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You know, it's one thing for Trump to constantly post pictures of himself as a king, but is it really necessary for Vance to be depicted as his bosomy wench?

I think Trump's behavior is a weird mix of loving anyone famous, loving anyone who has won something, and being generally timid about criticizing people to their faces — at least when he's still in the early stages of being wowed by their celebrity.

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This chart illustrates the consequences of a very New York-centric media. Voters are very aware of Mamdani’s election, which will help him become a hate figure in GOP propaganda. Voters are very unaware of the election of moderate Democratic governors, so they won’t become part of the Dem brand.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Trump yammering about how government should send money “directly to Americans” rather than the evil health insurance companies is such a fun example of Trump being a out of touch billionaire trying to larp as a populist man-of-the-people. “How much can one insurance cost, Michael, $10?”

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This, from Fox, strikes me as truly terrible analysis, just objectively:

Trump now has the inglorious honor of being the president with the two longest government shutdowns in American history.

tellingly they are unable to debate The Moloch Initiative on the policy merits

Mike Johnson has repeatedly said that he believes the Lord chose him to be speaker to serve a president also chosen by God. I think that’s the simplest explanation for why he’s such a passive do-nothing. Why challenge God’s plan? It’s Jesus’ fault, he’s just aloooong for the ride!

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Moving right won’t help the Democrats win elections. Moving left won’t help the Democrats win elections. The only thing that will help is moving down. It’s time for the Democrats to become the party of molemen

Where did the previous White House balls take place?

That’s one way of putting the fact that Americans are more eager than ever to take jobs outside of the country.

Trump really needs to stop tweeting pictures that imply Vance is his bride.

Should elected officials be imprisoned for speaking out against an invasion of their cities? Hard to say. Very technical question. Really one for the lawyers to sort out.

It’s a weird time to be alive where there are so many powerful openly gay people who are also openly working for reactionary causes. And these people often don’t have any real theory about this, it’s just a thing that’s happening.

My takeaway was that Trump is apparently operating on the assumption that he is the most popular Republican president in history.

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Americans have famously resisted using one-dollar coins, but now it will be easier than ever to resist.

Trump making great strides in offering compensation for Americans injured by Trump policies.

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This @theatlantic.com article about evangelicals and Trump, written by a Christian, is very insightful. It argues that many evangelicals are actually becoming less religious, and using politics to fill the spiritual gap: t.co/Cxpky859pj

What a complete coward this man is. “I didn’t see it”?? They’re honestly still doing this routine?

Sometimes I meet men, very sterotypically masculine, straight men, who nevertheless care a lot about the rights of gay people like me. They are very humorless about it, and get quite legitimately mad at homophobia. I'm always moved by guys like that, they feel like true "allies."

Wow the on-the-nose store just called…

It was the best of times, it was whatever times.

Biden probably won't live much longer, given his aggressive cancer. When he dies, Republicans will probably say mean things. And liberals will say this is hypocritical, given the reverence Charlie Kirk was given. And the conservatives will say Biden was old and wasn't murdered so it's different.

Hard to imagine a Democrat administration doing this for a liberal pundit, in part because I don't think any liberal pundit would be this close to an administration, I think Dem politicians consider most pundits "controversial" and I think the Democrat base would call it cringe.

I think White House people, including Trump himself, should be straight up asked "should it be illegal to criticize President Trump?"

I didn't realize until just now that the Department of War wasn't actually "renamed" the Department of Defense in 1947. In reality, it turned into the Department of the Army, and the DOD was a brand new thing. The last Secretary of War, Kenneth C. Royall, became the first Secretary of the Army.

It's very rude for the lying media to keep showing proof of the letter when President Trump has ALREADY made his position clear that it doesn't exist.

The complete elimination of the Rose Garden is such a weird sight to see.

I wonder if they’re going to make the eagle’s head face the arrows next

I see all the branding has already switched

This one seems a bit coached, as if the White House is trying to make their Epstein messaging slightly more coherent. “Dems liked him!” is still a terrible message though, given Trump… also “befriended and socialized with him.”

Hate when 'The Internet' stokes baseless conspiracy theories about a president's health

Republican Catholics being leaders of a so-called “National Conservatism” ethnonationalist revival is so patently absurd. If there was ONE THING understood to be the cornerstone of ancient Anglo-American liberty, going back to the Glorious Revolution and Cromwell and all that, it was “no Catholics.”

Wow Trump sure looks like this shit in this new photo. Looks frail, sickly, fat… mouth agape. No wait this is a photo from 2023 and he just always looks like this.

I won’t be seeing the new Frankenstein movie unless there’s a title card at the start explaining what Frankenstein is a metaphor for. I’m not wasting my time trying to figure it out.

Why is every “rationalist” essay something like this:

this article offers a good summary of Thai politics. Lots of drama here!

I think the ICE stuff is the most upsetting aspect of the second Trump term, just because they were able to get so much money for it from Congress, and because the people in charge of it are the most fanatic and cruel anti-immigration extremists in his administration.

the other thing is that this is so easy to predict and the only reason so many of our pundits have a hard time with it is because they have fully bought the idea that Trump is some pure representation of what the Volk wants.

I like how South Park acknowledges the huge evangelical Christian component of MAGA—the degree so much of what they say and do is justified by religious fanaticism. I don’t know why that’s not acknowledged more by other critics, because it’s one of the ugliest aspects of the whole movement.

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Trump appears to be jealous that no one is calling him a god:

It’s funny how Nick Lutsko made a song about the RNC a few years ago and the lyrics are comically fixated on Dan Bongino as like, the quintessential example of the most preposterous conservative media figure he can think of and now he’s deputy head of the FBI.