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It’s becoming more and more obvious that things are happening in this administration without Trump ordering them or even being aware of them after the fact…
An order freezing military support would normally be discussed intensively. It requires the coordination of multiple agencies…
None of that coordination happened when Hegseth’s office canceled the scheduled flight
The president was unaware of Hegseth’s order…
Oh, I wouldn’t worry about it, I’m sure we’ll either be too numbed by the repetition of atrocities or too traumatized to post about them by then, assuming we’re even alive!
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Well, orange juice, I suppose.
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I’ll be dancing an Irish jig on my roof; whenever it happens.
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The letter, sent by Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, makes it somewhat difficult to tell exactly what the government wants, because most of the text is a borderline deranged rant written in florid MAGA-ese. You don’t have to go beyond the first paragraph to get a sense that this is less a setting of funding conditions than an airing of grievances:
Instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these “students” come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public?
Does Harvard have to answer these questions to get funding restored? It’s unclear.
What a fucking idiot…
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It strikes me that totally incoherent demands - to which the recipient simply cannot respond - is a hallmark of this administration. It’s true across the board, from things like this to trade negotiations (where they end because the other country realizes negotiation is literally impossible). The combination of the punitive and the performative… it’s the absolute rejection of basic governance and the principles under which this country was founded. You cannot operate a functional government that way, and certainly not one where people have the right to due process/petition for redress of grievances. It’s not just stupid, it’s fundamentally unconstitutional. Hell, it’s anti-constitutional.
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It reminds me of an argument made by Christopher Hitchens.
The older and better name for terrorism is nihilism. The nihilist cannot be placated or satisfied. Like the Party of God, he wants nothing less than the impossible or the unthinkable. This is what distinguishes him from the revolutionary. And this is what he has in common with the rulers of our world, who subject us to lectures about the need to oppose terrorism while they prepare, daily and hourly, for the annihilation of us all. Those who contemplate the thermonuclear extinction of the species “for political ends” have nothing to learn from the nihilist tradition.
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I’ll disagree with him on one point. MAGA is a cult of personality. I don’t know that MAGA will easily transfer their devotion to anyone else. It sure as hell won’t be Vance. He has no charisma and he’s married to a brown woman whose parents were immigrants. Abd there damn sure isn’t anyone else in Trump’s orbit who can take over that role. This will make it easier, and in fact likely, for other Republicans to oppose Vance.
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I don’t think Trump has a clear successor as messiah either. Vance would of course follow him as president, but all the people currently vying to be Trump’s lead sycophant would then be vying to be his replacement for everything else. At a minimum the disunity would give an opportunity for opponents.
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I agree with you completely. I’m not sure what will come out of it, but the threat against Republicans will mostly dissolve overnight. No one in T****’s circle can command MAGA to primary or attack GOP politicians with any realistic chance of success. That would free them up to oppose whoever ends up at the top.
The underlying disease will remain but at least the most visible symptom will be relieved.
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The underlying disease will remain, but will be fragmented and turned in on itself. Back to the way it was prior to Trump.
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Jezebel on JD Vance posting an out-of-context clip of Rep. Omar from checks notes 7 years ago to accuse her of using genocidal language…
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/truth-plus-trump-conspiracy-theories
Headline:
President Trump’s Media Company Is Offering Movies About ‘Lizard People’ And Other Wild Conspiracy Theories
Looks like they are trying to prepare everyone for possible revelations about Stephen Miller and his Lizard People origins.
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I’m going to need to save this guy on my desktop.
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If it gets too depressing, this is a pretty good alternative:
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They really do keep on demanding yes/no answers to “have you stopped beating your wife?”, don’t they.
The underlying disease (well one of them) that the US is divided as a result of years of lies from the right, which leads to things like The Heritage Foundation being legitimised by many in power, will remain and will be hard to treat even if Trump dies tomorrow. It may become more virulent and harder to treat if Trump’s demise is blamed on those who oppose the right, and weaponised to accelerate the christo-fascists’ agenda.
That said, I hope he dies a long (maybe a week or two) extremely painful death starting as soon as possible.
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