i really, truly, sincerely believe that righting the equilibrium for the united states depends upon congressional democrats reclaiming congress' first-amongst-equals role in governance, and everything short of that — including a transformative president — is a failed half-measure

I would like the tiny people in the computer to be friends with each other

head of chiquita banana wanting to ask the forbidden question now that trump is overthrowing governments for oil companies

I think it's straight up unethical to continually ask Trump if he's invading Colombia or Greenland at this stage. We learn nothing and it makes it stick in his head

1. Abduct Maduro 2. ??? 3. Profit

what musk is doing with xAI is legitimately very different than what the rest of them are doing, but simply overlooking it and hoping he goes away doesn't work, it's never worked, and i don't really have a lot of sympathy for keeping quiet about it in hopes no one looks at you too hard

General Sir Douglas Haig, trying to explain to why the Somme offensive failed:

The behavior of Congress and is directly downstream of its membership and boy does that say a lot about congressional membership

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The main reason the Constitution has proven so inadequate over the past year is that the framers never contemplated a congressional majority so desperate to be subservient to the executive. The whole idea behind checks and balances is that the branches are supposed to be rivals to an extent.

The good news about an explicitly "Might Makes Right" foreign policy, where we do whatever we want to other countries because we can, is it will benefit us without causing blowback

it's truly incredible that after a decade of trump being involved in politics (setting aside decades of his history in business) so many people still line up to make deals with him that end up with his knife in their back. anyway, mariá machado, step up and claim your fell for it again award.

per NYT, the u.s. military invaded venezuela to kidnap president maduro because he’s a better dancer than donald trump

The endless dismissal of bad behavior in the name of “being an adult” or “focusing on the things that matter” has become a powerful force enabling Trump. It’s conflict aversion, masquerading as seriousness. Nothing is a distraction, go after all of it.

this is repulsive, but for those who didn't live through "shock and awe" in iraq: it's the norm with the bootlickers who largely make up the dc/nyc press

4 JANUARY 1776, ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS: Brigadier General Nathanael Greene writes to congressional delegate Samuel Ward, urging “from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country’s cause, a Declaration of Independence.”

dumb times create dumb men, dumb men create really dumb times, really dumb times create really dumb men, really dumb men create really really dumb times

Just realized that Emperor Qin Shi Huang's "Terracotta Army" of clay soldiers he kept in a vault in like 200 BC make him the first Warhammer Guy. he got some disposable income and started painting minis. totally get it

funniest timeline dictates the DOJ fucks up colossally and both sides are confronted with a court order that Maduro is sent home lol

There's exactly one iron law of politics in the Trump age, and it's "everyone who gets close to Trump in any way ends up getting burned"

Delta Force is now named Hitler Force for some reason now, idk ask Hegseth.

The first-ever winner of the FIFA Peace Prize did WHAT

the trump administration is living inside a social media dreamworld where the US is literally all-powerful and can do anything it wants to anyone it wants, and the US media, rather than pointing out this is deranged madness, is trying to demonstrate its neutrality by dignifying the fantasy

How should America's occupying forces govern Venezuela? We asked four unvaccinated MAHA moms at an Amway party in Jacksonville.

We are being governed by people who have an absolute compulsion to appear to be “the man in the arena“ on Twitter dot com. Like, that’s what this boils down to. It’s a flame war by people who control an army bsky.app/profile/abea...

Compare this to Biden leaving Afghanistan & think about what the incentives are for every American politician

Every millennial Republican longs to recapture the thrill of those 18 months in 2002-03 when every Democrat was a terrorist, and every fry was battered in freedom. Cargo cult Toby Keith stuff.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Schumer is in his leadership position because Democrats wanted someone who would ask nothing of them, require nothing of them, never put them in an uncomfortable situation. It’s like the army voting for a general who will never order an attack - good them, maybe, but defeats their whole purpose.

Like, I think that the far more likely, if “worse“ explanation for why the administration is doing this is that they like snuff films, and/or photos of themselves “looking tough” in the situation room

Having to care about knowing what Katie Miller cares about to know what action my government will take next is no way to live

In some ways it was more noticeable today because most Democrats were actually pretty good today. Schumer and Jeffries are unique in how out of step they are with the party, and this isn't the first time.

It's an illegal, evil coup, which it seems like Trump probably thinks he's doing, on some level, to benefit the US oil industry. But the long-running trend in Trump 2.0 is that he consistently does things "for" the industry that they really, really hating bc he can't grasp basic market dynamics

Is he really that naive or just stupid? (Don’t answer that)

It’s also kinda like, the third time they’ve done this

Whatever Hegseth and Rubio and Miller and the rest had in mind would come next, and who the hell knows they probably were never on the same page about that, but it very obviously wasn't *any* preparation for the notion we'd immediately and delusionally announce we're in charge of Venezuela now.

I really painfully struggle with the fact that the Republicans, Democrats, the media and so many other institutions act like Trump is extremely popular and not one of the most widely unpopular administrations in history after less than a year.

Nicolas Maduro has been extradited to New York to face the full force of a presidential pardon. by Karoline Leavitt

The skeleton key to unlock the Trump administration is to understand that everything it does is for the sake of posting. It wants to get likes and shares. And it is specifically captured by a neo-Nazi, fascist audience that wants images of torture, violence, and murder, especially of minorities.

We’ve apparently captured maduro with no real legal justification and then instead of installing the Venezuelan opposition we’re like oh yeah, his vice president is cool, she’s gonna run the country for us, what the fuck are we doing

at least part of everything this government does is to impress a handful of psychos on twitter

Finally we can do Sicario type operations in Latin America as shown in the movie Sicario: US Interventions In Latin America Are Bad

We have conducted a regime change from the President to the Vice President - official US position

I can’t decide if “all the same people but now under personal threat from America to do what we say” is more or less stupid than de-Ba’athification

If you look at it closely the right wing is built out of weirdos like this who have exactly one issue that consumes and deranges them wholly, and while those issues don’t fit together coherently at all, they’ve all come to tolerate each other’s insanities in pursuit of their goals