Hot takes on current political events. I'm a Democrat in Ohio. Welcome to my stream of consciousness. *Terms and conditions apply* #Plundies2018 winner
@BasedNewman@DispatchAlerts Trump was mention 38,000 times. Biden was following the law in not releasing it. It's not hard to understand if you have an IQ over 75.
When I called out Trump years ago for being a danger to democracy, a free press, and truth itself, I was accused of making myself the story and showboating. How did things turn out? Trump is all of those things. Tonight, the free press is very much in danger in America. Wake up!
Says the same guy who demanded that six members of Congress be hung for treason, and the same guy who posted an image of then President Biden kidnapped & hogtied, and the same guy who celebrated Robert Mueller’s death, and the same guy who posted an image of himself about to bludgeon DA Alvin Bragg with a baseball bat, and the same guy who…
I wrote about this in my newsletter. The Weather Service didn't launch balloons recently and got surprised by tornadoes in Kansas. DOGE cuts at NWS cut out weather balloon launches which gather data for storm prediction. You are less safe because of that choice.
GOP - *gerrymanders*
DEMS - hey stop that no fair
GOP - *gerrymanders even more*
DEMS - we mean it we’re gonna sue
SCOTUS - *legalizes gerrymandering completely*
DEMS - *start gerrymandering*
GOP - HEY STOP THAT NO FAIR!!!! 😭
Iowa farmer: A lot of farmer discouragement out there. Prices of our soybeans started going down. Prices of fertilizer and other things we import to plant a crop started going up. For a year, we've seen some real chaos. The cost of diesel has soared since the war began. So many farms are reporting that they're on the brink of something bad.
Dem operatives arguing over how to draw the lines on a campaign org chart while Chris Christie is cooking up bangers like what if you didn't even run a campaign at all
🚨CNN just asked: "Is it acceptable for the president to threaten to annihilate a civilization?"
The Republican answer: Yes.
Trump threatened to wipe out an entire country and his defenders went on national television to endorse it.
“Water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. They are assets that should be included in global economic balance sheets.”
This is not satire. The World Economic Forum wants to monetise breathing.
This is utterly deranged authoritarianism. The way in which so many MAGA Christians have totally lost their moorings in this moment is more than disturbing—it’s dangerous.