Remember when we learned that the Russia was funneling money to republicans (specifically to the trump campaign) through the NRA, and that there was a Russian spy embedded in the NRA as well, and we just never heard anything about it ever again?
Remember when we learned that the Russia was funneling money to republicans (specifically to the trump campaign) through the NRA, and that there was a Russian spy embedded in the NRA as well, and we just never heard anything about it ever again?
It's the most obvious sign of his desire to be a dictator. This Congress would gleefully give him anything he wants, yet he willfully choses to circumvent their authority at every opportunity.
Also sounds like something to not bother worrying about, like when he says 2 weeks. They've already been too dumb to not publicly state their intent to do malicious prosecutions, so even if they actually do bring their made up charges against people they'll get tossed.
And the pizza meter was at Defcon 1 last night. So there's definitely not nothing going on, even if it's not that.
Notice how with all the magats clamoring for troops to be sent in, not one of them is asking for troops to be sent to where they live. Even they don't actually want this, but they love seeing it imposed on others.
Definitely not a coincidence that the 2 people most responsible for Epstein remaining free as long as he did both just happened to get appointed to cabinet positions by trump.
I don't know. He can't control maga because that cult of personality won't just transfer over. But, I think the actual republican politicians are so far gone at this point that they'd likely continue as is, at least until they finally figure out that he can't control maga anyway.
Also the Pizza Meter is through the roof. Which means something is going on, even if it's not that.
While couch fuckers is yet another evil pos, it's also a cult of personality and that doesn't just pass to the next man up.
Don't forget couch fuckers random comment about trump being totally definitely healthy but also he is ready to be president if trump dies.
The thing about gun nuts making knowing everything about guns their whole personality is it means they know damn well a bullet never touched him, but it also contradicts their programming to inherently believe everything he says.
It makes a lot more sense once you accept that it's intentional.
Imagine how useless they'll be when they're in a state, where they very explicitly have no authority to enforce state law, instead of a federal district.
Exactly why allowing trump to just go ahead and EO prosecutions for something the Supreme Court explicitly ruled is constitutionally protected is a terrible precedent for them to set if they bothered thinking it through for a few seconds.
I remember way back, like 7 months ago, when Republicans believed the government should have no involvement in the affairs of the free market.
I know it's spooky season now, but come on.
Even if we were to all pretend the obvious Russian asset isn't a Russian asset, in a best case scenario Putin certainly isn't unhappy about any of the stuff he's doing.
I call it an impeachable offense. He's literally directing federal law enforcement to make blatant unconstitutional arrests over something the Supreme Court explicitly ruled as protected free speech under the 1st Amendment.
Literally anything to make sure to get the blame to lands anywhere but the absurdly easy access to guns.
And how long do you think couch fucker could go without committing an impeachment offense himself?
Which is exactly why the rich want to privatize them. Even if there's no resources to mine out of it, they can make a lot of money building resorts and such.
But, federal government has no authority to enforce state law. So, placing troops in cities does nothing to fight crime because they have no legal authority to do anything unless someone is breaking federal law.
Remind people that the federal government can't enforce state law. So troops placed in cities have no authority to do anything unless you're actively violating federal law, and if they do you just won yourself a nice fat lawsuit.
The crazy thing is the Venn diagram of ammosexual lunatics that sleep with their AR-15 and people who actually believe he was shot is basically a circle.
I mean, of course it was, if you're not doing something super shady, you send literally anyone in the DOJ but your "former" personal lawyer.
Even ignoring anything he's done, being nominated by someone who is actively committing genocide seems disqualifying on its own.
And they won't put her replacement up for confirmation before the Senate, leaving them as only "acting" and thereby not entitled to the residence the position comes with. So, they're clearly doing that on purpose so it can be Noem's house instead.
Only took 10 fucking years for a Dem to finally point out the media's bullshit double standard to their face.
I mean, they did run a whole presidential campaign on this good economy is bad actually, and it worked.
Pretending they actually have a plan for reducing crime, I'm curious what it would even be. Because feds can only enforce federal law, and the alleged crime wave would involve virtually no violations of federal law, so what are they even supposed to do to begin with?
Also a party of law and order guy just straight-up admitting he willfully breaks the law on a daily basis out of fear someone else might break the law.
Him and Bondi didn't both just happen to get appointed to cabinet positions by trump by coincidence.
If the local police are federalized, then they no longer have authority to enforce local law, they can only enforce federal law. And since virtually all crime being committed in the city objectively won't involve any violations of federal law, this basically just makes the city unpolicable.
Also, even not being a state, DC still has a separation of local law and federal law, and feds can only enforce federal law. And essentially all the "crime" they're being sent to police objectively doesn't involve any violations of federal law.
That one would cause Congress to suddenly remember what checks and balances are real quick. They don't care about any of the other stuff he's doing, but they're not letting him eliminate 2 solidly Republican Senate seats.
In fact, I'm pretty sure federalizing the local PD actually removes their authority to enforce local law and they can now only enforce federal law. Which basically makes most crime unpolicable.
In fact, I seem to remember him claiming he didn't have that authority and that it was Pelosi who could have called them in but didn't.
Yeah, but that really only hurts normal people, so they don't care. This involves the elimination of 2 solidly Republican Senate seats. They'd suddenly remember what checks and balances are real quick if he tried to do that.
This is actually more impressive than the record kick, which was in a dome with perfect conditions and he had to crow hop for extra power to barely make it through from 66. This is outdoors, at sea level, with a totally normal stance, and had enough extra on it that it might have been good from 75.
I had to scroll this thread to even figure out what a Sydney Sweeney was. Had no clue if it was the name of a brand, product, person, or some weird sex act.
And somehow, this whole list didn't even get to the part where he lost a massive lawsuit because he couldn't stop himself from repeatedly defaming a woman.
Oh, the guy who just last year lost a nearly $100 million lawsuit specifically because he was denigrating a woman and couldn't stop himself from continuing to do so repeatedly. Yeah, he totally would never do the exact thing he does all the time.
But, it is going to waste an obnoxious amount of taxpayer money, both in the cost of the attempted persecution itself and the restitution they'll have to pay Obama for the legal fees he incurs from this garbage.
I remember maga being pretty pissed about the AG recusing himself from an investigation that both he and his boss were subjects of, though.
California should be moving forward with it already because Texas Republicans are absolutely going to force this through one way or another.
Wall Street can't even make up their mind on how to react to his nonsense. They've taken to just ignoring a lot of it now, but then they'll occasionally still send the market wildly flailing when he tweets something dumb that they could have easily just ignored.
I don't know how many more times we need to see the when they go low we go high strategy fail to produce good results at the ballot box before the conclusion that it clearly doesn't work is reached.
But, in typical Democratic Party fashion, they don't do it enough to actually beat Republicans but do it just enough to look like hypocrites for opposing Republicans doing it.
Kind of reminds me of the time there were 2 really old guys running for president, but the media only ever presented age as an issue for one of them even though they're both effectively the same age.
Where he proceeded to try to require drug testing for welfare and gave the state contract for said drug testing to a company that just happened to be owned by him, then turned down billions in federal funding for a high-speed rail line because he was personally invested in a private HSL project.
And even with the required mental gymnastics to give him credit for creating peace in those situations, that's still 3 peace deals short of the 1 per month propaganda barbie here is claiming.
If these dipshits keep going around armed, masked, and refusing to identify themselves, it's really only a matter of time before some of them get themselves killed harassing the wrong person. This is America after all, land of more guns than people.
The only time I can recall a presidential candidate ever explicitly promise something for free and the crowd that constantly whines about "free stuff" couldn't have loved it more.
Well, pedophiles are considered a protected class by the regime.
Not something I ever said or even came remotely close to saying. The lack of reading comprehension from both you and dipshit up there are entirely your own problem, not mine. So, you can fuck right off into the sun as well.
Yeah, you can go fuck right off into the sun with whatever your problem is.
Hey, no clue what even prompted this needlessly dickish response, but get fucked nonetheless.
Seems like a good time to remind people that the first thing trump did his first term was make it easier for people with mental illnesses to get guns.
Trump, Reagan, Nixon: all presidents who used illegal back-channeling with foreign governments to influence the election so they'd win and all 3 just happen to be Republicans.
I mean, his first term started with a GOP controlled Senate not giving a single fuck that foreign governments were using his DC hotel to literally buy favor with him and ended with a GOP controlled Senate letting him walk on starting an insurrection. So, them still not caring is just status quo.
And it was planted there by a guy he fired years before Epstein's arrest.
And routinely complain that normal people get too many days off.
Now that we know he sent his "former" personal attorney to see Maxwell with a regime curated list of 100 names they picked to ask her about, I think that odds of him being dumb enough to release an enemies list as a client list may have gone up some.
High probability that "sodomy" is a felony in those same states, even though such laws were deemed unconstitutional over 2 decades ago.
I guess that will depend on how much they like her answers to the regime curated list of 100 people they sent trump's "former" personal attorney to ask her about.
Given that they were on private property property without permission, refused to identify themselves, and refused to show a warrant because they didn't have one, I see a sizeable lawsuit coming.
This should get a fun response from the judge when they hear this "assault" occurred on private property the agents were not given permission to enter and did not have a warrant.
And it was planted there by a guy he fired years before Epstein's arrest.
Her and Acosta, the 2 people most responsible for Epstein remaining free for as long as he did, both totally coincidentally just happened to get appointed to cabinet positions by trump.
In for some more fun maga mental gymnastics when people collecting SS find out they still owe tax on it.
If only there was a long established history that people who work for trump inevitably fall out of his favor and end up being at best only largely irrelevant he could have looked at to see what was coming if he took the job.
I guess good thing the first thing trump did in his 1st term was make it easier for people with mental health conditions to buy guns. And each successive group they target is going to have more guns than the last.
Not considering, he 100% is doing it. He didn't send his "former" personal attorney to spend 2 days negotiating, opps I mean "interviewing," her to not pardon her.
The total absence of foresight is the reason he's in this present mess of his own making. But, hopefully this will finally be the thing that actually sticks to him.
Should be, but he didn't send his "former" personal lawyer to negotiate, I mean "interview," her for 2 days to not pardon her.
Election time. No state is going to take that leap as long as there's hope of retaking power to fix the mess; but if Republicans actually move to make their 1 party rule permanent there becomes no point in sticking around anymore.
Which should be done immediately to make it clear to Maxwell that lying for trump is a pointless endeavor because she will be spending the rest of her life in prison regardless.
Which brings back the question of exactly where tf is that money really going? Because there's no way that some repurposed fema tents at an abandoned airport costs anywhere close to half a billion dollars a year to operate.
The kind of thing that should go over horribly in the epicenter of the bible belt that is the state he represents if the people there are actually the kind of people they claim to be.
I mean, if these idiots thought that far ahead they wouldn't be in this mess entirely of their own making that has them about to pardon Maxwell to get out of it to begin with.
And you definitely dont send your "former" personal attorney to "interview" said criminal if you're not doing something extremely shady.
Even though it's a pretty unrealistic depiction because the piñata actually had a uniform identifying itself as ICE.
Especially since she'll end up posting essentially the same thing for real within the next week or so anyway.
Russia hacked the servers of both parties but chose to only release stuff they stole from the Democrats and in Republicanland this means the opposite of what anyone with a functioning brain would logically conclude.
They take that as a challenge and have no problem spending as much taxpayer money as they need to dig a hole just so they can still get under that bar.
I mean, that basically just makes her trump.
This would be the case in a normal world where the Department of Justice was actually still the Department of Justice and not trump's personal law firm/retribution machine.
And the person sitting in position to get to pick and choose the relevance of anything Maxwell has to say: Conveniently one of the two people most responsible for Epstein being free for as long as he was, both of whom totally coincidentally got appointed to cabinet positions by trump.
I can't remember there ever being a time when that unity wasn't a one-way street for these guys.
They would much rather see any office be held by a Republican than by anyone even slightly to their left. So, losing is still winning as far they're concerned.
Well, they do still have to pretend like they actually wanted it unsealed.
The lady who wore an "I really don't care, do you" jacket for her visit to one of her husband's a child prison camps, no way.
I mean, they never really did to begin with. His 1st term started with it being well known that foreign governments were using his DC hotel to literally buy favor with him and Congress just flat out did not care. After that there just wasn't much point in bothering to hide it.
The guy who gave Epstein his non-prosecution agreement to begin with then was later rewarded by trump with a cabinet position; a cabinet position for which his only qualification appears to be having let Epstein walk. I don't think we'll be hearing from him.
You'd think at some point they might catch on to him always conveniently just happening to be leaving for a totally preplanned vacation every time a disaster hits his state.
To be fair, that's been a central tenant of the entire "party of personal responsibility" since long before maga.
Unfortunately, a lot of it happened in Florida, where he was given a free pass by the US Attorney and the State AG, both of whom just happened to later get appointed to cabinet positions by trump.
At this point, I fully expect she's going to get a pardon in exchange for creating a list that just happens to have only people trump considers enemies on it.
I don't expect they intend to do much more legislating anyway. Remember, the only thing they really did legislatively his first term was tax cuts for the rich, and well, they've already taken care of that again this time.