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For consideration, as you read Trump's statement of victory

oh did trump say he knocked over a 7,000 year old man who was gonna die tomorrow maybe anyway

Charlie Kirk poll from June 2025:

every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally

FWIW: The Iranian Supreme Leader was 86 years old.

Plus ça change, suckers.

I realize that "Orwellian" is over used but come on.

“Mr President, the bombings have begun in Tehran and also customers are complaining we have run out of shrimp at the pool buffet.”

Wouldn't want a little war to get in the way of a golf weekend.

Wearing a fucking baseball cap.

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

Whipped up a quick chart of views of Iran for the newsletter this morning. Long story short: Same old story.

Read more: www.howtoreadthisch.art/this-way-mad...

Not to a Trump, none of whom have served despite being bloodthirsty monsters.

Lindsey Graham?

In a just world, every bad faith git with a platform who called Trump an anti-war president would be driving DoorDash for the next ten years. It was always such transparently false bullshit.

He's never hidden the strategy he thinks will work.

Flash poll: Post-SOTU, voters say Trump is still not focused on the right issues A poll conducted in the two days after Trump's State of the Union address reveals the public is still skeptical the president can deliver on affordability

NEW Results from a flash poll conducted completely after Trump's SOTU:

- 57% say Trump is focused on the wrong issues
- 38% say Trump spoke on immigration issues the most Tuesday night. Only 12% say immigration is their MIP.
- Trump's SOTU pivot did not work

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/flash-poll...

Congratulations. You harassed a married staffer until she submitted to your perversions leading to her suicide and still kept your job because the Republican Party stands for nothing except the acquisition of power. Congrats, Tony. bsky.app/profile/atru...

She has been a repository for public fears, anxieties, resentments, & dysfunctions for so long, what she actually did or didn't do in reality long ago ceased mattering.

Sebastian Gorka at the 2019 CPAC convention: “they want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved.”

He has lost the ability to read the room.

The MAGA crowd is constantly lecturing people about how they have to make so with less. Very inspiring.

Sorry but the craziest and worst regime in the world is North Korea and they have nuclear weapons and Donald Trump wrote what he described as love letters to its dictator.

Our government tried to do the Bay of Pigs with even fewer, stupider guys and I can’t even enjoy it properly

They're worse actually.

I was too. I should have been more specific. I was referring to the smears and the character assassination tactics. Ideology has swung wildly ever since the 60s.

Remmick from Sinners

Paramount right now.

It may seem unlikely but the truth is that most Americans were much more likely to see through right wing bullshit in the 90s than they are today. Maybe the right's just gotten better at it but I don't think so. I think it's just that even many Dems have absorbed years of their propaganda.

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office:
"Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

Lol. You haven't failed me yet.