Khashoggi's Ghost

That and people who’s sense of being cool and/or grift means permanent opposition to everything

Yeah, along with starting wildly illegal wars that violate both US law & international treaties, maybe we (the US) shouldn't have started using wildly illegal tariffs that violate both US law & international treaties. Turns out, other countries also have agency & can do that, too.

Wait ... what?

Oh ... now Trump says there shouldn't be trans surgeries for minor without parent's written approval. Isn't that already how it is?

But Trump had a nice talk with his buddy Vlad today, and says he wants to make a deal.🙄

EIGHT DOLLARS A GALLON.

Downtown Los Angeles.

Today.

Trump promised to lower gas prices on Day 1. Instead he started a war with Iran and gas in LA just topped $8.

This is sticker shock. This is his fault.

#TrumpsGasProblem​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

"You have to believe that was accidental, despite the fact it was hit twice, 40 minutes apart. It looks very much like a double-tap.”

Tucker not buying Trump’s lie about the girls’ school bombing.

He's not smart. He's not knowledgeable. And he doesn't listen to any of the people who are. For decades he's gotten his way by being an obnoxious bully and making threats, and he doesn't know what to do when that doesn't work.

MAGA hates the most essential parts of America. Dems should say so without caveat or qualificaiton.

Just, in every possible way, precisely the opposite of how they treated Biden.

YES. In the same sentence he said the war was complete, he proposed a policy that would vastly enlarge the war! Media reported the first half, and then later reported a different part to make it seem like a change! But it was incoherent, nonsensical slop all along.

This, too, is sanewashing!

Trump is trying to get credit with China for intervening on their behalf in a war he started.

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

I think there's good odds of this happening and my god am I here for it. There is no level of public humiliation sufficient for this toad.

We'll know immediately when Trump sees reports of this statement.

Arizona AG Responds to Reports of FBI Subpoena For 2020 Records: All Based On ‘Crackpots and Lies’ Investigation Into Trump’s 2020 Delusions Expands The FBI has expanded its investigation...

Arizona AG Responds to Reports of FBI Subpoena For 2020 Records: All Based On ‘Crackpots and Lies’ talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

This and the decades of proof should be the main messaging of the entire party. If every Dem hammered on constantly with receipts showing Republicans are bad for the economy maybe people would start to catch on.

We need to keep reminding folks that economic effects of policy take time to see

Silicon Valley, AI firms’ origin (whatever you think of them now), Pfizer and world biotech research centers here in the US — all of that grew out of an “administrative state” that the courts and the president mostly left alone.
For decades.

I keep saying it, but the JCPOA team included 150 subject-matter experts, mainly on nuclear and sanctions issues. I expect Jared and Steve to know precisely nothing about the nuclear side. Probably the sanctions too.

Apropos of nothing goodauthority.org/news/trump-a...

I cant wait for this jar of spoiled mayonnaise to be a minority.

Make it happen, midterms.

A Night Off With Chickens I’ve had lots of travel and lots of travel delays in the last week, so I’m going to take a night off now that I’m safely back home, and get a little extra sleep.

If you need some pictures of chickens tonight, I’m here for you.
joycevance.substack.com/p/a-night-of...

(I don’t actually wish him good luck) has me crying

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Also, he is what Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson told everyone Biden was. Their silence now is deafening. And damning.

In the 60s it was “suppose they gave a war and nobody came.” Now it’s “suppose we did a war and then said that we didn’t do a war and also we already won the war and we beat you shut up”

As good a summary as you’ll see

Trump draws the line at raping five year olds.

He's been spinning this stupid lie for a while now.

At least 40 countries have mail in voting, and if we had a functioning press corp they would point this out to him.

Taylor Swift
Pearl Jam
Olivia Dean
Zach Bryan
Oasis
The Cure

What do they all have in common?

They've all spoken out about Ticketmaster ripping off fans.

But Trump just gave Ticketmaster the equivalent of a corporate pardon.

It's a betrayal of every fan in America.

Yup. And their goal is personal profit, not world peace.