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Oct 25 • 6 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
In the last 9 days, Trump:

- Demolished the East Wing without approval
- Told Congress he won't seek approval for boat airstrikes
- Said the US is considering land strikes in Venezuela
- Threatened war with Colombia
- Accepted $130 million in military funding from a billionaire
- Threatened Argentine voters with consequences if they didn't support Javier Milei
- Said he doesn't care if Congress stays out of session for the rest of the year
- Refused to distribute legally required SNAP benefits to 40 million kids and families
- Violated the Antideficiency Act by spending money not appropriated by Congress
- Canceled $28 billion in funding already approved by Congress
- Vowed to give farmers $50 billion in unauthorized funds as a bailout for his tariffs
- Demanded Ukraine give up Donbas to Russia
- Expanded the cost of his ballroom project from $200m to $250m to $300m
- Announced the construction of a triumphal arch larger than the Lincoln Memorial
- Pardoned convicted crypto fraudster and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao
- Considered pardoning sex offender Diddy
- Threw accredited press out of the Pentagon Press Corps and replaced the entire press corps with right wing sycophants and influencers.
- Threatened Canada and China with new tariffs
- Awarded a Pentagon drone contract to a company backed by his son, Donald Trump Jr.
If you can't see what is happening, you need to open your eyes.

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A Gen Z colleague described the "blackpill mindset" to me in a way I'd never heard before:

For younger kids today, especially men, there's a pressure to either "get rich at any cost" or "get famous at any cost." They use irony and crude memes to mask the deep anxiety they feel.
What stood out to this person was the "lol nothing matters" attitude Kirk's assassin tried so hard to project in his ironic bullet inscriptions, political-but-mostly-stupid meme Halloween costumes, and the gamer culture he was steeped in. His politics almost feel secondary.
We're seeing an uptick in "ironic" phrases written on bullet casings and manifestos that are peppered with Very Online references meant to be read and understood not by the media, but by these shooters' online peers. They want to be remembered as the people who "went for it."
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I don't think we should ignore this emerging thread of MAGA Socialism.

I've spoken to many younger Trump supporters who see no problem with Trump partly-nationalizing American companies. This is an entirely new strain of @GOP voter.
I've talked to voters in their 20s who supported Trump in 2024, and one thing they share is a lack of interest in "old" @GOP ideas.

These young MAGAs haven't read and don't know Milton Friedman. They don't remember Reagan. They have no real love for "free market capitalism".
@GOP One of the most common responses I get from those voters about Trump's idea of partly nationalizing defense contractors? "They work for the government, why shouldn't taxpayers own part of them?"

That would send Thomas Sowell's head spinning, but it's not controverisal to them.
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Jul 25
I'm sorry, I completely missed that Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the mass institutionalization of over 250,000 long-term homeless Americans.

"ENDING CRIME AND DISORDER ON AMERICA’S STREETS"
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Under Trump's latest executive order, Attorney General Pam Bondi will have the power to create new standards for who counts as a "danger to themselves or others".

Bondi will also be able to determine who "cannot care for themselves" and then have them institutionalized. Image
Trump's order is also a nightmare for nonprofits that operate safe drug injection sites that were until recently backed by federal grants.

His order directs HUD to strip all funding from those nonprofits, and asks DoJ to weigh charging them with federal crimes. Image
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Jul 9
My latest column for @TheHill looks at how Trump's radicalization of ICE has led to the @GOP losing its huge advantage with voters on immigration for the first time in nearly 20 years.

From +14 approval back in May, Republicans are now -3 on their leading issue. Image
The @GOP can blame ICE raids like the one in MacArthur Park this week for voters abandoning them. Once admired by a majority of Americans, 54% of adults now say ICE's masked crackdowns have gone too far.

Read the full story in @thehill: thehill.com/opinion/immigr…
@GOP @thehill More and more voters - including Republicans- are realizing that while Trump's crackdowns have grown in size, ferocity and cost, they haven't actually led to many deportations.

Meanwhile, shocking videos of ICE misconduct are becoming daily occurrences. thehill.com/opinion/immigr…
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There are two truths about the Texas flood that TV pundits are talking around:

1. The Texas GOP's obsession with "small government" means underinvesting in infrastructure/disaster mitigation.

2. Trump's cuts to weather agencies hobbled storm forecasting, with fatal results.
The @GOP plan is to cut and cut and cut until people start dying, and then rush out patchwork fixes on a crisis-by-crisis basis. Families are grieving a preventable disaster in Texas, but at least big corporations got their tax cut and top earners got a SALT cap increase!
@GOP Texas can barely keep its energy grid functional under normal use levels. Every summer and winter leads to predictable stories of blackouts and avoidable deaths, especially among children and seniors. The same is true for disaster funding, from hurricanes to floods.
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Mar 31
I am exhausted by the sheer number of meetings I am in where Democrats ask for data-backed messaging work, sign contracts, receive that work, and then dismiss it out of hand because "That's not what we expected."

Yeah! Obviously! That's why you got blown out!
Party leaders can continue to think they have the voter approval or credibility to be a "moderating influence" on the political landscape, but they don't. They are imagining a reputation with voters they simply do not have in real life.
Continue telling voters you know more than they do. Tell voters their priorities are wrong. How's that working out? Do voters love you yet?
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