BREAKING: up is now down

and Republicans line up to make sure that happens

I’m not sure why *this* of all things is what crossed the line for MAGA Christians but I guess I’ll take it

this was the cover story for the Styles section of the Sunday paper this week. I barely made it 2 paragraphs in

the party of “personal responsibility” certainly loves telling everyone that the buck stops with everyone else

you’d think the richest man in the world and soon-to-be trillionaire being a antisemitic, racist fascist would be a bigger story

I have never met a "logical centrist." There is nothing logical about "centrism," at all: It's just finding the "moderate" position and claiming it *bc it's centrist/moderate.*

What's logical about that? In what way does that forward best practices in policy or do the most for people's lives?

they do this same shit with climate and health science. you can find always find a number of crackpot professionals willing to push back on reality for any number of reasons

ah right, a quick, month-and-counting spike

imagine getting threatened by a guy named Elbridge

Trump’s campaign for the next Nobel Peace Prize is starting off on rough footing, to say the least. the FIFA Peace Prize is pretty much locked up though

“I support Trump but disagree with just about everything he does” is unfortunately a sizable constituency in this country

Opinion | Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk (Published 2016)

it’s been pointed out before, but this may go down as one of the worst takes of all time www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/o...

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

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the centrist platitudes will continue until morale improves

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below: 1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation … 3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people. 4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners … 5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice … 6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices … 7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: 12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit … 13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people. 20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.

#NoKings

it’s literally the Truman Show for an addled racist grandpa

love being governed by a guy who just believes everything the dipshits around him tell him

grimly funny to recall that Trump and Republicans made a huge deal out of the Obama admin sending $400 million to Iran around the time of the nuclear deal that was part of an unrelated international tribunal settlement

we’re putting thousands of Marines in harm’s way to confuse reporters?

well if this isn’t depressing, I don’t know what is. we’re forcing kids to talk to a computer for 2 hours first thing in the morning?

who would’ve thought that a former amateur MMA fighter who was handed his dad’s plumbing business would be a moron

it’s remarkable that he has the first name of two people smashed together but the intelligence of maybe half of one person

a wild stat illustrating one huge reason for our broken system of government. Republicans haven’t represented a majority of Americans in the Senate since 1950 - but routinely have held a majority of Senate seats since 1980

quick question: who replaced Ali Khamenei?

Words - what do they mean?

this is just white supremacy

Iran resumed its nuclear enrichment after *checks notes* Trump pulled out of the JCPOA