Oh look - a blatant quid pro quo.

Supreme Court apologists have weakly been trying to excuse the Court's "gifts aren't bribes" ruling by pointing out that it still counts as corruption if the thing of value is given in advance and if there's an overt quid pro quo involved.

Both of those are the case here, so even by the Court's new abysmally weak standards, this counts as official corruption.

So who thinks anything will come of it?

Yeah - me neither.

At the least, that should qualify as manslaughter.

That'd be about par for the course. When too much attention is focused on their abject evil in Gaza, one of their strategies is to suddenly go stir the shit in Iran or Lebanon or Syria and get attention focused there instead.

History, as it does, will recognize this genocide for what it is, and will not only condemn thise who are carrying it out, but those who are standing idly by and letting it happen.

One would think that Germsns would be particularly aware of that fact, and after already being responsible for one genocide, would deliberately not be complicit in another.

The DNC is a direct and explicit enemy of leftism and of we the people.

If we have elections in 2026 (I'm somewhat doubtful), it's not going to be enough to vote against the Republicans. The first and arguably even more important step is going to be to primary every single one of the corrupt sacks of neolib shit that are enabling Trump and the Republicans.

Business as usual establishment Democrats possibly aren't going to be enough to overcome the Republicans, and even if they win, certainly aren't going to actually do anything to oppose them. We the people need real, honest, courageous populist leftsts - people who won't just mouth leftist platitudes while gorging themselves at the corporate soft money trough, but who will actually stand up and fight to save this country from the greatest threat it's faced in modern history.

Fatima Hassouna died with nine members of her family in a direct strike on their home in Gaza City on Wednesday.

She didn't just "die" - she was murdered.

There's only one word fit to describe this and the people responsible for it - they are evil. It really is just that simple.

I have zero doubt of both of those things.

I think he saw tariffs as something that would provide him with leverage, and that's it. I don't think he's ever had a clear goal or an end game, and I'm pretty sure he's never even been entirely clear on just what tariffs are or how they work. He just saw a weapon to hold over other countries' heads in order to swing some kind of deal, and grabbed ahold for that reason alone.

And while he prides himself on his supposed deal-making prowess, never forget that this is a man who couldn't even keep a casino running in the black.

And broadly - he's really rather obviously insane. It's debatable how much of his brazen disconnect from consensual reality is delusion and how much is lies, but it works out to insanity either way.

Even if he has to make it up.

It sucks to even be in partial agreement with the broligarchs, but as a rural American, I have zero sympathy for this fuckhead or anyone else involved in the broadband fund.

The government has been pouring money into broadband expansion for decades, and for decades, internet providers have been sopping up that money while doing exactly nothing to actually earn it.

Is there any one quality that more of the people surrounding Trump share than being serial sex abusers?

I can't think of one.

The Toddler-in-chief strikes again.

Yes we do.

He's leading a coup.

On behalf of the would-be US dictator Donald Trump, he and his mercenaries are taking control of vital government functions away from the duly appointed authorities and claiming it as their own.