That was before the government became the worst criminal the country had ever known.

Utterly unable to hold Trump to account. There might as well be no law at all down there. —I guess instead of the US holding Trump to account, the rest of the world will hold the US to account. 2026 will be the Year of Global De-Dollarization as the rest of the world gets its Shunning game on.

“.. Again and again, Mr. Trump dares the system to stop him. He does so knowing that the same system that failed to hold him to account for Jan. 6 is unlikely to do so now. .. “.. In Mr. Trump’s second term, he has governed as if Jan. 6 never ended.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

They will have to pry my grudges out of my cold dead hands.

I don’t know what made me think of this, but the number of women 15 to 44 trying to flee the US has quadrupled in the past 10 years. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

if you still use Twitter please understand that you are enabling and supporting this. It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.

Behind a velvet rope is where you see wax statues of Presidents in a wax museum. —Did anybody poke him to see if he’s real? Wouldn’t it be funny if that was the explanation of the patches on his hands, that’s where they pour the extra wax in at night.

via @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social on Twitter: Saturn Devouring His Son, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1636, 📸 by Tiffany Trump

You guys are marauders now. You used to be the guys we looked to for help. Now you’re the guys we run from.

Mamdani is giving me life here.

WSJ editorial on the latest of the hundreds of tariff walkbacks by trump (this one for furniture): “Rarely has a President worked so hard to cover the damage from his policies without admitting it.”

We need to rediscover John Searle’s “The Chinese Room,” which contemplated exactly this in 1978.

It’s the future he wants. It’s not said much, but one of the main uses of AI is to generate hyper-realistic hardcore porn. (Among other things, you would not need PornHub. Just to devastate your towns by stealing their water and power for data centres.)

Philosophy has a problem called the “sorites” problem (from the Greek for “heap”) which centres around emergent identity and change of state. Basically, if you remove one grain of wheat at a time, when does it stop being a heap? I think about that with respect to American rule of law these days.

It’s not true that Trump only pardons rich white guys. He also pardons rich foreigners who put hundreds of millions in his pocket through his crypto company.

OH YAS QUEEN 💃

Just how he likes it. Everyone terrified of him. “LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR!!!!!" That poem might have been written for Trump. —Too bad he’s illiterate, he might have been informed by the ending.

This alone is a reason not to ever date again. Men produced this. This and “a little fight with the wife is not a crime." Watch the birth rate plummet like a bad growth ring in an ancient cedar.

AOC: My name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. and it is my deep honor and privilege to welcome you to the inauguration of our new mayor of New York City. Zohran Kwame Mamdani

The tariffs have been good for Canadian beef farmers, and now that China has slapped a 50% tax on US beef, are now absolutely-effing-fantastic for Aussie beef farmers. American ranchers have enjoyed the higher prices, but I am afraid the cliff they are falling off is closer than it appears.

Who among us does not have their garlic stashed by the teapot. I ask you.

Those islands they hide out on had better be good and remote. —One starts to understand why someone like Elon would want to be able to retreat to somewhere like Mars. Perhaps to be able to get away from hordes of masses attempting to rend him limb from limb.

We can't understate this: Curtis Yarvin is "the brain of Peter Thiel" in exactly the way that Aleksandr Dugin is "the brain of Vladimir Putin." Indeed, the two are thoroughly synched. If you buy JD Vance, Thiel's sock puppet, this is what you get.

Tracks.

Yes. There needs to be a specific campaign theme and promise to get rid of ICE. Everything about it is anti-American. (Data point, not necessarily campaign-speech point: ICE hiring bonuses have lured in large number of prison guards. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...)

Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)

They want their population sick, dying, or dead. They are easier to control that way.

The US has lost the ability to meaningfully process information. From there, it’s just a bobsled ride to autocracy.

The fundamental problem is simpler and more real—Americans are unable to tell “what is true” anymore, let alone “what matters.” They have no information sources, and no reasoning with which to process them. America right now is the wet dream of “active measures.” No one can believe their luck.

I guess Ivanka’s not young enough for him anymore, he has to parade around with his grand-daughter, who looks exactly like Ivanka 20 years ago. I guess the enigmas just keep getting younger. images.wsj.net/im-81620268?...

It seems almost Cartesian-level certain that these people are not as smart as they think they are. And yet it would be welcome for the penny to drop, finally.

Trump likes sexual assaulters. They are his favourite. They remind him of Him. The Rapist in Chief. He loves them. They are his people.

I mean, among other things, I think Americans should take a moment and consider whether other countries WANT to invest in an economy that seems to be headed for Torture Camp territory. Punch line: They don’t. They will pull their money and invest in gold and Chinese tech.

Nobody is welcome in Trump’s American except white male Nazis. The women exist to service them. The men are ICE agents trained up as “action heroes” by Jeff Bezos.

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

Happy New Year, y’all! We appreciate all of you. Here’s to a better 2026 🙏🏽 To get us started off right, here’s Don Lemon holding his mic upside down👇🏽🤣

Happy New Year. On our nation’s 250th birthday, let’s take it back.

You must swap now that Mamdani is mayor.

The president is a dying, pathetic loser who spends his New Year’s Eve thinking about George Clooney of all people. Holy shit this is depressing, even for him.

I do not doubt he is a virgin. He and his friends are part of the reason women 15 to 44 are fleeing the US at four times the rate they did a decade ago.

JACK SMITH: “Trump was getting calls from people he trusts, people he relies on, and still refused to come to the aid of the people at the Capitol — that’s very important evidence for criminal intent in our case.”

In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."

Jim Jordan was really scared on Jan. 6 after being in contact with the White House, Mark Meadows told Jack Smith’s team. This comes out in testimony before Jordan’s own committee, which Jordan initially chose not to make public and then decided to release in the final hours of 2025.

They’ll pay as much attention to naturalization math as immigration math. They are pointedly innumerate. Then they’ll have a demographics problem, which they’ll solve by raping women and girls and forcing them to bear their offspring. —I mean, they do a lot of that right now.

Wherever you are and whatever you're doing, I wish you everything you hope for in 2026. Thank you for the conversations over the last year. This is Christopher Nevinson's  'Among the London Searchlights,' painted from a hot air balloon tethered above London Bridge in 1916.

What a King. 👑 THIS is what the US stands for, and what it used to be.

“For my enemies, I make up the law in order to punish them." Looking forward to what happens to the US dollar under that regime. 🔮 Expect trade to flee to digital RMB, which the US will not be able to track and punish, and then a debasement trade on the USD when there is no demand for Treasuries.

Got to have the populace cower. Can’t have them living without fear.

President Trump has vetoed a bill that would expand the territory of a small Native American tribe in the Everglades because they didn’t support his “Alligator Alcatraz” plans. trib.al/bsjj4JU

What an ultra-maroon Trump is.