Trump Thread

[a completely inoffensive name]

Did Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer just trick Trump into having a "Trump shutdown"???

Anyway, another piece on the GOP going fashy, but what caught my attention was a comment:



@ACIN

The best part of the recent election was the Senate race between the moderate Dianne Feinstein and the ultra progressive Kevin de Leon (the Republican candidate came in 3rd in the primary and did not qualify).

Californian Republicans still don't understand how to think for themselves, they saw another name besides Feinstein and voted for him. I wonder what would have gone through their mind if they had successfully helped the San Fran progressives put their chosen candidate into office. Top fucking LOL.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Those outside the state will write off our views as nothing but Dems having enough "illegals" inflating their numbers to institute one party rule.
Meanwhile, the next generation of CAL conservative students wants to forgo the public relations effort that CALGOP tries to hind behind, and prefers to call their non-white non-binary citizens "degenerates".
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Degenerate-and/244871

[Seamus Fermanagh]

No trick needed at all. Trump likes to be tough. The trumpeteers listen to Limbaugh who assures them that government shutdowns are good and show how the government isn't all that necessary. Say no to a Trump policy you loathe and that his Trumpeteers adore. Trump gets to bathe in the purity of his followers love. His followers thank him for the shutdown. The media and the Dems tie the shutdown to the GOP with a huge Christmas bow (happens every time, regardless of who is in power in what branch or combo, GOP earns the stupid shutdown points).

Those relatively modern elements of the GOP get hammered for it, encouraging the GOP ever further into the Trumpeteer corner and ramping up the polarization even more.

I don't know who will make a move towards sensible governance. Conservatives like me drift away from the GOP day by day leaving only the Reactionaries and the out-and-out White Supremacists. Sad, sad, sad....

And in doing so, the DEMS have managed to ramp up their fruitbat fringers into a self-chosen bi-coastal elite who presumes that the Heartland and the South are congenital idiots who need to be kept semi-sedated and away from the adult table. Doesn't make the DEMS all the appealing either. Though I will admit that Euro-style social democracy is less damaging than Trump's reactionary zeitgeist.


A plague on both their houses. I'd love a fusion party running a ticket like governors Bullock and Sandoval. The USA is in pretty good shape, we don't need to be revamped from top to bottom on some idiot quest for ideological purity.


Too old now. Will probably not live the 5 decades needed to see us reach some reasonable political climate again. Gah.

[Strike For The South]

https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...fugees/577993/

What is the point of this? Why would you ever deport these people? 1995 was nearly 25 years ago, the war even longer than that, what are they supposed to go back too?

Stephen Millers fingerprints are all over this naked cruelty.

[Montmorency]

https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...fugees/577993/

What is the point of this? Why would you ever deport these people? 1995 was nearly 25 years ago, the war even longer than that, what are they supposed to go back too?

Stephen Millers fingerprints are all over this naked cruelty.

ICE arrested 170 immigrants seeking to sponsor migrant children

So then of course you have to keep the kids in the camps, because the family, adopters, or foster parents who would have taken them were themselves deported or sent to the camps.

Fuck the Herrenvolk

[Shaka_Khan]

https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...fugees/577993/

What is the point of this? Why would you ever deport these people? 1995 was nearly 25 years ago, the war even longer than that, what are they supposed to go back too?

Stephen Millers fingerprints are all over this naked cruelty.

Now all pre-1995 arrivals are exempt from the 2008 agreement’s protection.

This reminds me of this poem:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

-German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller

[Husar]

Remember how Obama totally came for the gun owners....

These freedom lovers seem pretty quiet now if they're not marching with tiki torches.

[Montmorency]

So Trump's charity, the Trump Foundation, is currently being sued into oblivion by the State of New York for being up to 100% fraud and is now being dissolved.

The largest donation in the charity’s history — a $264,231 gift to the Central Park Conservancy in 1989 — appeared to benefit Trump’s business: It paid to restore a fountain outside Trump’s Plaza Hotel. The smallest, a $7 foundation gift to the Boy Scouts that same year, appeared to benefit Trump’s family. It matched the amount required to enroll a boy in the Scouts the year that his son Donald Trump Jr. was 11.

lol

Of course, like much of Trump's criminality, this has been an open secret for a long time.

IN ORDER TO understand the Eric Trump Foundation, you need to understand the Donald J. Trump Foundation. The president was never known for giving his foundation much money, and from 2009 to 2014, he didn't give it anything at all. Outsiders still donated, though, allowing Trump to dole out their money to a smattering of more than 200 charities as if it were his own, with many of the donations helping his business interests.

Until this board turnover, the Eric Trump Foundation pretty much did what it told its donors it would: send its money to St. Jude [pediatric cancer research center]. But starting in 2011, more than $500,000 was redirected to a variety of other charities, many of which were personal favorites of Trump family members and several of which had nothing to do with children's cancer--but happened to become clients of Trump's golf courses.

Some half-jokingly speak about guillotining/eating the rich, but I have a better idea. White collar prosecution is at one of its all-time lows, because going after the rich and powerful is difficult and unpopular (with the rich and powerful). After this family is put away, the IRS should have its funding restored, the Special Counsel's Office should be redesignated as a White Collar Task Force, and they should be set loose on a mission to ruthlessly investigate and prosecute all the riches. Since there is a hangup over giving elites real jail time, the penalties should be largely (and severely) expropriative. But don't worry, none of the targets will starve with mere millions remaining.

Investigate how many 0.1%ers?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Edit: Any White Collar Task Force should be funded to the tune of billions, in order to pursue its mission properly. It'll pay for itself soon enough. Perhaps also fairer and more efficient than disproportionately auditing people literally on the poverty line.