Armen Devejian

alliterative architect. professional curmudgeon. likes pie.

[Armen Devejian @daddykool]

Because above all else, above his raping and his racism, his greed and his corruption, his narcissism and his sociopathy, above all else, he is the stupidest motherfucker ever to be president.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: In your letter to Congress, you said the hostilities in Iran have concluded. How can you say that given the naval blockade?

TRUMP: Well, it's a very friendly blockade

[Armen Devejian @daddykool]

I think it may have been by drinking raw milk.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

“Idaho health officials are investigating how nearly 60 people got sick after drinking raw milk in the past two weeks” https://t.co/zAYee6RVq6

[Armen Devejian @daddykool]

@adamcarolla okeydokey

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Happy 1 year anniversary to this tweet.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jill Biden just exposed the most painfully awkward limo ride of Melania Trump’s life.
In her new memoir “A View from the East Wing,” Jill writes about Inauguration Day 2025, when tradition required her to ride from the White House to the Capitol with Melania after the pre‑inauguration tea. It should have been a symbolic handoff between first ladies. Instead, she says, Melania sat “stone‑faced,” barely speaking, clearly furious over the FBI search of Mar‑a‑Lago for Trump’s hoard of classified documents.
Jill actually tries to show empathy: she notes that as first lady she had her own home searched by agents as part of the investigation, and that she knows “how distressing it was to have agents rummage through your underwear drawer.”
Melania, Jill writes, wasn’t having it. She blamed Joe personally, acting as if the normal chain of law‑enforcement and courts didn’t exist and the president himself had ordered a raid on her bedroom.
The tension was so thick that the inaugural committee didn’t dare put the two women alone together. Jill says they recruited Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s husband, John Bessler, as a human buffer and plopped him in the middle seat.
Bessler did what Midwestern dads do in impossible situations: he tried small talk. He asked about Barron’s studies at NYU. Melania, staring out the window, gave him a single word: “NYU.” Every attempt to shift the conversation back to something neutral — the weather, the ceremony — died in the air. In Jill’s telling, the presidents’ limo up ahead was probably tense too, but at least Joe and Trump were talking. In the first ladies’ car, it was just cold silence and one‑word answers all the way up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Jill uses the story to make a broader point: this wasn’t a one‑off. She writes that Melania declined her invitation to the traditional 2021 inauguration tea when Joe first took office, breaking a norm that has survived even the ugliest transitions.
Four years later, when the roles reversed and the Trumps came back to the White House, Melania still didn’t extend the same courtesy back. In every interaction Jill describes, Melania shows zero grace — even compared to other first ladies who have quietly swallowed humiliations and still showed up for the sake of the country.
And here’s the part that matters beyond the gossip. Trump has spent years telling his followers that the Mar‑a‑Lago search was a personal vendetta by “the Bidens,” not the result of him hiding boxes of classified nuclear and military documents in a ballroom, a bathroom, and a basement.
Melania apparently believes that narrative so deeply that she can’t even make small talk in a limo without seething. Jill, who knows firsthand what it’s like to have agents go through your things, points out the obvious subtext: it’s not the invasion of privacy Melania is truly angry about. It’s that her husband was finally treated like any other citizen who hoards national‑defense secrets and refuses to give them back.
We don’t often get honest, human‑level snapshots of what power feels like up close. This one matters because it captures the collision between entitlement and accountability.
Jill Biden is sitting there thinking about how to show a little solidarity over something painful that neither woman directly controlled. Melania Trump is sitting there convinced that nothing in her orbit — not an FBI warrant, not a criminal investigation, not even the peaceful transfer of power — should happen without her family’s permission, and furious at anyone who suggests otherwise. VIA~~~Josh Helfgott
In a few years, historians will write whole chapters about classified documents, indictments, and constitutional crises.
For now, it’s worth remembering this image: two first ladies in the back of a limousine, one trying to keep a fragile tradition alive, the other staring out the window, still unable to see that the law applies to her husband, too.

[Armen Devejian @daddykool]

@TheRickWilson @SundaeDivine If only he would stop waking up.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Someone called him "Commander In Sleep" and an angel got its wings.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

I’ve seen enough. Hunter Biden apparently becomes president in this timeline.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The Kennedy Center ordered employees to remove President Trump’s name from the performing arts venue, strip all references from signs, brochures, the website and other materials — and to update email signatures and letterhead immediately. https://t.co/1J2FEPH33q

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.

Here's what happened:

He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.

These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.

Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.

A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).

The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.

But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.

With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.

And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.

The threat does all the work.

By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.

Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.

If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.

Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR

[Luke Arcaini @ArcainiLuke]

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen somebody get a standing ovation for allowing a run.

Cristopher Sanchez smiles as his streak ends. What a moment for the lefty. He’s in baseball history forever.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

NEW: Three years before he was tapped to be America's top intel official, Bill Pulte was a memestock "degenerate" pushing worthless Bed Bath & Beyond stock and sharing the stage with a presenter who slapped an attendee with a green dildo in the face.

@willsommer on a very Trumpian rise to power

https://t.co/pZ0Nvmo8kU

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

This is what happens when everyone around you is too afraid to say, “Sir, that’s fucking stupid”

[ryanpropz @ryanpropz]

A thing I’ll always love about baseball, check out the ump towards the end of the video just making up a random mess on home plate he has to “clean” to let the fans/ Sanchez enjoy the moment. Always appreciated stuff like that a lot.

[MLB @MLB]

The 5th-longest single-season scoreless innings streak since 1893!

Cristopher Sánchez had a run for the ages 🔥

[Armen Devejian @daddykool]

I can’t think of a better birthday gift on the 250th anniversary of American independence than the same one you’re thinking of right now. 🥳

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

“The war is over.”
~Sec Marco Rubio

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

They shot and killed two Americans in cold blood.

[Woke Former Senator @WokeMitt]

Here are my thoughts on Jill Biden’s new book. If Joe would’ve said from the beginning that he’s a one-term president and then groomed his successor, he would’ve gone down as one of the all-time great statesmen in American history after completing a highly successful 4 year term.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

MAGA is more offended by Pride than pedophiles.