“Pay-to-play presidency” sounds a bot polite, don't you think? What we’re really watching is pay-to-escape-consequences, pay-to-buy-laws, pay-to-silence-anyone-who-speaks-up. It doesn’t feel like a government anymore. It feels like a mob that started printing its own flags hats, bibles, etc.

We can see it in the videos: the sentences are shorter, the rambling is worse, the thoughts drift off and don’t land in anything close to reality.

People who study language and the brain are writing about the decline, but MSM still shrugs and calls it “just Trump being Trump.”

The whole clip is classic D.C.: complain about the smoke, while feeding the fire. MAGA Mike's basically saying, “Sure, this money grab looks bad,” while very carefully not mentioning the lobbyists who wrote it or the big donors waiting to get paid.

The whole clip is classic D.C.:
Complain about the smoke... feed the fire.

MAGA Mike is basically saying, “Sure, this money grab looks bad,” but at the same time being careful not to mention the lobbyists who wrote it or the donors waiting to get paid.

Taxpayer-funded “emergency” DHS ads that just happen to look like Kristi Noem campaign trailers.

We're inundated with marketing ads and materials that we do not want, but paid for nonetheless!

Kristi Noem is despicable, straight up!

Hagerty ... Plain English translation:
I’m not after a check, I’m after power. I want a law that tells the next batch of coup-curious politicians, "Hey, Relax! If prosecutors start asking questions, Congress has your back.

Despicable!