Category: Trump

Trump’s Election Is Also a Win for Tech’s Right-Wing “Warrior Class”

Trump’s Election Is Also a Win for Tech’s Right-Wing “Warrior Class”

Former Federal Prosecutor: Gaetz Has ‘Zero Chance’ Of Being Confirmed As AG

Trump has since stated that he will make “recess appointments” to bypass required Senate confirmations for his nominations, potentially easing Gaetz’s path, while House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday that he will “strongly request” the House ethics report be buried.

Former Federal Prosecutor: Gaetz Has ‘Zero Chance’ Of Being Confirmed As AG

Trump Act II spells the end of the American empire

Trump Act II spells the end of the American empire

Netanyahu and Trump: The Fascist Tag Team From Hell

Netanyahu and Trump: The Fascist Tag Team From Hell

American Samson: Trump satisfies a white craving for destruction

American Samson: Trump satisfies a white craving for destruction

How Trump Is Already Trying to Rig the 2024 Election

Unsettling Precedent

Having learned from their mistakes in 2020, Trump and his MAGA allies have now corrupted the system from within. More than 100 “election deniers” who have refused to accept Trump’s 2020 defeat now serve as local election officials in the eight swing states that will decide the 2024 contest: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Some have already demonstrated their willingness to wreak post-election havoc.

How Trump Is Already Trying to Rig the 2024 Election

Donald Trump and the voters of America

I urge you, wise and discerning readers, with earnest sincerity, to not blame Trump for being a gigantic knobhead. He was probably born that way, the crazy bastard. Instead, blame the voters of America for putting this incomplete idiot repeatedly into any elected position of responsibility at all. Anywhere — municipal dog catcher, county sanitation inspector or deputy map-folder notwithstanding.

Donald Trump and the voters of America

Sunset for grandpa






In his first tilt at the presidency he had some control of his faculties and was driven by the grift and privilege and celebrity. For this round he has the self-awareness, bowel control and temperament of a toddler and a panicked desire to avoid bunking in with Bubba. Not so much alpha male as scared, insecure, whiney bitch. His verbal discharges are a drone of self-pity from an otherwise vainglorious blowhard, the sibilance of a deflating cognition lisping from a puckered sphincter pout. His gibbering idiocies are part-formed in what’s left of the mind of a life-long reflexive liar and braggart.

Sunset for grandpa

Trump says there will be no more debates after first Harris face-off

Reuters and the market research firm Ipsos found that 53 percent of voters who had at least some knowledge of the debate felt that Harris won. Just 24 percent said the same of Trump.

A CNN flash poll released shortly after the debate also showed a majority of viewers felt Harris outperformed Trump, and a YouGov poll showed 54 percent of those surveyed said Harris won compared with 31 percent for Trump.

Fifty-four percent felt one debate was enough. Meanwhile, 46 percent said they wanted a second debate.

Trump says there will be no more debates after first Harris face-off




Donald Explodes, Calls On ABC News To Fire Entire Staff

Lumpy isn’t taking his debate loss very well, you guys.

The fake news-propagating former President is wrong. Shocking, I know. Even a Republican-sponsored poll shows that Harris curb-stomped Trump during the debate by a wide margin.

Donald Explodes, Calls On ABC News To Fire Entire Staff

Kamala sliced Trump like sashimi, when he wasn’t doing it himself

Kamala sliced Trump like sashimi, when he wasn’t doing it himself

‘Trump Had A Bad Night’: Conservative Pundits Declare Kamala Harris Winner Of Debate

‘Trump Had A Bad Night’: Conservative Pundits Declare Kamala Harris Winner Of Debate

Trump tells Jewish donors they would be ‘abandoned’ if Harris is elected


Trump tells Jewish donors they would be ‘abandoned’ if Harris is elected

A Garden of Stone

The public, in particular the Democrats, need to demand the Army release the report that was filed after the incident. The American government has spent too much time lying to its soldiers, Marines, Navy seamen, airmen, and everyone called to the colors. There were no WMD in Iraq, but there was oil, and securing access to it is a hell of a thing to ask a man or woman to die for, but some did, and their caskets were wrapped in flags and shrouded with the greater lie that they were defending our freedoms. Their honorable service to dishonest politicians is a moral contradiction creating a rot at the core of our democracy. We do not honor their memories by allowing a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, serial philanderer, insurrectionist, and pathological liar to even trod the ground where they rest, nor can we tell lies to the families of the fallen.

Or they will have died in vain.

A Garden of Stone

Pro-Trump official in “key” Georgia GOP position complained about Jewish people “controlling everything

Pro-Trump official in “key” Georgia GOP position complained about Jewish people “controlling everything

America’s gathering storm: Trump’s new American fascism

America's gathering storm: Trump's new American fascism

Donald Trump leads the most overtly fascist political movement the world has seen since 1945 and a second term as president would sound the death knell for American democracy.

America’s gathering storm: Trump’s new American fascism

DONALD TRUMP |

George Grundy

Fresh Warnings of Election Deepfakes After Trump’s Taylor Swift Stunt

On Sunday, Trump used his Truth Social account to share the AI-generated images, known as “deepfakes,” one of which showed Swift dressed up as Uncle Sam with the caption, “Taylor Wants You to Vote for Donald Trump.” Others showed people wearing shirts that read, “Swifties for Trump.”

Trump wrote, “I accept,” in his post sharing the images, suggesting he was accepting a formal endorsement.

Fresh Warnings of Election Deepfakes After Trump’s Taylor Swift Stunt

DELUSIONAL Trump FREAKING THE F OUT As Campaign Epically Collapses

His prescription? “Do weird and cringe until the debate and then nail him,”

His prescription? “Do weird and cringe until the debate and then nail him,”

A Friendly Amendment: Trump, Vance and MAGA are not so much Weird as downright Creepy

Oakland, CA. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The branding of MAGA creeps as “weird” is horribly unfair to all the decent weird people in […]

Donald Trump

A Friendly Amendment: Trump, Vance and MAGA are not so much Weird as downright Creepy

H. Scott Prosterman

America’s gathering storm: The consequences of a Trump dictatorship

America's gathering storm: The consequences of a Trump dictatorship

A second Trump Administration would have dire consequences politically, socially and economically, bringing about the downfall of the USA.

America’s gathering storm: The consequences of a Trump dictatorship

DONALD TRUMP |

George Grundy

Tech Billionaires Love Trump Now — Because He’s One of Them

Silicon Valley’s right-wing history goes back over 100 years; Donald Trump is a perfect avatar for their power play.

Donald Trump has taken to tech like a fish to water because it’s an industry led by right-wing warmongers and con men. And now he isn’t just like them; he is them. As much as Thiel or Musk or Altman or anyone else, Trump is the Valley’s avatar — whether or not he’s ever actually used a computer.

Tech Billionaires Love Trump Now — Because He’s One of Them

Trump and Vance’s theocratic republic of America

A Trump-Vance administration would likely enthusiastically embrace the Project 2025 agenda. No surer path exists for the fracturing of American society.

Trump and Vance’s theocratic republic of America

Bitcoin Bros and the MAGA Faithful Converge in Nashville — and Embrace an Alternate Reality

“He’s like, ‘Go play with your bitcoins,’ like they’re little toys or something,” one man said indignantly. When I asked him and his companions whether they would vote for Trump, they looked at me like I was stupid. Of course they would.

Embrace an Alternate Reality

Blueprints for Authoritarianism: Mein Kampf and Project 25


Who Does AIPAC support but Project 25

“Christians, get out and vote.  Just this time.  You won’t have to do it anymore, you know what?  Four more years, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”

Donald Trump, July 27, 2024, Speech to a gathering of religious conservatives sponsored by the conservative advocacy group Turning Point Action.

Blueprints for Authoritarianism: Mein Kampf and Project 25
I am not arguing that “Project 2025” is directly comparable to Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto “Mein Kampf,” but there are some similarities in their political ideology and their political plans for the United States and Germany, respectively.  Both documents are “blueprints for authoritarianism.” As the saying goes, often you need to be forewarned in order to be forearmed.

Trying to Skip a Debate with Harris

Trump campaign now says it would be “inappropriate” to go ahead with the debate it already agreed to

Former President Donald Trump is trying to back out of the only scheduled debate between him and Vice President Kamala Harris, 78-year-old’s campaign claiming it would be “inappropriate” for him to follow through on his prior commitment because Democrats have not yet formally nominated a candidate,

Trying to Skip a Debate with Harris

‘It’ll Be Fixed!’: Trump Tells Supporters No Need to Vote in the Future

“Get out–you gotta get out and vote,” he added. “In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”

Many Christians seem to love Trump back. A Pew poll from April showed that more than 80% of white evangelicals support the Republican nominee.

It’ll Be Fixed!’: Trump Tells Supporters No Need to Vote in the Future

Martyrdom transforms Trump

A land in which billionaires will pay much reduced tax, but too impoverished to afford decent schools, universal health care or provision for the aged and infirm. A land where bureaucrats have less power, and police have more. A land which refuses to control its guns. And a land in which about half the population must receive heavy financial support because their education, industriousness and employment cannot feed families, sustain good health, and provide clean water. An atomising country where politics no longer turns on a sense of community or the concept of the common good, but the demonisation of immigrants and entrenching the poverty of the poor. What a triumph of American politics, and JD Vance, that those who suffer most from such theories are among those most enthusiastic for it.

Martyrdom transforms Trump

Deconstructed Trump

Emily Jashinsky of “Counter Points” discusses Republican National Convention takeaways with Ryan Grim.

Deconstructed Trump, Vance, and the New Right at the RNC 

Republican Convention

“We’ve been standing here in our diapers, shitting our pants, throwing tantrums, whining about petty little gripes that have hurt our feelings. We just want to make Trump feel at home”

Supporters Arrive at Republican Convention Wearing Diapers, Out of Respect for Donald Trump

Secret Service agents smile?

Did the Secret Service agents smile? Did Trump go golfing? What’s the scam?

Did the Secret Service agents smile? Did Trump go golfing? What’s the scam?

The bystander

The bystander shot at the Trump rally was Corey Comperatore. From what we know:

“Corey Comperatore, 50, was a family man who loved to fish. He worked at a plastics manufacturing company, volunteered as a firefighter and went to church.”

It is very sad that this man was killed while following a lying, cheating megalomaniac and felon, who screws money and support out of people to further his filthy rich lifestyle, but how on earth does any country draw back those gullible lost souls to reality?

1. Trump as a family man!? He told Ivana, when Don Jr was born that he didn’t want the baby named after him because “what if he turns out a loser?”

2. He lusts after his first daughter and seems to forget the second daughter. He sought time out of his court case to attend Barron’s graduation. And then didn’t.

3. Can anyone seriously envision Trump even eating fish, let alone catching one.

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4. Manual labour is for losers in the Trump playbook as his treatment of the workers of Atlanta would attest.

5. Volunteer work means no income and as for running towards danger to help others!?

And we all know that Trump believes church to be a place that you stand still in front of and hold up a book for a press photo op.

Provided that place has been gutted by fire and you have never read the book you hold.

The Right Way to Politicize This

Yes, after the Donald Trump shooting, now is a good time to talk about the need for better gun laws.

The Right Way to Politicize This

Will This Make Trump More Popular?

Assassination attempts targeting populist leaders have had a track record of boosting their popularity.


Will This Make Trump More Popular?

Trump’s Camp Says It Has Nothing to Do With Project 2025 Manifesto — Aside From Writing It

Former President Donald Trump at the first Presidential Debate at CNN Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on June 27, 2024. (Photo by Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Project 2025 is spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation in partnership with dozens of rightwing advocacy organizations. It has two main components: First, a 900-page manifesto with a wish list for the first 180 days of the “next conservative administration,” including to further restrict abortion access and “dismantle the administrative state.” The second component is an application-only recruitment effort to ensure the administration is quickly staffed with loyalists.  

Trump’s Camp Says It Has Nothing to Do With Project 2025 Manifesto — Aside From Writing It

Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency

Hitler did it Trump’s doing it

FIRE SALE

The cynical billionaires who support Trump — whether feverishly with piles of ill-gotten wealth or passively by not using their wealth and influence to try to stop the fascist train — are the enemy within. These MAGA bankrollers believe that great individual wealth is a sign of the holder’s innate superiority, not the lucky fallout of nepotism, whiteness, a privileged childhood, and access to education. They are the 21st Century American version of the German industrialists, bankers, and rich families who bankrolled Hitler and the Nazis in the 1930s, similarly fanatical about expanding their already-vast wealth and willing to ignore the consequences of the creeping fascism that they are enabling.

Source: Wooing MAGA Billionaires, Fascist Felon Trump holds a Fire Sale on his Potential Presidency

The Old Man with a Spray Tan – » The Australian Independent Media Network

We may learn more on June 27 when the two meet at a debate in Atlanta to be aired on CNN. Trump is likely to sound like the drunk pushing an empty grocery cart through your neighborhood and there is a chance President Biden could have a Mitch McConnell moment, and freeze, uncertain of where he is and what he was just saying. Trump can be expected to slur words, insult minorities, and, as he already did, even denigrate the city where his party plans to nominate him as its candidate for president. There will be no hiding for either man. Microphones will be muted when it is not their turn to talk and there will be no audience to applaud or defy moderators who order them to be quiet at all times. This will be two men, too old, in many ways, to be president of the United States. President Biden has been a good president and is a good man, but the electorate clearly has doubts about whether he is up to the job for another term. Trump, of course, is an angry, divisive, convicted felon, and nothing more. What are we left with if both of these men falter on the debate stage and prove neither is right for the job?

Go ahead, pray for America. Or wish. Or hope. Or yearn. Just do something that helps.

 

Source: The Old Man with a Spray Tan – » The Australian Independent Media Network

To Understand Trump Verdict, Look at Shukhratjon Mirsaidov’s Fraud Case

Former President Donald Trump attends UFC 302 at Prudential Center on June 01, 2024 in Newark, New Jersey.

So for now, the New York case, which the pundit class initially dismissed as the weakest of the four cases against Trump, is the only one to hold him accountable for what he is: a white-collar criminal, not so different from Shukhratjon Mirsaidov.

Source: To Understand Trump Verdict, Look at Shukhratjon Mirsaidov’s Fraud Case

An Innocent Man? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trump is already polishing up the fascist tools he plans to take into the White House. In a direct mail piece many people have posted on Reddit, his primary campaign appeared to be using threats and intimidation. The language on the piece below reminds the recipient their “voting record is public, your neighbors are watching, and will know if you miss this critical runoff election.” I am unamused by the line that says, “We will notify President Trump if you don’t vote. You can’t afford to have that on your record.” Even better, the GOP Gestapo ends with the message, “We will contact you after the election to make sure you voted.” Too many voters will fall for this kind of crap and be frightened into voting for Trump and his sheeple.

Source: An Innocent Man? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Plan B – » The Australian Independent Media Network

I doubt any of the party leadership is briefing the president on these possibilities, but it feels to many people like we are sleepwalking into the demise of our republic with no sign that Trump’s support is dramatically eroding. Mr. Biden might still win, and much is likely to change prior to that day in November, but the unknowns are frightening. Americans know more than enough about Trump to not cast their ballots for him or anyone in his party. No one can be oblivious to what he will do to our system of government if he is restored to power. There should be no uninformed voters left in America.

Source: Plan B – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Donald Trump’s Record – CounterPunch.org

One wonders now what will happen to Trump’s political ambitions if he is found guilty of one or more of the several trials against him. The whole world is expectant.

Source: Donald Trump’s Record – CounterPunch.org

A Ghost in the Machine – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The infection, nonetheless, continues to spread through the American body politic. Down in Arizona, a former TV news reader who is running for the U.S. Senate, told a rally crowd the “next six months will be intense” and we need to “strap on a Glock,” an automatic weapon that can kill with great proficiency. A stylish celebrity, she sounds like the former president but with different hormones and an even more refined disregard for facts. Her politics were formulated by searching for the shortest line to public office and the radical right was dramatically lacking in gender diversity. The language spreading across the right has not stopped suggesting that violence will be essential to win elections and take offices. The Arizona TV lady clearly does not care what happens as long as she gets attention and glory and money and public office. None of her thinking is original and comes from the Adderall addled mind of a future Riker’s Island inmate. Global geopolitics, meanwhile, are on a knife edge and Americans are fixated on a low-intellect ex-president on trial for money and sexual promiscuity.

Our future may be as uncertain as his.

Source: A Ghost in the Machine – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Trump fears Alzheimer’s – WaPo — RT World News

Trump fears Alzheimer’s – WaPo

The outlet claimed to have spoken to a former senior executive at the Trump Organization, who said they had seen Donald Trump interact with his father Fred Trump Sr. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source claimed that “Donald is no doubt fearful of Alzheimer’s.”

Source: Trump fears Alzheimer’s – WaPo — RT World News

Trump & Orbán: The deceptive allure of strong men in power

THE BATTLE between democratic freedoms and despotic oppression worldwide will be intense this year. As we saw here last month, more people will vote for national governments in 2024 than in any year ever.

Source: Trump & Orbán: The deceptive allure of strong men in power

On Campaign Trail In Ohio, Trump Warns Of ‘Bloodbath’ If He Loses In November | HuffPost Latest News

Donald Trump at a rally in Ohio

“If I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath … It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country,” he warned while talking about the impact of offshoring on the country’s auto industry and his plans to increase tariffs on foreign-made cars.

Source: On Campaign Trail In Ohio, Trump Warns Of ‘Bloodbath’ If He Loses In November | HuffPost Latest News

Seriously, Again, How Dumb Is Trump? | The Smirking Chimp

Only with the media assistance of the money-making media camp followers who regard him as a product to be used essential to their bottom line. This alters Robert Reich’s statement a little that Trump is so talented

To put it another way, Trump is an extraordinarily talented conman.

Source: Seriously, Again, How Dumb Is Trump? | The Smirking Chimp

‘Modern Day Hitler’: Experts Sound Alarm Over Trump Heaping Praise on Autocrat Orbán | The Smirking Chimp

“Hungarians of my generation fled for the US and Canada to get the hell away from authoritarianism,” Adler said. “Now this decaying Mar-A-Lago conman is huckstering Hungarian authoritarianism. It’s as if [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is producing this s—show.”

Source: ‘Modern Day Hitler’: Experts Sound Alarm Over Trump Heaping Praise on Autocrat Orbán | The Smirking Chimp

Seth Meyers Brings You ‘Trump In 90 Seconds’ | Crooks and Liars

Seth Meyers Brings You 'Trump In 90 Seconds'

Comedian Seth Meyers used his late night show’s “A Closer Look” segment to give a succinct (and funny) reminder of exactly who the Republican candidate for president of the United States is.

Source: Seth Meyers Brings You ‘Trump In 90 Seconds’ | Crooks and Liars

The Supreme Court Went Out of Its Way to Protect Trump – Mother Jones

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Donald Trump to appear on every state’s ballot, despite a constitutional provision barring from office insurrectionists who had previously sworn to support the Constitution. All nine justices agreed that states have no power to bar presidential candidates under Section 3 of the 14th amendment. But five of the six Republican-appointed justices went much further. This narrow majority ruled that only Congress can create the procedure for disqualifying insurrectionists from federal office—and they reserved considerable power for the Supreme Court to make the final decision.

Source: The Supreme Court Went Out of Its Way to Protect Trump – Mother Jones

Ex-Prosecutor: Trump Enjoys Different System of Justice Because He’s Wealthy and White | The Smirking Chimp

Why isn’t Trump in Jail? Anyone else would be by now and ready to be paroled

Despite having been indicted four times in three separate jurisdictions, prosecutors are still having immense difficulty in actually holding former President Donald Trump accountable for his alleged crimes. One former federal prosecutor said that’s no accident based on his firsthand knowledge with the justice system.

Source: Ex-Prosecutor: Trump Enjoys Different System of Justice Because He’s Wealthy and White | The Smirking Chimp