Where Freedom Is Private, Rules Are Optional, and Power Comes With a Premium Plan Congratulations, traveler—you’ve arrived in the New United States of America, a bold experiment in Extreme Limited Government™. Here, we’ve streamlined democracy, outsourced accountability, and let the market decide almost everything (especially things you used to vote on). Please enjoy your stay, […]
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For decades, Republican leadership has insisted that “limited federal government” is the secret ingredient to American freedom. Less oversight, fewer rules, weaker institutions—because nothing says liberty like hoping powerful actors will restrain themselves out of kindness. According to this vision, once government steps aside, markets will behave, corporations will act ethically, and billionaires will suddenly
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Treason™: Now Available as a Executive Order, Courtesy of Donald Trump One of the Founders’ quietest flexes was how paranoid they were about the word treason. Not paranoid like “red-strings on a corkboard,” but paranoid like “we just fought a king who used this word to kill his critics.” So when they wrote the Constitution,
When Donald Trump accepted a luxury jet from the government of Qatar, it wasn’t just another headline in the long-running series “Is This Allowed?” — it was a masterclass in how Republican leadership now treats public office like a personal Venmo account. Trump didn’t just accept the gift; he reportedly made it clear future presidents
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Donald Trump has treated the justice system less like a neutral institution and more like a customer rewards program: commit crimes for him, get upgraded to First Class; oppose him, enjoy a surprise visit from federal prosecutors. On the “friends” side of the ledger, Trump famously pardoned Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, and Steve
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Pentagon says “Nothing to see here” , even though “here” involved war-plans on a group chat. So, the Pentagon has now declared a “TOTAL exoneration” of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the Signalgate debacle. According to their internal review, the info he shared was technically declassified, so no crime was committed. (ABC News) But —
Trump Says Hernández Was Targeted “Because He Was President” — Republicans Nod Along, Ignore That He Says the Opposite About Maduro In a moment that perfectly captures the modern Republican talent for mental gymnastics, Donald Trump defended pardoning convicted drug trafficker and former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández by arguing he’d been prosecuted “because he
Trump Pardons Convicted Drug-Trafficker — Even as He Targets a Sitting “Narcotics Kingpin” Abroad In a move raising serious questions about consistency in U.S. drug-policy and foreign-policy posturing, Donald J. Trump has pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández — a former head of state convicted in March 2024 of conspiring to import hundreds of tons of cocaine
