For me, this paragraph sums it up:

_Several campaign officials had told me, throughout the spring and summer, how excited they were about working in the next Trump White House. Now those same people were telling me—as paperwork was being distributed internally to begin the process of placing personnel on the transition team and in the prospective administration—that they’d had a change of heart. The past three months had been the most unpleasant of their careers. Win or lose, they said, they were done with the chaos of Donald Trump—even if the nation was not. _

They had to be right next to Trump to realize how toxic he is. How voluntarily blind can you be?

They’re gonna save themselves (of course), but will they do anything to save the country from Trump? No, of course not, that would require a spine.

That was a grim read. My favorite part:

Reportedly died by suicide after shooting himself in the chest five times.

The whole God damn family is whack

Just so people can judge for themselves…

Firestick: https://www.firesticktricks.com/

I’m so disappointed :

Tim Burton’s Stale Hollywood Gothic: Bobbert says new Beetlejuice not nearly as erotic as the musical

Trump gets to be the last one to talk on EVERY exchange.

To be clear, you don’t have a plan?

I have the concepts of a plan.

To be clear, you don’t have a plan?

I have the concepts of a plan.

And close hers.

Yeah, so far it feels like the second option.

But I have to admit, I’m not sure it works in his favour. He sounds nuts. More than usual. She’s getting under his skin.

I also think the quick fact checking done by the anchors (very few things so far) is really making him furious.

That bit about pet eating immigrants was… Interesting.

It sounds like something I’ve heard before…

Target

Cambodia’s previous military and political leadership, middle-class professionals, businesspeople, intellectuals, ethnic and religious minorities

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide

This guy’s whole career is despicable.

Let’s say you had the choice between :

1-Getting a million dollars, no strings attached

Or

2-Trump goes to prison for his crimes for the rest of his life

Which one do you choose?

A million dollars buys nice things, but I don’t think it would ever come close to the joy and satisfaction I’d get from option 2.

Republican 2024 vice presidential candidate JD Vance once said about his wife, Usha: “Obviously, she’s not a white person … But I just, I love Usha. She’s such a good mom.”

LOL

_Arend also defended their portrayal of Russia as a country with a free press, prompting challenges from viewers to critique Russian leadership and ongoing conflicts. _

It’s only the beginning:

_By February 2025, the Biden administration will also unveil up to 15 more drugs that will be subject to the next round of price talks, with agreed-upon prices going into effect in 2027. Drugmakers will have until the end of that month to decide whether to participate in the program.

After that second round, CMS can negotiate prices for another 15 drugs that will go into effect in 2028. The number rises to 20 negotiated medications a year starting in 2029.

“Sometimes I think people get caught up in the fact that their drug isn’t on the list, but it will be on the list at some point in the future if they’re taking a drug that’s resulting in high costs,” Purvis said. _

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word “doublethink” involved the use of doublethink.

George Orwell

Look who invited her to speak:

https://youtu.be/1t4vWWpr_XE?si=F6PPd1LviQyo_4ui

Prepare to be shocked.

I’m French Canadian. A friend of mine lives in Paris. I go to Paris fairly often. When I’m there, I speak exclusively English to anyone I don’t know.

If I speak French, my god damn native tongue, they either make sure to tell me my accent is horrendous or they reply in German. In either case, they take this condescending tone… You know the one.

When I speak English, not only do I have the upper hand on the language, but they don’t know I can understand them perfectly. Win win for me.

Vous êtes chiants, les Parisiens.