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Joe Scarborough on the Republican shutdown: “You want to run Venezuela, but you can’t run Laguardia? You want to change governments in Iran, but you can’t even make Houston’s airport work? You want to take over Greenland, and yet you can’t even make Atlanta Hartsfield function?”

Trump: I don’t want a stupid person being president.

Trump: "Gavin Newscum, who is one of the candidates, I believe he took himself out of the running when he says he suffers from mental disability…I don't want a person with mental disability to be my president. You don't want a person with mental disability being your president."

Trump: I used a mail in ballot. You know why? Because I'm President of the United States, I did a mail in ballot for Florida because I felt I should be here. Reporter: But you were in Palm Beach

@HQNewsNow So he doesnt believe in term limits either?

Franklin Graham at CPAC: I love Donald Trump. We'll never get another president like Donald Trump. That is why it's important we do everything we can to try to get him re-elected.

And that, students, is how a recession starts.

@covie_93 You're not a narcissist. They really do love it.

I have no idea how trump can just sit there and listen to these grown ass people praise him nonstop...I feel weird when people sing happy birthday to me.

Trump: You see this pen right here? This pen is very inexpensive. But it writes well. I like it. Sharpie. I came here. They had $1,000 pens. You hand out pens. You hand them to people. 30, 40 people. They were $1,000 a piece. Beautiful pen, ball point. I hand out to kids that don't know. It's kid getting a pen for $1,000. They have no idea what it is. I had another problem. They didn’t write well. I sign—no ink. I have all you people looking and say there must be something wrong with Trump. There is no ink in the pen. It cost $1,000.

@TheCinesthetic Erin Brockovich rattling off entire family histories from their phone number

What are the best “you don’t know who you’re messing with” scenes in movie history?

FUCKING FINALLY!!! ZELENSKY MADE IT CLEAR: “Trump wants a quick end to the war, but “quick” means at someone’s expense. I won’t accept peace at Ukraine’s expense.“ BIG “FUCK YOU” TO MAGA BY THE UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT!! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

@atrupar What is he TALKING ABOUT?

Trump: "They shot the now-famous Ireland--- the island that the UK was very afraid to give us."

@JessPected Good point.

When we talk about men being submissive to other men, it includes this purity culture nonsense. Grooming daughters as sexual gifts for other men is men submitting to & seeking approval from men.

@gggirl924 Goat heads

We called them, come alongs. We were always in Parvin State Park exploring and by the time you got out of there, everything was covered in them.

@OldManLefty1 I'm glad, but he's been nominated several times. He will get it eventually for sure.

President Volodmyr Zelensky has been formally nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize..

@Microinteracti1 The only word that isnt in all-caps is President. That seems significant.

I showed a Trump post to my psychologist friend and asked her to do a proper profile. This was, in retrospect, like asking a vet to look at a particularly diseased badger. She put down her coffee, read it twice, and said: “Right. Where do you want me to start?” The all-caps, she explained, isn’t emphasis. It’s dysregulation. A regulated adult uses punctuation to signal importance. Trump uses volume, because volume is what worked in the room he grew up in. Fred Trump’s household rewarded dominance and punished weakness. Donald learned early that the loudest person wins. He never updated that software. He never updates anything. The man is essentially Windows Vista with a spray tan. “NATO HAS DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.” The word absolutely is doing a lot of work there. Psychologists call this black-and-white thinking, a cognitive pattern strongly associated with narcissistic personality structures. The world is either total loyalty or total betrayal. No middle ground. No nuance. No evidence of a functioning cerebral cortex. “MILITARILY DECIMATED.” She paused on this one. Self-glorification dressed as fact, she said. He has no military background, never served, and has a well-documented terror of illness and physical danger. Bone spurs, famously. Four of them. One per deferment. So he compensates verbally, hard and consistently, because words are his only battlefield and even there he fights like a man wearing oven mitts. “THE U.S.A. NEEDS NOTHING FROM NATO.” The people who most loudly declare their independence, she said, are almost always the most terrified of abandonment. Classic counterdependence. The kid who announces he doesn’t need friends. In the playground. Alone. Eating his lunch next to a bin. The threat with no content, “NEVER FORGET THIS VERY IMPORTANT POINT IN TIME,” she found genuinely fascinating. It has the grammatical structure of consequence without any actual consequence attached. It’s what you say when you want to punish someone but lack both the means and the attention span to follow through. And then the signature. His own name. On his own platform. As if the man might otherwise forget who he is halfway through a sentence, which, to be fair, seems increasingly plausible. She sat back and said: “This is a man who has been pretending to be formidable for so long he can no longer locate the frightened little boy underneath. But he’s still there. He’s always there. TACO is always there. Screaming in capital letters at people who stopped listening years ago.” I paid for the coffee. It was the least I could do. She’s going to need therapy after this. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@RonFilipkowski Let me guess. No cattle.

Florida Cowboy Greg Steube has arrived for work.

Jessica: I love that you read a newspaper. Watters: I read more than you. Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Post. Jessica: And you still say this crap on TV after you've read all that?

EVERY. GODDAMN. WORD. OF THIS!! 👇👇👇👇

@odat101282 @JohnCleese No you can't and the fact that you said that shows that you haven't.

@JohnCleese If you study your Bible, you can find Christ on every page of the Old Testament

Hegseth is a perfect example of the sort of Christian who loves the Old Testament more than the New Testament- because Christ isn't in it

I had an experience today that I haven't been able to shake. I was waiting in line at Walgreens behind an elderly woman who was trying to decide between different sized bags of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (what she could afford). She was rummaging around her bag looking for coupons or credits. She said her nephew was coming to visit from Virginia, and they didn't have these there, and he loved them. I asked her if I could please pay, she accepted and slowly starting walking out with the help of the Walgreens cart for support. After I paid, I asked her if I could help her to her car, and she shared that her nephew was coming up to see her before he got deployed to the Middle East. He is in the navy. She wanted to give him his favorite treat before he left. She is of course worried. This broke my heart. All of it. The inequity. Who we send off to wars. And who, in this case, is sending them. We have a 5x draft dodger making these decisions. He is unbridled, undisciplined and a know it all.Today the news is likely that he will use ground troops - for what? What are they giving their lives for? This woman's nephew, and so many sons and daughters might never come home. Please remember the human side of what is happening. I can't shake this interaction.