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Our message to the people of Denmark. (This will air in Denmark next week.)
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WATCH THIS:
Our message to the people of Denmark. (This will air in Denmark next week.)
youtu.be/2YriJ4WEqXI?...
Some of you may have been under the impression that it exists to help reconstruct Gaza. But the word “Gaza” does not appear in the group’s proposed charter, which is basically a monument to the Man Who Will Never Ever Win a Nobel Prize.
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Indeed, we have not seen such an extraordinary collection of grifters and second-raters since the last meeting of Trump’s cabinet.
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Some of you may have been under the impression that it exists to help reconstruct Gaza. But the word “Gaza” does not appear in the group’s proposed charter, which is basically a monument to the Man Who Will Never Ever Win a Nobel Prize.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Indeed, we have not seen such an extraordinary collection of grifters and second-raters since the last meeting of Trump’s cabinet.
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Nobody seems to know just what this freak show is all about. Except, of course, Trump’s bottomless narcissism and Will to Power of some sort or other.
The “Coalition of the Willing,” it is not.
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As it absorbs the scene from Davos yesterday, the world seems to be asking two questions: “What is wrong with Donald Trump?” And, “What is wrong with America?”
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WATCH THIS:
Our message to the people of Denmark. (This will air in Denmark next week.)
youtu.be/2YriJ4WEqXI?...
As it absorbs the scene from Davos yesterday, the world seems to be asking two questions: “What is wrong with Donald Trump?” And, “What is wrong with America?”
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
The MAGA Jesus vs. the Real Jesus
DHS is claiming that it is doing God’s work, and even citing the words of Jesus — including the Sermon on the Mount — to justify its tactics and recruit agents. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Peter Wehner: DHS is using Bible verses — including the Sermon on the Mount — to celebrate its tactics and recruit agents. Subscribe to get the full video when it's released.
22.01.2026 15:00 — 👍 97 🔁 28 💬 12 📌 2Great quote: "...here we are, trapped in a world be-shitted by this infantile man’s insecurities, delusions, and recklessness." Full Mad King by Charlie Sykes. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
19.01.2026 18:59 — 👍 162 🔁 28 💬 3 📌 0The images are, of course, fake. But this was real: The President of the United States posted these bits of MAGA troll-porn on the eve of the conference in Davos.
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Thinking the Unthinkable
(1) A Western Alliance without the United States; (2) A cold (?) Civil War, and (3) A second attempted election-related coup. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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By: Charlie Sykes on Monday, January 19, 2026
Joe Klein and Charlie Sykes talk Nuremberg. Very good discussion, another demonstration of how immediately relevant Nuremberg is for what is going down in America, Russia and Ukraine (not to mention Israel/Palestine) today. youtu.be/PDtozq4dQlk?...
20.01.2026 16:36 — 👍 57 🔁 23 💬 5 📌 0Thinking the Unthinkable
(1) A Western Alliance without the United States; (2) A cold (?) Civil War, and (3) A second attempted election-related coup. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
From Judgement at Nuremberg: “It came to that the moment you sentenced an innocent man to death.” Preview of today's 'To the Contrary" podcast w/ the legendary Joe Klein. Subscribe to get the full video when it's released.
20.01.2026 14:32 — 👍 154 🔁 39 💬 4 📌 2Preview of today's 'To the Contrary" podcast w/ the legendary Joe Klein.
20.01.2026 14:26 — 👍 61 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 1Charlie Sykes: Trump really did write that letter to the Norwegian PM, whining (once again) about not getting the Nobel Prize and declaring that since he didn’t get the Prize, “I no longer feel any obligation to think purely of Peace.”
19.01.2026 17:36 — 👍 148 🔁 44 💬 13 📌 1Every thinking American better get their heads out of their butts and contact their Senators and Representatives NOW to remove the demented old wannabe king or we will find ourselves in a butt of hurt!!
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Full Mad King
Here we are, trapped in a world be-shitted by this infantile man’s insecurities, delusions, and recklessness. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Charlie Sykes On The Mob-Boss Presidency andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/charlie-sy... #Trump
17.01.2026 00:59 — 👍 44 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0These are fraught days for those of us who have loved our country through sunshine and storms, good times and bad. One does not have to be blind to the many ways our country has fallen short of its ideals to believe that deep down we were somehow exceptional.
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The Ugliest Americans
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Undoubtedly, there have been moments when the Ugly American has been uglier. But this weekend, surely, will rank among its most repugnant.
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This is the dumbest shit he’s done yet, and that’s saying something.
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