I looked up his history awhile back. Best I could deduce is that he thinks his working class parents were screwed over by government and he’s out to make the world what he wants it to be. Overall really weird dude.

1/ 例によって洞察に富んだフィリプコウスキのポッドキャストなんだが、TLに無い情報も多く、米政治の流れを整理するのに役立つ。やはり、ボウトとミラーに徐々に注目がシフトしつつあるな。トランプを入れていわば3人の狂人の支配する米国だが、メディアが報じないので世間はその病理の深さにまだ気づいていない。ボウトは本質が官僚で社会全体への影響無視で予算停止やリベラル職員のクビ切りを行うので、困るのはリベラルだけでなく、支持率の落ちている青い州の共和党議員の再選には大きなダメージ、と。ま、ミラーも同様でマトモな社会人生活の経験がなく、右派政治の世界しか知らないので同じ展開になる。

probably his hate against gov employees is some kinda personal grudge or "deep state" kinda conspiracy theory. one thing for sure is he is a sick person having a personality disorder. otherwise his obsession with religious extremism can't be explained. guess Antoni too.

Republicans control the shutdown. Top to bottom. For example, construction of Trump's ballroom will continue as "essential" during the shutdown. But the stuff that helps you will not. abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

full of insight into what's going on now. excellent as usual.

even when DOGE was rampant, Vought was instructing Musk which agencies he had to attack bcz he doesn't know what those agencies are doing. the same thing for thhis interview. the conman doesn't even know what those agencies are. we are seeing a tv reality show.

'We need to speak to him': Trump ally faces call to testify over stunning Epstein claim

I’m confused how it is despicable to ask that question. These are exactly the kinds of questions we have been begging reporters & TV hosts to ask. You see when they do get asked how sensitive they are about it. Much, much more of this. More crypto questions, Qatar, UAE, etc bsky.app/profile/atru...

you don't need much insight. his face, words, and behavior tell you everything. he is mentally ill. probably has been for long.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

'He's not okay': Trump's speech sparks cognitive concerns for national security expert

1/ 予定通りの米政府機関閉鎖なんだが、今回はエプスティンの件があって長いだろうね。今月から来年6月までの最高裁の営業期間にはいるんだが、このブレナン・センターのペーパーに分かり易くまとまってマス。全体の流れから言うとカオスと言うより、いよいよトランプ・クーデターの本質が見え始めたということだろう。つまり、キリスト教カルトがその主張を隠さなくなった。んな、リベラル都市への南軍進軍とか、医療保険を巡る攻防なんて極めて表面的な問題にしか過ぎない。要は有色人種排斥と神権政治の復活こそが今の米国の混乱の本質であって、背後にいる宗教勢力の長年の夢がいよいよ現実のものとなるか、という事デス。

NY Attorney General Letitia James sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security late Tuesday after she alleges it illegally withheld millions of dollars in federal funding for mass transit counterterrorism security measures.

the ultimate objective of P2025 is creating "their" God's country by completely destroying the U.S., as Vought repeatedly said. they don't care whatever the damage to the economy or society is. unless SCOTUS stops it, they will fire as many gov employees as possible.

100%

Finally, a reporter asked the question I’ve been screaming at my TV. 📌 Why do you keep lying about immigrants getting free healthcare? And Trump went straight into his same old word salad mode of incoherent nonsense. No answer.

New Fox News poll has Mikie Sherrill up 50-42 (+8) among NJ likely voters. This spread is very consistent with other independent polling in the race over the past few weeks.

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

Can we make postcards of this and send it to the corrupt six?

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they are touting medieval age fantasy, which they never saw, touched and smelled. the age people had lived up to only 30-40 years old bcz of epidemics and malnutrition. and people were easily slaughtered if church and king didn't like them. Yeah, that's biblical.

Dear @apnews.com The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once. Fix your headline.

Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.

Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.

Trump admitted in the Oval Office he is shutting the government down. Democrats are ready to stop your health insurance costs from doubling.

POTUS can only federalize Nat.Guards in case of a national emergency, insurrection, or inability to enforce federal law. the Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the use of the military to enforce federal law. the answer is very clear unless SCOTUS appeases the orange conman threatening violence.

nice!! need more criticism against the white christian extremist cult, aka The Heritage Foundation.

Jayapal: It is a strange and bizarre time when we literally have a president thinking about plating the ballroom in gold—while he’s thrown 15 million Americans off healthcare, fired over 150,000 federal workers, and is threatening to fire even more if we go into a shutdown.

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

if bs floated by dementia conman doesn't work, the religious cult, aka The Heritage Foundation, would come up with something else. they will never give up bcz it's under the name of their God. that's what it is.

Trump abused his routine powers & got blocked 200+ times by the courts So in desperation he's pivoting to his extraordinary powers: criminal investigations & military deployment It’s a dangerous pivot—but we & the coalition are fighting back in court I explained @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social👇

1/ トランプとヘグセスが軍トップを世界中から集めて演説しているんだが、2人とも演説とは到底呼べないシロモノ。笑えない漫談とでも言うべきか。ところで気になるのはトランプの舌が回っていないこと。酔っ払いのような語尾はこの1か月で一気に進んだが、今日の発音は際立つ。選挙中からスピーチ・ライターであるミラーは知っていて3音節以上の単語は極力避けていたんだが、先日の脳梗塞・心筋梗塞以降はかなり顕著になった。おそらく、今後はもっぱらSNSの文章に頼るだろう。スピーチというのはそれなりに体力を要するので、もう長いスピーチはムリだろう。ところでトランプはそれとなく拍手を促したんだが誰も拍手しなかったですな。

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 218. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Never gets old.

"The possibility of invoking the Federal Contested Elections Act makes gerrymandering seem quaint. But one lesson of this year is that whatever isn’t nailed down in advance is apt to be seized at the earliest opportunity."

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

"Who would you blame for a government shutdown?" 🔴 Republicans: 45% 🔵 Democrats: 32% Morning Consult / Sept 28, 2025

Trump is turning DOJ into a weapon of revenge From Comey to Bolton to Tish James — anyone who held him accountable is now a target This is not democracy It’s a rewrite of Jan 6, of history itself It’s retaliation, not justice I explained on @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social👇

this regression to a 5 years old kid is more likely due to dementia than a psychological one under strong stress.

is there any research about where infinite spewing lies end up? or it's just infinite?

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

it's the Heritage Foundation. no doubt. the nation should realize the fact that it's a process, a religious cult taking over the country.

I’m sure they’ll be fired in short order.

Breaking WaPo: Military leaders have raised serious concerns with the Trump admin's new defense strategy — exposing a divide between the Pentagon's political and uniformed leadership. 
The critiques from multiple top officers, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

Trump’s shutdown brinkmanship, GOP lies on shootings, ICE and National Guard chaos & more. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast live at 8p ET/5p PT!

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

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I have got to get this book. Great interview. People who've read the book are buying copies for friends & relatives. As an athiest who was raised Baptist, I like the logic. 😊