*Trying to suspend
The headline is not doing constitutional democracy and the rule of law any favors by making casual readers think they have that power, which (sorry to be all technical, NYT) they do not have.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
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Finally, something AI can do for us that no human wants to or should have to do.
Don't believe for a second congressional Republicans are going to "awaken." We're well past that. More fear just will make them cower and grovel even harder.
They were already so spineless at two impeachments that they refused to save themselves or us from this, when salvation from Trump was served to them on a silver platter - they're weak, pathetic lumps of misshapen ego.
"I'm so angry that I have to vote for this [pedophile / nazi / conman] because the democrats are so much worse, I've been told!"
So what about the Democrats, I asked? “They hate us and won’t accept us. And if they don’t change their attitude, Trump and MAGA will keep winning.”
That was echoed by former Republican congressman Joe Walsh, who regularly speaks out about this. “If there’s not room for center-right former Republicans in today’s Democratic Party, then today’s Republican Party will remain victorious and our democracy will disappear,” Walsh told me.
Most of us will accept you. Just stop being awful people. It isn't hard.
I hope there is someone keeping track of this firehose of sewage so we know what needs to get cleaned up in the less-dystopian future (if we're lucky enough to have one). Do we start a Project 2029(?), to return the country to sanity?
Again, I'm not sure we'll ever have the opportunity because the horizon is pretty dark. But it's overwhelming just trying to keep track of how many of the country's worst people are implementing their dream agendas with no oversight or limitation whatsoever.
Tim Walz got it. It's a shame they kneecapped his normal-people messaging.
I agree, but in context he was just extending a metaphor that treated the voters/citizens as "owners," presumably because he thought Trump would understand the language better.
"As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale. We're sitting in one right now," Carney told Trump. "Having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign last several months, it's not for sale. Won't be for sale, ever," he said.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5387465/trump-carney-canada-tariffs
It's classic sociopathic, narcissistic negging. "You're worthless, the only value you have is if you stick with me."
In an ironic twist, the Trump administration deported gang members from the U.S. to El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center prison who faced federal indictments that could have resulted in their testifying in court about the pact with Bukele.
This isn't irony, this is complicity and corruption. Trump clearly gave Bukele the visit and public press conference as a reward for holding those prisoners no questions asked. The prisoners also not being able to testify against Bukele is a feature to Trump and Bukele, not a bug.
The leopards yearn for the faces.