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Member of the Parasite Class. Oregonian and happily childfree cat lady. Love critters, books, and democracy. Pro-choice AF. Goal now is to outlive Mango Mussolini. Photo of Mt. Hood taken (from the freeway!) by my friend Megan D.
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It is *not* the Defense Department’s job to maintain law and order domestically. Indeed, outside of very limited exceptions, the Department of Defense is PROHIBITED from doing so. Even a former TV chatterbox should know this.

I swear to fuck, you know people near him are gonna act like they don't understand why Germany and Japan are allies now, just to make this dumbass happy. And they're gonna pretend that the last eighty years in our relationship with Russia didn't happen.

TRUMP: "Jobs are pouring into our country like never before!" REALITY: Jobs are NOT pouring into our country.

Y'all know what to do

Tis a pity Donald's vanity parade starts in the evening because that's when the thunderstorms are supposed to start.

Plaskett to Bessent: "Excuse me. Let me get something straight with you. I've seen you interrupt everyone. When you come to someone's house, you respect their rules. And in this house, we don't interrupt individuals. And you're not going to interrupt my time."

Oh, that’s OK, Elon! No harm done. Well, except for Donald sending ICE and the National Guard into Los Angeles to arrest and shoot citizens just to provide a distraction from you calling him a pedophile. Other than that, no big deal, you tiresome twit.

Who says mutually assured destruction can’t still work.

Trump's America: we police the names of the drinks in small coffee shops and prosecute the owner if we don't like them.

Serious question: Does "the left" just mean anyone Jonathan Chait doesn't like?

Trump: Tries to revoke visas of Chinese students with ties to the Communist Party Also Trump: Invites a member of an advisory body that seeks to broaden the Communist Party’s influence to an intimate dinner because he bought enough of Trump's memecoin

VAN HOLLEN: The CBO says when you make these cuts, you will bring in less revenue from very wealthy people than you otherwise would. Do you agree with that analysis? BESSENT: I don't VH: It would be helpful if you could get back with what specific CBO premises and conclusions you disagree with

COONS: Treasury and State were rolling out new sanctions designations every few weeks much of last year. How many new Russian entitles have you designated under your sanctions authority since January? BESSENT: I will get back to you with that number COONS: The answer is zero

Leadership

SUOZZI: Do you think that DOGE under Musk did a good job? BESSENT: I think that DOGE under Mr Musk has set in motion an ethos-- SUOZZI: But not the ethos of cutting people from the nuclear stockpile. That wasn't a good ethos, was it?

I really don’t need to hear cable news focus on how crimes against humanity are polling.

"The administration’s definition of 'rebellion' is slipshod and ungrounded in law, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t think it through. It’s becoming increasingly clear that Trump believes that any pushback against his administration’s policies is criminal and must be suppressed."

How many consultants interpret this as Democrats need to swing further to the right?

The follow-up question was to ask which members of al-Qaeda which also attacked the United States are not evil in his opinion

It took THREE WEEKS to get this indictment. I have to ask; how many grand juries did they shop before getting the indictment? www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Meanwhile, at Fort (Braxton) Bragg...

This is a major scandal. But it’s one of a hundred major scandals.

I’m sure it’s happened, but I’ve yet to hear cable news call him unpopular with the matter of fact casualness that they described Biden for years.

These dumb racist shits thought Trump would take care of them.

People forget and forgive way too much.

He also invented Post-Its.

I suppose all this tripe about Biden's age might be important to know, but it belongs on the History Channel. It's not news. You know what's news? The president deploying the military against US citizens. The Billionaire Bailout Bill. DOGE getting access to our private data. THAT is news.

NEW: Today was the deadline for the govt to explain to Boasberg the plan to facilitate due process for ALL the men in CECOT. Instead, they filed a motion to stay. They claim the GOVERNMENT - not the men in the foreign torture prison - will suffer harm: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is how you normalize authoritarianism.

So relatable

Kind of curious how he landed on two weeks as his all purpose time span of inaction. Did one week seem too soon and reporters might follow up? But two weeks, that's enough time for a good dirty zone flooding.

If your city is destroyed in a hurricane this year, the United States will be too poor to help you rebuild. But if your city is trying to rebuild a democracy with peaceful protests, we have MILLIONS to deploy men with weapons to destroy you.

So good! Rest In Peace.

When LA *is* burning, Trump watches Fox News and threatens to pull emergency funding for existing fires in California. When LA *isn't* burning, Trump goes on Fox News to announce he is spending MILLIONS on people in uniforms to pretend to stop nonexistent fires in California.

What's happening in Los Angeles right now and what happened at the Capitol on Jan 6 share something: They both resulted directly from Donald J. Trump's lies.

Trump ain’t a strong and decisive leader. He’s just a total a**hole boss nobody wants to work for.

So, are the empty shelves at Dollar Tree tariff related, or nah?

Trump is the world’s worst negotiator and we’re all paying for it.

FOX: “27% support, 53% oppose” 👀 #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

It's crazy to me that we have on video that cop just deciding to randomly shoot at the back of an Australian journalist while she was reporting, but this level of injuries isn't raising a hell of a lot more concern than the flaming Waymos.

Just cause: youtu.be/8o4nY-AmkZc?...

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This is what dictatorship looks like open.substack.com/pub/contrari...