"under scrutiny by Trump administration officials": ooooh! Trump administration officials are, like, serious professionals! The most serious and the most professional! To be under scrutiny by them, oooh, Lordy! I wonder if the author understands how dumb it sounds.

The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Fascism in the USA, full steam ahead:

This is real life. The president of the United States wanted things to go boom for him. He is 79 years old. apnews.com/article/trum...

Fascism in the USA, full steam ahead, and nothing in the way to slow it down, let alone stop it.

There Is No Democratic Future Without Supreme Court Reform "The core issue is that very large minority of Americans who support his style of autocratic government."

Tsung-Dao Lee

Normalcy in Fascism: it's normal.

People like Tom Nichols – who seem to think fascism is only seen by those targeted by the regime for removal from society, and isn't operating in the USA – might learn from this:

There's a lot to learn from Roger Rosenblatt. Always a lot of wisdom.

The Russians can't help themselves. Paranoid for over 100 years, arrogantly nationalist, viciously arrogant imperialists, deeply ignorant of history, and with no respect for humanity: that's as Russian as Putin.

Awesome! Wow! The "I" in "AI" is all wrong. LLMs and the destruction of society proceeds apace.

Obviously, Musk the arrogant malignant fascist ass-clown needs and deserves far far greater compensation from Tesla for all his destructive stewardship. Barking mad.

Jeffrey Sachs is a liar. And if not a liar, he is a useful idiot, or worse, played like a fiddle by the Kremlin. Functionally, he is a Kremlin asset. So, liar or useful idiot, or both, i.e., a Kremlin stooge? Those are the only options available for this arrogant ignorant lying pompous asshole.

Who cares what Bill Gates (or Elon Musk or Bono) says, if anything, about the long-term effects of global warming? These people's opinions, if any, on this subject are simply not relevant. They are not particularly informed or insightful, obviously. The stupefaction at the NYT shown no end.

Prague is now the capital of a normal country – alas! My latest commentary… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

About "bordered on absurd": why bother with the amelioration of "bordered"? Trump is a fucking malignant clown. He is absurd.

Of course they do. They can't help themselves: they're Russian. They've been at it in one form or another for centuries, not merely months or years. Paranoia, arrogant and vicious nationalism, and utter disrespect for human life while piously pontificating otherwise are as Russian as Putin.

Every single person who voted for this malignant moron is an easily manipulated simpleton and/or an asshole, a pro-fascism asshole.

Russian propagandists and Russian semantics over gas getting pricier: "So gasoline hasn’t dropped in price? That’s the polite way to put it now? A price increase is called 'it hasn’t gotten cheaper.' Oh, it hasn’t dropped so much that it actually shows a negative drop."

The USA under the Trump regime is getting closer to being Russia every day. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

The resistance against fascism in the USA is going to be from the people or not at all. The No Kings demonstrations are critically important. Still, No Kings protests or not, large swaths of US society are sufficiently on board to make fascism dangerously likely for decades to come.

Of course the Trump regime lies about "sanctioning" Russia.

In Trump’s world, telling the truth is a crime and deserves punishment. Reagan was a committed free trader and the Canadian summary of the speech was spot on.

Who gives a shit what Douthat says? He's a fucking imbecile.

Any CIA agent claiming Putin sincerely wants peace is a simpleton and/or a Russian agent.

These are all Gilead people. All fucked in the head assholes and other fascists.

Is the USA great or what!?

Trump has been known to the world *for_years* as a malignant ass-clown. Every single person who voted for him in Nov. 2024 is a moron, a deluded fool, and/or an asshole of high order. The more educated you are the less you get to get away with being a simpleton – i.e., you are just an asshole.

If—and this is a huge "if"—it allows the unilateral presidential imposition of tariffs at all, IEEPA does so only in the context of an "unusual and extraordinary threat ... to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States." Which of those is "Trump got his feelings hurt"?

I wish that Roger Rosenblatt keeps writing forever. I’d Like to Stay 85 Forever www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...

With all due respect to @nytpitchbot.bsky.social, it's hard to beat the NYT for NYT style pompous shit tat's definitely not anti-Trump: "The question now is whether he can build on his record."

The hideous "ballroom"

I know a Russian from St. Petersburg, professor of economics in the USA, who arrogantly pushes such Kremlin talking points & propaganda as "Obama-era State Department backed 2014 Ukraine uprisings" etc. It's not that he's an idiot: it's that he is an imperialist and blossoming fascist. He's a fraud.

Trump's "sanctions" on Russia are of course not as advertised. Just more Trump sanctions bullshit – absolutely intended to fuck with you. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-new-us...

Putin, Trump, and the always easily exploitable "traditional values": wide open gateways to fascism. Russia is now deep in it, and the USA is barreling ahead into the shit as quickly as it can. This is what happens when ~50% of the electorate choses to be much worse than pigeons. [See link below.]

Wicked as it is, abused children sounding like pigeons also seems to be a metaphor for Russians who can actually speak but use their ability passionately or arrogantly to deliver Kremlin talking points and propaganda: they are worse than pigeons.

Mike Johnson is a cowardly and malignant muppet.

Sir Keir is a twit. He should fuck off.

Ross Douthat is a shill for fascists. Also he is a moron, a grandiose moron. That this dimwit shill for assholes got a high-profile job at the NYT is a statement about the NYT. Liberal media my ass.

A lot of folks may think that just yelling at ICE agents is ineffective, but consider the cumulative psychological toll of being yelled at EVERY DAY when trying to do shit. Even the biggest asshole in the world who doesn't give a shit about other people will feel the pressure.

Perfect! Ah, the "thoughtful" Republican voter. - They do lie to themselves. - They are grandiose. And you can't be both those things without also being an asshole – and/or, if you want to be really generous, they are useful fools and frauds, or delude simpletons.

This is several days old. But amidst so much else id missed it. That’s a stunning number. No wonder they about-faced. Reminder of the power of consumers in oligarch era, not subject to the same kind of targeting.

Everyone who voted for this malignant ass-clown is a gullible fool and/or an asshole. There are no other options for who you are if you voted for Trump.

I can tell you. It is fascism in action.

Yes, and every single person who voted for any Republican is complicit in sending the USA into authoritarianism. There never was any excuse for having voted Republican in November 2024. If you voted Republican, you were then a manipulated fool and/or an asshole. That's it: there's no other option.

"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."

Yes, Jeffrey Sachs is a liar and/or a deluded asshole. 👇

Worth noting that blaming the US/NATO for Maidan is hardly limited to Sachs. One of the loudest proponents of this view is Donald Trump who in 2023 blamed Maidan on the Obama Administration

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...