Trump‘s two major international actions have each kneecapped global trade. Now I get it. Free trade is incompatible with his worldview. Trade, done right, is a win/win. He does not believe in win/win. In his world, there has to be a loser. So the loss of free trade is actually a positive for him

One of the biggest differences between Trump1 and Trump2 is that Trump2 has a lot of nameless competent people behind the scenes working to make a wide range of under-the-radar changes. Trump is just as incompetent as he was the first time. But the guys behind the throne have their shit together.

The Trump era really drives home for me the point that someone can be a tragic figure without being at all sympathetic. Not naming names, but there are lots of examples.

One minor reform Dems can do when in power is pass legislation requiring cameras at the Supreme Court. They should do every little thing they can to dispel the myth of the justices as apolitical High Priests.

Is there any reason we should not just skip ahead to the part where rich private schools start making their main selling point that they have banned AI?

Kind of the natural endgame

There is no more reliable indicator that a Senate vote is going to go the GOP‘s way then Susan Collins announcing that she is going to vote against it. You know they have a guaranteed 50 votes in the bag once she’s able to do that.

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

My “I don’t worship a golden statue of Trump as a god” T-shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by my “I don’t worship a golden statue of Trump as a god” T-shirt.

Whenever I see a post like this, I always give it the Stephen A. Smith Voice: Stephen A. Smith: You know that I believe [wonderful statement]. Co-host: Yeah. Stephen A. Smith: HOWEVER . . .

Folks! Who do you think can apply for a low paying, high prestige job? It's neither average people (representative) nor salaried technical experts (massive pay cut). It's people who don't need the income!

There will be an elite media effort to rebrand Rubio as "the grownup in the room" when the GOP 2028 stakes heat up. It will involve a lot of magical thinking, but it will happen.

Military scholars and historians must be intrigued to see this war play out. Putting a below-average-intelligence drunkard in charge of the world's best military and seeing how well it does is the sort of real-world experiment that they could only dream of conducting.

Can you imagine hearing 6 months after the 9/11 attacks that Rudy Giuliani would be in critical condition in the hospital at age 81 and the public reaction would be indifference mixed with mockery. You'd make your best guess as to what happened, and you'd still be way off.

Do you realize what he is refuting here? Karl indicated that President Trump called him after the WHCD to see how Karl was holding up. In other words, Karl said that Trump did a kind thing. And Trump basically yells that that's a lie because why would I ever do a kind or compassionate thing?

If you're a young leftist looking for an inspirational model for politics and can't come up with anyone better than Stalin or Mao I'm going to encourage you to read a second book.

the thing dem pols need to internalize is this guy and his entire family will vote republican for the rest of their lives, regardless of the republican party literally ending their livelihood

Bring back the ancient knowledge

These “MAGA starts to turn on Trump“ stories that the MSM is pushing out are laying groundwork for the eventual “See, Trump was never actually GOP. The Republicans never really supported him so feel free to keep voting GOP going forward.“ They are fun to share, but understand their true purpose.

Social Media has just rotted all of us. Someone says that an unhinged president will start a nuclear war. And their first though is to ask us to bookmark their post so that they can get credit for predicting it. Actual nuclear devastation is apparently less important that social media cred.

Make Congress a branch of government again.

@mikeduncan.bsky.social voice: And on next week’s episode, we will see the return of – and you won’t believe it – James Comey. Yes, *that* James Comey. The man who most historians believe was responsible for the first election of Trump as we discussed all the way back in episode seven. 1/2

As President Trump flails more and more, I think we are going to see more “JD Vance has always secretly been against all of this bad stuff and in favor of good stuff“ stories strategically appearing in the New York Times, Washington Post, etc.

You can see this new indictment of James Comey as an outrage, which it is, or rather a patently illegitimate abuse of power. I see it as more evidence of his crashing out & collapse, more direct & absurd lashing out while he's unable or lacks the mental wherewithal to right his own political ship.

You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau...

In case you were wondering whether people actually listened to what Rep. Jeffries said or if instead they rushed to repost a rage bait headline that confirmed their priors, you need wonder no more.

He sucks so bad, and frankly he doesn't deserve a pithier or more sophisticated insult.

The “Vance was actually always against all the bad stuff the whole time so you should vote for him in 2028” PR campaign is gaining steam.

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

In case you are wondering how this is playing on RW social media, they are saying that this proves we need a White House ballroom.

“You need a detox” NO YOU DONT THAT SHIT IS A GRIFT IF YOUR KIDNEYS STOPPED WORKING *THEN* YOU NEED A DETOX AND THATS CALLED DIALYSIS A PERSON WITH HEALTHY KIDNEYS DOES NOT NEED TO DETOX

Gerrymandering is a reminder that all jurisdictional boundaries are political choices. We frequently adjust congressional districts, but we treat school districts and suburbs as naturally occurring and inviolate. Obviously there are real differences, but it's all politically contingent and chosen.

Note to Democrats: Voters giving up Trump only to vote for the next Republican solves nothing. The problem isn't Trump, it's the Republican party. Don't allow Republican politicians dodge accountability by claiming it was all him.

I just realized how many “Trump was never a true Republican” and “Trumpism was the opposite of conservatism” pieces are going to be written the minute he exits the stage. And I felt literal nausea.

We cannot afford to let them get away with defining Trumpism separately from the Republican Party.

Is the Popa a Catholic? In this Ohio diner, they aren’t so sure.

I’m sorry to spend a little time on here embarrassing Nazi apologists… I just grew up in a time where “no Nazis” was a universally accepted rule and seeing people dedicated to eroding that rule — people who identify as “left!” — is not easy for me to ignore. We need to shame them, endlessly.

Anyway yeah I would never vote for a political candidate who’d been credibly accused of sexual misconduct, regardless of their party or platform or anything else about them, and it’s weird that not everyone feels the same way about that.

To the doomers who keep saying Trump will rig the 2026 and 2028 elections: Do not concede in advance

BREAKING: DOJ investigates the Hungarian electorate for Mortgage Fraud

Good to remember. When we start assuming things like “the guy who loses the election will attempt a coup“ we’re doing half of the authoritarians’ work for them.

The legacy media is *so thirsty* for President Vance.

It’s 2026 and we’re still doing the “Should a sexual assailant be governor? It’s complicated. Let’s hear from both sides” thing?! Really?!

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

Sounds like we need some more hearings on Benghazi.

They live here.

I think they're lashing out at Democrats because they still, fundamentally, hate the Democratic Party and think they're going to destroy it.

If only a dozen Republicans in Congress found the will, they could impeach and remove him today.

If at the height of the Bill Clinton sex scandal, he had bombed a country out of nowhere and told the mainstream media--"Hey! Look over there and stop talking about my sex scandal," I doubt they would have complied as easily as they are doing for Trump.