I truly marvel that Trump has reached the age of seventy-nine without somebody bayoneting him. Never mind everything else he's done in the eight decades that he's blighted the Earth, you'd think his sheer personal obnoxiousness would have inspired thoughts of homicide in everyone who ever met him.

We should lighten up on this whole Trump Greenland business. After all, we've had far-right populist demagogues who started unilaterally annexing the territory of other states before, and it never led to anything bad. What's a little Anschluß between friends?

C'mon, hamberders, do your job.

More than the Constitution, we need consequences. We're here because Donald Trump has never experienced consequences for ANYTHING. If we are to survive, there must be consequences for EVERYTHING: Trump's open criminality, Republican complicity, ICE's brutality, the Democrats' utter ineffectuality.

if they hate the inconvenience of nonviolent protest so much they're not going to like the other kind

You might almost think Trump had no interest in promoting democracy in Venezuela, or even in bringing Maduro to justice for his alleged drug-trafficking activities, but merely in grabbing some oil and parking the profits in a dubiously-administered offshore account. But that couldn't be the case.

There’s a clear pattern to how Trump has long been building toward the Insurrection Act. He isn’t “unhinged”—his horrid responses to ICE shootings, assassinations, and mass killings are by design. National traumas are his ammo. I document his method here 👉🏻 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The only surprising thing is that Trump didn't insist that she hand over the prize money as well.

It's sort of cool that the President used a US carrier battlegroup to extort resources from a foreign nation and the money he extorted was then placed in an offshore account that he controls and which isn't subject to Congressional oversight or control. I'm sure that's a very normal thing.

In videos of ICE agents, what's most striking is how ill-disciplined & unprofessional they are. That'd be a problem if they were a law enforcement agency. But they're not. As currently used, they're a terror gang. Their job is to provoke & spread fear. The lack of discipline is actually the point.

My non-risky prediction for the day is that some woman, somewhere, has previously experienced abuse or violence at the hands of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. A man who yells 'fucking bitch' seconds before gunning a woman down isn't acting out of character. It's who they are.

Ordinary people, faced with masked, armed men shrieking conflicting orders at them, are expected to remain calm & somehow do everything they're told if they don't want to be killed. Masked, armed men, faced with ordinary people, are allowed to kill them if they say that they felt scared.

The people who have always shouted loudest about "freedom" are now the ones telling us "You have no rights. Shut up and lick the boots of your masters." They love the flag as long as it doesn't stand for anything.

Lick our boots! LICK OUR BOOTS!!!!

Congratulations to ICE on graduating from just another government agency to an actual government-endorsed death squad.

The federal agent who killed Renee Good can move to have any case moved to federal court. If he is convicted in federal court, the president can pardon him. There's not the slightest doubt that Trump, if he is still in office at the time, will do so.

Six states have introduced legislation to shield drivers from liability if they "unintentionally" run over protesters who block traffic. (Like 'stand your ground' laws, these laws will protect some people and not others) Meanwhile, driving a car in the presence of a cop can carry the death penalty.

People like to claim that politicians don't care about ordinary people. That's not true in the US, where the president himself, a very busy man, will take time out of his day to lie about the circumstances of your death when one of his agents murders you.

By not briefing Congress, Trump generously spared them from being complicit in his flagrant violation of international law. But their immunity likely goes away if they simply rubber-stamp his aggression, or allow him to commit further crimes (as he almost certainly will).

Remember, international law says clearly that you can do whatever you want if the other guy is a dick.

But if Trump gets sidetracked running Venezuela, who's going to build a luxury playground for billionaires on the rubble of Gaza, or turn Greenland into the fifty-first state?

Congress will never stand for this blatant disregard of their constitutional authority. Trump is finished now for certain … Ha ha, whoops. Sorry, I forgot which universe I was in for a moment there.

Past experience suggests that US plans for Venezuela are probably the equivalent of a napkin scrawl that ends with: 5. ????? 6. PROFIT! As in Iraq, where the Bush admin's lack of a long-term plan cost hundreds of thousands of lives, they will roll the dice & hope for the best, & it won't work.

I would have said that he was the dumbest person ever to hold a high elected office in the United States, but then I remember that Tommy Tuberville exists.

It is the official position of the United States that US courts have jurisdiction over any president in the world except the President of the United States.

A hush fell over the Situation Room. The world stood on the brink of nuclear annihilation. One slim chance remained, but only if they could somehow find someone who could recognize a giraffe. President Donald J. Trump cleared his throat. "Don't worry, guys," he said calmly. "I've got this one."

Who knew there were C-list Nazis?

If there are people who you don't want to have vote, you just arrange things so that their mail-in ballots only become available six days before the election, and then make it take seven days for mail from their area to reach the automated sorters. Done.

It seems that several months of bombing small boats in the Caribbean have not diminished Donald Trump's appetite for blowing up dark-skinned people, so 2026 threatens to be an ugly year.

My prediction that when the Epstein files were released they would be ineptly and very obviously redacted to try to conceal mentions of Trump appears to be confirmed. … but as far as predictions go, this one was pretty low-hanging fruit.

On a scale of "Tuskeegee Experiment" to "Josef Mengele", exactly how fucked is this proposal?

My prediction is that any Epstein files released will have been redacted to minimize damage to certain people. But the redaction will quickly be discovered, perhaps by comparing documents already public against copies in the (redacted) fileset. Because they are just so damn bad at this.

Insiders say that Prince bin Salman intends to present Donald Trump with a solid gold bonesaw as a token of their friendship.

People criticize Keir Starmer a lot, but he's done something that many political observers would have said was impossible: he's made the Conservatives look competent, and Reform look like a serious political party.

To believe that Donald Trump is not a serial sexual predator requires you to believe that double-digit numbers of women are ALL lying, and that Donald Trump is telling the truth for what might quite possibly be the first time in his life.

But his emails!

When the history of our time is written, the record will have to show that thousands of innocent people were systematically terrorized not as part of any coherent agenda, but because a bunch of knuckle-dragging racist dipshits wanted to cosplay being SEAL Team 6.

I think it's very big of Donald Trump to work against releasing the Epstein files because he knows they contain information that could embarrass his good friend Bill Clinton.

Whatever else you may say about Epstein, you can't say that he wasn't a shrewd judge of character.

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There is a very definite case for cutting off Dick Cheney's head and burying him at the crossroads with a stake through his heart, the way they used to do with vampires. The man hasn't even had a pulse for decades. There is no single better candidate for "probably undead" in the US today.

I don't think Dick Cheney was even in my "Top Ten People I'd Like To See Die Suddenly of Natural Causes" list any more. These days he might not even have made the top twenty.

They said that during Trump's first term too. They didn't have a plan then, except a vague idea of letting insurance companies sell you worse plans for more money. Eight years later, they still don't have a plan. Only one thing is certain: whatever they eventually do come up with will be horrible.

This isn't a prediction or a recommendation, but I'd just like to point out that the last autocratic ruler who got both Luke Skywalker AND Han Solo mad at him got hurled into the reactor shaft of a space station that then blew up. He's lucky Carrie Fisher isn't alive. She'd probably make it happen.

It's the Great Pimpking, Charlie Brown.

They may have stripped him of all his titles, but to me he'll always be Nonce Andrew.

The establishment – any establishment, but the British ruling classes above all – instinctively reacts to scandal or criticism by closing ranks to protect its members (and itself). The fact they are publicly expelling Andrew is an acknowledgement that whatever he did must have been truly monstrous.

The Republicans blame the Democrats for the shutdown and the hardship it will cause, in the hope that people will hate the Democrats. The Democrats blame the Republicans, hoping people will hate the Republicans. Neither seems to imagine that people might end up hating BOTH parties. As they should.

He's not wrong. J.D. Vance speaks a different language than I do, the language of fascism, and I certainly don't want that asshole living anywhere near me.

"Mr. President, a head of state beloved by right-wingers for his conservative economic policies is struggling …" "Send him $20bn!" "And your rich friends invested in his country. Now their money is at risk!" "Make it $40bn!" "And he's a crypto fraudster!" "My kind of guy! He can have $80bn!"