Treason Thread #75: Springtime for Donald and Vladimir

I'd rather be a slave than what I am, a SERF. I am forced to pay taxes as a serf.

OMG it is such a cult.

Trump talking wall clock, now you can hear from Trump every hour as he says Make America Great Again.

t1, some pretty fucked up priorities there, friend.

R1, waiting for slavery to return?

OP The song was Springtime For Hitler and Germany and was one of the hits from the movie, The Producers, a Mel Brooks comedy with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel. It's kind of dated, but I still find it hilarious. But then, I'm an old fart.

Yup r5, one of my favorite movies. Mel Brooks at his best and funniest. The first line was cribbed by someone who cribbed it from The Producers, I should have been clearer.

Meant to sign my post at R6 as OP.

Two perfect months

Remember some of my friends hooked up with congressmen after I’d left. No, I didn’t fuck Trey. I met few congressmen, though I met my share. I was just a lowly congressional intern.

One was AK. Yes, that AK.

President Dotard of all people inspired a cult. JHFC.

The Dow is currently down more than 500 points as core inflation rose more than expected in February and consumer spending posted a smaller-than-expected increase.

Meanwhile, Trump threatened automakers with reprisal if they raise prices in response to his insane tariffs.

R2, Greenland is selling hats which say Make America Go Away. If people still don't think he and Putin are in cahoots, I would assume they're technically brain dead or, you know, MAGAts.

Musk just said Trump will stop any and all negative talk against Tesla. Musk also told Reddit to remove negative DOGE comments. Trump just "warned" US automakers not to raise prices because of the tariffs. Who the hell do they think they are, besides oligarchs, of course.

R10, I believe consumer confidence is at a 12-year low. He yelled at the fed to lower interest rates as he was instituting tariffs. What is his end game? He has DOGE on the inside crippling our agencies. He had Hegseth stop monitoring Russian a few weeks ago. He's destroying our reputation around the world and in turn destroying our tourism industry. Now we see those like Grassley are talking about legislation which would take away certain powers from district judges. Where does it end and who will put a stop to it?

Elon Musk has announced he will be giving a talk in Wisconsin on Sunday night ahead of the highly anticipated Supreme Court election but he is restricting who will be able to attend.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head and senior advisor to the United States president Donald Trump shared that he is limiting entrance to his talk to those who have voted in the election. Elon Musk also said he would reward those who have voted with a large check.

“On Sunday night, I will give a talk in Wisconsin. Entrance is limited to those who have voted in the Supreme Court election. I will also personally hand over two checks for a million dollars each in appreciation for you taking the time to vote. This is super important.”

His next target is Florida. He's, excuse me, his Super PAC has already started dumping money for their upcoming special election on April 1.

Putin says Trump's moves on Greenland have nothing to do with Russia.

I'm reminded of the 1930's British journalist Claude Cockburn's saying: "Believe nothing until it's been officially denied."

So Elon is paying people to listen to him talk?

It certainly worked for me, r14!

That drug addicted cunt cannot OD fast enough.

Tim Pool, one of the right-wing influencers who got caught taking $$$ from Russia, was just added to the White House press pool

It ends with tech bro feudal dictators using the bodies of the poor as biodiesel.

Who's AK? Andy Kim?!!!

Adam Kinzinger would be my guess.

[quote]Who's AK?

Annette Kellerman

Trump's new U.S. Attorney for Nevada is an election denier who has threatened to execute political enemies

All the best people!

“Chattah said (NV AG Ford) should be hanged from a crane. She is an election denier who has advocated for political violence, suggested she would target her political enemies, and offered full support to many of President Trump’s blatantly illegal actions.." @SenCortezMasto

Catherine C-M tells it as it is. She is a hard core Harry Reid Strategist. She should replace Schumer.

Eggplant emoji, you say?

DOGE Staff Onboarded at Federal Agency Suing Elon Musk. He just gained access to the SEC, an agency who has also sued him in the past. A rapacious and vindictive ketamine addict set loose in the Securities & Exchange Commission. What could go wrong?

Trump pardons disgraced former CEO of the electric truck manufacturer Nikola, who was sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of defrauding investors.

In what I'm sure are just coincidences, the guy donated $1.8 million to Trump's reelection campaign and his lawyer is A Pam Bondi's brother.

I can't get over how corrupt Trump is

R28, I agree. The difference between his first term and his second term is like night and day. He was always corrupt but now he's been emboldened by a spineless Congress and a SC who has expanded his powers. What got him impeached the first time - trying to extort Zelenskyy is now an everyday out-in-the-open occurrence.

Oops, I meant R27 but you knew that.

Turns out Pete Hegseth's brother is now working for the Pentagon

Another "merit-based hire"

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Top FDA official resigns, blasts RFK for misinformation and lies

All this sturm and drang DOGE crap for nothing:

Despite Musk’s claims, the Trump administration’s spending is on pace to surpass Biden levels.

R33, it was never about cutting waste. What type of idiots believe a man who says he wants to cut waste yet demands Congress raise the debt ceiling? This cost-cutting crusade was just a ruse to allow Musk entry. All of these agencies being gutted and the endless terminations won't make a dent in the overall budget. The workforce alone - if they terminated every single federal employee, they would reduce the budget by less than 4%.

Their 2025 mantra "Eliminating waste and fraud" is the new "Build the wall."

So Donald keeps yammering on and on about April 2nd being "Liberation Day". What huge, stupid spectacle could they be up to? Bombing Mexico? Annexing Maine?

(I've heard it's about tariffs but that hardly seems worth the hype)

R35, ask Mike Waltz to add you to the Signal chat and you can find out

Maybe he, his lackeys and Elon plus his incel brats will all do a Jobestown on Special K?

That would indeed be “liberation day”

JONESTOWN, you fucking cunt!

And autocorrect thinks you're a laugh riot, r38.

Shocker! DOGE probably will create waste instead of preventing it

Isn't April 2 the day the big tariffs are supposed to start?

Maybe he means 4/20 and they’ll all celebrate Hitler’s birthday.

Bill Maher actually made sense on Friday. Worth a look at his new rules

Vice President JD Vance, chief of staff Susie Wiles and top personnel official Sergio Gor told Trump to fire Mike Waltz.

The president agreed that Waltz had messed up, according to the people, but Trump ultimately decided not to fire him for one reason — for now: Like hell he’d give the liberal media and pearl-clutching Democrats a win. “They don’t want to give the press a scalp,” said one of the people, a White House ally close with the team.

We’re are all gathering to plan Lindsey Graham’s 70th birthday bash on July 9th at Mar-a-Lago. It’ll take a few months to prepare for perfection.

He’s not 70 yet?

Jeez, he looks like walking (slowly as he appears fatter by the day - stress eating?) death.

R28 Really? I wouldn't say the difference is like night and day. I'd say the difference is like early evening and late-night!

On a scale from 1 to 10, first term was maybe an 8;, second term is a 14 !!

We need a new word for CORRUPTION. We need a new word for CUNT.

Off the top of my head, what about CUNTRUPTION ??

Definition of Cuntruption: Corruption committed at an extreme level. A person guilty of committing cuntruption is called a cuntruptor.

OH! Even Better..... (hear me out)

A person guilty of committing cuntruption is called a ....wait for it...................

TRUMPCUNTER. Calling someone a trumpcunter could be the white version of the N word. The worst, most offensive thing you could ever call somebody.

As in...he's not just a heinous criminal, he's a Trumpcunter !!

What do you guys think?

Add “cuntraversy” and “cuntastrophe” to that lexicon, r48.

Elon Musk Nazi Salute windsock!

This is as good as the Trump diaper baby balloon.

R46 She’s a sot.

Everything that Donald does that seems fucked up either benefits himself directly, or Putin, or his campaign benefactors. This is what corrupt American politics has come down to.

Has anyone mentioned Trump's exciting new plan to destroy the U.S. auto industry? It's not just the tariffs. He threatened car industry leaders with unspecified punishment if they raised prices in response to the tariffs.

This shows that he does know that tariffs increase consumer prices. Of course they do. Is he simply trying to overrule capitalism to make himself look good or is there something more at work? This could cripple car production here. No one will build additional factories or hire new workers if they're not making money. Combine this with his hostile attitude towards EVs and it looks as if he's prepared to hand the whole industry to China.

Duh, He wants everyone to buy Teslas to help his best bud Elmo!

[QUOTE]Tim Pool, one of the right-wing influencers who got caught taking $$$ from Russia, was just added to the White House press pool

Is he going to wear a knit cap and shorts to briefings?

Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if automakers raise prices due to tariffs, also says he won't fire anyone involved in Signal group chat:

Andy Duffer critiques Elon

Anybody notice how fast this thread has been moving lately? It hasn't been this busy here in a very long time.

JD takes Usha to Greenland.

Pete takes Jennifer to sensitive meetings.

Elon takes the little booger-eater everywhere.

Where's Melania?

Melabia!

These right-wingers are all grifters.

R62 Jail her for life!

[quote]These right-wingers are all grifters.

Water is wet.

Just die already!

Where’s jr, Eric and ivanka been? Behind the scenes doing gruesome shit?

Has it always been this stupid?

The thread on the Le Pen story is FULL of DL kkklangrannies. They greyed out all the anti-Trump comments.

LOL, R62, I just read a headline (did not click) stating Marie Le Pen was banned from running for the highest office in France. Upon further research, the ban is only for five years. Too bad we don't have a similar ban as Trump would have been barred from '24 and most likely dead or drooling by the next go-round. Our forefathers must be spinning, never thinking they had to clarify a convicted felon should be barred from running for office.

Someone fucking stop DOGE

Shithead maybe gone soon

And if that actually happens, nobody better let that be the end of it r71 or agree with these fuckers to pretend it all just never happened.

Ho boy, Dotard must be getting absolute hell for Musk and DOGE. For him to possibly get rid of Musk, the admin must be hearing some really bad shit from constituents. How could they not see that coming a mile away?

[quote]How could they not see that coming a mile away?

hubris

If DOGE is on its way out no one told this punk. And the shitshow rolls on.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its dismantling of the U.S. Institute of Peace, naming one of its young software engineers as head of the agency after it refused to allow DOGE into the building earlier this month.

Nate Cavanaugh, 28, is now in charge of USIP, a White House official confirmed.

The 28-year-old has seen been interviewing General Services Administration employees during his time at DOGE, The New York Times reported. Cavanaugh also forced his way into the African Development Foundation this month, according to The Times—and did not answer questions from reporters about what DOGE planned to do there.

Cavanaugh is raking in just over $120,500 a year for his role in the Musk-ran agency, according to a Wired report. He has seemingly never worked in government before his time at DOGE.

Earlier this month, Deputy White House Press Secretary Anna Kelly announced that George Moose, the president of USIP before DOGE’s hostile takeover, had been removed.

“George is actually a career bureaucrat who wants to be unaccountable to the American people,” Kelly said at the time.

A daylong standoff at the agency’s D.C. headquarters ended in DOGE workers, including Jackson, gaining entry to the building alongside a police escort. Moose said at the time that Musk’s department had broken in. DOGE denied the claims.

“The only unlawful individual was Mr. Moose, who refused to comply,” the department posted to X on March 17.

The visit came after USIP employees turned away DOGE staffers during an unannounced visit the weekend prior.

Prior to Cavanaugh, Kenneth Jackson, another DOGE employee, was its acting president—at the behest of new board members Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio.

Cybersecurity professor disappears after the FBI raids his house

Why has Lindsey G. become the political leader of the anti-abortion movement? What makes LG the.top expert on abortion matters and women’s health?

Could her alleged expertise be from anal douching, the act of shooting a jet of warm water or a saline solution into the rectum to clean it out before sex? A heartbeat is never heard in this procedure.

[quote]A heartbeat is never heard in this procedure.

YA WANNA BET?

Apparently DOGE is visiting and filming government offices early in the morning before staff arrive; and turning the footage over to FOX to publicize stories of government waste and abuse by showing empty desks.

Lindsey's mom should have had an abortion

r79 Musk and his flunkies need to be banned from the buildings.

I'm so tired of Sissy SpaceX and her autistic shenanigans.

Sissy SpaceX should be Elon's official nickname

[quote]Cory Booker Holding Senate Floor All Night Long

[quote]“I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able. I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis. In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety; financial stability; the core foundations of our democracy. These are not normal times in America. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.”

Link

From what I’ve read elsewhere, if Space Karen remains fucking around in the government for more than 110-130 days, he has to file some sort of “report”.

Not like the thugs would care, or hold him to account.

Sounds to me like they’re already looking for a scapegoat. He’s dumber than he looks if he thinks he’s not going to be blamed for fucking up social security.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The thought of this is unbearable. I can't even handle this guy in a 30 second news clip.

Republicans Win Florida Elections Testing Voters’ Early Mood on Trump (See link below)

Arrgggh we can’t catch a break

R88 Not unexpected. 20 point swing, though.

r88-

Forget it, Jake...it's Florida.

Yeah, Florida... Gaetz's district.

This is no surprise whatsoever.

Has anybody audited the voting machines?? I' don't care the fucking split. Republicans have had control of those machines since the early 2010s. NOBODY has audited them.... or serviced them and checked the way every fucking American does with his car every few months. So the longer they go unchecked, the bigger the gaps will be and the easier it will be for Republicans to "win".

Same goes with Texas, and now Arizona! after we allowed them to "inspect" the machines in 2021 while nobody else was really paying any attention to what exactly they were doing. We just passed them off as cranks.

FYI, seriously, remember how certain so many were that Ted Cruz was finally gonna be defeated by Colin Allred? A candidate that many felt was even stronger than Beto? Didn't polling the day before have Colin ahead by 1.5 points? and then.... he lost by 10 points! Democrats threw up their hands, "Oh, it wasn't even close. How could we have been so off??"...

Well maybe they fucking weren't!

AUDIT THE GODDAMN FUCKING VOTING MACHINES!!!!!!

Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Eat shit, Elon!

Fuck, yes!!^^

Agree r92

A profile of another one of the DOGE boys. This one is a vocal racist who threatened a woman with a knife. Shocker!

Which is why there is a push to 100% paper scantron ballots with early voting starting on October 1st.

If only...

Putting the “foxy” Miss Lindz”, a major Trump sycophant that has an intimate relationship with him, in charge of the budget henhouse, is quite absurd. It’s a tactic to give the multimillionaires and billionaires an extension of their 2017 tax cuts.

Why is Schumer and company not vigorously yelling foul?

David Rothkopf: High prices, recession, possibly depression, the destruction of the global trading system and the obliteration of trust in the United States as a global leader are bad. But they're worse when they end up being just a cover for a sweeping effort to destroy what is best about our country...

Welp, there goes the economy. The damage he is doing to trade, our relationships with hundreds of countries, our leadership role in the world, and our economy is absolutely catastrophic and will last decades. Countries are mobilizing against us who were our former staunch allies. China dominates rare Earth mining (80%). We are truly fucked. He might as well have just nuked us.

That was the whole point, FCI.

And fucking retard maggots VOTED for it. I hope they end up penniless and begging. They deserve nothing less for their hate, racism, bigotry and goddam STUPIDITY.

R102 From what I’ve heard, congressional Republicans are needing/wanting a heavy dose of pain heaped on voters by Dotard to break with him and put an end to this. It’s their only cover. As with any Republican, don’t buy stock in them doing the right thing.

[quote]From what I’ve heard, congressional Republicans are needing/wanting a heavy dose of pain heaped on voters by Dotard to break with him and put an end to this.

So we're basically cooked then.

Miss Lindzebelle, can’t you chase that huz Laurie looney away? You take sloppy seconds after that fish bladder? You be spineless and a gross embarrassment.

They're all fucking complicit! Check this out....

"I spent years telling Chris Murphy exactly what was happening; there are a ton of records. Do not fall for performative bullshit. They knew the Trump cohort plot the entire time. Demand action from them -- and repentance."

#106 - that puts a chill down my spine - it does appear more and more that must be true!

The season for treason!

R107 Don’t both sides this. Call out individuals. Yes, individuals on both sides have been complicit, but it’s not 50/50. Not even close.

NSA head is ousted

Colbert

R109, FCI. I'm not denying it's a false equivalency, but many Dems were compromised. All this shit we're finding out about now, they've known for two years and did and said nothing. We were trusting them to take care of it best they could, and now we know they didn't.

So much of what is going on now could have been prevented, and for reasons we still have yet to find out about.

I didn't author this. I just wish I did:

"You have a good friend, he opens his home, his family, his business to you, you invest your money in his company, and when you're already dependent on him, he betrays you and leaves you homeless.

That "friend" is the United States today."

Which Dems were compromised, R112, and what are we finding out about now that we didn't know two, four, six years ago?

Hilary was right all along. She even told us to our faces, "I'm the last thing standing between you and the apocalypse".

French news this morning- Trump wants to free Marie Le Pen from her ban.

China hits back with a 34% tariff.

Laura Loomer replaces Elon Musk as Trump’s top personnel advisor? Neither were elected to anything.

When the f*ck will the Republicans in Congress finally say enough is enough?

Loomer is even worse than Musk

They exceed each other in awfulness in different ways. She doesn’t control StarLink.

She's evil but not rich. The only thing she can offer Trump are sloppy blowjobs/handjobs. Not exactly 100M for a campaign.

[quote]The only thing she can offer Trump are sloppy blowjobs/handjobs

I'm good with that.

Trade isn't Trump's only debacle:

President Trump said this week that Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen have been “decimated by the relentless strikes” that he ordered beginning on March 15.

But privately, DOD admits they have had limited success against the Houthis, despite strikes being larger than what was done under Biden, "and much bigger than what [DOD] has publicly described." Costs are $200 million so far and could exceed $1 billion by next week.

^^NYT article for the above:

[quote] The only thing she can offer Trump are sloppy blowjobs/handjobs.

That heifer will get what’s coming to her This weekend in Mar-a-Lago, my Donald will learn a big lesson the hard way, and it won’t be about a golfing technique. ⛳️

[quote]Costs are $200 million so far and could exceed $1 billion by next week

So, enough to cover a couple golf weekends.

Thousands of Lithuanians took to the streets to honor the four U.S. soldiers who died there during a training exercise.

The soldiers' remains arrive at Dover Air Force Base today. Trump will be golfing instead of overseeing their transfer to the U.S.

[quote]four U.S. soldiers who died there during a training exercise.

Now *that's* funny!

[QUOTE]DOD admits they have had limited success against the Houthis, despite strikes being larger than what was done under Biden, "and much bigger than what [DOD] has publicly described."

Could this be because communications about the attacks took place on the compromised, not secure Signal app and Moscow gave Iran and the Houthis advance notice of the strikes? Hmm. The U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East was in Moscow as Pete Hegseth gleefully cut and pasted top secret classified information from secured DoD computers to the Signal conversation. Remember how the time frame from when U.S. planes were in the air until the bombs were dropped was something like 2 hrs 45 min? Plenty of time to give warning.

Can someone please explain why we are bombing Yemen? I mean, I get that there are terrorists there and all, but there are plenty of places that harbor terrorists. What’s the strategic interest? Oil?

Probably, r130.

Or Mohammed Bone Saw asked for it.

Well, they are attacking shipping in the Red Sea. That is a big deal. it's more than just "harboring terrorists." They are dangerous and they are fucking with international trade (although not nearly as much as we are lately).

Both Israel and Saudi Arabia are extremely eager to get rid of Houthis, albeit for different reasons.

R130, years ago, Saudi Arabia and various other Sunni-majority countries intervened in a civil war in Yemen. The Houthis are the rebel force in that war; they are affiliated with Iran. It’s a big sprawling catastrophe. The attacks on the Red Sea happened after Israel began bombing in Gaza in October 2023 and it’s significantly disrupted trade all over the world.

Hegseth loves to brag. His competency and judgment is sorely lacking. Michael Waltz, Tulssi Gabbard, and others that are part of the scandal, show they are also failures.

*are* ^Tulsi

Thanks, all, for explaining! This is why I can never leave you, DL.

Net Approval Of Trump's Handling Of:

Immigration: +4%

Corruption: -10%

Employment/Jobs: -13%

Economy: -15%

Foreign Policy: -16%

International Trade: -18%

Ipsos / April 2, 2025 / n=1486

[quote]They are dangerous and they are fucking with international trade (although not nearly as much as we are lately).

With that as a rationale, it seems the whole world should be bombing us.

True r139, and honestly I think we all know if we were a smaller, less powerful country, this new regime would be facing a lot more serious consequences for all its relentless nonsense and fuckery right now. For now, we can get away with a lot of shit. Not sure that will last forever.

Laura Loomer has the power Putin and Musk have over Trump.

Laura Loomer is too stupid/ naive/ignorant to understand she will inevitably be a "loose end" dealt with. And she's the picture dictionary reference for a "loose end."

Somebody PLEASE push Governor Hot Wheels down a staircase.

^ Jasmine Crockett was right to mock that chud

Felon freed by Trump is back in jail after a child assault charge

[quote]It was the fifth time that Mr. Braun had been arrested since Mr. Trump commuted his 10-year sentence just before leaving office in 2021, which was among a raft of last-minute clemencies granted to those with ties to the president. Mr. Braun’s sentence was commuted after his family used a connection with Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law who was a senior White House adviser, to get the matter before Mr. Trump.

He seems nice...

[quote]Mr. Braun has a troubled history. He was originally indicted in 2010 on charges of smuggling and distributing marijuana. But while out on bail, he engaged in a predatory lending scheme, threatening small-business owners who had trouble repaying high-interest loans, according to suits filed by New York’s attorney general and the Federal Trade Commission.

[quote]In 2019, Judge Matsumoto sentenced him to 10 years on the drug charges after a plea deal. The next year, while in prison, Mr. Braun began discussing a deal with federal investigators in which he would be released in exchange for providing information about the cash-advance business.

[quote]The commutation removed the government’s leverage over Mr. Braun, damaging a criminal investigation that the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan was conducting into predatory lenders. Because Mr. Braun’s sentence was commuted — he was not pardoned — he was released on terms that included not committing more federal or state crimes.

[quote]But Mr. Braun went back to making predatory loans, eventually being banned from the cash-advance business by a New York State judge. In 2024, a judge ordered him to pay a fine of $20 million in the F.T.C. case.

[quote]Mr. Braun has also been accused of crimes that include swinging a pole that contained intravenous bags at a nurse; threatening a synagogue congregant who had asked him to stop talking during services; punching his wife and 75-year-old father-in-law; and grabbing a nanny’s breast as he touched himself.

R145, stellar, beautifully detailed stuff. This guy was a failure even as a fugitive. At one point, pursued by the DEA, he fled to Canada and then to Israel, only to return to the U.S., where he was promptly arrested.

DOGE's attack on Social Security is causing "complete, utter chaos"

Admit it, bitches - which one of you works for The Atlantic??

What about Senators who like their cookies freshly baked?

WaPo: Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad

For years, a National Park Service webpage introduced the Underground Railroad with a large photograph of its most famous “conductor,” Harriet Tubman. “The Underground Railroad — the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War — refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage,” the page began.

Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.

The introductory sentence is gone, too. It has been replaced by a line that makes no mention of slavery and that describes the Underground Railroad as “one of the most significant expressions of the American civil rights movement.” The effort “bridged the divides of race,” the page now says.

MAGA in a nutshell

The Underground Railroad was just a subway!

You think he’s sleeping with Rocky Dennis?

Trump may finally get the military parade he's long coveted:

"According to a D.C. source with knowledge of the plan that’s still being developed, Trump has commandeered Saturday, June 14 — the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army and, as it happens, Trump’s 79th birthday — for his military parade. It would stretch almost four miles from the Pentagon in Arlington to the White House, according to the source, who stressed that local officials are just learning of it."

Bwahahahaha!! That's assuming there's anything left in the government coffers by June. He may need to ask Saudis for a loan.

And they'll give him one.

r156, have they reinforced the streets?

Will he be riding in a motorcade? Are there any book depository buildings along the way?

R156 - call DOGE! We found some waste and abuse!

Appalling.

Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz is putting holds on Trump's nominees. Glad someone is doing something

Just like Trump's first term, Democrats will win every contested election for the next 4 years. That includes the 2028 presidential election.

Are you listening to the blowhard in the Oval Office right now?

"The EU for formed to damage US trade."

Vance and Rubio look terrified everytime Trump is asked a question. The should be, ha, ha, ha.

Whining about how Japan won’t buy our cars. Even WE won’t do that, you numbskull.

Trump's dementia is becoming more apparent.

You're confusing dementia with idiocy, which has been his lifelong affliction.

R170 They are not mutually exclusive. he is obviously dealing with both now.

The Trump Administration fired yet another high-ranking female military officer. She made a statement supporting women's equality, so they decided that she's "too woke"

R172, if you want anything good for anyone this administration doesn’t want to know you.

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I wonder if we're at the point where people want to be fired by this shit weasel administration. It's going to actually be suspicious if you weren't at a high level and got fired. Why exactly did Trump and Vance and Elon want to keep you? What the fuck is wrong with you?

Lawyer for U of Michigan protester detained at airport and asked to hand over his phone

shadow hearings

Bulwark editor Sonny Bunch, summing up the current situation quite well, I think:

"It will never cease to amaze that Americans basically just got bored of having the best lives on the planet so they elected a lunatic to blow it up in the hopes of building some microwave factories for their children to find meaning in."

That is the really weird thing r178. How completely voluntary and stupid this whole collapse is. We get it with fascism, first in Italy then in Germany, as a reaction to the absolute chaos of World War I and then the aftermath. We get it when the Great Depression makes people rethink all their old assumptions. Even the fall of Communism, which was good and necessary, led to upheavals and chaos that could explain assholes like Putin or Orban stepping in to replace the previous assholes.

But this? What the fuck is the reason to turn to an asshole like Trump? And no, wingnuts, it can't be because people suddenly noticed OMG, they's Messicans in our country!!!

Racism, misogyny and the gays/trans getting tonuppity

White straight men are the real motivation behind MAGA (their idiot women just followed suit)

Dear Ohio,

Elections have consequences.

Enjoy the government you voted for, and the unemployment line, you maggot motherfuckers.

[quote]Microsoft cancels $1 Billion project to build 3 new data centers in Ohio—just 5 days after Trump tariffs.

But Herr Trump said his tariffs were all about spurring corporate investment in America!

Such hypocrisy!

Ohio stupid is a special kind of stupid

Nixon and Reagan opened up Asia and then sent all American steel contracts to Asia. They bankrupted the Steel companies, the steel unions and the steel unions pensions and created the Rust Belt. Then Ohio Republicans gerrymandered the state and blamed Carter.

Ohio stupid is a special kind of stupid

Eventually, the Republicans will stomp on him.

Laura Loomer decides who can and can’t be national security personnel and Trump acts on it. And Congress is fine with this?

So Trump wants to bring coal back...

NEW: The Justice Department says Jan. 6 defendants whose convictions were wipred out by Trump are owed a refund for the restitution they paid to Congress

Casey DeSanti$ has ambitions. Taking in the ca$h from taxpayers without accounting disclosures.

Trump has been piling on the foundation thick lately. He looks like an ugly and unfunny cartoon character. My eyes!

[quote] Florida state Representative Alex Andrade told the Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald: "I'm still unclear about Hope Florida's mission and purpose. Without details and transparency, I can't say if this transfer was done for a proper purpose or not."

Sounds like a case for the DOGE Incel Squad! Come on, bitches, get in there and do something useful for once in your stupid lives.

AP won its suit against the Trump administration for barring them from White House events when they wouldn't use the term "Gulf of America"

Good. Trump thinks he's the king of the world when realistically he's a moron.

The Russians tried to blow up Putin's car about a week ago. Wrong car, shit!

Putin just go, but Medvedev is still in the wings.

I was watching the French news, and when they reported Trump talking about his tariffs holding a giant chart, they snidely remarked that it looked like he was holding a bingo card.

Gretchen Whitmer lines up right behind Gavin Newsome vowing to never be the next Democratic pick for President!

[quote]WTF is she doing in the Oval Office with Orange Jesus?????

Trying to keep Trump from gutting funding for the Great Lakes ecosystem.

We truly are living in a banana republic: Trump today ordered his DOJ to investigate two staffers from his first term:

Miles Taylor, who wrote a book critical of Trump, and his first-term election security director Chris Krebs, who committed the crime of attesting that the 2020 election was not stolen.

Don't forget that in his first term he had the IRS go after Comey and McCabe.

Trump appears to be targeting Muslim and "Non-White" Students for deportation

Buy low

Oh, please.

That shit will end up buried like the Mueller Report and nobody worth a fuck will get prosecuted- like the J6 committee and Jack Smith.

Democrats have no spine and won’t prosecute that orange cunt - even for goddam TREASON.

He should be dead and buried but Jack Smith didn’t bring the theft of top secret documents to trial in DC where the FUCKING CRIME WAS COMMITTED.

No. He and Garland fucked around, brought it in Florida where cunt Cannon killed it. And Smith, instead of forcing that bitch’s hand and going over her head, let it drop.

Lazy, stupid abs cowardly. You think anything will see a courtroom? Be serious. This country is so fucking fill if goddamn motherfucking COWARDS who REFUSE to do what needs doing

Trump verbally bashes Joe Biden every chance he gets. This guy cannot let anything go, he's a horrible person.

Like we need reminding that Trump is mentally detached from reality.

More administration incompetence. From the very top to the lowly support staff.

Just over a month ago, retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster received an unexpected call on his personal cell, four sources told CBS News. It was from the White House and he was instructed by the voice on the other end to stand by for the president.

McMaster, who had served as national security adviser during President Trump's first term and was ousted after 13 months, was surprised to hear from Mr. Trump at all.

Just a day earlier, on March 2, Mr. Trump had lobbed his latest insult at McMaster, blasting him on social media as a "weak and totally ineffective loser." McMaster had also just appeared on CBS' "60 Minutes," where he voiced skepticism about Mr. Trump's overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Putin's willingness to end the war in Ukraine.

Henry..." is how Trump opened the call before launching into the conversation, according to two sources who were not authorized to discuss private conversations.

It was then that McMaster knew this familiar voice was indeed Mr. Trump. But he also realized something else: the commander-in-chief had not intended to call him at all.

McMaster goes by H.R., short for Herbert Raymond. Not Henry.

"Mr. President, this is H.R. McMaster," he said into the phone.

"Why the f*** would I talk" to H.R. McMaster? Trump asked dismissively, and then Trump launched into a scathing critique of his former aide, two sources said.

The call was brief.

The thing with Biden is two fold. Was Biden a lying criminal or an incompetent dementia riddled zombie. IF BIDEN REALLY was a dementia addled zombie - then Trump is even nastier than we already knew. To bash Biden daily with such unrelenting venom while at the same time saying Biden’s staff covered his illness take Dump to a new level of rotten cheese.

Biden was an incredibly skilled politician and administrator who was sunk by Murdoch Marketing Analytics Machine.

And Murdoch Inc went on to sell America a SECOND bag of Trump sugarcoated shit.

THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS !!!

R209 Bingo

And corps purposely sunk Biden because he shifted $4T to the bottom 90%.

Corps own the media. Most are conservative. Do the math.

People have a visceral response to elderly folks who have lost the ability to close their mouths when not speaking. Let’s not rehash this.

r207, somebody probably thought this was a hilarious prank.

Murdoch, their churches, all those Q websites, hundreds of propaganda pundits, Putin's army of cosplay troll farms, usually presenting as "sensible American" -- all MAGA or MAGA defenders. All these people spewing the Trump crazy and saying it's genius. 95% of Republican politicians, are running Trump's grift.

POLITICO: The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government.

"Reports should be as detailed as possible, including names, dates, locations (e.g. post or domestic office where the incident occurred)," the directive reads.

An anonymous State Dept. official calls the move "very Handsmaid's Tale-esque."

Fuck Christians! Most of them have never even cracked open a Bible and worship a man who displays the most UN-Christian-like behavior on record. There are many other religions in the world and this country. This enrages me.

Growing up, my parents used to laugh at people who went to church every Sunday, commenting on how hypocritical they all were (“The husband has a mistress. The wife is a cunt and hates poor people.” Etc.) Then they found God and became super-Christians. My sister and I are like, you have completely changed and we don’t want to hear any of your Bible crap.

More incompetence.

[QUOTE]Dear @JDVance, please Elon and the boys at @DOGE hunt down and kill whoever working for the JCS thinks that Marine officers are produced by the Merchant Marine Academy. TYFYS

R215, it's the Triumph of the Plantations and the White Heritage Foundation Project 2025.

R216 I am a little dense - what does that mean?

“Do you know how many surgeries [Elon’s] had to look like a 5?”

R218 Read the chart.

They want a Christo-Fascist authoritarian state lead by the most un-Godly president in US history.

[quote]They want a Christo-Fascist authoritarian state lead by the most un-Godly president in US history.

Why can't they just want a pony like everyone else?

This cunt.

Wow, all the shit at The Trump Store is made in China

R223 Exactly. Secret Service agents would never allow a president to expose himself like that after a real shooting event. He would have been completely covered and taken pout crawling.

R224 And as of now with 125% mark-up price due to tariffs on China.

R225 maybe they didn't want to risk tearing the shitty diaper.

R225, he was calling the shots (no pun intended.) I also recall he stopped SS from removing him from the stage until they found his shoe. Priorities.

R224, Trump Chocolates and Trump Lube?

R223 I just threw up in my mouth a little........

Actually, I'm choking on a torrent of puke!

r218, buried inside the X link at r216 is another clickable link that takes you to a chart of the order of ranks and commands, etc Some very questionable stuff in there.

Somebody around here has that picture blown up into a poster displayed in their yard. Nauseating.

There goes the neighborhood, r232.

Letterman called out Trump on his ties being made in China.

Linda McMahon, the Secretary of Education, referred to AI as A1, like the steak sauce.

Only the best people, r235.

The bigliest dumbest bestest!

R234 Someone at work got me in the office Christmas grab bag. I got a Donald Trump brand tie. Made in China of course for the cheap labor. Man, that was ugly and garish. I never wore it, I donated it to the Salvation Army.

I would have wiped my ass with it.

R238 It was the late 1990s. I hated him even back then because I knew he was a charlatan and a failed business man that regularly stiffed workers and business partners.

We've known it since the '80s, r239.

More military officers fired for no apparent reason

Shit, and "stuff" literally comes on our shores.

[QUOTE]CDC’s cruise inspectors laid off as ship arrives in Florida with a norovirus outbreak

Trump weighs 224 pounds....where? On the moon?

Maybe on Uranus?

There is no way he weighs less than 290.

Maybe he's FLUFFY FAT?

Withholding funds to the blue states:

Trump weighs at least 50 lbs. more than the reported 224 lbs.. His physical examination reports were inaccurate prior. Apparently, Trump uses physicians that are willing to alter reports that are more favorable than what is actual.

Karolyn’s Leavitt is awful. How can reporters/journalists sit there and listen to, and ask questions of, such an amateurish, rude, arrogant, and defensive press secretary?

Potato-headed whore

I've been trying not to think too much about Trump and his incompetent administration. It doesn't mean I don't hate him, I do but giving him too much space in my brain just isn't worth it.

Don't sweat it r250. We all need a mental health break sometimes.

Karoline, not Karolyn’s

Darn auto-spell…

Christopher Titus summarizes things a statistician who reviewed voting data found. Something isn’t right. Rosie O’Donnell recently questioned this as well. There should have been a recount.

Elon’s most skilled and dedicated young incels did the technical dirty work.

Where did I read that Titus is an autodidact who has an eidetic memory?

Just like Rosie.

Rosie learned the book, songs and blocking for Cat in The Hat in two days.

When Titus had his show, from what I remember, he had a problem with censors for the show they were shooting, and it was postponed. The writers had a script in the can for the next week. Titus read through the script ONE TIME, and THEY FILMED it in ONE TAKE.

Titus keeps this very close to the vest because he does not want to move from REGULAR GUY to ELITE.

But rest assured, Titus is BRILLIANT (American Brilliant, not tepid Brit brilliant)

Are you watching Dump in the Oval with the Head of El Salvador? He has to be stopped. He is horrible - horrible

Can you give a brief synopsis of what’s going on, R256? I’m at work and besides that actually refuse to watch him speak. I have managed to not hear his gaping asshole mouth once since November except one time when I accidentally saw a TikTok of him.

Trump says the US will not be arranging the release and return of the Maryland man the Supreme Court said they must.

Trump on Zelensky: "He's always looking to purchase missiles. Listen, when you start a war, you gotta know you can win a war. You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles."

Trump on sending U.S. citizens to El Salvador prisons: "If they are criminals and if they hit people with baseball bats over the head, if they rape 87 year old women, yeah. Yeah. That includes them. I'm all for it."

Trump on stocks: "We had the largest gain in the stock market in history in every single category last week."

Trump on his physical: "I took my cognitive exam as part of my physical exam, and I got the highest mark, and one of the doctors said, 'Sir, I've never seen anybody get that kind of -- that was the highest mark.'"

I hope this is going to be a case in which Trump fucked around and found out.

Your move, Justice Roberts.

R259, I'm surprised the doctor who said "Sir..." didn't also have tears in his eyes 😢

At this point, it is assumed that is a given, r261.

Trump, Bondi, Rubio and Miller were strutting like Nazis. Rubio said that all foreign policy is 100% up to the POTUS NOT the courts. End of conversation. It was kind of ugly like the Zelensky meeting. If we let this man stay in that prison - isn’t that like Nazi Germany? We all know the guy is there AND the hairdresser who called out for his mother. if we turn a blind eye to this it is the beginning of the end. he will disappear anyone he wants. I think he is still furious over 60 Minutes. he is putrid.

Seriously though...

What can the Supreme Court REALLY do to get that man released?

Trump will get his way as usual.

This is like when you are in a hurry on a busy day hurrying to a meeting. You see a dog hit by a car in the road - do you stop? Will anybody stop? What if one of us was stuck in that prison. Everyone knows we are there. But no one will ever come help us because Drump is intimidating people. My point is if we all know that man is there - do we just say “oh well.” …. Drump cannot shut up about Biden, either. I guess it is that Drump is spewing all of this ugly stuff and he sounds joyous.

What happened on “60 Minutes” that he would be angry about?

El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele did not wear a tie to the Oval Office for his meeting with Trump – and oddly, JD Vance did not scold Mr. Bukele for being disrespectful.

R266 - Last night there were 2 unflattering stories about him. The first one about Greenland and the 2nd one about his mis handling of the Ukraine /Russian war. It made him furious and he took to Truth Social after and had a fit. …. This morning he scolded Caitlyn Collins and went off about how CNN hates America. He is getting sloppy these days. OH - he was awful about letting the guy in El Salvador go - then he started bragging about his Dr’s visit. UGH!!

After 9/11 the government grabbed random Arabs and Muslims in the US without ever charging them or even publicly releasing their names, and shipped them to Guantanamo and assorted overseas black box prisons, and most people assumed they must be terrorists so it was all right. So I can understand why the Trump gang assumed it could do the same with Latino "gang members."

Thanks, R268. I’ll try to find the episode online.

R263, they were gloating about how they could hurt innocent people and no one could stop them.

If SCROTUS held that botoxed, puppy killing cunt in contempt, tossed her ratty ass in prison, suddenly these innocents would be in the next plane home.

But nobody in this country has the balls to do what’s right absolutely start ENFORCING the fucking law.

Oh, how I wish so much that the court could say, “Okay, then, in that case, Stephen Miller is going to jail for contempt and will sit there until Mr. Garcia is back on U.S. soil.” Bet that would get him back home in no time.

R272, you beat me to it!

Orange Menace for decades = Russian/Putin agent.

They openly said they're coming for US citizens ( homegrown) next.

The camps are being built- in other countries.

That guy is likely dead.

He's defying a 9-0 SC order. Let that sink in. This is very, very bad. Congress *should* impeach and remove him immediately.

JHFC

I bet Merrick Garland is tickled pink by all this.

It’s very likely that they are all dead and the deal was that El Salvador would be allowed to continue charging US taxpayers as if they were not.

I plan to spend 10 days at a private resort in Tahiti with Clarence. Ginni can come along, but must be preoccupied with something else for the duration of the trip, which I am paying for as with all the other trips over the years. Clarence and I need some special alone time together for reinvigoration.

What has me extremely worried is none of the “normie” Republicans are doing shit. That chills me to the bone. I fear if certain people are accused of a heinous crime (dum dum SVU), they will be shipped off to some God forsaken country before due process/trial and never be heard from again.

This is the moment, folks. We’ll know within a few weeks whether he really does defy a unanimous SC ruling. If so, and Congress doesn’t remove him, it is time to shit your pants.

Another student being detained by ICE - this one is being targeted for protesting the murder of George Floyd

Congress won’t do anything. Five, maybe six, will let DJT slide.

Today, I was standing in line at the small town post office, talking to a black female, senior friend of mine that is employed as a home caregiver. She is a good person, but talks loud, and blurted out a criticism of the guy in the White House for all the awful mess pertaining to governmental services. She said “he’s gotta go”. An older MAGA woman with bleached blonde hair, very heavy and dressed ugly, turned around, stared, and let out a loud grunt. I paused a moment, and said loud enough, this postal facility does not have a public restroom. There were mostly older, white men behind us and in front of us, that heard the remarks by my friend, but they wouldn’t dare respond to a bold, senior black lady. It was all very amusing.

[quote] Five, maybe six, will let DJT slide.

Regarding Supreme Court justices.

I expect six of them to let it slide.

There are zero normie Republicans. Murkowski? No. Collins? No. They pull off meaningless performative stunts like voting against a highly unqualified candidate, then move on.

“We are definitely on a path towards full-on state repression.”

- Fiona Hill, Former Trump senior director for European & Russian affairs on the National Security Council

She’s very worried.

Keep in mind that Trump and his minions were simply projecting in 2020 claiming election fraud, which is what they were themselves trying to do. Between the approximately 3.7 million of suppressed and disenfranchised voters in swing states and the strong likelihood that they managed to manipulate the voting machines tallying to turn the votes to Trump, I am at least 80% convinced Trump stole the 2024 election.

R286 Same. You have Tulsi saying the machines are easily hacked. Then you have a sudden, huge shift within the techbros from Dem to maga including Starlink Elon. Also, Dotard always projects, and we know what he says about elections and our election security. Again, you don’t win all swing states, yet Democrats win the down ballot races in all of them. It’s statistically unheard of. Rove also said elections are easy to steal if they’re close. Too many billionaires were on Dotard’s side with everything on the line- end of democracy and the rise of an oligarchy. THIS was the moment and they seized it. IDGAF if that sounds Blue Anon. There’s more facts there than maga EVER had about a stolen election.

I’m worried that since there is another big Hands Off protest all over on Saturday the 19th - Dump might send Hegseth and his posse out to do something to the protesters. I would hate to think he would use the peaceful Hands Off protests to declare Martial Law. I’m a worrier.😳

Lá Sènātrice is quick to bash CBS following Trump’s tirade against the 60 Minutes telecasts. She’s predictable.

r19, what's the big event on the 19th? They're not advertising it on their website.

The time for that was Nov 5th,2024,

Americans threw away a lifestyle that was better than 90% of Earth’s inhabitants. We were always an imperfect union, but striving for better. We had an economy in 2024 that was the envy of the world. We had an economy many economists said was the most solid we’ve ever had. Biden’s policies were just kicking in. A Golden Era was just ahead. We could all feel it. Until corp media told us otherwise. We threw our democracy away for what? So a colored woman didn’t become president? Because of the fictional trans issue which 90% of Democrats didn’t make anywhere near a central plank of their party? Democrats aren’t waging a culture war. Republicans have been waging it since the 70s.

JHFC

If you march on the 19th, please please please be careful. Wear a mask, keep your cellphone shut off. Be extremely aware of the people around you, esp. people who may read as potential threats. Try as much as you can not to get caught in the middle of the crowd in case shit goes down.

Cutting funding for an African American history museum because....of course

From X

“I hate to sound like a broken record but people do not realize how severe this is.

The entire modern economy is built on rare earth minerals.

Everything.

Defense, medical equipment, cars, phones, industrial tools. Everything.

China has 95% of the world’s refining capacity and is not exporting any of it out anymore.

It would take the U.S. 5-10 years at the minimum to open our own refineries.

Financial markets are calm about this for now because companies have enough inventory to last a quarter or two.

And the assumption is that China will reverse this policy before the effects start appearing.

But are we 100% certain of that assumption?

Because if we are not, you need to price in some very scary left tails.”

Ask Grok what would happen to the US economy if they don’t reverse “

RIP

R286 I'm 100%, and have felt that way since the day after Election Day.

Check out this video.

Well, if the economy crashes due to China cutting off the rare earths, I guess they’ll have a helluva time rounding up and sending people to Hell Salvador.

So, bring it on, China! Bust his tiny testicles so we can be rid of him and his cult.

DOGE really fucked up Social Security, wait times are terrible 😒

Whistleblower details how DOGE may have stolen sensitive labor data

R294 - China needs to say they’ll reverse if Dump issues a public apology.

Trump taking bribes from Warner Bros. - he wanted them to give Don Jr. a hunting show on one of the Discovery networks

Apparently, Maddow had on a very disturbing segment about a whistleblower who said DOGE leaked data to Russia. Maddow is very rattled. This seems extremely bad.

Putin always looks pasty, like he doesn't get out much. Sort of like a vampire.

#r301 - yes I saw that tonight. That poor guy was having trouble breathing he was so stressed out. You could tell he was telling the truth. I wonder if any other network will have the nerve to run this story. How can he keep getting away with this?

From Anonymous hacker group on Twitter:Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems.

npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-…

No wonder repubs want to defund NPR.

Paywalled r300.

R301 - here is the YT link to the video showing the whistle blower - starts at 23:30 or thereabouts. Of course Rachel must paint the whole picture leading up to the interview - that starts at about 15:45 but I provided the timeline for those that want to jump ahead of the 'all around the barn' explanation. The guy is a bit on edge which is understandable.

The kids are not alright, per a spring 2025 Yale Youth Poll:

🔵 Ages 22–29: D+6

🔴 Ages 18–21: R+12

That's for a generic 2025 ballot. The good news is that Trump, Vance and Musk are unpopular with everyone. Among voters under 30, Trump’s net favorability was -17.9; Vance came in at -30; and Elon Musk at -34.7. Former Vice President Harris came in at -1, and former President Biden was at -19.5.

Stupid white boys and girls he dumb bimbos who want to marry them.

Years of Russian/rethug lies

Speaking of treason, DOGE might be giving info to the Russians

The fed goverment is saturated with Pootin agents and loyalists. Congress has been infiltrated beyond a few.

R308 The people behind the MAGA movement went out of their way to influence $$$$$$$$ the influencers of young male listeners of bro pod-casters like Joe Rogan, Logan Paul, Theo Von, Andrew Huberman, Lex Friedman, etc. to turn their attention and narrative to more right wing topics and guests to brainwash listeners to believing they are victims, and to normalize Trump and promote conspiracy theories that the government is the bad guy, and not the elites and billionaires.

R295 here. I got timed-out for posting that link. wtf?

I just got back on.

They don't care if we live or die, part 764:

Injury is the leading cause of death for Americans under 45 years old, and data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) informs product recalls, safety standards and other public policy to prevent injuries and deaths.

Beginning Friday, the Consumer Product Safety Commission will stop collecting data on injuries from motor vehicle crashes, falls, alcohol, adverse drug effects, aircraft incidents, work-related injuries and other incidents through the NEISS.

Say, how are egg prices in your area?

Happy Easter.... 🐣 🐰 😡

Trump Considers Putting His Presidential Library In Trailer Park

Trump scolded a reporter today for "not being truthful" about egg prices dropping 92% and gasoline hitting $1.98/gallon in several states.

He absolutely revels in the stupidity of his cultists, doesn't he?

R314, wonder if they're trying to hide all the times Teslas crashed, malfunctioned, or caught on fire...

Didn't know where to put this so I'll just leave it here. The beauty is, the MAGGOTS are hurting, pissed and, according to this scum sucking pastor, "whining".

That’s what Fux has started telling the cult, r319. “It’s for your own good!”

Telling them they don’t need to eat meat every day and they should raise their own chickens for eggs.

They have the cult believing their crashing stocks are for their own good and they’ll be richer than Bezos in another year.

It’s just lies. They’ve already forgotten all about that stupid wall he was supposed to build and have Mexico pay for.

No one is holding Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch accountable for their ongoing, outrageous propaganda.

The State Department changes its stance on human rights - basically, it doesn't care about them anymore

FCC Chair Threatens To Pull MSNBC’s License For Criticizing Trump

Freedom!

MSNBC should sue them. Fuck this fascist bullshit

Start suing this fucker. Once discovery hits, he’ll shut his goddamned, lying anus mouth

Fox News has always been a fact free propaganda channel for the right wingers. And yet neither Clinton or Obama or Biden ever considered siccing the FCC on them to take away their broadcast license.

R326 They should have.

It's that old argument: Should free speech allow a person to yell "Fire" in a crowded movie theatre just if he feels like it? Fox had "News" in their title, yet they were knowingly, deliberately running false, defamatory and damaging stories. So damaging that we are feeling the effects to this day.

Now more than EVER!

Whose license will the FCC pull? They can’t pull MSNBC’s because it’s not broadcast over the airwaves and it doesn’t need a license. Hence why Fox’s license can’t be pulled either.

R328 That's what I thought as well, but does the FCC have any jurisdiction of cable channels?

R329, the FCC licenses cable operators but not cable channels and cannot regulate their content. I suppose the administration could waste time and money trying to threaten Spectrum’s license, but everyone knows that you can’t fight cable companies.

Trump has lost it, it's so obvious but no one is doing anything. We're in danger. This guy shouldn't and couldn't be in charge of a vending machine.

Great turnout for the march today in NYC.

[quote] This guy shouldn't and couldn't be in charge of a vending machine.

Somehow the vending machine would go bankrupt. Not sure how that is possible, but somehow Trump would find a way.

r329, the Reagan administration made sure when it stripped down the FCC's regulatory powers that it would have no control over newer media, like then-emerging cable and satellite TV.

He bankrupted a fucking casino, r333.

More than once, r335.

Elon and DOGE are abusing our data (no surprise)

ICE agents SMASH WINDOW...of the wrong guy

Trump is beginning to look corpselike. Maybe it's a sign!

DJT has physicians who were untruthful, and provided distorted data about his weight ,and other physical and mentally-related measurements..

True r340, and of course they are completely ridiculous about it, just telling lies we all know are stupid and obvious.

I forgot which comedian asked, "He knows we can see him, right?"

Trump is the picture of health! He has won many golf championships and is quite trim at 6'3" and 220 pounds

R342, him being “victorious” in so many golf tournaments was the best line. The doctor wasn’t allowed to say “he constantly plays golf, so he must function on some level.” No, he had to sign off on Trump WINING all the time.

^^Thanks for the laugh!

DJT is notorious for cheating at the game of golf. He picks up balls and moves them to make easier shots. He drives his golf cart on the greens all the way up to or near the holes. Then the scorekeeper reduces the number of strokes he made.

Lindsey Graham is right there golfing with Donald Trump almost each time Trump decides to play.

South Carolina has some of the finest golf courses in the country, but she avoids going golfing in her home state. Her motive is to be by Trump‘s side, and not an obsession with the game.

JD Vance killed the Pope. Pass it on.

R347 Set to the tune, Video Killed the Radio Star.

NYT: Trump raised $239 million for his inauguration festivities in January, a norm-shattering amount fueled by corporate America’s desire to curry favor with a famously transactional president. The total is more than double the previous record of $107 million set by Trump's inaugural committee in 2017

How much of that do you think went into Trump's pocket?

All of it?

He shorted the stocks with that money before crashing the market.

Dear sweet baby Jesus...

LOL, I just read this comment over at Muriel's fave rag. "Reply STOP to this text if you no longer wish to receive secret US war plans."

ICE Barbie was robbed at Captial Burger on Easter Sunday. Who the fuck eats at Capital Burger on Easter Sunday? Anyway, because it's Muriel's fave rag, I'll just c&p some of the fun facts involved in the latest edition of: Trump's Admin are a Bunch of idiots segment of this thread.

"Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was carrying $3,000 in cash when her purse was stolen because she was planning to hand out the money to family as Easter gifts, she claims."

"The so-called 'ICE Barbie' was robbed while she was dining at Capital Burger in Washington D.C., despite being accompanied by her Secret Service detail."

"But a law enforcement source disclosed to CNN that there were plenty of valuables in the bag that was stolen on Sunday."

"The man was able to take off with Noem's driver's license, medication, house keys, passport, DHS badge, makeup bag, blank checks and roughly $3,000 in cash, the source shared."

The idiot lost her security badge. Where does it end with this Keyston Cops administration? I mean come on.

"Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was carrying $3,000 in cash when her purse was stolen because she was planning to hand out the money to family as Easter gifts, she claims."

She meant to say, to pay off her drug dealer.

uh oh, r353. Was she anywhere near a pet store? Or as she calls it, the Shooting Range?

How many puppies does $3000 buy?

Only one puppy.

That DHS badge should have been locked up at home if she wasn’t working.

Trump's EPA just took down its chemical accident tracking tool, weeks after chemical lobbyists demanded the administration shut down the website.

The locations of thousands of high-risk chemical plants across the country are now shielded from public view.

Kamala won, the election was rigged. The data proves it. Nathan Taylor from Election Truth Alliance goes over the data in Christopher Titus latest podcast.

There were also approximately 3.7 million voters, mostly in swing voting states, that had their voters registration purged from the polls. They were about 80% Black or Latino. Add to that the post vote shenanigans stated in R358, and Kamala would have won, perhaps overwhelmingly.

Sinclair Lewis says hello:

The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products, following its suspension earlier this month of testing for bird flu in milk and cheese, and pathogens like the parasite Cyclospora in other food products.

If you can, buy local.

People never think of the horrific shit they can do like r360 & r357.

Democrats, and Republicans, in Congress are terrified they'll be disappeared.

FCI,

Do you think MAGA Merrick Garland is feeling particularly proud of himself these days?

Every individual who have the capability to hold Trump accountable failed, either because they were compromised, or spineless.

I have my doubts this extensive focus, including a trip by a Senator and another trip by some House members, to El Salvador in support of Kilmar Ábrego García, is helping Democrats among the general electorate. The media is putting García front and center in the news, and this is the Trump transgression that gets Democrats activated? Leave it with the courts.

No - they can’t leave it with the courts. Housing these people in a killing jail isn’t ok. Trump says they can’t have a trial for everyone? Yes they can. They can take the money out of there tax cuts. If he starts doing this to people and we ALL KNOW IT - we will all be changed and complicit. He is such rotten cheese - he will start disappearing rivals or inconvenient people. He will start disappearing homeless people. It will change our souls if we just say “oh well.”

Their not there!

[quote] MAGA Merrick Garland

From the beginning of the Biden administration, Garland portrayed himself as careful, thorough, fair-minded, and calming in his work. What he showed when it came to Trump and his prime co-conspirators, Garland procrastinated to run out the clock, neglected to act on a multitude of egregious behaviors, and appointed a special council so late there was not enough time allowed to take the prosecutions through the system for final judgments. Garland acted timid, showed no spine, and rendered the impression, correctly perhaps, he was secretly pro-Trump and wanted him to succeed in not being convicted in the federal judiciary.

Yet, Garland's special prosecutor, went to extraordinary efforts to please Republicans and level convictions on Hunter Biden.

Russia Ron Johnson is a 9/11 truther

If that were true, they wouldn't be panicking on the right r364. People like you are worried that Trump went too far here, and is clearly in the wrong. Since they are cult members, they can't admit that, so they are left with desperately hoping that everybody will believe the most notorious liar in American history.

NYT: The executive producer of “60 Minutes,” Bill Owens, announced today that he would resign from the long-running Sunday news program because he had lost his journalistic independence.

In an extraordinary declaration, Mr. Owens — only the third person to run the program in its 57-year history — told his staff in a memo that “over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience.”

Tom Cotton has a "silent caucus" urging fellow Republicans to not answer questions from reporters on their way to vote.

No town halls, no speaking to reporters.........that's their new tactic in avoiding accountability.

The link has a stunning photo of Marsha Blackburn.

"Stunning" as in, what the fuck happened to my face?! (let alone her equally rotten soul)

[quote]Tom Cotton has a "silent caucus" urging fellow Republicans to not answer questions from reporters on their way to vote.

Speaking of America's most hypocritical senator:

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is pleading with Trump to “reconsider” his denial of disaster relief after tornadoes hit Arkansas. Cotton joined the Arkansas delegation in writing a letter directly to Trump to support Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ request for funds.

Cotton has a history of voting against disaster relief for other states. “I don’t think Arkansas needs to bail out the Northeast,” Cotton said in the aftermath of 2013’s Hurricane Sandy.

Hey Tom Cotton, now we won't care if constituents are denied disaster relief because you do not give a shit when it was someone else.

The truly stunning thing about Republicans, as George Conway was saying last night, is that they do not give two shits about looking like hypocrites. In fact, for them, it’s damn near a badge of honor.

He's right, they're a twisted bunch.

George Conway has become a very popular political commentator on TV news. His daughter, Claudia, has become widely known on social media.

I haven’t heard anything from or about the divorced Kellyanne Conway since last November. She lost much of her credibility with her tactics, propaganda, and outright lies. The mainstream media is not interested in having her interviewed, and pay her for the deception. She’s another person’s whose reputation was largely ruined by Trump., and ended up dumped.

Pope Pancit

Oy! Sorry wrong thread

ElderLez that happens to me at times and I’m a teetotaler.

The U.S. presented a peace plan yesterday that Russia everything it wants:

• Ukraine must abandon its claims to Crimea

• Ukraine will refuse to join NATO

• The US will lift all sanctions imposed on Russia

• The US will begin energy cooperation with Russia

• Direct negotiations will commence between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, without security guarantees

• Ukraine will also conclude a minerals agreement with the U.S.

I can't imagine why people continue to think that Trump is in Putin's pocket.

R381 - that is a hard NO - terrible. Tammy Bruce was on CNN this morning scolding Phyllis George’s daughter - that whole bunch are nothing but bullies. I feel sick for Zelenskyy- they are so disrespectful! Awful. Marco Rubio is a tremendous disappointment. That is putting it nicely. Trump, Vance and Rubio are terrible to Zelenskyy. …… I wish someone would ask Tammy Bruce about Brenda Benet.

R382 What about Tammy and Brenda? (do you mean Bill Bixby's ex-wife who committed suicide many years ago?)

It was painfully obvious from the very beginning that this was always going to be Trump's position on Russia and Ukraine. Absolutely nobody should be surprised here.

R383 - Yes - That Brenda Benet - blast from the past. She was in her early 30s when she divorced Bill Bixby. Tammy Bruce was 17 and became her personal assistant. They became lovers and they began living together. They broke up a few years later. benet’s 6 year old son with Bill Bixby died from a freak throat virus. Not long after Benet called Tammy Bruce and asked her to come over for lunch. When Tammy got there Benet was locked in her bathroom and shortly shot herself. That must have been terrible. I haven’t thought about Brenda Benet in years but this morning when I saw Tammy Bruce scolding Pamela Brown about the details of the Ukraine deal I looked her up.

Moving 500 additional FBI agents to Alabama’s Redstone Arsenal:

Kash Patel is GAY.

Also, this thread is getting very glitchy for me. Methinks there are some eyes on it.

Miss Lindz knows.

I’m concerned.

It is, r387. Usually isn't this bad until we're up in the mid 500s.

Eat shit, trumptards!

New Fox News poll of registered voters on job approval at the 100-day mark:

George Bush 63%

Barack Obama 62%

Joe Biden 54%

Trump Term 1 45%

Trump Term 2 44%

Trump is a bumbling fool.

The new Comms Director and spokesperson for the Secretary of the Navy was a J6 insurrectionist. Yep.

R391 Trump has 44% approval ratings? How is it above 30%? Are his MAGA cultists not even understanding all the calamity going on these last 3 months?

Trump has been looking quite orange lately. Here's a guy who could have one of the best makeup artists in the world but I guess he thinks he looks good. Wrong, Don.

I suspect MAGA cultists will never get it, ever, but he's at 37% for handling the economy. I wonder if that overall approval figure might just take awhile to catch up to the economy figures for non-cultists. I don't pretend to know how polls move, but I assume when the country decides you really kind of suck at that whole economy thing, it's tough to come back from that.

When your local store shelves are empty and the price of everything is up significantly, then perhaps the scales will fall from their eyes.

Once tariffs are implemented (in how many days now,78?) and prices start to rise and stay that way, the cultists will start to squirm. The economy isn't yet in a place where they can understand the living hell that will be unleashed -- they're simply too ignorant to understand simple economic principles to know the devastation that lies ahead. They're not very bright people, certainly not means end thinkers.

They will only start to think "maybe this isn't such a good idea" when they start to feel the acute pain. Right now MAGA is too intoxicated with the idea that their god is inflicting pain on those they hate and envy. The list is extensive, so the fapping to others' misfortune will go on for a while until the economic downturn his them right between the eyes.

I expect protests to really ramp up when the tariffs hit hard.

Congress needs to oust this guy. He's incapable of doing the job.

Trump.Can't.Learn.

Mission impossible.

Congress, at least the controlling Republican majority, is at least as fucked up as Trump is. They aren't going to do shit about shit.

In the Trump backs down on China thread, the last post currently is a segment from MSNBC on how shelves could be empty in TWO WEEKS.

Get your supplies NOW!

The maggots don’t care. Fux keeps telling them that they’ll never be rich if they don’t face this pain.

Fux never says the pain will last years, send them into ruin or force them to work until they drop dead. Not that they’d care about that, either, as long as their orange Jesus tells them it’s for their own good.

R385 I knew (and now remember) all of what happened to Brenda. I had NO IDEA Tammy Bruce was involved. So now the obvious question, knowing Tammy was involved, are we sure it was suicide?

I watched that CNN interview. I have been saying this for weeks now: We need a new word for CUNT!

Oh, she's around r377. Her haggard looks have been touched up and she's still on the Trump payroll. She doesn't say much and just smiles and nods benignly here.

R407, she looks like a warped version of Kelly Ann Conway.

People are calling us chicken littles, but as I told you all months ago I heard directly from someone on the Hill to stock up on everything because they all were.

Better to be safe than sorry.

It seems the orange one wasn't happy with the poll at R391:

“Rupert Murdoch has told me for years that he is going to get rid of his FoxNews, Trump Hating, Fake Pollster, but he has never done so,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. “This ‘pollster’ has gotten me, and MAGA, wrong for years.”

Store warn of empty shelves soon.

Pete is so good at this. He's going to be top 3 in the next Democratic primary.

Please, no minorities candidates for the next Democrat presidential race. Having women or people of color is seen as DEI right now, regardless of how qualified they may be. We do not need any disadvantages going into the 2028 race.

Why doesn’t the Democratic Party put Pete in front of a microphone on a DAILY basis to refute the lies of the Trump admin for that day and then put out our message. Classic counter-programming. He is the most effective communicator of the party and they don’t have him doing anything.

In the spirit of the majorly prescient film NETWORK (1976): “You gotta do something. You’ve gotta do something about [Donald Trump]. Get him off the air. Get him off. Do something. DO ANYTHING!”

R414 Cheri Jacobus, among others, has been trying to get that going for 2 months. There are also many who believe the Dems should have a Shadow Cabinet to report on the REAL events that are taking place, instead the daily lies being told by every Trump cabinet member

So why the fuck isn’t it happening yet, R415?! The whole shock of Trump 2.0 was jarring for everyone but there has been more than enough time to re-group and come up with a plan to combat this.

Are they just leaving everything up to Rachel Maddow to handle at this point? I really just don’t get it.

In the meantime, the DNC has David Hogg trying to primary a number of congressional Democrats.

R411, FCI, (or anybody else), I know we've done this before, but please post maybe a short list of specific items we should stock up on. I'm always afraid I'm forgetting something. Thanks!

FCI, what are YOU stocking up on? Whether we should or not, many of us do follow the example you set on here.

I have added TP and paper towels to my list so that if I’m in the store and see a decent price, I get a giant-sized package. I used everything we stockpiled from the pandemic so I’m pretty sure the extras will be used.

I'm guessing TP for Americans based on what I've seen on Canadian news, but it could have been an overstated tease.

Why TP and paper towels (aside from the obvious hygienic reasons)?

Something about tariffs on Canadian materials.

I dunno why, but we always have to go for the crazy amounts of TP.

The whole thing is impossibly vulgar.

How Trump's day is going:

• A federal judge blocked Trump administration directives that threatened to cut federal funding for public schools with diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

• Another federal judge blocked his administration from withholding federal funding from several so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that have declined to cooperate with the Republican president’s hardline immigration crackdown.

• Another federal judge blocked the administration from immediately enacting certain changes to how federal elections are run, including adding a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form.

Read this, but it's depressing. In short, should China and everyone say let's forgive and forget about tariffs, the damage is done. China is about to make us go through some real pain. As always, read independent information. If it contradicts me, cool.

R418 I'll get back to you.

Me personally...

I have stocked up on:

TP

Paper Towels

Cat Food

Cat Litter

Bottled Water

Drink Mixes (Crystal Light, Kool Aid)

Protein Shakes

Cheeses

Slim Jims

Stop linking to shitter! Those links don’t work. Screen shot the tweet or quote it, but links don’t work

Hosting a MAGA dinner tonight at a Trump golf club $$win$$win$$

[quote]Slim Jims

ew

Just back from vacation and checking in...

Is he dead yet?

Ron DeSantis BUSTED Sending $10 Million In Medicaid Money To His Wife’s Charity

Links work if you have Twitter. It is where I get some great info. I hate it, too.

From the last post of mine:

The White House has put itself and the country in a bad situation but doesn’t realize it yet.

Around April 10th China to USA trade shut down.

It takes ~30 days for containers to go from China to LA.

45 to Houston by sea, 45 to Chicago by train.

55 to New York by sea.

That means that there are no economic effects of what was done on April 10th until about May 10th.

Around that time (it’s already started to happen) trucking work is going to dry up. Warehouses will start doing layoffs because no labor is needed to unload containers and some products will be out of stock, reducing the need for shipping labor.

All this will start in the Los Angeles area.

After about 2 weeks, it’ll start hitting Chicago and Houston.

Let’s say the White House, after 3 weeks, changes its mind, on May 31st.

“This isn’t working out like we thought it would. Tariffs back to 0.”

Let’s say China says “bygones be bygones, we’ll go back to how things were”.

Let’s say every factory in China that got screwed by their orders being cancelled says the same thing “no problem, we’ll make and ship”.

The problem is, even under the most favorable conditions of China and the factories restarting economic ties as though nothing happened, it will be at least another 30 days before economic activity is revived.

And that’s just in LA.

In Chicago/Houston, you’ll need to wait another 45 days.

New York, at that point, will still be getting containers from before April 10th, they will then have 50 days (May 31 minus April 10) of zero economic activity at the ports, in trucking of Chinese goods, in warehousing.

The whole situation is a bit like lockdowns. Once you shut down, it takes a long time to get economic activity back to where it was, if you ever can.

And again, this assumes, that China and its factories, which make things you can’t buy elsewhere, will start right back up again as though nothing happened, which is unlikely.

It’s almost like we’re speeding towards a brick wall but the driver of the car doesn’t see it yet.

By the time he does, it’ll be too late to hit the brakes.

Buy anything that went out of stock during COVID.

-pet food

-pet supplies

-MREs

-Food/water

-batteries

-solar powered chargers/laterns (what I was told from someone on the Hill I trust with my life).

-water filtration device (some are super cheap)

-Toiletries (soap, shampoo, tooth paste, toilet paper, paper towels)

-I bought some survival kit dried food/MREs that last 25 years

-as much cash as you can reasonably, and safely, take out.

-emergency radio (again, told to get by my friend on the Hill. They were very insistent I do so).

I live in hurricane alley. With global warming, they are getting stronger and I’ve been flooded out twice, once with 14 inches of water in my place. These are things I need anyway. Make the best decisions YOU feel comfortable with.

[quote]r432 = All this will start in the Los Angeles area.

Merde.

It’s not just China. He’s screwed every one of our allies. They are making deals with other countries, and those deals will not change for a long time. We are going to be iced out by the world. They hate us. They don’t trust us. Even if a Democrat gets in next, they know Americans are contrarians and will elect a R Congress at midterms, then another crazy ass R president. You can set your watch by it. The damage Dotard has done is immense, and it will last decades.

Don’t blame Biden or Garland. Americans are fucking stupid, lazy, entitled racist, misogynistic homophobic dumbasses. If we really chucked our envious way of living, our entire democracy, our entire Constitution over “woke” or “trans” issues then that is even more damning on us as a people. This is sadly the result of never fully dealing with the racial issues, and confronting these goddamn racists who never got over losing the Civil War. Had we just let Blacks be successful (instead of killing them when they were, or making laws preventing them from being successful) we wouldn’t have had the ghettos, the increasingly (justifiably) hostile and violent inner cities of despair where a lot of your options are crime. Imagine all the wonderful things we could have if it wasn’t for the fucking racists (and misogynists and homophobes). We’d have far more than Europe. Far better schools, health care, infrastructure, social programs, everything! But no, gotta keep those coloreds in their place!

Republicans have put us in a recession or depression from Hoover to Trump. Every. Single. Time. Democrats perform better for the economy by every measure going back 100 years. Yet, who do Americans think is better on the economy? It is un fucking believable.

FCI, I have always believed that racism—in its peculiar form in this country—is at the root of all that is wrong in America. Very eloquent post.

And that’s not to say that racism doesn’t exist elsewhere, but in America, it’s—for lack of better words—unique and particularly destructive here.

R436 Correct. It’s so devastating. There aren’t enough words in the world to articulate how destructive it has been for our country. I say this as a southern white boy with light brown hair and blue eyes.

R435 - Thanks for your most articulate and informative contributions to this thread. As an insider (so to speak) you have more insight to the inter goings on and can convey that info to those of us that want to be informed and prepared.

R438 Thank you!

I’ll likely get a time out for getting into in another thread over my hatred of David Hogg.

Which thread, r439? I'm r417.

Never mind, I just found it!

R426, I have six months cash in the mattress, six months of food and water, If it looks like Depression, I will reevaluate

R442 It’s starting to. Trucking and shipping volume are plummeting. I hate Twitter as much as the next person, but more and more trusted accounts are posting receipts about how all signs from what I just posted, to other things like housing, are looking really bad. Add to that we have the most incompetent administration in history, and I am very worried.

Having cash for in person transactions may be helpful but what about paying monthly bills - Utilities, Internet/Phone, Installment Loans, etc., let alone Real Estate taxes that are due every 6 months, plus insurance (Health, Car, Home) and on and on.

Is the coming 'Crash' going to bring down everything or will it be like Covid but far worse?

Can’t DJT just stick with Lady Lindz?

r444, I believe that the USPS still offers Money Orders.

It will all depend on the status of online banking.

It will depend on the cash deposits insured by the FDIC.

R444 That’s the trillion dollar question. Maybe they are fear mongering, but I think this will be far worse than Covid. I *hate* to sound so pessimistic, but we’re headed for a huge crash judging from what I am seeing from so many people online. I would love nothing more than to be wrong. I want us all to be prepared. I started hearing alarm bells from the Hill way back in Nov. They all knew Dotard was going to do the tariffs, and that project 2025 would go forward. They knew he would severely weaken and compromise our national security. I’ll just say it- they fear a huge cyberattack hitting our electric grids. That is what I was told hence the solar powered and cash. That has lessened somewhat, but not for good reasons. They are getting far more from this administration than they ever imagined. We’re destroying ourselves.

R444 - Thanks. I believe the USPS requires cash to purchase money orders so I'd have to have thousands of dollars on hand to keep things afloat regarding my parrticular situation. At least my house is paid for and I live in a rural secluded area on 5 acres and I have plenty of supplies (in general) but no matter how well prepared one is, there is sure to be something overlooked. At least knowing what's coming and doing something in preperation is using ones time wisely. Fun times ahead.

There are Groypers in the Trump administration? No sh!t.

R446 - my post (448) was meant for you - not myself at 444. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Does cash really keep working fine if there really is a massive collapse of the whole banking system? They seem connected.

Michele Fiore was convicted of using money designated for a fallen Las Vegas police officer’s memorial for her own rent, plastic surgery and daughter’s wedding.

Trump just pardoned her.

She is, of course, a strong MAGA.

Icky at r444 /r450

My house is free and clear, my car is free and clear.

My monthly bills are less tan $500, and I have six months worth of cash "in the mattress". .

r442 / r446

Not looking good for Republicans.

R454, I love how so many people replying to that tweet are in denial.

R453 - Thanks for your prep status - I have two vehicles, one paid for, one about a year left. I have a good bit in liquid savings and could live off that for up to 3 years if need be but having it available is of concern depending on how this goes (or doesn't go!). The vehicle payment is only $443.00 per month @0.9% so I'll let that ride for now. I just returned from picking up more provisions (90 rolls of Scott TP!!) plus 2 6-packs of canned chicken breasts (Sam's) and some other stuff to add to my larder stockpile.

It is hard to fathom EVERYTHING just crashing (Money system, communications, utilities, etc.) but if it does only the hard prepers will be best prepared.

Having cash is good but small bills (1,5,10,20) is best since you can pay w/o being concerned if others have change should you pull out a One Hundred dollar bill to pay for a pack of gum.

Time will tell but until then I'll enjoy the near-term and hope things don't get too Hinky.

I’ve been low key prepping since the election. Lately I’m not feeling that our financial/electrical systems will break down permanently, however I do feel some craziness will happen /SHTF in May causing chaos. I’m prepared to hunker down with my pets for approx 4 months if needed. Shelves may be emptier due to tariffs, there may be civil unrest/violence so just buy a few extra (if you can) of stuff you can’t be without in the next couple of months. Pet food, coffee, bottled water, meds, batteries etc.

I WFH (while I still have a job) so not too worried about my car etc but my prepping probably will likely keep me from having to go out and deal with any fuckery that may happening out in the world.

Even the consumer reporter on NBC Today finally said shelves will be emptier in the very near future (someone on Bluesky figured out the dates of when chinese shipments will stop hitting our ports and it pointed to May 10-20) . The reporter also stated many jobs around transportation and shipping will be gone very very soon. Don’t panic just be ready! Today show clip attached.

[quote]It is hard to fathom EVERYTHING just crashing (Money system, communications, utilities, etc.) but if it does only the hard prepers will be best prepared.

r458/Icky, Trump always escapes into chaos. When he finally figures out he cannot be America's first dictator, when it comes to him being impeached, I put nothing past him. He will steal ALL of our money through his Treasury servers, he will nuke a city or two, and he will leave magic beans in the treasury to pay the national bills. We will be fucked if he takes over the banks. However,

Americans aren't going anywhere.

I will see all of you at the Second Republic where there will not be an Electoral College.

R457 & R458 - I've always bought extra 'just in case' stuff so I have several months worth of consumable provisions & pet food for my precious Calico. Also lots of personal care items (soap, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, etc.) underwear, socks and other stuff. I should live long enough to wear out all the footwear I have in addition to slacks/pants/shirts/outerwear and so on. I need to get more cash on hand soon as well since I rarely carry any. I do have a lot of silver dollars I bought /inherited which could be used to barter if it comes to that.

Since I live in a small town in a rural area (South of Charlottesville) I should be OK as most nearby are pretty decent people and have more money/land than I do. My closest 'neighbor' in nearly 1/2 mile away so I'm in a somewhat secluded location off a dirt/gravel road. My only real concern is not having electricity since I consider that essential to any kind of civilized existence. I won't worry too much about how bad it could get but should the 'bow break' then I won't be the only one doing without.

At the age of 75 I've had it pretty good considering how some exist on this planet. I hope I don't go out with a 'bang' due to the ineptitude of the most unqualified person on the planet to run anything beyond a lemonade stand!

I am 71 and just assume I will be killed in the coming apocalypse you folks are anticipating.

I have plenty of rice and pasta, not the healthiest food I know but close to nonperishable.

Same, r461.

Just picked up two extra bags of cat food and three extra boxes of litter, along with food for me.

I’ve got my garden started (potatoes, collards, broccoli, peas, lettuce) and will start some bok Choi, beans and tomatoes shortly. I might end up with cabbage, too, so I’ll have to attempt some sauerkraut. I already make pickles every year.

Most people around me have small gardens and give away extras. Guess we’ll be trading vegetables and herbs.

peanut butter

Oy - this thread is turning into a Costco shopping list!

*

Hey icky!

I'm just south of Richmond, we're practically neighbors!

Went to Target today to get some litter & cat food since they have a Circle Reward going on so buy $100 and get $25 off. It ended up messing so the cashier just took $25 off.

I still had the reward so I took that as a sign and went to another Target and it worked. So I doubled up for my precious babies.

Costco has historically been *the* place for preppers.

R466 - yes, neighbors indeed! There is a Costco in C'ville but I shop Sam's although I did have a Costco membership several years ago.

I have 4 40lb boxes of cat litter w/another one in service. My cat has the best litter box manners I've ever seen in all the cats I've had over the decades. I date the open one when started and calculated 1 40lb box will last 4 months so I have enough for at least a year. I also have lots off cat food/treats and have deliveries from Chewy often enough so I have a good surplus of 6 months or so. I have a local vet/clinic as well as a 'House Calls' vet that comes once a year for a wellness check and annual vaccines.

The media is really ramping up the 'Shelves will be bare in May' story and hopefully people will pay attention but I doubt it. If someone needs something I have plenty and will share although in my immediate area we 'drive' to each others homes - it's too far to walk!

The Trump administration is poised to eliminate dozens of federal programs, including protective services for vulnerable seniors, chronic disease self-management education, resource centers for people who have been paralyzed or lost a limb and one that tries to help older people prevent falls. Even a more modest federal initiative aimed at making polling places more accessible would be eliminated under the proposal.

All of these programs facing the knife fall under the Administration for Community Living, a component of the Department of Health and Human Services that aims to help older adults and people with disabilities remain in their homes and communities. The whole department is being zeroed out, according to the budget proposal.

Trump has entered Uncle Junior's territory now. He's losing his mind and he didn't have much to begin with.

#R470 - uncle June!! you are right. But even Tony’s crew was kinder than these people. …, Ok - I may have some dumb questions in the up coming days. A group that loves their cats this much is the group to be in. My fiancés are low at the moment and I rent. I had a lot of painful and expensive dental surgery at the beginning of the year. Thank God I got it done or all of this would be unbearable. I am 60 and have no family except my 88 year old mom - I am her sole care giver . She has dementia and can’t walk - I have my hands full! Plus my beloved Sunny my 17 year old Tabby with renal disease. His prescription cat food is $3.50 a can - I had better hustle and and stock up in case it is unavailable. He has special medication that is $85 a bottle and it comes from Canada - so I had better hurry up with that, too. Life is complicated enough without all of this cruel insanity that is going on. I am worried about power and banks going down. My mom is pretty great but I have to explain things over and over …. honestly - I appreciate you all more than you know - it makes me feel less isolated! Thank you.

Finances not fiancé! That must have been a Freudian slip!

And right into French accent characters too! That was more of a Freudian fall off a cliff. So what's really going on in your life r472?

Think who had a great time in Mar-a-Lago this past weekend and be happy.

I live in West Hollywood. Look who's coming to town this weekend! (link below)

Seriously, I feel like this is an opportunity of some sort.

Anybody have any good ideas without me getting myself arrested?

The 2024 election was always about inflation. Nothing else. It wasn't about being anti-woke, or trans people, or any other kind of cultural shift. The right wants you to think it was, so they can advance their agenda. But it wasn't.

All of the groups that Republicans bragged about gaining ground with have now abandoned Trump.

r475, I'm in WeHo too- maybe we should meet up and cause shenanigans.

[quote]Anybody have any good ideas without me getting myself arrested?

I thought the actual point was to get yourself arrested.

Wait, they're sending Matt Gaetz to that rally in WeHo, and not Nestor? Not sure they've thought this through.

Will the tariffs affect medications?

R477 - time for some good trouble!

I don't think so, R480, and let's hope not. Trump would be better off sticking a rusty spike through his empty head, because I think a tariff on meds would be egregious enough to lose tons of Gex X and Boomer support.

Trump frequently uses the words "a win." The only time I think of a win is in sports, games or award shows. He aggravates me beyond words.

The Trump administration has altered Hatch Act rules so that it is OK for federal employees to display campaign paraphernalia on the job -- but ONLY for the current President/VP, not for any challengers.

All this shit Trump utters, Stephen Miller enacts on it, or tells the person in the administration who is responsible for the area to get moving on it. Miller is the point person for Trump.

Stephen Miller looks like a serial killer.

Even some serial killers have a superficial charm. Not Miller. He's just blatant Lucifer.

The few times I've seen him in News Clips, he always seems angry & on edge - ready to explode - which I've seen him do before they break away. I believe he's the one driving all these severe policies.

Hey, don't be dragging me into Stephen Miller's mess. I am the personification of charm!

That bitch is the classic "Couldn't Get Laid at a Whorehouse."

R488 - He was the author of the policy to separate children from their parents at the border and ship them all over the U.S. I'm not sure how many of them have been reunited. He is the devil incarnate.

Steven Miller is part of the Heritage Foundation Project 2025 chaos before Trump steals TRILLIONS of dollars and leaves us Magic Beans in the Treasury. THAT is what the DOGE Committee installing servers at Treasury, OMB, and Social Security is all about.

Listen, we need to stop thinking that the maggots will “wake up” once the market crashes or they can’t get medications or food.

These people will never wake up. This is EXACTLY what they voted for abs they fully support him crashing the economy. They DO NOT CARE how badly they get hurt as long as he keeps attacking the people they hate.

As long as he keeps sending innocent people to Hell Salvador, attacking PBS, universities, DEI and the government, they will never abandon him. Ever.

That’s why they voted for him. They’re fucking monsters, just like HE IS. Stop thinking/hoping they will wake up. They won’t.

I remember back in 2017 when Stephen Miller's 3rd grade teacher posted something on Facebook on what a disturbed child he was!

I think she got a lot of blowback from Trumpers and had to go into hiding.

[quote]He is the devil incarnate.

No, he is just your basic twenty first century garden variety republican.

R493 And he's still a very disturbed child.

Didn’t Miller eat glue & chalk in school?

Miller & Lindsey Graham are not fond of each other. Miller is in the Bannon, Rebekah Mercer, and the Kellyanne (keeping lower exposure presently) camp.

Miller AKA Discount Goebbels or Temu Goebbels

This was written by a classmate of Miller's. It's far more damning than the teacher's. "A peculiar child" would be an understatement. I wonder if he ever got a formal diagnosis of some spectrum disorder. Most fixations among autistic individuals are harmless or mundane. This guy is fixated on ridding people with brown skin.

The class picture is priceless. He's so easy to pick out.

Trump SHOCKED as His Own Economy Starts UNRAVELING

Needs no explaining.

"Wishing you all the best" is the little note Miss Lindz leaves all her gentlemen callers, the next day.

Or so I've heard.

Wife receives birthday wishes every year from the mistress.

We're about to face supply shocks and empty shelves.

You'd be wise to stock up on essentials now.

From a Twitter user:

Purchase all major electronics and appliances for the year if you can.

Staples like rice can be purchased in 20+lbs bags and it lasts forever.

Panic buying is days away.

Stocked up on toothpaste and shampoo over the weekend.

I really feel we are headed for a major, deep crash. This administration is not competent to handle it.

Yet another disaster Republicans make for Democrats to fix and get zero credit for it.

FCI, I got everything on your list (including the radio and the solar-powered charger!) I had already been stocking up on toiletrees but got more toothpaste, paper towels, and toilet paper.

I have been hoarding cash since Covid so I’m good there but have been getting an extra $300 every week since the election.

I’m going to order some pre-made fresh meals today and then possibly take a break so I can organize where to put all this stuff.

Thank you for the valuable list. I was on a “time out” for the past week so was not able to chime in until now.

The Atlantic asked Trump how his two terms are different:

“The first time, I had two things to do — run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys,” Trump said in the interview published Monday.

“And the second time, I run the country and the world.”

And he has all these other crooked guys.

R508

Never forget that Trump hired "illegals" to work at his resorts

Guess I should grab some batteries or a solar powered small generator. Ugh

I don’t want to, but the solar chargers I have are for small things like laptops, phones and tablets

Any recommendations for a small solar charger with plugs?

This has ceased to be a treason thread and become a prepper thread.

[quote]“And the second time, I run the country and the world.”

"... into the ground."

R512, stop complaining. It can be (and, in fact, IS) both.

FCI or DCGay...

any inside info on the GOP implosion in Virginia?

R514 Well said! And good on you for stocking up.

Was it worth it, Dotard voters? Was the economy REALLY bad under Biden? Both parties can get blame for the border, but you cannot solely blame Democrats when Republicans tanked their own BIPARTISAN border bill because Dotard wanted to run on the border. Is the trans issue affecting your lives in ANY way? (I am so goddamn sick of the anti-tans troll here). If voters were willing to throw away our cushy lives, the entire way we’ve run our government for 250 plus years over TRANS, then we get what we richly deserve coming.

Now the tactic is to blame Biden and Democrats for what we are about to go through. No no no. Voters, this is on you. American voters are the most gullible, picky, stupid, contrarian assholes. If a candidate doesn’t say just the right things, or doesn’t give us the feels, or goes to this or that state just the right amount of times it’s their fault? No, American voters are willfully and gleefully ignorant and want to be beguiled. Never mind what the candidate has actually done and says they want to do. No, American voters don’t want to think about that. They are waiting to be lied to, to be wedged by some inane issue that doesn’t mean shit, but gets them riled up so easily. It is almost an impossible task, maybe it is impossible, for Democrats to convince voters this or that is BULLSHIT when they so easily buy it every single fucking time. The party that always puts us in an economic ditch going back 100 years is seen as the party that is best on the economy. HOW DO YOU FIGHT THAT? There are so many people in my family who don’t think politics matter! They think it was just an interest of mine. They can’t connect the dots even though I show them real ways Biden or Dotard’s policies affected them. Some think it is “tearing our family apart” like pretending none of this is happening will make it go away.

Anyway- I went back to the store and picked up some rice and beans, plus anything that is made in China (like air filters) I bought a years worth.

R515 No, I only know what goes on at the state level here in Texas. Those Republicans are too extreme for VA. VA has gone Blue since ‘08.

Also in the news as I was told and feared:

“ 🚨 BREAKING: Spain, Portugal, and parts of France just suffered synchronized infrastructure collapses, power grids down, metros offline, rail networks frozen, airports paralyzed, traffic lights dead, and supermarkets rationing water.

First they blamed “rare atmospheric phenomena.” Now they’re floating cyberattack theories with zero confirmed evidence.

You don’t get chaos this coordinated by accident.

You get it when someone wants to show you how fast your entire system can be unplugged.

Somebody just beta-tested collapse and Europe flunked the drill.”

R516 - Thanks for another worthwhile post. You mentioned air filters - I assume you mean for the HVAC system. I two different sized air returns and purchased several 3-packs of each size although I will get more tomorrow when I go to Lowe's. I do have an old battery powered AM/FM radio which may be enough w/o having to buy an emergency radio which would be helpful should severe storms roll through my area.

Yeah, the blanket power outage overseas is a wake-up call - they want to create chaos and unrest (no money, food, electricity, etc.) then declare Martial Law to clamp down on any backlash. The shit is just a blink away from hitting the fan.

Panicked WHITE HOUSE holds DISASTER presser as PORTS SHUT DOWN

I follow this guy on YouTube and TikTok (I know, I know), and he had some very interesting and scary insight into the Los Angeles port activity. In other words, FCI is not far off the mark. The shortages are coming.

The living shall envy the dead!

Dumb cunts voted for it.

I hope the red state maggots who voted for this stuff get what they wanted ten fold.

Goddamn petulant cunts

Canada doesn't fall for it! 🇨🇦

I see someone has returned to spread alarmism and parrot conspiracy theories again along with an alter to congratulate it on its prescience. So transparent.

At least we haven’t had the “three alarm emergency 🚨” or whatever drivel was used the last time yet.

Your only post, r524?

Crawling out of the woodwork to save the orange buffoon. Sad!

R525 hardly but nice try.

The MAGA cunts are calling Canadians Snow Mexicans.

Block r524 and you’ll see it claims Susan Collins won because of CHEATING. Who’s a conspiracy theorist? Jealous bitch. Who are you, really? You’re using your lil sock puppet account to attack me. Anyway, jealous bitch is blocked.

"new" media

VERY FATIGUED Trump LOSES HIS MIND in Worst Interview

He certainly knows how to put the FAT in FATIGUED.

It has nothing to do with fatigue, he's a fucking moron and a mean one at that.

Terry Moran should have pushed harder, shown the photo of the obvious photoshop, but he caved.

She’s stupider than Tommy Tuberville.