Ed Briscoe

The goal of fascists is not to censor all critics.

It is to create an atmosphere where all critics self censor out of fear.

Phrase of the day/week/year/decade.

We are rapidly going down a path where we will see the military either shooting civilians or shooting each other.

Thanks GOP.

Trump is on track to sign more executive orders on less than one year than Obama did in eight.

When Obama signed executive orders, the GOP exclaimed:

He was an “Imperial President”.

They called him “King Obama”, “Emperor Obama”, “Dictator-in-Chief”, and a “Lawless President”.

Never trust a guy who’s office looks like this.

#manofthepeople

Don Jr. is running a private club in Georgetown where for a mere $500,000 membership fee, you can freely corrupt members of the Executive Branch.

Somehow this is normal in the Trump era.

The GOP seems to believe corruption and grifting are fine as long as they are shameless about it.

Three Republican-led states to deploy National Guard troops to US capital The state's National Guard received an order to send equipment and personnel to D.C. late on Friday.

In the latest test of loyalty, Trump is demanding that Republican governors take people away from their families and jobs to join in the totalitarian state prototype in DC.

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The White House is conducting reviews of Smithsonian Exhibits to be sure they conform to Trump’s view of history.

George Orwell called it. Step by step.

I am really looking forward to my wife being paid $370,000 a year for taking her MS medications.

My lab tests said my triglycerides were a bit high. So, I will no longer go to that lab and have hired a person with no credible experience doing to do my lab tests. They have committed to only telling me everything is perfect, and I don’t have to change anything.

#Trumpenomics

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

The Smithsonian has fallen.

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This fits my approach on many things, especially business ideas.

I think the best theory of change is to start making changes.

Fact of the day:

Trump’s net worth has increased more in the last 6 months than it did in the 78 years prior to that.

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Mark Twain

“You spit, we hit.”

The president demands that police and national guard operate with the standards of maturity and self control of toddlers on a playground.

They don’t need listening devices. They are paying for everything they want, and Trump will give it to them.

“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls. So maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally” is the new “Let them eat cake”.

Kids “listen” far more to what is modeled for them than what is said by their parents, their church, or anyone.

Regardless of what Trump said, the real message those graduates got is that character doesn’t matter.

Trump spoke at the University of Alabama tonight.

The saddest part of this era for me is that young people will see Trump as a model of leadership that they should follow, if they want to be successful.

His people are going to insist he meant the symbols that correspond to MS13, though they don’t.

We know they will spin some kind of plausible deniability framework and people will claim this is just another example of TDS. It’s the same playbook again and again.

Owens is a patriot. His bosses are fascist sympathizers.

Shameful.

The time it takes for due process is the reason that Trump is in the White House and not prison.

Now he wants to deny that right to the rest of us.

#trump

Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.

Timeline of DOGE.

October 2024: “We will cut at least $2 trillion in Federal Spending!”

January 2025: “We have a good chance of cutting $1 trillion, with $2 trillion being the best case scenario.”

April 2025: “We expect $150 billion in savings in Fiscal Year 2026.”

Anything that fits Trump’s agenda. It seems defending heavy polluters is one of them.

These firms need to be dropped or boycotted by any person or company that claims to be a patriot it understands the Constitution.

These firms cannot be trusted, if they bow so easily.

Timeline of today.

9:37 am ET - Trump tells his followers on Truth Social it is a “great time to buy”.

1:18 pm ET - Trump announces 90 day pause on many tariffs to his followers.

1:19 pm ET - markets rise dramatically.

The actual tariffs charged by other countries and the sometimes 10x higher tariffs that Trump has called “reciprocal”.

The US is so erratic and untrustworthy that other countries will do all they can to avoid trade relationships for years to come.

We should bring back duels for billionaires to settle their disputes.

Fact of the day:

The last time we had an ignorant and obstinate president pushing a trade war, the markets dropped 90% and took 25 years to recover.