Sarah G

old white lady trying to do better always

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Trump is unique among malignant narcissists in being of below average intelligence, inarticulate, and poorly read. We almost never see this.
Even malignant narcissists who didn't hold political office (like Ted Bundy) had high IQ's. And "cult of personality" malignant narcissists (like Jim Jones and David Koresh), are especially literate, charismatic, and sharp. The pervasiveness and persuasiveness of cult leaders is almost always enhanced by intelligence, articulacy, clever repartee, and even wit.
Yet Trump is such a loud, boorish, and obvious con, that his political rise speaks as much to our celebrity culture, our consuming of media in echo chambers, his craven enablers, and our aggrieved society. This convergence has created a phenomenon that's made too much of our electorate ... well ... I'll just be nice and call them "susceptible."
At this point, he's so flawed, so owned by his disorders, and so enfeebled, he can't even navigate the very chaos he inflicts - he can't pivot, and can't be contrite, so he gets in deeper. He's become too old, too desperate, too fearful and too unable to process his own mortification. He never had strategic thought nor an ability to play from behind. And he's a lame duck.
All he has now are his cravings, a fantastical desire to reclaim grandiosity, a panicked fear of humiliation, and layers of toxicity. He's unable to satiate from incoming narcissistic nutrition, no matter how often they give him the North Korea treatment; and now Natalie has been tainted.
He is flailing. He keeps making mistakes and keeps screwing up - everything, everywhere, all at once.
His decline is unmistakable. His demise will be spectacular.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.

Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.

Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.

People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.

Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.

He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.

That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.

There is a name for it.

So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.

The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.

And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.

Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.

And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.

Just another joke at our expense.

[Sarah G @gjsarah]

@unlearn16tweet @MarkAttwood @fandompulse I heard the cyclops isn't in the movie!

[Ali Rogin @AliRogin]

Statement from Epstein survivor Annie Farmer on meeting at DOJ with @DAGToddBlanche: “After meeting with Todd Blanche, I feel even more confident in urging senators to vote against his confirmation as the United States’ Attorney General."

“I found him abrasive, condescending…

[Sarah G @gjsarah]

@krassenstein @adamscochran He thinks this is true. Not the part about the Russians, but the part about Democrats and Biden. Like he really believes it and thinks it's an Aha!

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: So let me ask you a version of the question that I asked everybody when I was running around this state eight years ago, when nobody could say my name right, which is: What’s it going to be like the first time the sun comes up over this country and the current president has permanently left the political scene?

It’s an appealing thing to remember that that day will come, but it also represents a huge challenge. Because what do we do then? Then what?

The answer to that is what we’ve got to hold in our minds right now to campaign and to win—and, most importantly, to govern. Because we need to immediately get to work to build something better.

Like a political system where everyone’s vote counts the same, and the person who gets the most votes wins the election. It looks like a Supreme Court that is legitimate and trustworthy in the eyes of the American people. It looks like a Congress composed of representatives who actually represent the people they serve, capable of standing up to abuses from other parts of the government. And it means state and federal governments capable of standing up for people’s rights.

The right to live your life as you see fit, so long as you’re not hurting anyone else. The right to carry a sign or write an op-ed or criticize your government. The right to make your own health care decisions. The right to be who you are and love who you love and raise your family in peace.

That’s what it looks like. And it’s not too much to ask. And it’s not too much to ask for public integrity.

[P. Maziya @Maziya__P]

I know he stressed his mom out as a kid 😭

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[katsu @katsuxbt]

Hunter Biden says they investigated his entire life for two years and all they found was an $800,000 tax bill he’d already paid and a checked box on a gun form, a law 85 million Americans break too

“Finally, after two years, they come back and offer me a plea agreement because I failed to pay my taxes on time, which I had paid, with penalties and interest of over $800,000”

“After I got sober, I found out I hadn’t filed my taxes, so I paid them, with penalties and interest”

“And during that period of time, I bought a gun. And I checked a box to say I was not currently an addict. When I walked into that store, I didn’t think I was an addict. I was at least three days clean”

“Every single person in the United States today, based on the law I was prosecuted for, if you’ve ever smoked pot, or smoke it even remotely regularly, and you own a gun, you’re in violation of that same law”

“Which means about 85 million Americans are. But they prosecuted me for it. We can’t find a single other case”

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

I love this.

The Obamas honoring Nancy Pelosi with a garden in her name is so well deserved.

Without Nancy Pelosi, there would be no Affordable Care Act.

[Randy Rainbow @RandyRainbow]

If Donald Jessica gets a sequel, so do I.

Happy 250th, America. 🇺🇸🙄🧠

#VeryStableGenius #PartTwo #parody

[Lisa Desjardins @LisaDNews]

NEW: Schumer and Senate Dems will push for votes on the weaponization fund - even if President Trump drops it.

Schumer wants a law to bar it from happening again.

https://t.co/eKkOmLwbij

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

Guilty as charged :-)

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

A Los Alamos employee vanishes. Nearly a year later, her remains are found in a New Mexico forest. Melissa Casias is now being counted among at least 10 dead or missing workers tied to sensitive programs.

I smell a rat. You know his name. He is tied to all things bad.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Good.

Keep pushing back on this administration’s corruption.

https://t.co/gHTCS2h2gt

[Mia @MiaForTrump]

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s business partners, the Alexander brothers, have been convicted on 19 counts of sex trafficking.

It’s odd how often sex offenders appear in the Trump family’s inner circle.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

7 years sober today.

Thank you to everyone who has walked this road with me.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Gas prices went up under Biden because Biden had the balls to sanction Putin's oil for invading Ukraine. Prices went up under Trump because Trump was the only president in 40 years DUMB enough to attack Iran, and Hormuz will remain closed until they get everything they want.