Skeets Of The Day

 

We understand weasel wording, so "yes" in both cases --

 

Q: Are you open at all to cuts to entitlement programs? MIKE JOHNSON: The president has made very clear -- Social Security and Medicare have to be preserved

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM

 

Q: Are you planning to pardon January 6 defendants who were charged with violent offenses? TRUMP: Well, we're looking at it

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM

 

We also understand "batshit crazy," so yes this is "batshit crazy" --

 

Dear god, this presser is batshit even for Trump. He’s bitching about water pressure. He’s talking about electric heaters making people itch. He says he’s going to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. He says windmills drive whales crazy.

— Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM

 

Congrats to every dumbshit who ever described this bloodthirsty idiot as anti-war

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— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM

 

Trump laying groundwork for betrayal of Ukraine --

 

⚡️Trump blames Biden for provoking Russia's war by supporting Ukraine's NATO aspirations. "I could understand their [Russia's] feelings about that," U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said during a Jan. 7 press conference.

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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) January 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM

On the oligarch pay-to-play front --

 

Shameless pandering

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— Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM

 

So many journalists, researchers and fact-check organizations spent years lending time and legitimacy to Facebook. And this is how it ends.

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— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com) January 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM

 

Definitely not a bribe. How dare you call it a bribe.

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM

we're entering a golden age of media bootlicking, and the platforms are going to be even worse. juche level submission

— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM

 

Bad all over --

 

If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.

— John Collins (@logicallyjc.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM