ButchBackus

The end of an empire Is messy at best And this empire's ending Like all the rest.

[ButchBackus @BackusButch]

Fuck. Donald. Trump.

[Gary Koepnick @garykoepnick]

Just going to keep posting this to counter the ridiculous bullshit until someone makes me stop.

The Special Counsel investigation uncovered extensive criminal activity
•The investigation produced 37 indictments; seven guilty pleas or convictions; and compelling evidence that the president obstructed justice on multiple occasions. Mueller also uncovered and referred 14 criminal matters to other components of the Department of Justice.
•Trump associates repeatedly lied to investigators about their contacts with Russians, and President Trump refused to answer questions about his efforts to impede federal proceedings and influence the testimony of witnesses.
•A statement signed by over 1,000 former federal prosecutors concluded that if any other American engaged in the same efforts to impede federal proceedings the way Trump did, they would likely be indicted for multiple charges of obstruction of justice.

Russia engaged in extensive attacks on the U.S. election system in 2016
•Russian interference in the 2016 election was “sweeping and systemic.”[1]
•Major attack avenues included a social media “information warfare” campaign that “favored” candidate Trump[2] and the hacking of Clinton campaign-related databases and release of stolen materials through Russian-created entities and Wikileaks.[3]
•Russia also targeted databases in many states related to administering elections gaining access to information for millions of registered voters.[4]

The investigation “identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign” and established that the Trump Campaign “showed interest in WikiLeaks's releases of documents and welcomed their potential to damage candidate Clinton” 
•In 2015 and 2016, Michael Cohen pursued a hotel/residence project in Moscow on behalf of Trump while he was campaigning for President.[5]Then-candidate Trump personally signed a letter of intent.
•Senior members of the Trump campaign, including Paul Manafort, Donald Trump, Jr., and Jared Kushner took a June 9, 2016, meeting with Russian nationals at Trump Tower, New York, after outreach from an intermediary informed Trump, Jr., that the Russians had derogatory information on Clinton that was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”[6]
•Beginning in June 2016, a Trump associate “forecast to senior [Trump] Campaign officials that WikiLeaks would release information damaging to candidate Clinton.”[7] A section of the Report that remains heavily redacted suggests that Roger Stone was this associate and that he had significant contacts with the campaign about Wikileaks.[8]
•The Report described multiple occasions where Trump associates lied to investigators about Trump associate contacts with Russia. Trump associates George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, and Michael Cohen all admitted that they made false statements to federal investigators or to Congress about their contacts. In addition, Roger Stone faces trial this fall for obstruction of justice, five counts of making false statements, and one count of witness tampering.
•The Report contains no evidence that any Trump campaign official reported their contacts with Russia or WikiLeaks to U.S. law enforcement authorities during the campaign or presidential transition, despite public reports on Russian hacking starting in June 2016 and candidate Trump’s August 2016 intelligence briefing warning him that Russia was seeking to interfere in the election.
•The Report raised questions about why Trump associates and then-candidate Trump repeatedly asserted Trump had no connections to Russia.[9]

[ButchBackus @BackusButch]

My driveway is longer than the Statue of Liberty is tall.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: I just had this done. *holds up chart comparing reflecting pool to buildings*

[Michael McKean @MJMcKean]

Wisdom

[ButchBackus @BackusButch]

Wait, wut?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump has no public events on his schedule again today. The last time he was seen publicly for something other than a pre-taped interview was six days ago -- Wednesday, May 27 -- for his cabinet meeting. (He went to Walter Reed the day before.)

[ButchBackus @BackusButch]

This cult member thinks that I am a party. Or speak for a party. Or something.

Cuckoo.

[Heather O'Brien✍️ @RealHeatherOB]

@BackusButch Says the party who take to the streets to fight for the right to murder babies in the womb - or rage against a mythical "king" while cheering Charles and his second wife fly in.

[The Lies & Fall of Donald Trump @CreatesDan]

Maga will try to tell you that opposing Trump is a mental illness.

Here is proof positive that Maga IS the mental illness.

[ButchBackus @BackusButch]

It’s a cult.

[Heather O'Brien✍️ @RealHeatherOB]

What's interesting is that the original post warns "no snark," then "genuinely" asks a question steeped in insults.

Many simply see him as a successful businessman in a sea of corrupt lawyers running the country. A businessman who has employed people will usually manage things better than a career politician who's never been employed or employed people.

He's a builder. An idea man. And he loves his country. He is an American first, and his positions mirror those who support his goals. They resonate. So he didn't manipulate his followers, he represented them.

While not having a "masculine" (builder) physique, his knowledge, experience, and results are seen as a different sort of masculinity. Many strong businessmen are seen as highly masculine - even if only mentally.

The reality is, before he ran for office, he was highly regarded. Only because politics are so dirty, with the UniParty incensed that this "outsider" would dare to overturn their applecart, they weaponized the media to push a narrative that he is awful. And that worked. People who dislike him either parrot talking points they've heard or reject proof that what they've been told is a lie.

While not perfect, he seems to be the only one expected to be. So the insults fly.

Most people are so determined to dislike him at this point, there's literally no helping them see the truth. Everything he does is bad. Because he's bad. Period.

So that's the non-snark answer, IMO. Surely, this will invite the rage class to lash out. It's just where we are.

I usually mute or block.

[ButchBackus @BackusButch]

Here’s a funny one. Hilarious.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

No snark, I genuinely don’t get it. Trump is one of the least masculine, most juvenile public figures out there. He’s needy, whiny, defensive, terrified of strong women, and visibly intimidated by powerful men.

How does his base spin this into the ultimate “strongman” image?

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[B̴o̴r̴i̴s̴ Trump @BorisTrump6]

Apparently Trump asked Ronny Jackson if bone spurs would get him out of the Iran war.

[ButchBackus @BackusButch]

Wait, wut? An actual photo of your dear leader is “shit”?

What makes it shit, exactly?

[Dude iligence @lesterlambert11]

@AdamKinzinger 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣The only reason Adam post shit like this is because he has to make sure that he still has his low IQ idiot supporters.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump, like Putin, thought his war would be over in a few days with an easy, complete and total victory.

[ButchBackus @BackusButch]

Literally the biggest cuck.

[Steven Cheung @StevenCheung47]

It’s 9:30 PM on a Saturday night and President Trump is still in the Oval Office working hard for the American people.

He’s simply one of one.

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

If you poured a gallon of poison in a CEO's pool, you'd be arrested, for attempted murder.

They pour 10,000 gallons into your drinking water, that's just business.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Trump skipped his son’s wedding so he could surrender to Iran and China on Memorial Day Weekend.

MAGA:

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

There’s so much going on that it’s easy to overlook the fact that the president is telling so many lies.

Here’s a fact check of 28 different false claims President Donald Trump made from Monday through Friday. https://t.co/K0hfbxA7TS

[ButchBackus @BackusButch]

That is so embarrassing…

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

No doubt. Smartest. Clearly. Just listen to him for 10 seconds. You can tell. Really.

[ButchBackus @BackusButch]

How did that conversation go?

“It’s call a silent letter, Mr. President.”

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "He's a dumb person! D-U-M. Not the B. Most people don't know it has a B."