The problem is, Trump is both too stupid and too narcissist to even know what/stick with "what he wants." What he wants is to win everything and feel good all the time. So, he tells Mikey to do exactly what he tells him. Mikey does that, and it doesn't work/win (because it was a stupid strategy to begin with). Trump can't self-reflect and say "I can't blame Mikey, he did exactly what I asked . . . I guess my idea wasn't that good." Nope. He has to blame Mikey for the failure, even though what Mikey executed was Trump's plan, step-for-step.
This is Trump-petulance-driven, I agree with Bozo.
GOP: "the main problem we have with voting is that if you allow people to vote, they often will do so. And voting is bad."
The most anti-American political movement in our history, and the fuckers wrap themselves in the flag as they anally violate the Republic. I hate them significantly more with each passing day, and I already hated them with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns some time ago.
One of the more depressing episodes of my life was being delayed out of Logan....long enough to make me eat a meal there, but not long enough for me to leave my terminal and go to the adjacent terminal (which I could see in full through the glass walls) where the Legal Seafoods was. I had a goddamn Boston airport Mo's burrito, as I could see hot bowls of clam chowder and fried whole clams on a counter 50 yards away. F that shit.
This.
The founders built in a fail-safe: impeachment. They just couldn't imagine that the failsafe would fail so miserably. Nobody asked the question of "okay....but hear me out....what if the Senate is made up of craven, corrupt cowards who are actually aligned with the criminal who get elected president?"
This disaster is like any and all failure analyses, in that it goes back to the beginning and nobody asking the crucial "okay...but what if...?"
While often used as a substitute (I have done so myself), that is incorrect. See, e.g.: https://simplywanderfull.com/the-ultimate-russian-dressing-for-a-classic-reuben-sandwich/
Not on a Reuben it doesn't. That's literally the only way I ever eat it, but it has its place.
Now a Russian UN-dressing, on the other hand....that has its place (1) on OnlyFans (2) as a chief revenue source of what is left of the Russian economy.
This is one I have long loved. The government is evil andcan’t be trusted…so the solution this regime has come up with is “take and use absolute power that is not subject to any review or abrogation and cannot be questioned.” Perfection. Couldn’t write this Idiocracy script any better.
It sets the tone.
Corruption isn't just not a problem, it is the order of the day. It is a-ok now.
Trafficking massive amounts of narcotics using the apparatus of a nation state isn't not just a problem.....it's perfectly fine.
Defrauding people for hundreds of millions of dollars to enrich yourself gets pardoned because that is actually the preferred way of doing business for the regime.
All of these are setting a tone. Corruption, drug trafficking for profit, and fraud/grift are all socially GOOD things now. Get on board the Trump train!
This is the most nakedly criminal regime in US history, and there's truly not even a close second. And we aren't even a year into this. I don't think our treasury will survive this (don't forget that the DOJ is handing out "settlements," paid with millions upon millions of YOUR tax dollars, to anyone who sues the US government and who the regime favors, including Michael Flynn and even Trump himself. They've found and exploited a literal cheat code that lets them hand US treasury dollars directly to friends and members of the regime).
This is the "The Joker becomes the mayor" storyline in real fucking life.
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Flooding the zone with bullshit.
All the lies and hate are cool, because they distract from the promise "I will stop wars, not start them" turning into "here's why we need to start a war with Venezuela, even though nothing materially new has happened in the last year."
Lies. It's what they tell, it's what they do, and it's what they have their bots and crew promote and excuse. I actually appreciate that we get to see them in action around here, so there's no ambiguity about what a dishonest piece of shit movement and regime we're dealing with.
I mean....
It's pretty fucking clear at this point....and just think about the pardons issued in JUST THE PAST WEEK:
Defrauding people for literally hundreds of millions of dollars? That's a-ok now.
Trafficking drugs at literally the nation-state level, using the apparatus of the nation state to do so? A-ok.
Naked corruption and accepting foreign bribes to influence US policy? A-ok.
Jesus fucking Christ, you remember how all these MAGAts yelled "HE'S GONNA DRAIN THE SWAMP?" There is literally no "swamp activity" left that he hasn't said is now super-duper fine and ok for fuckheads to do. It's not just amazing that the idiots voted for him thinking that he would drain the swamp, what is amazing is that he is doing the 180 degree opposite....and the moron class think that means he's draining the swamp. Dumbest. Fucking. Timeline. Ever.
"No new wars!"
"I'm not going to start a war, I'll stop wars."
- Donald J. Trump, while campaigning, stated as cornerstones of his campaign
"Here's why Trump needs to start a war with Venezuela."
- bots and influencers, continuing to live out and excuse the constant stream of lies from Trump
It's fucking art, that's what it is