I started thinking about the way that I felt when I watched law firms like Paul Weiss capitulate to Trump… when ABC and CBS settled insane lawsuits with Trump… when tech CEOs and companies lined up to pay Trump millions for his ballroom. I remember being so fucking angry because, in effect, those people and their decision to try and make their own lives easier actually made the rest of us less safe, less secure in our democracy — because now Trump knows how easy it is to wield the government against his enemies to get his way. When I saw my name on Trump's newest enemies list, the absolute last thing I was going to do was the same thing all those other cowards did: fold to Trump, get themselves out of trouble, and not think about the effect that it was having on everybody else. So if that means I have to speak out every fucking day, then that's what I'm going to do.
"The dichotomy at tonight's UFC event will be stark: a guy who lied, cheated, and stole his way through life, watching fighters who could only get to that octagon because they worked for it. There’s no shortcut through a fight.
Trump's big walk-out will be from the Oval Office to the Octagon. Twenty feet, maybe thirty. I wouldn’t put money on him making it in a straight line. He’ll bask in the spotlight of an event paid for in sweat and blood that isn’t his, on a lawn that, by the league’s own estimate, will cost $700,000 to repair afterward-- money that also isn't his.
A bigger man might draw a lesson from that about what it actually looks like to work for something. He’s not that. His whole legacy will be having lied to his voters that he’d help them, when the only people he’s ever looked out for are the ones in his own family."
The 10 hours of erecting scaffolding wasn’t to strip the letters (something that 30 minutes in a boom lift could accomplish), it was to conceal the view with a curtain because Trump couldn’t handle the optics of the letters of his name being plucked off the building.
Government collaborators are on the verge of controlling a massive share of American news, and they’re pushing out the journalists who won’t play along, Brian Tyler Cohen writes.
“Trump is reshaping the media landscape to maintain and extend his grip on power.” https://t.co/5rNmFYdh3E
If Joe Biden had been stuffing his face with pizza and french fries at a basketball game while one of our Apache helicopters was being shot down in a war he started, Fox “News” would be calling for his head.