Karen Schwartz
@pithywidow.bsky.social
Former Marie Claire contributing editor, NY Sun columnist and tweeter
Reposted by Karen Schwartz
Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
low bar
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
low bar
Watch the movie "The Apprentice"
This is 100% true. His whole life. Every issue. He has absolutely no intention ever of solving anything. His only intention is ever to lie and claim victory. It’s worked for him forever.
& also like during covid, Trump is fundamentally not capable of solving the current affordability crisis specifically bc Trumps idea of solving a problem is bullshitting ppl to their faces & saying its fixed. Actually fixing a problem is not in his tool set. All he knows how to do is lie on camera.
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Watch the movie "The Apprentice"
Oh dear
I don’t think any of us are fully prepared for the level of self-pity and absolution that’s going to be in Olivia Nuzzi’s (hilariously titled) “American Canto”
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Oh dear
And the point of having no standards is having no standards
The point of having a standards editor is that you bring in a skilled, disinterested person to read or watch a story and point out possible bias, errors and lapses.
The actual story editors can miss those things because they're so closely tied to the production and reporting of the piece.
The actual story editors can miss those things because they're so closely tied to the production and reporting of the piece.
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
And the point of having no standards is having no standards
Trump University but for your own healthcare
The key here is @they’re gonna feel like entrepreneurs.”
Trump knows that this is always a pathway for support from a certain segment of Americans - mostly men. The desire to “invest” and be an “entrepreneur.” Even without expertise, capital, or the resilience to endure failure.
Trump knows that this is always a pathway for support from a certain segment of Americans - mostly men. The desire to “invest” and be an “entrepreneur.” Even without expertise, capital, or the resilience to endure failure.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Trump University but for your own healthcare
Miracle Mile?
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Miracle Mile?
Their concepts of a plan are in binders full of women
Mike Johnson on the Republican healthcare plan: "We've got notebooks full of ideas."
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Their concepts of a plan are in binders full of women
Ex-girlfriend (?)
“The real problem with America is my bitch ex-wife” is perhaps the most MAGA take ever created
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Ex-girlfriend (?)
See you guys back here in February for another shutdown
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
See you guys back here in February for another shutdown
A+
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A+
Have you heard of Prop 50 Erika
democrats grow a backbone and accomplish something, literally anything challenge
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Have you heard of Prop 50 Erika
Pretty sick of this nonsense at this point
Whenever some sanctimonious Dem announces that America needs a functioning Republican Party, I always think “I’d settle for a functioning Democratic Party.”
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Pretty sick of this nonsense at this point
When you’re a star they let you do it
“.. demonstrates how Mr. Trump’s handling of pardons and commutations has allowed some convicts to return to criminality.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...
@nytimes.com
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November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
When you’re a star they let you do it
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Q: So Dr Oz said that--
JEFFRIES: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr Oz seriously.
JEFFRIES: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr Oz seriously.
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Ah so the Epstein treatment
"Maxwell has received custom meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area, access to a service puppy, and private meetings with visitors arranged by the warden, complete with snacks. Visitors were allowed to bring computers..."
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison ‘luxuries’
In a letter to the president, House Democrats say Maxwell’s treatment as she prepares a clemency request makes the convicted sex offender look like a “guest at a Trump hotel.”
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ah so the Epstein treatment
Sickeningly accurate
How easily the comfortable spend the lives of the vulnerable.
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Sickeningly accurate
Trump take spaghetti
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Trump take spaghetti
That the 2024 electorate voted for this remains unconscionable
“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history.
That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.
That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.
NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
That the 2024 electorate voted for this remains unconscionable
Only post about Senate democrats in the Mamdami font if you know ya boy was “uncommitted” in the primary and did not campaign for Kamala in the general challenge
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Only post about Senate democrats in the Mamdami font if you know ya boy was “uncommitted” in the primary and did not campaign for Kamala in the general challenge
They are unfit to shine the bean’s shoes
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
They are unfit to shine the bean’s shoes
The most insane crime of all was the 2024 electorate reinstalling him to power
These are the people who forged Electoral College vote certificates and tried to pass them off as real, right in front of the whole country.
Maybe the most insane crime of them all.
Maybe the most insane crime of them all.
BREAKING:
Trump has just issued pardons to dozens of conservatives who tried to overturn the 2020 election results, including: Mark Meadows, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn, and more — per pardon attorney Ed Martin.
Trump has just issued pardons to dozens of conservatives who tried to overturn the 2020 election results, including: Mark Meadows, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn, and more — per pardon attorney Ed Martin.
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The most insane crime of all was the 2024 electorate reinstalling him to power
If by affordability you mean financing this by bribes
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
If by affordability you mean financing this by bribes
Well played
President Donald Trump was greeted by an enthusiastic crowd at the Commanders ga— … oh, wait wrong clip
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Well played
Miss him
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Miss him