Jill Breseke

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

We live in very strange times.

The oldest president in the US history is sleeping, while his Secretary of Health is shaking uncontrollably, all while pushing their conspiracies about vaccines.

[TheBossRoss 🇪🇺 🧶 ❄ 📷 6x💉 @BettinaSRoss1]

John Feeley, the former US ambassador to Panama, describes the first meeting with Trump that ultimately led him to resign.

Everyone (in politics) needs to be aware of this. That's what it boils down to.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

It’s not until to see it written down that it brings home just what a convicted criminal can do if you hand him the keys to the White House.

My thanks to Jared Ryan Sears for the clip.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/7YDeBI7Fzf

[Adam Deats 🌕 @AdamDeats]

No one will ever be able to retire again. No one is angry enough.

[Dittie @DittiePE]

It started much earlier than you think.

Trump was laundering money for the Russian mob before “Art of the Deal” was even published.

His mentor taught him the game. His condo buyer was a mobster’s mobster. His personal pilot ran cocaine. And decades later, federal regulators caught his casino doing it all over again.

This is the origin story nobody talks about — and it’s all public record.

A #SheShed 🧵

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I’m sorry if you’re a Republican and don’t want to hear this but the National Debt is $3.6 Trillion higher than when Trump took office 18 months ago. Here’s the 90 second speech I gave the night they passed the Big Bankruptcy Bill.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HOLY SH*T! Trump throws his ENTIRE PARTY under the bus by announcing that he doesn't have to campaign for Republicans since he "already won" his election in 2024.

And it gets so much worse for MAGA...

Trump also told Punchbowl News that Americans are "angry at Republicans" but not at him. “But they’re not angry at me. They’re not angry at me, but they are angry at Republicans," he added.

"I said to somebody, ‘Wait a minute, you don’t understand, I won,’” Trump said. “I’m not campaigning.”

He further claimed that the biggest problem facing Republicans in the midterms is that his name won't be on the ballot to drive turnout. In reality, he's a radioactive dead weight around the neck of his entire party with historically low approval ratings. If he were on the ballot, it would likely motivate even more Americans to show up and vote against every Republican running.

Of course, a narcissist like Trump can't admit that he's electoral poison because doing so would deflate his turgid ego, the only thing buoying him above the fetid cognitive swamps of his dementia.

“If I don’t run, will those people go out and vote? And that’s the one thing I can’t tell, I’m going to ask them to,” he said.

Now to be fair, Americans ARE angry with Republicans but that's doesn't occur in a vacuum. They're angry because these right-wing lawmakers refuse to stop Trump or hold him accountable as he starts pointless and illegal wars overseas, drives up the cost of gas and groceries, covers up his role in the Epstein scandal, and lines his family's pockets with billions.

This is exactly what Republicans deserve for embracing a sociopathic, self-obsessed, pedophile like Donald Trump. He has proven time and again that he will not hesitate to betray his allies if he finds it strategically advantageous or emotionally comforting. They let the scorpion climb on top of their head and now they're surprised that he stung them.

It's possible that, despite what he's saying, Trump knows how unpopular he is and realizes that campaigning for Republicans will hurt their chances. But it's more likely that he has simply decided not to care. It's not like he needs a Republican majority to pass legislation because he has no policy proposals. He has no plans to improve affordability, no healthcare plan, no infrastructure plan.

He also knows that even the most crushing blue wave this November will not result in Democrats obtaining the 67 seats in the Senate that they'd need to remove him during impeachment proceedings, so he will get to ride out the rest of his term no matter what. Yes, Democrats will gain subpoena authority and a broad suite of powers to hamper his agenda, but at this point all he cares about is raking in personal wealth. When Democrats inevitably uncover a historic amount of corruption and criminality, Trump is banking on the fact that he can just pardon himself and his cronies.

The MAGA era is officially dead and the only Republican who realizes it is Donald Trump.

Please ❤️ and share if you're voting blue in the midterms!

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

Republicans set their health care grenade to go off after the election. Don’t be fooled.

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN side by side video of Trump saying today he didn’t know the reflecting pool contractor and… 

Trump in April saying: I have a guy who's unbelievable at doing swimming pools. I'm going to send my contractor over.

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

Handy montage of the lying bastards bullshitting Americans about the pool

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

This is what money does to people who sold their souls.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

This drunk bitch was lying.
And she damn well knew it.
But her psycho boss told her to charge someone. So she did.
She needs to be disbarred and sued into oblivion.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

MAGA cult members, remember when Trump personally awarded Dr. Anthony Fauci a Presidential Commendation for his work on Operation Warp Speed and the COVID vaccine?

Trump apparently didn’t.

When Megyn Kelly asked him about it, he claimed he had no idea who gave Fauci the award. Kaitlan Collins pulled the receipt: Trump himself issued it on January 19, 2021—his final full day in office.

Thanks, Kaitlan Collins. The internet never forgets, even when Trump does.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: The Trump Justice Department has formally submitted unredacted Epstein-related records to U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan for private, in camera review.

Judge Sullivan will determine whether any of the materials can be publicly released while balancing grand jury secrecy rules and other legal protections.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Senator Josh Hawley says “innocent people don’t plead the Fifth” when describing Dr. Fauci’s testimony.

Here’s the video of Donald Trump pleading the Fifth 400 times during his civil fraud trial.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump throws in the towel on targeting Dr. Fauci by announcing that he will "respect" President Biden's pardon of him — enraging his supporters in the process.

And one suspicious comment REALLY jumped out here...

"Do you think that the DOJ should reopen the investigation into the autopen, specifically pertaining to Fauci?" a reporter asked Trump in the Oval Office.

The autopen conspiracy theory is a perennial fixture of the fetid right-wing media sphere. They pretend as if Biden was so incapacitated during his tenure that everything was signed by autopen, supposedly invalidating his presidency. Never mind the fact that Trump is now suffering from obvious dementia and admitted that he doesn't read his own pardons.

"Well, the only thing you can really think about is the autopen because uh... The most powerful thing the President has, they say, is the power of pardon," Trump replied to the so-called journalist. "So uh... He was pardoned by Biden and I— I— I respect that. I— I know how powerful it is. It's a very powerful... Uh... They say it's literally the most powerful thing a President has."

The comments went over like a lead balloon with the MAGA base who want Fauci prosecuted and imprisoned for his imagined crimes. They've convinced themselves that he is some supremely evil being who misled the world about COVID-19 because admitting the truth — that the pandemic killed over a million Americans due to Trump's profound incompetence — would shatter their illusions about their cult leader.

Meanwhile, Trump is terrified of challenging the sanctity of Biden's pardon of Fauci (a decision that looks increasingly wise with each passing day) because he knows it would open his own pardons up to overturning under a future Democratic administration.

And Trump desperately needs his pardons to hold. He has given clemency to numerous close allies and an endless parade of MAGA-connected fraudsters and many commentators predict that he will pardon himself, his family, and most of his Cabinet before he leaves office. This second term has been one long crime spree of historic proportions. Once Democrats retake control, we'll get a full sense of the enormity of the theft and corruption, and Trump is relying on his pardon power to shield his regime from the consequences.

Please ❤️ and share if you think that we should try to prosecute Trump no matter what!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump Appears Completely Passed Out at Lindsey Graham’s Funeral

The president kept his eyes shut for an extended stretch as the service continued around him.

This did not look like a quick blink or moment of reflection, he appeared fully asleep.