Right - a guy who’s known to have visited Epstein’s island is denying the conspiracy theories about his oh-so-convenient death.
That has all the credibility of a four-year-old with chocolate on his fingers and crumbs on his face saying “Cookies? What cookies?”
Fucking psychopaths.
No question about it IMO.
At this point, I don’t even think they’d bother pretending otherwise. Trump would go on Truth.social and post an unhinged screed that pretty much boiled down to “Serves 'em right.”
And the media wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow.
I don’t doubt it for even a second.
Um… yeah. We knew that already.
The point obviously never was eliminating supposed waste.
It was, blatantly, a purge, meant solely to get rid of anyone who wasn’t a Trump sycophant, anyone who was currently or ever had been involved in investigating the myriad lies, scams and crimes of Trump and his cronies and/or anyone who might stand in the way of their future lies, scams and crimes.
Did you really not know that? Where have you been the last few months?
And this is why DOGE gutted the Office for Vehicle Automation Safety at the NHTSA.
Even MTG is more principled and rational than Trump.
…Congress to claw back…
That would require courage and determination, which means it’s not going to happen, because those are qualities Congress no longer possesses.
Surely now at least some few of the people in authority who have ignored Trump’s grossly obvious unfitness for office will do something, right?
Right?
This illustrates one of the many oddities about Trump.
With any other president, we had policy debates and stated goals and decisions made and implemented.
With Trump, we just have this string of essentially arbitrary threats, promises and rhetoric, and alongside that is a string of essentially arbitrary policies arbitrarily enacted and rescinded and followed and ignored, and there’s no necessary correlations between any of it.
It’s another of the things that I think Trump does simply because he’s a delusional toxic narcissist, a genuinely stupid person, and emotionally a toddler, and another of the things that the would-be autocrats - the billionaires and the CEOs and the religious right and the Republicans and the rest of the greedy and power-hungry scum - take advantage of him doing.
Exactly as intended.
his chances of raising money and looking like a leader
Note that raising money is the first thing mentioned.
And note that winning elections isn’t mentioned at all.
Which neatly sums up what’s wrong with the DNC.
But the Trump administration is refusing to reassure them they won’t be subject to retaliation.
That would be because they will be subject to retaliation.
Trump is nothing if not petty and vindictive, and as with all the rest of his many and profound flaws and failures, he’s molding the rest of the government into his gross and detestable image.
And as with the rest of his brazen assaults on legal and ethical standards, nobody with any authority will do a single fucking thing about it.
I don’t see how it could make any difference.
He’s already an idiot, a delusional narcissist, and a compulsive liar, so it’s not as if he could become even more detached from realitybthan he already is. And his supporters don’t care (and likely don’t even notice), since they’re even dumber than he is.
And it’s not like he"s going to forget his platform, since it’s pretty much just hating immigrants and LGBTQ, dicking over poor people, singing his own praises and scamming as much money as possible, and that’s all as natural and automatic to him as breathing…
Really, there’s just not much cognition going on there in the first place - it’s more in the nature of infantile immediacy and animal instincts - so I can’t see how any loss of it would matter much.
As the proud owner of a Santa Claus beard (though in color and texture, it’s more of a Grizzly Adams beard) I would say that the most important thing is to turn the care over to a professional. Just like your hair, don’t attempt to manage it yourself (beyond washing, combing and the like). Find a stylist who also does beards and go on a regular schedule and have them trim it and maintain it. And they’ll also be able to tell you if you need to do something special to care for it.
Oh look - a grotesquely incompetent and unqualified Trump appointee. I haven’t seen one of those in… an hour or so. Maybe even an hour and a half.
You’re talking about two different things.
Context was the idea of a government banning certain popular foods
This would mean they’d be against food safety regulations, would it not?
It’s entirely possible to be in favor of food safety regulations and opposed to the government banning foods outright. In fact, I think one could safely presume that those are the positions most commonly held by most people.
It’s not that they’re truly synonymous but that each also implies the other. If it’s true that he’s dead, then it’s also true that he died and vice versa. So it seems like they mean the same thing because if ypu say one, it can be taken for granted that the other is necessarily also true.
But even that’s not 100% - it’s possible that “he died” is true but “he’s dead” is not, since he might’ve been revived. That illustrates the fact that they actually each communicate something different - “he died” is an experience through which he went at some point, while “he’s dead” is the state he’s in right now.
So again, they broadly communicate the same thing since saying one implies the other as well, but they don’t actually mean the same thing.
The problem is that the corporations have no incentive to not pay the extortion money.
If Paramount had, as anyone with any integrity at all would have, told Trump to go fuck himself, the Toddler-in-chief would thrown everything he could get his tiny little hands on at them, and they would’ve ended up paying far more than $16 million trying to fend it off. So instead, they just cut President Shitbag a check, and now he’ll (supposedly) rubber stamp the merger they want.
The responsibility for bringing that loathsome bag of pus to justice falls on someone else - the other two branches of the government. And they’re cowardly, complicit and corrupt.
The Supreme Court doesn’t even bother pretending to be upholding the law or the Constitution any more. The conservative majority is wholly owned by the same autocratic scumbags who are backing Trump, and they self-evidently see themselves as having one and only one mission - to give that reeking piece of shit whatever he wants no matter what sort of illogic and lies they have to use.
And in Congress, the Republicans are lining up to suck the rapist’s deformed dick in the hope of getting to play a role in the oligarchy to come, and the Democrats are entirely focused on destroying the leftists in their midst so that they can continue gorging themselves on conservative soft money in exchange for doing nothing.
So the profoundly mentally ill and brazenly criminal piece of shit who’s stinking up the Oval Office is free to do whatever the hell he wants because every single person who might be able to do something about it is one or another sort of piece of shit themselves, with the only minor distinction being whether they’re corporate pieces of shit or judicial pieces of shit or congressionsl pieces of shit.