No legal basis for any of this. Just arbitrary demands for payments to the government or threats that the extortion will get worse.
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Does the law matter any more?
aug 20, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
No. You’re wrong. Governors are standing up! This only the tip of resistance.
aug 20, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
Pure, raw, unadulterated fascism.
aug 20, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Spoken like a true Mob boss or official dictator.
aug 20, 2025, 2:36 am • 0 0 • view
To quote Nancy Reagan, Just Say No!!
aug 20, 2025, 10:56 am • 0 0 • view
Mob boss dealings
aug 20, 2025, 2:34 am • 1 0 • view
and the times credulously stenographs this trade school bs. if trump wants to fund trade schools, he has to go to congress, not extort universities.
aug 20, 2025, 2:50 am • 3 0 • view
This is pretty psychotic. It's at the point now that when (I'm not yet at the if stage) the Dems come back in, it can not be a re-run of let's get back to normal, with contrite republicans exclaiming "we were scared for our families". Tabula rasa - push them into the ocean.
aug 20, 2025, 2:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Mad King Henry VIII’s main purpose in closing all the monasteries was to seize their wealth.
aug 20, 2025, 5:03 am • 1 0 • view
"Stop making me hit you!"
aug 20, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds just like what an abusive husband would say about his wife that he beats the shit out of regularly: It's all her fault.
aug 20, 2025, 2:53 am • 11 1 • view
I really have a hard time believing that these payments are "to the government." Trump and cronies must have cooked up some system to line their own pockets, too. They are too greedy and do not posses a single altruistic bone in their bodies. Thinking this helps make sense of NVIDIA & AMD moves.
aug 20, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
"Totalitarians arrest citizens, lawmakers, and judges and coerce all institutions to comply with a white nationalist cultural revolution and conform to its newspeak." open.substack.com/pub/theoutpo...
aug 20, 2025, 2:48 am • 2 1 • view
The language an abuser would use, verbatim.
aug 20, 2025, 2:36 am • 3 0 • view
We are now a mafia state.
aug 20, 2025, 3:01 am • 1 0 • view