Originally published at: Trump Must First Destroy The Gov’t In Order To Corrupt It
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Stay Focused On The Real Power Dynamic Accretion of power is the core goal of Trump’s Project 2025 opening blitz. Since power in the tripartite federal government is finite, the accrual of power by the…
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Is there any reason to believe TSF is doing any more here than admiring his own signature?
ETA: Oh, Frist!
Cloud leopard here to help out with the faces.
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Well, TSF warned us all - Trump 2.0 is all about the grift and retribution.
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Not really OT:
re: muskrat
If it walks like a nazi, talks like a nazi, and salutes like a nazi, it’s a fucking nazi.
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Nope. I’m pretty sure he has next to no understanding of most of what he signs. He is exactly what Grover Norquist, Leonard Leo and their oligarch patrons wanted - a human autopen.
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Errors, mistakes, screwups, and boneheadedness
The Trump Family Brand.
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that have stood for decades. bsky.app/profile/atru…
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Destruction is the goal and it is easy. Lazy bastard
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The bankers will be shitting themselves soon, all but the dumbest.
Only thing money likes more than gold is stability. Half the bets made on the stock market today are intricate, fabulous, years-long, sure-fire winners. But you need the years. Catastrophe.
I am years ahead of my time by being already broke. Whew!
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In Texas, arteries are prematurely hardening with the frisson of anticipation.
Yum! Brands??
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I thought about it yesterday.
As with Trump, Org., it seems Donnie has decided to turn his preaidency into a branding exercise; 'cause, all the heavy lifting looks like it’s been done by someone else.
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The stupid, it burns…
“Hey, John, what’s this all about? What’s this a tour of?” Mr Trump reportedly asked John Kelly, his then-chief of staff, when they took a private tour in 2017 of the USS Arizona Memorial, a ship commemorating the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during the Second World War.
“Trump had heard the phrase ‘Pearl Harbor’ and appeared to understand that he was visiting the scene of a historic battle, but he did not seem to know much else,” write the authors, who quote a former White House adviser concluding the US president was “dangerously uninformed”.
During a meeting with Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister’s “eyes bulged out in surprise”, the Washington Post reporters claim, when Mr Trump told him: “It’s not like you’ve got China on your border.”
China and India in fact share more than 2,000 miles of common border.
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Grifter grifting the grifters
TCF charged millions of dollars for a single 15-minute meeting and has privately boasted of making $500 million from deep-pocketed executives looking to gain his favor, according to the Wall Street Journal. The paper reported that Meredith O’Rourke, Trump’s top fundraiser, said a minutes-long sit down with the MAGA chief would sting into the millions. Meanwhile, the reported half-billion-dollar windfall, split across various committees and accounts, will be used “as a rainy-day fund,” the paper reported the president as saying, citing anonymous sources. Executives from the pharmaceutical, health-care, insurance, and technology sectors were among those tripping over themselves to bend the knee at Mar-a-Lago after Trump’s election victory, joining him for dinner in a “gold-covered, chandeliered dining room just off the lobby,” the Journal reported. “Everybody who is anybody went down,” said Kathryn Wylde, leader of the nonprofit CEO alliance Partnership for New York City. “It was a proactive effort to not be a target.” After the meetings, Trump would speak publicly about the issues raised. O’Rourke, the fundraising chief, declined a request for comment from the newspaper.
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OT
But not really…
From bbcnews… …
Trump says Ukraine ‘could have made deal’ after US-Russia talks to end war
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Hello and welcome to our live coverage as the world reacts to Tuesday’s landmark US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia - the most significant meeting between the two sides since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago.
After the talks, Donald Trump said Ukraine “could have made a deal” earlier to end the war, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said it was a “surprise” his country had not been invited to the talks in Riyadh.
The US president also said he was much more confident a deal could be reached, adding: “I think I have the power to end this war”,
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HORSE SHIT, LITTLE EVA!! As my sainted dad used to say when faced with deliberate stupidity
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A “deal” = surrendered their country.
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Little Eva? Why who was Eva?
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the victim of Russian aggression
Ukraine… And us.
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trump also indicated he thought Ukraine started the war
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The 2 comments there about opposition to what all is happening makes sense with “choose your battles.” There ARE legal challenges happening daily, but I don’t think anyone is going to pull out a weapon and blow off a bunch of people in their frustration. It’s going to be slow and steady wins the race.
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