Originally published at: Will We NEVER Learn the Lessons of Trump?
Fool Me a Thousand Times … A confusing mishmash of reporting Monday afternoon inadvertently revealed that Donald Trump can still play Congress and the press like fools. The flurry of reporting, mostly from Capitol Hill, was about whether the political heat around the corrupt “Anti-Weaponization Fund” had become too much to stomach, especially for GOP…
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The other parts of this corrupt deal need to be taken off the table, too. Sadly, I fear you are correct that once again, Der Pumpkinführer has gotten away with it. He’s vying with Gotti to become the new Teflon Don. 86 47
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SCOTUS says “let the state courts figure this one out”
Kevin Morris, a Hollywood lawyer for the former president’s son, sued former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler in California state court for allegedly impersonating a Democrat operative on a 2022 phone call to gain information from Morris about the laptop. Morris has been described as a financial “sugar brother” of Hunter Biden.
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We’re running out of time.
The Indo-Gangetic Plain, which stretches across much of northern India and includes Uttar Pradesh, is regarded by climate researchers as one of the world’s emerging hotspots for dangerous humid heat.
Then she offered a sentence that could serve as the motto of Banda’s heatwave. “Poor people don’t have the luxury of worrying about the heat.”
Their refuge above the Ken was fitting. The river lies at the heart of Banda’s struggle with heat. Researchers say sand mining and groundwater depletion have weakened its ability to cool the surrounding landscape, creating a vicious cycle in which water scarcity and extreme temperatures reinforce one another.
The heat’s economic effects are visible everywhere.
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In an ideal world, Congress would bar the slush fund and anything like it. We are not, dear readers, in an ideal world.
Taxed at a state level at 100% is a desperate, but necessary move.
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Ug. Time for Axios to manipulate the markets again?
HSBC have a research note out saying $150 per barrel should be expected in the next couple of months. Great.
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Trump pushes all of his chips to the middle of the table… then merely signals that he’s pulling back one chip, and official D.C. gets the vapors.
Republicans are mushy-soft on crime.
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One of “The Lessons Of Trump” is our relatively high-minded view of politics and policy is gone.
I just posted this on yesterday’s MM
We need to scrub our message and outreach to the lowest common denominator, basically ‘working people’. Period. The electorate is more stupid and desperate than any other metric. Republicans know this, but they only have certain things to offer.
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Man Baby Trump has the temperament of an extremely petulant 2 year old. His parents never told him “NO,” so it is up to the citizenry since most of Congress and the SCOTUS are AWOL and compliant fools.
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Most of the J6 bubbas don’t live in blue states, and those that do are working on changing domicile. Just another chapter in the division of Amurika.
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So I guess that Pulte will now be able to comb through highly classified documents looking for dirt on Trump’s “enemies” instead of just mortgage records. People say he is unqualified for the position, but they don’t understand that all of the job descriptions changed 16 months ago.
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Vanilli pulled out. vanilla ice last man standing. And he said he’d do a show for Putin or in Iran.
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Yesterday, they threw Bovino under the bus. He did the same for them.
… launching a public attack on the White House, Homeland Security leadership and some of Trump’s closest aides.
Bovino launched a blistering attack on Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and senior Trump aide Susie Wiles at the far-right Remigration Summit in Porto, Portugal, accusing the administration of trying to “water down” mass deportations. The remarks followed months of frustration after he was stripped of his role and later retired from the agency.
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Kim Stanley Robinson’s epic climate change novel, The Ministry for the Future, begins with a heatwave in Uttar Pradesh that kills 20 million people.
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Racism and misogyny seem to be working pretty well.
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WTF?
No, no, no!!!
They are definitely PRO-CRIME. Gut the FBI, the DOJ, the IRS, the EPA…
Pardon and pay people who broke into and entered the Capitol of the United States of America? Pardon convicted fraudsters and Tax Cheats? Write get out of jail free cards?
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