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Its happening!

Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law

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Why would we lend the Americans money to buy our stuff and/or defend us instead of using that money to give our people that money to buy our stuff and/or to build stuff to defend ourselves is the Eureka moment of global rebalancing.

It appears Trump really did not like Dimon saying it was wrong for ICE to assault grandmothers this week in Davos. You may not like Dimon or think he deserves it, but this is a terrible development for freedom in America—the Trump administration is broadcasting its intent to silence all criticism.

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

Remember that Trump, Miller, Vance, Wiles, Musk, and the 40-50 some GOP Senators who would have voted to confirm Gaetz absolutely knew 100% of the crimes below when he was up for AG. RFKJ and Hegseth are no better. Noem, Bondi, Patel, Witkoff, and Gabbard are all probably even worse.

Looks like it’s TAC-O’clock in Switzerland.

My iPhone went rogue and installed a hideous iOS overhaul several days ago…I still can’t search messages properly, keep getting a message that more will appear when messages finish indexing…how many weeks should I expect that to take?

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

Just to be clear, they told the press pool Trump is wheels up for Switzerland, but nobody (at all!) actually saw him get off AF1 or saw him board Temu AF1?

Do we think there’s a group of NATO leaders gathered all waiting, joking, and hoping for good news somewhere in Davos right now?

Vance’s base is going to be extremely angry about this if it turns out he is, in fact, the father.

It's as if we took a Rodney Dangerfield character with dementia and elected him president

Trump is correct— life is much easier (for the dictator!) when they don’t have to worry about any court system, rule of law, or the basic human rights of their citizens.

Frankly: it is ridiculous that Russia (population circa 145 million, awful demographics, GDP of about the same size as Italy) is a security threat to Europe that requires US help to manage. But it currently is. Reversing that is the first aim. And very very achievable.

There were so many embarrassing comments made at the press conference, but perhaps the most alarming is Trump claiming he prevented the Iranian government from “hanging 837 people”— apparently blissfully unaware that the Iranian government did in fact murder thousands of protestors in the streets.

Somehow he’s continuing to ramble, with extremely low energy, but he presses on.

This post is Trump completely misunderstanding that “there can be no going back” means “oh, we finally realized America is led by an insane clown who hates NATO, the guardrails are gone, and nobody in his party is willing to stop him from attacking any or all of us.”

The number of observers on the ground here is basically increasing geometrically, because people see some of their neighbors being abducted and others fighting back and there is zero question about who is on the right side

Barry Blitt, The New Yorker

Looks like somebody figured out that extorting a Nobel Prize is actually not the same thing as winning one.

Notice this “performative submission to patriarchy” always results in the MAGA women looking much uglier. Can’t help but think if the men of MAGA were actually sexually interested in women, they would not desire their partners to disfigure themselves into hideous caricatures of drag queens.

So … over 8,000 acts of ppl invoking their 1A rights to mouth off to law enforcement? Cops have no rights to their feelings. We do, however, have the 1A right—attested to by SCOTUS—to insult the guys w guns. This is quintessential police-as-baronial class whining: “how dare you not kneel to us?”

Ask yourself: If Donald Trump was intentionally trying to destroy the United States, how could you tell the difference?

Four GOP Senators. At most four Repubs in the House. Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.

I guess we’re going to find out how quickly Miller, Vance, and Russian propaganda influencers can brainwash the MAGAsexuals away from “America First means no foreign wars!” to embrace “America First means be grateful to die freezing in a ditch while invading Canada!”

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

I cannot stress enough that Benny Johnson is one of the guys who took Russian money as part of one of their media influence operations so destroying NATO by providing chuds the most incoherent reasoning possible is actually the point

It’s possible that AI technology will eventually be more like broadband/smartphone than AOL/Blackberry, but is there really a strong case that any particular AI company/product/stock will be more like Google than AOL? Looks like limited moat and low/negative profitability as far as the eye can see.

A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:

So everybody knows by now that “able to muster support within [country]” is actually Trump speak for “able to come up with more money to bribe me than the other players can bribe me with”, right?

I'm starting to question this guy's commitment to free speech

The double negative here makes it confusing to follow, but Senate Republicans (with help from Vance) just empowered Trump to continue lawlessly murdering Venezuelans for no good reason.

finally we have invented star trek from the hit TV show "THAT'S NOT WHAT STAR TREK IS ABOUT NOT EVEN CLOSE JESUS CHRIST EVEN JJ ABRAMS HAD A BETTER UNDERSTANDING THAN THIS"

I'm not gonna lie, Pickle Rick is the hero we need, not the hero we deserve

Mr. Clown President, please let us know if you find out who’s funding our “wine mom gangs” because I never seem to get any checks. Also, let me know if there are any group hotel block rates at luxury hotels in New York or Minneapolis for the fake riot training sessions!

“Happening very quickly in a sort of unconventional way” is an all-timer euphemism for “clown car administration led by senile carnival barker who governs by tweet without any respect for the Constitution or economic principles.”

Once the autocrats are entrenched, modern technology makes violent repression via mass murder easier than ever. It *can* happen here, and it’s up to each American citizen to make sure we do not reach that point.

I don’t even believe Kirk deserved to be publicly and brutally executed the way he was, but this video makes me want to stop at the house of my neighbor with multiple “We are all Charlie Kirk NOW” signs and say “When you think about it, he was kind of asking for it, it might even be what he wanted.”

I would like to believe that Vance objects to striking Iran because he’s a committed pacifist, but everything I know about him suggests he doesn’t want to strike Iran (one of Putin’s allies) because it might distract from attacking Greenland (and blowing up NATO).

The unprecedented challenge to the fed’s independence is an important part of the story surrounding the criminal probe. More far-reaching and troubling is the total subservience of the justice dept and Pirro to trump. We seem to have become numb to this. It is not normal and it’s very dangerous.

“Public service sometimes requires standing firm in the face of threats.” In one short, apolitical statement, Powell lands a major blow against Trumpinomics and casts shade on spineless GOP congressman.

Kristi Noem: “We can't trust our government anymore.” Dana Bash: “You are the government.” Kristi Noem: “Yes, that’s what I’m saying.”

Senile president is evidently not smart enough to understand why setting a precedent for federal investigations into construction/renovation waste is a terrible idea, especially for a prez who spends all day staring out the window at his soviet-style ballroom from his newly gilded office.

The content is incredible.

Sounds like we're in complete control.