The thing about the little pig man is that the press doesn't have the bizarre instinctive deference to him that Trump gets.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

Really just giving the game away. There is no legal logic to what they are doing and they never want it to apply to any future Dem president but they need to give Trump whatever he wants.

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

If nothing else, I hope Trump's executive order convinces anti-fascists to stop using "antifa" in public. Just think how (more) absurd his EOs would appear if "antifa" were replaced with "anti-fascist." It's a bad communications failure.

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Post few elections show you are sadly well in the minority. People want to be governed by internet trolls with the best punch lines.

Many historians of Rome identify Roman generals becoming the personal sources of payment for their armies as a key step in the downfall of the Republic, since it personalized military authority and freed armies to fight for their immediate leader, who paid them, instead of for the Republic

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Yeah the track record for NYC mayors having zero connection to voters anywhere else is pretty amazing. They get lots of media attention and voters outside NYC just don't care.

The GOP has full control of the government and already the wheels are coming off pretty hard for Trump.
In a year if Dems win the vote for at least one part of Congress it is going to be exponentially more insane.

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Deeply infuriating that so much of coastal city politics is "we need to rethink all of economics and regulation to make renting better, this is a great mystery" and literally other American cities are like "just built enough apartments for everyone. It is great."

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

Biden on policy was a pretty good president BUT his refusal to address the systemic damage Trump did which basically means Biden might go down as the third worst president with Trump the worst.

Important to make any future Dem know not dealing with Trump will make them an object failure.

A big part of Trump admin's insane corruption is in 2021 Dem basically told Trump they will never use the law to clawback his ill-gotten gains. In the future Dem need to go after every dollar by every person in the Trump orbit or USA will permanently become a pure kleptocracy.

Having NYC mayor race being off cycle is just really bad for the discourse. It nationally fills campaign news vacuum but the dynamics of NYC are basically unlikely anywhere outside maybe 2-4 other very liberal cities so provide little broad insight

Remember when Eric Adams was declared the future?

there were a handful of scolds who argued this was ineffective. They were very wrong.

Trump's Argentine bailout is a pretty good message to hurt him with. Normal GOP voters don't give a damn about the international conservative movement.
It is not "America first"
It is money he took from America farmers to give to foreign farmers

It is a good sign for us that the effective-for-our-side framing "Trump's Argentina Bailout" is how it's being referred to in NYT headlines. If that's the language being used we've already won the argument on the issue. Trump's Argentina Bailout