I appreciate the pitch perfect populism of the Trump family. Like all of us salt of the earth westerners, Ivanka heads out into the rugged sun drenched landscape of the desert wearing a black leather dress.

Iran has global terrorist networks. They’ve been backed into a corner. We need to be prepared for retaliation—and honest with the American people about the risks.

If a Democratic-run Congress passes impeachment resolutions against all the regime principles simultaneously, the rush to lawyer up and squeal on each other will maximize their chaos and they'll make more mistakes.

One can guess that Russian targeting helped the Iranians pull this attack off, which seems to have destroyed very valuable US equipment. But will Trump criticise Putin? No he will not. When will people wake up to the reality that the US president is a Russian agent of influence?

Wondering when Trump issues an executive order to replace all the words in the dictionary with Trump, and Trump trump trump trump Trump trump, trump trump trump; Trump trump trump trump. Trump trump.

This is true and I'm tired already just thinking about it.

So you're saying you can teach new tricks from an old dog?

Haha, it's great that we're all waiting to see if the sitting President of the United States destroys the global economy tomorrow for no reason, right? This is fun. Love the suspense of all our lives hanging in the balance on the whims of an unstable, raging narcissist.

The impasse on the appropriation for DHS is over ICE funding. And yet, you don’t hear Republicans trying to sell the importance of funding ICE. They talk about TSA, the Coast Guard, and every other agency, but never mention the one that is the source of the problem. Wonder why?

With all the issues happening right now that are crushing Republicans before the midterms, it is clear they have decided that they have no answers to fix the harm they have done so their entire focus for weeks has been on trying to federalize elections to rig them.

“Everywhere I went in New York people openly loathed the very sight of me. So naturally I concluded that the entire city had gone crazy and I left. There was no other possible explanation.”

Maybe it was someone who played a President on TV? Or someone on TV he thought he was having a conversation with but got confused when a commercial for Just Do It Nike came on?

The thing about living in this country, in this time, is that it is intolerable to contemplate personally suffering the scale of blowback our leaders have unleashed and it is intolerable to contemplate moral universe in which there are no consequences for this evil.

Every time he gets a question he doesn’t want to answer it’s the same playbook: “Who are you with? Fake news, I’m not answering.” Who they are with is irrelevant - his PAC sent out a fundraiser using a photo of a coffin to raise money. I don’t care who the reporter is.

Trump posted this to Truth Social where he brazenly admits his puppet-master role over censorship & firing decisions at the FCC, CNN, CBS, Comcast & Disney, among others. So much for Bari Weiss and David Ellison's claims to be independent, free press champions.

I dispute the characterization -- the admin is BOTH willingly choosing adventurism in Iran AND crushing the non-rich American people's health care. I mean, why settle for plain pie when you can get ala mode with it.

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

There's only one guy in the world who benefits from this. Coincidently the same guy who can never do wrong in the Trump regime's eyes.

If gender were the immutable biological reality they claim to believe it is, they wouldn't need to spend so much energy policing it like this.

Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice. Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.

Medical experts say that if you contract pneumonia you should visit a doctor. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says you should just bathe in raw sewage instead. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

The White House position is that it is no big deal that Putin is helping Iran try to kill US soldiers. Always remember rule #1. Putin can do no wrong in Trump’s eyes. Wonder why that is?

Trump will absolutely not stop unless he is stopped. It wouldn't take much to stop him—he's a coward. But if those who have institutional power don't act, the current crisis will get even worse. He has no self-control and is giddy over the death and suffering he's inflicting.

“1000 targets in 24 hours” Seems fair to wonder if Anthropic’s A.I. had something to do with an 🇺🇸 strike killing those schoolgirls

Every sycophantic ass-kissing unqualified loser hanging around Mar-a-Lago for the last 4 years saw Trump’s presidency as an opportunity to fleece taxpayers with one corrupt scheme after another knowing they could get away with it because the boss is worse and Congress won’t care.

Oh, Pam! How you doin' girl? You good? How you doin'?

I’m frankly a bit surprised Trump fired Noem. It shows weakness and reminds people that accountability is possible.

Let me see if I get this straight: the 'f*ck your feelings' crowd went to war with Iran based on....feelings? Got it.

I swear every one in Trump’s MAGA regime personally believes ETTD may strike others but will NEVER touch me, I’m too smart for that.

Still convinced every one of them knows they’re either taking over the government perpetually or they’re going down hard, no middle ground. So they’re all pushing the accelerator to ludicrous speed.

Would we really learn less if journalists and reporters didn’t interview Trump or his minions and the WH press corps took an extended group holiday and generally denied the MAGA regime the attention they so desperately crave? Just investigate and report what they do. It’ll be more productive.

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-helps-babies-to-sweat-out-toxins/

There's more: Is Trump dangerous? 43% of Republicans have no opinion. Honest? 44% have no opinion. Corrupt? 43% have no opinion. Out-of-touch? 49% have no opinion. They know who he is. They just don't want to admit it.

I am genuinely puzzled by the Palantir employees upset about the company's work for ICE. What, did you think you were the good guys? "We were dismayed to learn that our work is being used to turn orphans into sausages; those are not the values Amalgamated Orphan Crushing was supposed to stand for."

Masked freaks are threatening whole neighborhoods for even watching them and they’re going to go with “ Hot brown man’s dancing made my mommy cry.”

Well-bred people know what a good guest brings a little something for their host: a nice flowering plant, a bottle of wine, some kids, whatever.

To the insufferables in my replies with “he didn’t do this…or that” The President isn’t Santa Claus. You’ll never get everything you want. None of us will. But with a good person at the helm, we will make progress. If Trump has taught us anything, it’s that character matters. Perhaps above all.

so funny to see republicans complaining about this as if they have not been pulling this shit for 15 years.

Wait -- if a group of people (staffers) have access to and can post as if they are Trump, doesn't that mean that whatever he says there isn't official? Is it the Autopen striking again? How do we know what's an official post and what's a shitpost that's just "having fun, lighten up!"?

Guns for me, but not for thee open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Steve Bannon bleats from the comfort and security of his podcast studio all the things. Let him go stand in the cold at the ICE house in Minneapolis like unprivileged normal people have and breathe a few lungfuls of that sweet sweet teargas freedom.

Trumpies trampling on law and rights! We need MORE laws they’ll ignore! Seems rather pointless.

It's not that the truth doesn't matter to them. It's that the lies are essential to their survival.

Are we sure Alex Pretti didn’t kick the Fed’s taillight after he saw the vehicle’s wheels turned in his direction and, fearing for his life and the safety of his fellow observers, shot three times into the Fed car killing the driver? No?

Miller is so much of a national treasure that every Republican running in a swing district/state should invite him in to campaign for them.

Exciting news! markfiore.substack.com/p/exciting-n...

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

"The UN Charter, adopted by the Senate 89-2 in 1945, giving it also the force of U.S. law, bans the US from issuing the 'threat or use of force against the territorial integrity' of a nonoffending member state...This isn’t international law, MAGA types, it’s US law." www.wsj.com/opinion/gree...

Was just talking to someone about how the Greenland thing is uniquely inexplicable. All the rest of Trump's evil fits into a neat story basically of racism, red meat to the base, and megalomania. But the Greenland thing is so obviously self-destructive that it makes me think he really is a traitor