DowntonShabby

Throwback to when I was stuck in line at the grocery store amidst the chaos of holiday shopping…with two young kids. Reached out to my wife and she didn’t want any part of it.

How the hell is everything so expensive when all we've done for 40+ years is give corporations the tax breaks they swore they needed to hire workers and lower prices?

>tweet that Obama bombed a bus full of children >check information about event >it was 2018, Trump was President >US didn’t drop bomb, Saudis did >Obama had banned the sale of said bombs to Saudi, Trump reversed ban >55k views in 1 hour on abject lie

I think it’s bad that the FBI director is being paid by the Russian government.

Trump promised his tax bill would create jobs & he’d cap credit card interest rates at 10%. Instead, Citigroup cut over 10,000 jobs, paid $0 in federal income taxes, charged up to 32% interest on credit cards, made a $4.45 billion in profit & gave its CEO $42 million. Obscene.

This chart from @AdamSFeldman shows the Roberts court's votes on presidential power cases. When a Dem is president, justices vote less for the government position. When a Republican is president, justices vote more for the government position. This is how the system is rigged.

Every time.

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room. The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction. The Health guy collects raccoon dicks. It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

What if Fox News covered Trump the way it covered Obama? It would look like this

The @Orioles are the first team in MLB history to give up a grand slam to snap a scoreless tie in the 7th inning or later but still win the game.

$55 billion dollars later and we’re back at square one. Except Iran is $20+ billion dollars richer, our economy is cooked, weapons stockpile is depleted, most bases in the middle east are gone, and our allies hate us. Oh and a lot of innocent dead people. Masterful gambit, sir!

At 250 feet tall, Trump's arch would be the biggest such structure in the world. Asked last fall what this modern-day arch was meant to commemorate, Trump pointed to himself and replied, “Me.” @sbg1 newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…

@PastTheEyeTest When he first came up he was LACING fastballs the opposite way - seemed like his first 10 hits were all opposite field. It really feels like he tries to pull just about everything these days, which could be contributing to his trouble with offspeed stuff. Dude hit .400 in college

Colton Cowser has no place on this team anymore. His swing plane is so off kilter to the point where he can't get on plane with fastballs, and he has no pitch recognition.

JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible

I was in Congress yesterday and I saw signs like this in front of Congressional offices. Why? Why do you have to state your allegiance to a different country right under your name and in front of your office? We get it, you get bribed by them. But this is embarrassing.

This is the best quote from a major figure in the Trump administration. I challenge you to find a better one.

However dumb you think the process for destroying USAID was, it was dumber. This is from Nicholas Enrich's new book Into the Wood Chipper, describing a meeting with Trump-appointed USAID leadership *after* they had largely gutted the agency

"The researchers found a positive association between feeling bothered by the news article and expressing disbelief in the allegations. Participants who experienced higher levels of mental discomfort were more likely to claim the accusations were fabricated. This suggests that the denial is not just a calm rejection of information, but rather a direct response to the psychological distress of cognitive dissonance." #google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">psypost.org/cognitive-diss…

Staff: Tell them the Jesus picture was doctored. Trump: I'm a Doctor! Staff: Tell them it's a small military incursion. Trump: It's a great military excursion! Staff: Tell them they're coming seeking asylum. Trump: They're coming from Insane Asylums!

The USA is the richest country on the planet it could have everything, the best healthcare, the best schools, the longest life expectancy, the best wages, the best pensions. Instead it has 1000 billionaires with $10tn.

Authoritarian propaganda alert