I wish at one of these pressers someone would call Donald out on his bs. Seriously, what do they have to lose? With the Justice Dept. signing off on each and every media merger they're probably going to be looking for jobs anyhow. Might as well go out in a blaze of journalistic glory.
I am so looking forward to the massive open contempt and unvarnished hatred that is going to descend on Trump and his white collar crime family once he no longer has the power of the presidency to intimidate people. In the back of his deteriorating psychopathic mind he likely fears that outcome which is why he is attempting everything that is legally possible, and the US's decrepit constitution gives far too much of that, and anything possibly feasible, whether legal or not, to hold onto power.
He has been allowed to wield this kind of power and control over people. If just one half of the republicans in the House and Senate would stand up and say "enough", he would lose all of that which he thinks he is entitled. His control is intimidation and people are growing tired of what is happening, they are tired of his bullying and his total lack of intelligence and complete incompetence. I too am looking forward to the day all of this implodes.
I know, nothing about this is in any way amusing, but I had to at least smirk a little (gotta stay in practice) “Donald now wants the Department of Justice to investigate America’s largest oil companies for alleged price gouging.” But then if people can tolerate the idea of him suing himself…
Trump is the biggest blackmailer in town. Andy Burnham, our upcoming Prime Minister is a smart guy. Trump commented on him being a past mayor of a town. The tone was dismissive. Andy was Major of the City of Manchester, lifting the town out of poverty. His political career spans over many years in many responsible roles; a great role model. We should ignore Trump’s tirade of lies and put downs. Thanks for enlightening us all.
Your grandfather had at least two cooperating brain cells and a clue. Donald "couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if [he] smeared [his] body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance." (With apologies to Edward Flaherty.)
As you know very well Mary, we here in New York City have watched your uncle toot his own horn for decades. What the country is seeing now, we're accustomed to. I've told people that the only building he actually built was Trump Tower. His only involvement in many, many of his other "projects" was licensing hie name. Because he repeats his accomplishments over and over, he's sold people on the fact that he's a great businessman and no one knows more about real estate, making deals, building and on and on. "The Apprentice" tv show was designed to make the public believe he was as successful as he claimed when he really wasn't. His mentor Roy Cohn taught him well-that if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it. We see him do this every single day, except that now as president, his lying has a far greater impact than when he lied as a businessman. Although he's getting some pushback now, for the longest time, he got no pushback from the GOP, the Supreme Court, the media or anyone else. To a habitual liar, that's nirvana. That's why I believe he's not leaving office in 2028. Bannon and Miller have been working on ways to keep him in office beyond 2028. The next 2.5 years are going to be very interesting and I don't mean that in a good way.
"Affordability." Whenever I hear that word about or from the short-fingered vulgarian, I am swept back in time, to 1980, when he was on The Today Show, being interviewed by Tom Brokaw. Brokaw mentioned the price of the vulgarian's housing, and the cost (affordability). I will never forget the sneer on his face when he answered that the people he was building for were not interested in that and Manhattan was expensive. Those were probably the only true words he spoke during that interview.
But, it wasn't the words; it was the look on his face. Anyone who is interested can find the interview in its entirety on YouTube. I didn't watch the whole thing back in 1980, and haven't since. There's a point where Brokaw should have pushed back, and he didn't, and I stopped watching.
Maybe algae eating tropical fish would help the reflection pool. I'll wait till the Donald thinks of that solution himself. lol Cheers from a rational nation Canada.
The silence is deafening! Why aren’t we talking out loud and directly about this threat Trump is making to our country? Are we all afraid that we’ll look stupid, or foolish or alarmists? What if we’re wrong? What are our representative in DC doing?
OK I’ll just come out and say it. I have serious concerns about the future of this country and by November tit could be either too late of a much bigger fight.
I suggest we band together in developing an organized resistance now and get prepared.
I had ChatGPT to do a deep dive into Trumps actions which can be seen as a threat to our democracy. You can find the full results on My Substack.
It’s conclusion was:
Taken individually, many of President Trump’s actions can be defended as aggressive uses of presidential authority, efforts to make the executive branch accountable to an elected president, or attempts to combat alleged corruption, illegal immigration, antisemitism, bureaucratic resistance and election fraud.
Taken together, however, they form a coherent structure of presidential power consolidation. That structure could be used during a disputed election to pressure state officials, control federal law enforcement, remove resistant employees, weaken independent oversight, punish institutional opposition and deploy federal forces.
I see this as a way of saying that piece by piece fundamental checks and balances and internal governmental watchdogs are being chipped away or fired.
Listed below are some specific points noted:
The 2020 attempt to overturn an election remains the most important evidence
The January 6 pardons
Attempting to bring election administration under presidential influence (and away from the states)
Attempting to bring election administration under presidential influence (firing government employees who might stand in the way)
Subordinating independent agencies to the White House
Removing inspectors general and weakening internal oversight
Politicization or selective use of the Justice Department
Weakening Congress’s control of spending and government structure
Retaliatory measures against law firms
Pressure on the press and control of access
Using federal funding to compel universities and civil society
Broad emergency powers and uncertain compliance with courts
Domestic deployment of the military and federal forces
Reshaping military and intelligence leadership
Centralizing government information and personal data
How these powers could operate together
The danger is not best understood as Trump issuing a single order declaring himself dictator. Modern democratic breakdown usually occurs through an accumulation of formally plausible actions.
A hypothetical disputed transfer could proceed as follows:
Trump declares that the result is fraudulent, relying on mailed ballots, noncitizen voting or irregularities.
Federal databases produce lists questioning voter eligibility, while the Justice Department investigates election officials.
State officials are pressured through subpoenas, grant threats, criminal investigations or public attacks.
Career employees who reject unsupported claims are removed or bypassed.
Inspectors general and independent agencies have reduced ability to expose internal misconduct.
Federal forces are deployed around protests or government facilities, officially for public safety or federal protection.
Law firms, media organizations and universities face financial or regulatory pressure, reducing organized resistance.
Emergency appeals allow contested measures to remain temporarily effective, delaying a final judicial resolution.
9. Congress is asked to reject, delay or reinterpret state certificationsamid manufactured uncertainty.
I wish at one of these pressers someone would call Donald out on his bs. Seriously, what do they have to lose? With the Justice Dept. signing off on each and every media merger they're probably going to be looking for jobs anyhow. Might as well go out in a blaze of journalistic glory.
No one says it better than you.
I am so looking forward to the massive open contempt and unvarnished hatred that is going to descend on Trump and his white collar crime family once he no longer has the power of the presidency to intimidate people. In the back of his deteriorating psychopathic mind he likely fears that outcome which is why he is attempting everything that is legally possible, and the US's decrepit constitution gives far too much of that, and anything possibly feasible, whether legal or not, to hold onto power.
He has been allowed to wield this kind of power and control over people. If just one half of the republicans in the House and Senate would stand up and say "enough", he would lose all of that which he thinks he is entitled. His control is intimidation and people are growing tired of what is happening, they are tired of his bullying and his total lack of intelligence and complete incompetence. I too am looking forward to the day all of this implodes.
I am too.
I know, nothing about this is in any way amusing, but I had to at least smirk a little (gotta stay in practice) “Donald now wants the Department of Justice to investigate America’s largest oil companies for alleged price gouging.” But then if people can tolerate the idea of him suing himself…
Trump is the biggest blackmailer in town. Andy Burnham, our upcoming Prime Minister is a smart guy. Trump commented on him being a past mayor of a town. The tone was dismissive. Andy was Major of the City of Manchester, lifting the town out of poverty. His political career spans over many years in many responsible roles; a great role model. We should ignore Trump’s tirade of lies and put downs. Thanks for enlightening us all.
Your grandfather had at least two cooperating brain cells and a clue. Donald "couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if [he] smeared [his] body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance." (With apologies to Edward Flaherty.)
As you know very well Mary, we here in New York City have watched your uncle toot his own horn for decades. What the country is seeing now, we're accustomed to. I've told people that the only building he actually built was Trump Tower. His only involvement in many, many of his other "projects" was licensing hie name. Because he repeats his accomplishments over and over, he's sold people on the fact that he's a great businessman and no one knows more about real estate, making deals, building and on and on. "The Apprentice" tv show was designed to make the public believe he was as successful as he claimed when he really wasn't. His mentor Roy Cohn taught him well-that if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it. We see him do this every single day, except that now as president, his lying has a far greater impact than when he lied as a businessman. Although he's getting some pushback now, for the longest time, he got no pushback from the GOP, the Supreme Court, the media or anyone else. To a habitual liar, that's nirvana. That's why I believe he's not leaving office in 2028. Bannon and Miller have been working on ways to keep him in office beyond 2028. The next 2.5 years are going to be very interesting and I don't mean that in a good way.
“So perhaps Donald should spend a little less time threatening Congress and a little more time watching Schoolhouse Rock.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
All we need is one journalist, willing to lose their access to just ask the melon felon “what’s wrong with you, Sir?”
Donald doesn't look right in the face. It looks like a big piece missing. Added to the megalomania, it's very concerning.
The eyes. The eyes.
Trump there blackmailer; always carrot and stick approach, totally behaviourist.
"Affordability." Whenever I hear that word about or from the short-fingered vulgarian, I am swept back in time, to 1980, when he was on The Today Show, being interviewed by Tom Brokaw. Brokaw mentioned the price of the vulgarian's housing, and the cost (affordability). I will never forget the sneer on his face when he answered that the people he was building for were not interested in that and Manhattan was expensive. Those were probably the only true words he spoke during that interview.
But, it wasn't the words; it was the look on his face. Anyone who is interested can find the interview in its entirety on YouTube. I didn't watch the whole thing back in 1980, and haven't since. There's a point where Brokaw should have pushed back, and he didn't, and I stopped watching.
Maybe algae eating tropical fish would help the reflection pool. I'll wait till the Donald thinks of that solution himself. lol Cheers from a rational nation Canada.
The elephant in the country!
Or where were you when democracy died.
The silence is deafening! Why aren’t we talking out loud and directly about this threat Trump is making to our country? Are we all afraid that we’ll look stupid, or foolish or alarmists? What if we’re wrong? What are our representative in DC doing?
OK I’ll just come out and say it. I have serious concerns about the future of this country and by November tit could be either too late of a much bigger fight.
I suggest we band together in developing an organized resistance now and get prepared.
I had ChatGPT to do a deep dive into Trumps actions which can be seen as a threat to our democracy. You can find the full results on My Substack.
It’s conclusion was:
Taken individually, many of President Trump’s actions can be defended as aggressive uses of presidential authority, efforts to make the executive branch accountable to an elected president, or attempts to combat alleged corruption, illegal immigration, antisemitism, bureaucratic resistance and election fraud.
Taken together, however, they form a coherent structure of presidential power consolidation. That structure could be used during a disputed election to pressure state officials, control federal law enforcement, remove resistant employees, weaken independent oversight, punish institutional opposition and deploy federal forces.
I see this as a way of saying that piece by piece fundamental checks and balances and internal governmental watchdogs are being chipped away or fired.
Listed below are some specific points noted:
The 2020 attempt to overturn an election remains the most important evidence
The January 6 pardons
Attempting to bring election administration under presidential influence (and away from the states)
Attempting to bring election administration under presidential influence (firing government employees who might stand in the way)
Subordinating independent agencies to the White House
Removing inspectors general and weakening internal oversight
Politicization or selective use of the Justice Department
Weakening Congress’s control of spending and government structure
Retaliatory measures against law firms
Pressure on the press and control of access
Using federal funding to compel universities and civil society
Broad emergency powers and uncertain compliance with courts
Domestic deployment of the military and federal forces
Reshaping military and intelligence leadership
Centralizing government information and personal data
How these powers could operate together
The danger is not best understood as Trump issuing a single order declaring himself dictator. Modern democratic breakdown usually occurs through an accumulation of formally plausible actions.
A hypothetical disputed transfer could proceed as follows:
Trump declares that the result is fraudulent, relying on mailed ballots, noncitizen voting or irregularities.
Federal databases produce lists questioning voter eligibility, while the Justice Department investigates election officials.
State officials are pressured through subpoenas, grant threats, criminal investigations or public attacks.
Career employees who reject unsupported claims are removed or bypassed.
Inspectors general and independent agencies have reduced ability to expose internal misconduct.
Federal forces are deployed around protests or government facilities, officially for public safety or federal protection.
Law firms, media organizations and universities face financial or regulatory pressure, reducing organized resistance.
Emergency appeals allow contested measures to remain temporarily effective, delaying a final judicial resolution.
9. Congress is asked to reject, delay or reinterpret state certificationsamid manufactured uncertainty.
It does state that all is not lost yet.
He’s a link to the full report.
https://2tuttlechris.substack.com/p/the-elephant-in-the-country-128
The decision to drive 15 armored vehicles across the empty reflecting pool also had a little to do with the problems too.
He is either too stupid or too demented to be a world leader.
Donald's view of NATO is the same as his view of the pandemic office of the CDC: we don't need it because that stuff never happens anymore.