this doesn’t surprise me. People who love Trump don’t want to see or hear anything critical about him. People who hate Trump don’t want to see anything nuanced about him. And most normal people are just exhausted by him.

FFS. “We can’t just ignore the president’s desires.” Gotta be one of the most pathetic things a vice president has ever said.

I watched my brother’s addictions take a brutal toll on my Dad. It aged him physically and spiritually. The idea that Joe Biden’s text of encouragement to his (obviously messed up) son is somehow damning or embarrassing really disgusts me.

It should basically be impossible for Officer Goodman to pay for a beer or meal for the rest of his life. He should just have an open tab wherever he goes.

BTW, just a reminder that the Trump we're seeing right now is perfectly consistent with the Trump some of us saw all along. Let's not pretend otherwise.

What a stupid time to be alive.

Rejecting a remote debate, Eric Trump said on @ThisWeekABC that debating your opponent, face to face, is how we've handled presidential debates for the last 200 years. FWIW The first presidential debate was in 1960. The third Nixon Kennedy debate, also 1960, was done remotely.

Friend: "Biden did the same thing they're accusing Trump of doing." Me: "He really didn't, but ok let's say he did. Is what Biden did okay?" F: "No! It's outrageous!" Me: "And if Trump is guilty of doing the same thing is that outrageous?" F: "...."

I think there would be no more fitting end to Kevin McCarthy’s dream of becoming speaker than the “scandal” of him being exposed as privately believing the right and moral thing.

Mike Pence could completely overturn and improve his place in history if he offered to testify and came out in favor of conviction. I mean he's not going to be president anyway. Might as well fight back. Of course, this will not happen.

The attempt to make the Eagles event cancellation about the national anthem is just a complete act of deceitful propaganda and conservatives should have zero to do with it. If that was the issue, why schedule the event in the first place? Also: None of them kneeled. Shameful.

Imagine how many people would starve if grocery workers had the same clout -- and attitude -- as teachers unions.

I understand why Kemp and his supporters are pissed. But here’s the thing: If you let Trump influence your decision at all about opening up your economy you deserve to see the underside of the bus he threw you under.

I find it incomprehensible that anyone would want to shoot one of these animals for entertainment.

Just fyi, it is the long held view of the current president that he is, in fact, above the law.

You know what would be interesting? If instead of asking senior officials whether they wrote the op-ed, reporters asked them if they believed it was accurate.

I’m old enough to remember — because I’m not a newborn infant — when Trump said tariffs were paid by other countries. How can Walmart eat tariffs when they’re not already eaten by other countries?

Difficult to exaggerate the utterly disqualifying ignorance of this statement. “You violated the law, you don’t get due process.”

I'd like to see a lot of resignations.

As someone who has been audited by the IRS twice, all of this "If you did nothing wrong, it's no big deal" stuff is infuriating. 1/

This tape of the Trump phone call is amazing. Unless you’re drunk on the Kool Aid, it’s glaringly obvious they just want to cheat. That’s it. Nothing clever. Nothing about patriotism or some higher calling. They’re just trying to cheat. washingtonpost.com/politics/…

If you don’t understand why this insanely partisan language in front of uniformed servicemen is beyond the pale and deeply dangerous, I’m not sure I can explain it to you.

25th Amendment now.

"It was outrageous for Hillary Clinton to refer to people she disagreed with politically 'deplorable'!" Same people: "Hooray for Trump calling people who disagree with him 'human scum!'"

So. Trump said "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total." This is antithetical to everything conservatives have argued for 50 years. 1/

All of the people on MSNBC convincing themselves that all of these VA voters — who voted for Biden a year ago! — are idiots, racists, and/or dupes is pretty wild.

At this point it seems not entirely unreasonable to say that a vote for Trump ends up being a vote for Vance.

Look. I’m on record rolling my eyes at a lot of “if this was so and so” stuff. But if they caught someone wanting to assassinate RBG if she were still alive or Sotomayor today because of their abortion/gun rights views, it would be the only story the media covered today.

The real story is how the Deep State got Omarosa inside the Trump campaign and then the White House by embedding her in The Apprentice all those years ago. But MSM won’t cover it!

Having just heard the 5,000th Trump apologist pundit make the same argument(s), I feel like venting. So, as the say, thread: 1/

If you call yourself a conservative and deny that you’d freak out if a Democratic POTUS said anything like this, pick a new label, please.

Just admit you committed one of the greatest Kinsley Gaffes in decades: Your office obviously released what you actually think. And now you’re scrambling to pretend something else happened. It’s dishonest and speaks to the immaturity of you, your staff and your ideas.

Kinda feel like Biden needs to, you know, say something to the American people pretty soon. Like on camera. This is getting weird.

LOL. Vladimir Putin: Election Integrity Expert.

I’m just trying to imagine what folks on the right would say if a liberal politician said they might back off Hobby Lobby if they changed their politics.

It's like the siege of Stalingrad over there.

This is amazing. I mean it's just a thing that happens. If a restaurant has a profit margin of $9K a month and you raise its taxes by $10K a month, do you think the owner will say "damn, we gotta lose money every month"? or do you think they'll raise prices?

Biden is leaving office dropping one lawless, norm-defying, justly impeachable un-democratic transgression after another. That’d be bad enough. But these are all precedents for the successor he thinks is a threat to democracy. It’s reckless, spiteful, and incandescently stupid.

If you don't read books, you can say just about anything with confidence.

Biden: the Buck stops with me and I take full responsibility but my hands were tied by Trump and this is the Afghan military’s fault. We were prepared for this, but we were caught off guard. We’re giving the country to the Taliban but we’ll hold them accountable.

You were literally the single most dishonest, unethical, and career obsessed asshole to the Bushes in the last 40 years. Sit out a play jackwad.

This is a very old joke that used to be edgy because people in positions of power and responsibility would never say it. Now, senior spokespeople for America think it’s fine to insult an entire allied nation to burn some anonymous functionary.

Look, I think Trump's position on Ukraine is immoral, unwise, and dishonorable. But people can disagree. But I do have a question: If Trump's position on Ukraine aid is so solid, why does he feel the need to lie about how we gave them $350 billion. Before you defend the lie, note that he's never provided any evidence to support the lie. And if there was evidence, he'd obviously provide it. So if you think it's true, provide some evidence or concede that it's a lie -- which it obviously is. And, so, if it's a lie, ask yourself why he needs to lie to support his position? Maybe it's because his argument is weak or, even more likely, his argument is being made in bad faith entirely.

This is something that only people who know nothing about New York City say. Well, and liars. Liars say it too.

People dunking on the founding should appreciate that they’re taking a sledgehammer to the very soapbox they’re standing on. No founding, no free speech, no right to assemble, no due process. If you think that’s all just “white supremacy,” try protesting and carping without it.

This would have been a great tweet on January 6, 2021.

Very sad news. This AM I found our cat Ralph in the basement crying. He couldn't move his back legs. He had a blood clot and congestive heart failure. My wife, who loved him dearly, just off a plane, had to turn round & come to the vet to say goodbye. Ralph was a good boy. RIP.

If you’re watching it, and you don’t find the president’s rally at least a little embarrassing, you’re part of the problem.

I haven’t changed a single position on conservative issues and principles since the days you used to kiss my ass. I like how you say *I’m* trying to stay relevant while you’re watching me on TV and tweeting about me, you throne-sniffing thug.

My daughter complaining: “I was the only person in that whole store wearing a mask.” Me: “What a weird coincidence, you were also the only person in that whole store I really care about and am the boss of.”

Start the clock on wages and price controls.

Nothing more awesome than drinking alone at an empty bar when everyone else is hanging out eating well with friends and family. Congrats.

Except he’s neither an American nor a journalist

No double standards for this crap. Jan 6 goons who attack cops should go to jail, and so should these thugs.

At some point this country is going to experience a crisis so grave, a challenge so existential, that Jim Jordan will find it necessary to wear a jacket.

Just worth pointing out that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, among other founders, thought this was bullshit.

America hasn’t been perfect. It’s made grave mistakes. But there is no country that has ever done more for improving the world. It breaks my heart how unappreciative Americans across the ideological spectrum are of that. Much of the left rejects we’ve ever been good for the world, much of the right wants to stop being good for the world. Shame on all of them.

This isn't very complicated. India is an ally and a democracy in a vital region. New strains are likely to emerge the longer we wait. Some could be vaccine resistant and/or deadlier. Millions could die. America should send help for moral, political, and geostrategic reasons ASAP.

If including a line item in receipts for the included taxes is a "hostile and political act" then we're kinda in uncharted waters.

Just remember: if these reports are true that means that if they can search an ex-president’s home for vital nuclear documents and signals intelligence they can do it to you too.

If the video was of Biden shooting a bunch of MAGA types in a church, I'm sure the "lighten up, it's a video" crowd would hold the same position.

Conservatism claims to believe in serious notions of right & wrong. We (claim to) champion moral clarity. If your first response to every misdeed of your side is to criticize the other side for condemning it. That's not principled conservatism, it's hackery. Vent over. 11/11

I have seen a lot of Bad Twitter over the years. Didn’t expect to have such an impressive new category: Mocking widows for being caught smiling Twitter. It’s just evil.

FWIW, I’m literally in a CNN studio right now. I’m a CNN contributor. The first paragraph of this CNN story is just wrong. As a factual, legal, and moral matter, Hamas started the war in Gaza. The giveaway was when they invaded Israel and raped, murdered, and kidnapped a bunch of people. cnn.com/2025/10/08/middleeas…

This sentence is like a snake eating its own tail.

I’m not normally a “Let’s get X trending” Twitter guy. But I think it would be good if we got #TaiwanIsACountry trending. Because, you know, Taiwan is a country.

Look, maybe he has no factual reason to worry about what Mueller might find. But he’s spent a year talking like he’s stone cold guilty of something.

If you’re triggered by strangers wearing masks — even if you’re sure they don’t need to — to the point of saying something to them, never mind calling the authorities, you’re the problem.

“The Nation” doesn’t pay the baseball players or the teachers. Everything that happens in America isn’t done by the “nation.” That’s kinda how freedom works.

It says something he’s not deleting these tweets.

The claim that the founding fathers invested the Vice Presidency with unchecked unilateral power to void a national election is very funny to me. I just love the idea that all of these constitutional scholars missed this until 2020. 1/2

I knew this was coming, but that doesn't lessen the agony of this announcement. Charles Krauthammer is one of the most brilliant, decent, humane, impressive people I have ever had the honor to know, never mind call a friend. I am heartbroken over this. foxnews.com/politics/2018/06…

I long thought the sexualization of little girls in beauty pageants had become gross, and until recently there seemed to be a growing consensus about that. Now the sexualization of little boys dressed as girls is a cause of great celebration. Count me out.

Forget the immorality of this, and it is immoral. The idea that we can’t condemn a Russian war crime because it will make the Russians mad at the negotiating table is solid evidence that we are being played by the Russians at the negotiating table. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

For decades I’ve been complaining about the cheap talking point that the president — any president — “runs the economy.” But never in my lifetime has a president been so singularly responsible for screwing up the economy so obviously and so quickly.

I cannot imagine why someone would vote to confirm Matt Gaetz for host at Red Lobster, never mind Attorney General of the United States.

Welp, I got her a plane ticket. She's gonna spend several hours at Heathrow, which means I'm gonna see a thousand giant Toberlone bars on my credit card. But -- fingers crossed -- the kid is coming home.

As the father of a 14 year old girl, this “What’s the big deal?” crap enrages me.

A serious political party that took its role in American life and its own reputation seriously would abandon Trump before disseminating this garbage. Why wouldn't you resign rather than be part of this?

To the folks who think Bill Gates wants to use a vaccine to implant locator chips in you: I’m really pretty sure he has no desire to know where you are or anything else about you.

The guy who hasn’t stopped whining about every slight and insult ever directed at him thinks it’s totally weird that Zelensky talks too much about the guy who ordered the murder and rape of thousands of his countrymen.

Again, this No Kings thing is not my bag. But the almost cultish refusal to understand the point by Trump’s usual apologists is bizarre. Yes: He was lawfully and legitimately elected. But Stephen Miller’s Jacksonian-Wilsonian theory that Trump has a “mandate” to do whatever he wants is anti-Constitutional hogwash (it’s amazing how the position of two of the most iconic Democrats in American history is now the religion of the GOP). The word mandate doesn’t appear in the Constitution. It is impossible to have a “mandate” to exceed your authority under the Constitution. Even if Trump won an actual landslide (he didn’t), and all of the voters wanted him to exceed his authority, it wouldn’t (and certainly shouldn’t) matter. I honestly never want to hear the faux right wing eggheady refrain “we’re not a democracy, we’re a republic” ever again from people claiming that Trump can do whatever he wants because “the American people voted for this.” That is the exact opposite of republicanism ffs. It’s also not true. Trump got lots of votes from people who just wanted prices lower or didn’t want Harris to be president. The idea all of his voters pre-approved everything he has done or will do is more cultish nonsense. Regardless, if the American people want a politician to violate the Constitution that doesn’t give that politician a scintilla more right or authority to violate the constitution. I’m used to explaining this to democracy fetishists of the left. Didn’t expect to spend the last decades of my career trying to explaining it to populism fetishists of the right.

So brilliant of the Deep State to lay down the long con by embedding Cohen and Manafort in Trump World so early.

There’s a reason it’s an unpopular opinion: It’s neither intelligent nor moral. nitter.app/emilylindin/status/933…

The news is now out there. So, I should say something here. My beloved mom, Lucianne Goldberg, passed away yesterday. She died peacefully at home, surrounded by people – and pets! – who loved her. 1/

Because the V.P., elected on same ticket from the same party, becomes president, not the losing opponent. Because impeachment is a response not to the election but the actions of POTUS after being elected. Because impeachment doesn’t void the fact he was elected.

The idea that only violations of criminal law are impeachable is logically, legally, morally, constitutionally, historically and factually absurd.

It's not a photo.

The president of the United States' authority is not "total" in this or nearly anything else. If Obama ever said anything like that, talk radio conservatives would set themselves on fire.

If there was a city council meeting at which rightwingers said anything remotely as evil, stupid, wrong, and indefensible as this every single major media outlet would run it constantly and every Republican politician would be asked to condemn it. Even if you think I’m wrong, most conservatives agree will agree with me in whole or in part. Refusal to condemn this sort of garbage is a poison pill for the center left.

Breaking: "Paul Manafort Admits 'I've Lived My Life as a Gay Man,' vows to go after NRA."

Hearing fewer people insisting tear gas is a chemical weapon/war crime than I did a couple weeks ago with the caravan.

Good lord. thedailybeast.com/sen-kelly-…

This is so wonderfully stupid. It’s stupid from every angle. It’s stupid in every regard. It’s so pure in its stupidity it’s like the fentanyl of stupid.

I have political disagreements — from quibbles to more significant — with John McCain. But all of these self-described conservatives using the man’s funeral wishes to piss on his whole life just to prove their love of Trump are debasing themselves. It’s grotesque.

Correct. That is exactly what I am saying. gfile.thedispatch.com/p/this…

Kid left for Alaska this morning, but not before she gave me my hand drawn Father’s Day card as per tradition. I might frame this one.

Maybe don’t take hostages in the first place. But if you do take hostages, don’t hide them among civilians and then act like it wasn’t your fault civilians got killed in a rescue operation.

He didn’t really lose $50 billion, but this is a good illustration of why the idea of taxing unrealized gains is so ludicrous.