Lisa DeFazio

Fearless, funny, lovable, opinionated.

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@ABC It’s perfect for when Erica Kirk visits.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

These days I’m at a loss for words. The new corruption scandal is just bananas. Trump has been using inside information to trade stocks and make millions. And the scale of the trading is just mind blowing.

Here’s what we know.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

@atrupar @redrockrick He looks like he’s about to rape it.

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

If Trump really wants to destroy Iran, all he has to do is become their president.

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@MalloryMcMorrow Love it, what a gift of a sound bite!

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@atrupar Wowie. Is he actually positioning credit card debt as a good thing? 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@lrozen @atrupar The ole adage, if you find yourself surrounded by a-holes then chances are YOU are the
a-hole, comes to mind. In this case he is also the psychopathic narcissistic pathological liar pedophile.

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@jonkarl @whca This is so ick 😕

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@ABC 🙏

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@ABC Why are we reporting on this like it’s fact. It’s President Trump has “claimed” no confirmation from either side as to the validity of that claim.

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@shanaka86 He’s f*cking the whole world into collapse.

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@FoxNews Weird, it’s almost like he loves the attention and admiration of dictators and war criminals. 🤔

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@JoJoFromJerz Apparently the 25th is just for show and has nothing to do with protecting Americans, wtf does unfit for office mean exactly?

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@ChrisMurphyCT The 25th is waaaaaaaaaay over due wtf is wrong with the US Government. He is clearly very sick.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Trump, Netanyahu and Putin: plunging the world into barbarism, oligarchy and authoritarianism.

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@DHSgov Nobody believes that Dems are responsible for this…. Stop embarrassing yourselves and focus on making improvements to DHS/ICE that will ensure safe and lawful practices are being followed.

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@RapidResponse47 @DHSgov “Over politics” Yeah, that’s it. The only thing dems didn’t agree to is the grotesque funding of underqualified, untrained & armed ICE thugs terrorizing people. The bill would pass otherwise. You’re right, that is total madness. Republicans need to pass it w/o the DHS piece.

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@CNN Trump, the grift that keeps on giving.

[Lisa DeFazio @YoDeFazio]

@DHSgov Would love to see some data that substantiates this claim, that immigrants (who also pay taxes) are somehow responsible for the housing crisis in the US. Using a claim like that to encourage others to implicate their neighbors is disgusitng.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

Let me say this as clearly as possible, because people keep getting it wrong.

Republican lawmakers didn’t stick with Trump because they were hypnotized...terrified...or somehow helpless.

They stuck with him because he’s one of them.

Trump didn’t corrupt a moral party. He exposed a corrupt one.

If Trump were merely embarrassing...reckless...or rude... they would have dumped him years ago. Politicians abandon liabilities fast. What they don’t abandon...are mutual liabilities.

Trump normalized behavior that many of them were already guilty of: ethical shortcuts...financial murkiness... abuse of power...contempt for oversight... lying as policy.

He didn’t invent the rot...he gave it cover.

And here’s the part people don’t like to hear:

For a lot of Republicans in Congress, Trump isn’t the risk.

Accountability is.

Trump absorbs attention like a sponge. While everyone is watching his circus...others operate quietly in the shadows. He’s not a distraction...he’s a shield. A very useful one.

Once they crossed certain lines together...election lies, January 6th...obstruction...weaponization of government ...there was no clean exit.

Loyalty became self-preservation. Defection meant subpoenas...investigations...and career death.

That’s why the so-called “good Republicans” vanished.

They weren’t persuaded. They were purged. Retired. Primaried. Marginalized. What you’re seeing now isn’t universal agreement...it’s selection pressure.

Only those comfortable with ethical decay remain.

This is how systems rot. Not with villains twirling mustaches...but with people who decide, one compromise at a time, that survival matters more than principle.

Trump didn’t take over the GOP.
The GOP recognized itself in Trump.

And that’s why expecting them to “come to their senses” is a fantasy.

You can’t ask people to enforce standards that would incriminate them.

The alliance holds...because it has to.

That’s not psychology.
That’s incentive structure.

And until people stop confusing fear...with complicity... they’ll keep being shocked by behavior that was always predictable.