Today in Politics, Bulletin 188. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidastouc…

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський

The Republican Party went from Ronald Reagan to electing felons, protecting pedophiles and Putin supporters... holy shit.

Hurricane Erin has become a major hurricane. NC Coast faces life-threatening rip currents, beach erosion, coastal flooding, and dangerous surf next week. The National Hurricane Center is also monitoring a weak low-pressure area off NC with a 10% chance of development in 48 hours.

It’s hard to express enough to people who don’t live in DC just how much nothing is actually going on that would justify anything like this. The Guard already deployed are largely sitting around looking extremely bored (and somewhat miserable because of the heat and humidity).

Incredible but not surprising, Trump listens to Putin - an experienced falsifier of many elections - about problems with US elections. Is Trump really that dumb?

Saturday protests in Washington, DC. Keep this energy going, America. We have a dictator in the White House.

BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ ‼️TRUMP tries to DIVERT MSM's attention AWAY from HIS association with Pedophile Epstein & from RELEASING FILES‼️ 😡NBC News footage shows Trump talking about women with Epstein, later a registered Sex Offender, at a party in Mar-a-Lago in November, 1992! youtu.be/ad1ysX2iLmA?si…

Pence: "I served alongside the president for four years. I know his style in dealing with these dictators. It's the velvet glove ... Putin only understands strength."

Trump agreed that borders can be changed by force?

Welker plays Rubio a clip of him saying in 2022 that "you can't cut deals with guys" like Putin 😬

Armed neo-Nazis chanting 'white power' march through Indianapolis.

Clapping like a trained seal. Pathetic Putin puppet.

I want to congratulate leading Democrats’ for their insistence on saying the takeover of DC is a “stunt” or a “distraction.” It’s a rare trifecta of intellectual failure, political stupidity, and moral obtuseness.

I think Trump and the idiots he surrounds himself with are fully aware there is no realistic scenario where this country will accept their vision for America. The U.S. CONSTITUTION is the Supreme Law of the Land. I guess I could be wrong: maybe they don’t yet realize that.

“One word: NO. I take it very seriously because unlike Trump I’ve actually worn the uniform.” 👀 🔥 🇺🇸 MARYLAND’S Governor Wes Moore says he will NOT authorize sending the National Guard to help Trump terrorize Blue cities. (cc: Gov. Bill Lee)

I just came back from the wilderness in Quebec offline for the past 7 days. Did Trump “easily” end the war in Ukraine like he said in one conversation with Putin because he “knows exactly what to say to him”?

So basically Rubio’s job today was to hit all the Sunday shows to claim that everything people saw and heard in Alaska with Putin is all fake news and misleading because really big stuff happened behind the scenes that nobody saw but trust him bro because Trump was brilliant.

VERY DEFENSIVE! SAD!