Oh, there’s going to be accountability all right, but for the wrong reasons. I predict that lawyer is getting his ass fired for telling the truth in Court and making the administration look bad. It may not happen right away, but it’s gonna happen.

Then they’re idiots and the prize itself is worthless.

I don’t think we disagree on that point…

Because there were (and still are) real problems in Venezuela. She is a key figure in the opposition, and it’s widely suspected that the opposition party won the last election, but Maduro’s party fucked with the vote.

In a sane world that respects Democracy, it sends a statement that the popular will should be respected, and that the Maduro government was illegitimate. I don’t think the Nobel committee expected their award to precipitate armed intervention, which is the opposite of peace.

It’s even more ironic because it’s not like the will of the Venezuelan people is being honored, even now. Trump is ignoring Machado’s party (even after “accepting” that gift of the medal) and is extorting what is left of the government in Venezuela to funnel oil money into a secret bank account.

Basically, the award makes sense in a pre-Trump world, but he has changed all the rules. That last cheeseburger can’t come fast enough…

Donald Trump is going to use this as a loyalty test, though. Just like calling it the “Gulf of America”, or the “Department of War”. He’s going to start calling himself a “Nobel Prize Winner” and sic his brownshirts on anyone who disagrees.

I mean, his ego did get extremely bruised…

I’ll believe it when I see it. So far, Republicans’ vows to go against Trump seem to have the same sticking power as their vows to their ex-wives.

We’ve run over a thousand simulations

What does that even mean? How do you run simulations on something like that? It makes me think she just kept asking ChatGPT over and over …

It doesn’t surprise me, the Senate is filled with 100 people who think they are future Presidents

Maybe not. Remember that Noem lacks a key leadership feature as far as MAGA is concerned: a penis. She might just be the sacrificial lamb that Republicans use to say “SeE? wErE lIsTeNiNg” and try to calm down the sheep ahead of midterms. Then tell her “Thanks for your service, but can you go into the kitchen and get me a beer, honeybuns?”

But then, we need to be concerned about who gets appointed in her place. I hear Dan Bongino is looking for a job…

The “checks and balances” depend on putting ambitious people in different parts of the government, and giving them competing roles. Then, naturally, excesses get curbed because no one part of the government would want to cede too much of its power to the other.

It did not forsee a future where the leaders of the other co-equal branches of government would subjugate themselves to the President’s ego.

He may be a fascist murderer, but anytime someone tells me they are an “amateur botanist” I just assume they grow their own weed.

And if so, the irony is that it wouldn’t have been too long ago that the jackbooted thugs would have been coming for him instead.

Grab 'em by the Parliament

Lol it’s the GAS act.

Until the House impeaches and they convict, their words mean nothing. The Supreme Court was quite clear that the President is above the law, and impeachment is the only remedy. And if anything is impeachable, this is.

Incoming Truth Social post…

“This PROVES that Demonrat states are run by crooks, because only criminals use the Fifth Amendment!”

He sounds really angry. He should be careful, if he gets too upset he may end up getting a heart attack or a stroke due to stress. That would be a shame…

The face of evil

There’s no reason for optimism as long as Republicans are too spineless to overturn a veto, or to force Trump to spend the money if he doesn’t want to.

And the US and Russia will start their own Friendship Union. Like the G7, except only two of them.

We can call it FU2

He’s gonna grab 'em by the Parliament.

When you’re a star, they let you do it!