It’s funny, motocross at the White House is, like, fine with me. But here’s an example of something that is genuinely unforgivable but that a lot of people seem to have moved right past.
Trump hasn’t made a public appearance in 8 days. This after an unscheduled visit to the hospital- because he “likes getting check ups.” Thank God Jake Tapper (or as I like to call him- the Brick Tamland of his generation) is on the case hunting down clues in a book about my mom’s experience as First Lady four years ago.
@Annie_Wu_22 Criticizing “privileged white Dems” while working for a white guy who gets a pass for having a Nazi tattoo? You’re throwing stones from inside the glass house Annie
When the Trump admin bends over backwards to make legal immigration even harder, this is what they're discouraging. They're telling the brightest people—who can create enormous value—that they should take their talents elsewhere. That's not "America First."
wait a second
Trump just bought $5m (1%) of a Sushi train restaurant chain because he got it mixed up with another AI company (FujiKura)
can’t make this up 😭
Within one 24 hour period, Trump:
- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion
All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.
But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."
it was october 2024. the US economy was the strongest major one in the world. inflation was nearing 2%. the US economy had added over 2 million jobs that year. russia was losing in ukraine. china was rapidly falling behind the US. and 77 million morons voted to blow it all up