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"This is the beast Trump and Republicans created, and it can only be controlled for so long. ...
The whole conservative movement has assimilated Trump’s style into their DNA. This is how they do politics now: When you disagree with someone, you call them a harlot or say they have a micropenis, and encourage your audience to turn that disagreement into hatred and rage."
Paul Waldman notes the strains in the MAGA movement re: the Iran war, as Trumpist Mark Levin calls Trumpist Megyn Kelly "an emotionally unhinged, lewd, and petulant wreck" and a "harlot," and she responds by saying he has a micropenis:
"Trouble is, once you build a movement and a political style around hate, personal insults, performative conflict, and conspiracy theorizing, it’s not easy to channel it only in the directions you want."
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MAGA Turns on Itself, and It's Ugly
This is the only way they know how to do politics.Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)
Republican President Donald Trump fundraising email uses photo from soldiers’ dignified transfer and promises ‘private national security briefings’
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#USPol #Republicans #Iran #soldiers #MAGA #GOP #Trump #politics #press
Republican President Donald Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount | Reuters
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#USPol #Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #stocks #Netflix #Paramount #WarnerBros #ethics #press
The gamification of war
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#gaming #war #WhiteHouse #USPol #Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #politics #press #Iran #Venezuela #Pentgon
Republican President Donald Trump's war rhetoric is coarse. It's also heard differently, depending on the audience
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#war #rhetoric #Iran #Pentagon #USPol #Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #politics #press
Trump's war rhetoric is coarse. It's also heard differently, depending on the audience
President Trump and other administration officials have projected confidence and power in Iran in a coarse tone that is unprecedented, according to experts in wartime rhetoric.Kevin Rector (Los Angeles Times)
Murderers. Psychos. Reprobates. MAGA.
Republican President Donald Trump says US may strike Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub ‘just for fun’
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#Iran #murders #USPol #Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #politics #press
Trump says US may strike Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub ‘just for fun’
In comments to NBC News, US president also deflates hope of deal with Tehran, saying ‘terms aren’t good enough’Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
“This is a nightmare of America’s own making. This is what happens when you put in charge people as incompetent, greedy, corrupt and quite frankly stupid as Donald Trump. Those who have never learned from history because they’ve never learned history…."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #MAGA #Iran #war #madness #insanity #stupidity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/24
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Marco Foster (@marco.foster) on Threads
Mary Trump on Iran: “This is a nightmare of America’s own making. This is what happens when you put in charge people as incompetent, greedy, corrupt and quite frankly stupid as Donald Trump.Threads
"The self-described patriots of today’s British right seem giddy at the prospect of outsourcing their political identity to a foreign power and welcome the relegation of British sovereignty to vassal status within Trump’s new world order – just as long as they can personally and financially benefit from being the new comprador class within their own country."
#UK #England #Britain #Trump #MAGA #Tories #Conservatives #CultureWars
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"There are elements of this dynamic apparent elsewhere in the west, in Canada, Australia or Germany. But the extent to which British rightwing commentators have been willing to declare their love and loyalty to Trump’s America has been striking."
#UK #England #Britain #Trump #MAGA #Tories #Conservatives #CultureWars
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Kojo Koram reports on how resistance to US consumerism and its vulgarities "has now almost entirely disappeared, especially within the British right, which, in the age of social media, has been only too happy to embrace the language, the tactics and the grievances of the US culture war."
#UK #England #Britain #Trump #MAGA #Tories #Conservatives #CultureWars
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British conservatives once looked down on the American right. Now they’re riding on Maga’s coat-tails
Self-described UK patriots have spotted an opportunity for advancement and enrichment. That’s why so many outsource their identity to Trump, says author and academic Kojo KoramKojo Koram (The Guardian)
Donald Trump Is in the Epstein Files Over 1 Million Times!
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#ReleaseTheFiles #ChildRapistTrump #GhislaineMaxwell #JeffreyEpstein #TrumpEpsteinFiles #MAGA #DonaldTrump #PamBondi #USPol
Trump Is in the Epstein Files Over 1 Million Times! | The Nation
They can’t redact deep ties.Brandon Jinete (The Nation)
"It may yet have to reckon with how the decisions of a relatively small number of individuals will affect the health of entire populations—who may soon have less of a choice about whether they get sick."
#measles #Florida #DeSantis #JosephLadapo #healthcare #vaccines #MAGA
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"Now, by all appearances, Florida is testing out a head-in-the-sand approach to measles. ...
DeSantis has pitched Florida as a haven from liberal policies: In 2024, the state posted on its borders signs reading welcome to the free state of florida, advertising its commitment to personal choice."
#measles #Florida #DeSantis #JosephLadapo #healthcare #vaccines #MAGA
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"The measles situation in Florida is, in other words, an urgent problem for the state that the state should be urgently addressing.
But on all things measles, the state’s health department has been mostly silent. ...
Florida is the stark outlier—and has been headed in this direction for some time."
#measles #Florida #DeSantis #JosephLadapo #healthcare #vaccines #MAGA
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"Out of the 30 states where measles has been detected in 2026, Florida currently ranks third in case counts. Since the start of the year, at least 132 confirmed or probable cases of measles have been reported across the state, where vaccination rates have consistently fallen below the threshold required to prevent outbreaks."
~ Katherine J. Wu
#measles #Florida #DeSantis #JosephLadapo #healthcare #vaccines #MAGA
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Florida Is Trying to Ignore Measles Until It Can’t
The state is in the midst of an outbreak, but its health department has been mostly silent.Katherine J. Wu (The Atlantic)
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"his insistence that tuning the economy to the benefit of a few favored producers is a victory, even if it harms the vast majority of consumers."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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The Bulwark today headlines its morning report: "Trump to America: Thank Me for Your Gas Bill." Andrew Egger writes:
"[Trump's statement about how *we* benefit from higher gas prices is] an illustration of the exact mindset that led Trump to do so much damage to the U.S. economy even before the war:"
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
/19
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Trump to America: Thank Me for Your Gas Bill
Higher prices = more money, according to the president.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"According to petroleum analyst, Patrick DeHaan, Americans today will spend roughly $250 million more on gasoline than they did 30 days ago. That’s over $1.5 billion per week."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
/18
"Trump isn’t even trying to hide it anymore. When he says 'we' make a lot of money, he means oil executives, and he means himself. Because that’s all Trump cares about. How he can put more money in his own pocket and deliver a payout for his billionaire cronies."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
/17
"Trump, in his latest spiral, just tried to rebrand soaring gas prices as a good thing.
'The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,' he wrote on Truth Social.
Who is 'we?' I’ll tell you who it’s not: the voters who put this guy in office."
~ Brian Tyler Cohen
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA
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Trump's Soaring Gas Prices are a "Good Thing" for Anyone but You
Trump claims “we” stand to make a ton of money off the war in Iran. But the “we” does not include you.Brian Tyler Cohen
"They want to be told 'you’re better than other people just by being you.' For all the talk of 'merit' on the Right, this is what they’re most thirsty for. The men want to be told they’re inherently superior to women — as well as people of color, Jewish people, LGBTQ+ people, etc. depending on their personal identity — and the women wanted to be told they’re 'not like the other girls!' or 'so based!'”
"The Right has fallen in love with the narrative of 'the woke scolds were too much and we were all rebels who would never be any good, so we had to become Nazis' but that is, and always has been, absolute bullshit. ...
The fact is, both the men and the women who participate in this bullshit are looking for the same thing — validation and self-esteem."
~ Robyn Pennacchia
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Right-Wing Women Discover Misogyny Not As Fun As They Thought Part 378,272,347,230,326
The red pill, it turns out, is filled with rat poison.Robyn Pennacchia (Wonkette)
"The whole grand political conflict we are witnessing in America is ultimately nothing more than a vast, self-mirroring game of projection, running for 30 years and longer, financed by our plutocratic overlords from the start. It would be tragically ironic for American democracy to die at the hands of a fantasy."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MAGA #MaskedThugs #masculinity
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"Those of us who have experienced MAGA insurrectionists as Proud Boys and militiamen in the streets can readily recognize the hypermasculine, thin-skinned men hiding behind the masks as ICE agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere."
~ David Neiwert
#AlexPretti #Trump #MAGA #MaskedThugs #masculinity
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Behind the masks, the real insurrectionists
The same MAGA extremists who attacked our democracy on Jan. 6 are continuing their mission, empowered and armed by TrumpDavid Neiwert (The Spyhop)
"Alex Pretti put himself at risk to defend his community, and his final act was protecting an injured woman, while ICE officers hide behind masks, and commentators post about 'strong men' from the safety of their homes."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MAGA #MaskedThugs #masculinity
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"In recent years, right-wing figures have obsessed over masculinity, casting themselves as 'strong men' who will do what is necessary to 'create good times,' after 'weak men' created today’s 'hard times.'"
~ Nicholas Grossman
#AlexPretti #Trump #MAGA #MaskedThugs #masculinity
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Nonpolitical Media Has Been Flooded With Outrage at Alex Pretti's Murder
Anatomy of a turning point.Nicholas Grossman (Liberal Currents)
Brian Beutler notes the beyond dubious claims of Trump's murderous masked thugs and the men cheering them on to model masculinity, when"
"These are men too cowardly to show their faces, who shot a good samaritan in the back over and over again."
#AlexPretti #Trump #MAGA #MaskedThugs #masculinity
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Alex Pretti, MAGA, And The Public Meaning Of Masculinity
If you'd rather be like them than like him, it's time to take a look in the mirror...Brian Beutler (Off Message)