Not only is Trump the most corrupt president in U.S. history, you could make a persuasive case that about a dozen things he has done this term would earn him that title even if he’d done nothing else. And we’ve learned about two of those things just in the past week.

It should be a huge scandal that a close confidante of, and adviser to, President Trump and Secretary Rubio reacted to a deadly terrorist attack at a mosque by calling the mosque "evil" and calling for the deportation of all Muslims from America. But it isn't. *sighs*

JFC There could never be an easier case for impeaching a president. The fact that impeachment & removal is universally acknowledged among the political class to be impossible is the clearest possible sign that the constitutional order has collapsed into some form of dictatorship.

the thing about this is that it’s still shocking, because they don’t believe it, either. the whole thing is a troll, it’s intended to make the rubes do seal claps and make the rest of us bay like hounds at them, and we’re all paying them for the pleasure.

I’m trying to imagine any Republican governor in America doing the equivalent of what Jared Polis just did. This is why Democrats lose.

Imposing real, criminal consequences for the Hegseth/Miller/Trump drug boat murders must be a top priority for the next administration. It would be a catastrophic moral failing to let them go unanswered.

The CFO of Spindrift is complaining on LinkedIn about Anthropic's customer service. He recommends OpenAI because it allows you to "work with a human sales person." Unfortunately there's simply no broader lesson that a c-suite officer of a successful CPG brand might extrapolate from this preference.

President Xi you could make the deal of a lifetime with the American people, here

people will say the framers never could have predicted this, but that's not true at all, they absolutely *did* expect someone like trump, they thought congress would *stop* him, and they thought they made that clear

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

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the thing with Trump is you really can blame most of the current inflation directly on him and his policies (tariffs, Iran war) in a way that is not true of other presidents who have had to deal with inflation

"Kid Rock takes joyride in Apache gunship to address the Pentagon on the Straits of Hormuz." Make A Wish ass government. I pay taxes for this. We could've filled some potholes or built a bridge or bought some barefoot little redneck kids in West Virginia shoes or some shit.

Just a reminder that past motives for assassination attempts have included: "because the ghost of William McKinley told me to," "to save the trees" and "to impress Jodie Foster."

Republicans have always believed it's cheating for Democrats to fight back in any capacity, not least because so many Democrats agree

“That’s great buddy, but you’re 12, I don’t think you should be in charge of economic policy for an entire nation. Let’s get you a snack.”

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy: There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

This is a reductive way of understanding people's discontent with the state of the economy. Too many public intellectuals keep getting it wrong, framing the anger merely as a personal question of "Can I afford things right now?" But it's deeper than that. It's a rising fury that goes beyond prices.

The Dream Team failed. Total shock. We sent two of our most mediocre real estate developers and a fraud. Who could’ve guessed this outcome?

they had our number when they said they couldn't retaliate against us for killing their national heroes because our heroes are cartoon characters

The global headlines right now should be that America went to the moon, and instead we get another rehash of a disaster in the Middle East. I fucking hate this shit.

This is just so corrupt on every conceivable level. There is no excusing it. These people are The Shittiest Gangsters and we need to throw them in jail for the rest of their lives.

Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.

even if he doesn’t go through with it, the president threatened to wipe a civilization of 90 million people off the map. and no one was going to stop it. the best case scenario here is he doesn’t pull the trigger and our elected officials pretend it never happened.

During the anti-ICE school walkouts in January, a group of students in Chandler were targeted by an armed agitator. Turns out it was Phoenix PD Sergeant Dusten Mullen. He admitted his plan was to try to get purposely assaulted so the teenager protesters would all get arrested (it didn’t work).

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

We, as a society, encourage villainy at every turn. We prop up the worst people and coddle the most selfish impulses of everyone around us. The people who are actually villainized are the ones who point out evil and expect people to be better.

Standing up for freedom by secretly believing it in buried deep in my heart of hearts as I am clapping like a fucking seal for totalitarianism at the big totalitarianism party

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

Honestly, all greater political considerations aside, it’s just really fucking obnoxious how many Americans seem to think it’s cheating for the other side to shoot back in a war. I mean look, I’m no fan of the Iranian regime, but buy the ticket, take the ride.

You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline

TRUMP: "I'm gonna fuckin' blow up all the fuckers! I wanna use all the bombs before I die! Helter skelter! Helter skelter! Race war! Race war! Fuck Easter and fuck you, too!" NEWS: "Trump promises to strengthen military in early morning Easter greeting."

Today I learned I can read German

It's always "you call anyone who disagrees with you a Nazi" from them, but if the Germans say you haben ein Naziproblem I'm pretty sure you haben ein Naziproblem.

Pete Hegseth publicly promised to execute Iranian prisoners of war. If that’s what happens to these American pilots, he will share the blame

A country where Flag Officers are dismissed on the whim of a president or a secretary of Defense -- and where it's tolerated by those in a position to stop it -- is a country in decline

Context: helicopter pilots can do flybys of Kid Rock’s house regardless of regs because THAT’S BITCHIN. We’re led by fatuous 12-year-olds.

If the Israeli Knesset members' lapel pins shaped as little nooses isn't where you say peace-out to that fascist state, you're just carrying residual nostalgia for some fantasy version of Israel that exists only in your head.

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Wow it’s crazy they just did that shit out of nowhere