In bed with who now?
Tucker Carlson doesn't like the performative bombing of Iran; I don't either!
Laura Loomer is unhappy about Trump taking a luxury plane from Qatar; me too!
Ben Shapiro objects to the Trump tariffs; so do I!
Joe Rogan doesn't get why Trump is targeting migrant workers who haven't even been accused of crimes; same!
Elon Musk is outraged about the massive debt increase under Trump's big fugly budget reconciliation; 100%!
Strange bedfellows.
Donald Trump is kicking the shite out of working people ... both poor and middle class — and people too young, too old, or too sick to work — all over the world. This week, the American people are paying $130 grand to literally set fire to 1.1 million pounds of emergency high-nutrition biscuits that Trump decided to burn instead of giving them to keep children alive, because compassion does not align with administration priorities. (That $130 grand is on top of the $800 grand spent to manufacture and deliver the biscuits to warehouses in regions where they were, until January, scheduled to be distributed.)
We can certainly do better. We have done better. We may, if we choose, start making our way back to doing better.
There are matters that put us in bed with people we might not mention in polite company. Maybe we should mention them. Maybe we should acknowledge that disagreeing about nine things doesn't mean we are morally bound to disagree about the tenth thing as well, when that tenth thing is meant to save people's lives, or at least not destroy them needlessly. There's no universally-held principle that says we have to make things worse for someone else if we possibly can.
If we decide to rethink all that, we should maybe let our members of Congress know, so they have a chance to return to their constitutional duties before the 2026 midterms. Here's a shortcut: Members of Congress https://www.congress.gov/members
Sources
https://www.wired.com/story/jeffrey-epstein-list-maga-angry-trump/
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/?back=1
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/texas-kerr-county-commissioners-flooding-warning/
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