Chris Cook

What are words anyway

What's inescapable through all of this is the sense of the human form—particularly as a subject of violence or abuse-as a source of inextricably political and sexual excitement. Yes, this is especially true of Trump, but it's a generalized phenomenon on the right. There is, everywhere, a sense that our current leaders are aroused: aroused by one another, as in the case of Noem and her sordid alleged affair with Corey Lewandowksi; aroused by war against America's enemies; aroused by doing violence to the political opposition, especially as ICE is doing; aroused by domination and the thought of domination; aroused by resistance; aroused by their anger; and, perhaps ironically, aroused by their own internal revulsions.

Ultimately it’s about excitement, whether that’s bloodlust, rage, or attraction.

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In 1966 the New Jersey Young Republicans gleefully sang racist and antisemitic songs at their gatherings. The lyrics to one went “Riding the Reich in my Mercedes Benz, shooting every kike, saving all my friends." Hartford Courant, 13 February 1966.

The amazing thing about Trump is his inability to understand the importance of allies and “soft power.” The frightening thing is how many other Americans struggle to understand it as well.

This is inconceivable for the Irish government and their outriders... International law is not conditional on self-interest. It is also the case, as Alanna O'Malley argues in today's Irish Times, that multinationals won't leave behind their tax breaks because we defend international law.

Wow! He unintentionally made a parody video.

Breaking: The U.S. discovers top secret Ayatollah Khamenei production facility.

The imperial decline of the United States can be measured by how "the best and the brightest" led the US to war in Viet Nam, while now it's "dumb and dumber" who have led us into a war with Iran.

Trump Stays Out of Public View After U.S. Launches Military Assault on Iran

After Trump launched a new war on Iran, he did not rush back to the White House or make an Oval Office address to rally the nation as other presidents have done. He stayed at Mar-a-Lago to attend a glitzy political fundraiser. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

They might as well just declare Trump “Augustus” and disband

After pointing at Democrats and saying they are "crazy," Trump says, "We’re lucky we have a country, with people like this. Democrats are destroying our country, but we stopped it, just in the nick of time."
Just insanely destructive. Indefensible — but Republicans stood and clapped.

The Democrats in the chamber need to walk out. I get decorum and respect but this speech is one of the worst "official" Presidential speeches I have ever heard in my life. Full of racism, and LIES, incredible amounts of lies.

According to the President I am living in a paradise, a golden age of America-- a period of unparalleled prosperity and safety. Yet somehow I am not feeling it.

Maybe because I am not in a cult!

It amazes me that in the year of our Lord 2026 we have an Administration lying about a nation's nuclear weapons program to justify regime change. Haven't we seen this film before?

US bishops warn ICE mega-detention plan is 'moral inflection point' for America The bishops' conference issued a stark critique of plans to double federal immigration detention capacity: "The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the cons...

US bishops warn ICE mega-detention plan is 'moral inflection point' for America
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Giant banner of Donald Trump hung at Justice Department headquarters | CNN Politics A large banner of Donald Trump was hung outside of the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, DC, Thursday, emphasizing the White House’s control over the nation’s top law enforcement branch t...

The US is not fascist! What could make you say we’re fascist? Surely lots of democratic countries have masked secret police marching in front of posters of their supreme leader hanging from government buildings!

Same energy

Large banner of Trump unfurled at Justice Department headquarters The DOJ has traditionally operated with a degree of separation from the White House to prevent the department's powers from being abused for political purposes.

“Hanging that banner should put to rest any doubt that Donald Trump has hijacked the independence of the Justice Department. He — not the American people — is the only client DOJ’s current leadership serves." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

The idea of illegal immigrants bringing in fentanyl and calling them narco-terrorists has got to be the ultimate conservative crossover fantasy.

Broadly speaking: reality tv is bad for democracy, influencers are bad for democracy, streamers are bad for democracy, YouTubers are bad for democracy.

Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists

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A guy in a maga hat standing in front of a giant American flag is saying "AMERICA: Love it (pedophiles, concentration camps, and school shootings) or leave it (which we'll make very difficult to do)!

Love it* or leave it**!

"Due process is not a courtesy extended at the government’s convenience. Due process is the condition that makes custody lawful in the first place... When liberty is restrained without a meaningful opportunity to be heard, the Constitution’s promise is not delayed. It is denied."

OK I've been on team "he's always ranted incoherently" (after all I posted the crazy Bananas dictator speech regularly during his first term) but this one seems a fair amount more so.

Must read reporting for @propublica.org by @micarosenberg.bsky.social, who spent weeks speaking with parents and children detained at Dilley about conditions there.

It is an odd thing that Americans can be obsessed about protecting their borders; & worry about people illegally entering-- while at the same time feel completely entitled to own Venezuela's oil; or Greenland w/o the approval of the people who live there.

John Mitnick @JohnMitnick I helped to establish DHS in 2002 and 2003 and later had the homeland security portfolio as a White House Counsel and served as General Counsel of the Department. I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty. Impeach and remove Trump—now. George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts. The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.

Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

ifk complained of digestive issues in boarding school after eating some bread so his family had some doctors give him adrenal supplements which fixed the digestive issues but now his body wouldn't produce adrenaline naturally and he was losing weight so they gave him steroids, which helped him gain weight but now his lumbar muscles were atrophying due to overexposure so they shot experimental hormones directly into his back which mitigated his back problems but now was developing premature osteoporosis and so they tried to improve bone density by shooting his body full of testosterone pellets which mitigated the bone density problems but shred his internal organs and caused massive, painful ulcers to form across the lining of his stomach and so they gave him antibiotics but, in the process of delivering the antibiotics, his family discovered that his spine was crumbling so the doctors gave his family the option to have an operation to remove one of his vertebra and replace it with a metal plate but the skin didn't heal around the plate properly and he developed a severe infection and so they gave him painkillers to address to address the botched surgery and then he became addicted to opioids and

someone in discord once asked me to try to summarize jfk's assorted medical problems from memory