quadling.bsky.social
Retired newspaper editor. Ignorance is not an option.
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The Trump-Musk schism has many real-world effects. This isn't one of them.
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May they take each other down. But if only one of them can be destroyed, let it be Trump, the bigger threat to American and global stability. Musk has already lost much of his credibility.
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Maybe Fox viewers can accept "There's nothing to see here, but you can't see it" as a legit excuse, but it's ridiculously lame. It shouts, "We're hiding something!" And the only reason to hide evidence is to protect Donnie or to blackmail someone else.
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This is more about letting people already here, i.e. the sizeable Haitian-American community, know that they're no longer welcome than it is about keeping bad people out. That's why the targeted counties are Muslim and/or Black, with a couple of familiar Latin American nations thrown in.
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How hard can it be to convince a guy who reposts claims that Joe Biden was assassinated and is now a clone and/or robot that you're about to start World War III? It seems the Russians understand the concept of TACO, too.
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Too bad, Elon. You're still a greedy, narcissistic asshole who can never undo the harm you've done to this country by helping an insane old man buy the presidency.
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Musk might get his credibility above zero if he was more specific about what he doesn't like in the bill. I want to hear him unambiguously condemn the biggest debt-ballooner: massive tax cuts for people like him. Until then, this is just a schoolyard spat between two juvenile crybabies.
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Trump doesn't want non-military agencies to succeed. He wants his appointees to give him reasons to close or privatize them. Failing upward is something Trump knows better than anyone.
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It's TACO Monday! A recycled deal is better than no deal for self-glorification at Donnie's ego parade next week.
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Donnie doesn't have time or the intellect for ideas. He's too busy accumulating wealth and power. And he has no interest in any endeavor for which he has to share credit or can't offload all blame.
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Donnie thinks he's omnipotent since winning an election despite inciting an insurrection. To maintain his fantasy, his obsession with having scapegoats for every mistake is stronger than ever.
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Of course the "apology" was weird. It was tailored for an audience of one.
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I don't know how many film and TV plots have centered on protagonists pursued by murderous thugs because they saw something they weren't supposed to see, but it has been a lot. And the United States has arrived there.
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Recall the warning about absolute power corrupting absolutely. He survived an assassination attempt, won the election and is posting memes about being a messenger from God. You don't have to go deep into history to find other monsters who were convinced of their own omnipotence.
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I'm sure there's someone else out there who's looking to hire a fascist who loves to cosplay as a journalist.
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Flood likely is far from the only Republican who didn't read all of the bill. Some probably didn't read any of it. All that mattered is that the con man who claims to be god's messenger commanded them to vote for it By 2026, they'll all be whining that they were "just following orders."
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The MAGA News Service, aka Fox, isn't reporting this. It's still fulminating about trans athletes as though that's a bigger threat than junk medicine.
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This is how he pleases himself when he's having a bad day.
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The defense secretary is a drunk. The DHS secretary is a puppy killer. The HHS chief is an ex-junkie. He, along with the FBI hierarchy, are conspiracy theorists. And now we discover the efficiency expert is a drug addict. Good times.
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@realPopeTrump says a lot angels have been telling him that he's being a pope like nobody has seen before.
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This should scare the hell out of most Americans. Even the software's engineers thinks it's being misused.
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The ethnic cleansing of Gaza continues apace. The U.S. could stop this, but such is AIPAC's power that politicians fall all over themselves to show support for a military action that stopped being about defense more than a year ago.
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Doubling down on quackery is Trump's revenge for all the criticism he took for his miserable performance during the pandemic, hence RFK Jr.'s appointment.
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"1984" may be late, but only late.
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Donnie is now saying the plane is too big for him, which beggars belief, because nothing -- lies, ties, deficits and especially his pants -- has ever been too big for him.
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He campaigned as a "working man" outsider, but on the rare occasions he actually works, he's a special-interest insider. He's not serving Pennsylvania in any meaningful way and should resign. Failing that, Democrats must nominate someone else in 2028.
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The world finally may be getting wise to the idea that Trump and his cabal are profiting by creating market chaos. All he has to do is make up some numbers, tell his stock-trading cronies what they are, make the announcement and then hop a taxpayer-funded flight to one of his golf courses.
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Should be easy to enforce, because no one wants to visit an authoritarian state run by a racist, self-obsessed imbecile and where people are kidnapped to be held incognito at for-profit prisons and transported to war-ravaged Third World countries.
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TACO with lots of salsa -- the dance, not the condiment.
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This is like Dr. Frankenstein expressing regret about creating the monster, only less sincere.
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He's already made his deal with Putin. Now, he's just posturing for posterity.
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Ooh. Donnie will be calling for torches and pitchforks on
Bullshit Social.
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Buy some Trumpcoin, and the Orange Eraser will make your legal troubles vanish.
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Except that he lives in Florida.
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He might even get a pardon and dinner at one of Trump's clubs if the cartel buys enough Trumpcoin.
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Hey, Europe! Remember what happened the last time you appeased a deranged dictator?
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Every day is Grievance Day in Mangoland.
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It's hard to believe that anyone in Israel takes Noem seriously as anything more than Trump's Cabinet trophy wife.
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Democracy can be messy, and a lot of people want easy answers, even it they're lies. Dictators provide those.
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The tepid response is noticeable. Maybe it was his clown hat. Or perhaps it was because he doesn't know West Point trains soldiers, not "stealth" pilots. Or possibly it was because he confirmed in person that everything always must be about him. Or because nobody gives a shit about trophy wives.
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Musk seems to have caught Trump disease.
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It's a much shorter list when you cite occasions when he's been truthful. He lies with impunity because he knows that Fox and the rest of the right's propaganda apparatus won't fact check him.
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No surprise. Mendacity, deception and aggression are foundational principles for this administration.
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DOD is led by an incompetent drunk. Good luck with "careful" and "decisive."
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Growing up, we were taught about the threats America faced from its enemies. Who would have thought other Americans ultimately would destroy the country? We're already at the Orban level, the question now is where it will stop. Putin? Kim Jong Un? The house of Saud? Hitler? Stalin?
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"You will obey!" says the Mad King.
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As much as I agree that Medicaid cuts will be disastrous, other parts of this bill just are just as insidious, such as exempting the White House from contempt rulings for ignoring court orders and a huge increase in ICE officers, which would create a national police force controlled solely by Trump.