Wouldn't it be nice if Trump and his administration didn't tick every single box on the Unfit to Govern checklist?

🎵He is the very model of a very stable gen-i-us 🎵

I have a relative who lives in a "memory care" facility. Based on the folks I've seen wandering the halls there, I can't imagine that any of them miss their booze.

My theory is that despite his hubris and bullying, Trump is fundamentally a coward. Which actually works in our favor when he's threatening war crimes.

🌮 BREAKING: TACO TUESDAY🌮 Donald trump delays ethnic cleansing and war crimes again by extending the ceasefire indefinitely.

Alternet: Trump wanted to use US nuclear codes during an emergency meeting, a move blocked by General Dan Caine. Johnson criticized Trump’s mental state, claiming his Iran statements were aimed at manipulating stock prices rather than reflecting reality. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

25th Amendment time, folks "A day later, Trump offered another confusing update, this time about the whereabouts of his No. 2. He told a reporter ... that Vance was in the air and preparing to touch down in Pakistan within hours ..Moments later, Vance’s motorcade — ..arrived at the West Wing."

Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."

WaPo: Annual flu vaccine no longer required for U.S. military, Hegseth says. Winston Churchill: "The main difference between humans and animals is that animals would never let the stupidest one in the group lead them." #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

Then do something. Get out in front of cameras and make statements every day. Call out what you know is happening behind the scenes. Make your republican colleagues uncomfortable. Start reading the Epstein files on the floor. Just do something. We won’t survive 3 more years.

Tell me I'm not the ONLY one who sees this as a transparent ploy by the allegedly alcoholic FBI director to keep his job:

gonna be pretty incredible if trump’s hormuz adventure forces the global green energy transition AND somehow brings CoE back to Rome

To be fair to Rubio, I'm guessing that he's spending the evening with Trump because he lost the coin-flip with Vance.

Why doesn't anybody ever give our president credit for remaining strategically uninvolved in "president stuff", and thereby not making things worse?

Let's do it.

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And then Susan Collins will take the cue that her eyebrow is concerned.

Pet your dogs, everyone, and appreciate that they have no idea what is happening in this fucked up world.

a visual depiction of Fox News's commentary tonight

Just because he backed off shouldn’t stop efforts to remove him. He is dangerous and cannot be left in power.

Two weeks to remove him. Now.

Just because a President announces he’s agreed to a two week ceasefire moments before he threatened to commit war crimes, does not mean he is suddenly fit to serve. #25thAmendment

Thankfully, it's Taco Tuesday once again!

I no longer feel the need to suppress my occasional intrusive thought that the entire world would be better of if the Pennsylvania shooter had been a slightly better shot.

Seems reasonable.

Just because you threaten to wipe out an entire civilization doesn’t mean the Iranians will stop trolling you.

In the vein of "Everything Trump touches dies," the once plausible dream of Iranians rising up against the evil Iranian mullahs who rule them now seems to be dead.

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Happy Trumpageddon day for all who celebrate. Which I sincerely hope is absolutely nobody.

This doesn’t seem hyperbolic now

If AI ever ponders whether it should save itself from the existential threat posed by irrational humans, I'm sure this will convince it that it absolutely cannot allow humans to remain in charge.

It seems as if the "Mad Man Theory" is no longer just a theory. But at least we have Pete Hegseth, the exemplar of restraint and sobriety, to stop him.

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.

Did anyone see this one coming?

And now he’s talking about the “the death of entire civilization.” If this isn’t what the 25th amendment is for then I don’t know what the fuck is.

We could be looking at one of the worst humanitarian crises in history tonight.

Hope Congress is enjoying their vacation. Pricks.

ICYMI: @thetimes.com did a nice little profile on me "I think covering this stuff over the last decade has probably negatively affected my mental health just bc it’s pretty bleak most of the time. But I still get up and feel privileged in some ways to be able to cover historic events for a living."

Big shoutout to Artemis as they escape Earth while we have to stay and listen to asshole Trump.

The fact that all the televangelists pictured below worship Donald Trump is pretty compelling evidence that they don't actually worship Jesus Christ.

Lawrence O’Donnell made a great point. Nixon won his 1972 re-election in a landslide, winning 49 states. In 1974 he resigned. By 1976, you couldn’t find anyone who would admit to supporting him. Looking forward to history repeating itself.

Notice that Trump is in such a dementia-induced or drug-induced stupor that he can barely even absorb the worshipful admiration of the Pharisee lady.

I look forward to Democrats fulfilling political prophecy by nailing Trump to a cross when they take control of Congress in the midterms. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

We will get rid of all that once we have him out of office. They will be pulling those plastic Home Depot decorations out of the White House as soon as he walks out the door. Then fumigation will begin.

Artemis II lifts off

I entirely agree with the sentiment below, but having seen the Constitution in person twice, I'd like to point out that it is frail piece of parchment, and has no apparent power to make anyone do anything. Heck, it can't even defend itself against straw man arguments like Mike Lee made.

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