The Whiner

The Whiner

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The Whiner is surrounded by the incompetent, the oblivious and the incomprehensible. Friends say he should do stand-up. But he'd rather just sit here and type. (Also: CML, CVID, married with a talented daughter-musician, and servant to a very spoiled cat.)

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The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

I didn't realize the Taiwan-China issue was all based on chips.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Look, if we had smart presidents, the Taiwan problem with China wouldn't exist. Nobody would care. They stole our chip business. All of it. 100 percent."

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

He needs to define the "all" in "all agreed."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ferguson: "We are restoring social trust to make sure that when Americans go to work and pay their taxes, they can truly believe and know that the taxes are gonna go to help the people that we all agreed we're going to help." (War is peace, freedom is slavery, etc)

The Whiner
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"Alito and Thomas would have." SHOCKED! I'M SHOCKED, I TELL YOU!

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

Great news! The Trump admin went to the Supreme Court looking for permission to forcibly detransition inmates who have been on hormones for decades, deliberately denying them medical care that their doctors prescribed. Thankfully, the Court refused to grant the request. Alito and Thomas would have.

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

That sounds fair.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

Stupid questions asked by a disingenuous scammer often leave people unable to answer.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Dr Oz claims Nick Shirley "has a unique ability to walk into a room and ask piercing questions undaunted by people's inability to answer"

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

"The violent environmentalist movement" is quite a phrase.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Waltz alleges that "the communist party in Cuba has been working with antifa and a number of other progressive leftist groups to sow chaos in our inner cities ... they're doing it with the violent environmentalist movement and pro-Palestinian movement"

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Lawrence O'Donnell
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USA won the Cold War but Putin kept fighting the Cold War then Trump surrendered.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

The Kremlin is counting the Trump administration’s latest turn against Ukrainian President Zelensky as a major triumph and, coupled with political upheaval in Europe, a sign that Western support for Ukraine is finally crumbling.

washingtonpost.comRussia, sensing victory, cheers Trump’s latest shift against UkraineKremlin officials are crowing that Western support of Ukraine is about to collapse, and Trump’s recent moves are steps to closer alignment between Russia and the United States.
The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

Apparently there's an issue with one of his mechanical leg braces.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

Okay what's up with the thigh tapping? (I know there are more important things. I'm not distracted. I can wonder many things at once. I am medically curious.)

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

Phew. Glad he cleared that up.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I do not want to lose as your representative $90 billion for the privilege of allowing Canada to have a healthcare system and other things that they shouldn't be having"

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

What, exactly, are "transgender orders?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Sen. Roger Marshall: "This is the guy that when Joe Biden issues his transgender orders, there's Adam Hamilton cheering that on"

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

Again with the mental institutions. Are the inmates going to be released and sent to America?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I watched an interview of a young woman the other day from Ukraine. And she said, 'President Zelenskyy has destroyed our country. President Zelenskyy has taken our men away from us. Our men have no legs, no arms. Our men in many cases in mental institutions or they're dead.'"

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

Reasonable aspirations.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

FOX NEWS: The president's approval rating is at a historic low. Do you think that could be a drag on the party? TIM SCOTT: The president's legacy is on the midterm ballot. I want to make sure the next generation can grow up like I did -- maybe in poverty

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

AT SOME POINT????? Maybe there should be some news coverage about this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

CNBC: "If you just take a step back, this is not a good print for the Fed. At a in a time when we were hoping that inflation on a monthly sequential basis was looking closer to to 2 to 2.5%, we're getting something above that...at some point, higher inflation is gonna start eating into real incomes"

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

Yeah, before Melania First Ladies did stuff and were often seen in public.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Exclusive Senior Adviser to The First Lady Marc Beckman claims Melania Trump is "revolutionizing the role of the American First Lady"

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

Jon Ossoff is calling opponents Nazis the wrong way. - David Brooks @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

"Thankfully, it only punctured the large portable toilet permanently attached to his rear end."

The Onion@theonion.com

“No one should be surprised that all the scrutiny from the mainstream press is focused squarely on the spotted hyena with its jaws dug into the right buttock of the president and not on our historically prosperous economy.” — Beni Rae Harmony, assistant press secretary

theonion.comWhite House Downplays Hyena Biting Down On Trump’s AssWASHINGTON—Calling the attention the incident was receiving yet another example of liberal media bias, the White House downplayed on Friday the fact that a hyena was currently biting down on the ass o...
The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

And you know what sentient people would say if it happened today? "This guy is nuts!"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Can you imagine if your president was standing here 25 years ago saying, 'We will stop men from participating in women's sports!' They'd say, 'This guy is nuts!' Or 'we will stop the transgender mutilization!' You know what that is? *makes cutting motion*"

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

That's fine. He's considered us the enemy anyway.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

Sadly, he's still a senator.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ron Johnson, still relitigating covid all these years later, pimps ivermectin, but then immediately acknowledges "I'm not a doctor, I'm not a medical researcher"

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Aaron Rupar
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Trump and his gigantic wagon greets Ravens players Tyler Loop, Ryan Eckley, Nicholas Moore, and Marlon Humphrey (Win McNamee/Getty)

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

35,000 are being removed? Is that 35,000 people, or 35,000 dogs and cats?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Would anybody like the hear The Snake? We gotta whip it out. This is in honor of Springfield, Ohio, a quaint little town of 32,000 where they took in 35,000 and put them into Springfield. It didn't work out too well and they're being removed." The crowd starts chanting "De-port! De-port!"

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

"Unless the offenders are my supporters. in which case we'll pardon then, give them huge payouts, or both."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We will pass the death penalty for large scale drug dealers, human traffickers, and anybody who ever kills a police officer or law enforcement official"

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

James Austin Johnson is apparently writing Trump's material now.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"I can go ramp, I can go stairs" -- Trump's audience in Texas gives him an extremely tepid round of applause as he brags about being able to go up stairs without falling

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

Damn. Can't argue with that.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If you add Venezuela we'll have 58% of the fuel in the world. In order to save a glass of fuel like this *dumps a glass of water* it's ridiculous. They have computers all over the place, and the other thing is it didn't work well."

The Whiner
@thewhiner.bsky.social

Premier.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "Enter a new core of cadets. To meet this critical need we are partnering with a new crop of premier higher ed institutions, including LSU, Liberty University, Tuskegee University, Mississippi State University, and Hillsdale College."

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Alex Gibney
@alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com

Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk that Rolling Stone called “a nonfiction horror movie” following its film festival debut earlier this month. Watch ↓

rollingstone.comElon Musk Is in the Business of Selling Dreams in Trailer for New DocFilmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk.
The Whiner
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Actually, I think it's *very* clear.

Texas Tribune@texastribune.org

The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin was not using a body camera during the Sunday incident, according to news reports. The officer was issued a body camera, but it is unclear why he was not wearing the device during the shooting.

texastribune.orgReports: ICE officer in Austin shooting was not wearing body camThe recent ICE recruit was issued a body camera, reports said. It’s not clear why he was not using the device during the Sunday shooting.