Recovering arts administrator, wife of a guy who likes to write books, empty nester, Goldendoodle handler, die-hard Warriors fan, down with coup plotters!
Trump pardoned a dozen drug traffickers, bypassed & ignored DOJ input, pardoned dozens of Republican elected officials, business cronies, lawyers, friends, donors and campaign officials. Promised to pardon J6ers who beat cops. I don’t care about Joe pardoning his last son.
John Heilemann is not wrong. Trump's agenda is all about the destruction of America so he can rule in the same way Hitler did after the Enabling Act of 1933 gave him ultimate power. 😳👇
Billionaires in the U.S. are .0005% of the population, yet accounted for 18% of 2024 electoral spending.
Just 150 billionaire families spent nearly $2 billion.
This is not democracy. It is oligarchy.
Time to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.
Thanks, Merrick Garland, for taking the most consequential case in American history and completely bungling it.
Garland had 4 years and secured zero convictions against Trump, but managed to get 3 felony convictions against Biden’s son.
What a complete farce our country is.
@Jason Trump paid $750 in Federal income taxes in each of the tax years 2016 & 2017, far less than my widowed mother on a modest pension. Maybe start there.
The woman who Pete Hegseth paid off “went to a hospital and reported a sexual assault on October 12, where she underwent a rape kit exam and gave the clothes she was wearing on the night of the alleged assault to police. A nurse at the hospital first reported the alleged assault to authorities” according to CNN who reviewed the 22 page police report from the incident.
Seems like pretty solid allegations.
The reason she became the FBI’s person of interest is because she was vice chair of the DNC at the time, and her emails weren’t included in the leak.
She also then started amplifying pro-Russian talking points, and Kremlin owned media outlets, including justifying Russia’s actions in Crimea.
Then Gabbard started appearing on Tucker Carlsons show - which, Canadian intelligence forces have reported as one of the US media companies receiving payments from the Kremlin operated RT.
Gabbard also received funds directly from Elena Branson, after she visited the Russian Embassy in 2019.
Since her nomination to the DNI, Russia has publicly praised her, but five-eyes partners have spoken out in concern, going as far as to say that the US would not be “read-in” to sensitive intelligence matters from partners if she’s at the helm.
Trump has made a lot of dumb quid-pro-quo cabinet choices.
But Tulsi Gabbard is the most dangerous.
The big problem with the US political system is that billionaires are allowed to buy the elections. That is usually called corruption, but in the US infamous John Roberts's SCOTUS legalized such purchases in 2010 (Citizen United verdict).
Bit of a long 🧵 but I promise, it is actually going somewhere, not just a rant on Trump's cabinet picks.
But the rant part first:
Marco Rubio (Sec of State)
- More or less qualified, but has become a whipped dog, begging for his master's love, since 2016
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The New York Post editorial board on their meeting with RFK Jr:
“When it came to that topic his views were a head-scratching spaghetti of what we can only call warped conspiracy theories, and not just on vaccines…In fact, we came out thinking he’s nuts on a lot of fronts.”