Part of why apostate Republicans have often been stronger critics of Trump than Dems is that they see MAGA's failings through moral terms like dishonor and shame, rather than policy.
Yes, his policies failed. But Trump's badness isn't because of policy failure. It's because he's corrupt and evil.
Yes, his policies failed. But Trump's badness isn't because of policy failure. It's because he's corrupt and evil.
This thread is so important. Remember Liz Cheney chastising other Rs in the Jan 6 hearings: "There will be a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain." That day is surely coming, and today may be when it starts. Expect a lot of Rs to start denying they ever supported Trump.
I’m not trying to be pollyannaish here but the administration’s capacity to pull stunts like this probably implodes if they get slaughtered today. This stuff relied on the perception of Trump’s strength - people felt like they had to to along with it.
November 3, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Part of why apostate Republicans have often been stronger critics of Trump than Dems is that they see MAGA's failings through moral terms like dishonor and shame, rather than policy.
Yes, his policies failed. But Trump's badness isn't because of policy failure. It's because he's corrupt and evil.
Yes, his policies failed. But Trump's badness isn't because of policy failure. It's because he's corrupt and evil.
It's a national shame. The government can't implement immigration rules properly so they punish law-abiding immigrants. A pathetic failure on two fronts.
November 3, 2026 at 8:57 AM
It's a national shame. The government can't implement immigration rules properly so they punish law-abiding immigrants. A pathetic failure on two fronts.
I didn't draw anything for Halloween or for Ace week... I'm a failure! A failure, I tell you! 😭
Box of Shame: Eyes Peeking Out
ALT: Box of Shame: Eyes Peeking Out
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November 2, 2026 at 5:42 PM
I didn't draw anything for Halloween or for Ace week... I'm a failure! A failure, I tell you! 😭
there's no shame in trying something and it not working. but if you keep at it when it's demonstrably a failure, you're wasting everyone's time and losing elections for no reason.
November 4, 2026 at 8:22 PM
there's no shame in trying something and it not working. but if you keep at it when it's demonstrably a failure, you're wasting everyone's time and losing elections for no reason.
Last night’s blue tsunami swept over even states that were unexpected, but—
The failure of Floridians to go along serves to makes the hideous swamp monsters of the Sunshine State look more ignorant & primitive than ever before.
Shame, shame, FL.
Painfully cretinous imbeciles.
The failure of Floridians to go along serves to makes the hideous swamp monsters of the Sunshine State look more ignorant & primitive than ever before.
Shame, shame, FL.
Painfully cretinous imbeciles.
November 4, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Last night’s blue tsunami swept over even states that were unexpected, but—
The failure of Floridians to go along serves to makes the hideous swamp monsters of the Sunshine State look more ignorant & primitive than ever before.
Shame, shame, FL.
Painfully cretinous imbeciles.
The failure of Floridians to go along serves to makes the hideous swamp monsters of the Sunshine State look more ignorant & primitive than ever before.
Shame, shame, FL.
Painfully cretinous imbeciles.
The absence of Deadlock's sexiest girl is a shame and a failure, despite the otherwise excellent artwork on display.
November 2, 2026 at 5:15 AM
The absence of Deadlock's sexiest girl is a shame and a failure, despite the otherwise excellent artwork on display.
El-Sayed’s great line - “A failure to show up and fight for that right is a failure to show up and fight for your own” - puts the “Obviously I’m going to vote for the party that’s only going to take your rights away” line to the shame it deserves.
November 3, 2026 at 1:30 AM
El-Sayed’s great line - “A failure to show up and fight for that right is a failure to show up and fight for your own” - puts the “Obviously I’m going to vote for the party that’s only going to take your rights away” line to the shame it deserves.
Nice Fascist movement you got there. Would be a shame if it were to be doomed to failure due to a fundamental inability to objectively analyze the strength of its opposition.
I think that so many elite institutions and people with important jobs staying on X persuaded many of them the median american voter was a greek statue avatar hailing the thousand year trumpenreich and complaining about race mixing bsky.app/profile/sara...
lmao at all the tech billionaires who saw 2024 and went "mandate???" and tied themselves and their entire fucking industries inextricably to a sinking ship
November 4, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Nice Fascist movement you got there. Would be a shame if it were to be doomed to failure due to a fundamental inability to objectively analyze the strength of its opposition.
Be a shame if the press covered this, noting that the judge found the reporting to be sound & the v lawsuit to be potentially frivolous. It might remind midterm voters of Trump’s entanglement with Epstein & Republicans’ failure to get him to comply with the law requiring them files’ release.
BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the WSJ (Dow Jones) for the Epstein birthday letter story “with prejudice,” meaning it cannot be further amended or refiled (pending any appeal). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![This Order addresses President Donald J. Trump's second attempt to plead that Defendants
Dow Jones & Company, Inc. d/b/a the Wall Street Journal ("Dow Jones"), News Corporation ("News Corp."), Keith Rupert Murdoch ("Murdoch"), Robert Thomson ("Thomson"), and
journalists Khadeeja Safdar ("Safdar") and Joseph Palazzolo ("Palazzolo") (collectively, the
"Defendants") acted with actual malice when they published an article in the Wall Street Journal
("WSJ") linking him to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ("Epstein").' [ECF No. 67]. As with his first attempt, he has failed.? Therefore, for the reasons below, Defendants' Motion to Dismiss the First Amended Complaint (the "Motion"), [ECF No. 68], is granted and President
Trump's Amended Complaint is dismissed with prejudice.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreih2lb4blmz7wsmhctjnwkest2ziyyu6i2y3opiumns2pkizwm27xa)
October 31, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Be a shame if the press covered this, noting that the judge found the reporting to be sound & the v lawsuit to be potentially frivolous. It might remind midterm voters of Trump’s entanglement with Epstein & Republicans’ failure to get him to comply with the law requiring them files’ release.
My goal for November is to write something so spicy someone fails their foolish attempt at No Nut November...
And then they tell me they failed so I can shame them for their failure hehe.
And then they tell me they failed so I can shame them for their failure hehe.
November 2, 2026 at 4:31 AM
My goal for November is to write something so spicy someone fails their foolish attempt at No Nut November...
And then they tell me they failed so I can shame them for their failure hehe.
And then they tell me they failed so I can shame them for their failure hehe.
Failure to go blue in Kentucky will likely be more of a reminder of the absurd gerrymandering at play than any indication that the state has remained conservative. It's a shame, really.
I just looked at the Kentucky House Races and pulled the numbers for counties that have most of their vote counted. I did some quick math and compared them to their 2022 results and there are some very large shifts to the Dems.
November 4, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Failure to go blue in Kentucky will likely be more of a reminder of the absurd gerrymandering at play than any indication that the state has remained conservative. It's a shame, really.
If anyone wants to see what sheer shame and utter failure looks like. Turn on FoxNews right now.
November 4, 2026 at 5:08 AM
If anyone wants to see what sheer shame and utter failure looks like. Turn on FoxNews right now.
Kirsten Gillibrand non-answer on MSNBC highlights a major failure: the DEM establishment starved FL candidates of resources. David Jolly and Angie Nixon lost by razor-thin margins. Dismissing Florida was a strategic blunder. National investment could have won these races. Shame on the DSCC and DGA.
November 4, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Kirsten Gillibrand non-answer on MSNBC highlights a major failure: the DEM establishment starved FL candidates of resources. David Jolly and Angie Nixon lost by razor-thin margins. Dismissing Florida was a strategic blunder. National investment could have won these races. Shame on the DSCC and DGA.
Your failure to do so brings shame on you. You should be ashamed of yourself.
October 28, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Your failure to do so brings shame on you. You should be ashamed of yourself.
So much failure, so little shame.
Let's not go here again.
Let's not go here again.
Soldiers dead and wounded. Billions in damage. All for nothing.
And Trump wants to keep going, firing top generals he doesn’t even know and sliming them with accusations when they offer even the slightest resistance.
All while lying to us and enriching themselves.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
And Trump wants to keep going, firing top generals he doesn’t even know and sliming them with accusations when they offer even the slightest resistance.
All while lying to us and enriching themselves.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
October 31, 2026 at 5:44 PM
So much failure, so little shame.
Let's not go here again.
Let's not go here again.
So ashamed of California’s vote on the propositions. Way too many right wing commercials on sports broadcasts. And it is a real shame that Newsom was assisting. What a failure of the Democrats who didn’t get the truth out to the voters. At least we have a Democrat as Governor.
November 4, 2026 at 6:57 AM
So ashamed of California’s vote on the propositions. Way too many right wing commercials on sports broadcasts. And it is a real shame that Newsom was assisting. What a failure of the Democrats who didn’t get the truth out to the voters. At least we have a Democrat as Governor.
#vanityfair @vanityfair.com SHAME ON YOU!!! Why aren’t you reporting about the Failure in Chief pedophile who’s obviously cognitively and morally bankrupt? TRUMP IS DESTROYING OUR LIVES AND YOU POST THIS SHIT???? FU VANITY FAIR
A huge fuck you to Vanity Fair for continuing to attack the Bidens for no reason.
October 31, 2026 at 7:42 PM
#vanityfair @vanityfair.com SHAME ON YOU!!! Why aren’t you reporting about the Failure in Chief pedophile who’s obviously cognitively and morally bankrupt? TRUMP IS DESTROYING OUR LIVES AND YOU POST THIS SHIT???? FU VANITY FAIR
not a failure
not failing
not bad, not wrong, not weak
it sucks, omg it absolutely does, it fucking *hurts* with sadness and with shame and self-recrimination
and the expectations
the standards of performance
the Way We're Supposed To Be...
not failing
not bad, not wrong, not weak
it sucks, omg it absolutely does, it fucking *hurts* with sadness and with shame and self-recrimination
and the expectations
the standards of performance
the Way We're Supposed To Be...
October 30, 2026 at 3:18 AM
not a failure
not failing
not bad, not wrong, not weak
it sucks, omg it absolutely does, it fucking *hurts* with sadness and with shame and self-recrimination
and the expectations
the standards of performance
the Way We're Supposed To Be...
not failing
not bad, not wrong, not weak
it sucks, omg it absolutely does, it fucking *hurts* with sadness and with shame and self-recrimination
and the expectations
the standards of performance
the Way We're Supposed To Be...
“Review”.
Organisations in receipt of taxpayer money are independent for a reason: to do things that require specific expertise, things central government isn’t nimble enough to do.
It’s a shame some people were upset by the ad but are we seriously treating this as a critical governance failure?
Organisations in receipt of taxpayer money are independent for a reason: to do things that require specific expertise, things central government isn’t nimble enough to do.
It’s a shame some people were upset by the ad but are we seriously treating this as a critical governance failure?
SF’s Matt Carthy says he deleted his social media post about the DRCC consent ad because of the pile on the Rape Crisis Centre was getting.
However, he still believes there should be a “review” of ads from organisations in receipt of taxpayer money.
However, he still believes there should be a “review” of ads from organisations in receipt of taxpayer money.
October 28, 2026 at 2:43 PM
“Review”.
Organisations in receipt of taxpayer money are independent for a reason: to do things that require specific expertise, things central government isn’t nimble enough to do.
It’s a shame some people were upset by the ad but are we seriously treating this as a critical governance failure?
Organisations in receipt of taxpayer money are independent for a reason: to do things that require specific expertise, things central government isn’t nimble enough to do.
It’s a shame some people were upset by the ad but are we seriously treating this as a critical governance failure?
shame the Dems couldn’t win my congressional district, but I mean, I didn’t even learn the candidate’s name until I was in the voting booth so that’s a real failure on the party’s part
November 4, 2026 at 1:15 PM
shame the Dems couldn’t win my congressional district, but I mean, I didn’t even learn the candidate’s name until I was in the voting booth so that’s a real failure on the party’s part