The disastrous swing to fascism that the Republicans are allowing tRump to shove through…which they will come to regret (assuming we ever have free elections again):
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/28/trump-precedents-executive-power
Important and/or interesting political articles that often don't make the headlines but are worth a look.
The disastrous swing to fascism that the Republicans are allowing tRump to shove through…which they will come to regret (assuming we ever have free elections again):
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/28/trump-precedents-executive-power
Good explanation of our economic mess (despite the click-bait title):
From my experience, no soldier in an official parade would march like this unless he was protesting:
A potential way to deal with the upcoming massive disruption in the economy caused by AI:
Newsom is just the guy to take on tRump, and this fiery speech shows it:
Great takedown of Trump’s lies and failures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnhgeUmHcO0
Brian Tylor Cohen’s channel is worth subscribing to.
This is a great spanking:
Dafuk?? Utterly incompetent administration.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-medical-journals_n_68378c8be4b00a0537e01c7f
This is an insightful perspective on tRump and how to neutralize him:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/psychologist-how-to-stop-trump-narcissist_n_682df1cae4b09b7e5013a586
How embarrassing. I loath that fat bastard…
Well this certainly sucks:
At least it appears to be pandemic related, which means it should only be a pause in the continued decline.
This is some serious evil dictator shit:
Sanders had it figured out two decades ago:
This is an astute focus on the Root problem with conservatives:
That would be thoroughly wonderful. And it would finally allow tRump to face justice:
Trump is a petty little schoolyard bully:
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/05/trump-tariffs-victim-payback-foreign-countries
From Axios:
For Trump to be right, you gotta believe...
This history lesson shows just how short-sighted Trump’s tariffs are, because we’ve been through it all before and it didn’t end well:
Right-wing politics appears to becoming toxic worldwide:
Trump is cutting Alzheimer's research, specifically for those with the genetic predisposition for Alzheimer's. What a fucking monster he is:
And now it's getting personal: Germans are being stopped and detained at the border!
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-us-border-donald-trump-migration-deportation/
This is a very plausible explanation explaining the election of Trump:
WTF??
"By the numbers: About 7% of 10,000 U.S. adults surveyed online in January 2024 said they had been present at a mass shooting — defined as an incident where four or more people were shot.
Well this is fucking scary:
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/10/trump-maga-inc-power-fundraising
The Republicans are utterly reprehensible. Fucking traitors:
https://time.com/7263376/trump-zelensky-oval-office-clash-us-lawmakers-react/
This is SO FUCKING EMBARRASSING! I have never hated a politician more than I hate tRump and his authoritarian butt-suckers. The soldiers I trained with 40 years ago specifically to stop Russia must be livid at this betrayal.
Worth watching the video:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lawrence-odonnell-donald-trump-humiliated_n_67bd6891e4b088756003af85
This administration is a fucking cult:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mcmahon-trump-abolish-education-department_n_67b900d8e4b09eb937704f62
Revealing stuff about the AFD:
https://time.com/7260499/alice-weidel-far-right-afd-germany-musk-vance-trump/
In an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) yesterday, billionaire Elon Musk seemed to be having difficulty speaking. Musk brandished a chainsaw like that Argentina's president Javier Milei used to symbolize the drastic cuts he intended to make to his country’s government, then posted that image to X, labeling it “The DogeFather,” although the administration has recently told a court that Musk is neither an employee nor the leader of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Politico called Musk’s behavior “eccentric.” While attendees cheered Musk on, outside CPAC there appears to be a storm brewing. While Trump and his team have claimed they have a mandate, in fact more people voted for someone other than Trump in 2024, and his early approval ratings were only 47%, the lowest of any president going back to 1953, when Gallup began checking them. His approval has not grown as he has called himself a “king” and openly mused about running for a third term. A Washington Post/Ipsos poll released yesterday shows that even that “honeymoon” is over. Only 45% approve of the “the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president,” while 53% disapprove. Forty-three percent of Americans say they support what Trump has done since he took office; 48% oppose his actions. The number of people who strongly support his actions sits at 27%; the number who strongly oppose them is twelve points higher, at 39%. Fifty-seven percent of Americans think Trump has gone beyond his authority as president. Americans especially dislike his attempts to end USAID, his tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, and his firing of large numbers of government workers. Even Trump’s signature issue of deporting undocumented immigrants receives 51% approval only if respondents think those deported are “criminals.” Fifty-seven percent opposed deporting those who are not accused of crimes, 70% oppose deporting those brought to the U.S. as children, and 66% oppose deporting those who have children who are U.S. citizens. Eighty-three percent of Americans oppose Trump’s pardon of the violent offenders convicted for their behavior during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Even those who identify as Republican-leaning oppose those pardons 70 to 27 percent. As Aaron Blake points out in the Washington Post, a new CNN poll, also released yesterday, shows that Musk is a major factor in Trump’s declining ratings. By nearly two to one, Americans see Musk having a prominent role in the administration as a “bad thing.” The ratio was 54 to 28. The Washington Post/Ipsos poll showed that Americans disapprove of Musk “shutting down federal government programs that he decides are unnecessary” by the wide margin of 52 to 26. Sixty-three percent of Americans are worried about Musk’s team getting access to their data. Meanwhile, Jessica Piper of Politico noted that 62% of Americans in the CNN poll said that Trump has not done enough to try to reduce prices, and today’s economic news bears out that concern: not only are egg prices at an all-time high, but also consumer sentiment dropped to a 15-month low as people worry that Trump’s tariffs will raise prices. White House deputy press secretary Harrison Fields said in a statement: “[T]he American people actually feel great about the direction of the country…. What’s to hate? We are undoing the widely unpopular agenda of the previous office holder, uprooting waste, fraud, and abuse, and chugging along on the great American Comeback.” Phone calls swamping the congressional switchboards and constituents turning out for town halls with House members disprove Fields’s statement. In packed rooms with overflow spaces, constituents have shown up this week both to demand that their representatives take a stand against Musk’s slashing of the federal government and access to personal data, and to protest Trump’s claim to be a king. In an eastern Oregon district that Trump won by 68%, constituents shouted at Representative Cliff Bentz: “tax Elon,” “tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich,” and “tax the billionaires.” In a solid-red Atlanta suburb, the crowd was so angry at Representative Richard McCormick that he has apparently gone to ground, bailing on a CNN interview about the disastrous town hall at the last minute. That Trump is feeling the pressure from voters showed this week when he appeared to offer two major distractions: a pledge to consider using money from savings found by the “Department of Government Efficiency” to provide rebates to taxpayers—although so far it hasn’t shown any savings and economists say the promise of checks is unrealistic—and a claim that he would release a list of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s clients. Trump is also under pressure from the law. The Associated Press sued three officials in the Trump administration today for blocking AP journalists from presidential events because the AP continues to use the traditional name “Gulf of Mexico” for the gulf that Trump is trying to rename. The AP is suing over the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. Today, a federal court granted a preliminary injunction to stop Musk and the DOGE team from accessing Americans’ private information in the Treasury Department’s central payment system. Eighteen states had filed the lawsuit. Tonight, a federal court granted a nationwide injunction against Trump’s executive orders attacking diversity, equity, and inclusion, finding that they violate the First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. Trump is also under pressure from principled state governors. In his State of the State Address on Wednesday, February 19, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker noted that “it’s in fashion at the federal level right now to just indiscriminately slash school funding, healthcare coverage, support for farmers, and veterans’ services. They say they’re doing it to eliminate inefficiencies. But only an idiot would think we should eliminate emergency response in a natural disaster, education and healthcare for disabled children, gang crime investigations, clean air and water programs, monitoring of nursing home abuse, nuclear reactor regulation, and cancer research.” He recalled: “Here in Illinois, ten years ago we saw the consequences of a rampant ideological gutting of government. It genuinely harmed people. Our citizens hated it. Trust me—I won an entire election based in part on just how much they hated it.” Pritzker went on to address the dangers of the Trump administration directly. “We don’t have kings in America,” he said, “and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one…. If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.” He recalled how ordinary Illinoisans outnumbered Nazis who marched in Chicago in 1978 by about 2,000 to 20, and noted: “Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the ‘tragic spirit of despair’ overcome us when our country needs us the most.” Today, Maine governor Janet Mills took the fight against Trump’s overreach directly to him. At a meeting of the nation’s governors, in a rambling speech in which he was wandering through his false campaign stories about transgender athletes, Trump turned to his notes and suddenly appeared to remember his executive order banning transgender student athletes from playing on girls sports teams. The body that governs sports in Maine, the Maine Principals’ Association, ruled that it would continue to allow transgender students to compete despite Trump's executive order because the Maine state Human Rights Law prohibits discrimination on the grounds of gender identity. Trump asked if the governor of Maine was in the room. “Yeah, I’m here,” replied Governor Mills. “Are you not going to comply with it?” Trump asked. “I’m complying with state and federal laws,” she said. “We are the federal law,” Trump said. “You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don’t….” “We’re going to follow the law,” she said. “You’d better comply because otherwise you’re not going to get any federal funding,” he said. Mills answered: “We’ll see you in court.” As Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times put it: “Something happened at the White House Friday afternoon that almost never happens these days. Somebody defied President Trump. Right to his face.” Hours later, the Trump administration launched an investigation into Maine’s Department of Education, specifically its policy on transgender athletes. Maine attorney general Aaron Frey said that any attempt to cut federal funding for the states over the issue “would be illegal and in direct violation of federal court orders…. Fortunately,” he said in a statement, “the rule of law still applies in this country, and I will do everything in my power to defend Maine’s laws and block efforts by the president to bully and threaten us.” “[W]hat is at stake here [is] the rule of law in our country,” Mills said in a statement. “No President…can withhold Federal funding authorized and appropriated by Congress and paid for by Maine taxpayers in an attempt to coerce someone into compliance with his will. It is a violation of our Constitution and of our laws.” “Maine may be one of the first states to undergo an investigation by his Administration, but we won’t be the last. Today, the President of the United States has targeted one particular group on one particular issue which Maine law has addressed. But you must ask yourself: who and what will he target next, and what will he do? Will it be you? Will it be because of your race or your religion? Will it be because you look different or think differently? Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it—and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so.” “[D]o not be misled: this is not just about who can compete on the athletic field, this is about whether a President can force compliance with his will, without regard for the rule of law that governs our nation. I believe he cannot.” Americans’ sense that Musk has too much power is likely to be heightened by tonight’s report from Andrea Shalal and Joey Roulette of Reuters that the United States is trying to force Ukraine to sign away rights to its critical minerals by threatening to cut off access to Musk’s Starlink satellite system. Ukraine turned to that system after the Russians destroyed its communications services. And Americans’ concerns about Trump acting like a dictator are unlikely to be calmed by tonight’s news that Trump has abruptly purged the leadership of the military in apparent unconcern over the message that such a sweeping purge sends to adversaries. He has fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles Q. Brown, who Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested got the job only because he is Black, and Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the Chief of Naval Operations, who was the first woman to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and whom Hegseth called a “DEI hire.” The vice chief of the Air Force, General James Slife, has also been fired, and Hegseth indicated he intends to fire the judge advocates general, or JAGs—the military lawyers who administer the military code of justice—for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Trump has indicated he intends to nominate Air Force Lieutenant General John Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky of CNN call this “an extraordinary move,” since Caine is retired and is not a four-star general, a legal requirement, and will need a presidential waiver to take the job. Trump has referred to Caine as right out of “central casting.” Defense One, which covers U.S. defense and international security, called the firings a “bloodbath.” — Notes: https://news.gallup.com/poll/655955/trump-inaugural-approval-rating-historically-low-again.aspx https://www.washingtonpost.com/tablet/2025/02/19/feb-13-18-2025-washington-post-ipsos-poll/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-poll-unpopular-post-ipsos/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-policies-opposed-by-americans/ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/21/musk-doge-cpac-republicans-00205536 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/cnn-washington-post-polls-trump-approval-00205169 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/21/doge-georgia-town-hall-gop/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-consumer-sentiment-plunges-february-tariff-worries-2025-02-21/ https://marylandreporter.com/2025/02/21/egg-prices-hit-record-high-amid-bird-flu-outbreak/ https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/trump-fires-top-us-general-cq-brown https://www.rawstory.com/rich-mccormick-2671195841/ https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ag-jeffrey-epstein-list-2034206 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/musk-trump-doge-dividend-check-refund-taxpayers-economists/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/us/politics/trump-maine-governor-transgender-athletes.html https://apnews.com/article/trump-brown-joint-chiefs-of-staff-firing-fa428cc1508a583b3bf5e7a5a58f6acf https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/trump-fires-top-us-general-cq-brown/index.html Bluesky: atrupar.com/post/3lindcsnmy42h maxkennerly.bsky.social/post/3liq7jc73ac2y atrupar.com/post/3linepops7g2m marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lipz5w76r22b YouTube: watch?v=gu30vxluOe4&t=3362s Mills-Trump exchange at about 56:00. |
If you were in the mood for a horrific conspiracy that just may be true…
Fucking yikes. The more people who learn about these disasters, the better:
More of the totally pointless, counterproductive and dangerous results of Trump’s policies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRG11p0KmqU
Fucking weak, ass-kissing Republican legislators!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russell-vought-confirmed-omb-project-2025_n_67a555a5e4b02fdb057673b2
In today's Trump Fascist News:
Trump is now trying to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. The legislation would require your birth certificate name to match your legal name. If you changed your last name at marriage, you cannot vote without a changed birth certificate or passport, or as Project 2025 intended, married women must let their husbands vote for them. Since 84% of American women have changed their surname, they would not be able to vote without new documentation. Nationwide, approximately 69 million women could not use their birth certificate to prove their identity or citizenship status under the Trump's SAVE Act.
This is how Donald Trump plans to silence and disenfranchise women. This is Project 2025. We warned you.
I’ve never known a Democrat to be as vile as the woman in this video:
This is fucking scary. Read-write access could crash the entire federal finance system:
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/05/musk-doge-treasury-payments-access-read-only?utm_term=emshare
It starts. Here’s to hoping it succeeds:
https://time.com/7212931/protests-against-trump-project-2025-planned-us-cities/
This is so desperately depressing…
Kamala might have actually won if it hadn’t been for voter suppression?
I can’t believe I agree with Ronald Reagan…
tRump is a stubborn idiot who would rather watch the world burn than back down. Our alliances falling apart for NOTHING! I despise that orange turd more than anyone ever. At least nobody seems to be capitulating anymore. Still, small comfort.
This is just utterly sleazy:
tRump is a fucking nightmare for democracy and humanity:
This is quite depressing, but it does make a lot of sense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkIMf_hVOfQ&feature=youtu.be
Good, I really hope so:
It’s permanent and there’s nothing tRump can do about it. Nice!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-offshore-drilling-ban_n_677b3f2be4b097010f5e273c
Glad to see another evil regime crumbling:
https://time.com/7202352/iran-islamic-revolution-regime-weakening-inside-syria/
Looks like Germany has the most days above freezing during winter due to climate change. Yay?
Looks like SMA is doing okay but we’re screwed in Germany…
“For instance, a nine-day wave that hammered the U.S. Pacific Northwest and southwestern Canada in June 2021 broke daily records in some locales by 30 degrees C, or 54 F. ”
This is why I’m not a dog person!
https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/cats-and-dogs-ap-votecast/
Interesting and fitting history lesson:
https://time.com/7198869/george-wallace-donald-trump-populism/
I really don’t mind Christians like this, as long as they don’t try to proselytize to me:
Republicans levied the “They’re gonna to take yer guns!” accusations against Democrats for decades, but now they’re okay with it? The old GOP is clearly dead.
So Elon Musk appears to be a LOT worse than I’d thought:
The truly disgusting racist and sexist right-wing nutjobs are coming out of the closet:
THIS is what I mean about reason for hope that our institutions will hold, despite the attempts by tRump and Project 2025:
https://youtu.be/spnrCeE4-6k?si=ZTGL8Jdfw_CL1g9E
Also, Biden is supposedly fast-tracking 44 judges to the bench.
Great, and with tRump in power we won’t be adhering to climate change mitigation efforts any time soon…
https://scitechdaily.com/sea-levels-set-to-rise-permanently-even-if-global-warming-is-reversed/
Fun info to give to Trump's Christian followers:
The courts and awareness campaigns causing Trump’s own supporters to retaliate could stymie him and Projecting 2025. Hope and a chance beats despair and surrender.
https://youtu.be/k8toJQZTUn4?si=Etatq4oxqhsOhfBx
Christian Nationalists are my sworn enemies…and now they have power. Will this turn the US into a theocracy, or hasten the continual shrinking of Christianity?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-victory-christian-nationalism-won_n_672667d4e4b01e8b24252295
This is the hell Project 2025 could unleash on Americans now that tRump won the election:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-president-project-2025_n_6725104ae4b00acf55d9c521
I don’t think I’ve ever been more disgusted by anyone like I am with that orange shitgibbon. But maybe this kind of disaster is necessary to get Americans to unleash a backlash against fascism.
An interesting perspective against anti-West Muslims who use free speech to end free speech:
GREAT ad to show anyone who thinks Drumpf is manly:
This should destroy Trump's chances at the presidency. Alas, it won't:
He supposedly has a 40 year track record for successful presidential predictions:
Well this fucking sucks. I have no patience for climate change deniers.
If this is true, Trump should be imprisoned for many years:
A really good breakdown of Project 2025. What a nightmare:
An explanation of why the orange shitgibbon has such a fan base:
Oh great, another angle the MAGAts are trying:
Yet another Trump face plant:
Trump really shit the bed at that meeting!
I’ve seen how conservative The Villages residents are, so this is rather stunning:
Woops, I forgot to post this when it was timely, but it’s still an amusing reminder from Jimmy Kimmel:
Yeah, the Orange Shitgibbon actually admitted his intent on video. This revelation REALLY needs to go viral:
I think this whole video is a particularly nice dig against Drumpf:
Well, it didn't take long to realize that Biden stepping down and Harris running for the presidency was actually a brilliant piece of Dark Brandon jujitsu. And then this guy summarizes the brilliant move in this post:
I just hope Biden releases a video of himself saying something like, "Oh my, I had no idea my stepping down would cause such a mess for Trump's whole campaign. I'm so sorry to hear that." Then he slips on his Dark Brandon aviator glasses with the laser eyes and slowly smiles at the camera.
With calls for Biden to step down, that would make Harris the heir apparent--and there would be real risk to Democrats saying "not your turn" to a black/Indian woman. And yet, a lot of her supporters are quiet, and this may explain why:
Showcasing just how poorly Republicans are responding to the shooting compared with Democrats:
The shooter did donate $15 once to a grassroots Democratic group a few years ago. So things are muddied:
I’m relieved the shooter was evidently a right-wing registered Republican, so this shouldn’t be blamed on Biden:
The horrific main points of Project 2025:
End no fault divorce
Complete ban on abortions without exceptions, pg 449-503
Ban contraceptives, pg 449
Additional tax breaks for corporations and the 1%, pg 691
Higher taxes for the working class
Elimination of unions and worker protections, pg 581
Raise the retirement age
Cut Social Security, pg 691
Cut Medicare, pg 449
End the Affordable Care Act, pg 449
Raise prescription drug prices
Eliminate the Department of Education, pg 319
Use public, taxpayer money for private religious schools, pg 319
Teach Christian religious beliefs in public schools, pg 319
End free and discounted school lunch programs
End civil rights & DEI protections in government, pg 545-581
Ban African American and gender studies in all levels of education, pg 319
Ban books and curriculum about slavery
Ending climate protections, pg 417
Increase Arctic drilling, pg 363
Deregulate big business and the oil industry, pg 363
Promote and expedite capital punishment
End marriage equality, pg 545-581
Condemn single mothers while promoting only "traditional families"
Defund the FBI and Homeland Security, pg 133
Use the military to break up domestic protests, pg 133
Mass deportation of immigrants and incarceration in "camps," pg 133
End birth right citizenship, pg 133
Ban Muslims from entering the country inferred from speeches
Eliminates federal agencies like the FDA, EPA, NOAA and more, pg 363-417
Continue to pack the Supreme Court, and lower courts with right-wing judges, literally happening rIght now
Trump’s administration was tightly knit with the Heritage Foundation, 140 members of his former administration were involved in developing the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, and the Republican Party has worked with the Heritage Foundation since the Reagan Administration. But sure, when Trump says he knows nothing about Project 2025, we should believe him:
https://youtu.be/mJDgiGTUR8w?si=zOKQjLsUvaFs2kTG
And even more evidence:
Another revelation that SHOULD destroy Trump, but probably won’t:
Yeah, this is exactly my concern about Trump: