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GOP has "abandoned the idea of crafting policy. They are a full-time media operation, trolling and creating content. The president is checked out. There is no turnaround coming as long as Trump/GOP are in power." On the pod, @dceiver nails the moment: newrepublic.com/article/210866…

As primary season concludes, Trump's ability to exact direct vengeance upon members of his own Party dissipates. The reality of his unpopularity, greed and grift, and untrustworthiness begins to engender greater realization that he's a scumbag and a lame duck. Quack, quack.

A Texas voter told CNN he voted for John Cornyn in the GOP primary because Trump didn’t endorse him and said he would never vote for Paxton in the general election: “It makes me sick that the Republican Party is completely controlled by one man.”

The only State in which this is true, is the State of Intoxication.

The corruption is unreal. The Reflecting Pool. A gold-plated ballroom. A multimillion-dollar arch. As you struggle to get by, Trump takes your tax dollars and enriches his friends.

Trump is bringing the UFC to DC for his birthday. We're bringing the Epstein Files. That's right: the Trump-Epstein Reading Room is heading to DC, just in time for his birthday.

Obama fought to give people better healthcare; Trump is fighting for a ballroom and UFC fights on the White House lawn.

@OurShallowState He is never interviewed by journalists. Have MehdiHassan interview him

I couldn't be a TV journalist. Because, if I was, and I was interviewing Kevin Hassett, my entire focus would be on seeing if I could frame questions and comments in such a way that it would wipe the smile off his face. If I could get him to turn red, even better. Smug a-hole.

The same guy who said we can’t afford health care.

McDonald: "We want to rename those into the Making Fraud Completely Unprofitable Unit -- MFCUU"

April 12, 2025: Trump has an annual physical at Walter Reed October 10, 2025: Trump has an annual physical at Walter Reed January 10, 2026: Trump visits the dentist May 2, 2026: Trump visits the dentist May 26, 2026: Trump has an annual physical and dental visit at Walter Reed

trump gets a UFC arena for his birthday while you get high gas prices and one piece of chicken.

Here is a 5+ minute montage of Trump officials promising that gas prices will “drop rapidly” in “a matter of weeks” starting 3 months ago

@atrupar MOFUKU

yikes! the crowd goes extremely mild for JD Vance

I am a single issue voter and my issue is that I want Democrats to control Congress. I genuinely do not care about anything else.

@atrupar They are all sundowning

FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson: "Just this weekend, I was shopping at a big home improvement store to buy a drill. I had to hit a call button and wait 15 minutes for an associate to unlock a padlock. Social trust has evaporated and people are taking advantage of it, and the same is true of our federal benefit programs."

donald j trump has completely drained the joy out of everything in life, he has placed a dark cloud over us, for the last 10 fucking years, but nothing more infectious than this last year, total shit show, fucking madness day after day after day. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY!

Unhinged in the best way. Props to Jack White for best supporting deadpan.

Spencer Pratt's "grassroots campaign" for LA mayor is being bankrolled from outside LA. I analyzed public Ethics Commission data. Here's what it shows: - 80% of his donors aren't from the city of LA - 50% of all money raised ($1.6M of $3.2M) came from out-of-state: Texas (683), Florida (567), Arizona (340) - 3,882 retired donors - the demographic fingerprint of the national MAGA/Fox News small-dollar machine His policies read like a Heritage Foundation wishlist, the Angelenos in his ads are AI-generated, and his support online are from paid clippers. This is a national MAGA operation running on local ballot lines.

When Howard Lutnick found out he had to testify in front of the Oversight Committee, he gave $5 MILLION to a House Republican PAC. Shortly after donating, James Comer announced his testimony would never be seen by the public. This is blatant corruption. He should be fired. thehill.com/homenews/admin…