* The most likely possibility is that it was inspired by Fred Trump. The second most likely is that the screenwriter is a time traveling witch.
--In this 1958 episode from the western TV series TRACKDOWN, a con man named Trump comes to town and warns the citizens that the world will soon be destroyed and that ONLY HE can save them. By building a wall.
Geeze, I missed this when it was occurring. Tucker trying desperately to save masculinity from its teetering existence.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/tucker-carlson-consider-testicle-tanning-end-of-men
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The goldmine is in the comments section...
The above entry is usually what it looks like after I've drank 9 or 10 beers and thought it was a good time to post something, somewhere, on the internet. Then I passed out before I clicked on Submit. Saw the mess in the morning and logged off without posting anything at all.
So, thanks for this reminder.
The simple reality is that the future of American democracy is as much on the line in this case as it was in 1866. That was completely lost in yesterday’s arguments: it should have been central to them.
So, why did even the “liberal” wing of the Court go along with this charade? Was it because, like Mitt Romney said of his Republican Senate colleagues who failed to convict Trump in his second impeachment, they were afraid for their own safety?
As Romney’s biographer, Atlantic writer McKay Coppins, wrote:
“One Republican congressman confided to Romney that he wanted to vote for Trump’s second impeachment, but chose not to out of fear for his family’s safety. The congressman reasoned that Trump would be impeached by House Democrats with or without him — why put his wife and children at risk if it wouldn’t change the outcome?
“Later, during the Senate trial, Romney heard the same calculation while talking with a small group of Republican colleagues. When one senator, a member of leadership, said he was leaning toward voting to convict, the others urged him to reconsider. You can’t do that, Romney recalled someone saying. Think of your personal safety, said another. Think of your children. The senator eventually decided they were right.”
Were we watching the consequence of Trump’s thuggish threats? After all, just a few weeks ago Trump attorney Alina Habba said on Fox “News” of Bret Kavanaugh:
“You know, people like Kavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the President went through how to get into place, he’ll step up.”
Nice little house and kids you’ve got there, Brett; be a shame if something were to happen to them…
This is how fascists and authoritarians have seized and held power for all the millennia we’ve had what we call civilization: by inducing terror. Just ask Ruby Freeman or Paul Pelosi. Or read Shakespeare or the Bible. Or talk with Alexi Navalny’s wife.
Did they never learn in American History class that there was a time, spanning about a generation, when democracy had been replaced by strongman oligarchy in the South and Trump is merely echoing the values and postures of that time?
That the 14th Amendment was written to prevent or rescue us from exactly today’s situation?
Stevens, Howard, and Conkling went to their graves believing they’d secured America’s future. Tragically, Trump’s lawyers, Sam Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence “sugar baby” Thomas (among others) proved they were wrong.
Yesterday’s hearing was a disgrace. Now that the Supreme Court has apparently failed in their responsibility, it’s up to us to prevent this monster or anyone like him from ever again setting foot in the halls of American power.
Make sure everybody you know is registered to vote and understands what’s at stake this November.
Now we get to worry about the Supreme Court - stacked by Republicans telling Trump who to select and nominate with 3 new additions since 2017. Where are those three as well as Alito and Thomas' allegiances? To the law or to Trump/Republicans?
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-shameful-failure-of-yesterdays-11f
The Shameful Failure of Yesterday’s SCOTUS 14th Amendment Arguments
Recently stumbled upon this youtube channel. It's like a roadtrip to high school and university level biology and chemistry classes with a boat load of more advanced truths/facts I wasn't taught, decades ago.
Institute of Human Anatomy - good stuff.
(text below for those who aren't membered @ DailyBeast)
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has finally admitted she had a personal relationship with a special prosecutor in Donald Trump’s election interference case—but denies claims that the affair tainted the investigation.
In a Friday 176-page court filing, Willis’ office denied any financial conflict of interest that warrants her disqualification from the racketeering case. The filing also denies that she had any personal conflict of interest and calls the attacks on special prosecutor Nathan Wade “factually inaccurate, unsupported, and malicious.”
The motion also states that Wade and Willis did not have a personal relationship back in November 2021, when he was hired to oversee and investigate claims that Trump and his allies sought to interfere with the 2020 Georgia election. But, in Wade’s affidavit submitted in the filing, the special prosecutor admits that “attorney Willis and I developed a personal relationship in addition to our professional association and friendship.”
Wade said in his affidavit that he has never “cohabitated,” shared household expenses or shared a joint financial account with Willis. He added that he has previously paid for travel for himself and Willis from his “personal funds” and that the DA has also paid for their trips.
The special prosecutor then provided a receipt of his billable hours and confirmation emails of flights to Miami that he said Willis purchased.
“While the allegations raised in the various motions are salacious and garnered the media attention they were designed to obtain, none provide this Court with any basis upon which to order the relief they seek,” the filing states.
MAGA must quit their jobs immediately to add to the unemployment numbers and help make Biden's DISMAL economy crater even more so whatshisname can come to their rescue again.
Oh, and don't pass that Border Bill which 98% of the Republicans initially demanded - all because the former guy told them to oppose it now.
Did America try to assist Russia after the USSR collapse? (**my bad -- the Berlin wall fell in 1989, the USSR ceased to exist on December 25, 1991)
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1989-1992/collapse-soviet-union
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/85962.htm#
https://www.usaid.gov/fact-sheet/usaid-russia
(From 2012) https://carnegieendowment.org/2012/09/20/why-usaid-is-leaving-russia-pub-49444
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Are you arguing the history laid out in the article or simply the source?
Perhaps you could check out other points of view from sources which do not only seek to dunk on Clinton, Obama and Biden Democrats - and read up on the history of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and how come they never joined NATO. Were they ever invited to join NATO? Did Putin ever approach NATO about Russia joining them?
Did you know the Soviet Union once inquired about them joining NATO?
Here's another CATO article (from 2021) seeking to cast blame on Bill Clinton's 'aggressive foreign policy' - How did Bill Clinton mess up after the collapse of the USSR? (was my search criteria)
Or you could just ask Google:
How did America screw up, helping Russia after the USSR collapse in 1989 - you might have gotten back the same dozen pages I did. NATO's website guide here, was one I chose -- and I'm biased toward NATO and their purpose.
De-Bunking Russian Disinformation on NATO
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/115204.htm
Why wasn't Russia invited to join NATO after the 1989 collapse of the USSR? This yielded a goldmine to dive into.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2010/11/18/5-reasons-why-russia-will-never-join-nato-a3105
In March 1954, the Soviets then sent the Western allies a proposal for the USSR to join NATO. In a letter to Georgy Malenkov, then the USSR's head of state, and Communist Party General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Molotov laid out the benefits of joining the North Atlantic Pact.
He wrote the action "would make things difficult for the organizers of the North Atlantic bloc and would emphasize its supposedly defensive character, so that it would not be directed against the USSR."
Molotov wanted to join NATO because it would end the proposed anti-Soviet European Defense Community (a treaty that was never ratified) while undermining the planned rearmament of West Germany. It would also have forced the bulk of American military forces and bases to leave Europe.
Fortunately, NATO rejected the proposal because "the USSR's membership of the organization would be incompatible with its democratic and defensive aims." West Germany eventually rearmed and joined NATO in 1955, which led to the formation of the Warsaw Pact, the Soviets' own defensive alliance.
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Are you arguing the history laid out in the article or simply the source?
I don't bother to read the drivel spewed from Republicans, GQP or Libertarians. Didn't your parents teach you not to wallow in sewage ditches, in your youth? At this rate, next you'll be quoting Jesse Watters.
All the right people getting thrown under da bus in Georgia investigations.
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The history of Ukraine didn’t start with the Russian invasion. Admitting fault in one countries colonialism isn’t condoning another.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/us-nato-helped-trigger-ukraine-war-its-not-siding-putin-admit-it
You're pushing the Libertarian points of view and they're not that much different from GQP points of view, which are aligned with Putin's point of view. The CATO Institute is a good place to find articles blaming Democrats for all that's wrong in the world.
Thanks for that!
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I am extremely pessimistic about the future political landscape in the USA. Barring a felony conviction, it really looks like that lying corrupt turd, Donald Trump will be going into The White House.
I currently don't think Biden has a chance. His obvious signs of senility and severe aging are making him extremely vulnerable.
Trump is picking up steam and gaining new supporters.
I hope l am very wrong.
I have yet to see this senility of Biden which ALL of the GQP are claiming he's afflicted by, and now some moderate republican anti-trumpers are even claiming this to be 'factual'.
I do see Trump confusing people (as he's attempting to cut 'em down verbally), making claims of all of HIS fantastic achievements the last time he occupied the Oval - as well as just being a demented old farthammer and totally fucking up the English language when he mumbles, yells, and makes unrealistic demands.
I think Biden is going to mop the floor with Trump - AGAIN.
Remember which political party made it a priority to repeal Roe vs Wade and has outlawed abortion all across America - in November, when you cast your next general election vote.
The same motherfuckers want to steer America back to the 1940s, remove civil rights, remove human rights, kill social security/medicare/medicaid, outlaw divorce and basically make all you women and colored folks nice, safe and controllably docile again.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nearly-65-000-us-rape-120005672.html
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/resurrecting-countervailing-power
Resurrecting Countervailing Power (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 9)...
For the first three decades after the Second World War, America built the largest middle class the world had ever seen — and the most buoyant democracy.
The arrangement was far from perfect, but with the addition of civil rights and voting rights, subsidized health care (Medicare and Medicaid), and a huge expansion of public education, democracy was on the way to making capitalism work for the vast majority.
Then came a giant U-turn, largely courtesy of Ronald Reagan.
Deregulation, privatization, globalization, and the unleashing of finance created the Full Monty: abandoned factories and communities, stagnant wages, widening inequality, a shrinking middle class, political corruption, and shredded social support.
This is some scary shit -- We're poisoning ourselves with this civilization's prolific use of plastics.
The current explosion in colorectal cancer among young adults, for example, appears to be at least partly caused by our gut being flooded with microplastics in the food and beverages we consume…https://hartmannreport.com/p/microplastics-like-asbestos-can-kill-4b9
A new study just published in Environmental Health Perspectives found over 900 chemicals, most associated with plastics, currently found in the US food supply with the potential to cause breast cancer. They found 278 that directly caused breast tumors in animals, and 642 chemicals that disrupt or imitate sex hormones and can thus be assumed to factor into breast, uterine, and prostate cancer (among others).
None are currently subject to any significant regulation, and every effort to do so by Congress is thwarted by the GOP.
Back in 2021, Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats succeeded in passing a bill that would have subjected these often-toxic, cancer-causing chemicals to regulatory oversight. It died in the Senate in the face of a Republican filibuster.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jordan-petersons-astounding-ignorance-on-russia-and-ukraine
The self-help guru and right-wing culture warrior continues to get pretty much everything wrong about Putin’s war of aggression.
Republicans adore babies whose eyes are too close together. As long as other people are taking care of and raising them to young adulthood.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/does-the-epa-die-today-800
Republicans on the Supreme Court are, it appears, planning to gut most of America’s regulatory agencies, in what could be the most consequential re-write of the protective “deep state” since it was largely created during the New Deal in the 1930s.
The vehicle for this radical transformation of America is a case that will be argued today, in just a few hours, before the Court: Loper Bright Enterprises v Gina Raimondo.
If they pull it off, these six corrupt Republicans on the Court could destroy the ability of:
— the EPA to regulate pollutants,
— the USDA to keep our food supply safe,
— the FDA to oversee drugs going onto the market,
— OSHA to protect workers,
— the CPSC to keep dangerous toys and consumer products off the market,
— the FTC to regulate monopolies,
— the DOT to come up with highway and automobile safety standards,
— the ATF to regulate guns,
— the Interior Department to regulate drilling and mining on federal lands,
— the Forest Service to protect our woodlands and rivers,
— the FCC to protect us from internet predators,
— and the Department of Labor to protect workers’ rights.
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Right?
I appreciate Elon using his mind and money to create and improve the world.
While minding his damn business and not trying to force politics and ideology on us (right Jeff Bezos?)
Thank you Elon, good to know there are still great men turning up through the generations.
You're thoughts everybody?
Yeah...Musk is one of the great men of history. I can imagine him sitting around using those spare neurons floating around inside his noggin, just dreaming up new solutions like this one -- for problems we simpletons didn't even know - existed. Where would we as a civilization be, without role models like this guy.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/civil-rights-groups-horrified-elon-193230017.html
Earlier this week, multi-hyphenate billionaire endorsed a tweet suggesting Black students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have lower IQs and shouldn't become pilots.
"It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE," he tweeted, intentionally mixing up the letters of the acronym for "diversity, equity, and inclusion."
Civil rights groups were understandably horrified at the billionaire's racist comments.
"The only thing anyone needs to hear from Musk about diversity in the workplace is an apology," Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, told NBC News, calling his statements "abhorrent and pathetic."
I prefer to fuck women who are 100%/180 degrees opposite of my social feelings towards the rest of the world.
They have always been the kinkiest. But, that was back in the good old days when abortion was legal in all 50 states, and SHE might have aborted the fetus and never told me later - cuz I wasn't a good enough catch.
I get along a lot better with women who see the world as I do. I enjoy sex with women who don't necessarily give 2 shits about starvation in Slovenia or Alabama. The more self centered THEY are, the better fucks they are.
Just my 2 cents.
It starts and ends with this worthless lump of unformed 13 yr old child.
A list of insulting comments which Trumplet thought of (all by himself) to slur Washington DC, the media and everyone else he has a grudge against:
Peaceful but slightly disgruntled American tourists confronting unreasonable armed guards inside the Capitol Bldg, January 6, 2021. Never before shown video - proves that day was a nothinburger. These are some of the beautiful people whom Trump pledges his love to.
