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5 hours ago, immamac said:

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I don't think a lot of these EOs are going to do jack shit for the actual problems we face as a country. 

I mean are they good? No. Do they really do anything other than deplpy bully tactics and confirm DJT as who we already knew he was? Also no. 

Everything so far has been a nothing burger just like Trump term 1, he's incompetent and ineffective, as long as a crisis doesn't develop like covid it'll largely just be a bunch of grift and nothing getting done. 

 

political show but yall have desantis and abbott scrambling to comply to please dear leader 

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An aide to House Speaker Mike Johnson advised Republican colleagues against subpoenaing former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson as part of their investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack in an effort to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that lawmakers sent her, according to written correspondence reviewed by The Post and a person familiar with the effort.

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In her 2023 memoir Enough, Hutchinson alleges that Rudy Giuliani groped her backstage during Trump's speech on January 6, 2021. She also wrote that then-Congressman Matt Gaetz made "repeated passes" at her and asked her to "escort" him to his room at Camp David in 2020

 

Please don't investigate this too deeply or you'll reveal our dirty shit

https://archive.ph/20250123192129/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/23/cassidy-hutchinson-lawmakers-texts/#selection-663.112-663.130

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Longtime FWST sports columnist and friend posted this link earlier. It’s from Canadian columnist Andrew Coyne’s and was published 11/6/2024. It’s not new, obviously, but I think it’s a good summation.

Brilliant summation, I'm afraid.

Andrew Coyne.....
“Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies.

The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please.

There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster. This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster, whose sole purpose in running, besides staying out of jail, is to seek revenge on his enemies. The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies can do – to America, but also to its democratic allies, and to the peace and security of the world – is incalculable. We are living in the time of Nero.

The first six months will be a time of maximum peril. NATO must from this moment be considered effectively obsolete, without the American security guarantee that has always been its bedrock. We may see new incursions by Russia into Europe – the poor Ukrainians are probably done for, but now it is the Baltics and the Poles who must worry – before the Europeans have time to organize an alternative. China may also accelerate its Taiwanese ambitions.

At home, Mr. Trump will be moving swiftly to consolidate his power. Some of this will be institutional – the replacement of tens of thousands of career civil servants with Trumpian loyalists. But some of it will be … atmospheric.

At some point someone – a company whose chief executive has displeased him, a media critic who has gotten under his skin – will find themselves the subject of unwanted attention from the Trump administration. It might not be so crude as a police arrest. It might just be a little regulatory matter, a tax audit, something like that. They will seek the protection of the courts, and find it is not there.

The judges are also Trump loyalists, perhaps, or too scared to confront him. Or they might issue a ruling, and find it has no effect – that the administration has called the basic bluff of liberal democracy: the idea that, in the crunch, people in power agree to be bound by the law, and by its instruments the courts, the same as everyone else. Then everyone will take their cue. Executives will line up to court him. Media organizations, the large ones anyway, will find reasons to be cheerful.

Of course, in reality things will start to fall apart fairly quickly. The huge across-the-board tariffs he imposes will tank the world economy. The massive deficits, fuelled by his ill-judged tax policies – he won’t replace the income tax, as he promised, but will fill it with holes – and monetized, at his direction, by the Federal Reserve, will ignite a new round of inflation.

Most of all, the insane project of deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants – finding them, rounding them up and detaining them in hundreds of internment camps around the country, probably for years, before doing so – will consume his administration. But by then it will be too late.

We should not count upon the majority of Americans coming to their senses in any event. They were not able to see Mr. Trump for what he was before: why should that change? Would they not, rather, be further coarsened by the experience of seeing their neighbours dragged off by the police, or the military, further steeled to the necessity of doing “tough things” to “restore order?”

Some won’t, of course. But they will find in time that the democratic levers they might once have pulled to demand change are no longer attached to anything. There are still elections, but the rules have been altered: there are certain obstacles, certain disadvantages if you are not with the party of power. It will seem easier at first to try to change things from within. Then it will be easier not to change things.

All of this will wash over Canada in various ways – some predictable, like the flood of refugees seeking escape from the camps; some less so, like the coarsening of our own politics, the debasement of morals and norms by politicians who have discovered there is no political price to be paid for it. And who will have the backing of their patron in Washington.

All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them.”

Written by Andrew Coyne.

Andrew Coyne is a highly respected Canadian columnist with the Globe and Mail and a regular panelist on CBC's The National, who has previously worked with Macleans Magazine (Senior Editor) and the National Post.
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1 hour ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

His golf course in Scotland. Two decades ago there was to be a wind farm near where he owned land and wanted to place a course (Aberdeen). He went ahead and built the course several years later and attempted to delay the wind farm with, what else, a court battle and complaining. The windmills went up sometime around then while the lawsuit was going on. He lost the suit and its appeals and ramped up the rhetoric about windmills.

It's personal because of course it is.

I've started at the windmill bit, but the whole vid is great.

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I read this today and not sure I am understanding why it unfolded as it did. Seems like a clearcut win for Biden to have already done it and not gave Trump any low hanging fruit to call a quick win in his first 100 days that is bipartisan and a majority of Americans agree with. Feels like an unforced error to give orange man a win here (reminding me of the tiktok saga):

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Trump re-designates Houthis as terrorists. 
The US president has signed an order to re-designate Yemen’s Houthis as a foreign terrorist organisation, four years after Biden revoked the designation. Meanwhile, the Houthis have finally released the crew of the Galaxy Leader car carrier, who were first taken captive way back in November 2023.

 

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22 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

he is going to destroy the food processing supply chain and send grocery prices in to orbit

the reaction from the christofascists is going to go light years beyond full aggy

the the four largest meatpackers buy 85% of all cow and 67% of all pig

there are 759 billionaires in the us

it should be easy to figure out which oligarch/s will be responsible for the food crisis coming in the northeast and west coast

what will the magats do?   will they turn on them?   off with their heads?  send in the national guard to slaughter and process protein?

It'll be the libruls' fault (i.e. everyone who isn't MAGA).

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19 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

why does maga / trump / his handlers hate cancer research so much ?

Because they are just going to cure it with Ivermectin!  Mel Gibson's "research" proves it.

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Just now, 27-25 said:

Because they are just going to cure it with Ivermectin!  Mel Gibson's "research" proves it.

You jest.  Except you are 100% correct.

"Non-traditional" cancer remedies (you know, the ones "BIG PHARMA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT!!!") are our future.  Shit, RFK may have the FDA ban chemo before this term is over.  

Oh, and don't forget the opportunities for Trump cronies like Alex Jones and Ben Shapiro -- fuck, even Trump himself -- to sell the masses pallets of "SUPER-ULTRA-NEUTRINO BRAIN FOOD AND CANCER CURE AND PENIS ENLARGEMENT CAPSULES OF PATRIOTISM."

Step 1) use the power of the state to destroy your competition.

Step 2) fill the void, and PROFIT.

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mid-day headlines:

musk po'ed at the altman Ai thing (they are in litigation)

judge puts hold on 14th amendment birthright negation "it's brazenly unconstitutional"

mixed talking points on ukraine - putin will talk if the us moves first? - teamdotard now admits it will take 6 months not 1 day? - discussion of a deal portrayed as bad for russian street sentiment for better us-putin relations

 

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3 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

mid-day headlines:

musk po'ed at the altman Ai thing (they are in litigation)

judge puts hold on 14th amendment birthright negation "it's brazenly unconstitutional"

mixed talking points on ukraine - putin will talk if the us moves first? - teamdotard now admits it will take 6 months not 1 day? - discussion of a deal portrayed as bad for russian street sentiment for better us-putin relations

 

 

sam altman you say ? 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s sister, Ann Altman, filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that her brother sexually abused her regularly between the years of 1997 and 2006.

The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri, alleges that the abuse took place at the family’s home in Clayton, Missouri, and began when Ann, who goes by Annie, was 3 and Sam was 12. The filing claims that the abusive activities took place “several times per week,” beginning with oral sex and later involving penetration.

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24 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

I read this today and not sure I am understanding why it unfolded as it did. Seems like a clearcut win for Biden to have already done it and not gave Trump any low hanging fruit to call a quick win in his first 100 days that is bipartisan and a majority of Americans agree with. Feels like an unforced error to give orange man a win here (reminding me of the tiktok saga):

 

While the GOP is America's abusive stepfather, the Dems are the enabling mother who feels bad but won't leave him and has his dinner on the table every night

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9 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

sam altman you say ? 

 

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s sister, Ann Altman, filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that her brother sexually abused her regularly between the years of 1997 and 2006.

The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri, alleges that the abuse took place at the family’s home in Clayton, Missouri, and began when Ann, who goes by Annie, was 3 and Sam was 12. The filing claims that the abusive activities took place “several times per week,” beginning with oral sex and later involving penetration.

Not saying this isn't true and that we shouldn't believe Ann, but isn't Sam Altman gay? I don't think I've ever heard of a gay man sexually assaulting a woman or girl, but I'm sure it happens because we are a sick people, us humans.

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4 hours ago, C-Man said:

I have very good college friends going back and forth on social media about how refreshing it is that we have somebody back in office who can answer questions from the press while signing EO’s at the same time since there’s no way Biden could do that.

Never mind that the EO’s are for things like renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and making KFC fried chicken the US national bird while answering questions about his meme crypto-coin and wondering why CA officials didn’t think of turning on the yuge water spigot to allow water to flow to LA to put out the fires.

It’s only been a week and I’m losing my ever-loving sanity.

You should find new friends.

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42 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Longtime FWST sports columnist and friend posted this link earlier. It’s from Canadian columnist Andrew Coyne’s and was published 11/6/2024. It’s not new, obviously, but I think it’s a good summation.
 

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STOP THE PRESSES

The S&P 500 has closed at an all new, all time high. Allow me to be the first to wish Donald J Trump congratulations on creating, building, molding, the single greatest economy men has ever achieved. The object of all other’s desire. The seething rage by poors all around.

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2 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

STOP THE PRESSES

The S&P 500 has closed at an all new, all time high. Allow me to be the first to wish Donald J Trump congratulations on creating, building, molding, the single greatest economy men has ever achieved. The object of all other’s desire. The seething rage by poors all around.

Speaking of this, what are the thoughts about the three plus year long inverted yield curve in the bond market that recently reverted in September/ October? 

People like JP Morgan/Chase are trying to say that everything is ok due to the Fed navigating a soft landing, but in the 60-year history of reverted yield curves signaling a recession, the danger zone is usually in that 6 to 12 month time frame.

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5 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

People like JP Morgan/Chase are trying to say that everything is ok due to the Fed navigating a soft landing, but in the 60-year history of reverted yield curves signaling a recession, the danger zone is usually in that 6 to 12 month time frame.

I would have difficulty trusting anything someone named “JP Morgan/Chase” says. 

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1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

I would have difficulty trusting anything someone named “JP Morgan/Chase” says. 

That's what I'm hinting at, the big investment hitters don't want the confidence in short term investment to tank so, so they'll try anything to bullshit their way out of it. Having the big banks/firms going out of their way to talk about a soft landing makes me wonder if a serious 2-4 year recession for the mid to back half of 2025 is imminent. History definitely says so, as there hasn't been a case of an inverted yield curve period that didn't trigger at least a minor recession, in the 6 to 12 month period after reverting to normal, for at least 50 years I believe. 

Trying to decide where to hide my money to see if it happens, then buy in on the crash if it does. 

Democrats better be preparing to hammer the shit out of trump and Republicans for causing it if it happens, even though it would have been their actions from 2017 to 2021 that would be culpable not now. But "we the people" are far too gullible and ignorant to understand any of that. 

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Here’s a real life example of what the EOs are doing. The federal hiring freeze means that if there is a vacancy at the (famously well-funded and staffed already) VA, it’s not getting filled. 

Something to remember as Hesgeth is touted as proof of how much we will take care of “warriors.” 

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12 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

I don’t think it’s going to take them all that long do you?

Aileen Cannons, Reed O'Connors, and Matthew Kaczmaryks are fewer and further between than people think.

And the plaintiffs will get to pick the fora, so the Trumpist jurists will be far less in play than during the Biden administration.

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41 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Here’s a real life example of what the EOs are doing. The federal hiring freeze means that if there is a vacancy at the (famously well-funded and staffed already) VA, it’s not getting filled. 

Something to remember as Hesgeth is touted as proof of how much we will take care of “warriors.” 

Just another name for the “eh, fuck em” pile. Aren’t they “losers” according to our brave and strong CiC?  Maybe try getting a real job, you military vets who served our country and are only looking for the adequate health care they’ve earned through their service. 

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