Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution.

So who are the character masks, who made the masks and where did they come from?

I wondered if they were Mexican.

something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us

Birthright citizenship is a policy choice so central to our values and identity as a nation that we chose to amend the Constitution to protect it against the passions and prejudices of temporary majorities.

Trump’s ‘quiet, piggy’ jab at a female reporter is much more than a personal insult OPINION: The remark was an expression of disdain meant to undermine a basic practice that lies at the core of the relationship between the public and the powerful in a democracy.

"The most venomous language, the nastiest verbal abuse, (from Trump and his underlings) is reserved for the news media."
What they said and why they said it:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/trump-quiet-piggy-reporter-21225466.php
#civility #distraction #media #politics

Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."

All for Trump’s own political advantage, and nothing to do with Ukraine at all.

Trump is a dinosaur demanding respect from the meteors.

As if any guarantee still means something when Trump changes his position by the hour. Congratulations American voters - you threw all U.S. foreign leverage straight into the bin. And it cannot be won back.

And we will deserve it.

EU officials are weighing the 'Nuclear Option' of dumping U.S. Treasuries if Trump cuts a Ukraine deal and betrays the Allies. This would trigger an economic collapse in the US, millions would lose everything overnight and Saudi Arabia, UAE, and China would buyout the country.

Perhaps Trump will send Zelensky a free campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who will manipulate the election on Russia’s behalf and install a puppet like Yanukovich.

"Masculinity," as practiced by the manosphere, is indistinguishable from a simple lack of adequate social & emotional development. It is, in a sense, the explicit *rejection* of social & emotional development.

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social: “I’m going to say this slowly… The President of The United States of America has sided with Putin against the United Kingdom. He has put the whole of Europe in the crosshairs.”

This is when I knew Xi was going to take this babbling fool to the cleaners, and us in the process.

The Golden Age of Dipshittery.

I would like to remind everyone of the Hollywood trope encountered in numerous dramas: Some despicable sociopath commits an abominable crime, and-sooner or later-he will say, with an air of sweet reasonableness, as if it explained and excused anything:
“I am a businessman.”

Democrats must erect a framework that encompasses the totality of the Trump era’s blatant disregard for the law. Watergate was about the actions of a president. The post-Trump legal process is the prosecution of a vast criminal conspiracy.

Democratic Wave or Republican Swamp - The American Prospect Can Trump revulsion and voter mobilization overcome voter suppression?

Voters are disgusted with Trump — it’s good news for Democrats' election prospects. But as Trump grows more desperate, his attempts at voter suppression will be more extensive than ever. From Robert Kuttner: trib.al/Re3NkXZ

Trump and Musk will give Europe to Putin if they can. The world faces a tyranny of power and greed crazed madmen.
We all know their servants in the media.
Call them out at every opportunity.

Putin’s crimes extend further than crimes against Ukraine which are many

He’s been wanted by many other countries for a variety of crimes

Notably, one in 2018 is for the Novichok poisoning of British subjects

ICC arrest warrants for Putin and five other Russians accused of war crimes in Ukraine will stay in place even if Ukraine peace talks succeed, ICC prosecutors said

Deputy prosecutors Mame Mandiaye Niang &Nazhat Shameem Khan said a UNSC resolution would be required to suspend court-issued warrants

If Ukraine gives up its land now, then all of those lost lives, lost limbs, lost minds, will have been completely meaningless.
Zelensky must not give up.
I hope every day that Europe comes up with something solid to save Ukraine.
Trump wants to sell us out. He can't be trusted.
We're on our own.

Trump is abandoning Ukraine in exchange for Russian money to fund his billionaire friends.

Walz and his family are being verbally attacked as well.

Tim Walz and other democrats should claim that Trump’s growing dementia is causing him to verbally attack female reporters. Make the media debate whether it is Alzheimer’s or whether Trump is just an asshole.

Zelenskyy again resists U.S. pressure on Ukraine to cede any land to Russia as he rallies European support Other than Zelenskyy's comments Monday, Ukrainian negotiators have said very little in public about the content of the U.S. proposal or their attitude toward it.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his strong refusal to cede any territory, resisting U.S. pressure for painful concessions to Russia as he moved ahead Tuesday to rally more European support for his country. https://to.pbs.org/4poEmox

"Потрібно чітко це усвідомлювати": прем'єр Ірландії заявив про російський слід в інциденті з літаком Зеленського Ірландський уряд пов’язав інцидент із ширшими загрозами для ЄС

"We need to be clear about this": Irish Prime Minister says there is a Russian trace in the incident with Zelensky's plane

www.obozrevatel.com/ukr/politics...

It's not a pig. It's a capybara.