at risk of getting suspended again, this will be my last post on this matter
this is an absolute disgrace, embarrassment, and humiliation or America....what President has ever constantly passed out in the Oval Office, in front of cameras, in the middle of the day?
There are no "blinks", there are no spinning this....Donald Trump is a sick mess
Enough of this shit
Trump did this.
He pardoned January 6 rioters, then tried to hand them a $1.8 BILLION taxpayer-funded slush fund as a reward.
Now we’re learning that some pardon recipients have since faced charges involving sex crimes, domestic violence, assault, DUIs, illegal firearms, and other offenses.
The whole thing felt less like compensation and more like an attempt to financially reward and strengthen the militia that attacked the Capitol.
Sixteen of these 27 donors who contributed to Trump's "ballroom project" were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, and securities charges.
Did they incur any penalties?
No.
Many of their cases were dropped and Trump just awarded them high dollar contracts.
The People's House is now Trump's whore house.
Over the last few days, even right-wing radio has started laughing at Trump.
They’re mocking everything from his inability to explain what a “ceasefire” is to his defense of compensating convicted felons.
When your own media ecosystem starts ridiculing you, that’s not a warning sign. That’s the collapse already underway.
The bottom is falling out.
The next round of polls could be brutal.
Do not be fooled by Candace Owens and her shiny propaganda tour of Russia.
The only reason she can walk around safely is because she is acting as a state propagandist.
In reality, Russia is an incredibly dangerous and bad place for her.
The Kremlin is giving Owens a massive platform because she tells them exactly what they want to hear. She is a propagandist for the Russian state. What she is hiding from her followers is that Russia is an intensely and increasingly authoritarian, sexist, and racist society.
In their rigid social hierarchy, an ordinary Black woman would possess zero rights and find herself at the very bottom of the ladder. Domestic violence is normal and legally tolerated in Russia. She would also face daily racism. She loves to claim that Russia is safe, yet the country has a murder rate higher than the United States, and significantly higher than Europe. It is also impossible to trust the authorities, who can arbitrarily arrest you as a foreigner at any moment.
Instead of telling this truth, she is pushing the false narrative that Russia is a shining beacon of Christian conservative values. It is a total fabrication. Russia has staggering rates of societal violence, domestic abuse, divorce, abortion, and state corruption. Russia is also committing genocide in Ukraine. Not very Christian.
She is operating as a direct tool of Russian state media, betraying her own audience with dangerous lies. The freedom she claims to experience is a total illusion, manufactured by a regime that locks up its own citizens for holding up blank pieces of paper. She is a fraud and a traitor selling a fake utopia. She belongs in jail for betraying the US on behalf of Russia
Trump the idiot... thought that Massie, Cornyn and Cassidy were "immediately" "kicked out of Congress" after he defeated them in the GOP primaries.
He didn't realize they can still vote until the Christmas recess.
So did a lot of the MAGA morons.
Trump, Musk and Rubio slashed aid and scoffed that it was woke nonsense. Now they're seeing that it not only saved one life every 10 seconds but also protected us from diseases like Ebola. Their actions constituted a security failure as well as a moral one.
More broadly, their fecklessness contrasts with the courage and humanity of doctors and aid workers in Congo and Uganda, lacking adequate PPE but still risking the virus to care for fellow humans.
Trump, Musk and Rubio might learn something from them. https://t.co/kPKj7fqJFZ
Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of.
And he just proposed turning every federal grant into a loyalty test.
His plan would make funding for cancer research, housing, transportation, and public health depend on one thing: whether it “advances the President’s policy priorities.”
Not whether it works.
Not whether Congress authorized it.
Whether it pleases Trump.
This is the appropriations power. It belongs to Congress and to the people.
To my Republican colleagues: where are you?
Congress passed this funding. You voted for it.
Vought is telling you to your faces that your votes do not matter, that he and his enablers will override the law whenever it suits them. Every day you stay silent, you give away the institution you were elected to defend.
Grow a spine.
This is not about left or right.
It is about whether Congress still exists as a coequal branch, or whether we have quietly surrendered the purse to an unelected hack who holds the Constitution in contempt.
History will remember who stood up and who looked away.
https://t.co/2yHKBTNLbj
Trump is now suggesting January 6 was an inside job, claiming, “The FBI said, ‘Go in, go in!’”
One problem: Trump was the president on January 6, and the FBI director at the time was his own appointee.
Krugman: "Trump will never admit that his gratuitous Iran war has been a total disaster. But the debacle has clearly broken him. So we are now saddled with a president who has given up governing, but will maintain his grip on power wherever he can. And his power will be exclusively focused on rage and revenge." https://t.co/EKok6GeMe9
When he’s gone and this is all over, I don’t want to hear a single journalist talk about how terrible he was when they spent the entire fucking time normalizing everything he did
-Gas prices are up
-Grocery prices are up
-Credit card delinquencies are up
What are trump and @WhiteHouse focused on? The size of the reflecting pool.*
*This is not a Saturday Night Live skit. It’s real.
So instead of J6 insurrectionists getting the slush fund, Trump will get the $1.8 billion he settled with himself for, by using corrupt Todd Blanche do the dirty work for him.
Trump's criminal syndicate is literally operating in plain sight.
MAGA propaganda call this transparency. Yes, transparently corrupt @PressSec
Donald Trump had over 3,700 stock transactions since the war in Iran started, and he profited over 220 million dollars. Don't tell me how he "donates his presidential salary" ever again you stupid fucking MAGAs