I know I'm probably beating a dead horse with an anti-Trump post here, but seeing all of his corruption lumped together in one story is quite impressive.
I know I'm probably beating a dead horse with an anti-Trump post here, but seeing all of his corruption lumped together in one story is quite impressive.
The Trump Organization launched Trump Mobile, a branded phone that costs $499 and an additional $47.45/month for the “47” plan. The Trump organization does not manufacture the phone or provide cell service (the phone itself has yet to be released, and the network will be operated by Liberty Mobile Wireless). Instead, Trump licenses his name to the deal and then promotes it using the presidential brand while he is in office — all at a cool profit.
Wherever you look, there’s another potential profit. Last spring, the Trump family opened an exclusive club in Washington called “Executive Branch” that charges $500,000 per membership. The parent company of Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, even launched as a publicly traded organization with his initials, DJT, as its ticker; Trump himself holds a huge stake in the company and the stock’s value has fluctuated based solely on Trump’s political fortunes. Shoot, the president’s son, Eric Trump, went on Fox News and graciously received congratulations about his own company receiving a $24 million Pentagon contract.
Just yesterday, while I was finishing up this story, The Financial Times reported that the Trump sons had taken a stake in the Kazakh mining company that just won a $1.6 billion contract from the Trump administration. Then, hours later, a Bloomberg story landed in my inbox about the U.S. Air Force agreeing to buy an undisclosed number of interceptor drones from a company backed by President Trump’s sons. During a talk I did with college students at St. Olaf College in Minnesota this morning, one of the students asked me about the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. investing in and advising the gambling and prediction market companies Kalshi and Polymarket. I didn’t even know about it. I’d just spent the past week writing and researching claims of corruption against the Trump family, and I’m still discovering glaring new examples every day.
Apparently Trump discovered a glitch where if you commit enough crimes, people only see the most recent one so you mask that by doing more crimes every day. The last 10 years has been a bizarre...
Apparently Trump discovered a glitch where if you commit enough crimes, people only see the most recent one so you mask that by doing more crimes every day.
Not only that, but no matter how blatant the crimes you commit, no one will ever hold you accountable. I feel like I've gone insane. The most openly corrupt administration in this country's...
Not only that, but no matter how blatant the crimes you commit, no one will ever hold you accountable.
I feel like I've gone insane. The most openly corrupt administration in this country's history and there's apparently nothing to be done about it.
Yes it’s hard to wrap one’s head around what has happened. The president is an evil criminal. So that’s one thing to deal with. The president is obviously unfit and corrupt but won two elections....
Yes it’s hard to wrap one’s head around what has happened.
The president is an evil criminal. So that’s one thing to deal with.
The president is obviously unfit and corrupt but won two elections. He engaged in open election interference before both elections
Between the elections there was ample proof he should be tried and convicted and jailed and it just didn’t happen
There’s proof that foreign powers interfered to get him elected and nothing was done
A second branch of government (Congress) is constructed unfairly to allow minority rule, and actively supports the corruption
A third branch (the courts) was appointed in unfair and corrupt ways, with a majority made possible through the openly corrupt president and congress, openly takes bribes and invents ways to avoid existing law and precedent
The president makes unconstitutional proclamations that become reality. Sometimes courts stop these things months later after much damage has been done
One of the most popular sources of news is essentially state propaganda. It constantly lies about reality, was sued about this and lost but continues to lie and have viewers
Most of the rest of the press acts as if things are mostly normal and either ignores the craziness and corruption or makes excuses for it
About 1/3 of our families and neighbors voted for this and think it’s fine
I’m sure I missed a lot of things but I also feel like I’m going crazy. It’s odd to have sat through government classes about checks and balances to find out that was all bullshit. And worse to find out that 1/3 of the country is on some level evil or too stupid to detect obvious evil, and 1/3 completely oblivious to the world.
I would add one more to your list of what has happened, only because to me it explains a lot of how the rest of the list and the thousands not on the list happened: a sustained attack on education...
I would add one more to your list of what has happened, only because to me it explains a lot of how the rest of the list and the thousands not on the list happened: a sustained attack on education and media.
This is why I roll my eyes every time I hear a Democrat politician say something like "I want a strong Republican party" or make a distinction between MAGA and Republicans. None of this would be...
A second branch of government (Congress) is constructed unfairly to allow minority rule, and actively supports the corruption
This is why I roll my eyes every time I hear a Democrat politician say something like "I want a strong Republican party" or make a distinction between MAGA and Republicans. None of this would be possible if just 10-20% of congressional Republicans took a principled stance. Maybe a lot of them feel some type of way behind closed doors, but that doesn't mean anything.
It's pretty clear in your comment that this is something that didn't happen overnight, but it feels like the true extent of the damage only became noticable under Trump. I'm currently listening to this podcast called The Masterplan, which is about the history of the unitary executive theory. It's very overproduced, but it makes a compelling case about this imbalance of power being a long-term plan that started in the wake of Watergate.
I can't really blame them. In some respects, they are doing exactly what a democracy should do: respond to their constituents. Republicans are so tied to Trump because it's well proven that Trump...
None of this would be possible if just 10-20% of congressional Republicans took a principled stance.
I can't really blame them. In some respects, they are doing exactly what a democracy should do: respond to their constituents.
Republicans are so tied to Trump because it's well proven that Trump says mean things about you on twitter, you WILL lose the primary. It doesn't matter if you're political royalty like Liz Cheney. Trump OWNs the republican base. Republican congresspeople being beholden to Trump is fundamentally because they're beholden to their voters, who are beholden to Trump.
The reality is that a majority of a democracy wants a dictatorship, then you'll have a dictatorship. That's democracy functioning correctly. It just shouldn't get to a point where a majority want a dictatorship.
Many years from now, I do hope historians capture well today's events and hopefully learn something from all this madness. I wasn't around during the downfall of Rome, and I wouldn't want to...
Many years from now, I do hope historians capture well today's events and hopefully learn something from all this madness. I wasn't around during the downfall of Rome, and I wouldn't want to either but parallels are eerie.
Since this was posted there is further development in another massive Trump corruption scandal / firehose of bullshit. Trump is trying to settle for $1.7 billion in the case where he was suing for...
Since this was posted there is further development in another massive Trump corruption scandal / firehose of bullshit.
Trump is trying to settle for $1.7 billion in the case where he was suing for $10 billion.
Well, I’d better start getting my brain around it quick. Multiple outlets reported this week that Trump and the IRS are close to finalizing a settlement in the case. And according to ABC News, that settlement is expected to hinge upon the funding of a truly insane new pot of government money: “a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration.”
I know I'm probably beating a dead horse with an anti-Trump post here, but seeing all of his corruption lumped together in one story is quite impressive.
Apparently Trump discovered a glitch where if you commit enough crimes, people only see the most recent one so you mask that by doing more crimes every day.
The last 10 years has been a bizarre experience.
Not only that, but no matter how blatant the crimes you commit, no one will ever hold you accountable.
I feel like I've gone insane. The most openly corrupt administration in this country's history and there's apparently nothing to be done about it.
Yes it’s hard to wrap one’s head around what has happened.
I’m sure I missed a lot of things but I also feel like I’m going crazy. It’s odd to have sat through government classes about checks and balances to find out that was all bullshit. And worse to find out that 1/3 of the country is on some level evil or too stupid to detect obvious evil, and 1/3 completely oblivious to the world.
I would add one more to your list of what has happened, only because to me it explains a lot of how the rest of the list and the thousands not on the list happened: a sustained attack on education and media.
This is why I roll my eyes every time I hear a Democrat politician say something like "I want a strong Republican party" or make a distinction between MAGA and Republicans. None of this would be possible if just 10-20% of congressional Republicans took a principled stance. Maybe a lot of them feel some type of way behind closed doors, but that doesn't mean anything.
It's pretty clear in your comment that this is something that didn't happen overnight, but it feels like the true extent of the damage only became noticable under Trump. I'm currently listening to this podcast called The Masterplan, which is about the history of the unitary executive theory. It's very overproduced, but it makes a compelling case about this imbalance of power being a long-term plan that started in the wake of Watergate.
I can't really blame them. In some respects, they are doing exactly what a democracy should do: respond to their constituents.
Republicans are so tied to Trump because it's well proven that Trump says mean things about you on twitter, you WILL lose the primary. It doesn't matter if you're political royalty like Liz Cheney. Trump OWNs the republican base. Republican congresspeople being beholden to Trump is fundamentally because they're beholden to their voters, who are beholden to Trump.
The reality is that a majority of a democracy wants a dictatorship, then you'll have a dictatorship. That's democracy functioning correctly. It just shouldn't get to a point where a majority want a dictatorship.
It's a Gish Gallop of crime.
Many years from now, I do hope historians capture well today's events and hopefully learn something from all this madness. I wasn't around during the downfall of Rome, and I wouldn't want to either but parallels are eerie.
Since this was posted there is further development in another massive Trump corruption scandal / firehose of bullshit.
Trump is trying to settle for $1.7 billion in the case where he was suing for $10 billion.
You’re Getting Robbed. By Trump. In Broad Daylight.