The corrupt Trump administration has just admitted to withholding taxpayer dollars from states based on how they voted.
Last I checked we were a democracy, not a dictatorship.
Where the hell is Congress?
I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.
Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.
Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.
People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.
Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.
He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.
That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.
There is a name for it.
So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.
The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.
And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.
Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.
And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.
Just another joke at our expense.
@commons96055467@RussSwall@GovAndyBeshear
Rise to the occasion and help save our democracy or please step aside. Don’t run for president and let someone else who will fight for us get elected.
Trump suggested the "Deep State" hid from him that China was trying to interfere in our elections...
... maybe he forgot that we personally briefed him on the threat throughout 2018.
Big mistake to make claims living humans can refute.
@marceelias Can we sue him based on the documents he is releasing? I’m hearing none of them support the lies he is telling. I think it’s time for a class action suit brought by the American people. More than a majority of Americans would like him called out in court.
When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.
A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”
That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.
I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to obtain an unredacted copy of New York's statewide voter registration list. A big victory for Elias Law Group and our Client the NAACP.
DOJ is now 0-12 in these cases. ELG is undefeated. https://t.co/35wTb8gBDB
THE TRUMP EFFECT: The USA just lost to Belgium in the World Cup Round of 16 by a score of 4-1, right after Trump personally called FIFA to clear star striker Balogun to play.
Sports fans are calling it the Trump curse.
He attended the Super Bowl and predicted a Chiefs win, but the Eagles blew them out.
He was there when the Commanders hosted the Lions and lost at home.
He watched from a suite as Miami fell in the College Football National Championship.
He sat in the owner’s suite when the Knicks snapped their huge playoff streak in NBA Finals Game 3.
And he attended the Ryder Cup where Europe topped the US team.
Wow, get some serious self awareness as a party. Do you know how absurd and totally ridiculous this sounds? Republicans have Z-E-R-O credibility on this topic.
The latest allegations against Graham Platner are very serious, but let’s not kid ourselves about what’s going on here.
The Democrats were willing to look past his other serious misconduct because they agreed with his left-wing views.
We are bringing together some of today’s most prominent voices and global icons for the Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening Ceremony. The festivities will livestream globally at 11 a.m. CT, Thursday, June 18 — don’t miss it!
Tune in for speeches from @BarackObama and Mrs. Obama!
Enjoy performances by: Bono, Bruce Springsteen, @xtina, @common, Eddie Vedder, Guitars over Guns, Illinois Army National Guard, @IAMJHUD, @johnlegend, @MarcAnthony, Stevie Wonder, @temsbaby, The Edge, @theroots, Uniting Voices Chicago.
An invocation led by Pastor Joel Hunter and Joshua DuBois.
Remarks and special appearances by: @marsaimartin, Marty Nesbitt, and Valerie Jarrett.
Celebrate with us: https://t.co/KR0wmkX2z0