We Doing This Shit Again? (Trump Admin Meltdown II)

[sancarlos]

Is she correct in saying that your son is a big Trump supporter?

[Giff]

Oh, God no!

[Johnnie]

People who think running the government like a business is a good idea need lobotomies.

It's all fun and games until you're paying $12 to send a letter in the mail or you're pulling out your credit card to pay firefighters when your house is on fire. FREE MARKET, BABY.

The problem with all of this thinking is that the average American sees a rich person who made a bunch of money and thinks "OMG! SUCCESSFUL PERSON!" and when you realize *how* they became "successful" it was utilizing every business loophole imaginable to maximize profits -- especially fucking over people like them.

All you gotta do is take a few business classes and you realize just how easy it is for corporations to become wealthy. And when you find out that the only thing that matters -- making money -- trumps things like morality and ethics, everyone suffers and it gets demonstrably worse.

So sure, government run anything is, at times, inefficient. But it's a fuck of a lot better than being at the mercy of shareholders who demand infinite growth forever.

[EnochRoot]

People who think running the government like a business is a good idea need lobotomies.

It's all fun and games until you're paying $12 to send a letter in the mail or you're pulling out your credit card to pay firefighters when your house is on fire. FREE MARKET, BABY.

The problem with all of this thinking is that the average American sees a rich person who made a bunch of money and thinks "OMG! SUCCESSFUL PERSON!" and when you realize *how* they became "successful" it was utilizing every business loophole imaginable to maximize profits -- especially fucking over people like them.

I think the important thing for Americans to remember is the gov't programs that the GOP and the new gilded age seeks to strip away are the very programs that helped them get rich in the first place.

Or, another way you can look at it?

The social contract has been torn to pieces.

Eat the rich.

[Johnnie]

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!?!?



Edit:

Of course Courier News deleted their previous Instagram post.

[A_B]

Gulf of America. Fuck these people.

[EnochRoot]

Gulf of America. Fuck these people.

They want you distracted.

[Nonlinear FC]

Yup. Waving their hands around about nonsense as they deregulate as much as they can and line their coffers.

[govmentchedda]

Gulf of America. Fuck these people.

They want you distracted.

Exactly

[DaveInSeattle]

Gulf of America. Fuck these people.

I haven't read the news since Election night. I'm not even going to try and guess what the fuck this is all about.

[Jerloma]

Gulf of America. Fuck these people.

I haven't read the news since Election night. I'm not even going to try and guess what the fuck this is all about.

You can just guess racism every time and you'll have like an 85% chance of being right.

[The Sybian]

Gulf of America. Fuck these people.

I haven't read the news since Election night. I'm not even going to try and guess what the fuck this is all about.

You can just guess racism every time and you'll have like an 85% chance of being right.

And the other 15% is catering to Christians' persecution complex.

[Johnnie]

New Mexico right now:

[Steve of phpBB]

New Mexico right now:

Lol

[sancarlos]

“New America”?

[DaveInSeattle]

Gulf of America. Fuck these people.

I caved, and did a quick google.

We are such a dumb fucking country. This makes the whole "Freedom Fries" thing look sane and rational.

[P.D.X.]

Also the windmills are killing whales.

[Johnnie]

Democrats Are Already Rolling Over for Trump. Republicans Are Loving It.

Pathetic.

[Johnnie]

Jack Smith resigns. Fuck you, Merrick Garland.

[Jerloma]

Jack Smith resigns. Fuck you, Merrick Garland.

Seriously. Why isn't that a bigger story? Certainly not for a lack of evidence or cause so I'll guess we'll have to wait for Jack Smith's book, if he's even allowed to publish it by then.

[Johnnie]

Jack Smith resigns. Fuck you, Merrick Garland.

Seriously. Why isn't that a bigger story? Certainly not for a lack of evidence or cause so I'll guess we'll have to wait for Jack Smith's book, if he's even allowed to publish it by then.

Large media corporations are capitulating. Social media billionaires have already capitulated. Shit, Democrats are capitulating. So the only stories that are going to matter are distractions like "annex Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal."

[sancarlos]

Really looking forward to seeing which of his petty whims get executed first after inauguration. Maybe having Liz Cheney and some random trans kids publicly drawn and quartered.

[Johnnie]

Really looking forward to seeing which of his petty whims get executed first after inauguration. Maybe having Liz Cheney and some random trans kids publicly drawn and quartered.

Keeping Nancy Pelosi around at this point is to his benefit, so Liz Cheney makes sense.

[P.D.X.]

Large media corporations are capitulating. Social media billionaires have already capitulated.

I think "capitalizing" is the word you're looking for.

[degenerasian]

Democrats are really just another corporate party, but without direction. Biden just gave the Pope the medal of freedom.

Maybe after they lose a few more elections AOC can lead a real progressive party in 2036

[Johnnie]

Going to be real fun when Democrats furrow their collective brow when military members are deployed on American soil and are ordered to kill migrants seeking asylum.

I'm sure they'll just appoint some other old, cancer-stricken rep to a commission that goes nowhere.

[EdRomero]

Jack Smith resigns. Fuck you, Merrick Garland.

Seriously. Why isn't that a bigger story? Certainly not for a lack of evidence or cause so I'll guess we'll have to wait for Jack Smith's book, if he's even allowed to publish it by then.

It's been a known fact Smith would be resigning since the election was decided; why would it be a story now? We're over 10 years of Trump, the candidate, getting away with everything with every single outrage being a collective shrug of the shoulders for voters. Mueller, Garland, Cheney, Smith -- nothing they did changed voters' opinions -- there is a lot to criticize about them but expectations were pretty high and they seemed qualified and competent before they started. Trump controls the judiciary, the media narrative, and social media narrative. Pretty much the only play now is to let him and his buddies fuck up the country so much that voters somehow notice and turn on him (or at least his party if he ever dies), and record every thing so historians have a lot of material to study when we're all dead.

[Jerloma]

Yeah, but did anybody seriously think 4 years ago that the DoJ wasn't going to make all of the traitorous shit a priority? I know we've become far more disillusioned since then but that would have seemed implausible to me after 1/6.

[EdRomero]

Yeah, but did anybody seriously think 4 years ago that the DoJ wasn't going to make all of the traitorous shit a priority? I know we've become far more disillusioned since then but that would have seemed implausible to me after 1/6.

It took old school Republicans about one week to get over that, and the fact that .00001 % of Americans are transexual athletes who play sports was a bigger story before the election than the attempted overthrow of democracy says everything you need to know about who controls the narrative, and I don't know what anti-Trumpers can do about it.

[Johnnie]

A better country would have settled all family business on 7 January because we watched literal treason happen live on TV, but nah.

This country is going to get to reach its final form because of Biden's presidency. The chumminess of everyone during Carter's funeral confirms it.

[EdRomero]

What exactly were you expecting to see at a funeral?

[Johnnie]

What exactly were you expecting to see at a funeral?

A cold fucking shoulder at very fucking least.

Remember when Kamala said he was a fascist? REMEMBER?

[P.D.X.]

What exactly were you expecting to see at a funeral?

A cold fucking shoulder at very fucking least.

There were at least 2.

[Brontoburglar]

A better country would have settled all family business on 7 January because we watched literal treason happen live on TV, but nah.

This country is going to get to reach its final form because of Biden's presidency. The chumminess of everyone during Carter's funeral confirms it.

Not sure what Biden's presidency has to do in this scenario with the Republicans in the Senate on Jan. 7, 2021 not providing the additional votes to impeach

[Johnnie]

Who nominated Merrick Garland?

[Jerloma]

A better country would have settled all family business on 7 January because we watched literal treason happen live on TV, but nah.

This country is going to get to reach its final form because of Biden's presidency. The chumminess of everyone during Carter's funeral confirms it.

Not sure what Biden's presidency has to do in this scenario with the Republicans in the Senate on Jan. 7, 2021 not providing the additional votes to impeach

Because a better country would have had a Senate that unanimously or at least decidedly considered a coup an impeachable offense?

[Brontoburglar]

sure. but the whole "better country" thing doesn't put us in the scenario in the first place

[Johnnie]

Here's Jack Smith's report:

(PDF alert)

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/d ... c-full.pdf

On remand from the Supreme Court's decision in Trump, the district court set a litigation schedule whereby the parties would submit briefs regarding whether any material in the superseding indictment was subject to presidential immunity. ECF No. 233. The parties were in the middle of that process when the results of the presidential election made clear that Mr. Trump would be inaugurated as President of the United States on January 20, 2025. As described above, it has long been the Department's interpretation that the Constitution forbids the federal indictment and prosecution of a sitting President, but the election results raised for the first time the question of the lawful course when a private citizen who has already been indicted is then elected President. The Department determined that the case must be dismissed without prejudice before Mr. Trump takes office, and the Office therefore moved to dismiss the indictment on November 25, 2024. See ECF No. 281. The district court granted the motion the same day. ECF No. 283.

The Department's view that the Constitution prohibits the continued indictment and prosecution of a President is categorical and does not tum on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government's proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the Office stands fully behind. Indeed, but for Mr. Trump's election and imminent return to the Presidency, the Office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.

Merrick Garland is a piece of shit. Fuck that guy.

[A_B]

And this is the report that they decided it was OK for us to see. Imagine what fresh hells the other volume had.

[mister d]

Picturing the germans just shrugging and discarding "The Hitler Report".