The north star here is truth.

The truth is that Donald Trump undermined faith in our elections in his false bid to retain the presidency. He sparked an insurrection intended to overthrow our government and keep himself in power. No president in our history has done worse.

This is not subjective. We all saw it. Plenty of leaders today try to convince the masses we did not see what we saw, but our eyes don’t deceive. (If leaders began a yearslong campaign today to convince us that the Baltimore bridge did not collapse Tuesday morning, would you ever believe them?) Trust your eyes. Trump on Jan. 6 launched the most serious threat to our system of government since the Civil War. You know that. You saw it.

The facts involving Trump are crystal clear, and as news people, we cannot pretend otherwise, as unpopular as that might be with a segment of our readers. There aren’t two sides to facts. People who say the earth is flat don’t get space on our platforms. If that offends them, so be it.

More:
https://digbysblog.net/2024/03/31/bravo/

dupe

Wait until they find out that Easter falls on my birthday on 4/20 next year and Joe Biden, as the reelected president, proclaims it George Takei and Legalized Pot Day.
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1774186063625359822

BIDEN: "Donald, my offer to play golf still stands. I'll let you take 3 strokes off your game if you carry your own bag"

— President Biden, on X.
https://politicalwire.com/2024/03/30/bonus-quote-of-the-day-1975/
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1774168075631210841

"Every day that Trump does something crazy, the door to voting for Biden opens a little bit more"

“There’s no way I’ll vote for Trump, but every day that Trump does something crazy, the door to voting for Biden opens a little bit more, and that’s where I’m at.”

— Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, quoted by the Daily Beast.

https://politicalwire.com/2024/03/30/quote-of-the-day-3794/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-trump-defense-secretary-mark-esper-tells-bill-maher-he-wont-vote-for-ex-boss?ref=home

This is a beautiful illustration of how warped the coverage of the two candidates has been.

Side by side in the New York Times, as though they’re equally important—one about felony criminal charges of Trump trying to overthrow democracy. The other about…Biden not wearing a tie.
https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1774110142419620124

Politico considers that Trump is losing more than the suburbs

Perhaps Trump fatigue finally is setting in. He can still sucker the press into covering his daily outrages. He can still draw eyeballs and clicks. MAGA politicians who rode in on his coattails still genuflect before his image. But can he win a presidential election?

Politico considers that Trump is losing more than the suburbs:

The analysis of GOP presidential primary results from more than 1,000 counties shows warning signs for Trump, especially as Republican voters continued to vote against him in closed primaries after he clinched the nomination. And it makes clear that, while independents and crossover voters may have boosted former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in some primaries, a chunk of true Republican voters still wished for someone else to be the party’s nominee.

“You hear a lot of moderate Republicans now who say that they’ll never vote for Trump again,” said Parker Fairbairn, county GOP chair in Emmet County, Michigan, on the northern end of the state’s Lower Peninsula, where Trump won 55 percent of the vote in the 2020 general election. In last month’s primary, he got two-thirds of the vote there.

What distinguishes Emmet County and similar geographies from the other suburban ones is their broader politics. These aren’t the kinds of suburbs on the outskirts of major cities, where wealthy, educated professionals have already fled the Republican Party.

They’re farther away from urban areas. They’re less densely populated, and they have fewer voters with college degrees. These places — which include North Carolina’s Republican-leaning exurbs, and conservative but less Trump-inclined counties several hours north of Michigan’s major cities — still vote predominantly for Republicans, both at the presidential and local levels. In 2016, when both parties held contested primaries, the Republican voters in these counties backed candidates like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) over Trump, and in the general election they voted for Trump at lower rates than the deep-red rural areas.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/30/trump-gop-primary-voters-exurbs-00149822

Former Trump supporter: It's ok to admit you were conned. If grifting was an art, Donald Trump would be Picasso

Former Trump supporter Chris Nelson has a message for current Trump supporters: It’s ok to admit you were conned. If grifting was an art, Donald Trump would be Picasso… If you were taken by him, don’t feel bad, a lot of people were. It’s ok to admit you were wrong.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1773780831406027039

omg I love it!

Peak MAGA Christianity

Nice Team

From left to right: Jason Bateman, Barack Obama, Will Arnett, Joe Biden, Sean Hayes, Bill Clinton

The three presidents taped an interview for the actors’
@SmartLess
podcast ahead of a “record-breaking” fundraiser tonight in NYC

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https://x.com/libbycathey/status/1773482273926492364?s=20