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You measure how distant a Congress member is from Trump in terms of phone calls: how many Trump needs to make to make them fall in line. Right now only Thomas Massie, MTG and Rand Paul are at 3. All others who are showing "defiance" are at 1: one phone call from Trump, they are back as his steed!

Lula victory is only the first step. It is not that easy to weed out fascists out of the system. Much depends on how his administration will handle them in the coming months. If not handled properly, this victory will be very short lived - like Biden's 2020 win!

Donald Trump was ranked dead last in a 2024 survey of presidential scholars. His second term is unlikely to change that. #NoKingsDay

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How many Scaramucci's will the new Press Secretary last for??

"They're releasing it to the entire world" - if so, what happened to the US sanctions, Mr President? Wait till you hear from Indians who you imposed 100% tariffs on for importing Russian oil! finance.yahoo.com/energy/artic...

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If you were thinking America first, you would be getting to work on ending the Iran war, bringing down the gas and diesel prices, and work on healthcare instead of thinking of time change and plotting to sabotage the midterm elections!

America: "Gas is not ffordable. Groceries are expensive. Mortgage is very high. .." Trump: "Let us stop changing the clocks; call Tom Cotton at: 479-453-0533"!

A high ranking high-tech executive: India could be the dark horse in the AI race. "Multiple plane loads of very good engineers came every year, spent a couple of years at some school here and then stuck around for ever. We have made it harder & India has made it more attractive for them stay back!"

"American Dream", ladies and gentlemen. "American exceptionalism" that dwarfs the African dictators by orders of magnitude!

Confirmed (yet again): Trump is mad. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Snipers on drones repository on his arch is more dangerous and more antithesis to American democracy than it looks at first sight. Trump & MAGA are too idiotic to think up this on their own. They are definitely getting some outside suggestions on this.

There was a time I could trust my country. When everyone is a liar who do you believe - here is what Iran is claiming this morning: www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/...

Today's GOP summarized in a photo

The operation was successful; but we lost the war! finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...

"Idiots", "crooks", "incompetent", "fools" ... call them anything you may, one thing you can't deny about Trump and his family: they are super good at inventing new ways of grift: www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Politics Girl is right! Between now and Election Day, Democrats need to stop attacking each other & focus on the real threat. Debate your differences after the election. Right now, every ounce of energy must go toward winning. Unity. Discipline. Victory 💙🇺🇸 #SheShed #DemocratsUnited

Hassett here is pushing GOP/MAGA Trump deeper down the abyss. Trump made up that 5000 $ claim on the fly without consulting anyone. Even for his idiotic advisors, it would have been obvious how idiotic it is. Even Hassett knows that; has no spine to speak out! finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...

Hi John Roberts - thank you and your cohorts for the immunity you granted, now we all can get paid to vote! GOP can buy their votes and rule forever. We now are a "one happy family!" Thank you Justice Roberts for making all this possible! Good job!!

Will that $ 5000 be paid via Trump cryptos? In my estimate it will take over two years for the US treasury to print that much money for every citizen in 100 $ bills! 5000 per person is 1.5 trillion dollars & you pump that money into the economy - mind boggling!

The questions are how will they start the damage control with the unrealistic 5000 $ promise that Trump made and which one of Bessent, Lutnick or Vance will do it and how soon! Walking back the promise is a given, in other words!

Natalie Harp is as bad as Trump himself or worse in her writing, including in capitalization and composition. To think this lady is a former journalist!

For how long - is the question! Will it TACO back on this Tuesday or the next?

God, thank you - for smaller mercies like this one!

It will now be Scott Jennings vs Maria Bartiromo for the White House Press Secretary position now?? Very tough choice indeed for Trump - each one sucks up to Trump more than the other!

In the decision handed out today, implicitly the court validated the unitary executive theory when they started the opinion with: "In October 2025, the federal government started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House." - given that Trump started it all without Congressional approval!

While Trump is busy posting AI slops on the Internet, in the other news, the Iranian news agency WANA is reporting .... it is somewhat significant that the Prime Minister and the President met without aids ... wanaen.com/pezeshkian-m...

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Kevin Warsh is proving that at the least, he is not an idiot which is big news for a Trump appointee! He seems to be at least not disruptive - market should take that as a positive.

[BLOG] " #Canada stands up to Donald #Trump" - a cartoon by @anntelnaes.bsky.social (USA) on our blog "Libérons les crayons !" via @lemonde.fr: www.lemonde.fr/liberons-les...

Interesting:

Two questions still unanswered: 1. Who leaked the meeting news to @nytimes.com? 2. Why did @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social did that in secret if he wasn't hiding anything?? Because Jeffries tried to keep it a secret, we can assume he did not leak it. That means he's not just a crook; also an idiot!

The intriguing question about Hakeem Jeffries - Jared Kushner meeting is about which side or who leaked the story to the press! It seems like Jeffries has more to lose with the expose than Kushner. But if they met for a reason, why would even Kusher's side leak it???

Possible @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social "common ground issues" with Kushner: 1. When it's time to seek asylum in Saudi Arabia, if Democrats gain majority 2. How we can help transfer your wealth when you flee the country 3. How to evade extradition to US 4. You teach me how to make money as speaker

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social should come out and tell us why this meeting was kept a secret and what was discussed.

It would be interesting to know what Brett Kavanaugh and Ken Starr - who were pivotal in impeaching Bill Clinton whose relationship did not go beyond having sex and did not touch national security issues - would think of Natalie Harp and Donald J Trump.

Does America have any friends left in the world??

You cannot vote to confirm your long term friend, supporter, also a convicted felon who pleaded guilty to 18 felony counts - though pardoned by President who is his relative and then go claim you fight corruption. Sen Jon Ossoff did NO such things. That's why he has the fire power we are seeing!

Someone tell me how to play at Kalsi, I would like to bet on which way John Roberts' court will rule on Trump's White House Ballroom construction - now that they have accepted to rule on it! Do they accept bets when the outcome is all but officially confirmed??

Natalie Harp letters in the out now remind me of how WHCA (and its outgoing President) and many of our prominent journalists act towards Trump!

He officially has more felonies (34) than approval (33). https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-falls-33-lowest-his-presidency-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-08-17/?taid=6a839726659d87000122b970

Wow! Trump has met his match - in self-delusion! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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