Zack Pitman

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Ukraine can't end the war, because Russia is the invader.

​If Russia stops fighting, there will be no war, if Ukraine stops defending itself, there will be no Ukraine.

​I can't believe we are still discussing this after all these years!🤦‍♀️

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

With all these accusations from the right about certain Americans “hating” their country, remember - Any candidate who loses an election and refuses to accept the results hates their country. Voters who refuse to accept election results when their side loses hate their country.

[Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦 @bdquinn]

He's right. Single party control is bad and leads to corruption and shoddy governance.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

There is no amount of money you could offer me to humiliate myself on a daily basis the way Vance does. The guy simply has no core, no shame, no charisma. He is the purest sock puppet to ever disgrace political office, an empty suit making human sounds.

[Jon Ralston @RalstonReports]

Sometimes what happens in Vegas SHOULD stay in Vegas.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

It is stunning to hear this from Kellyanne. Does she not hear herself? Is she truly not aware of the staggering hypocrisy?

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Destroying confidence in the electoral system and other pillars of democracy (media, courts) is their goal, it’s not just pathetic whining. Then they use that lack of confidence to push strongman powers, restrictive voter suppression laws, and other crackdowns.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Within one 24 hour period, Trump:

- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion

All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.

But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Vance lectures the Pope about religion, Ukrainians about their weapons, and Poland about their security needs--all with arrogance and belligerence. Either he's a rare genius or a complete buffoon, you can choose.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

The same day Trump stole $1.8 billion from American taxpayers!

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

“Trump purchased $500,000 to $1 million worth of Nvidia stock on Jan. 6, a week before the Commerce Department officially approved the sale of Nvidia chips to China.”

Insider trading, corruption, treason. Where are the calls for impeachment?

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

I’m old enough to remember when a creepy video like this would be put out by the Chinese government, not ours.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump on Joe Biden (2024): “He has an ability to fall asleep while on camera…in minutes, he’s stone-cold out, and he’s got cameras because he’s the president…You’ll never see me sleeping in front of a camera.”

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Again, so much vaccine misinformation from the president. Kids don’t get anywhere close to “88” or “82” vaccines. They aren’t given “a vat” or “big glass of water”; vaccine doses are a tiny fraction of a teaspoon. And they already do receive their shots over multiple doctor visits, not a single visit as Trump repeatedly said or suggested. https://t.co/9lioGbkUpA https://t.co/JRIcaTecqj

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Never forget the GOP lawmakers & right-wing media who babbled endlessly about Hunter Biden yet remain silent at the grotesque levels of Trump and family self-enrichment. And if you think the family's days in politics will be over when Trump Sr. is gone, you still don't get it.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

It’s as if you asked Siri to come up with a candidate more unlikable and alienating than J.D. Vance but whom Hunter Biden could also convincingly mock for having a substance abuse problem.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

A ruling monarch understands the importance of Madisonian checks and balances but Republicans in Congress do not?

[David French @DavidAFrench]

I question the GOP senators who had any confidence in Hegseth to begin with.

[Kim R. Holmes @kimsmithholmes]

A lot of people are asking why more politicians are not like Ben Sasse.

Because voters will not elect them, that’s why. They may say they care about character, but most don’t vote that way.

Instead they vote party line, ideology, self-interest, or out of pique against a perceived enemy.

How can we expect our leaders to embody higher levels of virtue if a majority of voters don’t make personal character a red line?

It looks like we get the leaders we deserve.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Counterpoint: Here’s Trump threatening violence, calling for his political enemies’ executions, celebrating the deaths of people he didn’t like, and otherwise casually promoting political violence. Also there was the small matter of Jan 6 and subsequent pardons for violent felons