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Excellent summary - if only the general public still read articles instead of worrying about TikTok apps.
Per Reich, the main tactics are:
1. Replace federal civil servants with Trump loyalists.
2. Take over independent decision making across gover…
Dump and his cultists = deranged
Dump is supposedly 1) an adult and 2) a US leader, but name calling is one of his finest weapons??? "Sleepy Joe", "Crooked Hillary", "Little Marco". Like a child.
I mean, hey, if the shoe fits......
I still c…
... and now he's planning to build a 30,000-bed c̶o̶n̶c̶e̶n̶t̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶c̶a̶m̶p̶ facility in Guantanamo for illegal immigrants. Must be nice to have property away from easy 24x7 media access/coverage, isn't it? Out of sight, out of mind, away…
Nobody seems all too concerned about Dump flushing out Federal office workers and replacing them with loyalists. A 7 or 8 month buyout might be appealing to some, but the best and brightest will be more inclined to jump ship and shift over to privat…
I didn't see how crypto could turn the tide. Apparently there were multiple strategic moves set in motion in order to create this very large crypto scam.
Strong potential to bilk the system and enrich a few at the top. But you need vision for som…
And who exactly is going to step in and challenge or prevent this illegality?
Nobody. He owns the Supreme Court and half the judges in the system. He owns the GOP. He is destabilizing our entire Democracy, removing guardrails, installing mindless…
Trump's Friday Night Massacre - blatantly illegal
“Wannabe dictator Donald Trump’s Friday Night Massacre of more than a dozen inspectors general is blatantly illegal and cannot stand. These internal government watchdogs are entrusted by Congress wi…
Dump is going to push us off a cliff and into the abyss. All safeguards are casually being destroyed.
Banks need some form of oversight. There should be some transparency. The only reason to do this is to further disrupt and erode our founda…
Give FOTUS a break. That golf ball he's chasing is 5x larger than his brain.
Tariffs - the wave of the future. They really do work.... at least, until somebody with any kind of clue finally calls your bluff.
Whether Jan 6th qualified as sedition or not is a legal technicality.
We watched a bunch of whackjobs killing police officers. Killing them, intent to harm others. Dump encouraged this. He is not a king, though by the letter of the law he can…
@JD_co said- "Pucker up, Jamie. All heil the leader. Yes, politics at play."
The same thing happened in Germany also. All the big companies and financial institutions were major players.
They said it could never happen again. But I feel like we ar…
Pucker up, Jamie. All heil the leader. Yes, politics at play.
Interesting that Dump is now using the US government to try to stockpile Digital Assets....just after he "minted" his own meme-coin last week. Hmmmm.
https://www.bbc.com/news/…
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/26/politics/colombia-tariffs-trump-deportation-flights/index.html#:~:text=On Thursday, the US returned migrants to Guatemala using military planes.&text=The US is also asking,for the country last week.
Bold added…
When will Greenland finally be ours?
Looking forward to these tariffs we have been hearing about.
Thankfully, his attempts to end Birthright citizenship were deemed UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
This is what you get when you elect a 6 time bankruptcy-king who…
As our new dictator demands we blindly follow him down this dark road, we should really "give him a chance"? Maybe some of you have been fooled by this man, but many of us who see though the charade.
He cares not about America nor the poor, …
These pardons of insurrectionists - this act will never be forgiven. A dark stain in US history.
To come forward and say it's about public safety is a highly referenced page from their basic playbook - gaslighting, doubling down on brazen lies, vi…
What's the spin on Dump removing the $2 cap on generic drugs? He rescinded Biden's action to lower prescription drug costs for Americans on Medicare and Medicaid.
He is such a tiny man that he must remove all the policies that came before him, rega…
“It’s certainly reasonable for the American public to question the appointment of someone who is heavily invested in one part of the energy sector, being appointed to a role where they are meant to oversee the entirety of the energy sector,” Sherman…
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2022/06/14/donald-trump-outdo-charles-ponzi-and-bernie-madoff/7617027001/
Will Donald Trump put to shame Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff? June 2022
"The cultists do not care.
They refuse …
Sleep well knowing that corporate America will be entrusted to police themselves going forward. No accountability. No oversight.
Somebody else will try to clean up that mess exactly 4 years from now. And what a grand ole mess it will be.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/19/donald-trump-crypto-billionaire
Components of Donald Trump's wealth
As of Jan. 19, 2025
"....the value of his $TRUMP memecoin at $57 billion, DJT stock valued at $4.59 billion, and other assets totaling $2.57 billi…
This is no small conflict of interest.
Disgusting, brazen abuse of power. And many more to come. We have become used to it. Imagine if another president had attempted this?
Needed some Munis:
1) Bought a S/T, High Yield fund - RMSIX. Low SD so far.
2) Bought FDUAX - First Eagle Short Dur High Yield Muni.
Both yield just over 4%. Boring as heck, but no Federal tax.
This bull still has legs.
No bubbles - nothing to see here. The CPI report calmed all nerves.
For those of us with cash, it would have been nice to see stocks (and bonds) "go on sale" a bit. But alas, Mr. Market has other ideas for now.
Sadly it's okay to rape and violate a women but we sure don't want them running a country.
More sad than that - women actually voted for this turd. Despite the allegations, despite the far right abortion issues, despite subordinating women, etc. …
Good stuff, thanks @Mark. Controlling the media is a big part of Orange's plan for his ....sigh....second term.
In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to choose sides when selecting our media feeds.
Well Musk just got himself another tax deduction for donating a bunch of fire bombs/trash cans (cyber trucks) for LA fire relief efforts.
Woh, hold up....comparing Tesla trucks to garbage cans? Insulting.... to garbage cans the world over.
There …
