Fortunately, Trump's world is no longer expanding. His dementia is becoming more obvious to everyone. He needs to have people like Musk, Hogsbreath and Gaetz around him that are all-in on revenge and retribution. This is why he is so insistent on getting them confirmed. For the first time in his life he realizes that he needs other people to do his bidding.
Musk scares me the most right now -- I thought he and Trump would have a falling out of the egos -- but Trump must in some way be threatened that Musk could turn his fortune against him - in just the way he helped buy the Presidency for him. How one person can inject that much money into our political system is a disgrace.
We have to "thank" SCOTUS for this. Citizens United cannot be the law of the land because this is what happens. Musk should be deported. SCOTUS should take another look at this law, and take a look inside themselves, including for giving Trump unfettered power.
Gorsuch is a living, breathing clone of his bitch of a mama. Clarence is just a wannabe white boy, Kavanaugh a spoiled brat, and Alito was spawned by the devilтАж. No excuse for Roberts, and I guess the lady viper is the token to placate the lesser sex
Some cut their legal teeth on the stolen election of 2000. Devoted Machiavellian shysters from the crib, me thinksтАж
"that much money" well thank the right-wing cabal on the Supreme Court. You might almost think Congress could pass restrictive legislation, eg such as Bernie suggests, a publicly funded but limited process. NO SUCH LUCK. excuse the caps.
Here is a phrase I have read and heard again and again in a broad array of MSM news stories (this one happens to be The Guardian, but I have seen it in my local paper and national news.
The subjects vary, to popular initiatives widely wanted by the public to shadowy threats to public health, such as commercial abuses of antibiotics and unregulated release of dangerous and persistent chemicals. The all end up being trumped or buried by richly funded lobbies. If money can regularly thwart the public's will and the public's interests, does that merit any other label than "corruption"? But relatively few say so, at least of those who can be heard.
And yeah, Anne Gorsuch, Reagan's director of the EPA. and classic modern "Republican":
" She believed that the EPA was over-regulating business and that the agency was too large and not cost-effective. During her 22 months as agency head, she cut the budget of the EPA by 22%, reduced the number of cases filed against polluters, relaxed Clean Air Act regulations, and facilitated the spraying of restricted-use pesticides. She cut the total number of agency employees, and hired staff from the industries they were supposed to be regulating.[3] "
"Richard Hauser, the White House deputy counsel, confirmed one or more Reagan Administration officials had in fact reported to the White House that they had heard Gorsuch say at an August 4, 1982, luncheon that she was holding back more than $6 million in Federal funds to clean up the Stringfellow Acid Pits toxic waste site near Los Angeles to avoid helping the Senate campaign of former Gov. Jerry Brown of California, a Democrat.[13]" -Wikipedia
Dirty pool indeed, but hardly restricted to plastics, to which abt 1/3 or so of all petrochemical applications is directed. Thing too is just how pervasive synthetic products not just plastics have become. Can't divorce them, can't live without them.
This is not the first time. Donald has always relied on others for his "success." Even when he was a young boy, his father used his wealth to conceal that Donald is learning-disabled. In his youth, he relied on others to take his tests. Later, he got the reins to the Trump businesses, only because his older brother rejected them.
When Donald relied on his own dim wits to run the business and failed, Daddy was there to bail him out with millions. When Daddy died, Donald blew through his inheritance and ran up astronomical debts.
For his entire adult life, he had no positive cashflow until he signed on with NBC for The Apprentice series, a situation where others were in control and he was merely an actor who played the part of a successful tycoon.
In his dotage, Donald sees Musk as his father figure, able to bail him out of trouble with his billions of dollars.
However, Donald will never admit his dependency on others. His father taught him that admitting a need for others is a sign of weakness. And weakness is only worthy of the deepest disdain.
YouтАЩre right about this. Trump was bailed out time and again by his father, and it was only after The Apprentice that he made any real money, about $400M I believe, which he spent on golf courses, of which many were money losers. The exec producer of The Apprentice said that they asked several successful businessmen to star in the show, but they were all too busy with their businesses. When they asked Donald he jumped at the opportunity. Of course, we all know how he loves attention and this show made him a тАШstarтАЩ.
Well.....he learned the lessons of his first term, a big country like ours it's not a relatively small company like the one he owns. That doesn't make the situation better, by the contrary, he would be more effective at destroying everything we took for granted.
I am sure someone mentions this further down the thread. USS Doris Miller will be an aircraft carrier beginning construction 2026.
They will likely have to hide it when Trump is around.
He'll just ask who is she?
Sad, but true MisTBluтАж..
My thought, you wrote 42minutes before me :)
Brilliant minds, like channels.
Nah.
He'll say he's "doing good work."
No, if he even notices it will be "Who the hell is Doris Miller and why does SHE have her own ship?"
Must confess that I did the same thing until the gender was identified. Hope that does not make me a Trumpisser.
Hardly.
Whew! Thank you!
ЁЯдг
Fortunately, Trump's world is no longer expanding. His dementia is becoming more obvious to everyone. He needs to have people like Musk, Hogsbreath and Gaetz around him that are all-in on revenge and retribution. This is why he is so insistent on getting them confirmed. For the first time in his life he realizes that he needs other people to do his bidding.
The world is in for a rough ride.
Musk scares me the most right now -- I thought he and Trump would have a falling out of the egos -- but Trump must in some way be threatened that Musk could turn his fortune against him - in just the way he helped buy the Presidency for him. How one person can inject that much money into our political system is a disgrace.
We have to "thank" SCOTUS for this. Citizens United cannot be the law of the land because this is what happens. Musk should be deported. SCOTUS should take another look at this law, and take a look inside themselves, including for giving Trump unfettered power.
Exactly!!!!! The court is OUT of order!!
Corrupt.
Musk has long held American citizenship with dual, Canada I believe. You know, he's part of America being a "land of immigrants"
His other citizenship is in South Africa I believe. He was born there.
They are rejoicing, at least six are
As in all such things, I blame their parents, for failing to give those six (and many more before) a proper fetchins up.
Gorsuch is a living, breathing clone of his bitch of a mama. Clarence is just a wannabe white boy, Kavanaugh a spoiled brat, and Alito was spawned by the devilтАж. No excuse for Roberts, and I guess the lady viper is the token to placate the lesser sex
Some cut their legal teeth on the stolen election of 2000. Devoted Machiavellian shysters from the crib, me thinksтАж
Sociopaths.
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton
Especially when it is accompanied (or made possible) by messages of hate, lies, and more money than is conscionable
Lesser sex? Really?
So they think, otherwise they wouldn't be talking about taking away female voting rights
He bought the presidency. Sort of like the MSM took our decision away from us with their both sides crap. The election was a fine looking sham.
Thank the fraud who is John Roberts. Pretends to be the voice of calm reason while he's a dangerous enabler of a pack of weasels.
"that much money" well thank the right-wing cabal on the Supreme Court. You might almost think Congress could pass restrictive legislation, eg such as Bernie suggests, a publicly funded but limited process. NO SUCH LUCK. excuse the caps.
Here is a phrase I have read and heard again and again in a broad array of MSM news stories (this one happens to be The Guardian, but I have seen it in my local paper and national news.
"Despite the known risks, plastic in general remains a little-regulated substance, largely because of the petrochemical and plastic industryтАЩs lobbying power." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/06/plastic-chemicals-breast-cancer
The subjects vary, to popular initiatives widely wanted by the public to shadowy threats to public health, such as commercial abuses of antibiotics and unregulated release of dangerous and persistent chemicals. The all end up being trumped or buried by richly funded lobbies. If money can regularly thwart the public's will and the public's interests, does that merit any other label than "corruption"? But relatively few say so, at least of those who can be heard.
And yeah, Anne Gorsuch, Reagan's director of the EPA. and classic modern "Republican":
" She believed that the EPA was over-regulating business and that the agency was too large and not cost-effective. During her 22 months as agency head, she cut the budget of the EPA by 22%, reduced the number of cases filed against polluters, relaxed Clean Air Act regulations, and facilitated the spraying of restricted-use pesticides. She cut the total number of agency employees, and hired staff from the industries they were supposed to be regulating.[3] "
"Richard Hauser, the White House deputy counsel, confirmed one or more Reagan Administration officials had in fact reported to the White House that they had heard Gorsuch say at an August 4, 1982, luncheon that she was holding back more than $6 million in Federal funds to clean up the Stringfellow Acid Pits toxic waste site near Los Angeles to avoid helping the Senate campaign of former Gov. Jerry Brown of California, a Democrat.[13]" -Wikipedia
Dirty pool indeed, but hardly restricted to plastics, to which abt 1/3 or so of all petrochemical applications is directed. Thing too is just how pervasive synthetic products not just plastics have become. Can't divorce them, can't live without them.
!!!!
Starkly antidemocratic.
This is not the first time. Donald has always relied on others for his "success." Even when he was a young boy, his father used his wealth to conceal that Donald is learning-disabled. In his youth, he relied on others to take his tests. Later, he got the reins to the Trump businesses, only because his older brother rejected them.
When Donald relied on his own dim wits to run the business and failed, Daddy was there to bail him out with millions. When Daddy died, Donald blew through his inheritance and ran up astronomical debts.
For his entire adult life, he had no positive cashflow until he signed on with NBC for The Apprentice series, a situation where others were in control and he was merely an actor who played the part of a successful tycoon.
In his dotage, Donald sees Musk as his father figure, able to bail him out of trouble with his billions of dollars.
However, Donald will never admit his dependency on others. His father taught him that admitting a need for others is a sign of weakness. And weakness is only worthy of the deepest disdain.
YouтАЩre right about this. Trump was bailed out time and again by his father, and it was only after The Apprentice that he made any real money, about $400M I believe, which he spent on golf courses, of which many were money losers. The exec producer of The Apprentice said that they asked several successful businessmen to star in the show, but they were all too busy with their businesses. When they asked Donald he jumped at the opportunity. Of course, we all know how he loves attention and this show made him a тАШstarтАЩ.
тАЬLucky LoserтАЭ by Susan Craig and Russell Buettner should be required reading for anyone thinks that #45 is a great business man
I think Trump has always had people around to do his bidding--lawyers to bully and sue; mobster thugs to physically threaten and extort.
Well.....he learned the lessons of his first term, a big country like ours it's not a relatively small company like the one he owns. That doesn't make the situation better, by the contrary, he would be more effective at destroying everything we took for granted.
And whatever happened to JD whatтАЩs his name. Seems a few billionaires have displaced him
Fantastic!
I saw that some years ago. About freaking time. I hope today's sailors can live up to his name.
Thanks for this, Paul!
Well that is great news.