Feeling a bit North Korea in here.

It’s weird and disturbing that the headline is probably true.

If the world made sense, it would be more than enough that he is, right now, moment-to-moment, obviously deeply mentally ill and wantonly destructive - a grotesquely corrupt pathological liar, vindictive narcissist, and raging sociopath who blatantly has done and is doing more harm to the US than any president at least in the modern era and quite possibly ever.

How has that not already been enough? I don’t think I’ll ever really understand that.

I think Platner isn’t as skilled at avoiding establishment Democrat smear campaigns as Mamdani is.

Oh look - it’s the Toddler-in-chief throwing another tantrum.

One of the many things I’ll never really understand about this whole Trump thing is how he manages to get so much support from the right-wing choad demographic when he’s such a gross, flabby, pathetic, whiney manbaby.

That too.

Of course he can, though it"s exceedingly unlikely that he will be, since it’s a process that would require integrity, courage and determination, all of which are virtually non-existent qualities in Washington today.

Which is unfortunate too, since as I have cause to point out daily, the man is quite obviously a deranged lunatic.

I really don’t think he’s ever been particularly attached to reality, but the combination of losing the 2020 election and stewing and lying for four years then lying his way to winning the 2024 election appears to have completely broken his mind. And the upshot of that is that the world in which he now lives and makes important decisions is not the real one - it’s entirely a product of his own warped perceptions, as filtered through an emotionally stunted mind that’s slaved to the task of protecting his grotesquely bloated and fragile ego and has completely lost any ability it might once have had to distinguish between reality and delusion.

That’s my reaction broadly to hate.

Even beyond the fact that it’s destructive and ugly, it just seems like a pointless waste of time and energy. I don’t get why anyone invests that much time and energy into being miserable, and especially over something that can’t possibly really matter in their lives.

Alternate headline: “Supreme Court Yet Again Just Hands Trump What He Wants Without Even Bothering to Try to Justify It.”

And that will also serve as the alternate headline for every Trump regime ruling yet and for all future ones as well

We actually live in a world now in which the President of the United States explicitly states his intent to overtly violate the first amendment and the media just repeats it as if nothing of any note is going on.

If Miller had his way about it, they’d already be bulldozing leftists into mass graves.

as political violence becomes normalized online, particularly among ideologically extreme left in America

https://meidasnews.com/news/mass-shootings-at-two-homeless-camps-after-fox-host-called-for-homeless-to-be-killed

It’s a bit late in the game for that isn’t it?

I mean - she’s right, but the SC has already cast aside law, precedent and the Constitution at this point, and is ruling almost entirely based on opinion. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say, “preference.”

In the book, set for publication on 9 September, Barrett asserted her belief that the June 2022 ruling that struck down abortion rights nationally “respected the choice” of Americans.

Ah… so she’s not just contradicting the plain reality of the current SC, but her own statements.

Or more precisely, just spewing whatever line of bullshit might serve her current purposes.

Which is undoubtedly the reason she was nominated in the first place, and the exact thing she was expected to contribute.

Helluva timeline we’re living in here…

The director added that he wanted more security services centralized under the DCSA to accomplish its mission.

Ah… yes. Clearly the solution is to expand the reach of his incompetence and malfeasance.

I’ve been especially impressed by the prescience of Bo Burnham’s line in Welcome to the Internet - “Obama sent the immigrants to vaccinate your kids.”

As far as I know, it hasn’t become a quote from an actual right-wing nonsense-driveler yet, but it might as well be.

Behind the password “SuperHacker123”

Conservatives live in such a bizarre world.

Trump is the ultimate example - firing and/or suing anybody who dares to present facts that contradict his preferred delusions - but he’s far from alone. It’s a nearly universal trait as far as I can tell. Pretty much without exception they cobble together some fanciful set of misconceptions, delusions and lies, then insist that anything that contradicts them is part of some sort of insanely vast conspiracy.

No wonder they’re so prone to rage and hatred - that much cognitive dissonance has to be literally painful.

Sure a good thing that the responsible and conscientious conservatives elected a right-thinking president who’s going to cut wasteful spending and balance the budget, hmm?

Imagine what it would be like if instead a rabble of petulant, frightened assholes elected a deranged overgrown toddler who pissed away billions on whatever idiocy happened to trigger his stunted emotions on any given day.

It’s cynically amusing that at this point Trump isn’t even doing any of the things his apologists pointed to.

Supposedly it was okay if he had some personal ethics issues, because he was going to drive down prices and inflation, cut wasteful spending, balance the budget and keep the US out of foreign wars.

And instead, he’s driving up prices and inflation, increasing wasteful spending, increasing the deficit by the greatest amount ever in history, and warmongering around the world. And his personal ethics issues have exploded into a veritable orgy of ridiculously brazen corruption.

And the apologists just keep shambling along, leading a parade of morons who still can’t see it.

Teachers from California and New York who want to work in Oklahoma public schools

So nobody ever.

I just think it’s funny that “AI” (which is “artificial intelligence” not in the sense of “human-made” but in the sense of “fake”) is contemperaneous with Trump.

This is going to go down in history (if humanity survives long enough) as the Idiot and Lunatic Age.