In 2024, Trump called Venezuelan oil "like tar, the dirtiest, worst oil anywhere in the world."
Now that he's president, it's suddenly the best oil in the world.
Pick a lane.
Part of a pattern where Trump officials are already abandoning campaign rhetoric the second it conflicts with their current interests, from mail voting disruption to foreign policy reversals.
X user wished execution on Mike Huckabee, the US Ambassador to Israel, in response to his claim that Israel has "poured more food into Gaza than any war zone in the history of mankind" and his rejection of genocide accusations.
The quoted tweet invokes Huckabee's suggestion Gaza needs "a good dose of Ozempic," a diabetes drug used off-label for weight loss, implying the territory is overfed.
RT Intl @RT_on_X
Gaza needs a ‘good dose of Ozempic’ — US Ambassador to Israel Huckabee rejects accusations of ‘Gaza genocide’
‘Israel has poured more food into Gaza than any war zone in the history of mankind’
Huckabee's Gaza comments fit a pattern of Trump appointees deployed as shameless propagandists on Israel. His feeding claim inverts reality while his Ozempic remark mocks actual humanitarian crisis. The X response, however violent, reflects the fury his gaslighting generates.
Chocolate eyeballs have been pulled from shelves over undeclared allergens. The irony of food manufacturers not bothering to label what's actually in the product continues to be the real trick-or-treat hazard.
FactPost @factpostnews
Chocolate eyeballs in 13 states have been recalled over undeclared allergens.
Following the olive oil company scandal where a manufacturer mislabeled toxic garlic essential oil as food, this recall shows the systematic pattern: companies cut corners, the FDA has to fix it, rinse and repeat.
The claim: Bob Bonta spearheaded legislation allowing "avowed communists" into California state government positions. Being amplified by right-wing accounts with zero evidence, just vibes and red-scare vocabulary.
Actual context missing from this post: what bill, when, what it actually said, anything verifiable. Spencer Pratt's quoted response is pure conspiracy theater (Soviet Cheka agent, weaponized office) without a single concrete allegation you could fact-check.
This is how the right manufactures enemies. Name a Democrat, add "communist," attach a fabricated bill story, let it circulate, then watch it calcify into accepted fact among people who never bothered to check.
Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt
Bob Bonta is a corrupt communist who has weaponized his office as Attorney General. He hijacks his usurped authority to investigate and sue his political adversaries like a Soviet. He must have been a Cheka agent in a past life.
Fits the pattern of right-wing accounts manufacturing Democratic villains through vague accusations and red-scare rhetoric, same energy as the unproven claims about institutional corruption that have dominated conservative discourse this month.
Person filed an unfair labor practices charge against Apple in August 2021 while employed there. Apple just settled with the NLRB. Part of the settlement: Apple has to post an official notice in its facilities promising it won't repeat the retaliation tactics it used against this employee.
Whatever Apple said and did was severe enough that the labor board forced a public mea culpa. The notice goes up for all employees to see.
Ongoing pattern of major corporations facing labor enforcement actions while union organizing and worker organizing attempts intensify across big tech and retail.
California Assembly just killed SB 492, the wildfire liability plan that Newsom and legislative leadership had already agreed to. PG&E's stock jumped 7% within minutes.
Why? The bill would have forced utilities to absorb future fire costs instead of shifting them to insurance companies and ratepayers. Dead bill means PG&E keeps the racket.
Ashley Zavala @ZavalaA
BREAKING: The California Assembly will kill the wildfire liability plan CALeg & Gov. Newsom agreed to days ago, multiple sources tell me.
The plan (SB 492) had been giving PG&E/SoCal Edison financial heart burn because it wouldn't let them shift future fire costs to insurance.
Part of a broader pattern of regulatory capture in California: the state government negotiates protections for communities, then quietly abandons them when corporate pressure mounts. Same energy as the recent USPS voting sabotage and Trump's institutional gutting.
Parents at a Tel Aviv high school are threatening to shut down classes on opening day over the admission of children from migrant families.
This is the latest escalation in Israel's deepening ethno-nationalist politics. Ben-Gvir in the cabinet, now this. The country's institutions are being rebuilt on explicit racial exclusion dressed up as cultural preservation.
Follows Ben-Gvir's cabinet appointment and Netanyahu using Holocaust memory to coerce Europe into military alignment. Israel's institutional rot is accelerating across security, politics, and now education.
A whistleblower inside the Postal Service is alleging that Trump officials are running a "secretive, rushed" operation to interfere with mail-in voting while openly disregarding court orders.
This isn't speculation or partisan noise. This is someone inside the actual institution responsible for mail delivery saying the sitting administration is deliberately sabotaging voting infrastructure.
Trump's chaos is escalating beyond policy theater into alleged institutional sabotage. The pattern across recent posts shows a systematic dismantling of functional government structures, from press briefing abandonment to now, apparently, election infrastructure.
Four House Democrats just introduced an amendment condemning socialism and the DSA. Gottheimer, Scholten, Suozzi, Moskowitz. That's the party's message right now: we'll embrace Dick Cheney and his torture apparatus, but progressives who actually challenge power? Expelled.
The establishment would rather court Bush-era war criminals than deal with elected members who disagree on healthcare. Says everything about which way the party wants to move.
NewsWire @NewsWire_US
Four House Democrats Introduce Amendment Condemning Socialism and the DSA
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (NJ)
Rep. Hillary Scholten (MI)
Rep. Tom Suozzi (NY)
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (FL)
Maxine Waters already called the DSA a plague last week. Now four House Democrats are formalizing the party's purge of its left flank. The establishment isn't just uncomfortable with progressives anymore, it's openly at war with them.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry announced Act 305: smoking a THC vape pen on school property, including college football tailgates, now carries up to one year in prison, a felony conviction, plus a $1,000 fine.
This is red-state drug war theater. A vape pen at an LSU tailgate becomes a felony because it technically counts as a school zone. The penalties are wildly disproportionate to the offense, and enforcement will be selective as hell. Count on it hitting poor people and people of color first.
Governor Jeff Landry @LAGovJeffLandry
🚨IMPORTANT INFO FOR BACK TO SCHOOL AND FOOTBALL SEASON:
Marijuana on campus is a crime.
Act 305 set new penalties of up to one year in prison, plus a $1,000 fine for possession of marijuana in a school zone.
Part of the ongoing escalation of Republican-controlled states imposing harsh criminal penalties on drug possession, while the federal government fractures on actual enforcement priorities.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's personal history reads like a catalogue of disqualifications for public office, yet he holds one of the most powerful security positions in the country.
That's the rot at the center of Israeli politics right now.
aaron from queens 🇵🇸 @aaronnarraph
One of the most evil “Personal life” paragraphs on all of Wikipedia
Part of a larger pattern in recent posts about Israeli government decay: Netanyahu using Holocaust memory as political leverage, Israeli soldiers committing abuse, and now a convicted criminal running national security. The institutional rot is systematic.
Walking out of a Dem caucus meeting, Josh Gottheimer told Maxine Waters that DSA doesn't like her. She fired back: "I don't like them either. They're a plague."
Internal Democratic fractures getting sharper by the week.
Follows weeks of internal Democratic dysfunction: Shapiro's contradictions on religious respect, Hochul's repeal of arbitrary police powers, and now party elders attacking the progressive left. The party is fracturing faster than it can hold itself together.
Another recall. This time a garlic infused olive oil that was actually infused with garlic essential oil.
You aren't supposed to ingest essential oils. That's the whole thing.
U.S. FDA Recalls and Alerts @FDArecalls
View the complete details on this recall at: https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/lmsi-llckofinas-olive-oil-issues-voluntary-recall-its-garlic-mediterranean-infused-extra-virgin.
Karoline Leavitt stepped down as press secretary last week. No replacement announced. The last briefing was July 23rd.
This is what transparency looks like in the Trump administration: silence, staffing chaos, and no one willing to take the job of actually talking to the press.
Cascading staff departures and administrative dysfunction continue as the Trump team implodes, now extending to the basic machinery of presidential communication.
Part of a broader pattern: Trump's first weeks have been defined by performative vandalism alongside bungled policy. Trees join tariff chaos, false claims about France, and Treasury secretary incompetence as snapshots of an administration treating governance as aesthetic destruction.
Ben Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew, is upset that a politician wore a head covering in a religious setting as a show of respect. This is the same Ben Shapiro who has escorted Trump to the Lubavitcher Rebbe's grave. Trump wore the kippah. The hypocrisy is so clean it squeaks.
Ben Shapiro @benshapiro
You know who might want to ban both dancing and also bars in New York
Pattern intensifying: Trump's inner circle uses religious symbolism strategically while attacking others for identical behavior, part of the broader circus where everything is theater and consistency doesn't exist.
Governor Kathy Hochul just announced she's repealing New York's ancient Cabaret Laws that required bars to obtain special permits for dancing and live music. The laws, dating back to the 1920s, were ostensibly about preventing mob activity but ended up criminalizing nightlife and targeting marginalized venues for decades.
This is an actual policy win on civil liberties. New York bars can now legally host dancing without jumping through bureaucratic hoops designed to give cops pretense for raids.
Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul
Dancing? Banned? In New York?!
Not anymore.
Thanks to my administration, you can now cut loose, footloose and kick off your Sunday shoes.
But don't just take my word for it...
Pattern emerging from recent posts: while Trump's administration dismantles institutional guardrails and erases cultural symbols, Hochul is actually removing government restrictions on civil freedoms. A contrast worth noting.
The X thread pushes back on framing: Josh Gottheimer's quoted tweet celebrates a Hamas commander's death, calling him a "monster" who "threw an American kid from New Jersey into a hole" and tortured Edan Alexander for 500+ days.
Except the captured person in the image is literally an Israeli soldier in Israeli army uniform, captured from an Israeli military base.
Meanwhile, Liz Tsurkov, an American, is actually being held captive by Israeli forces and abused. The gap between how these two cases are framed tells you everything about whose humanity gets centered in this narrative.
Rep Josh Gottheimer @RepJoshG
Justice has been served.
This monster threw an American kid from New Jersey into a hole in the ground and tortured him for more than 500 days. I hope he rots in hell for what he did to Edan Alexander and every other hostage.
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/religion/2026/08/28/hamas-commander-edan-alexander-nj-killed-idf/91493459007/
The pattern of selective outrage continues: Netanyahu is caught manipulating Trump on Iran policy, Germany exports surveillance tech to Israel for Gaza, and now American captives held by Israel get erased from the conversation entirely while Hamas actions get endless airtime.
Mexican president just cited US Customs and Border Protection data showing that 80% of people arrested for smuggling fentanyl through American ports of entry were US citizens.
This completely demolishes the border-crisis-is-about-cartels-flooding-drugs-in narrative Trump and his allies have been peddling. The supply problem isn't foreigners breaching the border. It's Americans moving product through official checkpoints.
Fits the pattern of Trump admin scapegoating and misrepresenting border data to justify increasingly extreme enforcement policies, while ignoring the role American citizens play in the supply chain.
Trump is now saying he'll consider importing goods tariff-free. So the entire point of the tariff threat was theater. American manufacturers get crushed under higher input costs while importers get a pass depending on Trump's mood that day.
This is just grifting on top of grifting. No strategy, no consistency, just whatever sounds good in the moment.
Pattern emerging across Trump's first weeks: every major policy announcement gets walked back or contradicted within days. Tariffs, drug negotiations with France, anything substantive dissolves the moment you look closely.
Scott Bessent, Trump's Treasury secretary, on Iran policy: "We are telling people, either you are with us, or against us."
That's not negotiation. That's not diplomacy. That's Bush administration cowboy rhetoric dusted off and recycled. Bessent is supposed to handle economic pressure, sanctions architecture, financial isolation. Instead he's openly threatening the entire world with a binary choice on Iran while the White House stumbles through conflicting messages on everything else.
This fits the pattern: Netanyahu brags about manipulating Trump on Iran, Bessent delivers the muscle, and anyone questioning the strategy gets read out of the coalition.
Bessent's hardline posturing follows Netanyahu's public admission of manipulating Trump on Iran policy and escalates the administration's pattern of replacing diplomacy with threats across the Middle East.
Trump: "Everybody said it would be impossible for France to agree to double and triple their drug prices, but they agreed to do it"
This is either a lie or a fundamental misunderstanding of what happened. France hasn't agreed to double and triple drug prices. Trump may be confabulating a negotiation he thinks occurred, conflating leverage with actual agreement, or just making things up. The US has been pushing pharmaceutical price deregulation across Europe as part of trade deals, but France and the EU have resisted. When Trump claims victory for something that didn't happen, it's worth asking what he actually did and what he's taking credit for inventing.
Part of an escalating pattern where Trump administration officials are claiming victories that don't exist (Netanyahu bragging about manipulating Trump, Bessent blaming Biden) while actually implementing policies quietly. The drug price claim follows weeks of US aggressive trade posturing against Europe.
Netanyahu is threatening Europe for not joining Israel's war with Iran, invoking the Holocaust as leverage while claiming Israel is "protecting the entire continent."
This is coercion dressed as victimhood. Europe doesn't owe Israel a war just because Washington's orbit tilted. And the manipulation is transparent: guilt about history doesn't obligate nations to validate current military aggression.
Following Netanyahu's earlier bragging about manipulating Trump on Iran policy, this escalates to openly coercing European allies. The pattern: Israeli leadership views other nations as extensions of its will, not as independent actors.
"The American people were backed over by the Biden Mack Truck."
Treasury Secretary Jay Bessent, caught off guard by questions about the economy, went straight to the Biden excuse. Classic move: inherit a mess, flail, then blame the predecessor. Never mind that Bessent himself is advising the chaos machine currently running the country.
Pattern continues: Trump administration officials are already struggling to explain policy failures and reverting to scapegoating rather than substance, echoing the same deflection tactics that defined the first term.
They jacked the price to six or seven dollars a bag. People stopped buying them. Dropped the price to salvage revenue but sales stayed in the tank. Sometimes greed gets what it deserves.
Part of a broader pattern: wage stagnation hasn't changed, corporations keep testing how much markup consumers will tolerate. Sometimes the market actually works.
Germany providing X-ray scanners labeled as "aid equipment" for Gaza. The irony is so thick it's horrifying: a nation built on reckoning with the Holocaust is now enabling the machinery of a modern one.
The quoted tweet nails it. Nazi-made equipment. Gaza described as what it is. And Berlin, playing both sides as usual.
beecier @UdsiAsli
Nice big nazi-made x-ray scanner for the aid trucks allowed into the Gaza concentration camp.
Thank you @GerAmbTLV 🇩🇪🇮🇱
Part of the broader pattern where Western allies enable Israel's Gaza operation through direct arms sales and equipment provision, while international accountability mechanisms crumble and diplomatic norms invert.
A Republican steps up to trash Hasan Piker in front of a MAGA crowd. Nobody in the room has any idea who he is. Pins him as "El-Sayed's biggest supporter" who "supports Mao Zedong" anyway.
Peak performance: attacking someone your audience has never heard of to score points with people who wouldn't recognize the target if he walked past them.
Part of the ongoing pattern where Trump officials and allies spend energy attacking random figures on the left instead of addressing the actual chaos consuming their administration.
MAGA spent months insisting Agenda 47 and Project 2025 were totally different things. Turns out they implemented Project 2025 anyway. The Heritage Foundation wrote the roadmap, the Trump administration followed it line by line, and the only difference is they needed a rebranding for the dumber supporters who bought the distinction.
Pattern continues: Trump admin lies about its own intentions, gets caught immediately, moves on without consequence. This fits weeks of broken promises and direct contradictions between what they said they'd do and what they're actually doing.
Rep. Thomas Massie just named alleged co-conspirators from the Epstein case during a live House floor speech. Finally someone in Congress treating this like it matters instead of letting names stay buried.
Part of an emerging pattern where institutional gatekeeping is collapsing and information suppression is becoming harder to maintain, though whether this leads anywhere depends entirely on whether the press and other institutions actually follow up instead of burying it again.
At this point the Trump administration embarrassments are so constant and overlapping that even the reactions to them have become vague and universal. This empty tweet says more about scandal fatigue than any actual news.
Max Blumenthal watching the Trump administration implode and noting the obvious: nobody in power has any actual control anymore. The carnival is running itself.
Pattern across the feed: RFK feuding with Oz, Vance getting roasted, FBI standards in freefall, Supreme Court fracturing, economy collapsing, media admitting failures. Nothing is coordinated. No one's in charge. This is what happens when a moron and a fascist staffing team run on pure chaos.
Israeli PM tells voters he spent 1000 hours on American television to "influence" US leaders into attacking Iran. Says "it took a long time to get the US to come to its senses" but he finally got the job done.
This is Netanyahu claiming credit for shaping American military policy like a puppeteer. Whether Trump bought it or Netanyahu's just performing for his base, the message is the same: Washington moves when he pulls strings.
Extends the pattern of Trump's chaos, but here the chaos is weaponized: a foreign leader openly boasting about directing American military action through media manipulation and personal leverage. The dysfunctional machinery isn't just a comedy show, it's a tool for other powers.
