The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Cristiano]

Lurch gets roasted too for war profiteering.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Isabeau]

Trump, 79, Falls Asleep After Bragging That He’s Solved Health Care

The president went to sleep during a White House event on health care affordability.

www.yahoo.com

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Trump is about to hit REM on camera during an Oval Office event. It's just incredible.

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[Cristiano]

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

"Sleepy Joe Biden" was projection. As the Great Salome used to say, "It's always projection"

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

 

[Cristiano]

This interesting.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

This interesting.

Great summary of a concept that I've seen explained a few times before. I think there are similar mechanisms that explain why many otherwise reasonable people will often demonstrate totally blind loyalty to something or someone.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Free]

Not even just another grift. An actual nonprofit. I'm chuffed.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Not even just another grift. An actual nonprofit. I'm chuffed.

The founder did write a book though.

Memoir - Leaving MAGA

One Betrayal Too Many: Why I Left MAGA By Rich Logis, founder of Leaving MAGA Order Your Copy “We can’t fall prey to the same sort of toxic tribalism that transformed the GOP into a party of Trump sycophants. And that’s where Rich Logis and Leaving MAGA come in. Rich tells the tale of his

leavingmaga.org

Forward by Adam Kinzinger, my former Congressman until my locale got redistricted into the 2nd.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

How to survive another 1000 days of Trump

Ignore him. Sounds ridiculous, but makes more sense than you might think.

timothygartonash.substack.com

’But what he says matters’, the media respond. Increasingly, though, as his statements become ever more erratic, incoherent and self-contradictory, even within the same paragraph, there’s a real question whether there’s any empirical value to paying attention to every passing Trump dump.

‘Listen to what they did./ Don't listen to what they said.’ Thus James Fenton in his poem ‘Blood and Lead’. Always good advice, but particularly in this case. Imagine a news outlet adopting a new editorial guideline: only report what Trump has actually done. ‘President Trump said many things today, but the reality is that the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked by both Iran and the US.’ And so on. Would we be any less well informed?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Coming back again: Federal executions with firing squads.

https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2026/04/24/the-u-s-department-of-justice-said-on-friday-it-is-taking-actions-to-strengthen-the-federal-death-pe/89772340007/

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Coming back again: Federal executions with firing squads.

https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2026/04/24/the-u-s-department-of-justice-said-on-friday-it-is-taking-actions-to-strengthen-the-federal-death-pe/89772340007/

While I regard the death penalty as completely wrong and unacceptable (the US is a real outlier here, as it is with so many other things), I have to say that, based on what I've read about the realities of the electric chair and lethal injections, I think that I'd rather face a firing squad. At least that's pretty quick and instantaneous, assuming they can shoot straight at close range. Messy, but quick.

 

[Free]

Messy, but quick.

Perfectly describes a sexual encounter with Donald Trump. Which considering he gets himself off over having firing squads for his enemies, that sounds on point.

 

[Noodles]

Perfectly describes a sexual encounter with Donald Trump. Which considering he gets himself off over having firing squads for his enemies, that sounds on point.

WHY WOULD YOU MAKE ME THINK ABOUT THAT???

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Judge Goes Scorched Earth on Trump’s $10 Billion IRS Lawsuit

Trump’s Payday Scheme Hits a Brick Wall

www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com

Judge Kathleen M. Williams just torched Donald Trump’s $10 billion IRS lawsuit, calling out the absurdity of a sitting president suing his own agencies and demanding answers on whether this legal circus even belongs in federal court.