Back in 2024, when Jeff Bezos announced the WaPo would not endorse either candidate for president, I wrote about the implication: Bezos knew if the Felon won, he’d retaliate against everyone who hurt his snowflake fee-fees by not supporting him, while there was never any worry Harris would do the same.
This past week, Fred Clark at slacktivist made a similar point. Walmart recently announced it would start listing the impact of tariffs on its prices; the Felon whined they’d better not do that; an NPR reporter said other companies “don’t want to find themselves in Walmart’s shoes.” What she doesn’t say, as Clark writes, is that “When the thin-skinned Mad King gets peevish and starts calling you out by name, that signals that he is about to abuse his powers through some vindictive act of lawless retaliation … The abuse of power by this president is a given. It is assumed. The only question is whether or not it will also be accepted.”
And even allies will get called out if they dare to step to the deluded monarch.
Requiring applicants for federal jobs to write essays on their favorite felon executive orders. I’m guessing this is either an effort to weed out non-loyalists or some lower-ranked toady hoping to curry favor with the big guy. It also reflects thinking like Elon Musk’s: government employees must never question their orders.
Sheriff Scott Jenkins got 10 years in federal prison for appointing reserve deputies for cash. The Felon pardoned him. It’s not the only egregious pardon — after all, there’s donations and support to earn.
Did I mention President Snowflake cannot stand the heat? Unfortunately he won’t get out of the kitchen.
The government is moving to cancel all contracts with Harvard because the university dared step to the Republican God-King. The felon’s mouthpiece, Pam Bondi, is refusing to let the ABA vet judges.
Then there’s the whole Qatar jet thing. Oh, and the Felon is very, very upset anyone would sell Truth Social stock short. And CBO projections of low growthy are unpatriotic.
Down here in the Republican Banana Republic of North Carolina, Republicans have used their congressional dominance (we got some good gerrymandering here) to dominate the Election Board. I’m sure that won’t be abused, no sir.
It’s not just the Felon. GOP Rep. Andy Ogles wants Nashville’s mayor investigated for questioning ICE policy. Jesse Watters celebrates locking up Democratic politicians. A Newsmax host thinks this whole electing our leaders thing is a bad idea.
Elon Musk is upset because Media Matters has reported on X’s slide into fascist propaganda. So he’s gotten the FTC to investigate. And no, I do not believe any of these claims Musk is withdrawing from running as co-president, he’s just getting quieter about it.
Checking foreign visitors’ social media to decide if they love the Felon enough to enter the country is tyrannical, and, as noted at the link, bad for the economy. Oh, also no visas for foreign nationals who engage in online content moderation. As Paul Krugman says “you can be sure that the criteria for denying entry will go far beyond, you know, advocating terrorism.
A Colorado law protecting the rights of trans people specifically exempts churches. So the right-wing, trans-hating pastors lied that it doesn’t.
ICE really hates Democratic politicians for questioning their storm-trooper tactics.
Whatever the Felon plans if he gets control of the Library of Congress — destroy stuff that’s too “woke”? Steal the best stuff and sell it off? — it’s going to be bad.
I suspect the media would be much more critical of a Democratic administration doing this sort of thing because they’re confident Democrats aren’t going to attack them or sue them for not saying nice things (Republicans can’t stand dissent). There’s also the Republican branding problem: Republicans being bullying ruthless snakes is just accepted as the way it is, a feature too routine to mention. Either way that makes it much harder to hold this blatant corruption to account.
