Mike Hoekstra

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires.

I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

So Kyle Rittenhouse, who attended a protest armed with a loaded assault rifle and killed 2 people is a right-wing hero.

But Alex Pretti who had a holstered, permitted handgun, was recording ICE, and tried to help a pepper-sprayed woman deserved to die?

No one is buying this BS.

The most pathetic man alive.

I'm not so easily shocked these days, but it might actually be shocking that the vice president of the United States is as violently, smugly, publicly racist as he is.

Remember when Presidents did national speeches for emergencies or times where a nation needs to hear from their leader?

This angry old man is literally screaming and clearly panicking

Who knew that the Allstate commercial we’d have to watch 1 million times during games this year with Meghan Trainor and Patrick Mahomes was actually trying to tell us something. #mahomes

Imagine calling yourself a small government conservative and yet contorting yourself into thinking this is in any small bit OK.

Where do you start? The election of a black man as president, and the meltdown response it created.

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

I know we’re going in circles but it is abundantly clear that they have literally no idea, let alone a plan, to fix their own mess.

Nobody is at the wheel, it is the first social media AI presidency and they drove themselves into a blind alley.

Dime store Dimmler

I forget who said it initially but yeah, the biggest question you could ask anybody concerning American politics right now is "Who was president in 2020?"

This is definitely a thing!

I suppose folks are now beginning to understand how Trump may have navigated himself into serial bankruptcies.

May I introduce you to the financial panic of 1873? 1893? 1907?
The counter-revolution that ended Reconstruction?
The introduction of Jim Crow segregation?
The "Mississippi Plan" of 1890?
The Populist revolt?
The first nationwide strike on the railroads in 1877? Pullmans strike? Homestead?

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

There's something grimly ironic about Trump, whose criminal guilt was quite clear based on public information, managing to land in the White House rather than a prison cell thanks to dragging out Due Process, now handwaving process away and assuming the right to brand criminals by fiat.

Part of the lesson here is that Trumpists, like many bullies, don’t handle it well if you stand up to them rather than caving. If Trump or Vance or their supporters had any character this petulant display and Zelenskyy’s defiance would be humiliating to them.

The decision to fire General Brown reflects Mr. Trump’s insistence that the military’s leadership is too mired in diversity issues, has lost sight of its role as a combat force to defend the country and is out of step with his “America First” movement. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. “First of all, you’ve got to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs,” Mr. Hegseth said in an appearance on the “Shawn Ryan Show” in November. He added that any general involved with D.E.I. efforts should be fired. “Either you’re in for warfighting, and that’s it,” he said. “That’s the only litmus test we care about.

This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

The @dallasmavs.bsky.social have traded Saquon to the Lakers for drinking after the game.

The lesson for everyone still going on and on about how we can’t stop Trump is that you are wrong. Public pressure works. Pushing Congress works. Stop whining and start yelling. Hegseth and Gabbard cannot be confirmed.

I think it's cool that they don't have to sell naming rights, but also they're the 2nd most valuable franchise because they're the Yankees and can make a zillion dollars on everything else they do. Ditto for Dodgers. What lesson can the Pittsburgh Pirates learn from this besides moving to LA or NY?

so much of the right-wing backlash in this country is driven by indignation at the idea that there should be consequences for being a shitbag. it is truly a shitbag uprising.

Jake Paul fight RFK Jr. next

It turns out that the drama of “will my spinning red wheel hit 100%” was much more entertaining than the actual Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight.

Here’s something that everyone needs to know - the evangelical support that put DJT in the White House was the result of at least 40 years of hard core back door political networking & campaigning by leaders who saw the church as an army of foot soldiers to lead, not as souls to shepherd.