Caught In Their Own Web
Lorraine Evanoff | 3:00 pm EDT June 3, 2025
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Just like Elon Musk lost control of the Twitter AI tool Grok, after decades of the massive Republican misinformation machine falsely assaulting Democrats and our institutions, it finally may have turned on itself. This past week brought endless MAGA self-owns, own-goals, circular firing squads, and Russian Roulette.
First, during the swearing-in ceremony of Jeannine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney of Washington DC, CNBC reporter Megan Casella asked Trump about his Wall Street nickname, TACO. “Trump Always Chickens Out” was coined May 2nd in the Financial Times by columnist Robert Armstrong. But it wasn’t until three weeks later that the term “TACO Trade” went viral because the nickname, TACO, humiliated Trump. Then, after two huge court rulings against his tariffs, Trump began attacking the very Federalist Society leader, Leonard Leo, whose corrupt SCOTUS helped get him “re-elected.”
Next, Chris Cillizza whined on his podcast and published a 1,000-word grievance about a small sign Scotch-taped to his Tesla, getting himself excoriated on the Internet. Jake Tapper forced his Biden-hit-job book down the throats of Americans for weeks. The result was a 25% drop in viewership of his CNN show and dismal sales of his book, 53,737 units, compared to 1.1 million units of Bob Woodward’s “Fear: Trump in the White house” sold in the first week.
Not to be outdone, when a town hall crowd shouted, “People will die!” from cuts to Medicaid benefits, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst replied, “Well, we all are going to die.” Yep, Ms. Ernst, just like your political career. After bashing Trump’s budget bill, Elon Musk was fired from DOGE, got a black eye, and his dream of taking over NASA was shot down. RFK Jr. punched himself in the eye using AI to write an error-filled MAHA report, resulting in an investigation. Also, Senate Republicans may have handed Democrats a way to stop Trump’s corrupt budget reconciliation bill after using a risky procedural maneuver.
Yes, the right wing corruption, destruction, and intimidation continues. Most recently, Trump’s SEC asked the DOJ to drop charges against a crypto criminal. Trump signed a deal to give J.D. Vance and Musk’s mentor Peter Thiel’s spy company Palantir access to create a master database of Americans. The Department of Homeland Security and ICE are out of control. And, in Poland, conservatives held the presidency, in a continued threat to Europe.
But Trump and DOGE are complete disasters. A new poll from the reputable AtlasIntel shows Trump’s lowest approval rating of this term. The pro-Trump National Sheriff’s Association is calling out the DHS. And Ukraine successfully executed a sneak attack on Russia.
Republican overreach makes them vulnerable, and like Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb, we must work together and focus the message on their weaknesses.
Strategic victories that can build over time are critical to the success of tearing down both Putin and 🍊💩.
To talk about the Republicans doing face plants, or shooting themselves in the foot, means we have nothing else we can say about them . That’s all there is to say. They give us absolutely nothing positive to say about them, nothing and no one. Every time they give us a glimmer of hope, I.e., Lindsey Graham saying good for Ukraine in the latest bombing of Russia, he says in the next breath that Greta Thunberg needs to be fired upon hoping she can swim. We need Alessandro here to fight for the good guys.