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There’s an episode of Hogan’s Heroes that has two Nazi officers going around asking for money for a “Beautify Berchtesgaden“ campaign. Officers who don’t contribute are listed in a book, that is currently empty. Everyone contributes. Has a very similar feel that Trump does.
Deep cut cultural reference, I like it. I think a rewatch of Hogan’s Heroes would yield a lot of similar comparisons. Who’s the Colonel and whose Schultz?
Trump is the Colonel, a bumbling idiot who gets manipulated into doing things. Speaker "I see nothing [in Gaetz report]" Johnson is Schulz. But there are MANY Sgt. Schulz's.
I won't be watching that sham. A lot of people will have their televisions or other media tuned into something else or turned off completely. This is not something to celebrate. It should be a day of mourning in my opinion. Freedoms gone, democracy gone. #NeverVoteConservative
The nonprofit infrastructure in the United States was mostly controlled opposition.
But, with Trump being able to revoke 501(c)(3) tax exempt status for insufficient loyalty to the colony in Palestine... the range of acceptable opposition is going to contract.
This is a big step in the decline of a democracy.
And at the same time, if Trump could spend his four years soaking the rich and lining his own pocket and get caught up in that above all, and break up the partnership with Elon, that's probably the best outcome possible. Let me dream.
The luckiest grifter in history. He inherits such a great economy, and billionaires are so afraid of what he might do that they are lining up to polish his knob. 25th is coming soon, and we'll likely be seeing an AI avatar stepping in to fill the gap.
Growing up in the UK, born in 1952, I can remember this sense of, how could the German people have let Hitler happen? Unfortunately, I'm beginning to understand the answer to this question. We are seeing it unfold here in the US. The Lebensraum included.
It's like a like a train wreck in slow motion or one of those dreams where you are trying to run but you are paralysed. I bet many Germans felt like that at the time, some obeyed and some found ways to resist but the majority of people most likely didn't have a clue. This is how it happens.
They should be donating to charitable causes (doctors without borders, cancer charities, animal rescue, libraries, Ukraine aid, etc etc). What a terrible use of money, to support a thieving, lying, traitorous, racist, sexual predator.
More cash will go in his pocket! Wasn’t there massive fraud with his first inauguration fund? Wasn’t Melanie somehow involved? I don’t remember all the details….this guy ran to stay out of jail, and to enrich himself!
I think everybody is losing sight of the big picture here...
Regardless of how you feel about that guy, this inauguration is going to be wild and crazy off-the-chain sick. Gold plated human statues, open blood-boy bar, adrenochrome fountain, the guys from third eye blind.
The gilded age on steroids. Gaudy. A coronation. A Marie Antoinette "Let them eat cake" moment. We will have to see how all this rolls out and after he acts if the people will revolt. This is Act 1, scene 1.
You're pretty optimistic. I'm banking on a best case scenario of Peter theil and Elon musk competing in a coke-fueled dork-off bringing great shame to our species.
Anyone who has had even the most limited exposure to gangsters knows, it doesn’t matter what you gave yesterday, it’s what you are going to give today that counts.
That's very true, Elon Musk spend less than 300 Million to buy his way into this gang (and help them win in the first place), which is obviously "nothing" to someone with several hundred billion dollars.
And much of that notional net worth is hype and bubble, so it was shrewd to leverage that hype at a peak moment to buy himself protection from the law and probably a lot of cash via gov't contracts.
At this point it would be idiotic to NOT assume, that most of the money, Elon's efficiency department/scam is going to cut, won't simply end up in his own pockets.
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"A million."
"Well then we should give the same."
Trump: "How much did they give?"
"A million."
"Well we should get them to start giving more so that the rest give more."
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Screw it just put me down for the over.
He knows if you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good...
But, with Trump being able to revoke 501(c)(3) tax exempt status for insufficient loyalty to the colony in Palestine... the range of acceptable opposition is going to contract.
And at the same time, if Trump could spend his four years soaking the rich and lining his own pocket and get caught up in that above all, and break up the partnership with Elon, that's probably the best outcome possible. Let me dream.
Imagine what good that money could do…
Oligarchy time
Regardless of how you feel about that guy, this inauguration is going to be wild and crazy off-the-chain sick. Gold plated human statues, open blood-boy bar, adrenochrome fountain, the guys from third eye blind.
Still more than any of us will get access to, but I digress.
Exactly.