Trump's understanding of Obamacare has been consistent:

1) Obama, therefore bad.

2) Rich Republicans and right-wing media hate it, so denouncing it generates praise/donations.

3) Average people don't like losing benefits, so lie that they'll get something better, enough will buy that.

That's it.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.

So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

Trump’s Raids Terrorize Catholics — Pope Leo’s Top Cardinal Calls It an ‘Assault on Millions’ Seminarians are leaving the country, priests worry they could be next, and Pope Leo XIV insists the Church must stand with its most vulnerable faithful.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, a Pope Leo ally who serves as archbishop of Washington, doesn’t mince words about what’s happening.

“We are witnessing a full-scale governmental assault designed to produce fear among millions.

“It's an instrument of terror.”

As a teen or young adult in the 1990s you had constant encounters with people in their 50s-80s who were combatants, victims or perpetrators during catastrophes of the mid-20th century

That direct link to realities of Nazism and other forms of oppression such as Stalinism or colonialism is now gone

President began demolishing the East Wing of the WH to build there his $200M+ ballroom.

East Wing was built in 1942 during the presidency of FDR. It was constructed to cover the bunker that he used during WWII and the President's Emergency Operations Center.

You know, to paraphrase @kenwhite.bsky.social , if you joke about some things, it’s kind of like ‘ironically’ fucking a goat.

Sure, you may say it’s for irony or performance art or to be provocative or whatever, but at the end of the day, you’re still balls deep in a goat.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

once again trump’s great political asset is that voters literally do not believe anything he says

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Just so I'm clear:

TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal

TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.

TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.

Free speech, everyone.

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

So MSNBC reportedly fired Matthew Dowd tonight just hours after Jesse Watters called for his "immediate" termination over his Charlie Kirk shooting comments.

Meanwhile, Watters said he's going to "avenge" Kirk's death because "they are at war with us" -- and he'll face no repercussions from Fox.

Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So It’s possible for Trump to be an inept buffoon—but still extremely dangerous. And it shouldn’t be so hard to make that case.

@gregsargent.bsky.social:

"Trump is a floundering figure of buffoonish incompetence who is simultaneously consolidating authoritarian power, which is precisely what makes this situation so combustible and dangerous. And Democrats can say exactly that"

newrepublic.com/article/2000...

This is your Democratic campaign message for 2026

Pirro’s office won’t pursue gun charges over carrying rifles, shotguns A statement from Pirro on Tuesday said D.C.’s blanket prohibition on carrying shotguns or rifles “is clearly a violation of the Supreme Court’s holdings.”

See what’s happening?

Trump pardoned 1500 violent J6 criminals who assaulted the police at the Capitol.

He’s brought in the military for law enforcement.

And now those with shotguns and AR-15s are free to roam DC.

He’s creating his own violent militia.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

One of the biggest open secrets of the 21st century is that most of the things people blame for workers not getting a fair shake -- technological unemployment, outsourcing -- aren't nearly as big a deal as the law continuing to become more hostile to the existence of unions.

Bill Kristol @BillKristol .. • I want to congratulate leading Democrats' for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a "stunt" or a "distraction." It's a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness. 11:34 AM • Aug 17, 2025 • 122.5K Views

Congrats to the nominal opposition for being to the right of *Bill Kristol* on Trump assualting DC

This is step one in how we lose free and fair elections. It’s not that Trump will “cancel” the midterms.

It’s just everyone has to vote in person, and urban downtowns will be filled with ICE checkpoints and intimidating National Guard troops to “double check” that only citizens vote.

Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points:
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws

This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship

One thing I cannot emphasize enough in these benighted times is that NO ONE who is not a US Citizen should be crossing the US Border in either direction unless they have no other choice.

It's immensely unsafe.

I feel like at some point you can't even blame the conspiracy theorists for having broken brains. god is gaslighting them

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

It's remarkable that the Biden administration spent money on rural red areas, which then voted enthusiastically for Trump, who has now repeatedly made moves to screw over those exact same areas.

The Great American Experiment is now facing the age old question I’m sure was on the top of everyone’s minds: what if people who nod along to racist threads on 4chan ran the government

In the binary authoritarian mind, there are two kinds of phenomena in the world: good/us & bad/them. They can not tolerate or cognize complexity beyond that.

So all the terms they use -- "socialist," "communist," "unconstitutional," "woke," "third world" -- they all just mean "them." Just "bad."

There are reporters still talking about Biden’s mental sharpness while the current president is declaring Rosie O’Donnell a “threat to humanity.”

I don’t care if he doesn’t back this up with further action, in a normal time, this is a major scandal, showing the president of the United States has nothing but contempt for the first amendment, basic rights, and his fellow citizens and will act accordingly in various ways.

We intentionally did not put Rosie in the headline because this is not about Rosie O’Donnell it’s about everyone