Among the many, many screenshots of “How it started, how it’s going.” Is this one of WaPo’s endorsement of Pam Bondi (but not of Kamala Harris of course, that would’ve been unprofessional LOL) She’s serious alright, serious about using the DOJ as Trump’s attack dog every time she can.

True. At least we know exactly what his intentions are (and also Heritage Foundation too, and today’s GOP).

It’ll never not amaze me that people don’t understand a fundamental truth: Anything worth doing is hard or more pointedly, the right thing to do is invariably the hard thing to do.

Let’s be clear, this the Trump Taj Mahal of economies and we know how that ended

To coin a term for this excreable era of American oligarchy: The Rich Man’s Reign of Terror @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Is there anything these laughable MAGA Minions won’t swallow? This guy critiques an absolute idiot in Hegseth, stunningly unqualified to lead the DoD, at the same time extolling the absolute idiot that nominated him as a “savvy” businessman who nominated an idiot. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Can’t wait to destroy your governor’s campaign @byrondonalds.bsky.social You will own every last shred of this sh*tstorm of MAGA Trump idiocy. That crowd is just the beginning.

There’s a difference between bloated and inefficient. Cutting government without a plan, one that takes into account ensuring government actually works efficiently, is counterproductive. How “bloated” are governments really?  economist.com/graphic-deta... from The Economist

Classic rent seeking.

Pretty much. Who has any interest in trading with a bully who betrays every deal his ever made?

Wait til the bill for the deficit spending shows up. Multiple generations will be paying off the giveaway to billionaires.

It's time for veterans to unite and pushback against the attacks on our healthcare, benefits, and community. The Unite for Veterans march in DC on D-Day this year will bring together the full range of the veterans community to demand our rights as veterans of earlier generations did too!

It’s axiomatic that a lifelong pathological liar will lie about EVERYTHING now that he has the power to force the government to lie about EVERYTHING. I’d say it’s Orwellian but really, I think even Oceania’s elites would take umbrage at that comparison saying, “That guy is just evil dude.”

All this. Democrats 1st job is to market every single minute the mind boggling incompetence and casual indifference to the harm Republicans are inflicting on the country and Americans. Their second job is to present a better alternative.

So a fool and a felon is making our economic policy…and 70 some odd millions voted for this sh*tshow.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Handy guide to SCOTUS coverage: @ninatotenberg.bsky.social reports what they say out loud. @kenwhite.bsky.social (aka Popehat) reports what they're thinking. @theonion.com reports what they'll be saying out loud in two weeks to six months. Hope this helps!

Worth making this point: How many country’s are interested in negotiating with a pathological liar who betrays every agreement he’s ever made? Seriously, ask any subcontractor he’s ever worked with whether they’d work with him again. He’s a lying cheat, they wouldn’t nor will other countries.

This is the way.

AEI supports a clown, surprised they got a circus.

Lets be clear: Wall Street, and the right, are filled with greedy, narcissistic dumbasses whose main philosophy is “the end justifies the means”. No morality, no patriotism, no freaking logic for that matter, just naked self interest. And this is what happens when you have no principles to guide you

Let’s be clear: The GOP is going to massively increase the federal debt. We spend, per George Will, $11 million dollars every 5 minutes on our national debt TODAY. This SOB Roy, who fancies himself a conservative, has ZERO intention of doing anything about that debt versus enriching the wealthy.

They don’t and the consequences will occur soon enough. Then there won’t be anyone to fix them because they fired everyone and appointed an incompetent fool as head of the administration.

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

It’s always worth noting this man has failed repeatedly in business, often and a lot. I’m certain he said his BIG, BEAUTIFUL, DEAL for Atlantic City casinos would supercharge the AC economy until it failed literally 6 months later. He’s a loser who’s only success is from cheating people.

Curious which other countries in the world have the same travel warnings (thinking Russia, North Korea, Sudan,…)

True.

C'mon. I mean maybe that's true but his best source for finding out is Rick Scott who is an expert at waste, fraud, AND abuse. Committing it I mean.

Want to point out the dumbest part of this shambolic idiocy: Who's in charge of administering these tariffs? I mean seriously, who's left who has, idk, an encyclopedic knowledge of all the mechanisms necessary to both figure out WHERE things are coming from and HOW to impose the tariffs.

Dedicate yourselves to firing this clown Banks. He DEFINITELY deserves it.

Just want to point out a lifelong ignoramus on, idk, everything, thinks he’s now a constitutional scholar who has ways of circumventing the Constitution by calling them methods. Which is obviously the case, it’s how many freaking lemmings who will follow him over the cliff that irritates me.

It’s time for some good trouble. Saddle up, it might be a long ride.

Maybe they’ll begin promoting fascism in its place? Why change the tune internationally when you’re singing it domestically?

What exactly does business think this does to “help” them? What, the world will cower in fear and suddenly start desperately negotiating with an incompetent buffoon who has been and always be a pathological liar who betrays EVERY deal his ever made?

There’s certainly no irony, nope, none whatsoever, that the country most associated with hapless and hopeless appeasement of nascent tyrants is embarking on a policy of…appeasement. Let’s be clear: Trump’s strategy is as simple as it is diabolical, Divide and Conquer. It is the Prisoner’s Dilemma.

This is exactly what is happening.

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Unlimited campaign finance = unlimited power being amassed = unlimited rent seeking = oligarchy

This is the way.

To whit: They used Signal because they don’t believe they are accountable to those they serve, the American people. NO ONE in the Trump administration believes they’re accountable to the American people because Trump doesn’t think he’s accountable to them. Such are the realities of dictatorship.

It is the logical outcome of Citizen’s United: unlimited money translates to unlimited power being exercised by those who have the most money. In other words, NOT limiting money in politics, equivalent to not limiting POWER, the foundational principle in a democracy, had destroyed the government.

Each day of Trump’s second term brings more “outrageous news from an autocrat who revels in his contempt for the government he leads, for the foreign allies who deserve our support, and for the Constitution he is sworn to uphold,” David Remnick writes.

If there was ever a pro bono legal issue to litigate this is it. Fight for your firm, fight for your clients, fight for the law, fight for the country. Would also demand MASSIVE punitive damages from the government.

Funny enough Zelenskyy is a lawyer. When given the choice between capitulating to a larger and better armed foe versus fighting for his country’s freedom and right to exist his answer was: I don’t need a ride I need ammo.

True.

So he’s a bullsh*tter extraordinaire, just like Trump. For decades, Tesla has thrived because of Elon Musk’s hype machine. That may finally be coming to an end - Fast Company

The GOP War on Women is going according to plan.

He’s done nothing and it’s not working.

All true, all too true.