Octopus’s Garden

Mockler: I'm pretty tired of conservatives gaslighting about the current political environment and Donald Trump's rhetoric when all of this escalation can be traced back to his entrance into American politics.

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

At least North Korea has the sense not to broadcast things like this worldwide.

Let no one forget that, while these officers know to remain silent during this performance, they are friends, colleagues, and comrades who will be having serious conversations about it privately when it’s done.

Well… the whole world can now see that the emperor is naked.

How embarrassing.

this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life

Imagine you're an air group commander who left your aircraft carrier in the West Pacific and flew across the world and filed into a Quantico auditorium to sit there listening to this

Pretty well sums it up.

Says EVERYTHING about the current Republican voter.

How far we’ve sunk when Kaitlan Collins is our voice of reason.

How big does a building need to be to house some coloring books and a collection of Happy Meal toys?

I feel as though not enough is being made of a president who wants to send troops into a state because he saw old clips of something on TV, thought it was happening IRL, and then said he was confused about it.

The Threat No One Wants to Talk About As details emerge in the Kirk Assassination, the picture is becoming much clearer

Damn.
The Threat No One Wants to Talk About.

Ezra Klein, watch this.

The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.

A “response” to their Supreme Court issuing a ruling after due process. It isn’t enough that have destroyed the integrity of our Supreme Court. Now they arrogate to themselves the power to demand that the high court in other nations subvert the rule of law as well.

This is insane.

State Department to ban immigrants speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. VP to fly his body to Arizona on Air Force 2. Trump to award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Journalists getting fired for asking the right questions. We are spiraling into a dystopia beyond our imagining.

Generous to think they have morals.

Breaking? More like broken.

Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.

Truly bizarre to see people attacked, shamed, and disciplined for saying things about Charlie Kirk that are 1000x less offensive than what Charlie Kirk said about people

Charlie Kirk started the Professor Watchlist, which caused friends of mine and their families to be terrorized by right-wing assholes. So, you know, fuck everyone trying to find some nugget of decency in that shitpile.

The expectation, from the complicit mainstream media, that every single person on social media hold themselves to a HIGHER standard of respect than the freaking PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES will never cease to amaze me.

This man fomented an insurrection, then bestowed pardons and military honors on its perpetrators.

Here, he praises "free speech," then attributes all political violence to his ideological foes and vows to crack down on their organizations. We're living in an Orwellian nightmare.

Donald Trump has incited more violence in one week than Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Hillary Clinton have done in their entire lives combined. So the right can take a seat.

The president went on TV to attack political opponents and blame them for the killing of Charlie Kirk, even though we don’t know who shot him.

If there is anything this man can do to worsen the situation, he will do it. Despicable.

Pretext found.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."