DOGE fired all but 20 out of the 200 Park management workers, and that 200 was already short staffed. Now Trump has the National Guard doing the work of the people they just fired. I think I got that right.
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DOGE fired all but 20 out of the 200 Park management workers, and that 200 was already short staffed. Now Trump has the National Guard doing the work of the people they just fired. I think I got that right.
It's amazing that Amazon is able to keep a work force given their high turnover rate. Some data shows that warehouse workers average about 8-months.
Who were the 4 judges that thought this clearly unconstitutional tariff war of Trump's was legal. It's bizarre when many average people know it's illegal and the judges, who have been to law school, don't.
Really!! Trump's private army is ICE. But they're being deployed against the United States population.
Their isn't anyway that Vance could have really changed what he really believes to the suck up stance he claims now. That's way too many specifics. He threw Trump under the bus demanding the release of the Epstein files and recently claiming he's ready to be elevated to the presidency.
What we're seeing right now, with our own eyes, is a pedophile, sex trafficker, prolific lier, against the policies of the prison system, transferred from a Federal prison to a minimum security country club prison in exchange for simply saying she didn't see Trump do anything untoward. Great deal.
Yes you do have a choice. Quit and tell the nation you won't be part of a dictator's Secret Police.
Bring back the golden oldies of infectious diseases, measles, mumps, whooping cough and any new mutant brand of covid. I want rip out my eardrums every time Kennedy opens his mouth.
Just one more imbecile in the Trump kakistocracy.
If it weren't for the United States being the world's greatest producer of military arms. The United States would be far less relevant in dealing with Putin. Europeans have certainly learned how unreliable the American voters are in supporting democracy.
The adolescent grovelling that Trump's cabinet engages in is mind melting. This is nothing more than a stomach churning display of what happens when you think you financial and political careers are better served in a dictatorship.
It might be a common senile ecchymosis that seen in the elderly due to loss of collagen. But those lesions are usually very dark purple.
North Korea is world's largest prison State. Anyone attempting to escape is risking their lives and the lives of their families. The North Korean border guards are opposite of Trump's border guards and ICE who want to keep everyone out and remove those already here.
Trump said he's not happy about the war. Hmmm! He seemed pretty happy about Putin's 2nd invasion of Ukraine when he called Putin a "genius" for the military assault.
Why aren't we hearing more demands of what Trump got in return for transferring Maxwell to a country club minimum security prison? After Trump gives her a pardon, the victims will see that there is no justice if you're politically connected.
How many laws are being broken here, including the Constitution? Did these solders sign up to be Trump's Gestapo? I doubt it
The money budgeted for Trump's personal militia exceeds the entire military budget of Israel & scores of other countries. It's more than enough money to put his thugs in most communities including polling stations at election time.Couple that with Trump's capture of the DOJ and it's president Putin.
Trump supporters have no idea what government does, until it's gutted and taken over by a tyrant. It's the same rank stupidity that the Germans had in the 1930s. The old adage, you don't know what you have until it's gone.
The president of the United States is mentally ill. Trump is making Russia's war against Ukraine much worse. Putin doubled the attacks on Ukraine this year. We'll see how long before he stops selling arms to the Europeans on their way to Ukraine.
Trump embraced cryptocurrency, data centers and all that tech bro stuff that are incredible energy hogs. Then he removed the subsides that were fueling renewables, put a tax on them and tax breaks for fossil fuels. The problem is, only renewables can be expanded fast enough to keep up with demand.
Trump is mentally ill with dementia on top of it. Here's Trump, having gotten some of the black youth and Hispanic vote. Those voters better wise up, FAST. The Jews were taken by surprise how suddenly the Nazis came after them.
Finland has an extensive under tunnel system specifically designed to protect its population in the event of a military attack from Russia. Putin is a global menace, and so is his mini me, Trump.
These violent militia groups know that they will get never prosecuted for any laws they break because of the massive past pardons related to January 6th. Our laws and Constitution are becoming meaningless because Trump controls the DOJ and Supreme Court.
It's interesting that the fact that the Ukrainian people don't want to be lorded over by a indicted war criminal is rarely part of the discussion. It's mostly about the military actions. Like here in the U S., most people don't want Trump as president either.
These now various politicized agencies have been turned into Trump's Gestapo style, military force directed against us. Apparently MAGA loyalists have no idea that the country they want to turn the United States into, is what immigrants thought they were escaping from when they came here.
These now, politicized agencies have been turned into Trump's Gestapo style, military force directed against us. Apparently MAGA loyalists have no idea that the country they want to turn the United States into, is what immigrants thought they were escaping from when they came here.
The parts of Ukraine that Putin wants, for now, is an industrial area and obviously economically important. That same area of Ukraine is also sitting over massive nature gas fields, more than enough natural gas to break Putin's grip on his European customers.
What world does Trump live in to think this meeting with Putin wouldn't be a complete waste of time. Putin appears happy about the how it went. Everyone stopped talking about the Epstein files for a couple days.
There are those that gravitate to working for ICE believe that they are taking the United States back to some mythical time that was better, but wasn't better for anyone other than white men. And, they don't give a damn about anyone's Constitutional rights all while wrapping themselves in the flag.
Trump has more than enough Republican Congressionally appropriated money for ICE to ensure that Trump can't be removed from office. The DOJ, Republicans in Congress, and the Supreme Court are essentially an extension of whatever Trump wants an will toss out votes as needed.
That's quite another demonstration of an astonishing level of hypocrisy. The Democrats get relentlessly accused of being socialists. Meaning in part government control of the economy, including it's main industries. If I understand that correctly. And that's exactly what Trump is doing.
Who Is giving these ICE agents instructions to harass Democrats. Because it makes them look like Trump's lawless SS thugs who seem more than willing to threaten unarmed civilians with military weapons.
It's outrageous that the courts are allowing this dangerous nonsense to happen at all. These judges are an embarrassment and a disgrace to our judicial system.
If you've going to throw a subway sandwich at a Trump SS thug, make sure you have running shoes on because those guys got all that crap they need carry plus they wear shoes.
Trump's SS. ICE now has a ridiculous high budget that exceeds the military spending of all but 15 entire countries, including Israel. That's more than enough military force to keep Trump in office regardless of vote. Certainly the DOJ & SC will step in at election time make sure Trump wins.
Trump's SS. ICE now has a ridiculous high budget that exceeds the military spending of all but 15 entire countries, including Israel. That's more than enough military force to keep Trump in office regardless of vote. Certainly the DOJ & SC will step in at election time make sure Trump wins.
Trump's SS. ICE now has a ridiculous high budget that exceeds the military spending of all but 15 entire countries, including Israel. That's more than enough military force to keep Trump in office regardless of vote. Certainly the DOJ & SC will step in at election time make sure Trump wins.
Trump's SS. ICE now has a ridiculous high budget that exceeds the military spending of all but 15 entire countries, including Israel. That's more than enough military force to keep Trump in office regardless of vote. Certainly the DOJ & SC will step in at election time make sure Trump wins.
Trump's SS. ICE now has a ridiculous high budget that exceeds the military spending of all but 15 entire countries, including Israel. That's more than enough military force to keep Trump in office regardless of vote. Certainly the DOJ & SC will step in at election time make sure Trump wins.
Trump's SS. ICE now has a ridiculous high budget that exceeds the military spending of all but 15 entire countries, including Israel. That's more than enough military force to keep Trump in office regardless of vote. Certainly the DOJ & SC will step in at election time make sure Trump wins.
Trump's SS. ICE now has a ridiculous high budget that exceeds the military spending of all but 15 entire countries, including Israel. That's more than enough military force to keep Trump in office regardless of vote. Certainly the DOJ & SC will step in at election time make sure Trump wins.
Trump's SS. ICE now has a ridiculous high budget that exceeds the military spending of all but 15 entire countries, including Israel. That's more than enough military force to keep Trump in office regardless of vote. Certainly the DOJ & SC will step in at election time make sure Trump wins.
It's remarkable that this Epstein Conspiracy theory that the Right has been pedalling forever has put the MAGA leadership in an impossible situation. They can't release the files, in part, because Trump's name is all over it, and the Democrats don't seem to be in those files in any meaningful way.
Here's another catchy description of the MAGA Mafia: It's like a bunch of clowns being supervised by monkeys with machine guns.
Now that our economy is responding to Trump's tariffs and that Big Billionaire Bill, his 35% or so hardcore zombie like supporters don't have Biden to blame and don't seem to blame Trump either.
Of course the overwhelming percentage of people in these concentration camp prisons shouldn't have been arrested at all. There is a story out there of numerous cases of Covid in the Everglades prison on top it being invested with mosquitoes.
You should feel some small comfort that their are 10s of millions of people who just as enraged as you are. Trump supporters have no idea the misery and destruction they're are complicit in bring down on all on us. Germans made that mistake once.
Aside from the creative brilliance and accomplishments of Elon Musk, aside from that, he just sounds like every other stupid asshole on social media, including myself. Apparently that genius is strictly confined to his one area of expertise.
Vance is a Ivy league schooled lawyer with a mind slightly smarter than a 5th grader. He definitely has the chops of a professional lier with arguments that sound more convincing when he speaks, than they do in text. He's screwing Trump over now by demanding release of the Epstein files.
Jon Stewart is infinitely more effective doing exactly what's he doing now. He doesn't need to confine himself to the nauseating careful speech that a president is property confined to using.
Trump's full out attack on wind and solar will severely cripple our ability to rapidly expand electricity generation to accommodate this increased demand. Electricity rates will go up in many areas.
I haven't heard any explanation of what Maxwell had to offer that wasn't already known, to justify moving her to a country club minimum security prison. The fact that Trump's former personal lawyer arranged this sweet deal makes this stink to high heaven of corruption.
Anyone who either lives or has traveled to D.C. over the past few years know he's running yet another con.
This meeting is a distraction from the Epstein files and will produce absolutely nothing. Trump will parrot whatever Putin tells him and ask to be nominated again for a Peace Prize.
Trump must know that he has committed enough violations of his oath and abuse of power incidents to get impeached again several times over. Of course, the fact that the Supreme Court has been egging him on with their unconstitutional rulings is an huge problem, i.e. Immunity ruling.
Trump will sell out Ukraine, Europe and the US in a heartbeat if can get something for himself. What exactly did the DOJ get in exchange for transferring a sex trafficker and pedophile from a Federal prison, where she belongs, to a country club minimum security prison.
Putin is an indicted war criminal and has an outstanding arrest warrant. He shouldn't be allowed to set foot in the United States.
These Medicaid and ACA cuts also increase the cost of employer based health insurance. A hospital that had its income slashed must either make up the difference by negotiating higher reimbursement rates from private insurance companies or go bankrupt.
No money for hundreds of cancer research studies, including those for childhood cancers. Money earmarked for FEMA diverted to pay for a Florida concentration camp. Gold bedazzled Oval Office and a Ballroom so the King can have a place to accept gifts for those wishing to avoid his wrath.
Her rotten ugly soul is manifesting itself externally into her face.
Rules and laws don't matter when there's no one left to enforce them. That's the same outrage we have with this corrupt, politicized Supreme Court.
I guess I was lucky my parents weren't imbeciles and I got all my childhood vaccines.
What nonsense. Protestors had no problem finding them in a hotel, and they've been getting news coverage with interviews. They're not exactly hiding.
Trump's zombie like following never cared about his name referenced throughout the Epstein files. They only wanted to see one Democrat in the file and be able to scream 'deep state'. Trump ordered the burning of 500 tons of food aid, and they fancy themselves Christians.
A significant part of Trump's coalition are Neo Nazis. They're not exactly that interested in antisemitism.
Regardless of the damning endless parade of lawlessness, Trump's polls rarely drop much below 35% on most issues. Sarah Longwell, of the Bulwark, who does a considerable amount of polling estimates that 32% are unpersuaded by facts and are unreachable. Fortunately that's a minority.
No money for cancer and vaccine research, Medicaid, Medicare or the ACA subsides, but plenty of money for the billionaire party animals patio ballroom and a free plane costing about a billion dollars paid for by tax payers. A plane that's not needed and becomes Trump's property if he leaves the WH.
As The New Republic’s Greg Sargent wrote LAST YEAR, “this will be the second time Trump inherits a good economy from a Dem president, the second time Trump takes credit for his inheritance, and quite possibly the second time he destroys it.”
Bonhoeffer, a pastor, wrote about the indifference and complicity of the German population in the 30's, going on and about his distinction between intelligence and the stupidity he was seeing. The Nazis weren't big fans of criticism, so was eventually imprisoned and executed.
We don't need anything from Maxwell. Just release the files we already have.
If this mid decade politically motivated redistricting effort to strip millions of their vote was only Texas. A less aggressive response might be an option. But Texas is only the first of several Republican controlled States who will probably do the same.
The Congressional Republicans fled DC to avoid any votes on releasing the Epstein files. Apparently sex trafficking and pedophilia are not a problem for MAGA supporters. Stripping food and healthcare away poor Americans is something Jesus would also support.
Are these new hires going to get the same background checks like other Federal law enforcement? Or are these jobs going to get filed by thugs with criminal records and Right Wing militia group members.
Maxwell is not only a pedophile and sex trafficker, but a prolific lier. What could she possibly have to offer in a completed prosecution to get moved from Federal prison to a minimum security country club prison? What did Trump get in return?
It's so inspiring watching Trump's petting zoo playing the public for fools.
Fox media might have missed that comment while doing their story on paper straws.
I think Howard Lutnick is either an ignorant asshole or pretending to be an ignorant asshole. *chuckles*
This is not a time for polite political rhetoric. The MAGA Congressional Republicans and Trump are destroying this country from inside Congress, the Whitehouse and the Supreme Court. They have declared war on the United States and much of public is too stupid to see it.
I'm not convinced there's much relearning going on. I hope that's true. The MAGA followers are making the same grave mistake that the Germans made in the 1930s. They've surrendered their intellect and humanity to an immoral movement that would burn 500 tons of already paid for food aid.
Trump has descended from demented cruel psychopath to a demented cruel psychopath with dementia. The fact his father had severe dementia in his old age doesn't necessarily mean Trump will also head in the same direction, but it sure looks like that's what's happening.
As The New Republic’s Greg Sargent wrote LAST YEAR, “this will be the second time Trump inherits a good economy from a Dem president, the second time Trump takes credit for his inheritance, and quite possibly the second time he destroys it.
Trump is shaking down universities for money while using antisemitism as the justification, and this guy, a neo Nazi is investigating a real prosecutor, who prosecuted real crimes. Trump has an interesting coalition.
Because Trump is such a pathologic lier and psychopath, it's more difficult to distinguish his deliberate confabulations from those due to dementia. The danger we're already experiencing, is the blind loyalty of those around him who will act on whatever he says.
MTG does have a talent that could be used in a positive way, instead of being a malignant, ignorant pain-in-ass.
Maxwell must have something over Trump. She got herself transferred to a country club prison against the rules of the Bureau of Prisons.
What an asshole. George W. Bush tried to sell that crap when he was President. This MAGA Republican rolling disaster area is already on its way to crippling Social Security. The Wall Street millionaires & billionaires would love all that retirement money having few regulations.
Trump has never considered the injury and harm he inflicts on others every damn day through his baseless accusations. He has shown no compassion for the victims of Epstein and Maxwell. I doubt this entire sex trafficking ring only involved 2 individuals.
How nice, "mislead", just call it criminal perjury.
Democrats need to go full medieval on MAGA candidates in the upcoming midterms. Democrats also need to gerrymander the States they control to complete with Republican voter suppression and redistricting.
Democrats need to go full medieval on MAGA candidates in the upcoming midterms. Democrats also need to gerrymander the States they control to complete with Republican voter suppression and redistricting
Trump, like his father, may be suffering from dementia. His confabulation is getting worse, so it's difficult to separate actual events from those he just makes up, like the story of his uncle and the uni bomber.
I'm not sure that even Trump supporters are stupid enough to fall for this obvious distraction attempt regarding the Epstein files.The MAGA cult has swallowed every giant fact free turd he has thrown them so far. This MAGA group has parallels with pre WW2 Nazi Germany. Head emptying & gullibility.
Is this Trump's usual stream of easily disprovable lies regarding Obama or are these confabulations associated with dementia. He told that fabricated nonsense of a story about his uncle and the uni bomber, now he's attacking Hilary Clinton too. That's nuts, even for Trump.
Is this Trump's usual stream of easily disprovable lies, or are these confabulations associated with dementia. He told that fabricated nonsense of a story about his uncle and the uni bomber, now he's attacking Hilary Clinton and Obama. That's nuts, even for Trump.
The Washington Post is already looking like Hungary's newspapers after Orban crushed out dissent in Hungary. Orban methods for destroying a democracy are detailed in Trump's Project 2025.
The way Trump is talking now seems a little different than his usual constant lying. These are easily disprovable confabulations more consistent with Dementia. He told a long, detailed, and completely fabricated story about his uncle and the uni bomber. Now he's after Obama???
The MAGA Republican Party is essentially a self serving criminal organization. No one should believe a single word that comes out of this administration. A thoroughly corrupted MAGA Supreme Court cleared the way for the historic crisis that we now find ourselves.
Trump is sex offender and according to a NY judge, also a rapist. But, somehow Trump doesn't want the added label of being a pedophile. Apparently it's the only criminal behavior of Trump MAGA currently pretends to care about because they think it's not Trump in the files.
It was worth doing for exactly the reasons stated, we need to know what civilized society is dealing with. These characters don't represent equal, opposing points of view. They are hateful, profoundly stupid as#holes and fall into the category of awful, despicable humanoids.
This MAGA Fascists Party is operating as if they have no intention of ever giving up power, even if their voted out. Congressional Republicans have made a career decision that they're future and finances will be better under an autocracy.