Anybody who wants to ethnically cleanse brown people in order to steal their land is Trump’s kind of person.

Huh… I didn’t expect Graham to regurgitate a position opposing Trump and Russia.

Somebody must’ve outbid the oligarchs…

And so on, and so on…

If my government the government that’s managed to weasel its way into power over the land on which I happened to be born proposed an initiative to tackle fraud, I would look for the catch, because it’s guaranteed there would be one.

So… Obama’s state dept used a time machine to put him into office three years after Obama’s term ended?

Seriously, are you that much of an idiot or are you hoping that we are?

Oh absolutely. Filing false financial information in order to inflate value is one of his specialties.

Just a reminder that before he even took office, Trump tried to strongarm Congress into increasing the debt ceiling.

There has never been any intention to actually save any money. That was and is a blatant and obvious lie, as evidenced by the simple and undeniable fact that Trump has already signaled his clear intention to not only increase spending, but to increase it even more than Congress was willing to go along with.

So of course the “receipts” don’t add up - they’re part of the lie.

So… seriously, the Democrats are not even going to try to stop the Republicans who are actively overthrowing the government, but are instead just going to try to make them look bad enough that they can hopefully gain some seats in 2026 running as “not the Republicans?”

Well, then here’s the definitive answer to the recurring question of “will the Democrats learn anything from 2024?”

No. No they won’t.

No surprise there.

A great many Americans are angry and stupid, so even the obvious harm Trump and Musk are doing is fine by them, because they actually enjoy seeing other people suffer.

They’ll only potentially care when the whole process shakes out far enough that they themselves are suffering, and even then there’s a good chance that they’ll be unable/unwilling to assign the blame where it so obviously belongs.

No civilization has ever collapsed without the active support of a deluded public all the way down.

He’s not “wrong” - he’s a psychopath. He doesn’t “fail” to find out the truth - he simply doesn’t care, because his own immediate inclinations and desires are all that matter to him.

Not personally and directly, no, but broadly, yes - I do know the irreversible damage they’re doing.

And here’s the real key to it all - none of it is accidental. The damage is the point.

Their goal is actually very simple - it’s to utterly destroy every aspect of the government that benefits the common people or inconveniences the wealthiest few, in order to convert it explicitly and entirely into a mechanism for protecting and expanding the privilege of the wealthiest few at the expense of everyone else.

Ah.

Thanks for the legwork.

That’s a shame. They were one of the few left that actually had some integrity, but apparently that’s over.

holding a pro-Russia stance

WTF?

She’s a fucking Russian asset!

When did The Guardian sell out? I missed that. They were pretty good as recently as the presidentoal campaign season, but they’ve apparently now joined the ranks of the compromised media who deliberately shift the narrative to take the fascist edges off of the Musk/Trump coup d’etat.

It never ceases to amaze me that so much evil is being carried out by people who are so cringey and stupid.

At this rate, we’re going to reach the gulags and mass graves stage by about April.

Legal experts view the case as weak, but it coincides with Paramount Global’s regulatory review, leading to reported settlement talks.

Even as cynical as I am, I never thought I’d actually see the US fall so far.

And it’s only just started…

Of course not.

It’s not as if Trump is difficult to figure out or predict.

All you have to do really is keep in mind the fact that he has the emotional development of a spoiled toddler.

So all you have to do is ask yourself, for instance, “Would a spoiled toddler share power with Congress?”

And the answer is “No.”

It IS a hostile takeover. Musk and Trump are currently in the process of overthrowing the US government and installing a pluocratic autocracy in its place.

Are we really in a timeline in which a fat, smelly sociopath wirh the attention span of a gnat proposes taking over a sovereign territory on the other side of the planet and actual professional politicians go on record saying that they think that’s a good idea?

It’s as if we’re being governed by insane stupid children.

Yes, but all too many Americans have been blinded by decades of deliberate indoctrination, so all they heard were the parts where Trump said it was all the fault of the out groups they were conditioned into hating. The rest was just irrelevant details to them.

Which is exactly why I stipulated “when the reality of what’s being done to us finally filters out to enough people to trigger widespread opposition.”

If the American people by and large were actually aware and rational, that point would’ve already been passed. They aren’t, so it hasn’t been, and it likely won’t be for quite some time to come, and it’ll be too late when it finally is.

By design.