The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026After listening to Eric Schmitt today, I think it's high time we instituted a measure whereby - if a speaking lawmaker makes a brazenly false assertion, an airhorn warning goes off - and if they do it again or double down on it, the floor underneath them opens, swallows them up, and they disappear. 3643385
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jack Smith is professional, admirable and unflappable. His motivations are unimpeachable. His adherence to the Rule of Law is steadfast and refreshing. He has zero political rhetoric. He shows no personal or professional sensitivity. He communicates accurately. He would be an ideal attorney general. 22383117
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So far, the highlights of the Jack Smith hearing from Republicans consist of them asking him whether he believes in the Easter Bunny, whether he attended a Hawks game, and calling him a dirtbag. We need to put the Republican Party out of ITS misery AND OURS in November. 1730683
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I hope there's at least one patriotic American in Trump's senior employ who remembers to craft a master key to the bunker under the ballroom so we can forcibly remove him without much collateral demolishment. 1717131
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trump, preparing to board AF1 to Tennessee today, looking lumpy, ruddy, puffy, blotchy, stiff, hunched, loser-y, and disheveled. 5623062
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trump freaked out today over the well-documented story that FL Gov candidate Byron Donalds scrubbed Trump's name from his website to create distance. Of course, the story is real. When it broke there was side by side evidence. Besides, how did Trump even find out about it? NATALIE!! DO YOUR JOB! 1039079
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here's what I expect Xi is telling his close aides upon return: "It's as we suspected. They surround me with money and pageantry. He thinks everything that impresses him, impresses me. He is an oblivious and foolish man. There is great division there. Opportunity for us. We must watch closely." 422652
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think we can safely conclude now that Scott Jennings' representation that he had a 20-minute conversation with Mitch McConnell in July, was an out-and-out lie. 1332875
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's a new photo of the happy and vivacious couple, enjoying life, and privately contemplating how they can do more good for the world. True love is such a wonderful thing. 4229779
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Xi is visiting, the UN is in session, the Free Press is under attack - all big stories - but THE biggest story on Earth today, is same as yesterday: The US President is seriously unwell and allowed to continue in office - unfit, untethered and unchecked. Unbelievable. Unfathomable. Unacceptable. 427275
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Every loss for Trump is a win for America. He does NOT prioritize the best interests of the American people - he's unable to do so, pathologically. He is trying to sell the word America while he ushers in an era of Un-America. He IS the Anti-American. 716140
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I fantasize that when we get to 3 weeks before the midterms, we start hearing the phrase: "No Republican seat is safe." 1119831
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Remember "analogies" from college? Here's a new one: Trump TV is to News Media what Melania is to Documentary Film. 616734
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A SAD, MALIGNANT, DELUSIONAL CONMAN AND FRAUD ... No integrity; No compassion; No empathy; No shame; No conscience; No courage; No character; No humanity; No morality; No manners; No respect; No music; No books; No happiness; No love; No friends; No honor. Not even a dog. 2531176
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Trump is speaking now about Iran and global uncertainty. Sadly, it is WITH audio. Accordingly, he is full of bluster, bravado, threats and name-calling. All I hear, as a behaviorist, is an injured narcissist with poor polls desperately feigning grandiosity. Same as it ever was. 720250
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Venezuelan oil is unusable sludge. The Greenland deal is NOT new. The Strait of Hormuz is CLOSED. Belarus says they've no potash to sell. China isn't buying soybeans they said they would. Saudi Arabia is under attack, Trump sitting it out. He is a distrusted deceitful disaster, despised globally. 15466163
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026November needs to be a Blue Wave so big, so huge, that it reaches into territories beyond the blue and purple, so that it can reasonably be characterized as a voter revolt. 1027772
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Congratulations to President Trump for FINALLY achieving an approval rating in the 20's. American Research Group's 9/16-20 poll has him @ 29% with 68% disapproval. Roughly same numbers as root canal, chlamydia, and gnats. But even root canal hasn't had its press coverage suspended. 622267
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's been three days since he said this, but I think it deserves an encore: “If we buy $2 billion worth of bananas from Brazil, we’re actually losing $2 billion. So if we stop eating bananas, we actually save $2 billion.” And this guy is in charge of the world's largest economy. 2032726613
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Trump is conducting an online poll in which he is seeking to rename Artificial Intelligence as either “Superior Intelligence” or “Extreme Intelligence,” and it's so ironic to me that this poll is being conducted by a moron, and a person whose only intelligence is Unintelligence. 1420639
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Saudi Arabia must be mildly upset right about now. I imagine them thinking: "What the f*ck did we buy for the f*cking billions we f*cking spent and paid to the m*therf*cking Trump family?" 1627655
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Man oh man, these next 6 weeks are going to be LIT! 1217922
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sen. Mark Kelly on Nicolle today: "This is what happens when the country elects a reality TV star as President. He doesn't think he's governing a country. He thinks he's running a production. And when the production starts failing and the ratings go down, he throws the press out of the White House." 9537135
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026** JUST IN ** The bipartisan discharge petition for the Epstein Files Transparency Act II now has commitments from Democrats and four GOP - Massie, Mace, Norman, and Fitzpatrick. A vote WILL occur when the House returns post midterms. The bill empowers state AGs, victims and Congress to sue the DOJ. 521059
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Trump, from NC, on Fox: “If we buy $2 billion worth of bananas from Brazil, we’re actually losing $2 billion. So if we stop eating bananas, we actually save $2 billion.” Idiot is not a strong enough word. 4028068
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026At any other time in our history, an American President saying, in public, in front of an audience, that if America stopped trading with every country with which there was a trade deficit, America would make at least $1.5 trillion a year -- it would have ended his Presidency. 820148
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Every single day during the presidency of Joe Biden, the Strait of Hormuz was open. Biden never pushed to have monuments named after himself. Biden never threatened to bulldoze a building if his name wasn't added to it. And Biden never accidentally confused one of his ex-wives with a woman he raped. 729881
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026For what it's worth, Polymarket how gives Democrats a 59% chance to sweep both chambers in the midterms. 1013826
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Oh, please, please, two more years - please, please, pleeeeeeeze!" - begs the world's most disingenuous, inauthentic, artificially contrived, chameleon-like sociopath. 1815243
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Fed has raised interest rates by a quarter point. They have their reasons - economic fundamentals, inflation, etc. I am a total novice in economics. But I DO know this: If our entire government did what the Fed just did - the opposite of what Trump wants - what a better country this would be! 420239
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are hyper-partisan, ideologically extreme, and 'supremely' corrupt. Alito's wife is raging and recalcitrant, and Thomas' wife is batsh*t crazy. In the absence of there being much I - or anyone - can do about it, I thought I'd at least post it. 723640
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Saudi Arabia must be wondering right about now: "What the hell did we get for the billions we paid to the f*cking Trump family?" 1717832
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A federal judge ruled today that Trump's name could NOT appear on the JFK Performing Arts Center's building exterior, blocking yet another joint effort by a whiny insecure narcissist and a shameful sycophantic Board to plaster a cancerously toxic name on the storied building. 926170
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026His energy swings are massive now. He's either jacked on meds and hyper, yelling at, and interrupting people he's speaking with, or he's subdued, droopy-faced, rambling nonsensically, and/or nodding off. There's a delay between each for recalibration. He's decompensating - in real time. 1122653
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Would you really be that surprised if she opened her mouth a little larger and there was an inner set of jaws with smaller teeth that pushed out and snapped, like in Alien? 4312356334
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Trump says he will cut off all trade entirely with "some nations" unless the Fed lowers interest rates. How does that even make sense? And who does this nitwit - in his delusionally defective brain - even think he is threatening? 1424772
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Mitch McConnell’s staff has announced that he will be returning to the Senate next week. I have a tough time believing this ... but I'm told they were dead serious. 2426243
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The happy and vivacious couple, in a moment of peaceful reverie. True love is so beautiful. 3625962
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Two unmistakable truths: Natalie's bag keeps getting markedly bigger, and her smile-like facial expression is permanently stuck. 2017441
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Saudi Arabia must be wondering right about now what exactly they bought for the billions they paid to the Trump family. 1725251
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Mitch McConnell was asked whether he would attend the Sept 11 events. He did not respond. Dead silence. 1731756
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026RIP, Dallas Cowboys' 2026 season. #ETTD 88387111441
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Some SERIOUS mouth droop going on here. Look closely - it's pulling down his entire cheek. 3928876
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Here's Trump blinking as he soaks in the solemn ceremony, alongside his doting and loving wife, who is thinking about the tragedy of 9/11, and not at all about how much she's making to show up and sit near him. 2217133
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Trump is speaking at the 25-year memorial 9/11 event, with his annoying inflections, erratic tone, and politicized emphasis, and it captures none of the solemnity and decorum of the moment. Everyone there, especially those legitimately impacted that day, wishes he would please shut up. 1015829
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I understand the compulsion of our commentators to apply logic and math and meaning to everything Trump says, like the $5000 payments, because their bosses want the access, and to treat his words as if they impart information. But they don't. It's pure spewage. Treat his words like a fart or belch. 1823158
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026SCOTUS (Judge Kavanaugh, again) has just stayed the TRO that tried to force the new Pro-R map for Missouri's November election. This time, Kavanaugh referred it to the entire Court, and there was no noted dissent. The Missouri Supreme Court decision is in force again. This is good for Dems. 016834
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Halfway through the Trump-a-Loser, the entire upper deck at the American Airlines Center is empty. 720243
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The biggest story on planet Earth today, is the same as it was yesterday: The President of the United States is seriously unwell and allowed to continue in office - unfit, untethered, and unchecked. Unbelievable. Unfathomable. Unacceptable. 827586
The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The midterms are in 55 days. That means, we are 56 days away from hearing about all the districts the Republicans gerrymandered in their favor and lost anyway. Let's look forward to laughing about it together. 1119132