Volcano of Bullshit

We are led — I am using that verb in the loosest sense — by a man whose idea of courage is bullying, whose idea of honor is knavery, whose idea of loyalty is convenience, whose idea of patriotism is self-idolization, and whose idea of principle is anything that suits his need and his pleasure.

— Bret Stephens, NYT 2026/06/19

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IF I WERE PRESIDENT, THE RUSSIA/UKRAINE WAR WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED, BUT EVEN NOW, IF PRESIDENT, I WOULD BE ABLE TO NEGOTIATE AN END TO THIS HORRIBLE AND RAPIDLY ESCALATING WAR WITHIN 24 HOURS. (Sic all caps)

— DJT, TruthSocial, 2023/01/26

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Oof, so many fails. An abject purge from the Kennedy Center, a tatty Iran deal, a brackish Reflecting Pool. And at the People's House, pay-per-view bloodsport rife with jingoism, fireworks, flyovers, honor guards for Nazi thugs, grift vast and brazen, the crass smear of an iconic woman in the name of "a permission structure made visible" emboldening "the worst people in the world." The result: "The cringiest collapse of a nation in real time."

— Abby Zimet, CommonDreams.org, 2026/06/17

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President Trump has been thinking a lot about his place in history. That’s one of the reasons, according to recent reporting by The Atlantic and The Times, that he’s paying so little attention to his plummeting popularity and so much attention to remodeling Washington in his own image. But there’s no arch high enough, no ballroom gilded enough, to distract from the mountain of corruption he’s constructing.

— Noah Shachtman, NYT, 2026/05/21

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They loved Marjorie Taylor Greene, now they hate her. They loved Thomas Massie, now they hate him. They loved Lauren Boebert, now they hate her. They made fun of Biden for nodding off ('Sleepy Joe'), now they ignore Trump outright falling asleep. They put 'I Did That' Biden stickers on high gas prices, now they ignore gas prices being even higher. They bragged about Trump being the no-wars president, now they support war. They bashed Biden for sending money to Ukraine, now they ignore Trump sending money to both Ukraine and Israel. They demanded the Epstein files, now they bash anyone asking for the Epstein files. To be MAGA is to be a slave. Not physically, but mentally. We're up against people who stand for nothing. And with the most misplaced confidence you've ever seen, they try to tell us what's what. (...) The Trump supporters that remain are mentally too far gone. I don't even want to argue with them anymore.

— Mark Sykes, Facebook, 2026/05/21

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Donald Trump’s habitual sleaziness is so repugnant that it erases any sympathy he might deserve—even when he’s the clear target of violence, as he was this weekend, when he survived the third serious assassination attempt against him in the last two years. One reason could be that he seems unable to be honest about anything that happens to him, including his near-death.

— Jeet Heer, The Nation, 2026/04/27

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