Trump has tremendous difficulty with principled people (even if as with the Iranian regime, the principles are bad). He assumes everyone is a transactional fraud like him. Works well with rich Americans and poorly with idealists of any stripe
Trump: All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are right now walking around with no legs.
Was going to quote something like "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them" but no, he is just plain fuckin stupid.
"Throw out the Epstein class" could work as a slogan.
In the wake of the National Prayer Breakfast, I’d like to recommend that anyone who hasn’t seen this fantastic docu-series produced by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social give it a watch
A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.
The truth about Trump, using a goat metaphor…
Trump says he felt worse about his thugs murdering a woman after he heard that her parents liked him. Which means that if they didn't like him, he wouldn't have felt as bad.
Who made this person such a monster? And why did 77 million people flush away their decency and vote for this?
Chancers, hooligans, vandals, and idiots - who think they're the smartest people in the room.
"A competent autocrat selects his enemies with skill. Trump’s Achilles Heel is that he gets worse at this with experience." Me on his administration's darkly comical and profoundly inept depiction of Pretti and Good as terrorists. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/60a0a558-2...
"...he’s disarmed and lying helpless on the ground before they start spraying bullets into his body. They could have just arrested him, even though he hadn’t done a single illegal thing—but ICE killed him because they felt like it."
Heartbreaking from @lebassett.bsky.social
And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
“The richest man on the planet’s stated policy appears to be that if there isn’t an explicit law against it, then feel free to use Grok to sexualise images of children; a green light for the proliferation of paedophilic content.”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
