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"Elon Musk is the undisputed champion of making money for Elon Musk. As effectively the CEO of the United States of America? Very bad. Embarrassing, honestly." #MuskSuperEgo #USA #DOGE #incompetence www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

Harry Truman: “The country has to awaken every now and then to the fact that the people are responsible for the government they get. And when they elect a man to the presidency who doesn’t take care of the job, they’ve got nobody to blame but themselves.” Sorry.

As someone said, "drop the gloves."😉🏒

Patel is an unqualified extremist who probably perjured himself, receives money from Russia & China, and has made clear he will weaponize the FBI to pursue Trump's political enemies. The only Trump appointee who did not make is Gaetz, seemingly for being an insufficiently loyal Republican.

It’s amazing to me that people still question whether or not Trump is a stooge for Putin.

I have long believed that not enough has been written about how GOP members have felt physically intimidated by Trump supporters. It doesn’t excuse their cowardice, but it still deserves more attention.

New from me in the Globe: It makes no sense to renegotiate the USMCA with a country that can’t be trusted to follow it and isn’t following it right now. Canada should not renegotiate the USMCA and should consider withdrawing from this dead-letter agreement. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

Correct. He’s not capable of playing multidimensional chess. Or chess. Or checkers. Or tic-tac-toe. As one of his aides put it during Shit Show I, “he’s just eating the pieces” on the board. Nothing he does is strategic. He’s purely guided by narcissistic, sociopathic impulses at all times.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Dark Pence is back.

About 50 years ago, I was reading political thrillers, including several by Fletcher Knebel. His 1966 novel, NIGHT OF CAMP DAVID, centers on a U.S. president who has gone insane. Signs of insanity include: desire for (a) an alliance with the USSR, and (b) annexation of Canada.

With everything going on I needed to do something cathartic, and really wanted to try a WWII-style poster with Sheena. I really love old poster graphics from that time period and figured it was a fitting theme!

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…

“put it on his fucking gravestone”

Trump says there are ‘two sexes.’ Experts and science say it’s not binary. The president signals an intention to narrowly define the sexes, but experts say he is oversimplifying the intricate nature of human biology. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... via @washingtonpost.com

I'm seeing reactions that "this is all a distraction!" but no, this is a pretty good illustration of Trump's authoritarian turn and a nice way to break through to normal folks who think he's doing normal things.

A young girl’s death by suicide is being investigated by school police after her mother says she was bullied by other students who hurled insults at her, claiming her family was in the US illegally.

The Kennedy Center, currently run by gay quisling and Trump toady Richard Grenell, has cancelled the concert by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC, performing alongside the National Symphony Orchestra previously scheduled for May. Their hate has no shame. www.washingtonian.com/2025/02/18/k...

Murphy: "Let me say that again. The man that my Republican colleagues are about to vote to lead the FBI believes there is irrefutable proof that the agency he is about to lead secretly organized the violent assault on the Capitol. That is bananas. My Republican colleagues know that."

Is it just me, or does this smack of labelling immigrants as "vermin?" I mean, I get it's a tactic, but it reverberates throughout history - and not the good parts. Miller seems more consumed by hatred than Goebbels. #immigration #migration #Title42 #Canada www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/p...

In other words, vermin. Too bad so many Americans are blind to what they've unleashed. #fascism #cruelty #theothers #pogroms #Holocaust

When Francis dies, Musk will make his move for real riches and power. Watch out, Vatican! 🤣🤔😱 #PopeElon #RomanCatholics #Conclave #MenInRed

We’ve seen this movie before.

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

Sucking up to Putin is his north star. www.politico.com/news/2022/02...

Funny that the downfall of America can be traced back to media being allowed to lie with no consequences and corporations being allowed to spend as much as they want on political campaigns. And f***ing bigots.

I ran into some lameo Neocon touting the tired PP lie that crime was rampant in Canada & bail was out of control. So just to clarify for the poorly informed, Canada has some issues it is addressing but, as seen here the dark green out of 160 countries are the safest in... the... world. #Canada 🍁🇨🇦🍁

When you sell your soul to the devil.

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...