I think Platner isn’t as skilled at avoiding establishment Democrat smear campaigns as Mamdani is.

Maybe a “subsidence” - it’s not so much that it collapsed as that it settled to its natural level.

Oh look - it’s the Toddler-in-chief throwing another tantrum.

One of the many things I’ll never really understand about this whole Trump thing is how he manages to get so much support from the right-wing choad demographic when he’s such a gross, flabby, pathetic, whiney manbaby.

Wait, what?

DeSantis taking a stand against governmental abuse of authority, and against the Trump regime specifically?

How the hell did that happen?

More accurate headline:

White House announces blatantly unconstitutional plan to allocate tariff revenue without Congress

But since the Supreme Court no longer enforces the Constitution, it’s anybody’s guess what will come of it.

Which is why I remind people at every opportunity that he really, sincerely, is unhinged.

This goes way beyond political rhetoric and hyperbole - he’s bludgeoningly obviously profoundly mentally ill.

Much is unsurprisingly made of the march to fascism under his administration, but the thing is that that’s really being accomplished by the people around him. He isn’t leading the country to fascism or to any other thing. He’s just sitting there in the Oval Office, surrounded by bright shinies, doing whatever his warped perceptions and stunted emotions compel him to do, And it’s just convenient for the fascists that the natural instincts of a fragile, delusional, sociopathic egomaniac, toxic narcissist and craven bully with the emotional development of a toddler lend themselves so well to fascism.

That too.

Just your daily reminder that the President of the United States is a deranged lunatic.

Of course he can, though it"s exceedingly unlikely that he will be, since it’s a process that would require integrity, courage and determination, all of which are virtually non-existent qualities in Washington today.

Which is unfortunate too, since as I have cause to point out daily, the man is quite obviously a deranged lunatic.

I really don’t think he’s ever been particularly attached to reality, but the combination of losing the 2020 election and stewing and lying for four years then lying his way to winning the 2024 election appears to have completely broken his mind. And the upshot of that is that the world in which he now lives and makes important decisions is not the real one - it’s entirely a product of his own warped perceptions, as filtered through an emotionally stunted mind that’s slaved to the task of protecting his grotesquely bloated and fragile ego and has completely lost any ability it might once have had to distinguish between reality and delusion.

Alternate headline: “Supreme Court Yet Again Just Hands Trump What He Wants Without Even Bothering to Try to Justify It.”

And that will also serve as the alternate headline for every Trump regime ruling yet and for all future ones as well

If Miller had his way about it, they’d already be bulldozing leftists into mass graves.

Just your daily reminder that the President of the United States is a deranged lunatic.

as political violence becomes normalized online, particularly among ideologically extreme left in America

https://meidasnews.com/news/mass-shootings-at-two-homeless-camps-after-fox-host-called-for-homeless-to-be-killed

It’s not intended as a pejorative, so its perceived weakness is irrelevant.

It’s a precise term with a very specific definition in international law, and that’s the point.

Israeli terrorists have just taken 1500 Palestinian hostages.

But it’s been about six months since Schumer decided that it wasn’t the time for a fight, that neither he nor the country was ready. Democratic leaders have had six months to come up with a plan. If there’s a better plan than a shutdown, great. But if the plan is still nothing, then Democrats need new leaders.

We already know the Democrats need new leaders. Or more precisely, they need leaders, period.

Schumer and Jeffries aren’t leaders - they’re high-ranking tools.

That’s what they’ve demonstrated with their treatment of Mamdani. They hold the positions they hold because they have no principles and no integrity - because they’re owned by the donors and can be counted on to serve the interests of the donors regardless of any other considerations.

And for the time being at least, the donors - even the most generally leftist of them - aren’t sufficiently opposed to what Trump is doing. They’d probably rather the tyrants have [D]s after their names than [R]s, and they’re undoubtedly personally offended by Trump, since he’s petulant and gauche and gross, but they don’t have any particular opposition really to a program to benefit the wealthy few (which necessarily includes themselves) at the expense of the common people (which is just a bunch of shabby people they don’t know), so while they’d certainly welcome efforts to make Trump look bad, they’re not really committed to stopping him. And I guarantee that some significant number of them are already daydreaming about what they’ll be able to do if/when the power that Trump has accumulated falls into the hands of a Democrat.

And again - Schumer and Jeffries are their tools. We already see that with their refusal to support Mamdani.

And I have little doubt that we’ll continue to see it in their failure to meaningfully oppose Trump.

It’s a bit late in the game for that isn’t it?

I mean - she’s right, but the SC has already cast aside law, precedent and the Constitution at this point, and is ruling almost entirely based on opinion. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say, “preference.”

In the book, set for publication on 9 September, Barrett asserted her belief that the June 2022 ruling that struck down abortion rights nationally “respected the choice” of Americans.

Ah… so she’s not just contradicting the plain reality of the current SC, but her own statements.

Or more precisely, just spewing whatever line of bullshit might serve her current purposes.

Which is undoubtedly the reason she was nominated in the first place, and the exact thing she was expected to contribute.

Helluva timeline we’re living in here…

Huh… I should try that.

My standard response is to just leave the room.

The one that kills me - my brother does this - is framing it as a response to imaginary opponents.

He does these monologues about the libs or the woke mob or the city people or whoever in which he first mimics what they’re supposedly saying, then responds to it with some copy and paste bit of MAGA dogma.

He doesn’t even engage with actual people - it’s just the strawmen in his head.

Of course.

Even amidst the overt efforts to eatablish an authoritarian police state, this administration is most notable for being petty, vindictive and wantonly destructive. It’s as if even instituting neo-feudalistic/fascistic/plutocratic oligarchy is a secondary goal, and the primary goal is simply to be cruel, selfish, petulant and mean.

So of course those are the qualities one will find in its supporters. Most of them don’t even have a coherent ideology - all they have is hate and a petty and childish desire to make those they hate suffer.