What do you think? Kinda looks like a certified crashout to me. Every twist and turn in the news cycle these days brings us a new Trump crashout. Whining about this person or that person. This news coverage is wrong or mean to him. That coverage doesn’t get enough of his ‘good angle’ on whatever lie he is trying to push. I think the firehose of bullshit is the typical strategy of the White House, but I don’t think they have any governor on Trump’s posting speed.
Trump wasn't given a heads-up about Melania's public announcement on Epstein.Trump distracted the nation for 6 weeks w/ a disastrous, unwinnable war in Iran. MAGA is breaking over it & failed promises.So, Melania decides to bring it back in focus by distancing herself from Epstein.Love it.
There are an almost uncountable number of unforced errors for this White House.
Some of the best comedy is playing out in real life. The tweets and nonsense is a contant stream that write themselves more ridiculous as the days pass. Epstein has never gone away, and the focus on those files will only continue to intensify. The lack of answers has caused endless speculation, and for good reason. Accountability has not found its way to Washington D.C.
Remember #Benghazi and the wall-to-wall coverage that got? The endless hearings in Congress. The talking heads on Fox News streaming coverage of an absolute travesty of an American policy failure?
I remember. You remember. It seems now that this may have been an inoculation to a later revealed truth: the mainstream media was never on the side of the people and was always in the tank for powerful multinational corporations. “News entertainment” media conceived, constructed, and catapulted a seemingly rock-solid narrative into living rooms across the country that the Democratic presidency of Barack Obama was at the helm of an absolute catastrophic failure of governance and an immorally corrupt cover-up.
All the while, the drumbeat against the “lamestream media” was the co-narrative cemented into the Republican playbook as default setting de jour. That co-narrative lay in place the challenge to the Left: when we (the GOP) are in control and use this same corporate powerhouse apparatus to push out our own agenda, denigrate these same networks at your own peril. We now find ourselves in a media landscape owned by the ever corruptible (and fewer by the day) billionaire class who care nothing for facts.
We said, “No, no, we will not call out these media entertainment networks as bearing false witness; it’s just that the Republicans are making so much noise that it is profitable to cover them.” We reasoned away that the money must be in it, and that this is just the fair ‘both sides’ work of American media.
Ah, how wrong we were. Now we see that the mask is off. There is no attempt to hide how in the tank these entertainment networks are for the Republican Party. Concern over the apparently invalid status of President Joe Biden was the subject of countless network segments and even books by talking heads. Such is not the case for President Trump. Oh, no. There’s no concern of any magnitude.
Whatever the outcome is of this absolutely travesty of executive malicious decision-making, I want it recorded that I objected to it. I want it known that this decision went against all better judgment and reason.
Donald Trump's threat to strike Iran's bridges and power plants has raised the prospect of war crimes. The EU insists all sides should respect international law and exercise "maximum restraint". #EuropeNews
Our friends on the international stage are begging us to return to reason and sound decision-making. Who can blame them? The messages coming from the White House have been ripsaw and caused confusion among the markets and the American people alike. It is clear that the Trump administration has no interest in preserving our friendships with our allies. International diplomacy has deteriorated into parsing the president’s madness and responding in ways never thought necessary.
The president’s penchant for claiming he is the victim is lampooned around the globe. (Bluesky)
Best plausible option right now is Trump seizes on something, anything, as an excuse to save face while kicking the can down the road again and we're back to this point in a week or two.
Market manipulation seems to be the name of the game
I can only wonder at the sums of money being made on all of these insane geopolitical maneuverings. How many Polymarket bets have been placed on selectively released pre-information for the direct benefit of the hooked-in few? We can only wonder at such things in large part because our Department of Justice shows no real interest in prosecuting such underhanded dealings. We will need to trace all of these ill-gotten gains for later prosecution.
In fact, I also believe that this level of market manipulation leads to the conclusion that Trump will actually back down from his threat to cause utter destruction in Iran. This has always been about money and pumping as much of it out of any crisis situation he causes.
I’m not saying nothing will happen. But we have been ‘Lucy with the football’ one too many times to think it’s what he’s implying. The long and short of it is: we deserve better.
Mainstream media seems to turn a blind eye to the latest posting by Trump. This latest post is unhinged. It shows a complete failure of leadership by a president unconcerned with facts and reality.
These little tirades evaporate when the markets open. He’s transparent and tiresome. And what’s with the “Praise be to Allah” bs? Using the “if any other president said this” argument, while accurate, is just as tiring.
Even the phrase “saber-rattling” doesn’t convey the right sense of nausea about this post. This isn’t the projection of power. There’s no great lesson in leadership at work here. It sounds like a child bully, because he is a child bully.
Mainstream media needs to take this seriously and treat this for what it is: the ravings of an unhinged president, untethered to reality.
Just because something happens that changes the makeup of the current administration does not mean it’s a good thing. With the ouster of AG Pam Bondi, we now face a new level of uncertainty in the Trump administration.
Todd Blanche does not represent an improvement in quality as the nation’s top “law enforcement officer”. As Trump’s former personal lawyer, we must consider how impartially he will apply U.S. law as he continues the work assigned to the Department by the president.
We should aim to restore normalcy, a time when the Department of Justice based its prosecutorial decisions on the facts, free from external or political influences. I’m uncertain whether Pam Bondi’s departure brings us closer to this goal or pushes us further toward the apparent misuse of the DOJ for political purposes.
I don’t feel any particular need to keep active tabs on the day-to-day Trump-spewing from the White House. I’ve included this image of the White House from Getty because it looks kind of foreboding and captures a bit of how I feel about the whole thing.
A war with Iran was never going to be a good thing, nor was it a smart move. We’ve imperiled ourselves as a nation, and more specifically, our troops, for seemingly no coherent reason. No rationale or Wednesday night quarterbacking on April Fools’ Day will bring any sanity to the situation.
Labeling this current effort as a “distraction” from more significant issues facing our nation is accurate; however, it downplays the reality that we have several urgent matters to address.
So the Strait of Hormuz isn't going to just open itself, and the US isn't going to just walk away, and a lot more damage will be done to energy infrastructure all around the Gulf, and the chatter of the past 48 hours was just that… talking down the markets. Buckle up! www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/o…
Gas prices continue to rise. The current military assault on Iran will drive them higher.
I choose to eat a peanut butter egg and hope for saner minds to steer us in a better direction. It is not giving up so much as it is hoping for more, and the better that we all deserve in this moment.
Henry Grey Earls talks about the recent Manosphere splash guy — Clavicular (Youtube)
Earls argues that the influencer Clavicular (Braden Peters) represents more than just a self-help creator; he embodies Friedrich Nietzsche’s warnings about nihilism in the modern age.
That makes sense to me. Earls’ comments about the absence of a higher meaning suggest that Clavvicular focuses solely on obsessive self-optimization (looksmaxxing) rather than on internal transformation. When people start to become disposable in the pursuit of maximum self-indulgence, it creates a harsh and unpleasant society overall. In this context, empathy is seen as a critical weakness, regarded as the least attractive trait to possess, and is therefore avoided at all costs.
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” Friedrich Nietzsche
