The Faithslayer

If I am to be insulted, I must first value your opinion.

[Indiana Democratic Party @INDems]

Mike Braun and many Indiana Republicans will be living large in the $250,000 suite they purchased with taxpayer money for this weekend’s IndyCar race in Washington D.C. 

$250K could pay for 60,000 school lunches.  

https://t.co/lGpGgFq5WP

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

This is an important point. Authoritarians often lie in order to make others repeat their lies as a way of demonstrating & reinforcing how much power they have over them.

Repeating obvious lies like this not only shows that you’re powerless — it also shows that you’re complicit.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month https://t.co/RwIay9rveZ

[The Faithslayer @TheFaithslayer]

Theoretically, there is rain comprised of diamonds within Uranus and Neptune.

The intense pressure and temperatures of their atmospheres crush the bonds of methane molecules, which isolates the carbon and turns it into diamonds.

[☠️ Lilith Lovett ☠️ same @ on 💙☁️🦋 @LilithLovett]

"b-but it'll make gold useless"

Good, based even. You have any idea how much our world can fundamentally change for the better overnight if gold became as abundant as aluminum? When we can use it freely for utility?

It'd vastly improve every aspect of society in a month, weeks.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

When wildfires hit America, Canada sends firefighters.

When wildfires hit Canada, America sends tariffs.

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive.

42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

[Aidan McLaughlin @aidnmclaughlin]

This is astounding. The White House cast this speech as earth-shattering and the morning after Trump's favorite cable news show doesn't mention it once.

[The Faithslayer @TheFaithslayer]

People said this in 2020 when Trump lost - and here we are again. And this time has been worse than the first.

Trumpism is both a moral and intellectual rot that permeates the entire conservative movement and it will not just simply go away the moment that Trump does.

[Chad Scott @cpscott16]

J.D. Vance going on Rogan and positioning himself as the “more normal, more sane MAGA,” while Rubio does basically the same thing on the international stage, followed by the cold, skeptical response to Trump’s speech domestically (including from Fox) and NATO flat out ignoring his most nonsensical rhetoric, tells me Trumpism is dying.

This is a man whose policies hurt more people than they help and who relies almost entirely on cultural anger. But people inevitably calm down, and it becomes increasingly difficult to keep that anger flowing over time, largely because more pertinent concerns begin distracting from it.

Hey, why is everything so expensive? Hey, why is nothing Trump promised coming to fruition? Hey, why is Trump spending so much money on all this dumb shit? Why is Trump doing literally the opposite of what he promised?

Those questions start to become the dominant narrative. We saw this take place during roughly the final year of Trump’s first term. Now, it is happening again several months before the midpoint of his second term.

I project that by the end of his second term, he will probably be the most hated president in American history by a massive margin. I think he is already right on the cusp of that, anyway, assuming he is not there already.

Many within the MAGA camp who still aspire to have a political future see that writing on the wall, specifically Vance and Rubio. Being more politically savvy than some dipshit like Hegseth, they are slowly distancing themselves from Trump: slowly enough not to get his hackles up, but noticeably enough that, in two years, they can say, “Hey, I’m different. I’ll do much better.”

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

ICE admits now that the *best case* scenario is that the ICE officer who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in the chest ran up to a moving vehicle and shoved his arms into the passenger window and opened fired seconds later.

No vehicle “weaponization”; no effort to run anyone down.

[The Faithslayer @TheFaithslayer]

He has not been vindicated.

The current state of Iraq does not change the fact that:

1) His administration lied about their justification for going to war.

2) Once Hussein was deposed, they executed everything else with Neolithic incompetence.

[Dave Hale - Concerned Republican @CountryFirstRep]

Why does no one ever mention the fact that Iraq is currently a stable, parliamentary Republic, with Constitutional protections for speech, religion, and the press?

Took a while, but Dubya vindicated in the end....

[Half-Beard the Space Pirate @PantslessMadman]

To reiterate: it's abundantly clear the Starship program is a colossal systems engineering failure. Despite cries of "iteration", we are at the thirteenth flight and third version of this vehicle and it still lacks basic functionality.

[Rep. Don Beyer @RepDonBeyer]

A major story here.

A longtime Republican tax expert and Trump appointee was just ousted from a key position at the IRS after warning that the White House was potentially violating federal law.

The law in question "prohibits the president, vice president, White House staff and certain agency heads from directly or indirectly requesting that the IRS conduct or terminate an audit or investigation of any particular taxpayer."

We do not know what the request was, who made it, or who the target of the audit or investigation was.

This warning brings to mind Trump's attempts to direct IRS investigations of his enemies during his first term, and his recent "license to steal" agreement with DOJ to permanently exempt himself from audits.

I do not expect the current Republican rubber stamp majority to look into this, but majorities change. And there is a clear imperative for Congress to investigate this matter.

[Andrew Phifer 🗿 @ThePiedPhifer]

One win a gold medal in women’s figure for the US for the first time since like 2002 the other lost in the Super Bowl

The correct person won

[Samuel Deats 🌕 @SamuelDeats]

So Trump just went out there with his full ass throat spouting a Russian disinformation lie about voter fraud from mail-in ballots then released the documents that say Russia was spreading that lie to help him win thinking it was helpful, masterful gambit sir truly braindead

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

It's too bad JD Vance is just some random podcast guest -- if he had any sort of real access to power he could get to the bottom of this once and for all

[Aidan McLaughlin @aidnmclaughlin]

This omits my favorite piece of evidence that Trump lost in 2020, which is that he hired two different firms to find fraud and both investigated thoroughly only to issue reports concluding he lost. He buried the reports.

[thunderf00t @thunderf00t]

spacex go WEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

Isengard before and after Saruman took over

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

an hour at minimum wage cant even get you 10 nuggs y'all

[DatNoFact ↗ (@datnofact.bsky.social) @datnofact]

This should be criminal. Like total product recall, execs arrested level of criminal.