Garrett Miller

This appalling White House video game imagery on Iran illustrates what @teotten1.bsky.social and I discuss on today's pod: The role of fantasy, unreality and sadism-as-entertainment in MAGA politics.

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The US govt mixing video of real violence in a war it started with a video game scene feels like crossing a(nother) line.

I’m not sure what to say. I don’t think war is a game. And even when I think military action is necessary, there are real human beings on the other end, not pixels that respawn.

Large banner of Trump unfurled at Justice Department headquarters The DOJ has traditionally operated with a degree of separation from the White House to prevent the department's powers from being abused for political purposes.

“Hanging that banner should put to rest any doubt that Donald Trump has hijacked the independence of the Justice Department. He — not the American people — is the only client DOJ’s current leadership serves." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

There is no reforming this. There is only abolition, and then trials.

Decent people see friendship as a matter of mutual respect and support, with reciprocal obligation borne out of decency.

Trumpists see only “do what we say or we’ll hurt you,” a disturbed 12-year-old bully’s conception of strength.

The president constantly lying about stolen elections, after staging a coup attempt, & now threatening to federalize & steal future elections, should be the primary news story in the country 24/7 & on every front page until he is impeached & removed next week.

Opinion | Time to Say Goodbye

"...Every healthy society rests on some shared conception of the sacred — sacred heroes, sacred texts, sacred ideals — and when that goes away, anxiety, atomization and a slow descent toward barbarism are the natural results."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings.

This can't be "reformed"

Nobody will forget nor forgive this.

Dawg

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

There is no reforming this.

I am, in fact, triggered by someone being murdered by the Gestapo and our government lying about it and celebrating the murder. It’s time for decent people to decide where they stand — with the Gestapo and its supporters, the juvenile shitposting government, or with America.

A 6-year-old just lost his mother. A woman was shot in the face in front of her wife.

The swift, lockstep attempt to dehumanize and villainize Renee Nicole Good might be the most depraved thing we've seen yet from these ghouls and their supporters. These people are utterly fucking dead inside.

How are organizations effectively blocking this? DNS? Browser plugins? Binary allow-listing? (for the desktop apps)?

This is abhorrent and unforgivable. Their cruelty must be corrected in future administrations. Assuming we get one…

Revolting.

I don’t think US taxpayers should subsidize treason against the United States

Britney Spears in an old interview saying “everyone has been doing emails”

The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown.

The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.

This and the Chicago indictments make it abundantly clear that the rule of law is dead at DOJ. The agency has been fully weaponized to smite Trump’s enemies and shield his friends.

Sheer buffoonery.

Trump administration demolishing entire East Wing of the White House to add new ballroom Trump said in July that the $250 million project “won’t interfere with the current building.”

BREAKING: The entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished “within days,” according to two Trump administration officials, a significant expansion of President Trump's original stated plan.

NYT article which reads: President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter, who added that any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. The situation has no parallel in American history, as Mr. Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by federal law enforcement and eventually won the election, taking over the very government that must now review his claims. It is also the starkest example yet of potential ethical conflicts created by installing the president's former lawyers atop the Justice Department. Mr. Trump submitted complaints through an administrative claim process that often is the precursor to lawsuits. The first claim, lodged in late 2023, seeks damages for a number of purported violations of his rights, including the F.B.I. and special counsel investigation into Russian election tampering and possible connections to the 2016 Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the matter. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the claim has not been made public.

Trump has installed his own personal lawyers at the top of the Department of Justice to steal $230 million of taxpayer money.

This would set a new, global benchmark for corruption in office.

Military coups have been triggered by less.

This is insane. If Obama did this the GOP would impeach

the final boss of "imagine if obama did it"

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

Marco Rubio is going to hell.