Just like the Founders intended, the President unilaterally increasing taxes on us because he didn't like a foreign official

The fact that media outlets are still too scared or too stupid to tell the truth about Trump 10 years in to this insanity is a nontrivial part of how we got here

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

An especially despicable, small man in an administration full of despicable, small men.

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

On the one hand, this is obviously good. But, on the other, it's depressing that it's taken a year of an insane fascist threatening to invade our allies, terrorizing our cities, and doing nothing to help the economy for a decent majority of this country to turn against Republicans.

Can't wait for Trump to threaten to invade Belgium unless Macron gives him his aviators

“I don’t care about peace as much now that I didn’t win a prize about it, so I might invade one of my allies for no reason at all” is the kind of thing that should get you instantly impeached and removed. The Republican Party is exclusively made up of cowards and crazies.

I’ve always thought Trump was a fascist, but even I would have rolled my eyes at this headline for being too over the top in its satire if I’d seen it back in 2016.

I couldn’t have a lower opinion of the Republican Party, a coalition of quislings and outright Nazis, but even I thought there might be more resistance to Trump threatening our allies over something that serves no strategic purposes and has no popular support. Instead, it’s all Fuhrerprinzip.

“Making a deal with the devil hasn’t worked for anyone else … but it might work for me” —every moderate Republican during the Trump years

Anti-anti-Trump leftists are easily the dumbest people alive. They’re people who know better but still end up making excuses for Trump because they hate liberals more than they love decency, freedom, or anything good. They think this proves their “cleverness” when it does the opposite.

Are we also supposed to admit that fascism wouldn’t have gotten so far if the Red Army hadn’t first allied with it to invade Poland, Finland, and the Baltics?

Everything Trump says is stupid, but the idea that we need to invade Greenland to prevent China or Russia from doing is the dumbest thing he's ever said. Greenland is part of an ally we are treaty-bound to defend. So an attack on Greenland is already like an attack on us. Nobody's going to do it.

Nothing pisses me off more than the way these wannabe fascists don’t know the first thing about being American and yet claim to represent “real Americans”. Real Americans aren’t bootlickers, and never have been.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures … For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us … For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.

It’s an absolute disgrace that any DOJ attorneys are going along with these sham investigations. They should all be disbarred.

Trump is deliberately trying to terrorize American cities in hopes of them fighting back enough to give him an excuse to send in the military. He desperately wants to order troops to shoot his political enemies. He always has, going back to when he gushed about Tiananmen.

The sheer volume of white nationalist memes/allusions posted from official government accounts over the past year is staggering www.vox.com/politics/475...

I don’t even know why Trump is so interested in Greenland. It’s not an underage girl.

The best-case scenario is Trump is just stealing money from Venezuela for himself. That’s that’s the best case. The worst case is that he’s setting up a slush fund outside Congressional control to pay for ICE in case Democrats do defund it.

I was going to say if unprovoked aggression against a treaty ally isn’t grounds for impeachment what is … and then I remembered that the vast majority of Republicans didn’t vote to impeach Trump after he *attempted a coup* Just an insanely evil cult of personality.

The world’s dumbest mafia capo is just committing crimes in broad daylight

This is our justice system now: guilt or innocence are determined based on political criteria, no investigation needed. DOJ pursues a former FBI Director, or Chair of the Federal Reserve on trumped up charges, but refuses to investigate a killer.

How the hell can anyone support any of this. It’s just pure evil, in the dumbest possible way too.

The fact that Trump won because people were mad about how high prices were, and, between his tariffs and his attacks on the Fed's independence, he's doing everything he can to make prices even higher is really the chef's kiss on how dumb swing voters were to vote for him.

Trump is a fascist, but he’s not a dictator. He’s a flailing, unpopular president, and his fascism is only making more unpopular with voters who somehow didn’t realize how evil he is before.

Instead of lending out dollars to banks, the Federal Reserve should lend out Jerome Powell’s spine to Republican senators.

This is what civic virtue, something in desperately short supply nowadays, looks like. Ignore Trump’s threats and just do your duty. Make him fire you, and don’t give in. Take your responsibility to the public and posterity seriously.

This is total BS that won’t work, and could easily backfire if it motivates Powell to stay on as a Fed Governor once his term as Chair ends in May devoted to trying to get the rest of the Committee to resist Trump’s demand for lower rates.

I know it's hard to shock these days but Elon Musk going full Rhodesia defender and calling for the ethnic cleansing of the US should still shock you. These are neo nazi views that were only previously shared on explicitly neo nazi sites.

True story: the Nazis only would have committed some mild genocide if people hadn’t called them Nazis so much

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is defunding ICE

“Homeland Security” was always a creepy, un-American phrase. Abolish it.

i just watched this video and the fact that they believe this to be exculpatory is genuinely insane

Democrats need to shut down the government unless ICE is forbidden from wearing masks. It’s a simple, popular, achievable ask.

There are so many acts of bravery by every day people while elected Dems cower behind focus group tested talking points.

Things have been getting so bad so fast the past couple of days that it’s hard to imagine this going on for 3 more years

Billy Joel could do a whole new We Didn’t Start the Fire just about the last week

At this point, it’s more newsworthy when a day goes by without Trump’s Gestapo shooting people

If you spend the first half of your article cataloguing all the ways that Trump is a fascist, but then you spend the second half saying he isn't actually one because he ... only attacks countries that can't fight back ... then maybe there shouldn't have been a second half www.ft.com/content/3610...

The worst, and most genderpilled, version of the Melian dialogue just dropped (“the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must, etc.”) If only MAGA knew that this wasn’t a “timeless truth” but rather a cautionary tale about a democracy falling prey to imperial hubris…

Reality TV is legitimately one of the worst things to happen to humanity in the last 50 years

Even after all these years—after the missed opportunities to set American politics on a better course, the relentless cowardice of those who could have resisted Trump’s return to power, & the pervasive abdication of constitutional duty—it is still shocking to see *this* on the White House website.

This is like blaming the Jews for Kristallnacht. It’s pure evil.

I think the understandable tendency has been to treat this as a tasteless joke, but in light of all we've seen to date, we need to take seriously the possibility that they may be insane enough to try to seize the territory of a peaceful ally by force for... no real reason.

Yep, they’re fascists

Is supporting the unprovoked invasion of another country for the stated purpose of taking their oil part of free markets or personal liberties?

Republicans spent the last few years finally admitting that the Iraq War had been a mistake … and now they’re just trying to do it all over again in Venezuela.