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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing

A good summary of how wannabe JD Vance running mate Sen. Eric Schmitt today made a complete joke out of himself, then, in the Trumpian style, refused to admit he’d made an obvious mistake. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...

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TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Both Benny Johnson and Sean Hannity have now deleted their tweets claiming that Eric Schmitt put Jack Smith "on the spot" and set him up for perjury charges with his faceplant.

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At 1:41, you can see it's a poster depicting Fani Willis. Schmitt clearly thought this was a big gotcha moment that was going to make headlines, so his staff pre-prepared this poster as the icing on the cake. Having realized his gotcha moment backfired spectacularly, he just scrapped the poster.

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And that's been going swimmingly.

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Like clockwork, the "migrant caravan" only becomes an issue in October of an election year.

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Based on current advertising, it seems the MAGA Party's message for the midterms is all Democrats are, categorically, woke communists. Not sure how that makes diesel cheaper.

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Kennedy Center Is ‘Crumbling’ Without Trump’s Name, DOJ Says

To be clear: Congress appropriated 100s of millions of dollars to renovate the Kennedy Center, at Trump's urging. What Trump is now doing is saying he will refuse to make those renovations, using that extant money, unless they put his name on the building. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

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The Kennedy Center faces financial and physical collapse unless the decades-old performing arts venue recognizes President Donald Trump by name, Justice Department officials told a federal appeals cou...

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not all the voters who were part of NYT's roundtable about the Texas Senate race liked Jame Talarico. But *all of them* hated Ken Paxton, referring to Paxton as "corrupt" or "crooked" or "immoral"

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Less than 40 days from Election Day, and polls are showing the MAGA Party is having to compete in districts Trump won by double digits. Americans are roundly unhappy with the governing party and even MAGAs are indifferent about supporting them.

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The technique of double down no matter what, and never admit you’re wrong—which Trump learned from his mentor, disgraced and disbarred mob lawyer Roy Cohn—doesn’t seem to be working anymore.

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s unusual for a US president to meet a fellow head of state at the airport. Usually they are met at the White House. Its also odd for Trump, who enjoys publicly performing power and dominance over others, since it makes him look like a weak supplicant sucking up to Xi Jinping.

Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Iran War is the number one driver of high prices in the United States. Nearly every Republican senator voted for it to keep going, including some up for election in November.

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Has Trump already referred to the judge he nominated, but who ruled against him, as “disloyal” yet?

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good work, Trump. You sure showed … American small businesses?

Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump’s poll numbers are currently the lowest of his entire political career, so please go right ahead

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

“to the victor go the spoils” is basically the whole thing the UN was designed to prevent

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did Trump have a nervous breakdown because he wasn’t surrounded by 100 pounds of plastic, gold-colored wall ornaments?

Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If sanctions were eased, Kim would be less able to convince his subjects the only reason they’re poor is because of sanctions.

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In addition to not having any particular objective in mind when he launched his unilateral, illegal war of choice with Iran, Trump also had no strategy for winning. He seemed to think massive bombing campaigns would bring the Iranian regime to its knees, where they would happily surrender.

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Congress: White House employees are subject to financial disclosures “The most transparent administration ever”: Okay, all people doing anything important for us are outside advisors, not government employees; now don’t ever ask about Jared Kushner or Steve Witkoff again

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But I was told gas prices are high because Joe Biden was the president 19 months ago.

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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The FBI believes women pretending to be tradwives are targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in order to dox them, per The Guardian

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

While America engaged in an actual war which is going badly this guy doing a sweaty photo-op for a pretend military with a t-shirt that reads "This is War."

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Does Trump think truthful reporting that he dislikes because it makes him look bad will go away if he bans reporters from the White House? We’re in a new level of his cognitive dissonance: where he has to pretend things are not happening they way they are in order for his psyche to function.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026

BASH: He's a US citizen MARKWAYNE MULLIN: He wasn't arrested BASH: He was arrested. He was later released, but he was arrested. Do Americans need to carry around proof of citizenship now? MULLIN: If you're a citizen, you have no reason to fear

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The NFL opener had 25 million viewers. The only TV broadcasts with four times that number—100 million—are Super Bowls and the final episode of MASH, which, even after 43 years, remains the most-watched television broadcast that wasn't a Super Bowl. In summary: what an obvious, pathetic lie.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Then they all yuk it up together at the WHCA dinner

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Asked about his CNN, MSNOW and Politico ban, Trump says it's "because they're fake news" and he's "so tired of reading and seeing fake news," adding that "you need a free press" and a "fair press." He then says there's "no particular reason" for the ban before lying about the economy and Iran war.

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Their only qualification was personal loyalty to him. That’s the only qualification he needs for anyone he puts in charge of anything.

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"A fish came up to me. Big fish, powerful fish. Tears streaming down his fishy face. 'Sir,' he said to me, 'sir, can you please ban fishing, sir?'"

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Also, Trump has apparently abandoned any pretense of overthrowing the Iranian regime or even stopping their nuclear weapons development. He's been solely focused on the Strait of Hormuz, which was free and open before he started this war.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Give me what I want or I'll tear it down. He's demanding ransom and holding the nation hostage.

A post by Acyn on Twitter, paraphrasing Trump: "For me to go and fix it and subsidize it, I think the Trump administration should have recognition. If we don't do that, it's going to close and get ripped down."

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"If they won't let me illegally name the Kennedy Center after myself, no one can have the Kennedy Center"

Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Ron White to Joe Rogan: Talarico didn't cost this state $6 million in fines and lawsuits, and that happened with Ken Paxton. Guess who paid that $6 million? You and me paid the $6 million for his bribery. His own party impeached him. He's a criminal. He's a piece of shit.

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The same day Trump said he would cut off all trade with the EU if it got closer to Canada, MAGA Mike Johnson decided rather than act as a constitutional check on the power of the 80-year-old, dementia-addled president, he would send the representatives home before the midterms.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Kennedy Center thing embarrassed him by taking his name off the building. He won't be happy until it's destroyed.

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Trump and the MAGA Party haven't totally tanked the economy yet. Give us two more years, and I promise, there will be nothing left." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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JD Vance Pleads With Voters: 'Give Us Another Chance'

JD Vance and the Republican Party are running out of ideas for how to appeal to disillusioned Americans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Through August 31, the House was in session for only 65 out of 243 days, the lowest since 1994. This Congress has enacted the fewest number of bills into law since 1990.

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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There's a non-zero chance Trump will demolish the Kennedy Center simply and only because the courts won't let him attach his name in big letters to a memorial for a slain president. This is not what strong macho men do. This is what pathetic, petulant, whiny babies do.

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Clearly, the reason this administration is losing its illegal war of choice with Iran is because troops aren't sufficiently attractive.

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Since Petulant Baby Trump had a temper tantrum about not being able to claim the Kennedy Center for himself, one wonders what will become of the $200 million Congress *already* appropriated for the renovations Trump refuses to make until his name is stamped on the building?

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Trump isn't disabusing anyone of the accusation that he's a pathetic, sniveling baby

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Kennedy Center Board Votes to Close Main Building for Renovations

Baby Trump has a temper tantrum and breaks his toys so no one else can play with them: if he can't put his name on the Kennedy Center, then there will be no Kennedy Center www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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The decision comes hours after a judge blocked President Trump’s name from going back on the building’s exterior.

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Now that the Supreme Court has struck down Trump's latest attempt to disenfranchise voters and prevent them from registering their ever-increasing hatred for him, expect for him to consider more drastic and despotic ways to avoid accountability.

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