John C. Reilly: “Why aren’t people on the right wing concerned about human rights? They’re human too. Elon Musk says don’t be fooled by the empathy trap. Empathy is not a trap, empathy is a superpower. It’s what makes human beings exceptional, our ability to look outside ourself”
Trump told Leslie Stahl something years ago that everyone should hear.
She asked Trump he kept calling the media fake news.
He said, I do it because I need to discredit you, so that when you say negative things about me, nobody believes you.
That is EXACTLY what he’s done.
The problem everyone has with him is that most of us grew up with values, ethics, and integrity.
That is not Donald Trump.
He figured out a long time ago that he can bully his way through any rule and if he keeps pushing harder and harder, people will relent.
For most of his life they did, but we must stand up against it.
I thought .... nooooo ..... this must have happened after the draining, but before the repainting .... right? 🤔
Nope, I checked, they drove these massively heavy armoured vehicles on top of freshly painted sealant just a few days after it was applied and work was still ongoing.
It's easy to see why all of Trump's businesses failed.
@xrpmasterplan@nexta_tv They are attacking Israel in Lebanon as Israel continues it's path towards the Greater Israel Project after leveling Gaza. Who are the terrorists?
ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool where workers continue to battle algae – and the new paint job appears to be falling apart.
The Department of Interior did not immediately respond to a request for comment. https://t.co/7TzBngVdyc
🇺🇸 US Vice President JD Vance says he doesn’t know what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ultimately seeking in the region.
🔹Asked on the “Diary of a CEO” podcast about PM Netanyahu’s vision for the region, citing experts who say Israel aims to dominate the Middle East with a Greater Israel project, Vance said: “I don’t know. I can’t get inside somebody’s head.”
➤ Pressed on whether he had asked Israel what it wants, he said he hadn’t had that conversation.
🔹“Do I think there are people within Israeli society who would like to turn Iran into Libya, basically a failed state with 90 million people? Probably.” He said he didn’t know if Netanyahu shared that aim but called such an outcome against US interests.
🔹Asked if he trusted Israel and Netanyahu, he replied: “I don’t trust anybody.”
🔹On the hierarchy: “They are the junior partner. We’re the senior partner.”
As always, your regular reminder that despite having every law enforcement agency of the federal government and billions of dollars worth of surveillance tools available to them, the Trump admin has managed to find a grand total of zero (0) "paid agitators."
One time loretta lynch was on the same tarmac as Bill Clinton and went into his plane to talk.
@BretBaier has done 176 segments on that outrageous breach of Justice Department norms.
Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.
The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.
It had fewer than 50 employees.
And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.
Here is the part the administration tried to bury.
Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.
One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.
Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.
A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.
This is public money. Your money.
Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.
And there is more coming.
A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.
This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.
https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE
This is amazing.
The New York Times put together a graphic of how much time cabinet members spend kissing up to Trump in meetings.
"On average, at least one of every six sentences either flattered Mr. Trump, gave him credit or criticized his political opponents."
North Korea.