StuckInIdiocracy

How anyone *still* thinks Trump is a good idea is beyond me. The spineless GOP will destroy this country in 4 years or less. #ETTD and the USA is on deck.

[StuckInIdiocracy @ENG1375]

I was skeptical, but Chris Van Hollen sold me tonight. I hope @SenateDems see the light too.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I mean, not for the Trump Crime Family, but otherwise...yes.

[StuckInIdiocracy @ENG1375]

Birds of a feather…

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Trump calls Jensen Huang saga a ‘horrible thing’ and ‘so sad to see.’

Have you ever noticed how Trump always has sympathy for two groups of men: adulterers and abusers.

Wonder why.
https://t.co/nQyBaGJrMf

[TIME @TIME]

TIME’s new cover: Interviews with more than two dozen Democratic leaders, strategists, and members of Congress offer a glimpse into how the party plans to wield its newfound power https://t.co/xWoWttv5sP

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Democrats should try again to impeach Hegseth, and do it right. It's not just a matter of holding Hegseth accountable for his role in an unconstitutional war. It's also a matter of clawing back war powers from the presidency. No administration has been so brazen, and unprecedented action requires an unprecedented response. https://t.co/KR55Ipbme8

[StuckInIdiocracy @ENG1375]

I am shocked. Hegseth did the right thing. Doesn’t make up for his lack of respect, capacity or expertise, but for once he made the right choice.

[CNN @CNN]

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has awarded the soldier who reprimanded him and members of his staff at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier a Joint Service Commendation Medal. https://t.co/GOMBw4WVSr

[StuckInIdiocracy @ENG1375]

In January the Democratic majority needs to right the wrongs of H.R. 9237. Claw back funds from DOD and use those dollars to expand and reinstate benefits for our Veterans.

[StuckInIdiocracy @ENG1375]

Again the #corruption is at the top and Vance is neck deep in it!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This new Reuters report is stunning.

A week before the U.S. captured Venezuela's leader, JD Vance reportedly met at a private Montana ski club with John Addison, an oil trader who had given $300,000 to help elect Vance to the Senate in 2022. Vance allegedly asked how fast Venezuela's oil could be sold if America took control of it.

Both men deny the meeting.

Flight records show their planes parked together that day.

Two days after the Venezuela operation, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called Addison and offered his company, Vitol, the job of selling Venezuela's oil. There was no public bidding. Vitol and one rival have since made hundreds of millions of dollars.

Addison and his wife also gave $7 million to help elect Trump, and he now chairs a board advising Secretary Wright.

Congress has a duty to act.

We should bring Secretary Wright, Vitol, and Addison in to testify under oath. We should demand the phone records, emails, and flight logs. We should find out whether anyone got a heads-up about a military operation. And we should require open, competitive bidding before any company profits from our foreign policy.

If nothing was wrong, let’s see the records.
https://t.co/wUddI1206p

[StuckInIdiocracy @ENG1375]

Hey @RepJeffries and @SenSchumer - take note! El-Sayed is 100% correct in his take on how to work with #Trump. A bonus will be narcissistic collapse!

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Abdul El-Sayed absolutely destroys Donald Trump.

Q: You recently called President Trump the dumbest effing guy who ever was president.

AES: True.

Q: You've also said Democrats should drop the decorum and treat the president as the unserious fool that he is.

AES: True.

Q: Why are you taking that approach?

AES: Because he's a bully alongside being a narcissist. And the only way you deal with bullies is to stand up to them. Bullies don't bully you because they necessarily care for the thing you have. They bully you because they like to bully you because it makes them feel strong. And the way you take on a bully is to bully back. Because then they learn that this does not make them feel strong. It makes them feel weak and they don't like to feel weak. So they back off. And the more you let a bully get away with bullying, the more they signal to everybody else that this person cannot be stood up to. And so I think it's important for us to stand up to him.

[StuckInIdiocracy @ENG1375]

It’s all projection too. The corruption is concentrated in the Oval Office! #CorruptTrump #TrumpCrimeFamily

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump is having a mental breakdown this morning. After his midterm shellacking, he’s now having Vance go after Democratic cities and states.

He also throws in the towel on Iran, saying we “don’t need a deal.”

Complete collapse.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Raskin: Somebody should tell Todd Blanche and his team to get a Supreme Court decision called Steffel v. Thompson, which says it’s legally actionable to bring an injunction action against the government if the government is trying to scare you out of exercising your First Amendment rights and your constitutional rights.

In our case, it’s not just that these members were exercising their constitutional rights; they were exercising their constitutional duties. We have a duty, as the Article I preeminent branch of government, to conduct oversight operations of the entire government, as well as the economy and other things happening in society.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

actually the GOP seems kinda more L-shaped these days

[StuckInIdiocracy @ENG1375]

What can we turn it into instead? A learning center? Refugee center? Museum?

[James E. Clyburn @RepJamesClyburn]

I hope everyone takes a good hard look at this picture.

Trump’s under-construction ballroom is now bigger than the rest of the White House. Much bigger.

The contrast says everything you need to know about this President and his priorities.

[James E. Clyburn @RepJamesClyburn]

I hope everyone takes a good hard look at this picture.

Trump’s under-construction ballroom is now bigger than the rest of the White House. Much bigger.

The contrast says everything you need to know about this President and his priorities.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Difficult to describe just how cruel, sadistic, corrupt, and lawless this administration is.

[William Evanina @BillEvanina]

Watch this story very closely. China’s Megaspeed received between 5 and 7 billion dollars worth of Nvidia chips, or in reality, China did, which they should not have. Jensen and Alice may only be part of the story which eventually emerges. The race for the narrative, blame, and hearings has begun. Eyes wide open.

[News to Remember @allchronology]

Welcome to the Senate, Dr. Annie Andrews.

[StuckInIdiocracy @ENG1375]

#TrumpIsUnfit

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "Green Beret Ryan Hendrickson was leading his team through a Taliban-held village in Afghanistan at 3 in the morning when he was stepped on by enemy. I mean, he was the enemy, the enemy was all over. He made the mistake. A mistake that people understood when they were in the battles, jungles."

[Ed Whelan @EdWhelanEPPC]

Those who don't have the courage to blame Donald Trump need to have a scapegoat.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Maine’s new senator showed up to Washington in an $89.99 suit off the rack from Target — and it tells you everything about who just got elected, and the populist story behind this election.
Troy Jackson posted a selfie on the Capitol steps this week holding his U.S. Senate folder. People zoomed in on his sleeve, spotted the Haggar label, and tracked it down to Target.
It fits. Jackson is a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, Maine. His mom was 16 when he was born. He spent years working 80-hour weeks in the woods, and he got into politics fighting for loggers’ pay.
He wasn’t even supposed to be on the ballot. He stepped in with about 100 days to go and beat Susan Collins, who had held that seat since 1997.
The Senate is a millionaires’ club.
People whose last job before politics was blue-collar have never held more than about 2% of the seats in Congress. Most of the people writing laws about your wages have never had to live on one.
Jackson is a longtime Bernie Sanders ally. He ran Bernie’s Maine operation in 2016, and Bernie campaigned with him across the state this fall. He’s going to Washington to fight for Medicare for All, protect and expand Social Security, back unions, and make billionaires pay their fair share.
A senator who knows what a paycheck actually buys. In a $90 suit.