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Feb 21, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Anyone else feel like each time we see a new video from Donald Trump Jr. he's desended one sub-basement deeper into a subterranean cavern stocked to the ceiling on each floor with whatever it is that makes him sweaty, puffy, bloodshot-eyed, and prone to affecting a strange drawl?
If I were someone who cared about Donald Trump Jr.'s health—which candidly I'm ambivalent about—I'd tell him to get some fresh air and maybe record a video from a meadow or something talking about the Great Outdoors rather than how his family can continue to degrade our democracy
I mean... yikes? Image
If Donald Trump Jr. keeps on in this vein and moves down a few additional subbasements and grows his hair out a bit he'll be able to play a gully dwarf extra when they finally make a film version of Weis and Hickman's DRAGONS OF AUTUMN TWILIGHT as they should've done 25 years ago Image
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Jun 23
Process the fact that—as of yesterday—if a tourist so much as dips a finger in the Reflecting Pool Trump ruined they get detained for an hour by multiple federal agencies

This is the police state Republicans hysterically warned of for decades, and now that it's here they love it
And if you wonder why the regime is detaining anyone who interacts with the Pool, it is—nakedly and unambiguously—because it needs false arrests to create the impression of civilian criminal activity that doesn't exist and is merely cover for Trump driving The Beast on the Pool
So Trump, using taxpayer cash, overpaid a Bribery-accused ex-con pal by 1000% via a no-bid contract with kickbacks, that guy ruined the Reflecting Pool, Trump then drove on the Pool out of laziness and further destroyed it, and now they're arresting civilians to cover their asses
Read 11 tweets
Jun 23
There are men in CECOT—the worst prison on Earth—for wearing their hair too long. For loitering. For petty theft. For having the wrong politics.

And Musk and his peons applaud this for the same reason fascists always do: they’re sure it’ll never be them.

They’re *always* wrong.
That’s why Trump hates the study of history. He doesn’t want MAGAs imagining that CECOT may one day be run by Communists.

The prison system you want is the one that you’d deem fair *whatever* your politics are. Because the weapons you use will *always* end up used against you.
Crime rates are the product of hundreds of factors. They tend to be highest in places where policy is based on politics, not expertise. That’s why red states incarcerate the most people *and* have the most crime. Because we need experts setting complex policy, not partisanship.
Read 35 tweets
Jun 22
Do you imbeciles even know how to *read charts*?

This shows FIFTEEN YEARS of increased incarceration rates having ZERO EFFECT on a SKYROCKETING murder rate, followed by FIVE YEARS of the murder rate PLUMMETING with NO CHANGE in incarceration policy.

How STUPID are you assholes? Image
But wait—it gets worse! The last 3 YEARS of the 24 YEARS tracked here show that when homicidal tyrant Nayib Bukele opened CECOT to imprison his political enemies—gang members about to blow the whistle on his election theft—it had NO EFFECT on ALREADY DROPPING murder rates!

JFC!
And people wonder why I say Elon Musk has an IQ between 100 and 115 (at best)?

No college freshman would misread this simple chart as badly as Elon Musk just did.

No—scratch that. No *high school* freshman would misread this chart with such comically arrogant stupidity.
Read 5 tweets
Jun 13
BREAKING: Team Trump is 30 minutes from federal Contempt of Court—no letters have been removed. What may happen soon: work stops for the night; *all* letters are taken off the building; the Trustees announce it’s shuttering forever. But clearly his name won’t be gone by midnight. Image
The letters were put up with scissor lifts in 2-3 hours—and were supposed to be removed that way. To show his contempt for the federal judiciary, Trump instead used old-school scaffolding, which is now in its *twelfth hour* of being put up (meals and weather only cost 3-4 hours).
Other options for Trump to give the federal judiciary and the 100K+ Americans now watching this long con live the middle finger: put up a tarp so no one can see what’s happening behind it; remove the THE (to say the job was started pre-midnight) then leave; other such silly acts.
Read 12 tweets
Jun 11
Mark this moment.

This is where the endgame begins—though it might take two years to play out.

A President of the United States is openly linking the *Pentagon* and rigging elections for his party.

He is framing an authoritarian takeover as something the *U.S. military* wants. Image
The natural endpoint of this comes sometime in the next two years, with Trump announcing that the Armed Forces must be deployed domestically to combat foreign election interference. He'll say Congress' failure to pass the SAVE Act forced him and the military to end our democracy.
In our form of democracy, there's *no role whatsoever* for the Pentagon in domestic elections.

Yet the president just *inextricably linked the two*, having already had his openly Christofascist War Secretary deploy the military domestically in 2025.

This is going to get so bad.
Read 5 tweets
May 26
If you've been reading independent journalism—which holds that Trump went to war with Iran in mid-2025 and that there have been no ceasefires in the war since then, everything happening now makes sense.

If you've been reading corporate media headlines... you're confused as f*ck.
This is only the tip of the iceberg.

Not only do corporate media readers have no idea that this is a year-long war with lulls but *no ceasefires or deals*—just Trump lies intended to manipulate markets so he and his pals can profit—but they don't know how bad America is losing.
MAGAs of course neither care about the news nor are capable of understanding it—lacking the education or maturity—but even independents aren't being told how screwed America is. I just saw an expert-made video on how Iran's understanding of *salinity and humidity* outstrips ours.
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