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I can’t believe he’s literally just having trashy provincial country club parties. The tragedy is that he doesn’t even drink, so he’s kind of SIMULATING a key scene of Trashy Rich White Culture without really understanding what powers it.

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— First Wordle Problems (@fwordleproblems.bsky.social) September 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM


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Like in that pic you are SUPPOSED to be six old fashioneds deep, talking about the fall sales push and leering at Dale’s wife. Trump gets the posturing and leering instinctively but not the vast welcoming oceans of alcohol it all drifts along on. Sad!

— First Wordle Problems (@fwordleproblems.bsky.social) September 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM

Swear to Murphy, there is nothing Trump can’t debase — but poorly. He has imagination of a not-very-bright nine year old with a comic book addiction: bright colors, bold graphics, exclamation points. Explosions! Bam! Pow!

there is nothing they cannot bring low

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— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) September 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM

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this is going to be *profoundly* unpopular

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— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) September 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM

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it's difficult to think of what more damaging footage an opposition party could ask for than a glittery fucking cage match on the white house lawn while the budget cuts start firing up warning lights and shooting sparks

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) September 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM

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this is *june of next year*. look at trump and the republican party's current popularity trajectory, look at the economic trajectory, and then look at the calendar for midterms, this is a *terrible* time for them to pull this shit and it's gonna make every normal person nuclear fucking pissed

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— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) September 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM

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Bread and circuses but the bread is $50 and everyone is unemployed

— Jess (@georgiajess.bsky.social) September 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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    6. 6.

      MountainBoy

      Wow, hand to hand combat on the White House lawn for the Independence day celebration-IN A CAGE-no less . Perhaps they should have a fight to the death!….How American?!?

      Maybe  they should let one of the “contestants” have an un-concealed gun? just to make it even more American….

      ooops, guess I shouldn’t drink tequila and read balloon juice and comment on  a Saturday night…

      Oh NO, someone is knocking at my door….who could that be….?!?

      oops, back to lurking mode

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    9. 9.

      Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

      “Lincoln Memorial weigh-ins”

      Jesus Christ, what profound disrespect to Abraham Lincoln, the man who freed the slaves, and kept the Union together. It’s bad enough the shit Trump is doing to the WH, but this is obscene. That’s a memorial to honor a president who was slain by an assassin

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    16. 16.

      Anne Laurie

      @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Jesus Christ, what profound disrespect to Abraham Lincoln, the man who freed the slaves, and kept the Union together.

      To be fair, Lincoln also had a broad streak of Rural White Trash in his makeup — he enjoyed filthy jokes and ‘rassling.  But he knew that such things were inappropriate for the man in the White House, a distinction Mr. Born-in-A-Gilded-Subdivision Trump has never grasped.

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    17. 17.

      Kayla Rudbek

      Well, at least y’all are giving me some chuckles as I am in a very depressed mood tonight (I should go queue up my apocalypse themed playlist and/or “Life is a Lemon (and I want my money back)” and get myself to sleep

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    19. 19.

      Trivia Man

      Any candidate, primary or general, needs to get every opponent on the record as often as possible. Are you for or against this?
      dont accept “not my business” or “i am not familiar with those plans.”

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    20. 20.

      Elizabelle

      I wonder if Trump will even be alive this time next year.  He is deteriorating so rapidly.  Maybe he will get so outrageous he’ll be replaced.

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    23. 23.

      Melancholy Jaques

      New York Magazine uses metonymy – the White House – to make a favorable comment about that asshole as if the two were not the same person. Propaganda.

      Reply
    28. 28.

      prostratedragon

      History 🧵 from Seth Cotlar:

      For most Americans, the date 1913 means nothing. For Americans on the far right fringes, 1913 has long been a date of great significance. Here’s a piece from the antisemitic rag “American Mercury” in 1957, for example. One of their writers at the time was George Lincoln Rockwell. …

      Relevant these days because:

      Trump: “If you go back to 1913 is when they ended tariffs. We were the richest ever from 1850 — it was all tariffs, we didn’t have income taxes — from 1850 to 1913 … we were the richest we ever were proportionately we were in 1887, around that time.”

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    29. 29.

      Tehanu

      @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

      What I’d really like to see is Lincoln rising from his chair in the Memorial and squashing the participants in the “weigh-ins” like bugs, followed by marching down to the White House and squashing the Orange Toad.

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    30. 30.

      West of the Rockies

      If he lives long enough, odious old moron will watch the next Democratic president methodically undo many of his garbage edicts.

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    31. 31.

      Wallis Lane

      First thing a Democratic president should do,  right after repealing every single one if Trump’s executive orders, and abolishing ICE, is take a jackhammer to that frickin patio, re-sod and plant the E. Jean Carroll Rose Garden.

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    33. 33.

      NotMax

      @prostratedragon

      History is not his strong suit. (emphasis mine)

      Between 1863 and 1913, eight banking panics occurred in the money center of Manhattan. The panics in 1884, 1890, 1899, 1901, and 1908 were confined to New York and nearby cities and states. The panics in 1873, 1893, and 1907 spread throughout the nation. Regional panics also struck the midwestern states of Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin in 1896; the mid-Atlantic states of Pennsylvania and Maryland in 1903; and Chicago in 1905. Source

      Unemployment nationwide rose to nearly 20% in the wake of the Panic of 1893 and by 1895 the U.S. Treasury was on the brink of collapse.

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      satby

      I always appreciate Anne Laurie’s overnight threads. It’s unfortunate they’ve been pushed so late that they get less attention than they should because she highlights stuff we might otherwise miss in the firehose of insane news we’re subjected to.

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      p.a

      A small- very small- measure of pleasure is the thought that his underlings have such contempt for him that they sit around “brainstorming”🙄 this kind of shit with the idea “let’s see if the bufoon goes for THIS one!”

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      prostratedragon

      From Missouri:

      My state house rep is doing a sit in on the state house floor to protest the gerrymandering of the district map and I wish more people knew about it. I didn’t even know it was happening until yesterday ’cause nobody wants to talk to/about Missouri Dems.

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      Matt McIrvin

      this is *june of next year*. look at trump and the republican party’s current popularity trajectory

      This is actually a misconception. At least going by Silver’s aggregate, Trump’s popularity hit a floor when people started talking about Epstein again and it hasn’t gotten any lower–in fact, it’s recovered a tiny bit lately; I think his base like the incipient-civil-war threats:

      natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin

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    46. 46.

      prostratedragon

      Ragnarock Lobster:

      “It would not have shocked me if I had learned after knowing him that your father-in-law had been in the Marine Corps because – of course he didn’t serve in the Marines, but he has a Marine Corps style of leadership – ”

      A very real quote from obsequious organ grinder JD Vance to…

      …Lara Trump.

      Accompanied by a privileged skeptical meme.

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    48. 48.

      JetsamPool

      @NotMax:

      History is not his strong suit. (emphasis mine)

      He is clearly thinking of a clearly different nineteenth century than the one that actually happened.  For much of the century, there was a recession or depression every 1-5 years.  The panic of 1873 set off the Long Depression.

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    50. 50.

      Paul in KY

      @mrmoshpotato: Many times this has been said, but if you created a movie script of last 7 months, all completely truthful and documentary-like, you’d have been booted out of the studio for being a crazy whackjob trying to peddle their fever dreams.

      God help us all.

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