Time of Monsters

Trump wants health insurance premiums to spike right after he allowed medical debt to adversely affect people’s credit ratings, while rolling out 50 year mortgages.

But he loves you, MAGA. That’s why he’s building that ballroom for you.

I remember when ebooks were going to eliminate print books. And when computers were going to create the paperless office.

Cornell made a calculated decision rather than a principled one. It seems bound to fail, both in backlash against the university and further extortion from the administration

I read the agreement. One clause says that while current investigations are dropped, new ones could start at any time. All it would take is a discrimination complaint falling on the right ears to start the whole fiasco over again.

I know 2026 will be a dark year, but after this election day we have new tools to fight back. That gives me a boost.

"Human emotions are alien to me"

The power of positive thinking transformed into cult brainwashing

I'm amazed he knows anything about it.

We might start seeing some modern Hoovervilles setting up on various Trump properties. Call them Trumptowns perhaps

If the Republican party continues to evolve in its virulently racist direction, Vance is going to have divorce his wife and give up his kids if he wants to advance his career in politics.

Lawsuit

Or a lilypad - for the frogs. Paper ones, preferably

We could report them for being undocumented

And always with the gold. For that extra classy flourish...

I like this. And it could be made slightly more modern while still keeping the period look

I can't tell where the walls end and the floor begins. This is so incredibly ugly and not period appropriate at all. It's Trump appropriate.

I had a professor who served on Sebastian Gorka's dissertation committee. Does this mean I am now complicit? It's a crazy standard.

Hmm, if we get stuck with the gilded ballroom for a while, perhaps we can turn it into a giant food bank. And maybe some offices for civil rights and environmental protection

"The Act that Shall Not Be Named"

We'll probably never be able to get Trump convicted and imprisoned for anything, but if he lives long enough to see his gilded monstrosity torn down, it would hurt him a lot because that's his wheelhouse. And it would give me great satisfaction.

Newfoundland is half an hour different from East Coast time

50-50 chance

Encroaching dementia is pretty handy for rewriting history

Destroyed in 2025 (so far):

1. The entire East Wing of the White House

2. Democracy, heritage, character, morality, decorum, decency, human kindness, genuine faith, and rule of law.

Good excuse for future demolition: condemned for not being up to code

Not sure either of them will still be alive in 2028. Not looking good.

If the government had been responsible for chemtrails, wouldn't there be no white contrails in the sky in the Trump era? Hmm? Riddle me that!

Should the protestors offer to teach ICE members to read when they are just standing around outside their facilities?

US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic The U.S. government's gross national debt has surpassed $38 trillion during the federal shutdown, marking a record high.

Where is all the money from the tariffs and the budget cuts going? Oh, to other authoritarian countries, private jets, gaudy oversized ballrooms, and thuggish secret police

apnews.com/article/trum...

When you have all the institutional power, who is going to stop you?