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This is what it looks like when your soul leaves your body. Have to say as a former English literature major, it is gratifying to see Marlowe's Doctor Faustus actually play out in real life.

Fort Knox!?! It all makes perfect sense now. Look who is standing behind Trump, its the hitman Oddjob:

is anyone surprised that, at the end of the day, it was always about; "RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA"???

Thanks, Chief Justice John Roberts.

All of Trump's musings about the Gilded Age now make sense. There were no income taxes in the Gilded Age. He wants to replace income tax revenue with tariffs. That's why we're tariffing our 3 main trading partners. There was no social welfare in the Gilded Age, and that's where DOGE comes in.

When you consider the tariffs and Trump's musings about the greatness of the Gilded Age, you can see where this is going: They want to end or drastically reduce income taxes, and the social safety net (Social Security, Medicare, Mediaid) paid for with income taxes. They want to erase the New Deal.

I just sent this message to my congressperson and two senators: "As a constituent who shares your belief in a strong safety net and respect for the rule of law, I expect to hear a lot about your vigorous and public actions to contest, hinder, and prevent the illegal and unconstitutional...(1/6)

Next Executive Order is just going to come out and say it: "War is peace." "Freedom is slavery." "ignorance is strength."

If this is what making the country safe for Anglo-Saxons again looks like, where in Beowulf does it say that the Anglo-Saxon ethos involves bullying anyone smaller than you within arms reach? Didn’t realize that being “Anglo-Saxon” meant being a short attention span asshole.