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This White House AI slop video makes Omar look so freaking cool

He is really demonstrating his oppositional defiance disorder these days. "Oh, you don't like me talking about men's asses? I'll talk about them all day long." "You think I shouldn't mention nuclear strikes on LA and San Diego. Fuck you, I'll say it every night." All criticism gets doubled down

Does he even know where Iran is? Why would they not hit, I don't know, DC or New York? Or Mar-a lago? Why would they launch missiles thousands of miles farther west?

corporate media routinely describes Tim Scott as a moderate and celebrates his "relentless optimism"

Ding ding fucking ding.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Good God, this is bad. WTF????

Is it because of Trump's visceral loathing of Ilhan Omar and willingness to just let his racism fly? AES? The Iran war? I know it's always been simmering under the surface but what's brought on this latest paroxysm of Islamophobia?

I remember when anti-Arab racism was the only kind of racism that could be publicly expressed without people looking at you with shock. I hated it then, and I hate it now.

The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

This is why Trump just said at his rally that he doesn’t care about high gas prices because people who own stakes in the oil and gas industry are getting rich.

Beutler argues, correctly, that Dems running for office need to say NOW that they'll be receiving a mandate to roll back the corruption & cruelty & hold accountable those who tried to steal our country & freedom. "Affordability" is important. But it's also a consultant-workshopped talking point. /2

It's well-documented that the president maintained a years-long friendship with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker. It might strike you as odd there aren't direct allegations of Trump engaging in child sex trafficking.. except there are. There are SO MANY. They just never get reported!

Rightwing politics is a smash and grab operation. Crude, violent rhetoric to get attention. Grandiose promises. Chest-pounding to convey energy. Menacing the polls. Once elected, bullying and defiance of all restraint in order to hold power. People are sick of it.

My summary of the just completed oral argument in the 9th Circuit's emergency hearing on the California ballot segregation demand from DOJ:

Of course. These people are exhausting.

With Orban six months ago, Serbia today and now this, sanity is actually having a good run. May it continue through November 3rd. (Fingers crossed for Israel and France, as well)

pundits are basically bored by the idea that these democratic candidates are not meaningfully behind with black voters and so are trying to conjure a controversy into existence

The defense secretary broke the 34th president's globe — and provided an inadvertent metaphor.

There you have it.

Wow. So now he's a gay, commie jihadist?

Norway: "I didn't get the Nobel Prize so I don't want anybody from Norway. I don't want anything to do with Norway…Frankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a shithouse country, actually."

Natalie showed him the speech.

Take this for what it's worth but mainly lol

Take note, US voters, students. Resistance works, perseverance works, protests work.

Trump's closing argument for 2026 appears to be "I like big butts and I cannot lie."

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This is the bullshit that's going to ruin us. Nonsensical assumptions by media about what REAL AMERICANS think and care about, designed to make Dems act like humorless prigs. This was not an insult to Liberace or his fans. He was in show business! It's ok for him! This is about the White House FFS

You have to remember that this is a person who only learned last month that the word dumb is spelled with a b so you can see why he would think that.

I just love these Trump supporters calling for the smelling salts over Obama's Cheescake factory quip saying he's mocking middle America. These are the very people who worship the man who vomits gilt gew gaws everywhere like he's Louis the XIV and brags about how much money he's making as president.

Can someone explain to me why Kristen Welker didn't have AES's disavowal of the Muslim Brotherhood *on her show* teed up to refute Mike Rogers' lies? Why do these people engage in crosstalk and then move on. It was easy to anticipate Rogers would do what he did.

I think the real purpose here is to keep the seat empty for as long as possible while they contest it. I can even see the Supremes using the shadow docket to keep it open pending a decision on the question of ranked choice voting or even if a person with the same name can run.They are that corrupt.

Fergawdsakes...

Trump wanted to create an Orban style autocracy & take away everyone’s liberties. But Orban knew u need to be popular when u put that into effect. But in just 20 months Trump failed so hard he’s more unpopular than any midterm Prez in 80 yrs. Chump just doesn’t have the cards. 🤣

He's just letting his racist freak flag fly now. In the past he only said this in private.

these people are shameless!

has mmfa or someone like that compiled a comparison of airtime and front page headlines given to hunter biden vs jared kushner, given that kushner's alleged corruption is about 1000x larger, you would expect it to receive more coverage than Hunter's, right?

This is a very impressive communication combo. They know how to make a point.

“What is striking about this moment is just how unserious the people in charge are” — Obama

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

A writ of fuck off is prescribed by the constitution www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Trump is so out of control today, what with the Amy Acton and el Said comments, that I'm literally yelling at the TV and I'm sitting here all by myself. It's just beyond.

Trump on the Alaska election lawsuit: "I'm the one that said 'do it'"

This is just chilling. The whole Mussolini strut, the people cheering. Americans.

Fascinating that as even as other Republicans who long ago sold their souls to MAGA still have enough baseline political acumen to see how poisonous this is, Vance is completely oblivious. It isn't just that he has no principles, decency, or moral compass, he's also really fucking bad at politics.