Going Off The Deep End

Kaul: I think we do need to be prepared. The good news is they’ve now shown their hand. We know that they’re bringing nothing to court other than recycled garbage they already presented in 2020. pic.twitter.com/5nfBRbLUtc

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 25, 2026

So, in 4 years, they haven’t learned anything?  Why am I not surprised?

Tuberville endorses war with Iran: "We really have no choice. We've gotta find a way to take out that corrupt leadership" pic.twitter.com/v4yuvMlpxj

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 25, 2026

Fetterman is not keeping good company. I have no use for people who want to overthrow other governments, especially when they will bear none of the consequences, and freely renounce the responsibility. I know Tuberville isn’t running for Senate again. Governor of Alabama, or just unemployed, are choice positions from which to do deny your part in the mess that followed your message.

"Forget the predictions and all the pregame hype. There was no resetting of the narrative, no course correction or even a meaningful explanation of what the course is," writes @sbg1 https://t.co/Jkzn45t7E3

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) February 25, 2026

You can read it in The New Yorker. Or for free on the internet, on several sites and feeds. I guess when it’s in “legacy media,” it’s…”legitimate”? (I like The New Yorker. I just don’t understand what Glasser contributes, frankly. She’s kind of the magazine’s version of Maureen Dowd.)

Fetterman on the "Iranian regime" -- "We have a unique opportunity to topple it" pic.twitter.com/4dKjzrxZHs

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 25, 2026

Because that’s worked out so well, before. 🙄

Hassett: "Whenever you're surveying right track/wrong track, remember that half the people are Democrats, so no matter what we do they're going to want to dance with frogs and ignore the numbers" pic.twitter.com/XIyobBufe4

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 25, 2026

Can somebody put that in an ad, and play it on a loop? Because statistics don’t pay the bills, and the DJIA doesn’t give everyone a bigger paycheck. Or a paycheck at all. (Screw that trickle down shit.)

Schumer: "It was a bunch of lies. He says manufacturing jobs have gone way up. They're down 100k since he took office. He says job creation is up. Job creation is the lowest its been in a non-recession year since 2003. He's in a bubble." pic.twitter.com/OpdDjPgdPx

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 25, 2026

Hassett wants to ignore those numbers.

Trump says that Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Robert DeNiro should be deported because of how they reacted to his speech. pic.twitter.com/eZRukjwEza

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 25, 2026

It should be clear to a child that Trump wants to deport everyone he doesn’t like.Racism is just his starting point, not his terminus.

I led SDNY’s health care fraud prosecutions for years. You don’t cut off Medicaid for people who need it to stop fraudsters who abuse it. This isn’t a War on Fraud. It’s a War on Minnesota. https://t.co/kRrZdjaOri

— Kristy Greenberg (@KGreenberg_) February 26, 2026

Fraud is investigated by IG’s and the FBI, and prosecuted civilly and criminally by the DOJ. Which explains why Vance is now in charge. Is he going to direct cases to the interim AUSA’s Bondi and Blanche keep firing? Or is he just going to invent numbers and throw darts at a board to declare the guilty nationality this week?

Q: Can you talk about the legal authority under which the federal govt pauses legally obligated funds, such as Medicaid?

JD VANCE: Congress appropriates the money. We're the ones who actually make sure it actually goes to the people it ought to go to pic.twitter.com/wcczG14V5Y

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 25, 2026

Never mind, he answered that question. (And thanks, John Roberts! This wholly unconstitutional “unitary executive” thing is working out great! For the oligarchs.)

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— Becky Tomlinson (@DoaneBecky) February 25, 2026

NEW -- Last night Donald Trump announced a $1,000 match for lower-income workers' retirement accounts.

He forgot to mention that it was created under a proposal signed into law by Joe Biden. It is already going into effect in January.https://t.co/OqEXYhhXjF

— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) February 26, 2026

Sen. Fetterman says he’ll vote “no” on the Paul-Kaine Iran War Powers Resolution in the Senate.

When Drop Site’s Julian Andreone pressed him on how strikes on Iran would benefit Americans in Pennsylvania, he replied: “Oh, it absolutely does. It makes the Middle East safer.”… pic.twitter.com/bo96kE2gAy

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) February 25, 2026

"War is peace."

Collins: If we obliterated it, why are you worried about it right now?

Mullin: Because they're rebuilding it

Collins: But it was obliterated.

Mullin: I mean people have car accidents and obliterate their bones and their legs, and yet they can still put you know, they can… pic.twitter.com/Unm8p1EZD6

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 26, 2026

"When I use a word, it means what I want it to mean.”

Mullin: We are not wanting regime change, but the person that's leading this effort is the ayatollah. Remember in 1979, when he came to power, he was saying that he wanted to be a nuclear Iran pic.twitter.com/9aCgQ73vXI

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 26, 2026

"Unless I just don’t know what I’m talking about.” (The person the Senator is referring to died in 1989. When the Senator was twelve years old.)

And to end more or less where we started:

Demmings: Is it asking too much to expect the President of the United States, the commander in chief, to set the tone in the room for the state of the union?

Moskowitz: Yes, it’s asking too much pic.twitter.com/FSfTZz5YTY

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 26, 2026