Good one:

#BREAKING Anger in Far Northwestern banana-exporting republic of US after octogenarian ruler, Joe Biden, accuses far-white opposition Shite Christianist anti-mathist Republican party of lacking commitment to totalitarianism, branding their half-hearted philosophy "semi-fascism".
https://twitter.com/gathara/status/1564610758209585158?s=20&t=Ct-8Om_j-6YRIAxB5qOO7Q

DC talking heads in shambles

NYT on POLITICS
"REPUBLICANS IN DISARRAY"
(Wow! So it is actually possible to write that phrase!!)
https://twitter.com/ProofofBurden/status/1564408353463336962?s=20&t=gV8GauPLZCPIPJL1ZHxkww

NBC News First Read analysis: "Persuadable voters are breaking towards the party controlling the White House and Congress, which is unlike what we saw in 2010, 2018 or even earlier this year."

https://twitter.com/ProofofBurden/status/1564331898545098752?s=20&t=_8M5iyVl9xUSglA1P8W_Ng

Stock Price of Trump-Linked Company Plummets

The shell company that plans to take Trump Media and Technology Group public, saw its stock price slide Monday as shareholders consider delaying the merger and the former president contends with a host of legal problems, CNBC reports.

Shares of DWAC closed down nearly 8% at $25.32, off 16% this month and significantly below their 2022 peak of about $97.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/29/trump-spac-digital-world-stock-falls-as-shareholders-consider-merger-delay.html

KRUGMAN: Why student debt relief isn't elitist

What this means is that even if you subscribe to the Trump diner theory of politics — according to which the only voters who matter are blue-collar guys wearing baseball caps — you should be aware that some of those guys probably took out loans to attend trade schools or community colleges, all too often getting nothing but debt in return. Even among those who didn’t take out student loans, many probably have children, siblings, cousins or friends who did. So the Biden plan will touch many people.

*snip*

Just on general political principles, telling tens of millions of Americans that they’re lazy and irresponsible — that they’re all, as Ted Cruz put it, like a “slacker barista” who wasted years “studying completely useless things” — seems … not smart. To be brutally honest, that sort of caricature may have worked for Republicans when the insults were directed at urban Black people. But it’s likely to backfire when we’re talking about a broad spectrum of Americans who were just trying to move up in the world.

Furthermore, many of the most prominent critics of debt relief are almost comically out of touch, hypocritical, or both. Actually, scratch the “almost.”

For example, Marco Rubio has proudly declared that he paid off all his student debt — after being elected to the Senate and getting a book contract. Why can’t everyone do that?

the rest:
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2022/08/30/opinion/why-student-debt-relief-isnt-elitist/

Trump is spending his morning on Truth Social directly posting 4chan and Q messages

Trump is spending his morning on Truth Social directly posting 4chan and Q messages, a day after calling to be reinstated as president. He’s doing explicitly what he used to try to shade or use coded language for.

For good measure, he’s also promoting a nonsense idea that the FBI and antifa, not his supporters, stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, and a completely false claim about Ray Epps’ wife.

👊He has nothing to lose, he knows they will come for him, he doesn't know when. He's not going the easy way, once they have him it's over so he needs to stall them. How is he going to stop them? By motivating his "stand back and stand by" people. He will go out with a bang.

This is exactly why we don't want religious conservative zealots in charge of anything-

Judge grants DOJ's request to have *40* pages to respond to Trump's lawyers & lay out their position

🚨🚨BREAKING: Judge grants the DOJ’s request to have **40** pages to respond to Trump’s lawyers & lay out their position, giving them a huge chance to reveal more damning information. Trump’s idiotic move to ask for a “special master” will backfire no matter what now.
https://twitter.com/SpiroAgnewGhost/status/1564386463571066883?s=20&t=NfPQGncSQvQrRv1yU9_2ng
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1564392402378493956?s=20&t=K7st_hqW4a1fHuzPmfhUVg

Tony Ornato leaves Secret Service today

Tony Ornato was at the center of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony about being told that Trump was irate when informed he could not go to the Capitol on January 6. He left the Secret Service today.

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1564389221892325377?s=20&t=CKwItz4xjozr7r5hUiRIyA

Looked over the list of late pardons Trump granted. These 2 jumped out:

Aviem Sella District of Columbia N/A Espionage - conspiracy to gather or deliver national defense information (two counts); violation of Subversive Activities Control Act - receiving or obtaining classified information by foreign agent
https://www.justice.gov/par...

And this one:

Kristian Mark Saucier District of Connecticut 12 months' imprisonment and three years' supervised release, conditioned upon six months' home confinement and the performance of 100 hours' community service (August 19, 2016) Unauthorized retention of defense information

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-j-trump-2017-2021

TRUMPISM defined: "a violent fairytale of revenge on political enemies."

I think it's time we start covering Trumpism for what it is now.

It's no longer a political movement. It's a violent fairytale of revenge on political enemies.

Feds could've found a body in those Mar a Lago boxes and followers wouldn't care. It's about retribution, not facts.

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1564285426340433922?s=20&t=tlrO1usYLvpXGH75Fn5exA