Sam Angus

Grumpintosh. Back home.

[Sam Angus @sajmcintosh]

@ReubenR80027912 Radical ideas like saving money and not buying frivolous shit all the time.

[Sam Angus @sajmcintosh]

@theiaincameron Is this likely due to the difference between total rainfall and rainy days? Likely rains more often in Scotland but it is usually very light rain.

[Robert E Kelly @Robert_E_Kelly]

Watching Rogan learn in real time what everyone from center-right to the progressive left knew back in 2015 is darkly amusing and deeply frustating

Like, you guys didn't grasp that Trump was incoherent opportunist willing to say anything to win until now? Seriously?

[Sam Stein @samstein]

“I’m not entirely sure the United States Senate can survive this."

https://t.co/dUYpF0mFHu

[Charlotte Alter @CharlotteAlter]

Actually a lot of people predicted this, and were largely mocked as unserious

[Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg]

From ⁦@jon_rauch⁩: https://t.co/9FwrNFLZLW

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

@StephenM “the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. it was their final, most essential command." - george orwell, 1984

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

The hope was that public video would make law enforcement think twice, resting on the naive idea that we're dealing with generally law-abiding officers. ICE beats people up and kills in full knowledge they're being filmed. They have lethal impunity.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

If there was ever a moment for libertarians and conservatives to step up and join the rest of us, we’re in it.

Americans have to unite and stop this descent from a freedom-loving nation into the kind of place where masked, militarized government agents are sent to politically noncompliant areas to roam the streets, terrorize civilians, and deploy violence with impunity.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Walz: They killed a man, created chaos, pushed down protesters, threw gas indiscriminately and then left the scene. And then we're left to clean up.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

These fucking morons didn’t even know he was disarmed. Send them home before they kill someone else.

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

A must read NYT investigation documents horrifying abuses of power by ICE against innocent civilians

• Forcible entry without warrants
• Targeting people with accents
• Using force on people already restrained
• Using chemical irritants at close range https://t.co/CIylfTD1Fr

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

FYI, a masked, anonymous, armed paramilitary force denying due process and breaking into people’s homes to arrest and detain people in camps is exactly what fascism looks like.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Five stories from just the last 24 hours:

1. Minnesota police chief says ICE has been unconstitutionally stopping & pulling guns on *his own* off-duty officers who are brown/black.

2. The Social Security Administration referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results.

3. Canada struck a historic trade deal with China, declaring them more "predictable" than the U.S., then its PM warned of a rupture with the U.S. and the "end of the rules-based international order."

4. Trump quietly pardoned a slew of more white collar criminals, almost all of whom were convicted of fraud.

5. NYTimes released an editorial documenting how Trump has made $1.4 billion (with a "b") dollars off the presidency in his first year in office -- just on the publicly documented trades and transactions.

That's legitimately 24 hours of news, and it's just scratching the surface.

[Lars Christensen @MaMoMVPY]

The problem isn't Trump. The problem is the US.

When the outside world observes Trump's insane behaviour and his threats against allies, and we at the same time observe that there is no real action from the US public, Congress, the US Supreme Court, or the US media about this insanity, we will all have to conclude that the US accepts this behaviour.

The public in the US think the US is entitled to a certain position in the world where there is no room for decent behaviour and where there are no norms and rules.

That means that we all have to conclude that the US — not only Trump — has betrayed the international order that the US, with its Western partners, were the main architects of after the Second World War.

This is the conclusion that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney so clearly laid out in his speech at Davos yesterday. We simply cannot trust the US to play by the rules any more. Therefore, we also fundamentally have to ask ourselves — should we trust the financial and economic structure which is an integral part of the global rules-based order?

Americans live in the illusion that the US can do everything on its own, despite the fact that the US for nearly 20 years has lived beyond its means.

US private and government consumption has been funded by, among others, European central banks and pension funds. But we now have to ask ourselves — why would we trade in dollars? Why would we put our savings into US Treasury bonds?

If the US is not a rules-based society, we cannot trust the dollar to be a stable currency, and it would be insane to hold dollars. As domestic US institutions are eroded and governance structures destroyed, the US will be turned into an emerging market economy — or more accurately, a de-merging economy.

If the US threatens the territory of allies, then the US acts as an authoritarian bully nation. Nobody in their right mind would lend money to the US government. If the US doesn't live up to its international obligations and respect the sovereignty of other nations, why would we expect the US government to honour its debts?

If Trump can tariff nations that will not give up their territory, then there is certainly no reason to believe that the US will not introduce capital controls. And if that is a risk, why would you risk investing in the US?

It is not a question about Europe standing up to the US. It is a question about being prudent with our investments — about reducing risks.

Every day Trump remains in office, distrust of the US increases, and the cost for the US will go up day by day. And this is irreversible. It takes years to build trust, but you can destroy it by your actions in minutes.

Europe has now completely lost trust in the US. And so has Canada. It is up to the people of the US to demonstrate that Trump is an 'outlier', and it is up to the American people to stop him.

If you don't do that, we will have to assume that this is what the US is about — whether the name of the President is Trump or something else, whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

For anyone who would like to hear Mark Carney’s outstanding Davos speech in full here it is. This is what true global leadership looks like.

Canada should be immensely proud today, because they are leading the fight back when others dare not.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/BExGV2YIDq

[Sam Angus @sajmcintosh]

@jonfavs Easy. To maintain the most profitable friendships for when he leaves office.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

We told you the Venezuela invasion was just corruption. It took one whole week to get the proof.

Trump took Venezuela's oil at gunpoint, and gave it to one of his biggest campaign donors.

1/ But when you learn the details, it's even worse. A short🧵on this corruption story.

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

“The United States under Trump is dark, aggressive, and lawless. It has become…a predator nation. This period of our history will eventually be judged, and the verdict will be unforgiving” https://t.co/z81RcN2Be5