I feel like a bit player in "Colossus: The Forbin Project."

MAGA is the most toxic, hollow, phony, grifty, obnoxious, fraudulent, culty, soulless political movement in US history built on lies, hate, paranoia and greed. And as it unravels, so many rats will claim they were never really on the ship.

Absolute class move by Rep. Crockett here.

If you're not laughing your balls off at this, you just aren't American...

They really did get a lot of mileage out of their own manufactured crisis

Perfectly stated. Literally if Hegseth was half as smart as he thought he was, he'd be twice as smart as he actually was.

Wait. Did the Kuwaiti military just make ace?

“So called international organizations…no stupid rules of engagement.” We are a rogue murder state now, and positively proud of it.

Just you Republicans wait! Any day now, the Democratic leaders are going to shuffle forward, adjust their ties and mutter that Americans want to seek common ground and a renewed focus on kitchen table issues. Just… you… wait!

The president of the United States killed children to distract from raping children.

War is posting by other means

It's almost impossible to comprehend how many people have died now because a racist reality star just couldn't deal with having a popular black president.

Fantastic thread.

In retrospect, the only thing that would have been better than sitting quietly and showing no emotion at the SOTU last night, would be if the Dems just laughed after each bold face lie. It would have driven him nuts. Instead, many took the bait he offered. Rookie mistake.

The entire cabinet is a bunch of shitty fail-children with multiple ties to sex pests if not sex pests themselves. Seeing them all in one place should create some kind of singularity of shiftiness.

Espagnole Bechámel Velouté Hollandaise

Somebody is confusing "Peace through strength" with "Detente through bullying."

100% Correct Take.

Anyone hear anything lately about the guy with the gas can and long gun killed at Mar-A-Largo the other day; or his associated political leanings? He seems to have exited the news cycle, ahhhh.... "Abruptly."

Lisa McClain is the new idiotic "it" girl of the hard right; supplanting a long line of similar idiots who flew too close to the sun-Palin, Boebert, Greene, Mace, et al.

I'm gonna' go out on a limb here and take the contrarian view that at tonight's State of the Union, Mr. Trump will be a gracious, consensus building, inclusive bridge builder who will point to all the ways that we, as a nation, can work together to construct a "more perfect union" 1/2

It’s not leadership anymore it’s a circus, and everyone’s fighting for center ring.

Imagine winning an Olympic gold medal in men's hockey and then *immediately* destroying every bit of that coolness by partying with a graspy little dork like Kash Patel.

WHY are these people ALWAYS so friggin' WEIRD. And by "these people" I mean Kash and the rest of Trump's cronies-NOT the hockey players. Kash trying to be one of the cool kids at the party is, umm...something.

If you take over a social media platform for the purpose of creating a safe space for white nationalism, you're not a free speech hero, you're a white nationalist.

In any other normal administration, this would have been an end to his current posting.

I'm sure he knows it, but this will be an early referendum on whether Mamdani is equal to his post.

"If you had become the 51st state, you'd be wearing Gold right now.*" *Me, if I was a total dick.

I'll tell you what. This five dimensional chess game he is playing just gets more exquisite every day.* @theonion.com, probably*

I hate to say it, but I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court just fired the first shots in the American-Iranian war.

It's not a new observation, but I'm always struck listening to Trump cry and whine about how he's the victim, bitch and moan about how mean and unfair everyone is to him, brag endlessly about how great he is and how unfair it all is, to remember that his cult thinks he's the Peak Alpha Male

At this point, he's become his own SNL caricature. Actually, the SNL actor is more centered and cogent.

Great thread from an expert.

So unbelievably tired of this pig.

The facts of this are incontrovertible.

First issue up for the Earth Defense Directorate, errr, I mean the "Board of Peace..." When do we attack Iran?

Estimated cost of housing the homeless: $ 20 to 30 billion “We can’t afford it!” Estimated cost of feeding the hungry: $ 33 billion. “We can’t afford it!” Amount of money ICE IS SPENDING on cages: $ 38 billion. “We need to have a serious conversation about Superbowl halftime shows!”

Now this is an important thread.

It’s astounding the heights these talentless bottom-feeders have ascended to. Fuentes, Cernovich, Pobosiec, Lewandowski, Loomer

I have GOT to believe that Maine has finally tired of her bullshit. That state's population is much smarter than this.

Concur.

kristi said she wanted her fuck plane and no one at DHS has a backbone, the end

Hegseth (boorishly): Russia's cool. NATO sucks. Your security problem, Europe, is you're too brown and gay. Vance (condescendingly): Russia's cool. Your security problem is you're too brown and Muslim. Rubio (politely): Who cares about Russia. Your problem is you're not white or Christian enough.

It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.

I've said it before, but the first school that promotes itself as "AI-free" is going to corner the market on folks committed to learning. (gift link)

I’m sure the lawmakers who were outraged that their toll (phone) records were obtained in the course of a predicated federal investigation through a subpoena are going to back Rep. Jayapal in being outraged at just lawless surveillance of her (and likely others’) search history, right?

people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see

In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint www.wsj.com/business/med...

The fact that "Nutlick," arguably the most sycophantic of the adhering acolytes, will almost certainly be the first to get shit canned from this junk drawer of a cabinet brings me no end of schadenfreudic joy. www.semafor.com/article/02/1...

The left didn’t demand football in the national divorce. Concussions, billionaire owners, some of the fans. But the right insisted on giving it away. A Black player kneeled! The NFL marketed to all, including gays Influencers said sports and beer are unmanly! Some halftime musicians aren’t white!