Fucking psychopaths.

“Shamed” implies he’s capable of feeling shame, which I very much doubt.

Not coincidentally pretty much exactly so.

Sort of the clinical equivalent of a big, blinking neon sign that says, “I am a psychopath.”

No question about it IMO.

At this point, I don’t even think they’d bother pretending otherwise. Trump would go on Truth.social and post an unhinged screed that pretty much boiled down to “Serves 'em right.”

And the media wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow.

I don’t doubt it for even a second.

Um… yeah. We knew that already.

The point obviously never was eliminating supposed waste.

It was, blatantly, a purge, meant solely to get rid of anyone who wasn’t a Trump sycophant, anyone who was currently or ever had been involved in investigating the myriad lies, scams and crimes of Trump and his cronies and/or anyone who might stand in the way of their future lies, scams and crimes.

Did you really not know that? Where have you been the last few months?

Even MTG is more principled and rational than Trump.

…Congress to claw back…

That would require courage and determination, which means it’s not going to happen, because those are qualities Congress no longer possesses.

Surely now at least some few of the people in authority who have ignored Trump’s grossly obvious unfitness for office will do something, right?

Right?

Then next up is to finish criminalizing homelessness so that those people (and many more) can be converted into slaves to the new generation of robber barons.

This illustrates one of the many oddities about Trump.

With any other president, we had policy debates and stated goals and decisions made and implemented.

With Trump, we just have this string of essentially arbitrary threats, promises and rhetoric, and alongside that is a string of essentially arbitrary policies arbitrarily enacted and rescinded and followed and ignored, and there’s no necessary correlations between any of it.

It’s another of the things that I think Trump does simply because he’s a delusional toxic narcissist, a genuinely stupid person, and emotionally a toddler, and another of the things that the would-be autocrats - the billionaires and the CEOs and the religious right and the Republicans and the rest of the greedy and power-hungry scum - take advantage of him doing.

Exactly as intended.

his chances of raising money and looking like a leader

Note that raising money is the first thing mentioned.

And note that winning elections isn’t mentioned at all.

Which neatly sums up what’s wrong with the DNC.

There are a number of conservatives who straddle a line such that I can’t be sure if they’re genuinely stupid or if they’re just cultivating that image.

Tuberville isn’t one of them though.

But the Trump administration is refusing to reassure them they won’t be subject to retaliation.

That would be because they will be subject to retaliation.

Trump is nothing if not petty and vindictive, and as with all the rest of his many and profound flaws and failures, he’s molding the rest of the government into his gross and detestable image.

And as with the rest of his brazen assaults on legal and ethical standards, nobody with any authority will do a single fucking thing about it.

I don’t see how it could make any difference.

He’s already an idiot, a delusional narcissist, and a compulsive liar, so it’s not as if he could become even more detached from realitybthan he already is. And his supporters don’t care (and likely don’t even notice), since they’re even dumber than he is.

And it’s not like he"s going to forget his platform, since it’s pretty much just hating immigrants and LGBTQ, dicking over poor people, singing his own praises and scamming as much money as possible, and that’s all as natural and automatic to him as breathing…

Really, there’s just not much cognition going on there in the first place - it’s more in the nature of infantile immediacy and animal instincts - so I can’t see how any loss of it would matter much.

Oh look - a grotesquely incompetent and unqualified Trump appointee. I haven’t seen one of those in… an hour or so. Maybe even an hour and a half.

And yet again, while lying assholes pretend that criticism of Israeli government policy is antisemitism, the real antisemites on the right get a free pass.

Um… yeah. Most of us outside of the media’s self-imposed truth filter already knew there’s a reason for it - because he’s a thin-skinned crybaby.