This is so bent. Democrats fought for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, labor laws, anti-pollution laws, voting rights, food-safety standards, equal pay—all to make this a better country and all over GOP opposition. Show some frickin' gratitude for that.
You can tell the right is incompetent because they never seem able to stand on substance. Their actions speak for themselves, and that is exactly why they spend so much time attacking the left and deflecting from their own failures.
If the Trump administration were competent and actually delivering results, it would not need constant spin, distraction, and culture-war theatrics. The fact that Trump lashes out and storms off when pressed, and that his allies keep hiding behind excuses instead of answers, says everything.
This administration has become a corrupt, reckless, and embarrassing failure. It has turned the presidency and the DOJ into a fucking circus.
#BREAKING: Psaki: “Now, the origin story of how we got here is very worth remembering because part of the reason Elon Musk’s companies were able to become so successful in the first place, is because they received a ton of government subsidies, investments, and contracts, and that money was especially crucial to Musk’s companies in their earliest days, when their success was far from a sure bet. Without a critical taxpayer funded investment during a very precarious time for Tesla, it may not have survived at all. And likewise, the financing and contracts that SpaceX received from the federal government in its early years, were absolutely VITAL to making it the company it has now become. So the federal government that Musk took his chainsaw to, was the SAME federal government that enabled that guy to become the world’s richest man by the massive margin we see today.” 🤔
Posobiec’s line — “The left has no response to this” — is itself part of the propaganda mechanism.
It is not an argument. It is a dominance cue.
The message is:
We have spectacle.
We have the White House.
We have flags, motorcycles, military-adjacent staging, masculine risk, and executive permission.
Therefore we win.
That is why he says “the left has no response.” He is not claiming the left has no policy response. He is claiming that liberal-democratic politics cannot compete emotionally with imperial entertainment.
And in one sense, he is identifying the problem correctly: bureaucratic liberalism often has trouble responding to spectacle because spectacle bypasses reason. You cannot fact-check a motorcycle jump. You cannot rebut an adrenaline ritual with a white paper.
The image is designed to make criticism look weak, joyless, foreign, feminine, bureaucratic, or anti-American.
This is what a declining republic looks like when it mistakes spectacle for strength.
The White House is not supposed to be a Nitro Circus backdrop. It is the People’s House. Turning it into stunt-show propaganda, however, happened during Trump 1.0. It proves that Trumpism can only imagine power as branding, domination, and content.
#BREAKING: Struggling MAGA senior voter: I actually have panic attacks. I’ve heard a couple this past week, and I get very emotional over it. I don’t want to work anymore, but I can’t afford to retire…It’s not an overnight thing, but it’s been two years now. You said you’d bring down the grocery prices. Literally I must be the most angry person when I grocery shop because I buy the same things every week, and I see it jump EVERY WEEK, it’s not every couple month, it’s literally every week.” 😢
I love that a Black woman is responsible for this. 😂
Shout out to @RepBeatty for filing the lawsuit to get Trump‘s name removed from the Kennedy Center