I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF

This sums it up rather well.

"All twelve regional bank presidents are up for renewal in February, and Hassett and Bessent have hinted a purge may be coming. The pretext would be a new, bogus, long-term residency requirement that Bessent proposed...This would be the way Trump co-opts the Fed." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.

It's not a question of politics or party. Congress has a constitutional obligation to impeach and to remove a president who commits high crimes and misdemeanors and forsakes his solemn oath. And there has never been a president who has committed as many impeachable offenses than this one.

main economic message from the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it

Republicans use the "I'm not familiar with that" dodge several times a day now, and if a reporters or anchor isn't ready and willing to shut them down as soon as they try it, that means they're either incompetent at their job or a willing accomplice to the lies. Either way, never trust them again.

Note: "Deportation Judges," not immigration judges. No need to apply if you don't get the agenda.

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The U.S. Supreme Court: "ICE can racially profile people it arrests." Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race." Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?

"Their expertise ranges from ordering war crimes to covering up sex crimes to engaging in all manner of financial criminality. They’re a diverse bunch, from tough guys outfitted in combat gear and masks, to smooth operators in tuxedoes who mingle at state dinners." www.thebulwark.com/p/sex-crimes...

How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal. Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military. Pure, mindless, barbarism. www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

Need to monetize laziness.

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The "Department of War" is going after a political opponent of Donald Trump. We are a country being run by petulant, dangerous children.

This is a good line and the key point to be amplifying: "What’s most telling is that the President considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law." Keep shining a bright light on Trump's violent lawlessness.

I'm old enough to remember when "armed agents of the federal government raiding churches on Christmas" was not, in fact, a cornerstone of the Republican Party's agenda.

Chris Murphy: "The fact of the matter is if you don't put constraints on Donald Trump's illegality, this democracy isn't going to be here next November. It isn't going to be here in 2028. So Democrats, yes, have to draw firm moral lines in the sand right now."

yknow if everyone would just come out against him en masse he couldn’t pick them off one by one like this

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

[Caving Democrat Michael Corleone]: “My offer to you is this: Everything.”

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

This is because Intuit, Inc. gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his "inauguration." Intuit owns Turbo Tax, which makes money off charging taxpayers to file their returns. The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.

Imagine shareholders willing to give a trillion dollars to a guy who says there are 20 million dead people getting Social Security, but is too incompetent to find any of them.

If only there were a Nobel Prize for indifference….

And they're living it up with dancing girls at Mar-a-Lago and drinking bubbly at the new Café de Rose Garden and hitting companies up for Trump's opulent ballroom and squeezing a 747 from Qatar and selling watches and crypto and sneakers and otherwise making a mint. It shouldn't be hard at all.

Eventually, they’ll figure out population density. 🤡

Imagine thinking immigrants are a recent novelty in New York City.

[Narrator: they lost 13 seats]

MSNBC JUST CALLED IT. PROP 50 PASSES. CLEAN SWEEP. We did it.

For the love of God, can just one interviewer push back on this insanity? There are people seeking political asylum in America. They were not taken out of mental asylums in other countries and brought here. It's a big mistake with big ramifications, but no one wants to correct Our Special Boy.

The president thinks federal goons haven’t been violent *enough* with the American people. The president seems to hope that his thugs will kill someone soon.

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

Congress basically doesn’t exist at this point

Reagan was like Joe Free Trade. He and Thatcher are the avatars of the neoclassical economics resurgence, trade liberalization, etc. good or bad this is pure reality. The idea that this conversation is even happening shows how much we’re in the mad king 2+2=7 world.

Demanding to be paid a quarter of a billion dollars for all the crimes he’s committed should be the new definition of chutzpah.

I have one slight disagreement with this post. There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy. And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.

“Ok, now I want you to demolish the White House. Use any excuse, like, you’re building a ballroom, say.

Can we just fast forward to the Damnatio Memoriae stage of his presidency?

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

Sharing this 102 year old WW2 Vet who is fighting fascism a second time.

To be unaware of one thing you don't wish to talk about is convenient. To be unaware of *everything* you don't wish to talk about is either lying or incompetence. Or both.

The oppression will continue until he gets his peace prize. And beyond.

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...