There is no room in genuine democratic policymaking for undemocratic ideas. It is outside of the construct established by Democracy. A good first step toward healing this country would be to reject these principles as illegitimate, not to euologize a catalyst of this drivel

What burns me up about the Klein/Newsome Kirk euologies is not only that they fail to resoundlingly reject undemocratic principles as illegitimate, but also that they explicitly countenance these principles as worthy of consideration and debate.

The only reason we know who Charlie Kirk was - in fact the basis for his lucrative brand - is that he was a hate-monger and gun violence apologist. It is not uncouth or unsympathetic to emphasize that this rabble-rousing has dire and irreversible consequences.

One annoying thing that I wish the media would check is the different standard this admin has for the appropriate level of abstraction for interpreting words. SignalGate is fine by the texts were not precisely, technically "war plans." Yet everyone criticizing the admin is a "threat to the US."

Most powerful person on earth. Think, for a moment, how different the last 48 hours would have been had we chosen an empathetic and compassionate leader instead. Never let anyone claim the character of the person does not matter in a presidential election.

The performative signing of an Executive Order blaming DEI initiatives for the crash, and the breathless newscycles covering the nonsense. All of this - all of it - was caused by the reaction to the crisis by a deranged man the American public willingly elected to the role of
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Think for a moment about he absurd political theater we've been forced to endure in merely 24 hours since the DC plane crash - allegations that the employment of women, or non-white men, or persons with disabilities, caused the crash; crass quips that the president cannot swim to the crash site;
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You are unqualified for service in the federal gov't if you believe it has no role helping to provide basic human needs to children. Less than a decade ago, publicly supporting this position would have been political suicide.

BROWN: Would you support getting rid of school lunch for vulnerable kids and getting rid of childhood cancer research?

REP. MCCORMICK: Philanthropy is where you get most of your money for childhood cancer research. When you talk about school lunches, hey, I worked my way through high school.

Our media fawned over the proceedings, breathlessly normalizing every action. Our oligarchs were feted with front row seats to the entire affair, doubtlessly champing at the bit to commence the plundering of public resources

Such pardons were issued for fear of retribution of the incoming president. All the while, our political parties spent all of today playacting democracy, as a liberal democratic government smilingly cedes power to totalitarian and kleptocratic party.

Today, the new president signed an EO contradicting well-settled interpretation of the constitution and the chief tech oligarch delivered a thinly veiled salute reminiscent of Hitler. Yesterday, the outgoing president issued preemptive pardons for individuals that inarguably have not broken the law

According to Barron’s, Elon Musk’s wealth increased by almost $200 billion between November 5 and December 20. That means he could give $250,000 to every homeless person in the US and still be as rich as he was on November 5.

Pretty wild that Elon’s debut as president elect was to strip funding for pediatric cancer research from the spending bill, only to watch the Senate have to pass it as a standalone bill. His first move was to fuck over kids with cancer.

As our elected officials work furiously to stave off a crisis of their own doing, let us remember that if said officials cared more about doing the thing they were elected to do- governing -rather than profiting as long as possible from the office, the threat of being primaried would be ineffectual

When you are unfamiliar with the proper functioning of both the role you have (in a co-equal branch of the US government) and the role you use to excuse your obsequiousness (useful boards of directors do not blindly support the whims of corporate CEOs)

Rep. Dan Meuser says "Republicans need to get onboard with President Trump" and adds that "our role is really to be more of a supportive board of directors."

An unelected oligarch, who happens to be the wealthiest man in the world, is going to engineer a gov't shutdown before a felonious pres-elect whose deranged campaign he funded even takes office.

All the while, our media ho-hums this as if it is typical beltway melodrama.