jim1245.bsky.social
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Don Jr. is selling White House access for $500,000/"member". Kushner collected $Billions from Middle East nations. Those nations, plus Serbia, have approved Trump projects. There are hundreds of ways to bribe Trump, and he seems open to all of them. He and his friends get richer, and we get poorer.
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He literally auctioned off White House access to make money for himself, not to mention that the people paying him get not only the WH dinner, but input into policy. It's graft, conflict and greed every day. Don Jr. Is also charging $500,000 for WH access. They're stealing $Billions.
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Of course. Anyone would be nuts to make a deal with the US when our policies are so erratic and dependent on Trump's ignorance driven whims and personal greed.
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On the plus side, dock workers and truckers are losing their jobs due to tariffs. Lots of them voted for this, so it's fair that they bear costs. Also, hopefully they will start to realize they made a mistake, and press Congress to stand up. 2/
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He's weak and stupid. Businesses can't operate with no idea what the rules are. They're cutting back, as are consumers. Prices are rising, jobs are disappearing. Trump is completely out of touch. He's declaring war on kids saying they should have fewer toys and strollers don't matter. He's nuts. 1/
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The goal in a Vapinet meeting is just to come up with the most outrageous Trumpliment, no matter how stupid. Competency and knowing facts are frowned upon. She knew Trump claimed 200 trade deals with the world's 190 countries, so she had to top that. Well played indeed.
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Might be indirectly related to the fact that our military is demoralized by being lead by a juvenile idiot more focused on his make up than on their safety, just a possibility.
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Worse, he has the govt buying crypto for a "reserve", using tax $ to raise the price of his own crypto. Don Jr. started a "club" where $500,000 gets access to Trump, plus the $Tensofmillions foreign governments pay his hotels, plus the govt contracts he sells Musk... It's all a grift.
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They're such hypocrites. All that noise about Biden not doing enough ($Billions and thousands of people), and now Trump has turned down GA, TN and AR, all red states. In fact, his crazy policies disproportionately hurt his own voters. PERFECT! Hate to see people suffer, but they did it to themselves
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Trump knows no one believes it, and he intentionally poking SCOTUS in the eye and ignoring their order. One phone call and the President of El Salvador would carry Garcia here piggy back, feeding him snacks along the way.
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He explicitly said today that he would ignore the Supreme Court's Garcia order. Technically he said "I'm just the little president of the United States. I can't get those mean Salvadorans to do me a favor and release him." He knows no one believes it, and he is intentionally poking SCOTUS in the eye
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JD is just as bad, but he won't have the cultish support Trump does. We'll be far better off. More Republicans will find a bit of spine and stand up for us. Problem, of course, is that they won't vote to impeach him, so it's just fantasy. (Any guess on how many cheeseburgers he is from a coronary?)
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Coincidentally, that's how Republicans think we should go to the polls - paper ballots, no computers or other modern contraptions, and BTW no women or people of color. Life was just better a century ago before all this democracy and equality, when we all dug coal and made everything for ourselves.
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Total lie that they can't get him back! They grabbed an innocent guy for no reason and disappeared him to a foreign prison, just to show they can do whatever they want. Nothing stops them from doing that to anyone they dislike-grab you, ship you out, admit mistake and leave you there
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I'm loving seeing Trump voters and families suffer, lose their Medicaid, SNAP, VA benefits, school lunches, teachers and school programs, which mostly hurts red states. It will get worse for them, as they lose farms and homes and kids go hungry. They caused it, and they should speak up and stop it.
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The better analogy is a healthy, producing fruit tree that is randomly hacked by guys with chain saws and no idea what they're doing. For now, Trump voters are losing, and people like me are getting their money. Not my preference, but I'll take your money and watch you suffer until you wake up.
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The "room" is waking up and starting to realize that his own voters are bearing most of the cost while he's sending the tax cut benefits to the rich in blue states. I'd prefer a functioning govt, but having Trumpist lose out to send me $$ is a good plan B. 2/2
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Trump got less than half the vote, lowest margin since his in 2016. You have to go back to Bush and Nixon for margins as low. Other than you, voters didn't want him to tax us on most of what we buy, cut Medicaid, Soc Sec, Medicare, VA and farm benefits to give $ to the rich, which he's doing. 1/2
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Grocery prices rose under Biden as well, though Trump's tariff tax on us will raise prices for everything. Everything else on the list is purely Trump.
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The concern is far more than the legal "industry". It's the legal system that's at risk, the rule of law. We all need to stand up to protect that.
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So you're glad Trump raised grocery prices, cut VA, Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid benefits, reduced housing availability, reduced govt services and caused people to lose their farms all so the rich get tax breaks? Other than the rich getting the tax $, I doubt many agree with you.
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A generation of uneducated Trump voters will raise the next uneducated generation. Meanwhile, they'll also be losing their Medicaid and SNAP and refusing vaccines and other life savers, so maybe Darwin steps in and culls the Trumpist herd! 2/2
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What's great, again, is that this mostly cuts services from red states to fund tax cuts to rich folks in blue states. Id rather have good government, but as Plan B Ill take their money. As uninformed as they are, won't they notice that their kid's teacher is gone and school programs cut? 1/2
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I didn't hear him complain when 1 judge outlawed mifepristone (which sadly wasn't available to his mother), or restricted DACA, or stopped student debt relief. They're clearly all hypocrites, but amazing that they are so obvious about it, and assume the Trumpists are too stupid to notice.
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Everyone but Trump. He is so afraid of, and oddly enamored by, Putin, that he will never allow any reference to Putin's war crimes-kidnapping, rape, targeting schools and hospitals, or and on. Putin is a war criminal, but all Trump does is kneel in front of him and give him whatever he wants.
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Parents so uneducated that they bought Trump's lies and voted for him will be raising uneducated kids with underfunded schools, while schools in rich areas are unaffected and rich parents get tax breaks, PERFECT! 2/2
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They don't understand much, but hopefully their kids' suffering will get their attention. DOE $ goes largely to red states, helping pay teacher salaries. Hopefully those districts won't be able to pay their teachers, and will lose them, all to give tax cuts to rich folks in blue states. 1/2
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Bad, and embarrassing, as that is, it's the least of the conflicts. Musk gets $30Billion a year from the government. He's firing people and canceling contracts, but i haven't seen him canceling anything that costs him money.
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I think Lindsey Graham should be high on the ass-kisser list as well, with the entire Repu license caucuses in Congress and the Senate as joint runners up.
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Also, Churchill didn't wear a suit to the WH in a WWII visit. Who do we think is more like Churchill, Zelensky or our chickenshit president who would have run from his invaded country at the first sign his hair might get mussed or that stores would run out of fake tanning creams?
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According to the NCAA, out of 500,000 athletes in the country try there are about 10 trans, a tiny, tiny number even though it happens to be 10 times the number of absolute raving idiots representing Alabama in the US Senate.
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It's $170B (about the same as Europe), all accounted for. I'm against Trump's tax break for the rich. He takes benefits from low income red states to send $ to high income blue states (me). I see the reap what you sow humor in the suffering of his voters, but I'd trade the $ for better government.
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Also, Zelensky is infinitely tougher and more dedicated to his country than Trump. When Russia invaded he was offered asylum and opted to stay and lead his people. Trump would have run at the first sign his hair might get mussed, or fake tan cream might run out. Trump is just Putin's scared toy.
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That has nothing to do with Trump rolling over and selling us out to Putin. Also, it's not true. They draft at age 25, historically high. Once men are drafted no one has to "beat them up"; they're already in, subject to orders. Last, there are some men lying to get out of serving, like Trump did.
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The later parts may be the most insane-Trump feeling bad for Putin being caught meddling in our election and having to go through the "Russia hoax" and Hunter Biden laptop. He's nuts, 100% narcissist, and sucking up to his boy crush Putin. He's weak, and Putin is crushing him (and us).
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Razom for Ukraine is 99% rated on Charity Navigator.
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Zelensky gave a master class in standing up to a lying schoolyard bully. Republicans should find some of his strength and integrity. Trump was the needy/nerdy kid placating the bullies to get them to like him, but losing his lunch $. His rif on poor Putin and the "Russia hoax" goes straight to SNL.
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Watch the tape, insane. Not only does Trump lie and whine, he goes off on how hard it's been on Putin to get caught rigging our elections and having to go through the "Russia hoax" and Hunter Biden’s laptop. The SNL skit writes itself. Zelensky gave a master class in standing up to a lying bully.
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Trump is the needy/nerdy kid trying to placate school yard bullies like Putin, Xi and Kim to get them to like him, but losing his lunch money every day. Zelensky gave a master class in strength in the face of a lying bully. Republicans should try to be.more like him and find at least a bit of spine.
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Just part of the war on science-research on the bird flu vaccine stopped, Ebola monitoring, next year's flu vaccine AIDS programs, ALL research grants cut. Science is too truthy, better to just let the dear leader tell us what to think, except of course funding Musk's scientific endeavors.
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Musk got the US to cancel a $Multi-Billion Verizon contract and give it to Starlink. The guy now running government contracts literally bases his wealth on government contracts and subsidies. Kushner is looking at Gaza. Having conflicts is now just a path to more money, screw the rest of us.
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Zelensky is a hero, infinitly tougher and more dedicated to his country than Trump will ever be. He gave a master class in dealing with a lying school yard bully. Trump, on the other hand, is the nerdy/needy kid trying to get bullies Putin, Xi and Kim to be nice to him, and losing his lunch money.
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I'm sort of happy to see people suffer the unexpected consequences of their bad vote decision-farmers losing markets and subsidies, AL utility customers losing subsidies, rural facilities losing support...In 10 years nothing T did bothered them-rape OK; fraud, OK; idiocy, OK. Maybe now they notice.
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Second, the warnings about a usurper dividing us to try and take over the government and support the Constitution are erie coming from 225 years ago. It neatly describes Musk andnhis assistant Trump. Here it is (click "transcript" on the page) www.mountvernon.org/education/pr...
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If you haven't read Washington's farewell address (or not read it lately), please do. It is incredibly current and prescient. First, it's amazing to see someone so accomplished, so honorable and so dedicated to the country, nd yet so humble, in contrast to our present weak and selfish "leader".
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He'll still claim that the crowd is bigger than Obama's, 100,000 people in the rotunda. Great thing about moving inside is that he will NEVER beat Obama's crowd!
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At his press conference the other day he actually bragged about his pending foreign deals, and how his foreign partners will be in the administration. With all the international business billionaires this will be a huge kleptocracy.
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And in the Pentagon.
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Juxtaposing Carter and Trump shows how far we have fallen morally over these decades, one gave their life to public service and helping people while the other gave his life to lieing and cheating to help himself. A great man versus a small man.