Gus Orviston

As a proud Alabamian, I do not appreciate you insulting the state in which the toothbrush was invented.

Before anyone asks, yes, we know it was invented in Alabama because if it was invented anywhere else, it would have been called the teethbrush

Took me a sec to realize that it's actually not weird that Trump is singling Jeffries out like this, it's because he's too stupid to remember the name of any other black political leaders

I would also not need to take $2.5 million if I had just told everyone this morning that I was taking $10 billion from the Treasury

Reaming it to the Department of Trump would at least make it more clear who they consider to be above the law.

Wild to get this take from the executive that previously told us that the President can declassify information just by thinking about it

Guarantee that the instant a democrat takes this down the entire press corps will sneer “don’t you have more important things to do”

I mean, this is true even if the Board of Peace was being run by some other objective third party, was completely above board, and it was demonstrated that Trump got no benefit from this money. It would still be illegal.

The fact that he's dumping it into his own slush fund is obviously worse.

Worth remember that this is not something that the Executive has the power to do in the American constitutional system.

TIL that Nairobi is more than a mile above sea level, which is absolutely not something I would have guessed just looking at a map.

Even if you think it's boring, the assumption that "how fun a story is" is the correct metric for judging how *important* the story is is exactly the sort of sophomoric assumption I'd expect from these people.

Did he just tell us that it's got what plants crave?

We're being governed by the cast of Idiocracy.

Guarantee she'll remember that Owen laughed at her.

Not really winning hearts and minds with that behavior.

Underrated trauma for the siblings: the other kids that were vaccinated being told that their vaccinations were a mistake and that what happened to their brother was the *preferable* outcome

Why stop there, Evita, let's just send actual ICE officers for all the events. As a matter of fact, I'm good with forcing you into the ski jumping competition today. Suit up. I'm sure you'll do great, since adherence to groupthink is the only thing you care about.

"Let's not send our best athletes, let's send the ones that can pass the tests of my personal thought police."

Yeah, good luck with that.

How much media will cover the so-called "Board of Peace" as the gross farce it is?

Will they publish misleading headlines like "Countries Pledge Billions to Rebuild Gaza"? Or will they accurately emphasize conditioned offers, some from serial liars, many of which contradict each other.

Like this:

Absolutely wild that anyone finds her answer surreal. She thought they were rude and will not reward them with her vote.

Most people are not as political as your average person on Bluesky.

It would seem to me that this is not the optimal order in which to make these decisions

I know we all are aware of this, but if Biden did this, Jake Tapper wouldn't talk about anything else for a month.

Yeah, some of this is just insane bullshit:

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Helpful context: some Republicans got mad at Mamdani for wanting a bidet. I'm sure when they find out about this plane, they'll be just furious.

Right?

a man with white hair is saying i feel like i 'm taking crazy pills ALT: a man with white hair is saying i feel like i 'm taking crazy pills

This is, quite literally, the POTUS just taking $10 billion of taxpayer money. And the people that were mad about Hunter Biden for nonsensical reasons seem to be like "ah, well, this is okay."

Very important given RAF airbase Akrotiri on Cyprus.

I do not understand how more people are not furious about this. This seems to me to be the most corrupt thing he's ever done, and it's Trump, so the bar is already incredibly high.

If this isn't an official act, then our next AG needs to go after everyone involved with this.

Needs to be made real clear here if Trump is acting in his official capacity as POTUS for this: if he is, then SCOTUS may say that this isn't able to be prosecuted, but the flip side is that he gives all of this up the moment he leaves office.

Corruption here is off the charts: the US, at the direction of President Trump, will contribute $10 billion to an organization that Trump started using his influence as the President, but which he maintains that he is operating *as a private citizen*

"I"m fine with concentration camps, just as long as my kinds don't see 'em" seems to me to be problematic, but I suppose I am operating with a slightly different moral framework than Stacy is.

Trump's insight that being openly corrupt makes him immune to the conventions of "political scandals" is perhaps the greatest example of his peculiar political genius.

"Hey, just want to make sure that all of y'all know that you can bribe me. Anytime. It's my highest priority."