---President Elect Musk and Convicted Criminal VP Elect Donald J Trump---

RunIntoTheRain

mickeyrat said:

https://www.threads.net/@jeffjacksonnc/post/DA08jEqpaQ8?xmt=AQGzMRTeja9KwQgwKGhv3r08CcYi5Upy8iTsULLixT72Vw

Thank you for that post

josevolution

2025

Some more stats 
https://www.threads.net/@bettygrekas/post/DA1KYsWRNDA?xmt=AQGzYAyj-eMG14ymovl7bKuLUlMpczsbyobB9JUurS_-Xw

Gern Blansten

2023

josevolution said:

Some more stats 
https://www.threads.net/@bettygrekas/post/DA1KYsWRNDA?xmt=AQGzYAyj-eMG14ymovl7bKuLUlMpczsbyobB9JUurS_-Xw

yeah he took money for staying at his own place AFTER saying he wouldn't...then AFTER saying it was a minimal charge, etc., when receipts started popping up.

I can't imagine the response from the right if Obama owned a golf course and went there every weekend

Halifax2TheMax

2023

Gern Blansten said:

josevolution said:

Some more stats 
https://www.threads.net/@bettygrekas/post/DA1KYsWRNDA?xmt=AQGzYAyj-eMG14ymovl7bKuLUlMpczsbyobB9JUurS_-Xw

yeah he took money for staying at his own place AFTER saying he wouldn't...then AFTER saying it was a minimal charge, etc., when receipts started popping up.

I can't imagine the response from the right if Obama owned a golf course and went there every weekend

You saw the reaction to Obama wearing a tan suit, yes?

Gern Blansten

2023

Halifax2TheMax said:

Gern Blansten said:

josevolution said:

Some more stats 
https://www.threads.net/@bettygrekas/post/DA1KYsWRNDA?xmt=AQGzYAyj-eMG14ymovl7bKuLUlMpczsbyobB9JUurS_-Xw

yeah he took money for staying at his own place AFTER saying he wouldn't...then AFTER saying it was a minimal charge, etc., when receipts started popping up.

I can't imagine the response from the right if Obama owned a golf course and went there every weekend

You saw the reaction to Obama wearing a tan suit, yes?

I kept wondering when the Dems or media would jump on that shit and they never did...likely because they figure his supporters are just simply too ignorant to understand the grift.

Halifax2TheMax

2023

Gern Blansten said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

Gern Blansten said:

josevolution said:

Some more stats 
https://www.threads.net/@bettygrekas/post/DA1KYsWRNDA?xmt=AQGzYAyj-eMG14ymovl7bKuLUlMpczsbyobB9JUurS_-Xw

yeah he took money for staying at his own place AFTER saying he wouldn't...then AFTER saying it was a minimal charge, etc., when receipts started popping up.

I can't imagine the response from the right if Obama owned a golf course and went there every weekend

You saw the reaction to Obama wearing a tan suit, yes?

I kept wondering when the Dems or media would jump on that shit and they never did...likely because they figure his supporters are just simply too ignorant to understand the grift.

They’ve successfully created and live in their own reality. The stupidity isn’t going to go away after POOTWH is gone. It’s going to get worse. 

tbergs

RunIntoTheRain said:

mickeyrat said:

https://www.threads.net/@jeffjacksonnc/post/DA08jEqpaQ8?xmt=AQGzMRTeja9KwQgwKGhv3r08CcYi5Upy8iTsULLixT72Vw

Thank you for that post

Yeah, that was great. He has a strong future as a leader in politics if he wants it.

Halifax2TheMax

2023

And we were told that it couldn’t happen here.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DA1OcOOslD_/?igsh=dmU2ZWtnc25wN3Zk

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@setiodkaiba/post/DA1aIBLJy5m?xmt=AQGz4aTug-KdGJkNxHxWDQwUWH0K6PrSoKKRmVNyPrH-TQ

mickeyrat

but people are saying....

https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/DA126XpKswZ?xmt=AQGzRdJSUwyOSLfeMuZXwb8KDiDDmhor-KWHriPT-gTH3Q

Gern Blansten

2023

Lewandowski is out... Hilarious 

gimmesometruth27

2023

Gern Blansten said:

Lewandowski is out... Hilarious 

for real? what did he do?

njhaley1

gimmesometruth27 said:

Gern Blansten said:

Lewandowski is out... Hilarious 

for real? what did he do?

Got caught telling the truth. Shame, really. 

Halifax2TheMax

2023

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@weissmann11/post/DA2CUMFvoG-?xmt=AQGzzLz41ZOP2Ze729Ay5OOt1oUNfVGxTQ_9ihEC2NT-ng

josevolution

2025

https://www.threads.net/@bettygrekas/post/DA3KYXqROuO?xmt=AQGz7pPZbh2XmJtUBKF9y0NrJzSxHIBnsqYifg25PMU28A

Hey tesknic where do you fall on this graft? 

josevolution

2025

Hey here is the plan finally this nation will get healthcare for all Americans! I knew he could do it in only 10 years 
https://www.threads.net/@j.a.katy/post/DA2eNzexw24?xmt=AQGz_ecH9k52ebipPwXxA_4OIMa-ZRqTI-3vW_MDmTbNUQ

Gern Blansten

2023

LOL...what do you trumpsters think about trump not sitting for interviews now? Harris is all over the place and trump is running scared.

Fucking hilarious. The hypocrisy of you people is astounding. 

Merkin Baller

Gern Blansten said:

LOL...what do you trumpsters think about trump not sitting for interviews now? Harris is all over the place and trump is running scared.

Fucking hilarious. The hypocrisy of you people is astounding. 

They've pivoted to shitting on the outlets with whom Kamala is speaking. 

There never won't be a shifting of the goalposts... the bar is constantly moving and being set (and reset) impossibly high for democrats so much so that they'll never clear it and yet there's no bar for republicans... it simply doesn't exist. 

Example: 
Trump's family is barred from running charities in NY due past scams, yet the covid relief fraud that happened in MN is somehow supposed to be problematic and disqualifying for Walz, despite him having no involvement... it's fucking bizarro world. 

Gern Blansten

2023

Merkin Baller said:

Gern Blansten said:

LOL...what do you trumpsters think about trump not sitting for interviews now? Harris is all over the place and trump is running scared.

Fucking hilarious. The hypocrisy of you people is astounding. 

They've pivoted to shitting on the outlets with whom Kamala is speaking. 

There never won't be a shifting of the goalposts... the bar is constantly moving and being set (and reset) impossibly high for democrats so much so that they'll never clear it and yet there's no bar for republicans... it simply doesn't exist. 

Example: 
Trump's family is barred from running charities in NY due past scams, yet the covid relief fraud that happened in MN is somehow supposed to be problematic and disqualifying for Walz, despite him having no involvement... it's fucking bizarro world. 

It really is...and how is that fucker the nominee. Still makes no sense.

Hobbes

Merkin Baller said:

Gern Blansten said:

LOL...what do you trumpsters think about trump not sitting for interviews now? Harris is all over the place and trump is running scared.

Fucking hilarious. The hypocrisy of you people is astounding. 

They've pivoted to shitting on the outlets with whom Kamala is speaking. 

There never won't be a shifting of the goalposts... the bar is constantly moving and being set (and reset) impossibly high for democrats so much so that they'll never clear it and yet there's no bar for republicans... it simply doesn't exist. 

Example: 
Trump's family is barred from running charities in NY due past scams, yet the covid relief fraud that happened in MN is somehow supposed to be problematic and disqualifying for Walz, despite him having no involvement... it's fucking bizarro world. 

They move the goalposts more than Vanderbilt football fans.

Merkin Baller

Hobbes said:

Merkin Baller said:

Gern Blansten said:

LOL...what do you trumpsters think about trump not sitting for interviews now? Harris is all over the place and trump is running scared.

Fucking hilarious. The hypocrisy of you people is astounding. 

They've pivoted to shitting on the outlets with whom Kamala is speaking. 

There never won't be a shifting of the goalposts... the bar is constantly moving and being set (and reset) impossibly high for democrats so much so that they'll never clear it and yet there's no bar for republicans... it simply doesn't exist. 

Example: 
Trump's family is barred from running charities in NY due past scams, yet the covid relief fraud that happened in MN is somehow supposed to be problematic and disqualifying for Walz, despite him having no involvement... it's fucking bizarro world. 

They move the goalposts more than Vanderbilt football fans.

'Memba when old age and dementia were problematic  for a presidential nominee? 

I 'memba. 

Gern Blansten

2023

Well that's interesting...gift article

https://wapo.st/4gVDLqy

As the coronavirus tore through the world in 2020, and the United States and other countries confronted a shortage of tests designed to detect the illness, then-President Donald Trump secretly sent coveted tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his personal use.
Putin, petrified of the virus, accepted the supplies but took pains to prevent political fallout — not for him, but for his American counterpart. He cautioned Trump not to reveal that he had dispatched the scarce medical equipment to Moscow, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward.
Putin, according to the book, told Trump, “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me.”
Four years later, the personal relationship between the two men appears to have persisted, Woodward reports, as Trump campaigns to return to the White House and Putin orchestrates his bloody assault on Ukraine.

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Gern Blansten

2023

So why isn't the war over? Seems like a good subject when on a phone call...or seven

mickeyrat

bulwark newsletter today....

Did We Underestimate the Threat?
by William Kristol

Yesterday, in this newsletter, I discussed the significance of the fact that many of the new oligarchs have eagerly joined forces with populist demagogues in our rising authoritarian movement. Also yesterday, in a brilliant piece at The Bulwark, Hannah Yoest discussed the significance of Trumpists’ unabashed and unapologetic use of fake imagery, in the tradition of authoritarian and indeed fascist movements of the 20th century.

Yes, fascist movements. We in the anti-Trump camp have spoken a lot about the new authoritarianism. The question I want to raise today is whether authoritarianism captures the phenomenon we’re seeing. Or do we need to invoke the word fascism—or at least neo-fascism, or American-style fascism, or some other modification of that fraught and weighty tem?

Many of us have already noted similarities between Trumpism and aspects of fascism. In discussing Trumpism, we’ve found it useful to consider works by thinkers like Julien Benda (The Treason of the Intellectuals, 1927), Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951), and Umberto Eco (Ur-Fascism, 1995).

Such citations imply that there are real similarities—a real kinship—between what we’re seeing here and what earlier generations saw in 20th century Europe (and to some degree in the 20th century United States). But most of us haven’t quite said that what we’re seeing today really is a version of fascism. We see the cult of the leader and the strong man, the embrace of cruelty and bigotry, the demagoguery and the conspiracism, the weaponization of nostalgia for an imagined and exclusionary past, the eager embrace of lies and propaganda. But we’ve mostly stopped short of calling this fascism.

One who didn’t stop short was Robert Kagan, who wrote a piece, “This is how fascism comes to America,” way back in May 2016.

Kagan remarked then that Donald Trump, who had yet to win the nomination, had already “transcended the party that produced him.” And Kagan described what Trump stood for:

What he offers is an attitude, an aura of crude strength and machismo, a boasting disrespect for the niceties of the democratic culture that he claims, and his followers believe, has produced national weakness and incompetence. His incoherent and contradictory utterances have one thing in common: They provoke and play on feelings of resentment and disdain, intermingled with bits of fear, hatred and anger.

Kagan further explained that what Trump had tapped into “is what the founders most feared when they established the democratic republic: the popular passions unleashed, the ‘mobocracy.’” What we were seeing, Kagan said, was “the people in a democracy, excited, angry and unconstrained,” who “might run roughshod over even the institutions created to preserve their freedoms.”

And Kagan did not flinch from his conclusion: “This phenomenon has arisen in other democratic and quasi-democratic countries over the past century, and it has generally been called ‘fascism.’”

Kagan’s column—the whole thing—is worth re-reading in the context of what we have seen over the subsequent eight years, and with the more immediate knowledge of what we’ve experienced the past eight weeks.

What we need to consider now, I think, is whether some of us were mistaken to be less bold, less candid, than Kagan. We wanted to be polite to our fellow citizens, half of whom were willing to support Trump. Many of them are going along with things they shouldn’t have gone along with, in our judgment. But they surely weren’t fascists. They were our neighbors. They were decent people. They were merely misled.

But of course the phenomenon of decent people being misled also existed in 20th century Europe. And one has to add that as these movements swell, decent people can start to justify indecent things, sometimes even to revel in some of them.

To be clear: I’m not suggesting that we all now need to scream the word fascism from the rooftops. I’m not suggesting that politicians fighting Trumpism use terms like fascism or neo-fascism or fascism-American-style. They need to win voters over, not antagonize them. So Kamala Harris needs to make her case on abortion rights, and Ukraine, and economic growth, and the peaceful transfer of power. She does not need to dive into deep and treacherous waters of political philosophy.

But there is also a case for some of us not directly involved in electoral politics to strive for intellectual clarity. There is a case for coming to grips with what has happened, and what is happening. There is a case for overcoming some of our inhibitions against being impolite, and for seeing things as they are and calling them what they are.

It’s striking that following the assassination attempts against Trump, his campaign condemns those who dare use the word fascism, even suggesting that doing so is a (deliberate?) contribution to attempts to kill him. But one can oppose violence directed against politicians and their supporters while still speaking clearly of the character of the threat Trump poses, and while seeking to understand the threat for what it is.

Our promise to you: We’ll always tell you what we really think, whether it’s good news or bad news. We never pull punches.

gimmesometruth27

2023

Gern Blansten said:

So why isn't the war over? Seems like a good subject when on a phone call...or seven

because that book is all fake news.

gimmesometruth27

2023

Halifax2TheMax said:

who the fuck smiles with a photo of a victim of kidnapping?

did he offer to autograph it as well?

njhaley1

gimmesometruth27 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

who the fuck smiles with a photo of a victim of kidnapping?

did he offer to autograph it as well?

For the low low price of $500.

gimmesometruth27

2023

njhaley1 said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

who the fuck smiles with a photo of a victim of kidnapping?

did he offer to autograph it as well?

For the low low price of $500.

sounds about right

mickeyrat

gimmesometruth27 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

who the fuck smiles with a photo of a victim of kidnapping?

did he offer to autograph it as well?

a prayer book....