Originally published at: Smelling Blood In The Water, Trump Escalates Attacks On Law Firms - TPM – Talking Points Memo
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Where Will It Stop? The Trump administration seized on the capitulation by the Paul Weiss law firm to expand and intensify its attack on the legal profession late Friday. The Trump White House issued a…
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Another day, another series of outrages.
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Fortunately, I have a never ending well of outrage.
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Cat.
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Latest from Greenland leaders. They’re pissed!
Greenland leaders criticise US delegation trip as Trump talks of takeover
Greenlandic leaders have criticised an upcoming trip by a high-profile American delegation to the semi-autonomous Danish territory that Donald Trump has suggested the US should annex, Reuters reports.
The delegation, which will visit an American military base and watch a dogsled race, will be led by Usha Vance, wife of vice-president JD Vance, and include White House national security adviser Mike Waltz and energy secretary Chris Wright.
Greenland’s outgoing prime minister Mute Egede called this week’s visit a “provocation” and said his caretaker government would not meet with the delegation.
“Until recently, we could trust the Americans, who were our allies and friends, and with whom we enjoyed working closely,” Egede told local newspaper Sermitsiaq. “But that time is over.”
The Greenlandic government, Naalakkersuisut, is now in a caretaker period after a 11 March general election won by the Democrats, a pro-business party that favors a slow approach to independence from Denmark.
Jens-Frederik Nielsen, leader of the Democrats, called for political unity and said the visit by the US delegation during coalition talks and with municipal elections due next week, “once again shows a lack of respect for the Greenlandic people.”
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“Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court”
Says the man who is only free thanks to his handpicked Supreme Court and an ignorant electorate.
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It’s gangsters all the way down.
Headline: Tiger Woods goes public with his relationship with Vanessa Trump
Who is Vanessa Trump, you ask (besides being Donald Jr.'s ex)? Here’s a helpful primer from Wiki:
During her teenage years, Vanessa dated local street gangster Valentín Rivera, member of the violent gang Latin Kings.[16][17]
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From 1998 to 2001, Vanessa dated Saudi prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud.[20] The relationship ended in 2001, when Khalid bin Bandar left the U.S. after his Saudi ambassador father, Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud, was suspected of having indirect ties to individuals linked with the Al Qaeda [hijackers](Hijackers in the September 11 attacks - Wikipedia).[21]
On November 12, 2005, Vanessa married Donald Trump Jr. The wedding was held at the Mar-a-Lago club in Florida; the service was officiated by Trump Jr.'s aunt, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry.[22] Trump Jr. had proposed to her with a US $100,000 ring (equivalent to $161,000 in 2024) that he had received as a gift from a jeweler in exchange for proposing to her in front of paparazzi outside of the jeweler’s store at the Short Hills mall in New Jersey.[23]
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I was almost hoping that Dudek would follow through on his threat and that millions of SS recipients would be outraged enough to get out in the streets for a general strike. Except if the SS shutdown lasted a month or more, there would be horrible consequences for people unable to pay their bills or lose their Medicare benefits because they couldn’t pay for them.
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- How do we know this is even true?
- If true, where did the money go? The general fund? Trump’s personal bank acount? Trump’s Sovereign Fund? Where? There must be a provenance, right?
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The problem with this country is that it has no institutional memory for how to fight an authoritarian takeover. As a result our institutions are going down faster than a fat kid on the teeter totter.
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I’d highlight, but I’m lazy right now and the screen caps don’t need to be.
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You forgot skullduggery.
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What does a nation do when its leader represents an existential threat to its existence, and no legal, conventional authorities are empowered to rein that leader in and coarse correct? And much of that lack of ability for oversight and limiting the damage is due to the leader kneecapping all that disobey or challenge him?
Some might suggest that extraordinary, unconventional means will be resorted to, by someone. Because there are a helluva lot of someones whose lives are going to be destroyed or inalterably damaged by this man. For starters there’s going to be a helluva lot of people whose aged parents & disabled children are denied government benefits they’ve been receiving. Certainly many will not take it well.
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And then there’s this…
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Usha’s going there to seek asylum.
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Let the plane land, but don’t let anyone deplane. Refuel if necessary, and tell them to get the fuck out.
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She’s a nice little fascist isn’t she? Talk about lousy taste in men.
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