Curtis Sayers

Technical illustrator, 3D artist, connoisseur of the one-handed backhand.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Imagine if in 1943 FDR had decided that the US would stop helping Britain and instead would side with the Third Reich. That's a bit like what President Trump is now doing by cozying up to Russia as it tries to destroy Ukraine. Utterly shameful. A humiliating moment for the US.

[Van Jones @VanJones68]

If this woman were black, the whole conversation would be about DEI. Funny how when white employees fail, nobody mentions THEIR race or ethnicity. And yet — how much of Trump’s administration is just affirmative action for nice-looking white people?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Truly disgusting what the Republican Party and parts of our media have normalized on this country. Just open naked racism and bigotry and mockery of minorities. Can you imagine a Muhammad or Abdullah in the schoolground getting bullied by kids who heard the president do it first?

[Devin Duke @sirDukeDevin]

Spot on 👇

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Posted and…deleted. Atta boy @seanhannity. You’re such a tool.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Oh this is an easy one: The Democrats weren’t trying to overturn an election. Hope you found this explanation helpful.

[Robert J Ellingsworth 🆓 @BY1959]

This pretty much nails it.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Yesterday my @CNN colleague @ScottJenningsKY offered as justification for the @POTUS's bid to seize control of mail-in voting a story that 50,000 ballots had been sent out but never delivered during the June primary election in AZ. So I looked it up and you can, too. I've attached it below.
These cases reflected people who had moved or died since the last election and could not be found at that address. It doesn't reflect completed ballots that voters mailed back. And, as the story points out, it is a fairly typical number. In fact, these ballots aren't forwarded to new mailing addresses. That's an election security measure--a feature not a bug--to ensure that people don't vote twice.
AZ's election system has been well-scrutinized and found to be remarkably fair, honest and accurate.
(Remember when Republicans in the AZ state senate hired the "Cyber Ninjas" to investigate the 2020 election in the state's largest county and found that @JoeBiden had not only won, but had beaten @realDonaldTrump by a few votes MORE
than originally reported.)
These specious arguments are offered to justify Trump's unjustifiable claims, and are meant to sow confusion and doubt about an election system whose probity has been the envy of the world.
https://t.co/7uuhbMSbiI

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸 Journalist and TV host Rachel Maddow on Stephen Colbert:

“I mean, literally: the Russians wrote a plan for what they thought Ukraine should do, and the White House took that plan, printed it on official White House letterhead, and told Kyiv, ‘Here it is. You’d better do it.’

And you know, Russia is basically a backwater. Yes, it has an enormous territory — it’s the largest country in the world by land area. But its economy is roughly the size of Italy’s, right? It has a kleptocratic, ossified state run by a man who has no intention of leaving until he dies.

And the very idea that we are working for him, that we are working for them, is so humiliating. It is such a pathetic failure by Trump, such a glaring demonstration of his weakness.

I don’t know exactly what Putin has on Trump, but Trump works for Putin. And that is a disgrace to our country.”

[Acyn @Acyn]

Garcia: So, to be clear, we have a president that is $2 billion richer just from this last year. We have a son whose wedding is being paid for by rich Russians and oligarchs that have connections to Putin. We have Jared Kushner, who got $2 billion for his investment firm from the Saudis while also doing diplomacy in the Middle East.

We have the Kushners who are trying to buy private islands and selling all sorts of merchandise that’s being promoted, oftentimes through government resources. We also have, of course, this insane amount of stock trading that the president himself is doing to enrich himself and his family.

And, of course, the sons sitting on boards of private companies that are then getting contracts from the federal government. The amount of corruption is unprecedented. And not only are they lining their pockets, they’re stealing the wealth of hardworking Americans, they’re stealing the hard-earned labor and wealth of working-class people, and then funneling that money to themselves and to the rich donors and large corporations and CEOs across this country.

As they get richer, costs go up for the American people. And we know that Republicans in the House and in the Senate are complicit by not calling out this corruption.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

25 Years Later, Trump Is Still Lying About a 9/11 Rescue He Never Took Part In

Donald Trump does not merely lie. He treats lying as a public service he performs for himself. The latest version of his 9/11 story is not a slip, a haze of memory, or a colorful exaggeration. It is the same old con: insert himself into a national wound, inflate a walk-on into a starring role, and dare anyone to notice that the paperwork never existed.

He told Trey Gowdy he rushed downtown, sent his construction crews, and "worked long and hard." That last phrase is the tell. It is not testimony. It is branding. "Long and hard" is the language of a man who needs the camera to believe he was indispensable. David Pakman called it what it is: a lie he cannot drop because Trump's ego, insecurity, and malignant narcissism requires a hero's origin story he never earned.

The documented record is unkind to him. He visited the area around Ground Zero in the days after the attack. That is it. On September 13, 2001, he claimed he already had more than a hundred workers on site and a hundred more coming. FDNY Chief Richard Alles said the obvious: there would have been documentation. Crews operated under police and fire supervision. There is no record of a Trump deployment. Newsrooms that tried to verify it found nothing. No names. No hours. No crew. Nothing.

What does exist is the phone call. While the city was still counting the dead, Trump rang a TV show to claim that 40 Wall Street had become "the tallest building" downtown. Even that boast was sloppy. 70 Pine Street was taller. The instinct was perfect, though: measure a massacre in square footage and personal ranking.

This is the pattern. He did not build the recovery. He built a story about the recovery, then demanded applause for the story. When the evidence fails to appear, he repeats the line louder, as if volume were a substitute for a roster, a work order, or a single contemporaneous account that doesn't come from his own mouth.

A pathological liar is not someone who gets a date wrong. A pathological liar is someone who keeps returning to a catastrophe he did not manage, claiming labor he cannot document, and treating other people's grief as a stage. Twenty-five years later he is still doing it, still hungry for a medal, still unembarrassed.

Trump is not a leader. He is a man so hollow he cannot let a mass grave exist without crawling into it for credit. He did not send the hundred workers. He did not work "long and hard." He worked the PR angle. Twenty-five years on, he is still auditioning as the hero in a story where the only documentation is his own voice bragging about a building. When New York City needed him most, Trump was a no-show.

[Michelle Kinney 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini @MichelleKinney]

He absolutely the fuck did not “work long and hard.” There were over 100,000 volunteers that were part of the clean up effort — he was *never* one of them. And over 9,000 people have died since 2001 from 9/11 related cancers and illnesses — none of which he has ever offered to help.

Notice he does not mention, not once, the human toll or trauma of 9/11. Not the first responders, the firefighters and police officers who gave their lives. It’s all buildings and business and bullshit.

This is a vile, disgusting lie.
Fuck you. Absolutely DESPICABLE.

[Curtis Sayers @studiosayers]

@lawyersutd @BenRothenberg Which is why the fans want and should hear from them.

[Curtis Sayers @studiosayers]

@hBencee @BenRothenberg Yes, they did, and yes, they’re mandatory

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The disgraced former mayor of New York, Rudy (I was just tucking in my shirt) Giuliani, has threatened to sue me for defamation over an interview in which I never said his name. No one even mentioned him.

I want to apologize to Rudy. Going forward I will be certain to say his name directly.

Rudy, you worked with known Russian agents and their proxies to spread lies about me and my father. Their names are Andrii Derkach, Konstantin Kulyk, Andriy Telizhenko and Oleksandr Dubinsky and more. Kulyk handed you a dossier filled with disinformation. You flew to Kyiv in December 2019 to sit down with Derkach, then went on television with him to sell his bullshit tapes.

Trump’s own national security adviser warned the White House that what you brought back was Russian disinformation. You kept going.

Then Trump’s own Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, sanctioned Derkach in September 2020 as an active Russian agent for over a decade, for spreading the same lies you are still spitting. Four months later, on his way out the door, Mnuchin sanctioned the rest of your sources. Kulyk. Telizhenko. Dubinsky. Eleven people and four media front companies in all. Not sanctioned by me. Not by my father. By Donald Trump’s Treasury Department.

And remember Vienna Rudy. In October 2019 you, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman had tickets to fly there to collect a hard drive, courtesy of Dmytro Firtash, an indicted oligarch who has spent a decade in Vienna fighting extradition to the United States. Lev and Igor were arrested at Dulles holding one-way tickets. You canceled yours the next morning. That was way before a computer repairman in Wilmington was ever a twinkle in your eye.

So please, @RudyGiuliani. Please, please sue me. Discovery will be a joy for everyone.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Every single part of the story President Trump told today about South Korea's military cost-sharing spending is wrong:
- "They essentially weren't paying" for the US troop presence before Trump's first term? Actually the US cost-sharing deals with South Korea have existed since 1991; Trump secured an incremental 8.2% increase, not some transformational boost
- Trump got South Korea to agree to "$3 billion" a year and that it would go up every year? No, SK agreed to pay less than $1 billion even with that 8.2% increase, and it was a one-year deal; negotiations on a longer-term arrangement were unresolved when Trump left office
- Then the 2020 election was rigged? No
- South Korea then called Biden, declared it shouldn't be paying, and Biden "immediately rescinded" the "order" for SK to pay? No, Biden actually secured two new deals with further increases in South Korea's payments: 1) a 2021 deal with a 13.9% SK increase and then 2022-thru-2025 increases tied to SK's defense budget increases; 2) a 2024 deal with an 8.3% increase in 2026 and additional increases tied to South Korean inflation.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

“Unless you were beating up cops on January 6th while trying to overturn an election, in which case I will authorize a slush fund to pay them out of your tax dollars while shielding a historically corrupt President from prosecution.”

[Richard Turner, ICD.D. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Turnerwestvan1]

@GeraldoRivera Let him rape children. They’ll get over it later. Let him start wars. They will end one day. Let him mistreat the military. They have to obey. I got it Geraldo. Appease. Worked for Neville Chamberlain

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

I’ve launched off the front of aircraft carriers hundreds of times, have a Master’s degree in aeronautical engineering, and am a test pilot and even I wouldn’t suggest to the Navy how to engineer specific systems on its ships. Donald Trump should stick to what he knows best — ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit.