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There's this lizard brain desire liberals have to try and reason with this argument but at some point you just have to point out that your ideological opponents are just talking crazy all the time and full of shit.

Looks like the Trump administration and the GOP is attempting a real-world test of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's prediction in his November 8, 1954 letter to his brother, Edwin.

Even if you think he backs out of the Canada and Mexico tariffs, a 20% tariff on all Chinese imports would be larger in terms of raw economic impact than all the trade war actions taken throughout the entirety of Trump's first term

Trump represents the absolute worst of humanity. Pure scum.

This might sound like a dig or hyperbole. But not enough mention of this. It says quite explicitly in 2.11 Exec Order that end-state level after all cuts is permanent level of govt to equal what it is during a full government shut down. Seems like worth highlighting this?

Only reason I can think for this (like most the NOAA cuts) isn't hostility to climate change research, it's because the plan is to ruin weather forecasting and replace it with garbage "AI" served up by Musk and his Silicon Valley buddies at a far higher price to taxpayers.

Genuinely what is the purpose of this? What is the upside? Was weather predicting unpopular among republicans?

we've reached the point that the WSJ opinion section is publishing pieces with headlines like this, just saying

this admin is the realtime demo of the answer to the question "what if the absolute stupidest people in the history of a nation ran that nation"

JD Vance: blue collar workers in Ohio should lose their jobs because it's more important for Daddy Putin to win www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/03/and-...

BREAKING — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just announced the closure of major regional offices in Philly, LA and Chicago, per email shared with me. “5 alarm fire,” SEC employee tells me. Full email text:

there was no constituency for what the GOP is doing right now until they went out and made one. dems just cannot grasp that part of politics is persuading people, not just reacting to focus groups.

the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.

A thing I wish more people knew is that measles is basically the most contagious disease in the world

Little Marco fires people for telling the truth about his administration’s murderous policies www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/03/litt...

How much WD40 do you have to drink to believe this shit?

Either transgender Americans are important enough to warrant year after year of breathless coverage questioning their healthcare and existence, or they're so insignificant that destroying their rights is the "least consequential" action of a presidency. www.readtpa.com/p/not-exactl...

this is going to be a sort of insane recession because usually what causes these things is all complicated and difficult to sort out and even harder to fix, but in this case it's very clearly one guy pushing the "fuck everything" button. gonna find out if there's a "unfuck everything" button ig

Macron is quite correct.

If you want to inexpensively print a slogan on a vinyl sticker but don't know how, DM me and I, a person with exceedingly limited design acumen who nevertheless prints 8+ different sticker designs a year, will walk you through the process. Barring that, remember, any label wants to be a sticker.

“Musk and his little Heydrichs are literally snatching nutrient paste out of the mouths of starving babies. That is the kind of people we are dealing with.” prospect.org/world/2025-0...

NOBODY THOUGHT LIL MARCO RUBIO WAS GOING TO STAND UP TO TRUMP ON THIS OR ANY ISSUE!!!!

I need a reality show where we lock rfk in a house with 10 ebola patients and tell him to demonstrate the value of diet and exercise

The stove's not gonna touch itself.

It is dire that many people running the government do not know the basics of the law, or pretend not to. It is not a crime to remind people of their rights—which unlawful immigrants are also entitled to under the Constitution. The truth matters, no matter how politically inconvenient.

It's very cool and totally not problematic to call the Jewish leader of Ukraine a "lizard of the New World Order."

An underrated part of this video is you can watch the Dow go down in real time in the bottom right

It took six weeks to get here

Their capacity to just flat out lie is matched only by the capacity of dupes to accept it.

One of the underrated insane things about the tariffs otaku is that he seems to think there are Canadian and Mexican car companies with their own factories that export fully manufactured cars to the United States. Or his rotting brain repeated an old anti-Japanese auto industry talking point.

It’s very funny that they’re funneling money into this bullshit but are so incompetent that they can’t even artificially inflate it

Israel has cut off the entry of all food and other goods into Gaza. The United Nations and other humanitarian aid providers are calling the decision a violation of international law.

Never forget that people with hundreds of millions or billions of dollars are hoarders

Democrats should boycott the State of the Union. Democrats keep calling this man a unique and dangerous threat, but never ACT like it. For once, Democrats' *actions* should match their words. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I've got to say, it's absolutely breathtaking to watch Republican representatives almost uniformly behave like they all represent R+55 areas in Eastern Tennessee. Elections in 2026 are still a thing (states run them) — and the thermostat doesn't *only* work in one direction.

what a stupid ass party www.mediaite.com/tv/amy-klobu...

Trans folks are people, jabroni. These are our siblings, our peers, our families, our children. Humanism is, in fact, politically popular if you’re brave enough to make a case for it. Quit fucking around.

Common sense

When you want to know who betrayed our Republic alongside Musk, start here.

Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

The Atlanta Fed just updated their GDP tracker and it showed an even worse drop in GDP for the 1st quarter of -2.8%, down from +3% at the start of the Trump administration. The closest precedent to this was the economic crisis at the start of COVID.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk mass firing Social Security staff and shuttering field offices will only mean delays in getting benefits or seniors just not getting the benefits they are owed — and all this to make room for tax breaks for the rich.

Says the man who just admitted the Tate bros to the U.S.

A pathetic and humiliating walkback from the would-be destroyers of CFPB, who know they've lost in court and can't kill the agency. This email from Mark Paoletta went to employees today. It neglects Vought's Feb 10 "stop-work" email that superseded it, ending all activity with no exceptions.

Mexico has issued a travel warning to not to travel to Texas and seven other US states due to a measles outbreak. At least one case has been registered in Mexico after an infected person crossed from the US. The outbreak comes as Trump is slashing infectious diseases protections. #EndAutogenocide

BREAKING: Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, sues HHS, alleging that HHS's refusal to pay $36 million in open grant agreements has resulted in "over 100,000 eligible individuals and families losing access to critical services" and layoffs and furloughs across partner agencies.

American farm exports were worth $179 billion in 2022

Trump/Vance claim to want "peace" in the Russia-Ukraine war, but they won't say what Russia should concede to get it. How often do they call on Russia to stop the invasion? That's the key tell. On the pod, Lauren Young, expert on global far right, is good on this: newrepublic.com/article/1922...