Trump storms out of interview in worst meltdown ever

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Trump flips out and storms out of Meet the Press interview
The president of the United States completely lost his shit, went on a demented and furious rant about how crooked the media is and how unfair it is they won’t give him credit, and then stormed out of the interview. “They’re crooked! Just like you’re crooked. Your press is crooked. Meet The Press is crooked. You’re crooked or you’re stupid. You play right into their hands with this crap. You know that these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they’re rigged. You know that I won an election in a landslide and I got 94 % bad press. You know why I got that? Because you have no credibility,” ranted Trump. The president’s delusions and volatility is increasingly with each passing day, and it couldn’t be more obvious that Trump is entirely unfit to hold office. 25trh Amendment now!

VIDEO OF THE DAY: “Mealy-mouthed bulls**t!” Trump team gets caught in court scheme over slush fund
Brian Tyler Cohen sits down with legal expert Glenn Kirschner to break down the incredibly shady way that Trump is trying to wriggle out of a major lawsuit over his attempt to give $1.8 BILLION in taxpayer dollars to his J6 terrorist cronies.

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Trump gets nightmare news as his top impeachment witness launches run for Senate
Alexander Vindman for Senate: Alexander Vindman made history as one of the star witnesses in the first impeachment case against Trump — and now he’s running for Senate so he can hold the wannabe dictator accountable from the halls of Congress. Vindman has vowed to take on “a Republican Party that’s failing to deliver accountability and underwriting chaos and corruption,” but to win in Florida, he’s going to need some help. Can you chip in to help kick-start his run?

On Platner, and Me
Daniel Barkhuff, Substack: “I think it is a mistake to bet against Maine showing up for one of its own, and I think, if Graham Platner does not have any worse skeletons in the closet, he will win the primary next week…The voters there understand that human beings are complicated, and that the men who volunteer to carry rifles on behalf of the rest of us are rarely saints. They are often brave, flawed, stubborn, impulsive, and sometimes difficult. They are, in other words, human. Platner is no exception. He said dumb things. He did dumb things. It seems like he has, underneath his gruff willingness to say what needs to be said in this nation under hot spotlights, a “being a prick” streak, problems with alcohol, and the sort of impulsive aggressiveness that is curated and encouraged in ground combat units where 99% of your problems can be solved by getting more violent and faster than the other guy. None of that is hidden, and none of it needs to be excused.

But as a ground combat veteran myself, I want to tell you that being one is different in kind, not degree, from what other veterans, even ones who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, experienced. A tiny minority of Americans (6%) ever serve in the military. Of these, only 40% of veterans have ever deployed to a combat zone. And of those deployed, only about 10% participated in actual ground combat. I am one of those, and so is Platner.

His pathology: a combination of traumatic stress, substance abuse, impulsive decision-making in the past, and deep anger at the moral injury he sustained wearing the cloth of this nation, is something this country ought to consider when it sends its young men and women to war. The question before Maine is not whether Graham Platner is perfect. The question is whether the United States Senate, the state of Maine, and the country as a whole would benefit from having his voice in the room when decisions are made.

The answer is yes. Platner understands something that far too many people in politics only understand abstractly. He understands what war does to young men. He understands the cost that is paid long after the speeches are over and the flags have been folded away, and on a personal level, he continues to pay that cost. As do I. We who have intimately seen ground combat know that every human being carries an animal inside of them. Most of you are fortunate enough never to meet it. A small number of people are forced to. And we learned things about violence, fear, courage, guilt, loyalty, and human nature that cannot be learned in a classroom, a think tank, or a Senate hearing room. I suspect I am not alone in wanting a representative who can speak those truths to power. I suspect I am not alone in believing that lived experience matters, that service matters, and that a person does not have to be flawless to be worthy of trust.

In fact, I would argue the opposite. A democracy that insists on perfection will eventually find itself represented only by people skilled at hiding their flaws.”

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How the 2027 Super El Niño will replicate the 1877 global famine
Sarah Connor, Collapse 2050: “In the spring of 2026, oceanographers began tracking a massive pulse of warm water moving eastward beneath the surface of the equatorial Pacific Ocean. This subsurface Kelvin wave, an ocean gravity wave that moves eastward along the equator and transports massive volumes of warm water, is now breaching the surface, signaling the rapid onset of a ‘super’ El Niño. The World Meteorological Organization and NOAA have issued urgent warnings, predicting a 90 percent chance that this warming phase will persist through the winter of 2026–2027. Today’s rapidly building El Niño shares parallels to the global climate anomaly of 1877–1878.

That event, widely considered the strongest El Niño in recorded history, triggered multi-continent droughts and a subsequent global famine that claimed between 30 and 60 million lives, roughly 3 percent of the global population at the time. But to understand the true danger of the emerging 2026/27 event, we must first correct a common historical misunderstanding. The El Niño of 1877 did not, on its own, cause the famines of 1877. The climate anomaly caused the droughts, the monsoonal failures, and the agricultural collapses. The famines themselves were entirely man-made. They were the direct result of imperial trade policies, laissez-faire economic dogma, and a political refusal to distribute food to those who could no longer afford it.

Today, as the 2026/2027 El Niño intensifies, we live in a vastly different geopolitical and technological world. Global forecasting is highly advanced, and absolute agricultural production is larger than ever. Yet the structural risks of modern food distribution remain remarkably similar. Cruelty still underpins the foundation for many government policies, with many oligarchs insulating their own wealth at the expense of the vulnerable. As the Pacific pendulum swings toward an extreme warm state, the most terrifying parallel to 1877 is civilization’s impending response. We are facing a climate shock that exceeds the thermal extremes of the Victorian era. Unlike 150 years ago, despite getting hit by climactic and kinetic warfare, resulting in shortages and higher input prices, modern global agriculture could potentially still produce enough calories to sustain humanity through severe multi-continent droughts.

But if history is any guide, even if aggregate worldwide production remains sufficient, a combination of bureaucratic ineptitude and ideological cruelty will once again dictate who eats and who starves.”

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What’s behind the corporate pillaging of 60 Minutes
Ben Schwartz, The Nation: “CBS News used to be a place where reporters won Emmys and got raises for telling the truth. This week, 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley got fired for it. At a staff meeting, the 68-year-old, 37-year-veteran of the network called out his new boss, executive producer Nick Bilton. Pelley could not contain himself when Bilton said CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss ‘loves this institution. She loves 60 Minutes.’ Pelley interrupted with controlled fury. ‘She is murdering 60 Minutes,’ he said. ‘She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that.’ Pelley went on: ‘She has no qualifications for her job; you have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she’s made at the Evening News have been catastrophic, so why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?’

To illustrate his point, Pelley listed the 60 Minutes staffers who had been fired on what is now known at their offices as Black Thursday. That day came in the aftermath of Weiss’s decision to stop the planned broadcast of a story on the brutal conditions at El Salvador’s Terrorism Containment Center (CECOT) where the United States sent Venezuelan migrants for detention after their apprehension by ICE. Weiss felt the story was not balanced, and sought to add a MAGA counterpoint to what 60 Minutes already felt was a balanced, finished piece. 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi publicly criticized Weiss’s decision and was fired.

Pelley spent nearly four decades at CBS, reporting, sitting at the anchor desk, and making it to 60 Minutes as a worthy successor to Mike Wallace, Dan Rather, and colleagues like Lesley Stahl. Pelley’s firing comes less than a week after Steven Colbert’s last episode aired and the affable, unremarkable Byron Allen has taken his place with his apolitical, sponsor-friendly show Comics Unleashed. Why is all this happening at once?

In CBS’s brave new world, loyalty comes first—namely, the kind Weiss shows to her employers and not to her news division. It’s hard to believe that Bilton and Weiss acted alone when they sent a senior reporter and CBS icon like Pelley packing. 60 Minutes is the most highly rated news show on television. It’s racked up 4 million YouTube subscribers. Pelley is a large factor in that success. As Dan Rather recently wrote, “Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief of CBS News, is a bit player in this drama, executing decisions that are made far above her pay grade. It’s not hard to divine who the players ‘far above her pay grade’ are; Rather is most likely referencing the owners of CBS, the Ellison family. Recently actor Mark Ruffalo, a vocal opponent and organizer against the Ellison’s mammoth buyout of Warner Bros. and a pro-Palestinian activist, came to a similar conclusion on the I’ve Had It podcast. ‘;To quote one prominent agent whose name I won’t divulge here,’ Ruffalo said, ‘these are some vindictive motherfuckers, the Ellisons.’

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