Trump and Bibi helped to formed a Transit Authority:
Well done.
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The corruption finds a new ālegalā level.
WTAF ?
From what Iād read, thereās quite a significant underlying test in US law that the two parties in a lawsuit have to be meaningfully in opposition to each other, and it was looking a lot like the whole suit would get tossed on those grounds.
That new fund sounds insane.
Junior wondering if itās a more efficient coke snorting posture.
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Are the GOP growing some?
From a certain angle it looks like hubris around the Brexit vote writ large on the level of a Dr. Strangelove apocalyptic satire, as sometimes I wonder if Trump was supported so hard by GOP and effectively nudged into position by centrists who refused to rally against him, because heās basically doing two things:
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Heās destroying MAGA from the inside and making a āclean houseā movement inevitable, even if it happens in a Christian nationalist form with JD Vance.
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But heās also destroying NATO and global trade alliances.
The Neocon endorsement of the āworld orderā and āglobal rule of lawā was never really that enthusiastic. At least not on the level of individual politicians or their donors. What Trump has done is give an opportunity to take a wrecking ball to it while they can later decry him. I imagine a lot of the Democrats feel the same way about āAmerica Firstā and Iran/Venezuela/Cuba: they want the wrecking but not its domestic effects, or having to say their own beliefs aloud on camera
People make a deal out of anti-Trump Repubs flipping into enthusiastic MAGA caps, but I think it makes perfect sense. If you wanted a definitive end to the populist right and a return of pre-Tea Party hierarchical Christian Nationalism, with MAGA becoming the brigades or brownshirts of the state (relevant for enforcement and never decision making or governance) - how would gut it in exactly that way, while keeping the fascist rallies and race violence squads?
One way is youād put it into power and let it shit the bed heroically at the level of administration, while you let it kill everything that you wouldnāt be brave enough to kill yourself. The first Trump term was ādonāt prejudge him, give him a chance to moderateā, whereas this is like he was given rope to hang himself and he fucking refuses to die, heās dangling and turning around and still ranting.
You have to consider the unspoken consensus behind so many of Trumpās worst moves. Trump reducing American troops in Europe is sure to be making some Democrat hearts jump for joy. As are the climate cut backs, and killing USAID. And annihilating public education. And bombing Iran.
It solves a lot of political problems when these things are done from someone who āalienatesā you and whose face/name will be scorned for a century afterwards.
Whilst I hope this to be the case, Iām cynically hamstrung by the fact politics is not really politics anymore. Itās business ā or more precisely, billionaires widening the inequality gap as fast and as far as they can.
If Trump croaked tomorrow, the playbook is already in hand.
Iām not sure this divisive, nationalistic fascism is going back in the lamp any time soon.
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Gunshots near the White House:
Poor Donald doesnāt appear to be popular, or heās very popular for target practise.
I wish theyād practice beforehand.
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In the grand scheme of things itās possible that history will look back on most of those as seemingly important at the time but in the end just part of lifeās rich (and sometimes hideous) tapestry.
The climate thing could be the exception though. Somehow it feels like even that wonāt be an extinction event for humanity. But if we carry on treating it like itās an opportunity to make our fossil mates even richer and to persist with our thoughtless trashing of our environment then, well, we might find ourselves in a situation that makes Mad Max look like The Importance of Being Earnest. And that weāve chopped our headcount by an order of magnitude or more.
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Looks like the ancestor of the Neanderthaler.
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Don Trump Jr got married in the Bahamas last weekend.
Don Sr didnāt attend.
Why?
Any number of reasons of course but one might be a legal one.
From the Bahamas Immigration website:
āConvicted sex offenders or rapists are generally not allowed to enter the Islands of the Bahamas.ā
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In a recent speech Trump said that no-one wanted to join the military when Joe Biden was President.
He was addressing the West Point graduating class.
All of whom signed up under Joe Biden.
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now fire the board of toadies there. Who claimed to have voted unanimously (they didnāt, they put the only dissenter on mute - unsurprisingly the only one of them with a spine is a woman of colour).
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