Wow. They’re so thick it’s almost impossible to credit.

whY iS evERyONe aROunD TRUmP tiEd To EPstEiN?

[guy who asked the computer to create the most racist electoral maps in history]

gerrymandering is not good.

nothing weakens your war-fighting capabilities like *checks notes* not having the flu

Transcript: Trump’s Secret War Fears Leak as GOP Panics: “Alarm Bells” As Trump worries about becoming Jimmy Carter, a journalist who focuses on the imperial presidency explains why events are slipping away from Trump—and why that gives Democrats an opening.

Trump’s Secret War Fears Leak as GOP Panics: “Alarm Bells”

As Trump worries about becoming Jimmy Carter, a journalist who focuses on the imperial presidency explains why events are slipping away from Trump — and why that gives Democrats an opening.

This is why any analysis that Trump has a "strategy" or "plan" regarding Iran today is laughable sanewashing.

He's a chimp with a hammer.

CHRIS WRIGHT: Energy prices are still well lower than they were in middle of the Biden adminis--

CANTWELL: I want to stop you right there. There is nobody in the Northwest who thinks that. Not when they wake up & airline flights are being canceled because of high fuel costs. No one thinks it's okay

GALLEGO: Earlier today, you told Sec. Kennedy that Trump never demanded you to cut interest rates. Is that your sworn testimony?

WARSH: That is, senator.

GALLEGO: Okay. Well someone here is lying then. Because Trump confirmed he pressed you on interest rate cuts.

It's just a small prick.

HIRONO: The rising prices of energy -- is that something you didn't contemplate happening before the president declared his illegal war?

CHRIS WRIGHT: No. We knew exactly what would happen

HIRONO: It doesn't seem like it, because the president doesn't understand how to open the strait

This is already demonstrably incorrect. And Wright isn't even dead yet.

I would like a Secretary of Defense who has read one (1) book on the history of warfare; preferably one that discusses the impact of disease on armies.

You can cleanly pinpoint the advent of 'modern warfare' as the moment when medical science and state capacity improved to the point that an army could keep most of its soldiers from shitting themselves to death before they've even seen the enemy.

So when it comes to beards and hairstyles, discipline requires strict conformity. When it comes to contracting and spreading a preventable illness that directly affects unit readiness, follow your bliss, man.

Washington Examiner: Imagine it was someone other than President Donald Trump. Suppose a different leader were posting deranged rants in the small hours, insulting the spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics, threatening entire civilizations with annihilation, and comparing himself to God. What would be the reaction?

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WARNOCK: What grade would you give the American economy?

WARSH: Well, if i gave a student anything other than an A, the dean would summon me because I would've hurt his self-image

WARNOCK: Consumer confidence is at a record low. That's Americans' grade on the economy

Speaker Johnson's beginning of the end Trump's elfish toady is quickly losing control of the House.

"The coming months should be brutal for Johnson — and will, hopefully, end with his majority and speakership destroyed in a humiliating and titanic blue wave."

Spot on from @nberlat.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's latest PN:

open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

WARSH: The broad contours of the economy are improving. The potential of the economy, the real results of the economy are improving.

TINA SMITH: The reality is there was almost 0 job growth in 2025. That looks to me like not a roaring economy, but a weak economy.

He wasn't a total dumbass

Just thinking about how *even Viktor Orban* realized that acknowledging election outcomes is a good thing.

The good news it it's a litmus test that goes both ways. Anybody that answers this way should carry that around wherever they go. It should be "stapled to their permanent record"...

It is, believe it or not, quite difficult to fly high performance fighter jets when you have the flu.

future generations will need a series of textbooks just to explainhow this dumb question became a litmus test because these fascists were so stupid and their leader so far up his own arsehole that they couldnt even just lie about what they thought to get into power

I'm pretty confident that's fucking nuts

Pete: "WE ONLY WANT THE STRONGEST MANLIEST MEN IN THE ARMY"

Also Pete: "Hey, if you were afraid to get a shot like a big boy you can go play war now"

I’ve lost track of how many times something just like this has happened. The rules seem to be that you can say Congress certified the election, but not that Joe Biden won it

“We have totally obliterated the uranium. But we are launching this illegal war because Iran is days away from launching a nuclear strike on the West with bombs made from that uranium.”

👀

Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."

Scenes from a personalist regime: A nominee to an independent federal body refuses to acknowledge that the President ever lost an election.