Trogdor

Wow. We’re just, really, really dumb, aren’t we? Idiocracy wasn’t just a movie. It’s clairvoyant foretelling, I guess.

[Trogdor @DoogieSlap]

I’ve never.
Ever.
Perhaps the greatest economic turnaround, ever? More jobs abound, more people working, squashing inflation without a recession, domestic manufacturing investment at all time highs.
Yet fools vote for the idiot who crashed it in the beginning?
We. Are. Dumb.

[Trogdor @DoogieSlap]

@TrueFactsStated What are they claiming his height is? I find it really hard to believe he's even 6-foot anymore. For god's sake, he's about to hit 80. If he was...WAS, anywhere near 6-2 in his life (unlikely, and I doubt he was ever 6-3), age will have knocked at least 2 inches off his frame.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

So Trump rolls out the red carpet for Putin, protects Putin, bullies the Ukrainians for Putin, and in return Putin helps Iranians kill Americans.

Trump must act now or the case for him being a Russian asset of some type will be undeniable.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Just imagine if Joe Biden had a jobs report this bad. The media would be in full meltdown mode for weeks. They were treating 150k jobs a month as “bad” when he was president.

Yet again, the double standard is impossible to miss.

And it is exactly why public trust in the media keeps collapsing.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

David Ellison reportedly told Trump he’d make “sweeping changes” to CNN if Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. gets approved.

Meanwhile, Jared Kushner and three Middle East countries are backing the bid — while Kushner advises Trump on foreign policy.

Corruption on display.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

A careful study of every populist episode since 1900 finds catastrophic consequences, which play out slowly.

On average, incomes fall behind by nearly 15% over 15 years.

For the U.S., this is a cost of about $13k per person per year. Over a lifetime, that's million bucks.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

.@therickwilson reacts to Trump lying in front of the whole country for a record-breaking 90 straight minutes.
WATCH: https://t.co/qqC0chzEJF

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

useful reminder that some lines pundits praised as clever lib-owns were utter fabrications

ending fraudulent SS checks to 150-yr-olds, fighting pediatric cancer w/kid as a prop when you're cutting research, etc

wanna call that great politics? go ahead. see how long it lasts

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump's Joint Address by topic:

0 mentions of health care affordability
0 mentions of housing affordability
0 mentions of veterans
0 mentions of prescription drug costs
2 mentions of the Gulf of “America”
3 mentions of annexing Greenland
3 mentions of Elon Musk
5 mentions of tax handouts for the ultra-wealthy and mega corporations
6 mentions of the Panama Canal
13 mentions of Joe Biden

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"President Donald Trump’s threatened steel tariffs that don’t kick in for two weeks are impacting U.S. buyers who already are seeing American-made metal cost more than imports." 😱 https://t.co/9X15ujdQe7
Total cluster:

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

if i were a criminal and ran into the judge who gave me
immunity from prosecution, i wouldn't forget either

[David Frum @davidfrum]

As Trump cuts off information flows to Ukraine self-defense...

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

ICYMI: Air Force General had five inappropriate (sexual) relationships with women on Capitol Hill, including a US Senator. Relationships included exchange of naked photos and sexting influential women he used to help lobby for more money for the USAF. https://t.co/COLNXmUNVu

[Ken Martin @kenmartin73]

Read our statement on Trump’s disastrous joint address.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“Trump is keenly alert to his legal danger, deeply committed to keeping power by any means necessary,” writes @davidfrum. “He also seems to be sleep-walking toward a stinging political loss that will expose him to all kinds of personal risk”: https://t.co/v1I0nzNfLU

[Andrew Feinberg @AndrewFeinberg]

NEW: The Trump administration wants to sell off the headquarters buildings used by @TheJusticeDept and most cabinet departments in what would be a windfall for real estate investors who would be able to charge the government rent in perpetuity. https://t.co/zFZPqGvHWH

[Trogdor @DoogieSlap]

https://t.co/nYokGtuPVQ

[Sam Stein @samstein]

NEW: In an email obtained by The Bulwark, the acting Social Security administrator made clear they're going to outsource-privatize operations. The expectation is it will be the call centers that seniors depend on.

with @JoePerticone

https://t.co/yzvt0pA4C1

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: Ontario Premier Doug Ford just canceled Elon Musk’s Starlink contract and banned all U.S. companies from government contracts in response to Trump’s economic war with Canada.

“It’s done, it’s gone,” Ford said. “We won’t award contracts to people who enable and encourage economic attacks on our province and our country.”

And just to be clear: “They only have President Trump to blame.”

So Trump starts a trade war, and now American businesses are getting locked out of Canada. This isn’t “tough negotiating”—this is our closest ally shutting the door on us while Trump pretends he’s “winning.”

MAGA wanted an economic war? Well, they just got one. And it’s American companies and workers who are about to feel the pain.

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Particularly ominous give the Commerce secretary's recent suggestion that he may manipulate GDP statistics to make them appear more favorable.
https://t.co/BeItFB2lKi

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

This flew under the radar, but Trump says his administration won't enforce an anti-money laundering law that requires corporations to disclose information on who really owns shell companies to the Treasury.

"Drain the swamp."