The ones who still love him, but that number appears to be dwindling with each revelation of betrayal.

Trump: What have I got to lose? Nothing

Are those people truly so ignorant as to not know how egregiously this administration is stealing our taxpayer dollars for their own aggrandizement? There is something very seriously wrong here. OMFG

and the student debt crisis is the quiet part they don't always say out loud. keep us desperate, working multiple jobs, too tired to fight back. it's not just about curriculum control—it's economic control. we gotta connect these dots too

This is critically important for people to realize. This is not a fantasy or some wild conspiracy theory. Connect the dots and you will see this picture emerging. Elevating private and parochial education over public, controlling the curriculum feeds into this.

These hearings have devolved into nothing but political theater. Either stop having them or start asking probing questions, demand real answers and forbid the use of "burn books".

Thank you for speaking the truth sir. The plain, unvarnished truth.

This truly does not bode well for our future folks. An uneducated, illiterate(text and numbers) populace is far easier to manipulate through magical thinking and propaganda. Think about the alternate reality Republicans & right wing media are pushing on us and beware.

The ease with which he says this tells you all you need to know about him and the party he represents. There is no reality but theirs. It's a perverse, anti-democratic and dangerous version of Lake Wobegon.

Fear is the strongman's tool for manipulating the masses. Republicans want to believe they are all strongmen. They are not strong nor are they real men.

NOTE: There is NO defense for this budget. That is all.

Heard a nickname today for the ballroom: The Diner. I like it.

Anyone running for office needs to pass that exam, which BTW most immigrants who have ever studied for citizenship could.

He is the personification of a broken record. emphasis on Broken.

Pattern: driven by need for revenge/power/self-aggrandizement, start an illegal war, or unnecessary trade war, cause complete disruption in global/domestic economy, flounder around, slap band-aids on parts of the problem and pretend that will make the boo boos all better. This Is Not Leadership

What do you call someone who refuses to face reality but instead continues to repeat nonsensical statements? Can we now talk about needing to require demonstration of basic competence for those who serve in public office? i.e connection to the real world?

This man is a perfect example of someone who should NEVER EVER be anywhere near public office. Hey Gov: newsflash. The Buck Does Stop With You whether you want to own your bs or not.

YES!!!!!

Keep in mind the average worker, if lucky, gets a 3% annual raise.

"Reading about it but knowing nothing about it" pretty well sums up the intellectual heft of the guy commanding our troops who can't digest a half page security report. If you still don't think we are weaker and more at risk for this I implore you to wake up. NOW.

Also, that old man's only drivers are vengeance and incurring pain, doesn't matter on whom or whether grievances are only in his fetid little mind. Tariff/trade wars. Real wars. Only purpose is to feed his boundless ego. But let us not forget who is truly to blame: Congress for supporting it.

If it walks like a partisan hack, talks like a partisan hack and renders decisions like a partisan hack, guess what? It's a partisan hack. That is all. His agenda started back when he was a "bright eyed law clerk"

In case they haven't heard, Bibi told CBS that the war is not over until he says it is, so all this is just self-indulgent bull twaddle.

The danger marked by the breadth of infantile simplemindedness in this country and its central role in turning us into a 3rd World country run by imbeciles cannot be overstated.

Did anyone ask Venezuela if they wanted to be the 51st state? And what about Puerto Rico, or DC? Surely they have dibs on that honor.

What comes next needs to be a clear re-commitment to the duties and authority as laid out in the Constitution and a zero-tolerance policy regarding corruption. Bills alone will not fix what is broken, which is a blatant disregard for rules and guardrails.

As we approach our 250th anniversary, imagine the founders turning in their graves with their hands on their faces, aghast at what this administration has done to us in just 17 months. Think Munch's The Scream.

Sadly, given this court's propensity for lying to the people, it is no wonder they have embraced DT as they have.

Why does he always thank people for their attention to the matter when their attention is totally irrelevant to that matter?

oh yes I'm sure this is an accurate observation

What happens when you elect an un-serious and selfish person who puts other un-serious and selfish people in charge of departments of the government. Governing is hard work and we need serious, committed people who understand whom they serve.

Seriously, talk about desperation. He fairly reeks of it.

To coin a Yiddish phrase: You can't pee on my back and tell me that it's rain.

Fact: John Roberts has been gunning for this Act since its beginning. Perhaps we need to rethink lifetime appointments for justices.

The damage he had done to our relationships with trading partners will likely never be able to be repaired. He has rendered the US as a dishonest broker, untrustworthy and unstable, and once trust is lost, it is extremely difficult to regain. We will not likely see it back in our lifetimes.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. -Thomas Pynchon, novelist (b. 8 May 1937)

@defiance13.bsky.social Just viewed your podcast of A Pope and A President The most powerful presentation on the issue of morality and the Christian nationalist movement I have ever seen. Thank You.

America First is rapidly becoming America-First to succumb to illness and disease caused by hyper pollution of our air, water and food supply.

In this administration and culture everything is more important than decency and courage. Those things are for wimps and losers.

Perhaps folks should not be coming to the US for this. Perhaps we should not be hosting it at all.

"updates" from the Great Deluded One

Gee, and we wonder why so many are drowning in credit card debt. Meanwhile, DT and his family and cronies seem to think that the US Treasury is their personal bank to plunder as they see fit--which is NOT to lower prices and address affordability--that "great line of bullshit" from Dems.

Sherrilyn Ifill's interview with Jon Stewart yesterday is well worth catching--among other things, she reveals the long history of John Roberts fighting against the VRA, to underscore what he and the conservatives on the SC did recently re Section 2.

Same boring, tired, limp, lame racist shit which so often reflects back more on the person saying it than on any target they aim at.

A new word for the day: Querimonious: Habitually complaining Querulous Full of grievances. Sound like anybody we know?

We are drowning under a sea of mendacious vomit. It must stop.

QED

Let us face facts. There is NOTHING this government has done since Day 1 that is NOT based on lies.

Ok so the guy who got us into an illegal, ill conceived, grossly expensive war that has no clear objectives, no clear metrics for success, no end strategy denies that a ceasefire is over even as the firing has not ceased. We cannot afford to keep suffering from his delusions, or those of DT.

Trump to the American consumer: How can I screw thee, let me count the ways.