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The President is literally holding private business negotiations in the Oval Office.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

A comment by the great scholar John Meacham, quoting Sam Rayburn: “Any jackass can kick down a barn. It takes a carpenter to build one.”

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

Is Elon a govt employee? If he is, he needs to be held responsible for the intense and number lies he is putting out with constant “if true then…” If he isn’t then he needs to get the hell away from my govt.

submitted 5 days ago • 558 comments

Here’s a better peace plan for Ukraine. “Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process” Done

submitted 6 days ago • 608 comments

Trump is proving to be worth every Ruble.

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

This negotiation between the US and Russia, and cutting out Ukraine, is just like when Trump cut out Afghanistan and negotiated with Taliban. We see how that “good deal” turned out. Afghanistan was on Trump Every Trump deal fails

submitted 6 days ago • 762 comments

America has lost its way. It will soon lose the world’s trust and admiration too. Incompetence and bullying are not who we are.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Ukraine was asked for half of its mineral reserves, in exchange for nothing on.ft.com/4hW1x5y

submitted 7 days ago • 136 comments

I've no idea why Trump is being treated as an appropriate broker at all. If this peace negotiation were serious, it would treat Trump as an intermediary of Putin and allow the EU to act as the intermediary for Ukraine. It's a farce that anyone in the international community treats Trump otherwise.

submitted 6 days ago • 266 comments

We are already in a Constitutional crisis. It may be one that drags on for 4 years. Where it takes us and how it’s resolved, if it can be, is the uncertain part.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Spoken like a true dictator.

submitted 7 days ago • 1290 comments

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

submitted 7 days ago • 916 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 7 days ago • 3193 comments

The "burn it all to the ground" crowd is about to find out that America is a city in the clouds. We live on the platform of strength, liberty, and prosperity delivered by our Constitutional order. The fall to the ground will be much more painful than they could have imagined. They asked for it.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Real Americans support democracy, Mr. Vance. You humiliated yourself and our country.

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

Thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE, our adversaries now have access to sensitive information about one of our intelligence agencies. Elon Musk and DOGE staff should NOT have access to sensitive national security information. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 8 days ago • 531 comments

If one person were tasked with destroying our country from within, this is exactly what the fuck it would look like.

submitted 8 days ago • 317 comments

Holy. Fuck.

submitted 8 days ago • 519 comments

If he acts & quacks like there's a golden shower tape in the Kremlin's files, does it matter whether there really is one?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

You dumbfucks said Biden wasn’t “really in charge” and then you handed Trump’s presidency to Elon fucking Musk?

submitted 9 days ago • 571 comments

Can anyone explain how a V.A.T. in Europe - applied to all goods, not just imports - represents an unfair trading practice for U.S. exporters?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I promise you. PROMISE YOU, that in four years nobody among us will ever admit to supporting Trump in mixed company. “Big Balls” good Lord America

submitted 11 days ago • 851 comments

This seems important

submitted 14 days ago • 544 comments

Institutional arts never flourish under authoritarian regimes. The world's top performance halls and museums won't be found in one. Art supports the state's ends only.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

He can’t even play tiddlywinks

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Does the Constitution expressly prohibit do-overs?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

In case you were wondering why Chinese tariffs are 15% less than for Canada and Mexico, follow the money. Elon Musk currently has a 4,500,000 sq. ft. car manufacturing plant in China. Tesla does not currently have car plants in Canada or Mexico. One is planned for Mexico. In time for a tariff lift.

submitted 22 days ago • 232 comments

I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET

submitted 22 days ago • 186 comments

25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico will cause major destruction of the auto industry and more. This lunatic has no idea what he’s doing.

submitted 22 days ago • 223 comments

I've seen people asking us not to hold all of this against those who supported Trump. Why? If we appease them won't they just do this again with some other would-be authoritarian? They own this calamity. I don't know what it should look like, but ignoring what they got us into won't cut it.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Professionals who are being fired or otherwise leaving their jobs in America's federal bureaucracy should get a special mark of distinction on LinkedIn. When the time comes to rebuild our country, we will want them back. It may cost us. It will be worth it.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

If you don't think Social Security & Medicare are next, you're not paying attention. If you voted for this, you deserve all that's coming. I've spent my entire life a bleeding heart for others less fortunate, but I have no drops left for you. I feel nothing... except for your children. Damn you all.

submitted 22 days ago • 917 comments

No illusions. Decimating the FBI makes us unsafe, period. When calamities happen, and they will because the threats are never ending, there should be no rallying around the President as we did in 2001. What happens will be on him. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Incompetence isn't a stick that beats on the workings of the state. It's a corrosive liquid that seeps into every cranny of government. You never know which gear will break, what small problem will magnify into something devastating, or which calamities it will cause. You just know that it will.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Tulsi Gabbard was on the TSA watch list until a GOP congressman who opposes support for Ukraine worked to take her off it.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

We can't predict exactly what tragedies and horrors will be unleashed by this administration in the next 4 years, only that there will be many.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

“.. I leave you with this quote from former US Navy pilot Jack McCain, son of the late Senator John McCain:” (via @bloomberg.com)

submitted 23 days ago • 204 comments

This right here. This is what the President of the United States SHOULD say right now. Not comment on the cause of the crash. Not assign blame for the crash. Not engage in conspiracies. This right here is what a leader, what a good person says. Thank you Barack Obama.👇

submitted 23 days ago • 68 comments