Authoritarians rule by instilling fear and projecting strength.
At the start of the Trump admin Part II, it seemed like he might succeed in that. People were afraid — I noticed many people being quiet who were loud the first time.
But my friends, the mask is off the Wizard of Oz. The man behind the curtain has been revealed.
And he is weak and pathetic and the losingest loser ever. And so many more people are fighting back.
Yes, bad things still continue. Yes, we need to keep working hard.
But the mask is off. He is weak and pathetic and we can win so many important battles if, and when, we work hard.
Judge blocks deportation flight of Asian migrants to Libya
A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order preventing migrants from being sent to Libya or any other third country after immigration attorneys filed an emergency motion Wednesday.
Is that ANOTHER loss in the courts? Why yes it is!
‘JD Vance Is Wrong’: The Pope Appears Uneasy With Trump Immigration Policies
Before Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became pope, a social media account under his name shared criticisms of the Trump administration’s positions on immigration.
In July 2015, the account reposted an article by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York that described Mr. Trump’s “anti-immigrant rhetoric” as “problematic.” Three years later, the account shared a post from Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, saying there was “nothing remotely Christian, American or morally defensible” about the administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents.
At times, the account waded into other contentious areas of American politics. In 2020, it shared a statement signed by seven American bishops that said they were “broken-hearted, sickened, and outraged” by the killing of George Floyd, which they described as a “wake-up call.”
And the new Pope hates him! Hee hee.
‘Stay tuned’: The half-baked Republican reconciliation plan
It’s the end of a hugely important week in Hill Republicans’ quest to craft a massive reconciliation package. Next week, a trio of House panels will mark up the most important pieces of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda — cuts to social safety net programs and an extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts.
But here’s what’s striking to us: So much about this reconciliation package is still undecided even though the GOP leadership says they’ve been working on it for more than six months.
Girl, you all have one job — make a damn budget. Biden did this so well with even smaller margins than you have. Who is sleepy now, ya loser!?
Loomer targets new Trump surgeon general pick
Laura Loomer, a right-wing provocateur and prominent supporter of President Trump, has set her sights on Dr. Casey Means, the physician-turned-wellness influencer who Trump tapped as his new nominee to be U.S. surgeon general on Wednesday.
In a series of posts on social platform X that began shortly after Trump’s announcement, Loomer accused the president’s advisers of poor vetting and attacked Means’s background.
“This is honestly insane,” she wrote in one post Thursday morning. “I do not believe for one second that Donald Trump made this decision. I refuse to believe it.”
Even Loomer feels confident taking you on! Losing!
Republican Gives Up Fight to Overturn Defeat in N.C. Judicial Race
A six-month battle over a North Carolina Supreme Court seat ended on Wednesday when the Republican challenger, who had embarked on an extraordinary effort to throw out thousands of votes, conceded the race.
All that energy and… ya lost.
JD Vance's Half Brother Gets Only 13% of Vote in Cincinnati Mayor Primary
Bowman, the Republican half-brother of Vice President JD Vance, received just under 13 percent of the vote in Cincinnati's mayoral primary on Tuesday, enough to advance to the general election.
Bowman, 36, was beaten by Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval, a Democrat, who won 82.5 percent of the vote. Meanwhile, Republican Brian Frank, the third-place finisher, was eliminated with just 4.6 percent of the vote.
13% to 82% HAHAHAHAHAHA
Trump 2.0 as a modern morality play—where the bad guy always loses.
Trump and his GOP enablers are engaging in conduct of such grotesque and exaggerated vice that it surpasses caricature. We are not merely unwilling audience members, we are—in a sense—emotional hostages of a play designed by Trump to dispirit and frighten us. But something remarkable is happening. As in medieval morality plays, good triumphs over evil, and everyone can see the ultimate resolution from a mile away.
Whenever Trump is forced to defend his obviously unconstitutional orders in court, he loses—as he should. He is acting in an extra-constitutional manner, replacing the rule of law with his daily dyspepsia that determines his emotional state. In a rational world, i.e., a courtroom bound by the law and the rules of evidence, Trump's infantile temper tantrums carry no weight.
Nonetheless, we should take solace from the fact that Trump loses again and again when he is forced to defend his orders in court. The lesson we must internalize is that resistance is not only necessary but also the only path to victory. Those who resist Trump win—eventually. Those who capitulate are forever in his grasp, supplicants whose reward for groveling is more abuse.
“always loses” LOL
Trump’s drooping polls
On the show, Elliott tells us:
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Why history suggests Trump’s numbers could go much lower by the midterms—and could even put the Senate in play.
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How Democrats have helped sink Trump’s popularity on the last issue that had been his strength, immigration.
and people keep hating him more! How is it even possible!
Trump Rages at Own Judge After Ruling Bans Deportations Under Wartime Act
President Donald Trump had a meltdown Saturday after a federal judge banned him from using a centuries-old wartime act to deport men without due process.
“Can it be so that Judges aren’t allowing the USA to Deport Criminals, including Murderers, out of our Country and back to where they came from?” Trump posted on Truth Social Saturday. “If this is so, our Country, as we know it, is finished!”
Hee hee!
OMG thanks for writing the ads for us, you loser!
His trade war is like World War 2, only much dumber and entirely self-inflicted.
Donald Trump launched a pointless trade war, and catastrophe is on the horizon. Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned yesterday that unless the president backs down on his tariffs, “they are likely to generate a rise in inflation, a slowdown in economic growth, and an increase in unemployment."
But the president is demanding that Americans sacrifice for … well, that part remains a mystery.
The only problem is that telling Americans they need to sacrifice for the sake of someday potentially working at an iPhone factory is, to put it charitably, terrible politics.
It’s hard to miss that Trump’s trade plan has shifted from “90 deals in 90 days” to “start rationing children’s dolls and pencils.” Instead of a triumphant victory, Trump and complicit Republicans in Congress are preparing Americans for a long, hard slog.
But any sense of “shared sacrifice” is inconsistent with the selfishness and materialism that is at the very heart of Trumpism.
Making matters worse, Trump sold voters during last year campaign’s on what was supposedly in it for them, with fantastical promises to magically lower prices and create new jobs from long-dead industries. He told his supporters he’d be their retribution, but instead he released the leopards to feast on their 401Ks.
LOL
Carney ate trump’s lunch
As the President treated the room and the world to this tour of the inside of his skull, the Prime Minister smiled uneasily, then shifted in his seat, sucked on his teeth a little and gestured a couple of times, attempting to air-traffic-control his way into the conversation.
The free square at the centre of any Mark Carney bingo card is “If I may,” which is his all-purpose interjection to delicately wrest a conversation back to something he considers to be more sane and realistic. Here, finally, he managed to if-I-may the President, and he would do it several more times through the meeting, though at no point would the conversation return to anything resembling sanity or reality.
“If I may, as you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale. We’re sitting in one right now,” he said, looking around at the Oval Office. He added, “And having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign the last several months, it’s not for sale, won’t be for sale, ever. But the opportunity is in the partnership and what we can build together.”
Mr. Trump waited for him to finish, then countered blithely with “Never say never,” at which point Mr. Carney looked either toward his ministers perched on the couch or to the reporters beyond them, and mouthed the word “never” with cartoon exaggeration.
“mouthed the word “never” with cartoon exaggeration” LOL
Mexican Prez Shuts Down Trump: ‘Sovereignty is Not For Sale’
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum revealed on Saturday that she had rejected a U.S. offer of troops to help combat drug trafficking in Mexico, saying, “Sovereignty is not for sale.”
Responding to a Friday report from The Wall Street Journal that President Donald Trump was pressuring Mexico to allow for further U.S. involvement in combating drug cartels, Sheinbaum described a tense phone call with her northern counterpart last month.
“He said, ‘How can we help you fight drug trafficking? I propose that the United States military come in and help you.’ And you know what I said to him? ‘No, President Trump,’” Sheinbaum told supporters gathered in eastern Mexico on Saturday.
Why let Canada have all the fun!
Why Trump's Efforts to Blame Biden for the Economy are Doomed to Fail
Trump has a two-pronged approach to deal with this problem. For Trump’s base, the first solution is just to pretend like everything is fine. This will work with his most ardent supporters and most shameless media allies. For everyone else, Trump plans to blame Joe Biden for his problems.
Trump is desperately trying to shift the blame away from himself. It’s not going to work this time — here’s why:
Trump Misplayed the Expectations Game
It’s All About the Tariffs
Voters Associate the Negative Economy with Trump
Nice try loser!
These 6 Republican ‘red lines’ could complicate Trump’s policy plans
As Republican lawmakers hammer out a “big, beautiful bill” to enact President Donald Trump’s policy plans, they’re running into a problem: their colleagues’ growing list of red lines.
Some House Republicans say they won’t vote for a bill that cuts Medicaid. Others have refused to support the legislation unless it lets their constituents deduct more of their state and local taxes. Last week, one Senate Republican ruled out voting for any bill unless it pares back spending to the level before the pandemic — which would require massive additional cuts.
The growing list of policy “no-gos” will make it even harder for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) to draft a bill that can pass their narrowly divided chambers.
Again, with being unable to write a budget. My lord, one job….
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Rand Paul: "I'm not voting to add $5 trillion to the deficit, or to the debt ceiling. Conservatives have never voted for that, and now conservatives are lining up and falling all over themselves to vote for the largest debt ceiling increase in all of history."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-05-08T12:59:04.044Z
Well I hate that guy but I love him saying no.
Sliding opinion polls and tumultuous markets appeared to be taking their toll as Trump lashed out in all directions.
A prickly President Trump attacked reporters on board Air Force One and lashed out at former allies at the Wall Street Journal and Fox News during one of the most bad-tempered days since he returned to the White House.
Trump grew more and more irate during a mid-air press gaggle as he flew from his Florida bolthole at Mar-a-Lago back to the hot seat in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, after another tumultuous week in office.
The back-and-forth came after Trump admitted in an interview that a recession was possible as a result of his economic policies. “Anything can happen, but I think we’re going to have the greatest economy in the history of our country,” he told Kristen Welker during the chat on NBC’s Meet the Press, which aired Sunday.
Oh, is loser boy, mad? So sad!
Hee hee!
GOP senators hope to avoid Trump agenda becoming a ‘train wreck’
Republicans are looking to regroup on President Trump’s agenda, which one GOP lawmaker says is becoming a “train wreck.”
Senate Republicans met at the Library of Congress on Wednesday to plot a path forward on the stalled budget reconciliation bill amid growing tensions between conservatives, who want to make deep cuts to government spending, and moderates, who worry about the impact on Medicaid and other federal benefits.
good luck with that losers!
Top Republican Waves the White Flag Amid Wipeout Fears
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced that he will not run for Senate next year, dealing a massive blow to Republicans who saw him as a strong contender against Democrat Jon Ossoff.
The two-term governor, who cannot run for re-election in 2026, explained that being on that ballot “is not the right decision for me and my family.”
Smart to not get on the loser train!
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New piece: Trump’s approval rating among low-engagement voters has fallen 30 points since Jan, the worst decline for any group. The GOP’s big advantage with hard-to-reach voters has evaporated as economic turmoil & toxic politics turns them away from Trump
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-do-di...
— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2025-05-06T12:09:09.045Z
Hee hee.
Bill O’Reilly Attacks ‘Dopey’ Trump: ‘There’s No Excuse’
Conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly attacked President Donald Trump for posting an AI-generated image of himself dressed as the pope less than a week after attending Pope Francis’ funeral.
“That was just dopey,” O’Reilly told NewsNation anchor Leland Vittert during Monday’s On Balance. “There was no excuse for that… The guy just died, you know?”
Bill O’Reilly feels comfortable taking you on. Sorry loser!!!
US automakers rip Trump trade deal with UK
America’s “big three” automakers ripped President Trump on Friday over his newly announced trade deal with the United Kingdom.
The Thursday agreement is the first bilateral trade pact the administration reached since it rolled out and then paused a “reciprocal” tariff regime on many of America’s main trading partners.
The British auto industry expressed excitement about the deal, which allows the U.K. to export 100,000 cars to the U.S. at a 10-percent tariff rate, and effectively removes another national security tariff.
American carmakers didn’t share that enthusiasm.
“The U.S. automotive industry is highly integrated with Canada and Mexico; the same is not true for the U.S. and UK,” American Automotive Policy Council President Matt Blunt said in a statement.
So he has made one deal so far, it is with (checks notes) someone we don’t have a trade imbalance with and it… benefits them and not us.
What a loser!!!
Meanwhile, we continue to kick ass
If you think Democrats aren’t doing things it is either because (a) you don’t look in the news for the many, many things that are being done or (b) you are trying to demoralize other people.
Crypto Bill Stalls in the Senate as Democrats Balk
Democratic supporters of the measure to regulate parts of the industry refused to allow it to move forward amid concerns in their party that President Trump and his family are profiting from cryptocurrency.
A first-of-its-kind bill to regulate parts of the cryptocurrency industry stalled in the Senate on Thursday, after Democrats blocked it amid concerns in their party about how President Trump and his family are profiting from crypto.
More democrats getting elected
In Lincoln, Nebraska, voters elected 3 Democrats in nonpartisan school board races, with Dems also decisively winning the Board of Education contests. Meanwhile, in Texas, the 11 candidates endorsed by the Tarrant County Republican Party—and other conservatives across the state—lost hard in a series of crushing upsets. Good.
Democratic-led states sue to prevent Trump from gutting health agencies
A group of Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit on Monday to challenge the Trump administration's decision to gut the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by firing 10,000 of its employees and shuttering entire agencies within the department.
Attorneys general from 19 states and the District of Columbia in a
lawsuit, opens new tab filed in federal court in Providence, Rhode Island, said the job cuts and agency consolidations U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy
announced in late March unconstitutionally stripped the department of the resources necessary to do its job.
US House Democrats aim to force vote blocking cuts to Medicaid, food aid, sources say
U.S. House of Representatives Democratic leaders on Tuesday are set to unveil a move to try to shield Medicaid and a food assistance program from cuts to offset the costs of President Donald Trump's tax cuts, according to three people familiar with the plan.
Democrats will begin a discharge petition for the bill that could force a vote on the House floor if a majority of lawmakers sign on to the petition.
