Christ. Your snark is really useless. If you’re too afraid to admit that’s where we’re headed, then do so. It won’t make you less of a man. If you think it’s stupid to think that, then say that. My point is, if you think we’re headed to barricades, you (and the rest of us) need to be having very different conversations. Question is, how? Certainly not online. With whom? Who can we trust? Because we’ve been playing catch-up for years, always one step behind even as we’re watching the noose close tight. Problem is, everyone is looking to angels to come save us - the courts, the military, the Epstein files, the fat fuck dropping dead. But that’s wishing on rainbows and we need to stop fucking doing that yesterday.
Invading Ukraine after allying with Russia after meeting Putin in Russia (err, when the paperwork is done) this week, obviously.
Donald Trump has leveraged both terms of his presidency to pocket billions of dollars, according to a bombshell report.
A lengthy investigation from The New Yorker estimates Trump and his family will have enriched themselves by more than $3.4 billion by the end of his second term, much of it from deals, transactions, and investments that almost certainly wouldn’t have happened if he’d never been president.
The haul includes lucrative commercial projects in the Persian Gulf overseen by the Trump Organization, such as hotels and golf courses in Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates; a luxury Boeing 747-8 gifted by the Qatari royal family; and a flood of Trump-branded merchandise and other tat flogged by the president and his team.
Chicago cops don’t like to be told what to do by anyone. Having the feds tell them what to do…
ETA. Even though a majority of the white CPD likely voted for the convicted felon.
Is no one considering the action that should be taken by the duly elected mayor of the district? Is she not going to court to stop this, based on the Home Rule law?
What the heck?
If anyone had any doubt what the Giant Red Asshole has had in mind for the United States, this takeover of the police in D.C., and the threat to do the same in other cities, should put your doubt to rest. He’s grabbing power, with no intent of letting go, ever, on all levels. He is fascist scum, human scum, sick, vile, hateful, virulently racist, terminally stupid, the worst that America has among it’s citizenry. Hello Nazi Germany, hello Soviet Russia, hello every tin pot psychotic dictatorship in the world today and yesteryear, rejoice, for America is coming to join you.
I’ll wager it’ll be even more once the coup is complete.
Nvidia, AMD to Give U.S. 15% Cut on AI Chip Sales to China
After China reverse engineers their chips, they will both see orders dry up.
Also, China will have state-of-the art US technology for the first time to put in their stealth fighters and long range air-to-air missiles.
But tell me again how dangerous D.C. is.
Oh, by the way, where are the Epstein files?
Wouldn’t it be ironic if tSF had a massive coronary and the, say at an outdoor event in DC somewhere not the WH or Congress, and the first responders that got there first were kept away because untrained Natl Guardsmen kept them away because Hwegspeth hadn’t authorized them to go in right away, like the FEMA asshole Gabbard did with the Texas flooding and basically manslaughter of those camping kids?
Wouldn’t that be lesson learned?
You are my hero of the day. Now, back to work helping to keep “democracy” in the next election.
To be honest, $3.4 billion seems a little…low.
In the NYT: ““If our capital is dirty, our whole country is dirty,” President Trump says dramatically, speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room.” Yeah, our capital is dirty, but it’s got nothing to do with the City of Washington, D.C., and everything to do with the rats in the White House and with the Republican rats in Congress and with the corrupt rats scurrying around in the Supreme Court.
re: The Staggering Amount Trump is Profiting…
It all started in 2016, if you recall, when the courts shrugged their collective shoulders on enforcing the Emoluments Clause when he bought the DC Post Office and turned it into the latest Trump Motel for the Well-Fixed Supplicant and Toady.
Well he couldn’t take CA, so he took DC, technically Federal territory.
Remember in 2016 when the fat slob said he would be the first president that would lose money when he took the job? The s.o.b. was all but broke at the time. Over extended beyond over extended.
Dear keyboard warrior…propose something useful. We’ve heard endless diagnosis of the situation, as you keep repeating. But, you have nothing to suggest, other than “stop fucking doing that”.
What is it? Even tougher comment section talk? You’ve got that covered.
And it’s a hell of a crime spree.
Well, the J6 bomber is still on the loose.
I have, endlessly. I’ve proffered about 10 different strategies. But all I get is snark.
Maybe we admit we have a problem. Not just a tyrannical madman, but a rudderless and leaderless opposition. How about we start there, and seriously discuss what kind of leader we want. Not naming names, just describing.
Can we start there, instead of constantly doing tiresome “Well, then go ahead and lead us” deflection. We’re watching democracy go up in flames and no one seems to give enough of a fuck to actually do anything but talk about it.
Next step is for our elected wimps to grow a fucking spine. We need to start talking about Nuhremburg-like trials that will spare no one, every ICE agent, every corrupt DOJ lawyer, everyone. Now how do we make that happen? We call our elected reps, or visit them if necessary and demand they do it.
So there are 2 things. I have other things to do besides hold hands, so maybe find the other 35 posts I made where I described all this in detail.