NeOphelia

Only I decide what I should think.
No DMs #IDIC. 🖖

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Since Trump doesn't want this portrait of President Obama displayed in the White House, let's make this photo of our President go viral here!

RETWEET if you love @BarackObama!

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: Jen Psaki just hit a MAJOR nerve with a story on Eric Trump’s China trip — and now he’s suing her.

As she does most every night on her MS Now program, Jen Psaki did a monologue on a current topic in the news. This time, however, Eric Trump lost his mind over what she had to say
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The 42-year-old executive vice president of the Trump Organization took to X Wednesday night to threaten a lawsuit against Psaki and MS NOW after she reported on his presence alongside his father during the presidential trip to China — and connected it to a Financial Times story about a family-linked company pursuing a deal with a Chinese chipmaker tied to the Communist Party.

"I have NEVER been on the board of ALT5," Eric fumed, adding that he has "zero business interests in China. No properties, no investments, nothing!" He concluded by insisting he joined the trip purely as "a loving son who adores my father."

Sweet. But Psaki didn't make up the Financial Times reporting. She cited it.

That report describes how ALT5 Sigma — a fintech company connected to Eric and the Trump family's crypto venture, World Liberty Financial — has a memorandum of understanding to explore a deal with a Chinese computer chip manufacturer to build AI data centers. Congress has warned that the Chinese firm in question has connections to the Chinese Communist Party. Eric and his brother were photographed ringing the New York Stock Exchange opening bell with the ALT5 name displayed behind them.

Neither ALT5 nor the Chinese firm responded to the Financial Times for comment. The deal may or may not be real. But the reporting exists, and it raises exactly the questions Psaki raised.

And those questions don't stop there. Just last month, Eric was on Fox Business bragging that one of his companies scored a $24 million Pentagon contract. Don Jr.'s company landed a nearly $5 million Air Force contract. Both brothers are now part-owners of a drone company angling for major Pentagon deals — while their father's administration controls Pentagon spending.

All of this is happening while Trump's $10 billion IRS lawsuit seeks to shield the entire Trump family from financial audits. Forever.

Eric wants to sue Psaki for asking whether someone should check the books. That answer tells you everything.

Please like and share to spread the news.

[NeOphelia @MarcShimo]

So poor Melania has issues with Jimmy Kimmel saying she has "the glow of an expectant widow" and wants us to believe that Kimmel's words inspired the recent shooting.

"Me thinks the lady doth protest too much."

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Every time.

[NeOphelia @MarcShimo]

@JohnnyAGI So is Hegseth. It makes me ill to hear these two fuckers celebrating death and destruction on TV daily. Why don't they just come out and say "We're committing war crimes and we're proud of it!"

[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.

[NeOphelia @MarcShimo]

@GAZAWOOD1 A sentiment I'm sure Trump agrees with fully.

[NeOphelia @MarcShimo]

@DHSgov You are fucking disgusting, unprofessional, and completely unamerican, you bigots.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

The richest man in the world is sitting at the Resolute desk, about to defund your public school.

Trump should stop him.

[NeOphelia @MarcShimo]

@fred_guttenberg We absolutely should be.

[NeOphelia @MarcShimo]

@rhonda_harbison @samstein @GrabowskiFran @LindseyGrahamSC Not a legal move. Are Republicans going to ignore ALL LAWS when it comes to Trump?

[NeOphelia @MarcShimo]

@atrupar "Trump has a right to break whatever fucking laws he wants! He's the president, goddammit" (heavy sarcasm)

[NeOphelia @MarcShimo]

@FPWellman He's gonna pardon Harvey Weinstein, too, isn't he?

[Hey, Dave! @davegreenidge57]

All you republicans on Florida’s west coast who’ve been waiting for federal hurricane assistance. Elon Musk just got it killed.

[NeOphelia @MarcShimo]

@realshawnngee @AlHendiify So. . . Invisible disabilities don't exist?

Idiot.

[Jennifer Schulze @NewsJennifer]

WHAT THE F*CK:

"Trump has talked about bringing back death by firing squad, by hanging, and, according to two of the sources, possibly even by guillotine. He has also, sources say, discussed group executions."
https://t.co/QcpZpi9Vfw

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

In just the last decade alone, the world's billionaires have seen their combined wealth more than double to $14 trillion.

That's $14 trillion in the hands of just under 2,700 people.

Once again: It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of extreme wealth concentration to continue.

[Ben Wikler @benwikler]

It’s a tale as old as kleptocracy: Trump ran a campaign of division and fake populism.

Now, he’s appointing a cabinet of billionaires and gearing up to rip off everyone who can’t afford a Mar-a-Lago membership. 🧵

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

I monitor MAGA for a living.

All day, every day they’re talking about rounding up “leftists” (any liberal), prosecuting DOJ and FBI officials, shutting down “legacy” media and purging the government to install loyalists but don’t you dare call them fascists.