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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 25m

Today, Trump renewed his contention that he "deserves" a Nobel Prize. Shortly after that, he once again evidenced he had no idea how trade works or what a trade deficit is, suggesting we'd save $40B by not importing Swiss watches. Is there a Nobel Prize for Mathematical Idiocy?

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The GOP has announced that after Oklahoma and Alabama, Trump's next campaign stop will be Antarctica.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have to admit, I like seeing and hearing tons of Trump voters saying they regret their votes - here on social media, on TV, and elsewhere - but I'm frustrated that more voters interviewed aren't more focused on his constant lying, corruption, lying, ill health, lying, incompetence, or lying.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wish we could take every Republican Trump-voting adult and strap them to a chair like Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange and make them watch a teleprompter slowly playing the text of Trump's interview with Time Magazine. It would be game over.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyone who reads Time's recent interview with Trump would clearly conclude that the biggest story on Earth, this day and every day, is that the President of the United States is seriously unwell and allowed to continue in office - unfit, untethered, and unchecked. Unbelievable.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump, preparing to board AF1 to Tennessee today, looking lumpy, ruddy, puffy, blotchy, stiff, hunched, loser-y, and disheveled.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump 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!

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here'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."

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here'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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Xi 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I fantasize that when we get to 3 weeks before the midterms, we start hearing the phrase: "No Republican seat is safe."

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Remember "analogies" from college? Here's a new one: Trump TV is to News Media what Melania is to Documentary Film.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is an adaptation from a post I made a couple of years ago on Twitter, when it was called that. (I still call it that.)

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Venezuelan 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

November 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Congratulations 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It'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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Saudi 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?"

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Man oh man, these next 6 weeks are going to be LIT!

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sen. 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."

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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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trump, 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

At 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For what it's worth, Polymarket how gives Democrats a 59% chance to sweep both chambers in the midterms.

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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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The 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!

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Samuel 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Saudi Arabia must be wondering right about now: "What the hell did we get for the billions we paid to the f*cking Trump family?"

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

His 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Would 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?

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Trump 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?

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mitch 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.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The happy and vivacious couple, in a moment of peaceful reverie. True love is so beautiful.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Two unmistakable truths: Natalie's bag keeps getting markedly bigger, and her smile-like facial expression is permanently stuck.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Saudi Arabia must be wondering right about now what exactly they bought for the billions they paid to the Trump family.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mitch McConnell was asked whether he would attend the Sept 11 events. He did not respond. Dead silence.

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