Chris Plourde

MAGA has rid the GOP of anyone who would dare vote to uphold and defend the Constitution.

They actually think harming "blue" States is the way to gain more adherents.

It's like "Let me beat your mother, then you'll come to see how benevolent I am."

It's almost like child sexual abuse and drugs are good if they're employed by wealthy members of private clubs, and gardeners and housekeepers are bad if they aren't.

"appears to contradict"

The USA runs on assumptions of good faith, but MAGA thinks acting in bad faith makes them "smart,"

Trump has always been a bad faith actor, and now has Congress and SCOTUS aiding and abetting him.

Far from making them appear tough, it reveals them as lazy and craven, from Roberts to Johnson/Thune.

Assume she failed American History.

"positive trends" like embarrassing Trump in Alaska, then leaving before lunch...

"...untethered in reality and the law" seems a description of Ms. Leavitt and, by extension, the administration for who she speaks.

"The so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to bulldoze federal agencies and slash the federal workforce will ultimately cost American taxpayers billions of dollars, according to a watchdog group."

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Conversation in a Canadian restaurant last April:

"I'd like a Manhattan."
"Would you like that with bourbon, or with Canadian, if you know what I mean..."

It wasn't a question.

OK, so this is going to be tough to hear, but it needs to be said.

Now that Trump has been enjoined from sending *any* NG to Oregon, ICE is going to go gangbusters in Oregon, dialing everything up to 1000%.

Because they need riots. They need someone punching an ICE officer.

DON'T TAKE THE BAIT.

I have yet to meet the MAGA who says they'd gladly join the Chinese in toppling a Democratic President, or that they'd give up and surrender if someone killed their whole family.

But somehow they think other people would...if we just killed enough of them.

Reup

I believe both that you’re correct, and it represents a repudiation of the Constitutional system and replacement with a lawless regime.

Republicans love using the Armed Forces as partisan props.

The story is how the Trump Administration is finding and firing those "many people of good will in the U.S. govt."

They staged a military-style assault on an apartment building, then released a sizzle reel about their criminality, just to terrorize non-white people.

That’s what we’re up against.

just spit my coffee...

The lawlessness of these actions is the point. They don't *have* to break the law, they *want* to prove the laws are irrelevant.

That's across-the-board, Republicans in Congress and on SCOTUS are aiding and abetting Trump's lawlessness to prove Republicans are above the law.

DHS "relaxed" hiring standards to make its numbers. MAGA loves cruelty. This is the result.

In Portland, Oregon,(DHS) and (ICE) used pepper spray on the breathing hole of a peaceful protester who was wearing a blow-up frog costume.

"...you are not getting research that's telling the truth"

Lies sell better when truth is unavailable.

MAGA thrills to cruelty to people they do not know.

MAGA literally could not care less about the law, and believe murder and cruelty make them look manly.

Does MAGA care about the law?

MAGA loves cruelty, and Trump aims to give them the cruelty they love.

Bad Bunny was not "born outside the US" as this suggests.

Modern GOP: Government shutdowns are fun!

Media continues to treat Trump and his administration as acting in good faith, while they laugh about acting in bad faith.

Terrorism is symbolic. Its goal is to achieve by mass reaction what it could never achieve directly.

This is terrorist propaganda, intended to terrorize the target population and recruit those who love cruelty and acting tough when there's no risk.