It’s that time of the week again, y’all: Market Manipulation Monday.

Yet another reminder to Europe and the rest of the world that the word and allyship of the USA no longer accounts for much. Donald will throw your whole-ass country under the bus to pull himself out of the hole he dug himself into.

This is such a fascinating story.

They don’t make 'em like Huey these days.

Democrats have no intention of changing anything meaningful. We learned that when Obama had a supermajority and became a black Dubya, despite his extravagant progressive promises.

Our only power is local now, and they know this, which is why they swift-boated Mamdani and ran a Democratic partisan against him.

Yes, it will take a major disruption to necessitate any meaningful change at the national level.

You get 'em Trump.

Just keep repeating those big tough words and I’m sure everyone will see you for the big, tough, thin, athletic, young man you absolutely are.

/s

What an asshole.

You just made those words up.

/s

The ruling parties love to smear the Greens on this side of the pond too, unfortunately. This fact inspires a chuckle any time I hear a Democrat or Republican talking about ‘democracy’. They’re like American Christians talking about how much they care about religious freedom.

“Significantly Misstate”

I hate this fascist euphemistic language.

Totally winning the war.

/s

More stuff to think about as Donald and friends insist that they’ve already won the war.

Totally man.

Looking at observable facts and using that as a basis for one’s opinion = Copium.

No, they’re not. In fact, they’ve largely abandoned the gerrymandering push because it worked against them in Texas. (Not out of ethics or altruism, of course, but because it was working against them.)

If anything, they’re bending over and taking it, though some are grift-maxxing before the clock runs out. This president and his cronies have managed to make themselves so historically unpopular that they can’t even project where they will have strength with enough accuracy to leverage all the different state majorities that they possess. They are getting legitimate Socialists elected. They have lost almost every election in 2025 and 2026, and most of those occurred in districts where Donald won by double digits in 2024. Going by the numbers he is even less popular than Jimmy Carter, and that takes effort because Carter is synonymous with ‘shitty president’.

They thought they had a mandate to reboot the Gestapo, when in fact, they were elected on affordability and decided to turbo-charge price gouging and inflation.

2026 is going to be a political bloodbath for the red team. The major downer here is that the blue team isn’t going to do anything meaningful to stop them or create positive change either.

I don’t know enough about this topic to have a useful opinion on it, but I love the thought the the US Military has limits and may not be able to make war indefinitely in the way that Donald intends to do in Iran.

That’s what regulation is.

Making things inconvenient over and over again so worse things don’t happen, or take significantly longer and require more concerted effort to happen. It’s a good thing. We should make it harder for bad actors to do shitty things.

Pretending something is pointless because it may not be 100% effective is absurd.

But, but… hear me out… does Donald feel like a big boy today?

Yeah?

Then worth it.

/s

True.

Also predicted in September 2024 that she would fail and they’d blame the Greens. And I was right.

Because they didn’t take five seconds and look at my profile.

Minutely is the correct word.

When we elect Democrats, the major difference is that the regressive movements progress more strongly at the state level, and the Dems we elected claim to be powerless to stop it. (Which we know is untrue because we’ve seen Donald wield near unilateral executive power.)

At the end of the day there is such little material difference between Democrats and Republicans that a growing segment of the population sees no use in missing a day’s pay to vote.

This is why I think it’s a tad incorrect to say “you get what you vote for”. Because we really don’t.