Sunday, March 3, 2024

Trumps decline is speeding

Trump crowd goes silent as he confuses Biden and Obama again

“I know them both very well and we will restore peace through strength. Get that war settled. It’s a bad war. And Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word,” Mr Trump added, seemingly in the false belief that Mr Biden’s former boss remains in charge.

He also mistakes million dollar properties for billion dollar ones.

This is the rare election where both candidates have actually served as president, so we can easily compare their accomplishments. Biden passed the largest piece of climate legislation ever. Trump gave massive tax cuts to the wealthy, and used the job to enrich himself aa much as possible. Biden safely landed the economy after the massive inflation caused by the pandemic. Trump told us to inject bleach.

So hard to choose!

They're just rolling with this one like they roll with everything he says. I've seen footage in the past few weeks of Trump supporters insisting Biden is a puppet president being controlled by Obama, who is secretly pushing his agenda behind the scenes. So when Trump calls Biden "Obama," he's just "telling it like it is."

I mean, keep sharing these flubs and mistakes... maybe it will remind independents he's unfit... but the MAGA crowd isn't going to be convinced he's ever said anything wrong in his life.

Donald Trump Mocked for Calling Obama President During Speech 

Ron Filipkowski, the editor-in-chief of the independent news network MeidasTouch, posted on X, formerly Twitter: "This will be yet another one of the 127 other instances where tomorrow Trump will claim he mixed up Obama and Biden again on purpose."

The dude up there mini-stroking his word salad but media has been focused on Biden's age? I feel like I'm the crazy one trying to understand this nonsense

Trump is deteriorating and the news media chooses to only focus on Biden’s age. If Biden made even one mistake like this then we would see non-stop coverage for weeks.

Biden, a man with a speech impediment, makes a single word mixup. The media harps it for weeks, wondering if he has dementia and if he's fit to lead.

Trump makes an uncountable number of word mixups, including inventing bizarre words out of whole cloth, which is an actual sign of dementia. The media ignores specifics, and instead focuses on that we've got two old guys running for president.

The media is a joke. They report on controversy because it gets more views and thus more ad revenue. Most people know Trump is a fucking idiot, there's no money in reporting on that. But going after Biden gets views, so that's what they report. It's sick, they are killing this country with unintentional propaganda by seeking the cheapest dollar. That combined with the actual propaganda from Fox and its ilk gives me very little hope for our society.

Stop calling it a gaffe or mistake. His mind is rotting and losing a linear footing. Happens to most old people. It's why they speak of the past in such detail.

Sunday, February 18, 2024

From the President of the United States to shoe salesman is complete.


Trump hawks $399 branded shoes at ‘Sneaker Con,’ a day after a $355 million ruling against him

Trump booed as he hawks $399 ‘Never Surrender’ shoes at Philadelphia Sneaker Con

As he closes in on the Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump made a highly unusual stop Saturday, hawking new Trump-branded sneakers at “Sneaker Con,” a gathering that bills itself as the “The Greatest Sneaker Show on Earth.”

Trump was met with loud boos as well as cheers at the Philadelphia Convention Center as he introduced what he called the first official Trump footwear.

Imagine how apoplectic Rupert Murdoch's empire would be if any other presidential candidate made an appearance at Sneaker "Con."

The former president of the United States is peddling a $400 sneaker, at a sneaker convention, to pay his legal fees. This circus needs to end.

The John Mulaney joke about Trump being a homeless man's vision of a rich person gets more apt every day.

It seems that the desperation of Delinquent Donny’s various absurd schemes to generate cash is becoming increasingly apparent to the general public.

No one but a few people will buy these at full price.

The price will be lowered and lowered until they are something like 60 dollars. Because of their cheap quality and because Trump's base cannot afford it.

They will eventually be found at thrift shops and donation places.

Kanye West will wear them publicly once, causing a very brief resurgence of interest.

They'll be discontinued quietly and join the ranks of failed business ventures like Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Airlines.

In the years to come there will be a few articles about how "Remember when Trump tried to sell $399 golden sneakers?"

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

GOP: Fix the border, not like that!

In Huge Reversal, GOP Poised To Kill The Border-Ukraine Package It Demanded 

WASHINGTON ― Senate Republicans on Monday signaled their plan to filibuster bipartisan legislation that paired tougher border policy with more U.S. aid to Ukraine, a stunning reversal less than 24 hours after the legislation had been unveiled.

With ex-president Donald Trump urging them to kill it, and many on the right up in arms about the proposal, top Senate Republicans emerged from a heated closed-door meeting and said they needed more time to review the agreement, suggesting that a scheduled Wednesday vote to advance the bill is all but doomed to fail.

If they address the border “crisis” now, they have nothing left to run on in November.

Good lord, November is a long ways away 

Also, the GOP is in a very serious financial crisis and the only way the Russians are still willing to keep them afloat is if they keep the Ukraine funding stalled...

It’s honestly more to do with the Ukraine aid. Russian influence has become too strong, specifically in regards to Trump.

Look at where Tucker Carlson is… look at what Trump said yesterday about wanting to help Putin. The Republican Party are now open traitors under the control of another nation. Every single one.

Never forget the July 4th GOP Moscow delegation.

The GOP is a compromised foreign intelligence asset.

Senate Republicans threaten to block border security bill they negotiated

In a striking turn of events, Senate Republicans threatened Monday to block a major, bipartisan border security and asylum restrictions package, just one day after their chief negotiator signed off on it.

GOP senators left a special closed-door meeting in the evening predicting that their party would not provide enough votes to move forward with the package on Wednesday, saying the senators agreed they need more time to discuss changes to the bill in the form of amendments.

“I would anticipate Wednesday the cloture vote does not pass,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., the lead GOP negotiator in the border talks, told reporters after the meeting. “People are saying, ‘Hey, I need a lot more time to be able to go through this.’”

Yes America, Republicans oppose anything that is likely to work.

Their entire agenda is designed to crash the country, and then out of that chaos hope voters install a strong man leader who will only need to be ‘dictator for a day’ (ha!). They would rather rule over ashes, than not rule at all. What sad traitors. 

By most accounts, the senate GOP leadership wanted both this and aid for Ukraine/Israel.

They delusionally believed their decades of leadership could drag the party with them on a easy win like immigration.

Nope. They ended their own era by enabling Trump to warp the party into its current form. Their own voting base is hostile towards them based on lies and fantasy.

Republicans are opposed to the border security that they demand.

The Senate unveiled its border bill. House Republicans immediately declared it dead.

Senate negotiators released the long-awaited text of their bipartisan border security deal Sunday night, a months-in-the-making effort that would dramatically reorganize the U.S. asylum system while giving the president new emergency powers to limit the flow of migrants into the country.

“We’re radically changing the way we’re spending dollars on border security and the asylum process,” said Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., who led talks alongside Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla. and Chris Murphy, D-Conn.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced plans for a procedural vote on the new border bill Wednesday as part of a broad national security package wrapping the measure together with aid to Ukraine and Israel. His Republican counterpart, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, called on the Senate to “carefully consider the opportunity in front of us and prepare to act.”

I don’t see how Johnson not putting this up for a vote doesn’t backfire on Republicans. One of the biggest tools they have is Democrats being “soft on the border,” now Democrats can say:

We had a bipartisan agreement to pump money into the border and codify more strict immigration policy and Republicans wouldn’t even vote on it due to Trump’s fear of it helping Biden.

Good political messaging can be pitched in an elevator. 

MAGA Mike Johnson says it can't be done, because the Republicans have nothing to run on besides fear and hatred of brown people.

Border security is secondary to what Trump wants which is to not vote for this bill. He needs to be able to run on his migrant caravan fear campaign.


Sunday, January 7, 2024

Presidency was for sale under Trump

 Trump Took $7.8 Million in Foreign Cash While in Office. He’d Do It Again.

Donald Trump and his businesses hauled in at least $7.8 million from foreign governments and officials of 20 countries during his presidency. The bulk of that came from China, but Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others also chipped in relatively modest amounts, according to a new report from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

Trump Received Millions From Foreign Governments as President, Report Finds

The transactions, detailed in a 156-page report called “White House For Sale” that was produced by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, offer concrete evidence that the former president engaged in the kind of conduct that House Republicans have labored, so far unsuccessfully, to prove that President Biden did as they work to build an impeachment case against him.

Trump’s Two-Year Take From Foreign Governments While He Was President Is Staggering 

If you still had any doubts as to whether Donald Trump had self-serving motivations as the nation’s forty-fifth president, then a new report detailing the millions of dollars he received from foreign governments should make it clear it definitely wasn’t America he was putting first.

China spent over $5.5 million at Trump properties while he was in office, documents show 

Democrats say the additional accounting records raise new questions about possible efforts to influence Trump through his companies while he was in the White House.

As an example, committee Democrats point to the fact that Trump declined to impose sanctions on the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), a state-owned entity that leased property at Trump Tower in New York.


Friday, January 5, 2024

Republican are doing things, not for the people, but against political rival

 House Republican says he won't accept a border deal because it may help Biden politically

"Let me tell you, I'm not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden's approval rating," Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas told CNN this week. "I will not help the Democrats try to improve this man's dismal approval ratings. I'm not going to do it. Why would I?"


Troy Nehls is the rep who, during the most recent speaker votes, explicitly said that his number one priority in every decision he makes is helping Trump get back in the White House.

They're literally saying we can't fund Ukraine help because it'd be better spent here, but when it's time to vote on funding more border security they all reject it. Republicans can entirely go fuck themselves!!!! What's worse is how they keep getting away with it never facing any pushback from media who just both-sides everything, framing everything as a loss for Biden.

"Today is Biden's birthday, here's how that's a bad thing" 

The almost outrageous thing about that argument is the vast majority we are spending on Ukraine is spent domestically on arms and support systems manufactured right here in the good old USA

I live in such a federally funded boom town. Yet the town remains overwhelmingly conservative and opposed to the hand that is literally feeding us.

It’s such an unbelievably disingenuous argument. But hey it goes down easy and don’t come up hard

Exactly. The other great thing about it is we get (or got by now) to decommission all this old equipment by sending it to Ukraine instead of going through the very expensive decommissioning process, saving money while helping them out.

Not only that but by fighting Russia by proxy, we'll eventually see Russia's collapse w/o sending any troops.

I've heard some military higher-ups estimates that we're getting at least 10x our money back by supporting Ukraine this way, as it'll pay off hugely years down the line.

Stupid Repubs only think about themselves and the now, never the future. Myopic cruel assholes.

If something is good for the country, of course it will benefit the party currently in the White House.

You might even think it would benefit the party currently in control of the House of Representatives, too.

Winning is clearly less important than making sure that Democrats, and especially Biden, lose.

House GOP is obstructing progress at the border by blocking staffing surge, White House says

Administration officials are ramping up the rhetoric as dozens of House Republicans on Wednesday traveled to Texas to visit the border to highlight what they see as President Biden’s failings. The comments, which called out House leaders for blocking consideration of emergency funding that would provide for the hiring of thousands of federal border and immigration personnel, also came ahead of the start of impeachment hearings into Homeland Security Department Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which lawmakers announced on Wednesday would proceed next week. 

The GOP doesn’t have an interest in solving problems, they just want to complain about them.

Creating a crisis (or adding to one) during Democratic administrations has been GOP policy for decades. They then run on that increased crisis in elections to fool voters who haven't been properly informed by the media what the GOP has been doing.

Nice to see the White House calling this out but for fuck's sake the media should have been reporting on this for the past year. 

While Abbot's goons are kidnapping people, putting them on busses, with lies about their destination, and then trafficking them to northern blue cities as a cheap political stunt that literally everyone can see right through.

Republicans don’t want a solution, they want something to blame on democrats

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Trumps best bud Epstein

Donald Trump Flights on Jeffrey Epstein's 'Lolita Express'—What We Know

There is speculation that former President Donald Trump could be among the high-profile names included in the unsealed court documents related to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, as the former president sometimes used the child sex offender's private jet.

The names of about 200 people linked to Epstein, who took his own life in a New York jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial for child sex charges, could be revealed this week after U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ruled that they should no longer be redacted as part of a settled civil lawsuit between Ghislaine Maxwell, who was found guilty in December 2021 of helping Epstein abuse and traffic underage girls, and accuser Virginia Giuffre.

 

Trump has also never been implicated in the offenses committed by Epstein or Maxwell.

He was literally sued by a woman who says trump raped her when she was 13 at one of Epstein’s parties. I linked the court filing. It’s a short, but disturbing read. 

The suit was set for trial and she received so many death threats she backed away. This was news before the 2016 election. 

Here’s an article written by one of the woman’s lawyers soon afterwards.


Not only do we know that Trump and Epstein were friends, but we also know for a fact that Trump has flown on Epstein's plane. This is a matter of public record, and explained in the article. So yeah, his name is almost surely in these sealed documents of the investigation.

That said, there are much better reasons to believe Trump is a terrible person than just that he flew on an airplane that was owned by a trafficker. Like that we have a recording of him saying he likes to sexually assault women, and that multiple victims have told us he sexually assaulted them. There's no need to rely on speculation about his associates when he and his victims have all spoken about his assaults personally.

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Trump is declining and getting worse

 Trump’s aberrant behavior is getting worse. Why are Americans ignoring his decline?

In evaluating his public and private behavior, America’s leading mental health professionals have concluded that Donald Trump is mentally unwell, and likely a sociopath — if not a psychopath. In even more direct terms, Trump has shown himself to apparently have a diseased mind, which in turn amplifies his already corrupt morality and ethics, attraction to violence, and overall capacity for evil. Ultimately, if he were to become president again, such an outcome would be a disaster for both the United States and the world.

He said it himself. Because people will support him no matter what. Why is this even still a question?

His cult base won't budge but that's nothing new, rest of us are willing to call it out though

The dude once spelled “coffee” wrong and everyone, including him, acted like it was some sort of secret code. It’s built into his fanatical following that anything weird he does is some kind of meaningful message. It’s a useful feature of the insanity surrounding him.

Too many people’s heads are so far up their asses they’d disappear if they jumped. He is an existential threat to the US and even potentially the world. Call anyone in your personal orbit out harshly. Don’t wait until it is too late.

Donald Trump Speech Gaffe Sparks Avalanche of Jokes, Memes 

Former President Donald Trump became the subject of jokes and memes after his gaffe about waging all-out war on American democracy, which he later corrected, went viral.

Trump, who has made several gaffes on the campaign trail, inadvertently made the comment as he continued his attacks on the 2020 election results during a campaign stop in Iowa on Saturday, December 2.

"In 2016, you voted to stand up to those liars, looters, losers, crooks, and creeps. You elected an outsider as your president and it was about America first.

"we've been waging an all-out war on American democracy"

He tells the truth for once and everybody calls it a gaffe. 

That wasn't a gaffe. It was the entire Republican party platform.

Honestly though. What has he ever said that made u think "fuck, he's brilliant!"

Trump Backpedals, Says He Was ‘Joking’ About Dictator Calls

Donald Trump lashed out at the New York Times on Monday over coverage of his controversial comments about whether he'd be a "dictator" on the first day of his new administration if he wins next year.

At a Fox News townhall with Sean Hannity, the former president said he'd be a dictator for just one day so he could finish the border wall and drill for oil.

The comment faced a wave of condemnations, including from the White House.

The controversy followed Trump riling up his critics by promising to root out left-wing "vermin" with a second term in the White House.

Republicans turning a blind eye at every turn to clearly questionable actions, comments & willfully ignoring true criminal behavior & activity has been beyond the pale … law n order? Really?

Because who running for President doesn’t joke about becoming a dictator?

Another lie. Trump has many times in the past said he doesn’t joke.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-kid-aides-argue-joking-slowing-coronavirus-testing/story?id=71404943