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Support the strikers by working together, introduce a barter system, provide bail, food, sanitation, etc.
Bravo, Jamalle; Thompson's remarks were a shameless plug for his book, had no business in that setting. I wish media would pay more attention to the clear mental issues of #47!
You have to wait for your turn to be in the Cabinet. I’m not sure about the order, but I think they started with the least qualified Americans first, and as they prove they shouldn’t be trusted with scissors, they move up.
Trump's gone mentally - he was holding by a thread the first time around and it's gotten way worse this time around. They're basically propping this guy up as a figurehead to con the rubes into supporting their fucked up agenda
Weird how they attacked one woman running for President for not following security protocols to their liking, than went after another for apparently being too secure.
Right? And he even tried to get security experts to back him up and they all said Harris was right. Bluetooth is not that secure. He's a fucking moron.
Even before the mental decline he's in, he had the vocabulary at best of a 4th grader. A stupid 4th grader. The one that always ate the glue and rubber erasers.
Forget about MSM. They are like the GOP- afraid. Only watch Indy news on YouTube and Substack. The journalism is closer to the truth. No corporate idiots to answer to. They own their channels.
Original Sin! What a book title! We must learn the lessons of a president who's starting to show their age. Anyway - it's all just so grotesque! His brain is fucking pudding. Just senile racist gravy in a skull. I honestly can't believe this. Biden wasn't even cognitively impaired! Trump is toast!
I think this might be about Trump admitting on camera he actually believed Kilmer Abrego Garcia actually had MS-13 tattooed on his knuckles, completely clueless to the fact it was photoshopped.
Yes he does. I wish all the countries he has applied tariffs would start making fun of him every hour. Talking about his small hands. His weight. His lie about his height. Would drive him nuts.
anyway it is very clear that the united states has no actual president and the acting president is whoever is in the oval office (stephen miller) at the same time as donald trump
I can't believe the Times let's you contribute! I love your opinion pieces.
I read an opnion piece, can't remember where, that said that Trump has already lost. Americans are NOT behind him, they're not behind Miller. I hope that is true.
Where was this "the President has dementia" argument when you were sucking up to Biden?
You also haven't provided any evidence of his mental decline. Where is it?
The strawman you propagate "I made deals with 200 countries" instead of the actual quote "I made 200 deals with countries"
Dude. Just listen to the guy talk. Biden had his missteps too -- near in mind he's always had trouble speaking, he had to overcome a stutter to get anywhere in politics -- but Trump fluently flies through an encyclopedia of BS from "clean coal" to windmills causing cancer and batteries vs sharks.
The Dutch are duly insulted.
Biden was declining mentally, yes. But he is intelligent and knowledgeable. Dems asked him to step down. Remember that?
Trump has a 4th grade education, never read the constitution, doesnt know or care about history, and is a self aggrandizing, petty, felon.
Is the sharpie-headed fella gonna be the one who ends up falling on bunches of conveniently placed swords at the end of whatever tf it is that we’re living through?
Saw your IG post and after that interview with Terry Moran...woof.
I thought it was at least mostly true for the first term but it is glaringly obvious now that he's just a figurehead and the minions and donors are running the show.
It was always Miller, which is exactly how they planned it. Trump is the front man, along for the ride and the grift and the get out of jail free card. First step was getting the Supreme Court to give the presidency almost absolute immunity. That’s when the gloves came off.
Who is Miller getting marching orders form though ? No way he’s not on a tight leash by someone. He has no real power. No one cares about him or likes him.
Sort of seeming like a situation similar to Imperial Japan on WWII, where the titular leader doesn't interfere and several groups have their own little domains in the government and they aren't really cooperating with each other.
The Oops! All Viziers! era is going to go to some awfully weird places before this is all over. They're already a chaotic mess of mutually-exclusive aims, and that's before the things they are irrevocably breaking fully collapse.
Exactly right. He is so checked out, and you have put it perfectly. I’m worried that Project 25’s plan all along is to get him impeached and then have Vance there for a decade.
Judging from the tariff runarounds it probably looks like a Bugs Bunny cartoon or Marx Brothers movie with people entering certain doors and exiting through another door down the hall.
Joseph Goebbels wanna be stephen miller is orchestrating the hate march based on his own fevered dreams, whatever page trump opens Mein Kampf to that day and the horror show written by The Heritage Foundation to overthrow our Constitutional Republic.
Currently, Pam Bondi is the POTUS. Well at least she's the one that's going down once this illegal deportation mess lands someone in contempt and possibly in jail. She's going to also lose her law license.
Agreed. I think they strategically placed Pam in that position knowing they’re gonna need to go through a few AGs to get what they want. Same with Bessent and Leavitt, amongst others.
The man never WANTED to run Country (To much ACTUAL WORK)! Just wanted to be the King/Spokesman/Host of RealityTV Show: United States.
Why he’s been farming all the Paperwork/Production out to Apartheid Elmo. BUT… Now Elmo’s stepping bak to ‘Run Companies’? (into ground)… Maybe, Stephan Himmler?
Maybe it was in the phrasing, or falling short of an appealing metaphor, but I view King Donald as the Swiss Army Knife of Useful Idiots. I assume the likes of Putin, Xi, Orbán, Kim Jong Un, Erdoğan, right-wing US billionaires, WH advisors and all the neofascist wannabes in Europe see him that way.
The speech he gave with the Eagles yesterday was the first time I’d watched him in a while. And he’s gone. Wiles (Putin), Miller and Rubio are running this show.
The fact that we went from President Elon to President Miller without Trump throwing an ego-fit is telling me that he is definitely not, and has never been, in charge.
The Presidency is a talking stick with no agreed upon system among the Cabinet of Flies to determine whose turn it is to grab it. Sometimes it's shouting matches, sometimes it's banana tag, sometimes they use an aircraft carriers maneuevers like a Magic 8 Ball....
I hope we're all still around and doing well when Miller learns that the immunity ruling only applies to the *legal* president, not whatever the heck he is.
I naively still believe in many of our collective values. I mean we have made a bunch of mistakes as country. I think maybe recently we made more in 100 days.
I’m all for fighting for a more perfect union; better way for all life. Science, compassion, collaboration.
Also I don’t like bullies.
it's a beautiful gambit to stake your literal life on a 79 year old in clear mental and physical decline living longer than you do, i hope stephen miller goes for it and reaps the consequences
I will forever be amazed he was just allowed to lie to Trump’s face about the 9-0 SCOTUS decision and say it was in their favor and NOBODY went “uhhhh THAT’S not true at all!”
My theory is 4 presidents. Miller and whoever runs point for Heritage (when THAT isn't Miller) are by far the most dangerous. Musk. And the pudding that used to be Donald Trump, who still gets to play at tariffs and dictator-glazing.
Hitchens' point about "if it wasn't for that rag in Beirut" also serves as a possible explanation for something as major as an actual shadow POTUS not being exposed. Just in case anyone assumes it would be covered. Video is marked to start at the point. https://bsky.app/profile/oakelm.bsky.social/post/3lnaaayado22f
The Captain of the Titanic willingly went down with the ship. tRump will be off to one of the other rich countries to live the second it gets too bad here.
Every reporter, interviewer, journalist in the country needs to take that ABC interview as an indication that they should press as hard as possible at Trump, if for no other reason than the ratings from capturing a sitting POTUS having a full mental breakdown on camera will be astronomical.
It’s more about the number of intrepid journalists who have the instinct and the ability to get on this story aren’t as many as the industry likes to pretend. And national ones are often even worse.
Even in All The President’s Men, it explicitly comes up. W and B were local DC guys, not WH
And the president, especially when they’re trying to hide him, doesn’t sit down with anyone not at the national level. Most of those guys get there by being talking golden retrievers, or unfortunately, hot women, and not through good work investigating things and working up to cnn/nyt etc
What's the worst that could happen? He orders his DOJ lackeys to sue *every major news outlet in the US*?
I know it's a stretch because, yeah, corporate media likes Trump and wants him to stay in power, but surely there are enough actual journalists chomping at the bit.
I wish they would let me interview that deranged lunatic 🤣
He would have me sent to El Salvador so fast.
And my mom would have to wash my mouth out with soap 🤬😡
No shit! Yesterday, I posted that very thing to he & @jaketapper.bsky.social! I asked if they were scared to write a book about trump?! Most likely! Then I asked if they were both medical experts? Ya know, a Doctor or a Nurse at some point in their careers? Most likely NOT! STFU was my last note!
You could have daily blow by blow reports of his decline, while he fiddles with the nuclear codes & moves the army around the country arresting people who don't say nice things about him. How big does El-Salvador have to be anyway?
It is very strange so many journalists saw no story other than the president’s mental decline last summer. Now, these same journalists have zero interest in the topic. Gee, what is the difference…?
the *best* case they can make for their double standards in anything is they only hold politicians to the standards the parties hold for themselves, which is of course idiotic.
at this point this is just becoming an argument to hold the GOP to no standard whatsoever! "look, if The Base is okay with a few pedophiles, who are we to judge; frankly it would be a gross violation of our journalistic duties NOT to help cover them up"
Yeah but this is bullshit. I know you're not arguing it, but Democrats were not clamoring for Biden is senile a year ago from today in the way the press was. After the debate, sure, but journalists were hungry for it ever since Afghanistan withdrawal
No one wants to take it. His pictures from the Pope's funeral look like someone picked him up from his nursing home, dressed him in the wrong color suit. Surely he wouldn't disrespect the Pope? Bah ha ha ha. Of course he did! Threw a fit to sit in front row where he fell asleep drooling.
When the giants of media are collectively owned by money-lusting Republicans, wtf do you expect? This didn’t happen overnight. None of this fascism happened overnight.
Trump being insane isn’t a story to them because it isn’t some “secret” they need to “uncover”. If everyone knows it, they don’t consider it worth their time.
Yes, even though mainstream media operates as though Trump is not insane
Yes, while Mr. Thompson opined about the press coverup of Pres. Biden, the current president is bat crap crazy and all anyone seems to be doing is reporting his screwups, not any comment about his mental health. While Pres. Biden may have been in decline, he still managed to protect our democracy.
They have big problems. The only reason people haven’t overthrown this administration is because of MAGA. If JD invokes the 25th, he is so disliked by everyone that the people will get him out of office in a heartbeat.
So, we are now watching an Oval Office version of Weekend at Bernie's, except enablers replace hitmen. Reminds me of how Strom Thurmon's handlers dragged him around the Senate to "help" him vote. Ah, the good OLD days... 🤦♀️
I am already dreading the discourse around this book. “Biden was old and they lied about it!” Ok, so that helped make him unpopular and he was replaced with Harris. It’s not like he tricked us all.
Don’t fool yourself. His psychosis makes you think he’s declining, but it’s really his personality. It’s been going on for decades. That is not how we are going to end it.
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Unions, wobble.
Take a staycation.
Share the strike with your local news & national social media platforms, companies and family members.
Support the strikers by working together, introduce a barter system, provide bail, food, sanitation, etc.
Just today in Michigan he said the companies are coming in by the tens. When you listen to him speak, listen for the wrong words.
Like when he said, we don't need Canada's wood. We have tree areas we can clean up.
It should have been dozens of companies coming in.
We don't need Canadian lumber because we have plenty of forest to clear out.
Donald uses the wrong words every time he is in front of a mic.
It's no fun dunking on a politician if you can't call him some sort of Leftist!
Daddy can buy you a degree after you flunk out of your first school, but daddy can’t buy you brains.
Poor Donny is very poor indeed in every way that counts.
Like sand through his incompetent fingers.
Sane person?
Nobody there had/has any journalistic honor
He tweeted something back in March 2014: the verbage here:
I read an opnion piece, can't remember where, that said that Trump has already lost. Americans are NOT behind him, they're not behind Miller. I hope that is true.
I can desperately use the support💔
I can verify everything if needed
I hope this reaches someone who can help it’s been a very painful day for me my sickle cell medication is 60$ everything helps
You also haven't provided any evidence of his mental decline. Where is it?
The strawman you propagate "I made deals with 200 countries" instead of the actual quote "I made 200 deals with countries"
Or this?
Damn you autocorrect!
Going off on tangents is just what Trump has always done. Listen to him talk in 1980s even.
Nothing has changed. Just Democrats trying to get a talking point.
Biden was declining mentally, yes. But he is intelligent and knowledgeable. Dems asked him to step down. Remember that?
Trump has a 4th grade education, never read the constitution, doesnt know or care about history, and is a self aggrandizing, petty, felon.
I thought it was at least mostly true for the first term but it is glaringly obvious now that he's just a figurehead and the minions and donors are running the show.
Seems about the shape of it
It is not a mechanism sufficient to save us from a corrupt, senile president.
Entering: the Stephen Miller Era
Why he’s been farming all the Paperwork/Production out to Apartheid Elmo. BUT… Now Elmo’s stepping bak to ‘Run Companies’? (into ground)… Maybe, Stephan Himmler?
unfortunately he is one of the two or three worst people in the entire administration
I’m all for fighting for a more perfect union; better way for all life. Science, compassion, collaboration.
Also I don’t like bullies.
Which is why they will encourage him to try to extend his term
Sorry, I know this is terrifying.
https://bsky.app/profile/oakelm.bsky.social/post/3lnaaayado22f
head....and trump is the CAPTAIN!!👹😭💔🚢
i was thinking about in 100 days he
has done so much Damage...💔
Even in All The President’s Men, it explicitly comes up. W and B were local DC guys, not WH
I know it's a stretch because, yeah, corporate media likes Trump and wants him to stay in power, but surely there are enough actual journalists chomping at the bit.
He would have me sent to El Salvador so fast.
And my mom would have to wash my mouth out with soap 🤬😡
Not sure about after that.
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Yes, even though mainstream media operates as though Trump is not insane