Chris Carlton

the political take “actually, it is the progressive younger generation rejecting outdated beliefs to move their communities forward who are wrong” has never aged well even once and it is so maddening to hear it repeated by the same Boomer Dems who trade on their own 70s protest history for cred

Trump: we’re going to keep America safe. We’re keeping the drugs out!

Also Trump: pardons a guy convicted of trying to bring *hundreds of tons* of cocaine into the US.

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"

As the Trump administration clumsily moves toward an unnecessary and irresponsible and narcissistic war with Venezuela, I want to take a brief moment to offer this sentiment to those who voted for him over VP Harris because they believed it would keep us out of unnecessary wars:

FUCK. YOU.

Frankenstein, or: Maybe You Shouldn't Have Built That Weird Man

The most advanced and unexplainable technology on Earth remains Other People’s Showers

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

Just remembered that Trump thinks stealth planes can turn invisible

Joe Biden was old but he wasn’t a fucking xenophobic racist dictator wannabe.

20-year-old West Virginia National Guard member, Sarah Beckstrom, died a day after volunteering to serve in DC so that others could enjoy Thanksgiving with their families. She deserves our gratitude, not political exploitation by a shameless president who scapegoats immigrants to swell his power.

America has a smelly old racist brigand for a president and it is just super depressing every single day

I don’t think this ecosystem where journalists are incentivized to keep political bombshell stories to themselves so they can score an eventual book deal is a good or healthy one

Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.

Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.

Trump was gleeful that the National Guardsman were attacked, he’s been trying to place them in harms way for months for his cheap theatrics. For him it was opportune that military personnel would come under fire as a growing number of US veterans are becoming vocal against him.

Military personnel and veterans start pushing against Trump and the next day National Guardsmen are shot by an Afghan terrorist creating a highly publicized news event? Right.

If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.

Today, I’m just going to eat buttered toast, popcorn, jelly beans, and pretzel sticks.

The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.

This just blew my mind a bit

Veterans of the United States, patriotic congressmen and senators, governors, prosecutors, and judges. Uphold the constitution. Disobey tyranny.

Unbelievable.

Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:

We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.

Trump, Musk, and the GOP killed hundreds of thousands of kids around the world.

That should be a major story and talking point.

They cut USAID to "save" from "waste," but gave 40 billion to Argentina and threw a Great Gatsby party and let Kash Patel burn our money for his honeypot GF.

Trump dressing like Mamdani

Y'all he's so desperate to be one of the "cool kids".

Mamdani pictured standing next to Trump.

People think tyrants rage because they're strong.

But the truth is they only rage when they know the room will absorb it.

Mamdani didn't absorb it.
So Trump didn't rage.

Fear is the oxygen of authoritarianism.

Take it away, and even a strongman starts to sound like a man.

~ Bruce Fanger ~

There's no mystery to why Trump is kissing Mayor-elect Mamdani's ass.

Trump loves two things: 1) winning and 2) extraordinary media influence.

Trump is a PR whore. He recognizes the exceptional media skills of Mr. Mamdani and wants to draft off him.

That's pretty much it.

Trump praised Zohran Mamdani as good for NYC before Chuck Schumer did. Think about that.