Good morning and Happy Monday to everyone who agrees that, with Americans struggling to buy groceries because of trump's tariffs, it is obscene for him to be posting videos flaunting his gold Oval Office decor.
"Let them eat gilded cake."
Clueless FASCIST jackass.
Tell me more about FASCISM what kind of mental gymnastics need to take place in the maga mind to make this okay?? Lol... OLYMPIC LEVEL
Trump: "I'm gonna be meeting with generals and admirals and with leaders, and if I don't like somebody, I'm gonna fire them right on the spot."
Grandpa is getting worse by the day...
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1973010373407027326
I tried to listen to him but had to turn it off - it was embarrassing and showing more signs of dementia every day - but they will say he does it energetically (except today where it sounded like he was falling asleep.)
I know! It was so bad. Probably one of the worst I've ever seen. So much rambling incoherently and absolutely no energy at all.
Trump suggested that the military use “dangerous cities as training grounds.”
Can you imagine how ever Federalist and anti-Federalist is turning in their graves right as Trump sets fire to their great experiment. They must loath him.
It's almost as if he is declaring war on Democrats, isn't it??
More than that - any person who is not MAUGA and that includes people like Liz Cheney.
Thanks. I think the moderators have clearly shown they are MAGA adjacent as what I write like a stroll through the park compared to the insults and lies the other produce.
Kamala Harris was right about everything...yet she was mocked.
https://x.com/KamalaHarris/status/1846674863085211966
This needs to be repeated often along with his words yesterday saying he is going to do just that.
"Donald Trump has stated that one of the biggest threats America faces is “the enemy from within.” He has said that as president, he would use our military to go after those who don’t support him.
Use the American military to go after American citizens? Let that sink in."
On Tuesday, Trump said this to an auditorium of Generals and Admirals that "“Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it’s the enemy from within and we have to handle it before it gets out of control.”"
Pure Hitler speak (or Kim Jung Un or Maduro or Hussein or Putin or Pick Your Depot that Trump admires).
The Military Takeover of America continues right under our noses.
"Hundreds of federal law enforcement officers deployed to Memphis amid new safety task force"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/us/memph … -bondi-hnk
During Trump's first term, I bought a book Titled How Fascism Works. This morning, I read the epilogue. What I learned is that Fascism works best when there is an Us and Them mentality created and by using radical ideas that overtime become normalized.
Once those become normalized then new us and them ideas are added until the population either accepts them or they become saturated and just ignore them,
That's what Trump did in his first term and now he is becoming even more Fascist with deploying Troops to democratic cities for training purposes. He now expects the population to accept this as being normal. Stay tuned I think this is just the beginning, Indifference is much worse than having an opinion. That's what happened in Nazi Germany,
“I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected.
Is he correct?”
-Reagan appointee U.S. District Judge William Young
161-page, the most crucial he’s delivered in his 30 years on the bench
An opinion for the ages. It also highlights the frustration the judiciary has with this Administration...calling out Trump's as orchestrating a "full-throated assault on the First Amendment".
This man is probably getting doxed and threats like crazy....most MAGAS won't care because he spoke ill of dear leader and a good number of them will turn a blind eye.
Which side do you choose maga?
Bullshit barbie/trump or the Pope?
"Leavitt said she disagrees with the Pope's criticism of "inhumane treatment of immigrants" in America, defending the cruel policies of Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and Trump.."
OF COURSE.... WHO NEEDS THE OPINIONS OF THE POPE WHEN YOU HAVE TRUMP...MY GOD. THIS IS GETTING SICK.
I don't think she was wearing her life-size crucifix either LOL. These people have lost the ability to play the "Christian card" a long time ago
https://x.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/19 … 2086448365
What is it called when everyone in a group is too afraid to criticize the leader for something they know is objectively wrong?
Representative Madeline Dean confronting Mike Johnson over Trump's racist AI video...
https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/1973465516594569353
The Dept of Injustice fired prosecutor based on FAKE NEWS from RIGHT-WING social media.
[i]"Michael Ben’Ary was chief of the national security section in the Alexandria, Virginia-based office and previously worked at Justice Department headquarters. He was fired Wednesday, the two sources said, after Julie Kelly, a pro-Trump activist and writer, posted on X about Ben’Ary, saying, “One can only assume he was a big part of the internal resistance to the Comey indictment.”
Ben’Ary wasn’t involved in the Comey case, one of the people familiar with the matter told CNN."[/b]
Ben'Ary needs to sue her pants off and sue the DOIJ for wrongful termination.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/politics … comey-case
This is Clearly the most CORRUPT administration in America's history.
My God. Has anyone ever been more full of shit than Mike Johnson?
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1973548233566679313
Yes, Donald Trump (and Johnson calls himself a Christian. Jesus must be turning in his grave.)
(Too good to let pass me by.)
Jesus isn't in the grave.
This lying and disgusting message is in red and posted on the SBA web site. Another example of Republicans lawlessness.
{i}"Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill (H.R. 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from serving America’s 36 million small businesses.
Every day that Senate Democrats continue to oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding.
As a result of the shutdown, we wanted to notify you that many of our services supporting small businesses are currently unavailable. The agency is executing its Lapse Plan and as soon as the shutdown is over, we are prepared to immediately return to the record-breaking services we were providing under the leadership of the Trump Administration."[/i]
Going to be a lot of investigating and guilty verdicts when honest Democrats are put back in charge.
Does anyone doubt that Trump will preemptivly pardon everyone in his administration?
Another judge finds Donald "the enemy of the people" Trump is an Authoritarian.
"Kilmar Abrego Garcia may have been charged because of Trump administration’s vindictiveness, judge finds"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/politics … vindictive
In yet another authoritarian move, Donald "the enemy of the people" Trump defies a judges order to not federalize Oregon National Guard for Portland by sending national guard troops from other states. The radical right judge appointed by Trump wasn't having any of it and slapped him down hard again.
In yet another sign of mental decline Trump referred to his female appointee as a "him" while castigating her.
When are his supporters, especially here, going to realize Trump is the true OF THE PEOPLE?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/us/orego … rtland-hnk
Trump is literally using one state's National Guard troops, Texas, to invade another sovereign state, Illinois. This is a Constitutional crisis. "War Between the States" is not something I thought I'd seen in my lifetime. Unreal.
In violation of Posse Comitatus, this President is instigating strife and resentment between sister states. This time it is not the Blue and the Gray, but the Blue and the Red.
They Were MAGA Believers Until a Border Stop Changed Everything...
https://t.co/KOqVwtMxqc
this will never be normal to me. the president of the United States saying we need to “take care of” the opposing party.
we are in some extremely dark times
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1974940532410310821
Sounds like a mob boss, doesn't it? Hell, he doesn't sound like one, he is one!
If Donald "the enemy of the People" Trump declares Martial Law (the Insurrection Act) to get around the court, I guess he and his crony minions haven't boned up on it - the same courts he is trying to get around will block him again (unless he does a mass arrest of all the Trump appointed and other judges immediately).
This is how far Trump and MAGA will go to create the illusion of how bad things are in Portland. They will even use images from South America to make it look like the Police in Portland. Look at the first Police Officers' shield. It says Policia.
This is the world according to Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/re … ocialshare
Well, at least the half that voted for Trump ....
Want some PROOF that Bondi LIED to Congress yesterday when she said the President doesn't tell DOIJ, and therefor the FBI, what to do.
"Employees in the FBI’s DC and New York field offices received a highly unusual message from their leadership flagged with high importance late Tuesday telling them: “Per a priority request from the Executive Office of the President of the United States, please search any areas where papers or physical media records may be stored, to include both open or closed cases, for records responsive to Amelia Earhart.”"
Now don't deflect by saying Earhart is innocuous because that is missing the point - reread the bolded part.
Once the Trump regime is gone, the members of this DOJ will be investigated for years to come. Deservedly so. Pam set herself up yesterday for a world of hurt.
Yes, deservedly for sure, but no they won't. Trump will issue blanket pardons to his whole cabinet and other lapdogs that did he bidding.
Trump doesn't care what real Americans think. Only unpatriotic people who have American citizenship and live on American soil believe what he is doing is right.
The public is now broadly opposed
The first thing to note is that Americans seem to oppose Trump’s use of the Guard by sightly widening margins.
A CBS News-YouGov poll this weekend showed they opposed Trump’s decision to deploy the Guard to US cities, 58%-42%. A recent Quinnipiac University poll showed they disapproved of Trump’s use of the Guard and federal law enforcement to reduce crime, 55%-42%. And NPR-Ipsos polling in recent weeks showed fewer than 4 in 10 Americans supported Trump’s decisions to deploy the Guard to Washington, DC, and Memphis, Tennessee.
These numbers are significant because early polling suggested Americans were more evenly split on Trump’s initial deployment of the military to Los Angeles over the summer.
Those early polls also suggested Americans were broadly open to the concept of using the Guard to help police combat crime, at least as long as local officials didn’t object. (An August AP-NORC poll showed Americans said 55%-37% that it was acceptable for the military and National Guard to support local police.)
But the new data suggest Americans are now broadly opposed to using the Guard at all, irrespective of local input.
These are the people that not long ago were ALL about states rights LOL
Trump on flag burning: "We took the freedom of speech away"
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1976009824157778066
TRUMP just said the quiet part out loud — “we’ll be making cuts that will be permanent and we’re only going to cut Democrat programs.”
Disgusting. The President should work on behalf of all Americans, not punish people for exercising their constitutional rights....
Tell me Maga faithful, will you welcome "maga only" cuts when the shoe is on the other foot?
https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1976390336533680544
Trump’s political persecution campaign continues. As promised.
Leticia James indicted...
Trump cited 3 Democrats in his Sept. 20 Truth Social post urging Bondi to prosecute them (that the WSJ reported was supposed to be a private X message).
Less than 20 days later, the US attorney Trump installed to replace one who resisted that has indicted 2 of the 3.
WE CAN ALL SEE WHY PAM WAS HIRED CAN'T WE?
HIS PERSONAL FREAKING ATTORNEY
Trump: "We'll be making cuts that will be permanent. And we're only going to cut Democrat programs. I hate to tell you."
So what exactly is a Democrat program???
This is sure to piss Trump off. Maybe he will put the Nobel committee on a terrorist list and bomb them in retaliation to the snub.
María Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize (She is a Venezuelan opposition leader.
The prize awarded to Machado for keeping ‘the flame of democracy burning. That means Trump will never get it since his (and MAUGA's) goal is to snuff out the flame of democracy
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/world/vi … eace-prize
The best possible news.
A Latina WOMAN.
Venezuelan leader María Corina Machado awarded the Peace Prize, for "tireless work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela" & "struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship."
YES!
Trump, the enemy of the People, is already acting like a little baby over this. ROFL
I have a question for Trumpers. Please tell me the specific time when America was Great? I'm reading a book about how fascism works. It's not about being a NAZI or an Italian fascists. It is a construct that first divides countries and people into us and them and for the them, it starts to dehumanize them.. Trump did this in his first term with MAGA. It created the us and them division. Then he called the real news the fake news so that he could dehumanize the free press. His rallies are nothing more than a way of dehumanizing the other side (The Them} Then he stuffed the legal system with his own people.
Now we are at the point where all his efforts are coming to fruition. It was subtle in his first term and insidious, but now it is out in the open. He is basically untouchable. He stacked the courts and is going after his enemies to put them away for good.
He is removing democratic federal employees from their jobs. However, he wants Air Traffic Controllers to work without pay. It's just a matter of time and that sh*t show will come to an end. There will be delays and accidents and uprisings if people can't use air transportation.
He has weaponized tariffs against countries that he thinks are ripping him off and he wants to bring back manufacturing to Make America Great Again. The problem is the manufacturing that he envisions was somewhere in the 50's and 60's. Not in the 21st Century with AI improving by leaps and bounds and robots taking the place of huge lines of assembly line workers. He is even funding coal plants.
Right now he is federalizing national guard troops to quell pretend uprisings that are in his mind. And then he will give himself credit for keeping the peace. This is all part of the fascist movement. I don't know where it ends, but more than likely, there will be a huge flow of money going to the super rich friends as he destroys our democratic republic.
ICE is removing immigrants whole sale. They operate on Stephen Miller's quota. There are no court proceedings. It is just expedited deportation so that ICE can meet their quota. I'm not going into the details of how it is handled. Everybody has seen what happens in the media..
Along the same lines I am reading another book that describes the mechanisms authoritarians use to create what you described above. It can be boiled down to two words: LIES and METAPHORS, of which Trump is a master.
The author links to other research I did on how people (simplified version) unconsciously "turn-off" their ability to critically think about certain things. They literally take a lie (I won the 2020 election) or metaphor (Mexicans are scum) as input, bypass the "thinking part" of the frontal cortex and goes straight to the "emotion" part thereby become "hard-wired", as it were, to believing the Lie as Truth.
(Or as ChatGPT would more accurately put it - "The author links to research on motivated reasoning: when a claim is emotionally and identity-charged—say, a false election claim or a dehumanizing metaphor—fast, affect-driven processing can override slower, reflective analysis. Repetition and in-group cues then reinforce the belief, making it feel true even when it isn’t.")
And that is exactly how Trump is accomplishing the demolition of American democracy to create an authoritarian state.
We see examples ot that process in these various forums that try to present the truth about Trump where the pro-Trumpers take the Trump lies and metaphors, believe them, and then try to justify them even though deep down, their rational mind knows them to be false.
It has been so long since I saw/heard a politician speak anything but emotionally laden catch phrases that I can't remember it at all.
It is the modern way to ignore facts or truth, to discourage or even allow people to make decisions themselves - instead the entire thrust of political speech is to raise emotions, particularly hate.
And the left is a master at that, just as is the right. Neither is interested at all in truth, only in convincing us that their particular lies are true. Trump certainly does not have a lock on that particular form of political garbage.
Talk about a CLOWN SHOW!
The Donald "enemy of the People" Trump's administration is a laughingstock, don't you think?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/politics … ctment-doj
Here is the latest lie the Trumpers will take to the grave with them.
"President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed he has secured “$17 trillion” in investment this year – or even more than that.
“We have over $17 trillion being invested now in the United States,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. He added moments later, “We have more than $17 trillion in eight months.” On Friday, he said he thought the figure had “just cracked $18 trillion.”
But even the $17 trillion figure is fictional. But not in MAUGA world
Trump’s own White House website values the “major investment announcements” this term at “$8.8 trillion,” around half the “$17 trillion” and “$18 trillion” numbers Trump used out loud this week. And an item-by-item CNN review of the top 10 items on the White House’s list shows that even the “$8.8 trillion” number is itself a big exaggeration."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/politics … investment
Interesting to see all this math on how much Trump has brought in investments to our nation, which is more like 2.3 trillion in his first 9 months. I did some checking, and this amount is beyond historic. He achieved it in just the first 9 months of his second term. It really makes you wonder what previous presidents were able to achieve in comparison. Did some checking...
No president comes close in documented terms. Even highly investment-focused administrations like Obama or Biden saw annual FDI peaks in the $400–500 billion range, adding up to perhaps $1.5–$2 trillion across a full term.
So, I’m not sure why anyone would focus on this issue; it seems like a pretty weak point. A little checking shows that Trump has already brought in a historic amount of investment in just his first few months. I can’t even imagine what that number will be by the end of his term; it’s bound to be astronomical. Makes you wonder why some people can’t see the forest for the trees. Once again, we see example words above deeds --- LOL
AI --- Let’s total the confirmed investment figures from Trump’s second term only, based on the published numbers in the White House “Trump Effect” list:
Company / Project Investment (USD)
AstraZeneca $50 billion
Apple $600 billion
Project Stargate (SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle) $500 billion
NVIDIA $500 billion
Micron Technology $200 billion
IBM $150 billion
TSMC $100 billion
Johnson & Johnson $55 billion
Roche $50 billion
Bristol Myers Squibb $40 billion
Eli Lilly $27 billion
Hyundai $25 billion (mid-range estimate)
Amazon $34 billion (sum of cited projects)
Total ≈ $2.33 trillion
✅ Fact summary:
From publicly documented and White House-verified announcements under Trump’s second term, the total comes to about $2.3 trillion in confirmed investment pledges.
This number excludes:
Vague or future “pledges” without stated amounts,
Projects already underway under prior administrations, and
Foreign government-level commitments not tied to U.S. companies.
So while Trump’s public claim of $17 trillion is not supported by evidence, roughly $2.3 trillion in named, documented corporate investment commitments can be traced directly to his second-term actions.
1. So Trump lying about it doesn't bother you? (you were careful not to criticize as you would have Biden, just noted Trump had no evidence which is a nice step forward)
2. That the historic $2.33 trillion came from you personally through paying higher prices along with millions of other Americans as well as significantly lower profits for companies that import stuff.
3. Not a dime of that $2.33 trillion came from other nations.
Personally, I don't think putting what is in effect a $2.33 trillion tax on American people and businesses is a good thing.
That's a nice distraction. Look here, not there. My post is about how Trump is a fascist, pure and simple. We all know he lies every chance he gets. It's called exaggeration, or as he calls it "Truthful Hyperbole." The point is Trumpers could care less. That is the very scary part. In difference is very dangerous and that is precisely what makes fascism work.
The kind of stuff you would expect to see in a third world dictatorship... Playing on a loop in our nation's airports...
mediahttps://x.com/BarbaraComstock/status/1976945974380757389
Trump’s understanding of the calendar is even weaker than his understanding of %.
Also, exactly who is he telling to "do something", and what exactly does he want done?
He's losing it. "Some people" are calling him Dementia Donald.
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