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Trumpism is a cult.
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The Gadsden snake is swallowing its own tail.

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Traitorous.

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If the deep state were real and not a straw man, it would have averted the TrumpMusk power-grab by now.

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Trump is running a propaganda operation while Musk dismantles the government

submitted 1 hour ago • 8 comments

Democrats in Trump 1.0 reacted too much to NORMS being broken. They are acting in Trump 2.0 like the problem was excessive concern about LAWS being broken. And they ignore the fact that nearly ALL of Trump's legal violations create material risk to all non-rich Americans. Dem leadership is WRONG.

submitted 8 hours ago • 8 comments

This is it. The plausible scenario is not that the 2028 elections don’t happen. It’s that they happen with every financial oligarch and major corporation backing the GOP. And every major media organization backing the GOP, except for The NY Times which is trying to be neutral.

submitted 19 hours ago • 38 comments

“Individuals feeling anxious and vulnerable, and seeking disciplined obedience and unquestioned leadership, are drawn to personality cults.… A personality cult … may provide a sense of belonging to an imagined extended family led by a supreme patriarch.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

This is 100% bullshit. There are no algorithms. Musk and his incel clown posse are not forensic accountants and do not know how to audit. Discovering fraud is a labor-intensive project that can never be done by looking at payments alone. This is just a thinly-veiled rationale to gut Social Security.

submitted 1 day ago • 243 comments

It's remarkable how many journalists don't know what an executive order is. English is not the official language of the US govt any more than it was a week ago. An EO is no more than the President's directive to exec branch officials about what *his* policies and what he directs them to **do**.

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

Chris Murphy: "It is absolutely shameful what's happening right now. The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin."

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Trump and Musk are messing with Social Security by demanding 15% cuts to staff. “We are already short-staffed as it is. Right now we are working on applications generally from 2023-ish.” These Trump and Musk Social Security cuts could mean that "easily the wait times will be extended by one year."

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

What do Trump’s poorest supporters, many of whom on Medicaid and Social Security, think they get out of this? Or is it enough that they get to lick the boots of their plutocratic betters?

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Vance is the emptiest suit in the history of American politics. He writes in his humdrum memoir of the Freudian ease with which he attaches himself to father figures. It’s clear he found daddy’s apotheosis in Trump. Also clear he decided, for power, to back Trump’s behavior no matter what. Sick.

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The president — and certainly an unelected, unappointed deadbeat dad and gamer-cheater — does NOT have legal authority to “disapprove” and cutoff spending allocated by Congress.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Executive orders are not laws. Letter to santa. Note from tooth fairy. Egg from Easter bunny. Not law

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

It was never America First. It was always Trump First.

submitted 1 day ago • 570 comments

This struck me as the perfect distillation of JD Vance. He is a shockingly incurious and unserious guy who has faked his way into the center of power and now thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room.

submitted 2 days ago • 162 comments

Sounds like a billionaire who’s never talked to a working person in his life. Elon: get your hands off of Americans’ hard-earned Social Security.

submitted 1 day ago • 501 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 2 days ago • 6015 comments

If the “deep state” were as pervasive as Trumpists claim, if it existed at all as a power structure, there would have been a counter-coup by now. Yet another straw man erected by fascists to seize power.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Social security is not a Ponzi scheme. It saves lives and keeps elderly and disabled people in their homes, with dignity, rather than on the streets. Musk is evil and so is Rogan. When will the people stand up?

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