Reminder to those who apparently don't know: the Kennedy Center was financially robust, with many private donors, before this administration undermined it, chased out the National Symphony, Washington Opera and others. Trump has forced it into bankruptcy out of sheer vanity.
🇷🇺 The Trojan Horse in the Oval Office
For a decade Trump has insisted that every link between him and Moscow was a hoax, a witch hunt cooked up by sore losers. CNN now reports that fourteen Russian spy satellites swept over Prince Sultan Air Base two days before Iran struck it on March 27, wounding twelve Americans and destroying an AWACS aircraft that had been moved and was found anyway.
American officials say Russian data very likely fed that strike and several others, including one on a CIA facility in Riyadh, in a war that has by the Pentagon's own count killed at least eleven American service members.
This is where the hoax collides with the body count. Putin helps Tehran put missiles onto American bases, and the president answers with a warm phone call about trade, according to the Kremlin, and a plan to strip a third of America's forces out of Europe, which happens to be precisely what Moscow has wanted since 1949.
Whether it is design or vanity hardly matters any more, because America has wheeled a Trojan horse into the Oval Office and the damage is being done from the inside. This is, after all, a man who barks at allies and goes weak at the knees for anyone with a scowl and a secret police, and one suspects that had bin Laden only paid him a compliment, he too would have been a very, very smart guy who had been treated very unfairly.
The remarkable thing is that the whole world can see it. Europe sees it, Canada sees it and is taking notes, and Moscow and Tehran saw it first and acted accordingly. Only one nation on earth still hasn't worked it out, and it is the one paying in aircraft, bases, allies and lives. History will struggle to explain how a superpower allowed itself to be so thoroughly outmanoeuvred by a man it had been warned about for ten years.
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So, after eighteen months of lying on the supermarket floor screaming at Denmark, Donald Trump has been handed the 1951 defence agreement, which already gave America bases and the run of Greenland for as long as NATO exists, and which it was using so enthusiastically that it closed sixteen of its seventeen installations there. The grown-ups have simply wrapped the toy he already owned in shiny new paper, told him it was the biggest present anyone has ever had, and he is now running round the garden showing it to everyone. He will certainly make the history books, although I fear not in the chapter he was hoping for.
Meet MAGAt Scott DesJarlais—the "100% pro-life" GOP Congressman representing Tennessee's 4th district, with a heavy dose of "rules for thee, but not for me."
While championing strict anti-abortion laws for everyone else, court records and audio logs proved he pressured his mistress to get an abortion and mutually agreed to two more with his ex-wife. Yes, that’s three abortions for the ultimate family-values conservative.
But wait, it gets better: the mistress was actually his active medical patient. The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners had to formally reprimand him for unprofessional conduct because apparently, "doctor-patient boundaries" are just a suggestion.
Good to know that a lifetime anti-abortion voting record magically washes away three personal abortions. Hypocrisy at its absolute finest.
This is wild.
Ken Paxton has been in office in Texas since 2003, and he’s trying to blame Talarico for China owning 162,000 acres in Texas?
The ease with which they lie is pretty insane.
Today, I went to the grocery store and purchased $20 worth of vegetables.
I now have a $20 trade deficit with the grocery store.
They clearly ripped me off.
I will now cut off all trade with the grocery store and let my family starve in order to Make My Household Great Again.
It would be great if the American media could report that The Kennedy Center was operating with a SURPLUS of $40.7m in 2024 before Trump was re-elected.
SURPLUS.
And that what he says below according to the numbers I've seen just ANOTHER LIE.
Joe Rogan: " I've been left-wing my whole life…But I also recognize when government is taking over our lives, and what we were sold with the Trump administration would be that would end and there'd be a 'drain the swamp.'
Obviously it's not been ideal in that regard."
Ron White to Joe Rogan: Talarico didn't cost this state $6 million in fines and lawsuits, and that happened with Ken Paxton. Guess who paid that $6 million? You and me paid the $6 million for his bribery. His own party impeached him. He's a criminal. He's a piece of shit.
Trump again lies:
“The diesel is being driven up by the fact that it’s having a hard time coming out of Russia and if that’s the case, it hurts the world.”
Let’s be perfectly clear. It does not hurt the world. The only countries that buy Russian diesel are Turkey, Brazil, and North and West Africa.
Donald Trump stood on the fairway of his own golf course in Ireland on Sunday and informed the world that the diesel crisis "isn't done by the Middle East." It is, he says, Zelenskyy's fault for hitting Russian refineries. This will come as news to the tankers idling outside the Strait of Hormuz, which was open for business before February, was briefly reopened in June, and has been effectively shut again since July, with traffic down to a trickle under naval escort.
That is the shortage. A fifth of the world's seaborne oil, a tenth of its diesel and a fifth of its jet fuel used to pass through that strait. American diesel hit a record above six dollars a gallon on Friday, and it did so because a war Trump started ended with Tehran holding the key to the Gulf, not because a Ukrainian drone found a tank farm in Krasnodar.
The whole world watched the United States go into Iran and come out with a ceasefire, a broken memorandum and a closed strait, the most humiliating result in the history of American power. Rather than admit it, the president asks the country being bombed every night to stop fighting back, so that Russia can sell more diesel and he can survive November.
FACT 1
Absolutely no diesel fuel has been imported into the United States from Russia since 2022 zero, zilch, Nada
FACT 2
The sole reason diesel fuel has gone up 50% in the last six months is because of Donald Trump‘s war on Iran
What kind of a person would be fooled by Trump?