On Trump

[dlaloum]

The USA will either descend into full blow fascist statism, or the fightback will return the USA to some semblance of Democracy - if the latter happens, the "shock treatment" provided by Trump may potentially provide the impetus for long overdue reform.... similar to what happened after the shock of the great depresssion in the 1930's.

But it could go either way. And it could lead into a civil war... or substantial civil unrest, in the country with the largest number of per capita weapons in the world.

 

[Dude#1279435]

Interesting take on the Trump religious vote (with an additional quote from the comments section).

Yep, religious abuse is a way of life in America and it perpetuates itself. There is barely a distinction between religious zealotry and the fawning trauma response, and fawning over an authoritarian leader.

These people don’t love god, they are fawning over him. They think love and fawning are the same thing. You can’t love someone you never met… (and untrustworthy and holds power over you) but you sure can fawn over them. The intersection between religion and the unconscious desire to be subjugated can be understood this way.

 

[Dude#1279435]

Boy I sure feel better about the current administration after listening to Trump's autism address. The funny thing is there really didn't need to be a statement on it. Tylenol is the better alternative than ibuprofen etc. Take it sparingly if you are pregnant. Though you should "tough it out" if you are in pain and pregnant I guess.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Boy I sure feel better about the current administration after listening to Trump's autism address. The funny thing is there really didn't need to be a statement on it. Tylenol is the better alternative than ibuprofen etc. Take it sparingly if you are pregnant. Though you should "tough it out" if you are in pain and pregnant I guess.

I think it is too late in the game for us then, right? Yippy, cannot get autism anymore,

 

[mtrycrafts]

Interesting take on the Trump religious vote (with an additional quote from the comments section).

Yep, religious abuse is a way of life in America and it perpetuates itself. There is barely a distinction between religious zealotry and the fawning trauma response, and fawning over an authoritarian leader.

These people don’t love god, they are fawning over him. They think love and fawning are the same thing. You can’t love someone you never met… (and untrustworthy and holds power over you) but you sure can fawn over them. The intersection between religion and the unconscious desire to be subjugated can be understood this way.

Boy, how did you find these two ladies. Great. One from OK? WOW.

Is that lady in white married? I want to marry her.

Oh, she is. Cannot compete with that huge rock on her finger.

 

[Dude#1279435]

Boy, how did you find these two ladies. Great. One from OK? WOW.

It was just what popped up on YT. Brunette is a regular on Majority Report. Cannot remember the blondes show.

 

[mtrycrafts]

It was just what popped up on YT. Brunette is a regular on Majority Report. Cannot remember the blondes show.

Love it.

 

[Dude#1279435]

Difficult believing Homan accepted $50k bag in cash. You'd think if they were gonna steal you'd hide it a little better.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Difficult believing Homan accepted $50k bag in cash. You'd think if they were gonna steal you'd hide it a little better.

Not sure I follow. FBI was investigating another case. probably a stealth operation as well, and Homann's name came up that he was willing to be bribed in essence. Video and audio supposedly shows him taking that bag.
Where is the IRS with a full scale audit if it was not in his IRS return. Case is closed for now. Looks like congress may have a hearing on this, maybe.
And now, apparently, he was involved with contracting for more immigration private facilities. Will he get a cushy job afterwards?

Oh, he was complaining that he is not getting much pay from the government. Why did he accept the job?

 

[mtrycrafts]

If Comey is indicted, he should counter sue for malicious prosecution and ruining his reputation, say $50 million? Claw back some of the other bs extortions.

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

Interesting take on the Trump religious vote (with an additional quote from the comments section).

Yep, religious abuse is a way of life in America and it perpetuates itself. There is barely a distinction between religious zealotry and the fawning trauma response, and fawning over an authoritarian leader.

These people don’t love god, they are fawning over him. They think love and fawning are the same thing. You can’t love someone you never met… (and untrustworthy and holds power over you) but you sure can fawn over them. The intersection between religion and the unconscious desire to be subjugated can be understood this way.

Wow. Two idiots.

 

[Dude#1279435]

Not sure I follow. FBI was investigating another case. probably a stealth operation as well, and Homann's name came up that he was willing to be bribed in essence. Video and audio supposedly shows him taking that bag.
Where is the IRS with a full scale audit if it was not in his IRS return. Case is closed for now. Looks like congress may have a hearing on this, maybe.
And now, apparently, he was involved with contracting for more immigration private facilities. Will he get a cushy job afterwards?

Oh, he was complaining that he is not getting much pay from the government. Why did he accept the job?

Jeez if he's taking a cash bag out in the open he's either stupid or knows the administration will cover for him.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Jeez if he's taking a cash bag out in the open he's either stupid or knows the administration will cover for him.

Both.

 

[Dude#1279435]

Glad we have the finest minds out there....

CNN news panel-

I'd think if Comey is being indicted on perjury charges you'd have to prove perjury.

Oh I dunno about that.

 

[Dude#1279435]

Hehehe c'mon art is freedom of speech.

Park Police remove Trump-Epstein statue from National Mall...

 

[Dude#1279435]

https://archive.is/4jsrh

Edward Luce

Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four, said George Orwell. By that standard, the US is hurtling towards unfreedom. Those who point out that the late Charlie Kirk was a Christian nationalist provocateur risk their jobs or worse. The official line is that the appalling murder of Kirk made him a martyr to God and American liberty. Dissenters to such hyperbole risk being branded as terrorists. In the post-Kirk world, two plus two equals five.

Orwell is erroneously quoted as having said that at a time of universal deceit, truth-telling is a revolutionary act. Here is the truth about Kirk. He believed that the US Civil Rights Act was a mistake, that leading African-American women, including Michelle Obama, lacked “brain processing power”, that Joe Biden should be jailed or even killed for his presidential sins and that the US should have public executions. Readers can guess for themselves what Kirk thought of women’s place in society.

Under America’s First Amendment, pretty much all speech is protected by law. That is as it should be. Shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre endangers the lives of others. Booing the stage performance or claiming the tickets were a rip-off does not. Those who called out Kirk’s toxicity were as American as apple pie. As was Kirk. The right to say what you want dates to the country’s founding. Nobody should be prosecuted, let alone killed, for being obnoxious.

A few months before the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence, Donald Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease. His war on speech is no drill. Late-night comedians are being targeted. Corporations like Paramount are meekly submitting to his will. Ivy League presidents and globally renowned law firms act as though the First Amendment no longer holds. Outspoken business leaders have suddenly lost their tongues. Since they have the most to lose, those with power and wealth are among the softest targets.

Trump misses no opportunity to punish dissent, and Kirk’s assassination is his biggest so far. Last week he claimed that 97 per cent of network coverage of him was negative and should be illegal. The federal state’s vast powers are being used to pursue private vendettas. Officials have been forced to take polygraphs to test their loyalties. FBI agents who investigated Trump have been fired. Morale at US spy agencies has never been lower. Trump has publicly instructed the US attorney-general to prosecute three named opponents.

That his economic ratings are in freefall should be a source of alarm not complacency. Less than a year after Trump was elected, the separation of powers is not working. Congress is irrelevant. The Supreme Court is quiescent. The media is punch drunk. Democrats are fragmented. Independent federal agencies are losing autonomy. The markets are high on the AI gold rush, crypto deregulation and the prospect of a return to easy money. Stephen Miller, Trump’s most influential domestic adviser — prime minister to Trump’s king — calls the Democratic party a domestic extremist organisation and wants to suspend America’s constitutional habeas corpus right to due process. He is a true American autocrat.

It has been widely observed that the speed of America’s democratic slide surpasses that of other “elective autocracies” such as Narendra Modi’s India and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey. But that understates Trump’s impatience. Others have shifted to authoritarianism with relatively fast-growing economies, which makes it easier to sustain public support. Trump’s trade war and his “big beautiful [budget] bill” will rob most Americans of income growth. The idea that the disaffected middle will therefore clip Trump’s wings in next year’s midterm elections is quixotic. Having silenced most institutional dissent within his first nine months, what could Trump accomplish in the next 14?

At the huge religious revival-style memorial for Kirk in Arizona on Sunday, his widow, Erika, struck a courageous note of dissent from the dominant spirit of vengeance. In the spirit of the Christian gospels, she forgave her husband’s killer. Speaking straight afterwards, Trump corrected her. He could not forgive his enemies, he said. Indeed, he hated them. Trump’s wrath produced cheers from tens of thousands of “Christians” in the stadium. To put it in terms churchgoers would understand, Trump’s America is swapping the New Testament for the Old.

 

[3db]

Trump and his merry band of f?cktards are not the first nor will they be the last to cite biblical scripture to support their causes. It happened in Europe for hundreds of years when the Catholic faith ruled the lands over the nobility. Atrocities were committed against fellow men in the name of God.

What fundamentally burns my ass is that I see the USA as not as christian state and with morals like they pretend it to be. I see it as a country where the dollar and profit is their god and saviour. As an example, Disney lost close to a billion dollars in that week that Kimmel was yanked and they only restored his show not for the reason of freedom of speech as written in the USA constitution but to stem the monetary bleeding from the yanking of Kimmel's show. The USA constitution which is a beautifully written document no longer holds sway to business. Its become a mere floor matt. That's a sad state of affairs.

 

[trochetier]

I just came across this book - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can't_Happen_Here
The premise is uncannily contemporary.
Got to find it in my Public Library

 

[trochetier]

https://archive.is/4jsrh

Edward Luce

Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four, said George Orwell. By that standard, the US is hurtling towards unfreedom. Those who point out that the late Charlie Kirk was a Christian nationalist provocateur risk their jobs or worse. The official line is that the appalling murder of Kirk made him a martyr to God and American liberty. Dissenters to such hyperbole risk being branded as terrorists. In the post-Kirk world, two plus two equals five.

Orwell is erroneously quoted as having said that at a time of universal deceit, truth-telling is a revolutionary act. Here is the truth about Kirk. He believed that the US Civil Rights Act was a mistake, that leading African-American women, including Michelle Obama, lacked “brain processing power”, that Joe Biden should be jailed or even killed for his presidential sins and that the US should have public executions. Readers can guess for themselves what Kirk thought of women’s place in society.

Under America’s First Amendment, pretty much all speech is protected by law. That is as it should be. Shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre endangers the lives of others. Booing the stage performance or claiming the tickets were a rip-off does not. Those who called out Kirk’s toxicity were as American as apple pie. As was Kirk. The right to say what you want dates to the country’s founding. Nobody should be prosecuted, let alone killed, for being obnoxious.

A few months before the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence, Donald Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease. His war on speech is no drill. Late-night comedians are being targeted. Corporations like Paramount are meekly submitting to his will. Ivy League presidents and globally renowned law firms act as though the First Amendment no longer holds. Outspoken business leaders have suddenly lost their tongues. Since they have the most to lose, those with power and wealth are among the softest targets.

Trump misses no opportunity to punish dissent, and Kirk’s assassination is his biggest so far. Last week he claimed that 97 per cent of network coverage of him was negative and should be illegal. The federal state’s vast powers are being used to pursue private vendettas. Officials have been forced to take polygraphs to test their loyalties. FBI agents who investigated Trump have been fired. Morale at US spy agencies has never been lower. Trump has publicly instructed the US attorney-general to prosecute three named opponents.

That his economic ratings are in freefall should be a source of alarm not complacency. Less than a year after Trump was elected, the separation of powers is not working. Congress is irrelevant. The Supreme Court is quiescent. The media is punch drunk. Democrats are fragmented. Independent federal agencies are losing autonomy. The markets are high on the AI gold rush, crypto deregulation and the prospect of a return to easy money. Stephen Miller, Trump’s most influential domestic adviser — prime minister to Trump’s king — calls the Democratic party a domestic extremist organisation and wants to suspend America’s constitutional habeas corpus right to due process. He is a true American autocrat.

It has been widely observed that the speed of America’s democratic slide surpasses that of other “elective autocracies” such as Narendra Modi’s India and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey. But that understates Trump’s impatience. Others have shifted to authoritarianism with relatively fast-growing economies, which makes it easier to sustain public support. Trump’s trade war and his “big beautiful [budget] bill” will rob most Americans of income growth. The idea that the disaffected middle will therefore clip Trump’s wings in next year’s midterm elections is quixotic. Having silenced most institutional dissent within his first nine months, what could Trump accomplish in the next 14?

At the huge religious revival-style memorial for Kirk in Arizona on Sunday, his widow, Erika, struck a courageous note of dissent from the dominant spirit of vengeance. In the spirit of the Christian gospels, she forgave her husband’s killer. Speaking straight afterwards, Trump corrected her. He could not forgive his enemies, he said. Indeed, he hated them. Trump’s wrath produced cheers from tens of thousands of “Christians” in the stadium. To put it in terms churchgoers would understand, Trump’s America is swapping the New Testament for the Old.

It might sound mean but I find Erika Kirk's forgiving of the shooter hypocritical and political. Why? If she really meant it she should have reinforced it after what Trump said.

 

[trochetier]

So much for DOGE!

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/politics/doge-federal-workers

One commentator on Scripps News described all the firings as - It was all fire, fire, fire instead of ready, aim fire.

FDA had to hire back most of its support staff soon after they got fired. I heard several of their drug facility inspectors while on foreign inspections had to use their personal credit cards because there was no one here to process payments for their govt. issued cards when it hit its limit.