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So I'm heading to the Utah Arizona border in a few days to hike The Wave. My co worker has a parks pass. The pass always has a picture on it that was taken by park visitor who won a competition the prior year.
Until now.
For 2026 the parks pass will have a picture of trump next to George Washington on it. If the lawsuits pending don't stop it.

He wants NFL football teams to name stadiums after him. He wants to have a special $1 coin with his picture on it (it's against the law for the US mint to put a picture of anyone still living on any currency)

He does WAY too much. He wants to brand everything in the country with his name/brand.
I thought Republicans were supposed to want less government involvement in their lives.
 
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My Rep was the talk of Congress today. I like how he refused to let her deliver her bs in full, but just went full steam ahead with the point he had to make.



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I wish they would respond better to her.
For the second person who is in prison for 4 months now, noem says some BS about following laws etc. I wish he would ask what laws she broke to deserve 4 months in prison. Noem might bring up the 2 bad checks 10 years ago. Then I wish he would ask her for other examples of people writing bad checks and getting sentences of 4 months in prison.

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Saw a meme today with a picture of Eric trump and Don jr that said "why can Eric and Don jr be more like the Menendez brothers?"

lol
 
Saw this post and thought it was pretty good: trump discovered what every skilled grifter eventually learns: chaos pays better than construction, destruction requires less talent than creation, and grievance proves more profitable than solutions. He's monetized the dark arts, weaponizing rage, packaging paranoia, selling apocalyptic fantasies to the perpetually aggrieved.

This is parasitism elevated to business model: identify society's worst impulses, amplify them for profit, dress nihilism in populist rhetoric. He doesn't build anything; he demolishes for pay. He doesn't solve problems; he exacerbates them for revenue.

trump represents the eternal opportunist who recognizes that tearing down institutions requires no vision, that stoking tribal warfare demands no principles, that profiting from national division needs only shamelessness. He found his niche alright, as carnival barker for American decline, profiteer of our unraveling.

The "dark side" wasn't accidental destination but deliberate choice, because exploiting humanity's basest instincts proves far more lucrative than appealing to its better angels.
 
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I wish they would respond better to her.
For the second person who is in prison for 4 months now, noem says some BS about following laws etc. I wish he would ask what laws she broke to deserve 4 months in prison. Noem might bring up the 2 bad checks 10 years ago. Then I wish he would ask her for other examples of people writing bad checks and getting sentences of 4 months in prison.

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This is one of a few major problems with this stuff. They just don't have any teeth. They have a gotcha moment and it feels more like a novelty car horn jump-startle than a real oh-****-she-is-screwed-now moment. The other problem is that nothing comes of this except for some sound bites down the road. I sincerely hope this leads to fracturing of the electorate and a shift in the political winds, because otherwise there was simply no point, it just doesn't go anywhere.
 
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This is what happens when you appoint inexperienced, unqualified, loyalists
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Yep. Good ole Keystone Kash.

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Kash plunged into scandal as FBI frees soldier in Brown shooting

The FBI has not caught a suspect for Saturday's shooting that killed two people, including the vice president of the university's Republican club.
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Kash Patel is at the center of another embarrassing fiasco after the FBI released a person of interest detained over the mass shooting at Brown University.

The FBI had wrongfully detained a 24-year-old Army sniper whose name and photo was leaked to the press by cops, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha admitted on Sunday.

A gunman opened fire during a review session for an introductory economics final exam at around 4pm on Saturday. He killed two students including the 19-year-old vice president of the Ivy League school's Republican club, and injured nine others.

Forty-eight hours later, the FBI is back at square one and Patel is under scrutiny over the botched arrest - which echoes his announcement of a short-lived suspect after Charlie Kirk's assassination in September.

Patel bragged about how the FBI had used its advanced cell phone tracking technology to detain the suspect at a hotel in Rhode Island, posting on X on Sunday.

The soldier allegedly traveled with a firearm from Wisconsin, but just hours after his arrest it was announced he would be freed.

Investigative experts warn that authorities must now start from scratch, reviewing all the evidence again after they were led to the wrong individual.

Patel has earned the nickname 'Keystone Kash' - a reference to the bumbling Keystone Cops of slapstick film fame - because of his pattern of making premature announcements about the FBI's successes.
 
This NY Times guest essay echoes a conclusion that I’ve settle on of late. Namely, Trump’s “vision” that the world is divided up among Strongmen, and he has made it clear that he and the United States should be seen as having a vested, and exclusive, interest over the entire Western hemisphere. JMO, but I think this interpretation of “political reality as Trump interprets it” is the ideology behind Canada as the 51st state, Greenland to America, the so called “war on drug traffickers” allegedly behind the attacks off Venezuela, and behind Trump telling the leader of Columbia that “you’re next”. It seems to be his corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

And it’s behind Trump throwing Ukraine to Putin. Spheres of influence. Strongmen dividing up the globe. That seems to be where he’s coming from. And why it’s fairly easy to recognize Trump as the most un-American president in history, who has no understanding of our history, or our traditions.


The heart of the report is a pledge to “reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American pre-eminence.” In the past, militarists invoked the Monroe Doctrine largely out of habit, a recitation of a well-worn catchphrase. Here, though, it plays a more substantive role in defining what an America First future world order might look like.

For the uninitiated, the Monroe Doctrine is neither treaty nor law. It began life as a simple statement, issued by President James Monroe in 1823 recognizing the independence of Spanish American republics and warning Europe that the Western Hemisphere was off-limits for “future colonization.”

That the Trump administration would turn to this old diplomatic shibboleth to define its foreign policy philosophy make sense. As the world order breaks into competing spheres of influence, each regional power needs to get its hinterlands under control: Moscow in the former Soviet republics, among other places; Beijing in the South China Sea and beyond.

And the United States in Latin America. “If you’re focused on America and America First, you start with your own hemisphere,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said recently. And the Trump administration has, presiding in the last few months over a frenzy of activity, not just executing speedboat operatives alleged to be drug smugglers but also meddling in the internal politics of Brazil, Argentina and Honduras, issuing scattershot threats against Colombia and Mexico, menacing Cuba and Nicaragua, increasing its influence over the Panama Canal, and seizing an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. The Pentagon is also carrying out a military buildup in the Caribbean that is all but unprecedented in its scale and concentration of firepower, seemingly aimed at effecting regime change in Venezuela.

America First nationalists have long been the staunchest defenders of the Monroe Doctrine. After World War I, nationalists used it to push back against Woodrow Wilson’s proposed League of Nations. Join the league, Henry Cabot Lodge, the powerful Republican chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned, and “the Monroe doctrine disappears,” and with it, national sovereignty. Lodge, who identified as an American Firster, said he refused to swear allegiance to the League’s “mongrel” flag.

Mr. Trump’s renewal of the Monroe Doctrine comes at a similarly precarious moment in world politics. His national security strategy identifies Latin America not, as Monroe did in his 1823 statement, as part of a common community of New World nations but as a theater of global rivalry, a place to extract resources, secure commodity chains, establish bulwarks of national security, fight the drug war, limit Chinese influence and end migration.

“The United States,” the National Security Strategy report insists, “must be pre-eminent in the Western Hemisphere as a condition of our security and prosperity,” able to act “where and when” we need to secure U.S. interests. Mr. Trump’s “Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine simply means that Latin America is to be locked down, and Latin Americans locked out.
 
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