love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

The House Minority Leader has one job and one job only: to oppose the majority and the president. That majority and the president have taken a meat axe to the United States government and the Constitution. The president has unleashed a lawless secret police force which has terrorized and brutalized the American people. The president has authorized the commission of heinous war crimes and has used his office in the most audaciously corrupt manner possible while leaving the running of the country to the most unqualified and incompetent group of hateful sycophants imaginable. Against that backdrop, going on TV to give the president a win by praising him for "securing the border" – a framing of immigration politics that Republican strategists would kill to hear their own politicians say let alone the Democratic leader – and lauding his continued corrupt use of the pardon power is political malpractice of the highest order. It normalizes Trump's brutal xenophobic and racist anti-immigrant campaign and casts the matter as settled, with Trump standing rightfully victorious. Meanwhile, the stuff about the Cuellar pardon signals to Americans that Democrats, like Republicans, are OK with elites being immune from any and all consequences even if they break the law. And his final bit – casting the rest of Trump's actions as "leaving a lot to be desired" – characterizes the current crisis in this country as a mere matter of mild political disagreement.

It's like someone lobotomized Jeffries. It's like he's a Manchurian Candidate, programmed by people who are perfectly happy with the status quo but who would just like to soften the optics a tad. It's the sort of messaging one would engage in if one's ultimate aim was to merely get a few Republican voters to switch sides regardless of how much it sells out the people being brutally oppressed by this regime, no matter how much it enrages the Democratic base, and no matter how much enthusiasm it saps from them at a time when absolutely everything should be geared toward demonizing the fascists who are currently running the country and energizing those who most passionately oppose them. I have no idea what the fuck goes on in Hakeem Jeffries' head. I have no idea who he thinks he serves and what he thinks he accomplishes by sleepwalking onto cable news, talking about Trump in terms that Trump and his supporters will 100% construe as praise, and failing to offer anything approaching a fight. Hakeem Jeffries is an abject failure at his job. He should be removed from it immediately and, barring that, someone should primary his useless ass. Because even if Jeffries doesn't acknowledge it, we are fighting for the very survival of American Democracy right now and he's out there offering aid and comfort to the enemy.

Anyway, that person was just responding to my tweet yesterday. As I only muted them rather than blocked them, I do hope they take the opportunity to read my full thoughts about Jeffries in today's newsletter, which is free for all to read. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

100% agree. Seeing as they got 9 on the 1st down with a run up the middle by Williams, that would’ve been the play.

AJ Brown

They WERE NOT hype enough for my boi.

HE WAS GOIN DUMB ON THEM KEYS

I don’t know but, my god, he’s getting cooked tonight.

After an afternoon of Trump protests. I found myself back in DuPont Circle where the Flower Duet was being beautifully performed amidst the heat and the anger. Washington DC, thank you I needed that more than you'll know.

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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Scorpion and frog "the scorpion won't sting me if i grovel and beg enough"

all human life is sacred, so it's not proper to laugh when serious harm befalls someone. the moral thing to do is instead charge them hundreds of thousands of dollars