It was a poll conducted using the same process by which he declassified those documents in his bathroom at Mar-a-lago.

I’m increasingly seeing that as the point. I’ve believed since 2016 that he’s either intentionally or being easily manipulated to serve Russia’s interests and obviously I’m not alone here.

But at this point, dismantling US soft political power, military power, economic power - every action Trump is taking is directly damaging the US with no apparent self-interested payoff. Sure, it’s plausibly deniable and just on the edge of conspiracy-sounding to the public and mainstream, but the theory that Trump acting to destroy the US on behalf of Russia is currently the best fit to the evidence.

The allegations from comparing various password leaks are that it’s the same password as for known Hegseth accounts. I get that nothing is verified - someone could have discovered that password in a leak and reused it as a setup - but that’s the strongest corroboration.

They’re a witch speaking in tongues! Burn them!

requiring Ukraine to allocate all resource income to a joint fund managed mainly by the U.S. The proposal grants the U.S. first rights to purchase extracted resources and repayment of aid with 4% interest before Ukraine gains profits.

In other words, “Reject this deal already so we can say Ukraine doesn’t want peace and we can start openly supporting Russia.”

We’ve decided not to investigate ourselves, and found no wrongdoing.

What a huge amount of words to say so little: The feeling is changing based on a few polls that are trending down.

Ok, I disagree. The polls are settling, bottoming out, in a place much higher than they should be. Trump is shock-and-awing successfully. People are disoriented, but the Overton window is shifting very quickly.

And the game isn’t “vibe” or approval. The game is authoritarian takeover. And that game is effectively over. Yes, they stopped following the rules but as we argue about those rules, they’re collecting all the pieces, and putting them away in the box. They. No. Longer. Care. About. Polls.

All this to say, this copium isn’t even high-grade product, it’s too heavily cut with delusion.

Jesus christ. Unidentifiable people just kidnap you for expressing an opinion. This was a legal resident, so we’re watching the rule of law disappear.

I hoped I was being dramatic when I made a comment a few months ago how Hitler took full control in only three months after being appointed. I thought we’d have a few years at least.

But here we are, two months in, and right on track.

What most people don’t know is Republicans have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, Schumer sent wave after wave of Americans at them until they reached their limit and shut down.

We’ve been “defending” a large part of the world for 70 years without owning Greenland.

Yes, but I think Trump doesn’t understand the very concept of voluntary agreement. He only feels right when he has power over a thing and they don’t have a choice about it.

He’ll occasionally accept something given to him without strings, but only by casting that person as a “sucker” (his voters for example). Everything is adversarial and zero-sum to him.

Help, help! Someone call Dunning-Kruger Man! Please, Dunning-Kruger Man, confidently tell us it’s someone else’s fault without actually understanding anything! Hurry, we’re trapped in this news cycle with no way out!

Exactly as Project 2025 envisioned.

Good job. Keep up the folo. It’s the only way to have repercussions, to keep this story alive through Trump’s attempts to supersede it with media-bait nonsense.

My first thought too. The timing is just too perfect.

My second thought? This means that Trump’s team probably has executive orders just waiting in the wings, since they know how this all works. The only thing needed to supplant even awful news cycles are even worse news cycles.

My third thought? This means every time Team Trump royally messes up something, our only reward will be Team Trump doing something even worse, because it’s the only move they have, ever.

Until we’re all dead by their or our own hands, presumably.

Slamming Trump? That’s a paddling.

“I’m finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine. And they don’t have the cards,” Trump said. “In terms of getting a final settlement, it may be easier dealing with Russia.”

It’s infuriating how stupid he is. Just “my feelings tell me to do X” nonstop, every day, like cultured cells responding to a stimulus shock.