We don’t hear about politicians with backbone often enough. Probably because there seems to be relatively few of them lately.

This will be… interesting

“We don’t avoid talks; it’s the breach of promises that has caused issues for us so far,” Pezeshkian said in televised remarks during a Cabinet meeting. “They must prove that they can build trust.”

This is Trump we’re talking about. He’s setting the standards impossibly high lol

They need to be careful. This is the highest quality “low quality” fact I’ve ever seen.

I wonder if he’s open minded enough to accept information he wasn’t expecting, or one of those people for whom no proof will ever be good enough.

Well, at least the Trump administration might actually pretend to care now. When Americans are outraged, they don’t give a shit.

Be sure not to offset the costs by eliminating executive raises and bonuses, or by trimming their ridiculously large salaries! Those are sacrosanct!

My answer depends on whether the country you’re going to has an extradition treaty with the United States.

It could be much worse. I was ready for you to tell us about the massive debt you racked up. At least this is something that will go away over time with no cost or effort on your part.

It’s a sad day when Reagan’s foreign policy seems sensible.

Black licorice. Don’t even try to tell me that shit is candy. It tastes like some horrible byproduct of an outdated process for manufacturing tires.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is in favor of the bill.

Of course he is. No low is too low for that man.

I know it’s bad to dehumanize people, but sometimes I can’t help myself when we’re talking about a person who completely lacks empathy. It’s like they walk and talk exactly like a person does, but they’re missing something essential.

America won big both morally and militarily in WWII. For the average poorly informed citizen, that meant our government had permanently earned its position as the Good Guy. Lots of people thought (and still think) that any evidence to the contrary is merely a mistake or anomaly.

Then there’s capitalism. Wartime manufacturing brought us out of the Great Depression, and even the average citizen benefited. Unfortunately, capitalism became much more powerful than we realized, and now we’re beginning to see what a monster we’ve created. We know that the top 1% are literally killing our biosphere to protect their investments, but somehow our Good Guy government is allowing it to continue. The average citizen can’t reconcile those facts, so they decided that the facts must be wrong.

Government and capitalism have always been intertwined, but never to the extent we’re seeing under Trump. A Nazi billionaire is shaping government policy. That was supposed to be impossible. Again, the average citizen can’t reconcile those truths, so many of them decided that the libtards must be exaggerating.

I wouldn’t say that we Americans are stupid. I’d use the word “foolish” instead. “Deceived”, too. A few people saw what was coming and tried to warn the rest of us, but we let it happen anyway, because organizations that we thought we could trust lied to us.

Those of us with at least some awareness of what’s going on are traumatized (whether we think so or not). We’re trying to accept that our own government suddenly hates a lot of us, and that the corporations that have tried so hard to make themselves indispensable are, at best, constantly trying to deceive and monetize everything about us.

May I suggest Goya?

DO NOT TAP ON GLASS

Do folks think this is legitimate news, corporate news meant to intimidate protesters, or a combination of both? I’m curious to hear how people interpret it.

He’ll never win. People who think like he does have repeatedly tried to kill ideas. They’ve always failed. Sure, he can make some major, sweeping changes, but ultimately he will fail.

He was a good guy. I think he’d appreciate the dark humor done without ill intent.

Consequences! I’ll be damned!