We are governed by morons.
20.02.2026 15:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@danwessner.bsky.social
Polymath, Pain in the ass, Massive pain.
We are governed by morons.
20.02.2026 15:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Trump's Friday morning so far:
-- extremely disappointing 4th quarter GDP number
-- inflation report hotter than expected
-- Supreme Court strikes down tariffs
Turns out thereβs an economic cost to everyone hating us.
20.02.2026 12:18 β π 12832 π 4151 π¬ 956 π 363Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasnβt appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.
This is looting.
Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance
19.02.2026 20:37 β π 6714 π 1582 π¬ 111 π 37This entire thing is a complete clown show. Everyone in attendance should feel like a fool.
19.02.2026 15:47 β π 11983 π 2928 π¬ 2083 π 486So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
19.02.2026 10:50 β π 11128 π 3124 π¬ 30 π 139Americans waking up to news that Prince Andrew has been arrested for Epstein ties
19.02.2026 12:57 β π 16122 π 2876 π¬ 612 π 171Congress: he canβt go to war without us!!!
I meanβ¦ technically, youβre right.
Maybe do something about it other than a strongly worded letter.
In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.
19.02.2026 02:20 β π 5456 π 2984 π¬ 60 π 55The Fox News chyron reads "Latest Dem hoax" at the same time that Brendan Carr confirms that yes, the FCC would've "enforced the law" and gone after CBS had Colbert aired his interview with Talarico on TV
19.02.2026 02:18 β π 9846 π 3138 π¬ 659 π 224notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
18.02.2026 16:03 β π 20327 π 6519 π¬ 459 π 454WHITE HOUSE: "When you see it on Truth Social, you know it's directly from President Trump."
TRUMP 2 WEEKS AGO: "Somebody posted, a staffer posted ... somebody slipped. I didn't do it. This was done by somebody else."
No, Donald Trump cannot implement voting changes via Executive Order. He may try but if he does, he we will sue and we will win.
18.02.2026 13:39 β π 3932 π 1057 π¬ 146 π 42This is what Iβve been talking about for weeks now.
Thereβs still a potential (read: very very small) for an off-ramp, but they arenβt sending all this hardware into the region for nothing.
www.axios.com/2026/02/18/i...
It's hard to believe that you could be the trade representative for a major power and not know that tariffs are regressive.
My econ 101 students know what the word regressive means, and that tariffs are regressive. Many could even cite studies on the subject.
BREAKING: I read the new version of the βSave America Actβ (S. 1383) so u donβt have to. Hereβs my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHSβs faulty βSAVEβ voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/
17.02.2026 21:47 β π 3831 π 2713 π¬ 236 π 315"The Trump regime is a disaster not just for public health in the US, but worldwide. There has been a great deal of discussion of the ways in which Trumpβs reckless foreign policy has put global security at risk. But US abandonment of public health leadership may well be even more consequential."
17.02.2026 21:51 β π 1481 π 446 π¬ 80 π 20We are governed by moronsβ¦
17.02.2026 20:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not only did Trump fail to learn any lessons from covid, but his public health policies have somehow gotten far more dangerous and destructive in Trump 2.0. God forbid he and RFK Jr have to handle a global pandemic. We'll be pining for the days of Dr. Birx.
17.02.2026 16:51 β π 1529 π 366 π¬ 132 π 28Recent CBS News news:
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network wonβt let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Ownerβs bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
Mark Warner, vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on elections: In the past, weβve mostly seen foreign interference β my bigger fear now is domestic interference, some of that potentially originating inside the administration.
16.02.2026 23:50 β π 11824 π 3959 π¬ 425 π 192"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
βThe Declaration of Independence
ALFORD: We're not doing the drop boxes, which led to a lot of mistrust during the 2020 election
BORIS SANCHEZ: Well, a lot of that mistrust was sewn by the president, who made repeated false claims about widespread election fraud when there was none
So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding?
Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.
GEORGIA β Trumpβs DHS just bought an ICE detention warehouse for $128 MILLIONβ¦ that sold for $29 MILLION two years agoβ¦ from a Russia-based real estate company.π€
Nothing to see here, folks!
We are being looted so hard by these crooks
Goldman: "If Trump wants to put his name on everything, as he does, then let's start calling this the Trump-Epstein files"
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