Today's Belle

Gaslighting is all they've got now.

Notice how the Trump gang dismisses the ranchers' complaints, telling them they should be grateful their product is selling at a high price, and that they should be helping consumers by lowering their prices.

Classic abuser.

Round About Portland

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Overheard

MAGA Bros are the guys

who're convinced

that the waitress

is totally into them

⬆︎114%

MermaidMamaMaggie

Has And Has Not

Trump has:

• Cause the US to be put on a Human Rights Watch List for the first time ever
• Driven up inflation
• Driven down employment
• Reduced GDP growth
• Cut taxes for rich people by stealing trillions of dollars from working families
• $300B in SNAP benefits
• $1T in Medicaid
• Fired more than 200,000 federal public service professionals
• Eliminated our ability to gauge the economy by firing the statistics pros
• Degraded US soft power by eliminating USAID
• Hamstrung our ability to respond to national emergencies and natural disasters
• FEMA
• CDC
• NWS
• Committed at least 8 evidence-backed impeachable offenses

Trump has not:

• Ended 7 wars - or 8 or 10 - or whatever he says at any given moment
• Brought peace to the Middle East
• Saved "tens of millions" of lives
• Made $20T in trade deals
• Brought in $20T in foreign investment
• Lowered prescription prices by 100%, or 500%, or 1200%
• Lowered the cost of living
• Gas remains above seasonal averages
• Groceries are up by 8% - 12% - 25%
• Rent is steady or rising

Donald Trump is a fuckup and a loser. He knows it - even though he spends an awful lot of time and effort denying it - and he knows we know it - and he knows the MAGA rubes are finally starting to catch on.

Today's Robert

In the end it's just a well-organized pile of sticks and rocks, but...

And it becomes even more obvious that Trump is going to absurd lengths to tell us he gets to do whatever he wants, and what he wants right - more than anything in the world - is to keep us focused on stupid shit like his little vanity project instead of the reasons behind it.

• Epstein files
• Outright, swamp-wallowing corruption
• His constant nuzzling of Putin
• The unbelievably stupid "policies" that are sweeping away far more than part of the East Wing

Find Out What They Want

In sales, you need to figure out what your prospect wants, and then figure out how to get it for him, without giving away the whole store.

In this resistance movement thing, we need to figure out what the other guy wants, and then figure out how to deprive him of it, without dying on a hill that doesn't really matter.

The One Big Bamboozle (updated)

The Instagram post truncates, so I went looking for the full version.

Found it on YouTube: (via Eddie Roadcap)

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A New Golden Age

We are now fully arrived at the 21st Century Golden Age Of Quackery.