Greg Parmesan

Greg Parmesan

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Trump has been renovating DC and militarizing everything because he’s planning to never leave. Enjoy the next 43 days, because our country will enter a more intense phase of dysfunction starting the night of 11/3, at which time Trump will claim the GOP retained both houses despite election results.

So have we been potentially ignoring the possibility that Trump manufactured the Iran War to make gas prices go up so he can make more money when he sells Venezuelan oil and hides it in his overseas accounts?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I thought the price of oil was gonna go much, much higher, and I was fully prepared to do it"

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the universal, bipartisan condemnation if Obama had been on stage this weekend and said “Wow, that [insert celebrity]’s tits are amazing!” The Trumps will never, ever have a quadrillionth of the honor and decency that the Obamas possess.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

“I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before, Nicki Minaj. That's hard to miss,” Trump says

If a guy is willing to sexualize a woman in front of thousands of people plus a worldwide viewing audience, what does he consider acceptable to do in private when only one woman will experience it?

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

“I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before, Nicki Minaj. That's hard to miss,” Trump says

Greg Parmesan reposted

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

“Everything I’ve not liked about [Trump] was, I swear to God, absent. At least on this night, with this guy. … A crazy person does not live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there.” - Bill Maher, March 2025

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social

The latest Truth Social post from the president of the United States.

Trump just posted a 1300-word diarrhea entry on his Fake Social page slamming Bill Maher. And you know what? Good. That’s what Bill Maher deserves for trying to sanewash Trump last year. ‘Oh I had dinner with him and he was so normal!’ Yeah go fuck yer self there buddy.

Benny Johnson claims fraud in the Brazilian election because a judge involved was a former lawyer for one of the candidates. Does Benjamin have an issue with Todd Blanche, Trump’s former lawyer being AG? Nope. Because Ben has no principles other than whatever gets him the next dollar.

Not to mention that Bolsonaro also requested the voting extension. Not to mention that Benjamin thinks that fraud is when more people are given time to vote. Not to mention that BJ should be parking cars at a Hard Rock casino rather than influencing public opinion.

It took Republicans 1 generation to go from “Show us your birth certificate because we don’t believe you’re an American” to “The guy was born here but he’s not really an American.” If left unchecked, where will they be after 1 more generation?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

For the millionth time in a year: Trump is going to declare a national emergency after the election, claiming certain Democratic Party winners are too radical to seat in Congress

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says El-Sayed is a jihadist and shouldn’t be allowed to serve in the Senate

‘Boy that Ilhan Omar is a real piece of shit‘ isn’t a policy that’s going to lower the price of healthcare or childcare or groceries or houses or rent or gas but I guess that doesn’t matter to the people cheering in the background because it’s clear their main policy platform is xenophobia

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump is smearing Ilhan Omar in speeches all over the country now because he is an Islamophobic bigot and he thinks that’s a winning message for Republicans

Trump has been renovating DC and militarizing everything because he’s planning to never leave. Enjoy the next 43 days, because our country will enter a more intense phase of dysfunction starting the night of 11/3, at which time Trump will claim the GOP retained both houses despite election results.

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What happens beyond that point is unclear because this is the point when Trump is no longer the only acting party in these events. I’m going to pin this thread to my page until January 2027. If my predictions turn out to be wildly inaccurate, please leave me a humiliating response below.

Update 10/23: The midterm coup attempt begins

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: The Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses his tight race against Democrat Mary Peltola next month.

Coup season starts early. And to think I was recently rebuffed by multiple people on here for predicting that the administration will challenge nearly *every* unfavorable election result in the midterms.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: The Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses his tight race against Democrat Mary Peltola next month.

“To the extent that my rhetoric has been imperfect here, that's on me.” - JD Vance, something like 85 hours before defending a political attack ad in which an abusive mother disparages her candidate daughter who was SA’d, because this is who JD is and he’s never going to try harder

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social

"If I have to create stories... then that's what I'm going to do" was how he defended the lying hate speech about Haitians eating their neighbors' pets (In Ohio, as it happens). It is no surprise at all that this doesn't bother him.

Greg Parmesan reposted

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

It’s pretty clear Trump wants to overhaul this golf course to his liking so he has one to use after he closes off DC at some point between November 2026 and November 2028. The dude is making all these changes to DC because he’s planning for it to be his home.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The Department of Interior wants to take a terrible and very unsafe golf course, and make it into a great, safe, and prestigious golf course ... They do not need an approval. Work is scheduled to begin IMMEDIATELY!"

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Trump: "There's nothing that I could do -- if they asked her, 'If Trump murdered someone would that be okay?' she would've said 'yes'"

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This photo says everything about why Trump keeps hiring unqualified worshipful young women (who look like his daughter)

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Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

America’s CECOT. I need to remind everyone - because it’s still batshit crazy to me - that in April 2025 Trump hosted dictator Bukele in the Oval Office and told Bukele to build more CECOTs so Trump could send Americans there. This is today’s Republican Party. Sociopathic. No empathy. Criminal.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵

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I use this thread to demonstrate this: Scott Perry is a horrible person. This isn’t an ad hominem or partisan attack; this is a fact. Scott Perry is an objectively reprehensible human being. I urge everyone in PA-10 to vote for Janelle Stenson in November. She‘s a good person and we need that.

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JD Vance: "I love you too sir. In a totally platonic way, to be clear. I'm the vice president, not James Talarico."

America’s scary reality: Trump will be gone within a decade but this crowd and its energy will not. We have a tough road ahead and we can’t just ’go back to normal’. ‘Normal’ requires political opponents who don’t act like this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump admits of Jon Husted that "I started examining his body" and "looked at his ass," smears a protester as a "fat guy" while she's brutally assaulted in the crowd, and other lowlights from his rally tonight in Ohio

Greg Parmesan reposted

Real America's Voice interviewed a guy at the Trump rally in Ohio who blasted Trump for peddling "lies and garbage." He went so hard on Trump and JD Vance that they cut the interview short.

It still blows my mind that our government gleefully sent people to a concentration camp in El Salvador and our president said he wanted to send Americans there as well and he‘s still in office and still has millions of supporters.

Administration led by geriatric who can‘t stay awake during mid-day meetings and has severely swollen cankles wants the commoners to stand on cement slabs for 8-hour shifts.

Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social

The petty-ass bullshit this administration inflicts on people just trying to live their livea is truly something to behold

Greg Parmesan reposted

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

Trump has been renovating DC and militarizing everything because he’s planning to never leave. Enjoy the next 43 days, because our country will enter a more intense phase of dysfunction starting the night of 11/3, at which time Trump will claim the GOP retained both houses despite election results.

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Mid-December: Trump begins claiming that it would be national suicide to allow the ‘radical socialist communist marxist anti-American’ incoming Dems to take office. Late-December: Trump declares a national emergency on elections, national security, etc to counter the ‘communist threat’.

1/1/27: Trump declares via ‘Truth’ that members of the incoming Dem Congress should not even bother coming to DC because there’s an order to detain any such individuals when they arrive in DC. Chaos ensues. There’s uncertainty about whether or not the order was actually given to the National Guard.

Trump has been renovating DC and militarizing everything because he’s planning to never leave. Enjoy the next 43 days, because our country will enter a more intense phase of dysfunction starting the night of 11/3, at which time Trump will claim the GOP retained both houses despite election results.

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Late-November: Trump and the GOP begin targeted harassment campaigns against individual leaders and groups certifying election results. Defunding, investigations, and militarization are threatened for those districts. the message is: ‘Audit the vote, certify for the GOP, or we’ll send in the feds.’

Late-November: Some districts fold to pressure and promise audits; some don‘t and certify Dem wins. Early-December: Trump begins building the case that Dem districts need to undergo lengthy audits before results will be accepted. These audits would take way longer than 1/3 so they’re a non-starter.

Trump has been renovating DC and militarizing everything because he’s planning to never leave. Enjoy the next 43 days, because our country will enter a more intense phase of dysfunction starting the night of 11/3, at which time Trump will claim the GOP retained both houses despite election results.

11/3: Trump announces the GOP retained both houses of Congress despite clear negative (and ongoing) results for the GOP. 11/4: Dems retake House. 11/4-11/30: Trump and the GOP claim wide scale fraud across every district and state he lost, claiming it all happened because the SAVE Act didn’t pass.

America’s CECOT. I need to remind everyone - because it’s still batshit crazy to me - that in April 2025 Trump hosted dictator Bukele in the Oval Office and told Bukele to build more CECOTs so Trump could send Americans there. This is today’s Republican Party. Sociopathic. No empathy. Criminal.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵

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As one of Scott Perry’s constituents, I sent him an email and begged him to speak up when Trump talked about sending Americans to CECOT. I’m being serious here - my message contained the phrase “I’m literally begging you, please speak out against this.” He did not. He said nothing. No pushback.

During a ”Tele-Townhall” - because Scott Perry can’t be bothered to show his face to his constituents, that’d be a lot of work - he said he was “glad talk died down quickly” about sending Americans to CECOT. He was passive. He did nothing to counteract it. Never spoke out against it. Nothing.

America’s CECOT. I need to remind everyone - because it’s still batshit crazy to me - that in April 2025 Trump hosted dictator Bukele in the Oval Office and told Bukele to build more CECOTs so Trump could send Americans there. This is today’s Republican Party. Sociopathic. No empathy. Criminal.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵

I want to call out one sociopathif GOP congressman in particular: Scott Perry. Perry defended deporting foreigners directly to CECOT (see below) and became upset when a judge *stopped America* from sending more foreigners directly to CECOT.

Greg Parmesan reposted

Trump on 9/11: "I just thank my people. I was building a big building in New York & I took the whole crew down there right after this happened & they had no hesitation. Everybody went down with me... we thought it was coming down on top of us... two fireman lifted me up and started running with me"