It's not that Trump is a renegade and lawmakers are powerless. Republicans like these murders and want them to continue. This guy's happy as a clam.

Can we stop pretending that compulsive gamblers have any special insights that ought to inform the rest of our thinking, or that their world event wagers amount to 'markets' that need to be covered by the Important Business Press. Are you people all high.

If I'm understanding this right, the Venezuelan govt can't sell their oil b/c of sanctions, so the Trump plan is to ignore those sanctions, take and sell the oil, launder the money through offshore accounts, give a kickback to the sanctioned regime and spend the rest on whatever he wants. (?)

The near side of this residential street was full of people (many with cameras) when this guy started shooting at a moving target. It's pure luck nobody else got hit.

The man has lost all touch with reality. I'm sure his last dementia screening was peppered with comments like "clocks have as many numbers as I want them to have" and "that giraffe was coming right at me."

Yuse got it all wrong, officer, I didn't rob da bank, I'm just controlling its cash flow for a while. Da bank guy I pointed my gun at agreed to it nice an square.

A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead

Note also the many bystanders were surrounding this scene as the guy shot multiple times at a moving vehicle: The first shot, through the windshield, would likely have travelled very near to where that 1st video witness was standing.

Oh this is very cool but I'll warn you in advance that "painting pigeons" here means "paintings OF pigeons" and not the thing I thought it meant.

There's no way to get back to pre-coup America without tens of thousands of prosecutions. For the corruption, for the violence, for all of it. It's just not possible. But not only can I not see it happening, there's going to be mass elite consensus that it must not.

"And I saw one of the barrels and the barrel looked at me." —Secretary of State Marco Wiggum.

It really does feel like we're in a new era in which the rich are openly contemptuous of laws and mock people who aren't. J6, Elon's planet-scale CSAM machine, AI companies blithely defrauding everyone, 'gambling' sites to launder insider trading, crypto to launder drug/mob cash, etc, etc, etc

Jared Kushner has somehow found a place at Coalition of the Willing press conference with Scholz, Zelensky, Macron, Starmer and Witkoff. Kushner has no official position in the US government.

Been reading a lot of newspaper front pages from the 1930s lately and this NYT newsrail from today echoes a bunch of them

I don't _think_ fleeing Nazi scientists stole Hitler's left testicle, cultured it for decades in a vat of rat blood, and dumped it in a Santa Monica maternity ward in 1985. It's just unsettling that I can't rule it out.

This is honestly the stupidest this claymation man crafted from hate and feces has ever sounded.

The list of historic figures who said something like this only to end up facing a jury, mob, firing squad or executioner's blade is quite long and, honestly, pretty illuminating. Miller should read more books.

Stephen Miller sounds so f-ing crazy and unhinged in this interview. Just watch. Lunatics are running the country.

If the DC press corps devoted 10% as much effort to analyzing Trump's obvious mental issues as they have to sanewashing his babbling I think the last few years would have gone real different.

It's insane to see Trump spout delusional nonsense only to have national news outlets tie themselves in knots imagining what he might have 'meant.' www.unchartedblue.com/trump-halluc...

"Yes, my question to you Mr. President is why do I love you so much."

Other nations really should be sanctioning us back into the stone age, despite all the economic havoc that'd wreak, and I expect they're going to soon regret it if they don't.

Like seriously, how do his voters not see him as the wimpiest, whiniest, most pathetic manbaby to ever live.

The man is transparently an incompetent addled freak. There's no policy, just a bunch of contradictory compulsions that nobody can talk him out of and the press sanewashes into their own weird pseudo-theories.

From last October. Sure won't tamp down suspicions that Maduro's underlings—possibly his own VP—traded him to U.S. in exchange for Trump promising to look the other way on their own crimes and cartel connections.

I think if a world leader does something in gross violation of international law and the nation's alleged legislators make no move to stop it or impose consequences then they are likely to also be considered responsible for those crimes? Theoretically speaking, anyway.

Is this another manifestation of Trump's struggles with object permanence? He watched Maduro get taken away on his TV and so now he thinks we now run the country?

I think I forgot to post my obligatory (but sincere) Heated Rivalry piece.

This thread lays it out quite well and is consistent with everything else the Trumpers do. Trump doesn't want to end the corrupt regime: he just wants a piece of the action.

It's wild that our clearly addled and hallucination-spouting POTUS appears to have little to no input in his own supposed policies and few in the upper echelons of journalism seem to either question that or care.

Another possibility is that the U.S. won't be "running" squat, Trump invented it in a dementia-laced hallucination, and now aides are scrambling to figure out how to walk that back. Because he regularly hallucinates things that aren't true!

MSNBC has a new name but don’t worry, it has the same great taste of 20 years ago

The reason these people think some ppl put America second is because they themselves do. They are Trumpers first, Americans second. There was even a coup! It's natural to assume other groups put factionalism over patriotism when that's how you approach every day of your own whining racist life.

Other nations need to bar these freaks from entering. Shun them. Revoke their diplomatic papers. There's no reasoning with them, you don't have to pretend there is.

You'll notice that most of the pics are in color except for the ones with Stephen Miller in them. Yeah, he just does that. Nobody knows why.

This has long been speculated (by me) to be a useful trick allowing partisan figures to ratfuck elections simply by making sure some communities have quick service and others have slow service. (Guess which ones will have slow service.)

Really stark to see such division and incredibly disappointing to see The Washington Post go down the path of lawless authoritarianism. Jeff Bezos will go down as a villain of this era, and that is as it should be.

I tried writing it up but the Trump-Rubio-Hegseth theory of what happens next is so incoherent and bizarre that it's impossible to make sense of. www.unchartedblue.com/trump-kidnap...

The fascist aesthetic is amazing b/c it's a movement of idiots who shun expertise so when they try to mimic expertise they can only do it from the perspective of idiots.

So I guess what's going on is that a subset of Maduro's underlings sold him out in exchange for a Trump assurance that _they_ can keep doing criminal stuff as long as they sign contracts giving control of the oil fields to U.S. companies. (?)

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

If foreign nations are allowed to kidnap lawbreaking presidents now I can't help but note that the Canadian Army could probably spirit a certain someone away with nothing more than a moving van and a filet-o-fish on a string.

So Pete and Rubio are now in charge of Venezuela, oil companies are going to flock there to start stealing the oil, but there's no troops on the ground and no real plans for it, and ... huh? Can anyone fill me in on the missing steps here?

Seems like a news organization that loved America would wanna expose crimes done by powerful people rather than covering that stuff up while waving flags around but what do I know, I'm not a jingoistic hamster-brained cokehead.

The official DoJ/pundit line is that while all the wealthiest ppl in America hung out with Epstein, none of them knew of or participated in the sex trafficking, and at this point "actually they're all extraterrestrial lizard people" would be the more plausible lie.

Dunno what else there is to say about pedocon theory when X, the global far right's most important social media megaphone, is on track to rapidly become the world's largest CSAM manufacturer and distributor.

You can make LLMs say almost anything. A news organization reporting "what grok said" is engaging in journalistic malpractice. It doesn't know. It just creates plausible sounding words in response to a prompt.

Okay if this dude is now getting quarterly or monthly dementia tests (while still not understanding what they are) then the state of the trumpennoggin is pretty dire indeed.