You know things are really bad when Morning Shots doesn't have the space to mention that the outgoing Director of National Intelligence was taking orders from a Hare Krishna cult leader.
Hegseth’s pastor is hosting prayer sessions at the Pentagon and he thinks women shouldn’t be allowed to vote and that Christian slave owners were operating on scriptural ground. I understand the importance of faith, but I think we’d benefit by being a lot more suspicious of religious leaders. Personality driven congregations look an awful lot like cults.
That and has equated the Ohio-Michigan border to the border between Pakistan and India. Let me assure everything from much personal experience that the Ohio-Michigan border is even more boring than it sounds.
So many of these people are religious zealots I don't think her cultism being exposed has the affect it would have even a few years ago. To say nothing of the fact 30% of the population are wrapped up in their own cult.
I was going to say something similar. Jay Kuo did a nice job yesterday of discussing some of the "highlights" of the Washington Post story about her and her guru. Terrifying that this was not considered a reason not to confirm her as DNI. (The contours of the story have been known for some time; the WaPo story had the receipts.) https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/this-story-about-tulsi-gabbard-is
For sure because none of them have backstories with any conflicts of interest or security issues. Plus they don't have any qualifications so what's to vet?
The nuttiest thing is that some of the orders were regarding mundane matters that any politician should be able to deal with.. Sort of like a ventriloquist and dummy.
Greenspan was never as brilliant as his fluffers would maintain. He was an Ayn Rand acolyte. He was against necessary regulations. (Unfettered capitalism isn’t pretty or good to humans, unless you’re Jay Gould.) And it was his work that led to the 2008 crisis. I’m glad Bernanke was in charge by then.
Bernanke is the GOAT. Dude literally won a Nobel Prize, the only macro laureate to ever put his theories into practice, and in the most high stakes moment of the last 80 years.
I’m pretty sure that sticking to any one model as the world changes is not always best. Stability is good, but sometimes you need to have flexibility. After major depressions need to be avoided even if it isn’t what people want in the moment.
In my day job I do fire safety engineering. The scaffolding almost certainly violates fire and or building codes and a fire inspection could order them removed. Honestly Michael Fanone probably has contacts on the DC fire department who could get this thing audited. Just an idea for some petty revenge.
One has to remember that unless and until House and Senate Republicans evolve into life forms with spines, there is damned little that Senate democrats can do beyond expressing concern. Yes, they can obstruct legislation but not much else. The only meaningful responses possible at the moment are through the courts.
The biggest thing Trumpism has going for it is that the young henchmen know what's in store for THEM if their project fails. Donald has several escape routes, including the death that awaits us all and enough money to fend off the prosecutors until death releases him.
His flying monkeys don't have that insulation. At best, they're in for years of disgrace, professional humiliation, costly investigations and potential prosecutions; at worst they're in for hard time. They are heavily incentivized to make sure the authoritarian project succeeds, they have access to the levers of power, and they'll break us all before they'll allow themselves to pay a price.
But they hate each other, so, given the chance they will shoot each other in a circular firing squad rather than work together. This usually happens when a dictator dies. The dictator never assembled a working team while alive, so the only thing to expect is a fight from the minions.
I think JD is going to have as much post-Trump success as Malenkov did. For the same reasons. Your skill in kissing the voss' rear end stops being useful when the boss is gone.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, isn't this what the voters chose? It is both absurd and dangerous that Bill Pulte, a man with no national security experience, is now the acting DNI. But it was clear during the 2024 campaign that Trump would fill national security positions with unqualified hacks. The voters elected him anyway, and since the voters don't really give a toss about national security, we are where we are.
In other words, the reason why the flu is ripping through our armed forces right now is not because Pete Hegseth did away with mandatory vaccinations. The reason is the voters do not take national security seriously when they have to deal with short term economic disruption. Therefore, they elect a walking, talking insider threat who in turn chose walking, talking insider threats to lead national security agencies.
Exactly. After a disastrous first term, January 6, and felony convictions with dozens of additional charges pending, the voters elected Trump and a Republican Congress. Ultimately the voters are responsible and quite frankly Trump voters deserve to get it good and hard as H.L. Mencken put it. Unfortunately we are getting it as well but maybe people will wake up and throw out the Republicans in all offices. But to be blunt, never underestimate the stupidity of voters in reelecting the same idiots who got us into this mess.
Voters really are the problem. I am in a pretty good mood this morning just vibing on the pleasure of seeing some of the same folks who thought the problem was coastal elites (like myself) suffer from the economy. I could almost like Trump just for how amusing it is.
I guess I'm a "coastal elite" as well given my education and profession, and I have been laughing my ass off watching the MAGAe get betrayed over and over again by this tangerine tyrant.
I wonder if the President’s motorcade that drove over the reflecting pool bottom in early May played a role in damaging the finish. I doubt the pool was designed for heavy vehicles.
Remember, the groundwater is really high there. I think it's extremely likely that the bottom of the pool was too wet when they applied the coating. A delaminating coating is most likely poor surface preparation and poor application.
While driving over the coating didn't help, I think shoddy work is the most likely culprit.
Facts Mike? You are giving us facts? MAGA don’t want no stinkin facts! /s In WAPO yesterday there were over 2.6k+ comments about what is happening at “The Pool that Trump ruined” (my words), of them there were 25 fools defending him. One went so far as to write, “Democrats don’t want anything nice.”
When this story first got going, one of the most common comments that I saw was that the green was from the pool reflecting the nearby trees. Seriously!
It's just so discouraging to see how many people WANT to be misled.
When I was reading up on the pond, I didn't realize how extensive the old job was. The bottom was completely replaced during the Obama upgrade. Thousands of piles were driven to bedrock to support the weights I mentioned.
When they removed the old base slabs, they found an asbestos layer underneath. As you can imagine the proper removal and disposal of the asbestos was a big deal.
When the President complains about how much Obama spent on the pool, he has no idea what he's talking about.
Thanks. I didn’t know that information either. The asbestos is probably why it cost what it did. Years ago when my husband and I were selling our house, we were told that since it was old-built in 1915-we couldn’t rent to a family in the rent-to-own plan unless we had the house checked for lead paint, and take necessary repairs. The family had a 6 year old daughter. The cost would have made it impossible to deal with the family. And some of the pipes had asbestos covering.
Based on my observations of MAGA, let's assume 250 lbs per person. [Ha, there's 250 again. 😀] 200 couples would add 100,000 pounds. If you're worried, subtract 13 Chevys. 😀
I think there is a likely a pretty basic answer. Spraying s**t onto the surface of a massive concrete pool to fix persistent leaks is never going to work. It's absurd to think that a coating which could do a job like that could also be gashed over a length of hundreds of feet by a person. But here we are, with the POTUS saying asinine things and us talking about it. I do think it's a foolish look for him, but if nothing else has sliced through the BS for you, why would this?
Trump has been keeping the evidence of the reflecting pool vandalism safely secured in the restroom at the Mar-a-lago, along with evidence of election fraud in every election since 2012.
My God, what's wrong with all of these idiots who would back Trump's foolishness
The SAVE America Act explicitly targets the elimination of broad-based mail voting. The White House's own official summary of the SAVE America Act lists "No Mail-in Ballots (Except for Illness, Disability, Military or Travel)" as a primary goal.
Because the SAVE America Act requires prospective voters to present physical or documentary proof of citizenship (such as a passport or birth certificate paired with an ID) to an election official, mailing in a registration application would become functionally impossible.
For those who are registered, the act requires voters to submit a physical photocopy of their photo identification twice: once when applying for an absentee/mail-in ballot, and again when submitting the completed ballot. For millions of Americans without easy access to a printer or photocopier—especially older adults, rural voters, or those with disabilities—this requirement acts as a massive bottleneck that effectively blocks them from using the mail-in option.
Trump realizes he is unpopular, but he doesn't care because he still has enough power to ruin everyone's life. Trump is governing as if he will be America's last president. He realizes he won't be able to run again, and it's not because of the Constitution; it's because nobody wants him. So, he is going to trash America and take it down with him. No science, no art, no economy, no friends, a deleted and ineffective army, violent thugs dragging Black and brown people off the streets and putting them in detention camps, and a Justice Department that defends all of his corrupt and illegal actions while harassing everyone who is trying to stop him.
Congress is showing signs of life, but they are already nine months behind. We have to at least get Trump under control now, and then get rid of him after the election.
We also have to get the DOJ out of the Executive Branch. Trump has permanently ruined America's trust in an AG appointed by a president.
Indignation is what we need, Bill; still, while your analysis of Trump's young henchmen was jolting, your ending paragraphs, by comparison, are tepid. Compared to what is needed from the present minority members in both the House and Senate -- and has been from the very inception of Trump2 -- where is a vigorous, analytically sound, noisy, insistent opposition to the many facets since Trump accession in the face of the reality that the American experiment totters, in fact, is profoundly threatened?
Trump was an accident waiting to happen. Our founders could not have anticipated many of the changes over the past 50 years, the longterm impacts of changes wrought starting with Reagan's economic policies (the oligarch phenomenon), the unanticipated consequences of new communication technologies dumbing down citizens' responsibilities to the democracy founders created for us, a Supreme Court drifting further and further out of and beyond its proper role, and the corrosiveness of Project 2025 (and the quiet, persistent role its principal author, Vought, has played in implementing it). What we lack is what America's World Cup coach is showing us -- delivering imaginative player configurations that can "wait actively 'til ready", and then explode down field to score. The work with the Epstein survivors shows the capacity exists in the Congress but the organized, committed, TEAM leadership has been missing, in the House, the Senate, and the DNC. The amount of work needing to be done to get to January 2029 when the work of reconstruction can FINALLY BEGIN (!), is enormous and seems nowhere in view, not even dust on the horizon!
The Republicans in Congress should start now. Trump candidates are now losing in primaries. Voters are fleeing the Republican Party, even if they feel they have nowhere to go. The people keeping Trump in office are the greedy, rich billionaire types who want to keep the corruption going.
The Reps could have gummed up the works from the beginning. Why haven't/ didn't they? On on the Grift? Truly afraid of being physically hurt by hard-core MAGAts? Or OK enough with getting some of what they wanted too? Will it finally be " save my own political A$$" time?
Probably 60% of the current Republicans in Congress are Trump cultists. They thought he would bring in a rich, white, pseudo-christian society, in which they would all get rich. They are now paralyzed and don't know what to do.
The other 40% were frightened, both politically and physically. They are the ones who might care about still having a country now that they see Trump losing his mind and his power.
The only difference between Trump and JD when it comes to their inventifacts is Trump believes most of his and JD knows full well he's lying. Nice deflection to Kushner though.
Bill's take about Trump's henchmen is on point. All of them have a vested interest in keeping their demented leader in office because they will need the pardons Trump will give them. They best hope those are already stashed in a safe somewhere. At the rate Trump is deteriorating the odds are very high he won't just forget to pardon them, but forget who they are.
Going through the list of henchmen, it’s hard to not get onboard with the idea that we should have been investigating the misdeeds of old administrations when new ones took over. Perhaps, had that precedent been set, it won’t seem like lawfare when the next Dem administration goes after all of these crooks in 2029.
"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, FBI Director Kash Patel, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller are all 46."
Perhaps astrology has an explanation for this cluster of I-don't-what-to-call-them babies.
And how old is that twit Kennedy? According to Wikipedia, he was born in 1954, making him 72. Plenty young enough to kill some more people with his "policies".
You know things are really bad when Morning Shots doesn't have the space to mention that the outgoing Director of National Intelligence was taking orders from a Hare Krishna cult leader.
Hegseth’s pastor is hosting prayer sessions at the Pentagon and he thinks women shouldn’t be allowed to vote and that Christian slave owners were operating on scriptural ground. I understand the importance of faith, but I think we’d benefit by being a lot more suspicious of religious leaders. Personality driven congregations look an awful lot like cults.
Hegseth and his pastor (self-ordained, which is code for "I'm a white man so I rule) are perversion of genuine faith.
That and has equated the Ohio-Michigan border to the border between Pakistan and India. Let me assure everything from much personal experience that the Ohio-Michigan border is even more boring than it sounds.
😊
Check out Kevin Roberts' PHD dissertation on slavery--U of T, Austin.
So many of these people are religious zealots I don't think her cultism being exposed has the affect it would have even a few years ago. To say nothing of the fact 30% of the population are wrapped up in their own cult.
The orange spray on tanner is their koolaid and DJT is their Jim Jones.
I was going to say something similar. Jay Kuo did a nice job yesterday of discussing some of the "highlights" of the Washington Post story about her and her guru. Terrifying that this was not considered a reason not to confirm her as DNI. (The contours of the story have been known for some time; the WaPo story had the receipts.) https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/this-story-about-tulsi-gabbard-is
We don't need no stinkin' vettin' of cabinet members.
For sure because none of them have backstories with any conflicts of interest or security issues. Plus they don't have any qualifications so what's to vet?
"Practice! Who needs practice"!
The nuttiest thing is that some of the orders were regarding mundane matters that any politician should be able to deal with.. Sort of like a ventriloquist and dummy.
Maybe we should refer to her as "Toenail clippings" Gabbard. 🤮
She is gone, and did not particularly leave much of a mark that we know of.
It's the "that we know of" part that is concerning.
At least Tulsi is back in Hawaii meditating in the lotus position. (I think)
.....Especially since it is prominent news (WaPo, Maddow, etc).
"the money would actually go to buy American soy, American corn, and American wheat"
On this news yesterday, grain futures went down. The credibility of our government is now at George Santos levels.
trump's folks are reaching, and I am sure that those that watch FOX will quote this back to you as gospel.
LOL!
Alternatively, Jared could offer American made missile defense systems.
Perhaps he just needs to Kitara Rivache it up. He already has the eyeliner.
Greenspan was never as brilliant as his fluffers would maintain. He was an Ayn Rand acolyte. He was against necessary regulations. (Unfettered capitalism isn’t pretty or good to humans, unless you’re Jay Gould.) And it was his work that led to the 2008 crisis. I’m glad Bernanke was in charge by then.
Yes, TG Bernanke was Fed Chair during the Great Recession. He "got it" in a way that Greenspan never did.
Bernanke is the GOAT. Dude literally won a Nobel Prize, the only macro laureate to ever put his theories into practice, and in the most high stakes moment of the last 80 years.
I’m pretty sure that sticking to any one model as the world changes is not always best. Stability is good, but sometimes you need to have flexibility. After major depressions need to be avoided even if it isn’t what people want in the moment.
In the real-world, some flexibility is often required to maintain actual stability.
I believe some folks expressed irrational exuberance about Greenspan's abilities back then.
I won't mourn the passing of Alan "No, really, I'm the Superior Man" Greenspan.
But you do have to admit, inflation during his long tenure was nonexistent.
Was his work the cause of that? Or was the rise of the dot com boom responsible for that? Until it busted in the late 1990s.
In my day job I do fire safety engineering. The scaffolding almost certainly violates fire and or building codes and a fire inspection could order them removed. Honestly Michael Fanone probably has contacts on the DC fire department who could get this thing audited. Just an idea for some petty revenge.
I've wondered what fire safety inspectors would have made of the curtain in the Wizard of Oz... .
Democrats like Mark Warner seem to be faxing in their statements of "concern" from like 1995.
One has to remember that unless and until House and Senate Republicans evolve into life forms with spines, there is damned little that Senate democrats can do beyond expressing concern. Yes, they can obstruct legislation but not much else. The only meaningful responses possible at the moment are through the courts.
As Sarah points out, you need to be elected first.
As pointed out in the piece, Democrats can block much routine business.
The biggest thing Trumpism has going for it is that the young henchmen know what's in store for THEM if their project fails. Donald has several escape routes, including the death that awaits us all and enough money to fend off the prosecutors until death releases him.
His flying monkeys don't have that insulation. At best, they're in for years of disgrace, professional humiliation, costly investigations and potential prosecutions; at worst they're in for hard time. They are heavily incentivized to make sure the authoritarian project succeeds, they have access to the levers of power, and they'll break us all before they'll allow themselves to pay a price.
And they are absolutely depending on a blanket pardon before Trump leaves (or JD if Trump dies while in office).
But they hate each other, so, given the chance they will shoot each other in a circular firing squad rather than work together. This usually happens when a dictator dies. The dictator never assembled a working team while alive, so the only thing to expect is a fight from the minions.
I think JD is going to have as much post-Trump success as Malenkov did. For the same reasons. Your skill in kissing the voss' rear end stops being useful when the boss is gone.
Flying monkeys! Hahahaha!
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, isn't this what the voters chose? It is both absurd and dangerous that Bill Pulte, a man with no national security experience, is now the acting DNI. But it was clear during the 2024 campaign that Trump would fill national security positions with unqualified hacks. The voters elected him anyway, and since the voters don't really give a toss about national security, we are where we are.
In other words, the reason why the flu is ripping through our armed forces right now is not because Pete Hegseth did away with mandatory vaccinations. The reason is the voters do not take national security seriously when they have to deal with short term economic disruption. Therefore, they elect a walking, talking insider threat who in turn chose walking, talking insider threats to lead national security agencies.
Heck of a job, guys.
Exactly. After a disastrous first term, January 6, and felony convictions with dozens of additional charges pending, the voters elected Trump and a Republican Congress. Ultimately the voters are responsible and quite frankly Trump voters deserve to get it good and hard as H.L. Mencken put it. Unfortunately we are getting it as well but maybe people will wake up and throw out the Republicans in all offices. But to be blunt, never underestimate the stupidity of voters in reelecting the same idiots who got us into this mess.
Voters really are the problem. I am in a pretty good mood this morning just vibing on the pleasure of seeing some of the same folks who thought the problem was coastal elites (like myself) suffer from the economy. I could almost like Trump just for how amusing it is.
I guess I'm a "coastal elite" as well given my education and profession, and I have been laughing my ass off watching the MAGAe get betrayed over and over again by this tangerine tyrant.
But they still believe all the lies and many will never admit the truth about Trump (he's an evil mendacious narcissist who is wrecking the country).
Yes I know, but occasionally I need to let it go and laugh because if I didn’t … I might need to join antifa
I wonder if the President’s motorcade that drove over the reflecting pool bottom in early May played a role in damaging the finish. I doubt the pool was designed for heavy vehicles.
Remember, the groundwater is really high there. I think it's extremely likely that the bottom of the pool was too wet when they applied the coating. A delaminating coating is most likely poor surface preparation and poor application.
While driving over the coating didn't help, I think shoddy work is the most likely culprit.
Facts Mike? You are giving us facts? MAGA don’t want no stinkin facts! /s In WAPO yesterday there were over 2.6k+ comments about what is happening at “The Pool that Trump ruined” (my words), of them there were 25 fools defending him. One went so far as to write, “Democrats don’t want anything nice.”
When this story first got going, one of the most common comments that I saw was that the green was from the pool reflecting the nearby trees. Seriously!
It's just so discouraging to see how many people WANT to be misled.
The Reflecting Pool's depth ranges from 18 inches at the edge to 30 inches at the center. For estimates, let's assume 24 inches overall.
The Reflecting Pool is made of 160' x 60' slabs. Thus, each slab has to support 19,200 cubic feet of water. That much water weighs 1.2 million pounds.
A Chevy Suburban weighs 6,000 pounds.
As long as less than 200 Chevy Suburbans are on each slab, they should be fine.
The idea of 200 Chevy Suburbans in the reflecting pool made my morning. Great image.
Just providing context. 😀
Just great!
When I was reading up on the pond, I didn't realize how extensive the old job was. The bottom was completely replaced during the Obama upgrade. Thousands of piles were driven to bedrock to support the weights I mentioned.
When they removed the old base slabs, they found an asbestos layer underneath. As you can imagine the proper removal and disposal of the asbestos was a big deal.
When the President complains about how much Obama spent on the pool, he has no idea what he's talking about.
Thanks. I didn’t know that information either. The asbestos is probably why it cost what it did. Years ago when my husband and I were selling our house, we were told that since it was old-built in 1915-we couldn’t rent to a family in the rent-to-own plan unless we had the house checked for lead paint, and take necessary repairs. The family had a 6 year old daughter. The cost would have made it impossible to deal with the family. And some of the pipes had asbestos covering.
Does each Chevy Suburban contain at least one based, trad couple trying to find Trump's 250 rally?
Based on my observations of MAGA, let's assume 250 lbs per person. [Ha, there's 250 again. 😀] 200 couples would add 100,000 pounds. If you're worried, subtract 13 Chevys. 😀
I have no doubt.
I think there is a likely a pretty basic answer. Spraying s**t onto the surface of a massive concrete pool to fix persistent leaks is never going to work. It's absurd to think that a coating which could do a job like that could also be gashed over a length of hundreds of feet by a person. But here we are, with the POTUS saying asinine things and us talking about it. I do think it's a foolish look for him, but if nothing else has sliced through the BS for you, why would this?
Trump has been keeping the evidence of the reflecting pool vandalism safely secured in the restroom at the Mar-a-lago, along with evidence of election fraud in every election since 2012.
He'll release the evidence in 2 weeks.
😂
That's normal for a concept of release.
My God, what's wrong with all of these idiots who would back Trump's foolishness
The SAVE America Act explicitly targets the elimination of broad-based mail voting. The White House's own official summary of the SAVE America Act lists "No Mail-in Ballots (Except for Illness, Disability, Military or Travel)" as a primary goal.
Because the SAVE America Act requires prospective voters to present physical or documentary proof of citizenship (such as a passport or birth certificate paired with an ID) to an election official, mailing in a registration application would become functionally impossible.
For those who are registered, the act requires voters to submit a physical photocopy of their photo identification twice: once when applying for an absentee/mail-in ballot, and again when submitting the completed ballot. For millions of Americans without easy access to a printer or photocopier—especially older adults, rural voters, or those with disabilities—this requirement acts as a massive bottleneck that effectively blocks them from using the mail-in option.
Honestly, they're just trying to restore historical norms of American voting. Only land-holding white men should be able to vote.
[Not kidding this time ]
Those men will probably have to call mom to get their birth certificates....
Trump realizes he is unpopular, but he doesn't care because he still has enough power to ruin everyone's life. Trump is governing as if he will be America's last president. He realizes he won't be able to run again, and it's not because of the Constitution; it's because nobody wants him. So, he is going to trash America and take it down with him. No science, no art, no economy, no friends, a deleted and ineffective army, violent thugs dragging Black and brown people off the streets and putting them in detention camps, and a Justice Department that defends all of his corrupt and illegal actions while harassing everyone who is trying to stop him.
Congress is showing signs of life, but they are already nine months behind. We have to at least get Trump under control now, and then get rid of him after the election.
We also have to get the DOJ out of the Executive Branch. Trump has permanently ruined America's trust in an AG appointed by a president.
Indignation is what we need, Bill; still, while your analysis of Trump's young henchmen was jolting, your ending paragraphs, by comparison, are tepid. Compared to what is needed from the present minority members in both the House and Senate -- and has been from the very inception of Trump2 -- where is a vigorous, analytically sound, noisy, insistent opposition to the many facets since Trump accession in the face of the reality that the American experiment totters, in fact, is profoundly threatened?
Trump was an accident waiting to happen. Our founders could not have anticipated many of the changes over the past 50 years, the longterm impacts of changes wrought starting with Reagan's economic policies (the oligarch phenomenon), the unanticipated consequences of new communication technologies dumbing down citizens' responsibilities to the democracy founders created for us, a Supreme Court drifting further and further out of and beyond its proper role, and the corrosiveness of Project 2025 (and the quiet, persistent role its principal author, Vought, has played in implementing it). What we lack is what America's World Cup coach is showing us -- delivering imaginative player configurations that can "wait actively 'til ready", and then explode down field to score. The work with the Epstein survivors shows the capacity exists in the Congress but the organized, committed, TEAM leadership has been missing, in the House, the Senate, and the DNC. The amount of work needing to be done to get to January 2029 when the work of reconstruction can FINALLY BEGIN (!), is enormous and seems nowhere in view, not even dust on the horizon!
There needs to be a sense of urgency when Dems take the House and hopefully the Senate. Forget celebrations.
Say, Yes! And get to work.
The Corruption must be weeded. Push harder than The 🍊 Regime has done these 2 years.
The Young 🍊 Thugs are a danger. The rot has to be cut out.
The Republicans in Congress should start now. Trump candidates are now losing in primaries. Voters are fleeing the Republican Party, even if they feel they have nowhere to go. The people keeping Trump in office are the greedy, rich billionaire types who want to keep the corruption going.
The Reps could have gummed up the works from the beginning. Why haven't/ didn't they? On on the Grift? Truly afraid of being physically hurt by hard-core MAGAts? Or OK enough with getting some of what they wanted too? Will it finally be " save my own political A$$" time?
Probably 60% of the current Republicans in Congress are Trump cultists. They thought he would bring in a rich, white, pseudo-christian society, in which they would all get rich. They are now paralyzed and don't know what to do.
The other 40% were frightened, both politically and physically. They are the ones who might care about still having a country now that they see Trump losing his mind and his power.
Please let you be right.
The only difference between Trump and JD when it comes to their inventifacts is Trump believes most of his and JD knows full well he's lying. Nice deflection to Kushner though.
Bill's take about Trump's henchmen is on point. All of them have a vested interest in keeping their demented leader in office because they will need the pardons Trump will give them. They best hope those are already stashed in a safe somewhere. At the rate Trump is deteriorating the odds are very high he won't just forget to pardon them, but forget who they are.
We should be so lucky.
The gash was very clearly the work of Banksy.
Going through the list of henchmen, it’s hard to not get onboard with the idea that we should have been investigating the misdeeds of old administrations when new ones took over. Perhaps, had that precedent been set, it won’t seem like lawfare when the next Dem administration goes after all of these crooks in 2029.
You forgot sadists, child molesters and murderers. Yes, it’s that bad.
"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, FBI Director Kash Patel, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller are all 46."
Perhaps astrology has an explanation for this cluster of I-don't-what-to-call-them babies.
And how old is that twit Kennedy? According to Wikipedia, he was born in 1954, making him 72. Plenty young enough to kill some more people with his "policies".