Don Sisson

Still my all-time favorite congressional moment:

Trump: I will not sign any bills! White House: Here’s the list of bills Trump signed today. To paraphrase Logan Roy: These are not serious people.

What’s happening?

Republicans spent a week claiming Obama was comparing himself to a God because the backdrop at his convention speech had columns

@kurtbardella Well, write-in candidacy in the primary is technically still possible, no?

These people should know it’s too late for her to appear on the ballot as the filing deadline already passed …

I don’t love Sam Altman. I don’t love Elon either. I’m saying if Elon believes in the mission that AI should be non profit then why did he start a for profit AI company? I’m saying that sentence in the post is nonsensical. Elon derangement syndrome. Good one. It wasn’t even an attack on Elon. Although I think his regular posts of misinformation are terrible and harmful and he could take two minutes to fact check the things he posts to 100 million followers but he doesn’t. You can pick sides in this multi billionaire fight if you want to as you clearly have. I’m not on either’s side. Have a nice rest of your day.

@donsisson @Ric_RTP He never began as a nonprofit. Grok started off for profit. You can have a valid for humanity mission as a for-profit company. They just lied to get their mission off the ground Elon Derangement Syndrome You love Sam Altman. He’s your hero SMH

In 19 days, a jury in Oakland is going to decide whether the entire legal foundation of the AI industry is built on fraud. Everyone thinks the Musk vs Altman lawsuit is a billionaire grudge match. Two egos, one grudge, a $150 billion damages number designed for headlines. Easy to dismiss. Easy to scroll past. That's exactly what Altman wants you to think. Because what's actually on trial on April 27 is something much BIGGER than Elon's hurt feelings... A jury is going to decide whether you can legally take billions of dollars in nonprofit donations, use them to build the most valuable technology in human history, and then quietly convert that nonprofit into a for-profit company worth $850 billion. If the answer is no, the entire AI industry has a problem. Because OpenAI is not the only company that did this: Anthropic was founded by OpenAI defectors using the same nonprofit-first mission language. xAI pitches itself as building AI "for humanity." Every frontier lab has used the moral cover of "we're doing this for the good of the world" to attract talent, capital, and regulatory goodwill they would have never gotten otherwise. An Elon win doesn't just touch OpenAI. It creates a legal precedent that every AI company built on a nonprofit or public benefit promise becomes vulnerable to shareholder and donor clawback suits. That's why this case matters. And that's why Altman is panicking. Just look at what he did this week: Elon filed a motion demanding the court remove Altman and Brockman from their roles and FORCE OpenAI to return to its nonprofit origins. Then he amended the suit to say if he wins the $150 billion, all of it goes to OpenAI's charity arm. Not him. Zero dollars to Elon personally. That amendment was surgical. It stripped Altman of his entire public defense. He can no longer claim this is about Elon's ego or Elon's bank account. Elon is now legally on record saying he just wants the mission back. OpenAI's response was to panic-write a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general asking them to investigate Elon for "anti-competitive behavior." Their strategy chief publicly accused Elon of coordinating attacks with Mark Zuckerberg. They called the lawsuit "harassment driven by ego and jealousy." That's NOT the response of a company that thinks it's going to win. Real companies with real defenses don't ask the government to silence the person suing them 3 weeks before trial. They let the evidence speak. OpenAI is scrambling because they know what's in discovery. Elon's team has been building this case for two years. Emails, board minutes, internal conversations about the conversion. The kind of paper trail that juries understand and executives can't explain away. And the timing couldn't be worse... OpenAI is trying to IPO at $852 billion. They just raised $122 billion. Microsoft has $135 billion of exposure to them. A jury verdict that even partially sides with Elon in late April or May would crater the entire IPO runway and send shockwaves through every major AI investor on Earth. This is why Altman spent the last 2 weeks doing press tours and policy blueprints and "super intelligence agendas" aimed at Washington. He's trying to REFRAME himself as the responsible statesman of AI right before a jury decides if he's a con artist. Most people will watch this trial start and think it's celebrity drama. The smart money is watching it and realizing that the legal foundation of the AI boom is about to be tested in court for the first time EVER. And if that foundation cracks, everything built on top of it is at risk.

Just flagging this again for. @FoxNews so they can begin their year long coverage of the “pallets of cash” since this is 5 times bigger than Obama did

Yes. It’s nuts that you keep sharing misinformation to your millions of followers. I’ll never understand how everyone calls Elon a genius when he REGULARLY shares things (with over 100 million people) without taking two seconds to see if it is accurate. He is a misinformed machine like the world has never seen. I’ve never been more disappointed in a person I once respected. x.com/yhdistyminen/s…

This is nuts

@carlquintanilla @DavidShuster She sounds like someone trying to swear for the first time. Agree Trump should act like a normal person (and an adult) but she should take her own advice.

Yikes.

Oh my God

If folks start chirping "art of the deal" I'm gonna lose my mind

Even Alex Jones has had enough.

The founders of illegal Russian media operation Tenet Media weren't just allowed back in the country. They're invited to the White House Easter egg roll! x.com/TheLaurenChen/…

Tucker torches Trump in a way I have not seen him do. Can’t believe I’m saying this but it’s worth watching the whole monologue. Here’s just a clip of him saying “who do you think you are?” to Trump. Full video: youtu.be/ykBp1WhdfLE?si…

🚨Tucker Carlson just went off on Trump on Easter morning. The full statement: “No decent person mocks other people’s religions. You mock other people’s faith — you mock the idea of faith itself. We are not God. Only if you think you are do you talk this way.” “This is not a mockery of Islam. This is a mockery of Christianity. To send a tweet with the F word on Easter morning promising the murder of civilians and then saying ‘praise be to Allah’ — you are mocking every other Christian and me.” “That is evil. That is an intentional desecration of beauty and truth — which is the definition of evil.”

Now Trump is talking about rebuilding Iran. Says it will be very expensive if he destroys all the power plants and bridges. Is this what MAGA voted for?

Trump today mocking reporters: “They want me to say: ‘here’s my plan: we’re going to attack at 9:47 in the morning’” Also Trump (yesterday): Said the exact time he would attack Iran.

is not who we should be—but ICE is so desperate for stats they detain a woman who is legally applying for her green card, a scholarship college student who teaches Sunday School. Trump would have us believe he’s taking criminal aliens off the streets. It’s a lie nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/…

I DON'T TRUST TRUMP ON IRAN I voted for Trump three times, but I don’t trust him any farther than I can throw him. And I don’t trust him on this war, and I fear that someone like Trump is exactly why the Constitution empowers only the Congress – the most democratic branch of government – to declare war. The framers of our Republic knew the long history of monarchs starting wars which others would have to fight in and pay for, and of the great suffering and sorrow that resulted, and so they purposely denied the president the power to initiate hostilities. And yet that is exactly what Trump has done, and what the Congress has allowed him to do. Don’t get me wrong, I hate Iran. Iran has been killing Americans all of my adult life. Iran has it coming. But each unfolding day of this war makes it seem more and more like we were sold a bill of goods, and that we are being lied to about what has been done thus far and what is planned for the future. And so frayed is the relationship of trust between the people and the president that many begin to fear that Trump has some secret plan to start a larger and sustained regional or global conflict. It’s like the White House project, which he first said was a minor renovation of the East Wing, and then a $200 million ballroom project, and then a massive $400 million, 90,000 square foot monstrosity, the plans for which were premade – and lied about – from the very beginning. Further, Trump’s statements about the war have been conflicting, vacillating, and disingenuous. He has boasted of our destruction of Iran’s offensive capabilities at the same time it is able to put missiles and drones on target at our installations and among our allies across the Middle East. Five weeks into our supposed decimation of its air defenses it was able to take down two of our aircraft and significantly damage a third, all in one day. His flip-flopping on the Strait of Hormuz has earned the derision of our allies and the scorn of our enemy, and his issuing and extending and waiving and reissuing of threats relative to the strait are a textbook example of how not to negotiate – or parent, for that matter. And a month into the war, he finally spoke to the nation, and said virtually nothing. And what he did say you don’t know if you can believe. While promising the war would be done in the “next two or three weeks,” he has a third aircraft carrier battle group on the way and is loading soldiers onto planes at Fort Bragg as a second Marine Expeditionary Unit nears the Middle East. His words say he wants a quick peace, but his actions say he wants a ground war. Against a nation of 92 million people. By comparison, Germany had 70 million when it started World War II. There are 180,000 of the well-trained and well-equipped Revolutionary Guards, and about a million in the Iranian army and reserve. Granted, they are poorly trained and poorly armed, but when a man is fighting to defend his homeland, you’re a fool to write him off. And right in the middle of all this, the least-qualified Secretary of Defense in our history decided to fire the much-admired highest ranking general in the Army and the general in charge of planning for the future – two men with 70 years of service, eight Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts between them. It makes you wonder why they had to get cashiered right now, what it is they weren’t willing to go along with. The president said we went after Iran to: Defeat its navy in order to keep the Strait of Hormuz open; take out its offensive missile and drone capability; break up its network of surrogate terrorist militias; and assure it never has a nuclear weapon. These are worthy objectives, none of which have been achieved – the president’s boasts to the contrary notwithstanding. We decimated Iran’s top leadership with no apparent negative impact on the nation’s ability to fight or oppress its people. Our hopes of toppling the cultish Islamic Republic, with some sort of popular uprising, have been unattained. And repeated Trump assertions of progress with negotiations end up looking more like stock manipulation than honest reports. Pakistan hasn’t been able to be an effective intermediary and Qatar has recently refused to try. Repeated presidential references to some moderate Iranian leader who has emerged and who is eager for a peace deal seem false. And any thought of making peace with the new ayatollah seems unlikely – given that we have killed his father, wife and daughter. And there is the issue of the role of Israel. Did it, as Marco Rubio said, force our hand by deciding to attack? Was this our idea or was it Israel’s idea? Is Trump manipulating Netanyahu, or is Netanyahu manipulating Trump? Did we really have a plan going into this war, or is it being made up as we go? And finally, why the secrecy from the Department of Defense? Since the Civil War, the American press has reported from the side of the American warrior. Journalists have been imbedded since Bull Run, and more than 500 reporters came ashore on D-Day. Yet the Pentagon is off limits to reporters and we have had no with-the-troops journalism arising from these five weeks of action. Great feats have been achieved that we know nothing about, as well as significant losses – to include something like 350 Americans who have thus far been wounded in this conflict. To sum it all up, we don’t know why this war was started, we don’t know how it’s going, and we don’t know what is planned for its future. And all of those things are true because of conflicting, confused or dishonest statements by the president. That is not the way it’s supposed to be in a free country or in the modern world. And that should scare the hell out of everybody. Like I said, I voted for Trump three times, but given the way this war has been handled, I don’t trust him any farther than I can throw him.

“Jim McGovern TMZ interview” was not on my 2026 bingo card