Sorry, Harvard is a stronghold of the left now? What do words even mean?

“You can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride.” This has been a police intimidation and harassment tool for a long time, now being openly deployed by the US president against his political opponents.

Watch Trump give lucrative disaster response contracts to private companies owned by his biggest donors. Maybe Musk will dump a bunch of cybertrucks on the government somehow.

Press X to doubt.

Elementary school administrators have more spine than the heads of every US university put together.

he’s living in an 1890s bubble that no one around him is willing to puncture

I think this is a Simpson’s reference. Trump is literally Mr Burns confirmed.

The bar is on the absolute floor, but I’ll take it. Better than that one guy who said he didn’t regret his vote after ICE got his wife.

Why would the US need this access for anything aside from trading with other countries?

To move warships rapidly between the two oceans during the world war he’s going to start, obviously.

It’s almost as though fascists are unreasonable and attempting to avoid their ire by compliance is doomed to failure if they’ve already decided to hate you.

I’m not a fan of the US military, but as a supporter of LGBT rights it is important to acknowledge that military service has historically been an effective means of gaining public sympathy for expanded civil rights in the US. (The most obvious examples being African-American service during the Civil War and WW2.) In the context of the militaristic US culture, forbidding people from the military is inherently a clear declaration that they are lesser and unworthy.

I don’t think the shambling husk of Twitter is a good representation of the U.S. population. My impression is that Elon has driven away most good and reasonable people.

If he were a normal president who cared about Congress and the future of his party in fair and free elections this would matter a lot. Unfortunately he isn’t and his plan is to make certain there aren’t any free and fair elections, so we’ll see what happens.

I’m hoping that Vance won’t be able to hold MAGA together. The thing about cults of personality is that when the dear leader is gone they tend to fall apart. Fingers crossed.

They thought the leopard would eat other people’s faces and not theirs. Remember that one lady from his first term? “He’s not hurting the right people.” That quote tells you everything you need to know about his voters.