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The Return of Family Separation

Hobson's Choice cruelty, brought to you by Trump.

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The cult leader's hold weakens Trump's bungled Epstein coverup demonstrates that he's past his prime.

The cult leader's hold weakens
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As Steve Martin put it: They say you can't take it with you? I'm taking it with me.

Slightly seriously, the last thing Trump wants is an "heir" to supplant him. His "movement"won't exist without Trump if Trump has anything to do with it.

Trump Suggests Vance is MAGA Movement’s Heir Apparent

Bad news for the MAGA movement.
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The cult leader's hold weakens Trump's bungled Epstein coverup demonstrates that he's past his prime.

"Donald Trump’s clumsy attempt to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein has driven a wedge through his base. But his flailing is a symptom of a deeper problem: the cult leader has begun to lose control of the flock." — @davidrlurie.bsky.social

The Greatest Show on Earth.

I agree that it is likely he has placed a priority on getting rid of as many reporters and pundits that might induce a Trump angry tweet as possible and that, as Kessler says at the end of his piece, Bezos otherwise does not care much about what happens to the paper.

One gets the impression that he expected as much, and was surprised that didn't occur.

Kessler is someone you might think they would cultivate. He relishes being a "contrarian," see, e.g., his not very factual pro-gun "fact checks."

It is not even a pro-Trump paper, so much as it is an emptying husk, as Kessler recounts.

lot of parallels here with twitter. Bezos doesn't have a vision going forward because the whole vision was to gut the post as a liberal bastion. generating revenue would be nice, but the real point was just to remove an obstacle to fascist consolidation.

Germany makes the best grocery stores.

Given that Maxwell is, according to the DOJ, systemically mendacious, her denials will only make law enforcement officials more curious about Trump's knowledge and actions...unless they are (perish the thought) acting in bad faith.

I assume Maxwell also says there was no wrongdoing…by Maxwell. Very credible!

I guess you are trapped in the eternal recurrence.

The cult leader's hold weakens Trump's bungled Epstein coverup demonstrates that he's past his prime.

America’s would-be dictator won’t fall soon because he’s acting like the mastermind of the deep state conspiracy he’s coached his fervid followers to believe in; but the cracks in the Trumper cult appearing now will widen into crevasses over time, as I discuss in PN.

Thug Trafficking.

You must have BigBalls to withstand that.

At the Tesla Diner, the Future Looks Mid

Do you have to sieg heil the servers?

Who was it that first enabled this monster? Oh yeah, Paul Ryan.

I was not intending to criticize Miller for having Todd on, to be clear.

What We Lost When We Lost the Greatest Generation It's no coincidence that democracy is backsliding in the US exactly eighty years after the end of World War II.

We are losing the last of the generation who understand just how evil actual fascism is, how hard it is to rid the world of authoritarian governments once they’re established, and how hard it is to build a successful alternative. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/what-we-lo...

He does not simply engage in bothsideism; Todd has rewritten recently history in his own mind so as to make Joe Biden the malefactor of our times. 2/

YouTube video by The Bulwark Trump’s Poll Numbers Are Tanking. This Could Finish Him.

If you have not heard enough facilely nonsensical "political analysis" recently, listen to this material from Chuck Todd. 1/

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This was all in the files Bondi released. You just have to look through the eyes of Kevin Hassett to see it.

Nobody Expects the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Scoop: It was not Mayor Daley who "found" the extra votes in Chicago to win the 1960 election for JFK. It was the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

On the bright side, the fake minds are fully employed.

The cult leader's hold weakens Trump's bungled Epstein coverup demonstrates that he's past his prime.

New in PN: The cult leader's hold weakens

"Trump's self-immolating response to the Epstein crisis is very unlikely on its own to be enough to break his deep spell over his followers, but the debacle is a stark demonstration of his waning abilities."