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Red said:
Yeah, I agree. That's how Trump views the world, it really is as if the American experiment in self governance, in a constitutional republic, simply never happened. That’s all irrelevant to Trump. I’m sure he knows nothing about our history, our ideals. (He thought the American airports played a key role in the American Revolution).

Instead, he sees this hemisphere as his area of his control. Without so much as a how do ya do, he just decided it was time for him to seize control and join Putin and Xi as the Grand Triumvirate controlling the world. And institute Project 2025 here, to help provide the State power that an absolute ruler requires.

This is partly what led me to speculate that we can find ourselves in a similar enviornment as the citizens of Russia: “just shut up, do not rock the boat, keep a low profile, and be grateful you’re not in a gulag”. The American people will find themselves right there, wondering “hey, how the hell did this happen?”
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And I forgot to mention one thing that is helping Trump immeasurably: the SC’s shadow docket. Every single time a constitutional issue arises out of Trump’s EO, and it reaches the SC in some form, usually because Trump asked them to intervene when a lower judge puts Trump’s order on stay, they say the same thing, and in so many words: “We don’t know if the president is acting constitutionally, but we are not going to take up that question at this time. Until such time as we do decide on the constitutionality of the Chief Executive, he can do as he pleases in this matter”. Always 6-3. IMO, that's no accident. They might call it the Unitary Executive approach, but it’s just the 6 conservatives enabling authoritarianism in the United States. At this point, they want a dictatorship. They are helping Trump damage our country.
 
When Trump supporters watch superhero movies, do they root for the bad guy? Legitimately curious how a Trump supporter could watch a movie like the new Superman and not love Lex Luthor.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
When Trump supporters watch superhero movies, do they root for the bad guy? Legitimately curious how a Trump supporter could watch a movie like the new Superman and not love Lex Luthor.
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The Boys and Gen V are television shows that come to mind. Great shows.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
There's apparently a new Indiana Jones video game that right wingers got mad about because it made an anti-fascist comment, because Indiana Jones fights Nazis....
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That tracks
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
There's apparently a new Indiana Jones video game that right wingers got mad about because it made an anti-fascist comment, because Indiana Jones fights Nazis....
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They are the flakiest of little snowflakes.

I want a remake of the scene in full metal jacket where the colonel askes the joker about the peace button on his body armor and the "born to kill" on his helmet. Except with a Trumper who has a "**** Your Feelings" covering their whole back window on their truck and yet cries like a little bitch when any POV besides a straight white christian male is portrayed in any form of media.

 

As the Watergate scandal unfolded, new editions of the Washington Post newspaper were rushed over to the White House at night so Richard Nixon, the president, could brace for each devastating revelation.

Half a century later, Donald Trump does not seem to fear explosive front page headlines or shocking disclosures of malfeasance. Usually because he has written them himself.

The US president’s determination to break from his predecessors includes a willingness to shout from the rooftops of misconduct past presidents would have strained every sinew to conceal.

And the consequence, observers say, is that Trump’s brazen approach earns him perverse credit for authenticity and takes the sting out of scandals that used to be career-ending when uncovered by muckraking journalists.

“This is a dangerous notion that, just because a president chooses to be corrupt in public openly, it’s OK,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “People say, well, if it were really corrupt, it would be hidden. It’s a false assumption, but many people have it. It’s a new theory of scandal.”

Trump delivered one of his most blatant examples last weekend. In a social media post addressed directly to Pam Bondi, the attorney general, the president fumed over the lack of legal action against James Comey, the former FBI director Adam Schiff, the California senator, and Letitia James, the New York attorney general.

It was a glaringly obvious effort to order the justice department to take action against his political opponents. On Thursday the agency followed through by charging Comey with false statements and obstruction over congressional testimony about the investigation into contacts between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia.

Republicans, who five decades ago forced Nixon to resign over the Watergate burglary and ensuing cover-up, were mostly silent. There was no hint of impeaching Trump over what many saw as an impeachable offence.

Richard Painter, a former chief White House ethics lawyer, said: “It’s what prosecutors do in dictatorships. They want to run up this Comey thing that has no merit to it. That’s what they do in Russia. You piss off Putin and end up in some gulag somewhere. That’s not, I thought, how we want to run our country.”

If Trump’s shamelessness is one superpower, his ability to flood the zone is another. He has spent the past decade proving the thesis that while one crisis can topple a politician, a hundred crises are subject to the law of diminishing returns. “It’s Watergate, Every Day,” read a headline on the Bulwark website this week.

He has urged foreign governments to investigate political opponents. During a 2016 campaign rally, Trump said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” referring to rival Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails. In 2019 he publicly called on China to target Joe Biden, saying: “China should start an investigation into the Bidens.”

In a 2017 NBC News interview, Trump openly stated that he fired Comey because of “this Russia thing”, referring to an investigation into Russian election interference. This admission was cited in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report as potential evidence of obstruction of justice, yet Trump framed it as a decisive action rather than wrongdoing.


Trump expressed no contrition over the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 but rather persisted with his false claim of a stolen election, hailed the rioters as patriots and issued a blanket pardon of them on his first day back in office.

In May this year, the president said he will accept a $400m luxury plane from Qatar and use it as Air Force One, defending the arrangement as a “gesture of good faith” despite concerns that it could violate the US constitution’s emoluments clause. The Trump Organization, run by the president’s two oldest sons, struck a series of lucrative deals in the Middle East.

It becomes background noise ... What’s Trump done today? Then you shrug your shoulders and have your third cup of coffee.

Trump has faced a barrage of lawsuits, ethical complaints and demands for investigations. But Republicans control both chambers of Congress and have shown little appetite for imposing accountability. He has spent a decade purging critics from the party and reshaping it in his own image.

Wendy Schiller, a political science professor at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, said: “The institutional structures that should be countervailing, that should be pushing up against this and saying: ‘Oh, this is terrible, he’s breaking the law’, are completely absent. They’ve been co-opted or taken over by the Republican party or the conservative supreme court.

“There isn’t a counter voice to say to the American people this is not acceptable behaviour. I don’t think Trump gets credit for flooding the zone or that his strategy is particularly remarkable. It’s that he has neutered the Congress and bought off the supreme court. There isn’t anybody, literally, who can stop him.”

Trump’s boasting about conduct that others would hide also strikes a particular chord with his Make America great again (Maga) support base. In an October 2016 presidential debate, when Hillary Clinton accused him of avoiding taxes for years, Trump responded defiantly: “That makes me smart.”
 
Someday, Trump will join his ancestors. Can’t happen quick enough. But what Rick Wilson states is true, IMHO. Everything is going to spill when he passes.




And he WILL die and when that happens the beans will be spilled by those who were afraid to say anything. It’ll be WAY worse than anyone imagines. Watch.

Following the brief online speculation that President Donald Trump had suffered a medical emergency, or even died, conservative strategist and co-founder of the Lincoln Project Rick Wilson laid out what a post-Trump world may look like, and what revelations would follow, in a column published Wednesday.

“When Donald Trump dies, the myth will begin to decay almost instantly; his cult will keep the flame alive for a while, but the records will outlive the rally faithful,” Wilson wrote on his Substack “Against All Enemies."“History will not remember him as a king, or a savior. History will remember him as a small, ugly, sick man who happened to seize great power, who wielded it recklessly, and who left behind a trail of destruction, corruption and cowardice unmatched in American history.”Sticking with Trump’s health, Wilson predicted that following Trump’s passing, a trove of documents related to his physical and mental condition would be unearthed, documents that would reveal that his “cardiac and mental decline was charted in careful, hidden memos.”Wilson also anticipated that revelations around the president’s ties with Jeffrey Epstein – the convicted sex offender who died in 2019 awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges – would come to light, and made several startling predictions about who in Trump’s cabinet may be held to account for potentially covering up those ties.“Epstein’s web of power, blackmail, and sexual exploitation reached deep into America’s elite, and we’ll learn Trump was in the thick of it,” Wilson wrote.

“The [Justice Department’s] illegal Epstein coverup and corrupt pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell will unravel, and by the end, [Attorney General] Pam Bondi, [Deputy Attorney General] Todd Blanche, [FBI Director] Kash Patel, and [FBI Deputy Director] Dan Bongino will be in prison.”Details on Trump’s business dealings, many of which have enriched the president to the tune of billions of dollars, would also be laid to bare following his passing, Wilson noted, details that he argued history would not look well upon.

“The Trumpcoin scams, the garbage social media platform, the grifty deals with foreign powers, the bribes for pardons…all of it will be seen for what it is; a criminal enterprise, a mobster bustout of an entire nation,” Wilson wrote.“History will learn about the shell companies, the overseas accounts, the backroom deals where American policy was auctioned off like a Mar-a-Lago dinner table.”Ultimately, Wilson argued that through the wave of revelations following the president’s passing, a clear picture of Trump would be painted: that of someone whose “only interest was control.”
 
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