The only reason total amateurs like wild-eyed Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are in their positions is because they were out on their fringe podcasts claiming that somehow they alone knew the “truth” and would unmask the “deep state.”

They’re all frauds who embarrass the country.

On JD Vance: “I was never more sick than when JD asked Zelenskyy why Ukraine doesn’t just stop fighting. They’re fighting because Putin invaded & started killing their women and children. To even ask that question is just so idiotic.”

Thanks to @adamkinzinger.bsky.social for the discussion.

The Qataris fund the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas—and Republicans have long excoriated Democrats for getting anywhere close to them. Yet Trump has just taken their large luxury palace jet. The hypocrisy is astounding.

Americans need to ask: how is any of this helping them?

More on tariffs: “This isn’t just about laptops and iPhones. It’s about the basic necessities—and $300 is a lot of money for new families. This administration has said it wants to be ‘pro-family,’ but these tariffs are going to crush them.”

On tariffs: “When young families realize—hey, why am I having to pay $400 more for a stroller?—they’re going to get pissed off because the only reason this is happening is because the President and the yes-men he surrounds himself with just don’t understand basic economics.”

The self-inflicted harm to our economic well-being this week comes on the heels of a self-inflicted wound to our moral standing in the world vis-a-vis Trump and Vance taking Putin’s side in Ukraine.

They are abandoning every moral value that I thought my country believed in.