Ossoff: “They lie on beds of ivory and anoint themselves in the finest oils,” and while living in these Mar-a-Lago-like conditions, they indulged in corruption and abused their power.
It's been over seven months now and they still haven't fully released the Epstein files as required by law because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
"Everything Trump touches turns to crud...The idea that the world’s oldest republic...the nation that invented republican values...puts up with it, that’s what really shocks me."
On the pod, @pkrugman.bsky.social is just brilliant on Trump and our national decline:
newrepublic.com/article/2121...
This is a brief but utterly harrowing description of our nation in decline and the role of Trump's disastrous presidency in making it all happen, from @pkrugman.bsky.social on the pod.
Transcript:
newrepublic.com/article/2121...
Doge (spending up, services down), Tariffs (prices up, manufacturing down), Minneapolis (terrified civilians in US), Iran ($100s of billions spent, way worse deal than Obama), Corruption ($100s of billions spent to steal $10+ billion for Trump), Reflecting Pool (algae)