Bianca A GoldenRuleLover 🇺🇸🇺🇦 #StillNeverTrump

Indie Voter- Thinks everything needed to be a useful human being was learned in kindergarten. Still proudly #NeverTrump

[Bianca A GoldenRuleLover 🇺🇸🇺🇦 #StillNeverTrump @GoldenRuleLover]

Never were truer words ever tweeted. 👇🏼

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

[Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc]

WATCH!!! @RepMoskowitz nails it!

“The algorithm is full of what's going on in the Middle East, but the Ukraine-Russia war — nothing, no images, no stories about the kids, no stories about the hundreds of thousands of people that are dead. Why is it?”

👇

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I’m glad one party still supports democratic allies against brutal authoritarian regimes who invade sovereign nations.

[Nick Field @nick_field90]

Just a brain completely rotted through
https://t.co/06a5B6yl9G

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

This is the US House’s Churchill or Chamberlain moment when it comes to helping a democracy and standing up to an invading thug. Tonight we chose Churchill. We are not done yet though. We have two more votes before this fully passes the House. Moral clarity and freedom must win.

[Bianca A GoldenRuleLover 🇺🇸🇺🇦 #StillNeverTrump @GoldenRuleLover]

@JonahDispatch Buckley isn’t white. He red/orange. He’s also dumb.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I suspect that Buckley would look at the millions of non-white, non-Christian citizens (subjects?) of Russia and say, "Huh? That's unpossible."

And that leaves out all the atheists.

[Andrew Day @AKDay89]

"We seem to be getting along quite well," Trump says about Iran's new leader Mojtaba Khamenei. "I'd like to meet him, we probably will meet at some point."

Sir, you just killed his dad, mom, wife, and son, so this all seems unlikely.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We are in constant contact with the American side. We are waiting for the negotiating team to arrive, but it is taking a very long time. Iran is currently the number one issue for the United States. Unfortunately, we in this queue of wars.

I truly believe that the United States is the strongest actor that can push Putin toward ending the war, and that is why I have always said the best option for us is for the United States to be involved in the negotiations, alongside Europe. Because without Europe at the negotiating table, we cannot be sure that Europe will be heard. Ukraine is a future member of the EU. It is important for us that Europe is there. And this is absolutely fair: the war is here, on the European continent.

For us, the number one priority is to end the war – there is no alternative to that. We support any format. I am ready for direct negotiations with Putin to end this war. Thanks to our Armed Forces, we can feel our strength on the battlefield. We have made very serious progress in deep strikes. Today, 1,100 kilometers is a concrete target and a concrete result. We have such security guarantees that allow us, on equal terms with the Russians, to bring this war to an end in any diplomatic format.

From a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte after the meeting of the Ukraine–NATO Council in Kyiv. (2/3)

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rep. Keating to Rubio: "I'm sure you're aware that Ukraine, country that at the time had third-largest nuclear arsenal, peacefully turned over their nuclear weapons in conjunction with Budapest Memorandum.

And in exchange for U.S. commitment to defend Ukraine if it ever came under threat. The U.S. gave its word to Ukraine that it would defend them.

And I find this amazing. In your opening remarks, as you took us all over the world and mentioned 15 different incidents where you have interceded — 15, the top 15 — not once did you mention Ukraine when you were prioritizing achievements that are there."

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is another sign of how the old categories of liberal and conservative no longer map precisely on our modern parties. Here the Democrats are more conservative as we’ve long understood the term — they’re (rightly) the Russia hawks.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

🚨 The House just voted 218-204 to move forward on the discharge petition to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia. The House will vote on final passage tomorrow. This is our Churchill moment and we must pass the test.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump says if the Iran deal works out, maybe people can start building apartments and office buildings in Iran.

[Emily Jacobs @emilyfjacobs]

New: Sen. John Fetterman is growing increasingly concerned that Trump may make a deal with Iran

JF to @jewishinsider: "Nuclear dust, that’s the reason why we’re here. This is why I was reasoned and OK with setting myself politically on fire to be the only Democrat for the last 90 days voting against these war powers acts. Presidents always talk about their legacy. At this point, if you cave just for political convenience, what kind of legacy is that?"

https://t.co/s7F1FyXU2e

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

Tom Steyer keeps running around saying that it’s unfair that billionaires like him can buy our democracy, then spending hundreds of millions dollars to do just that, then failing to get elected, and then repeating all the same lines the next time around. It’s extremely funny.

[Acyn @Acyn]

President Donald Trump

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[Bianca A GoldenRuleLover 🇺🇸🇺🇦 #StillNeverTrump @GoldenRuleLover]

@dpakman @Acyn #TrumpIsUnwell

[Meredith Lee Hill @meredithllee]

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), one of the House Republicans who helped end-run Speaker Mike Johnson and force the Russia sanctions/Ukraine aid vote in the House this week, responds to Johnson urging a NO vote in Rs' meeting this morning --

Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) and a handful of Rs also complained in the meeting about Rs like Bacon joining with Dems to force floor votes on Russia sanctions and more, as we reported. Rank and file Rs argue that's putting them in a tough spot on these votes.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

of all the pernicious things that have happened over the past few years I think the effective rebranding of January 6 into an event in which the rioters were the ones who were wronged may best symbolize how bad our politics have become.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Folks, there is something gravely wrong with the president’s health and the White House is covering it up. This man is obviously not well.