about the Democrats' strategic and tactical mistakes (and what has started to work).

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

This is part of the larger phenomenon of “savvy makes you stupid.” Yes, politicians have always spun, exaggerated, cherry picked. But constant fabrication utterly unmoored from reality? No, not really. Insisting Trump is nothing new is ignorance masquerading as worldliness.

And he's bent over as if he has osteoporosis.

This is exactly what Nixon and company said on his historic visit to China in 1972. It was part of the theatre then and it's theatre now.

If we just close our eyes and stick our fingers in our ears and yell "LA-LA-LA-LA-LA," the Chinese auto industry will cease to exist.

The largest ever settlement or jury award for government violations of constitutional rights to a single person is $100 million, or 1 percent of what Trump demanding for the leak of his tax returns. That case -- a killing by police -- was reduced to $1 million on appeal.

But they aren't partisan at all. The chief justice has assured us of that.

I'm w/ Serwer tactically as well as morally. My morality's my own & I don't evangelize. But as a student of the right I'm constantly astonished by how *profoundly* those who think violence will work against it underestimate its resources for violence--*&* its vulnerability to committed nonviolence.

The thing about "The Art of the Deal" is that it contains no insights or advice about dealmaking; it's just a bunch of anecdotes about fights he had with politicians and developers, plus banality like "I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after."

In 2024, after two years of process & more than 24,000 comment letters, with the support of the overwhelming majority of institutional investors, the SEC passed a simple rule: big companies need to disclose, to investors, the risk that climate change poses to their business. They're repealing it.

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Can we have a conversation about setting some minimum standards for political leadership?

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

Why are Eric and Lara going to China?

Holy shit, the CIA is doing targeted assassinations in Mexico now, like, semi-officially:

Are Americans really so immature and nasty that they are willing to put up with this snotty, little bitch routine from members of the president's cabinet over and over again? We have serious problems What's happened to this country that we are putting up with this nonsense from powerful officials?

Watching Patel and Trump today makes me despair. This is not a government, It's a cartoon show. As I've said many times, we'd better hope Trump's luck holds out because it's our only hope.

Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

And after he rambled incoherently for an hour at this event he went to bed and posted dozens of racist and nonsensical posts and ranted some more about the coverage of his reflecting pool. Completely batshit. And all these people are still worshipping him. 31 months and 3 weeks...

I will never understand how a plurality of voters were like, “sure, it’s fine if we give this guy the ability to launch nukes.”

One sure legacy of Trump’s Reign of Redecorator is going to be paint peeling off of surfaces that were never supposed to be painted.

I'll be shocked if they don't do their usual rocket docket bullshit with this Mifespristone case at the end of the day. The Republicans need all the help they can get for the midterms and that's this court majority's main responsibility. (Well, unless the Big Money Boyz say otherwise.)

Oh great. Another complete waste of taxpayer money.

again, i don’t think any of this is necessary. just say that the court was out of bounds, that it may be correct on the definition of “election” but that this technical matter has no bearing on the results of the referendum, which occurred in a free and fair contest.

i can't believe this is really what they're going with lmao

Porter's on CNN right now comparing Becerra to Swalwell and claiming that Steyer leaked the video of her berating her staffer.. I guess she's going down in a blaze of glory.

Here's a graph showing interest payments from 1792 to present. The US has a problem, stemming from historically high primary deficits coupled w/ interest rates that have somewhat rebounded. But if we hadn't done the Bush and Trump tax cuts, we wouldn't: the high primary deficits come from tax cuts

Everyone knows Representatives are not supposed to represent those who live in their district, but all those who live outside of their district

Don't make me hurt you, Katie.

Trump is sleeping in a meeting again today but s anyone concerned at all about the fact that his mouth is seriously drooping?

I find Trump‘s reaction to Iran’s “letter” kind of fascinating. He really really wants this to be done and he's trying to manifest it into being done, but he can't manage to suck it up in the ways that he needs to for it to be done.

Trump in the middle of his batshit, unending rant about Supreme Court justices: "They have to do the right thing, but it’s really OK for them to be loyal to the person that appointed them to ‘almost’ the highest position in the land, that is, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court."

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

I can barely think of an elected Democrat who has said the words "climate change" out loud in the last two years, but of course the "Dems must eat shit" takes never stop, never change.

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."