Here are the thoughts, quips, and hot takes that didn’t get used in a post or on social media. Take ’em for what you will, and let me hear about it in the comments.

Inflatable animal costumes are this generation’s placing daisies in gun barrels.

I pray Trump has to Saturday Night Massacre the armed forces down to the plebs at the service academies and the grunts in boot camp before he finds anyone in uniform that will follow his unlawful orders.

It is clear that Congress has gone full Duma and the Supremes are in complete support of pseudo-democratic single party white-minority rule authoritarian oligarchy, so the only group that can stop Trump and the fascists are the American people. We’re going to have to be doing a lot more than we are if we’re going to do it, though.

The richest people in the country have given more — hundreds of millions — towards tearing down the East Wing of the White House than they’ve paid in taxes — near none — to help feed and house the needy.

The 25 million metric tons of soy beans the Chinese have committed to purchasing is about what they were buying BEFORE Trump started his ridiculous trade war! Congratulations, Trump, you got played again and shot all of us in the gonads!

Eventually, Trump, ICE, and the CBP agents will figure out that the American people are not going to take their bait and riot or cause any other mischief so they can invoke the Insurrection Act. When that happens, they’ll start provoking confrontations with state and local police forces and reluctant national guard units in order to do so.

Pundits are hearing what they want to hear in Bannon’s ubiquitous comment on Trump serving a third term.

Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people just ought to get accommodated with that,

Steve Bannon in a recent interview with The Economist

No where does Bannon say that Trump will be RUNNING for a third term or ELECTED to a third term. The plan is that Trump just ain’t leaving in 2029.

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