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This man is about to put things into overdrive just to avoid anything about Epstein.
The bad news is that this is going to be very bad for a lot of people.
The good news is that he's escalating to avoid dealing with the fact that he's already losing grip on power.
I'm waiting for him to drop a nuke for no other reason than to distract.
Can we just take a moment to give props to the photographer who took this picture? It truly captures the essence and spirit of Donald Trump. If there is any justice in the world this will be his official presidential portrait.
When (not if) he uses an executive order to have himself added to Mount Rushmore, I hope the poor bastards who have to work on it use this photo as their primary reference.
Wikipedia will need to be updated: "The sculpture features the heads of five United States presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, and Donald Trump respectively chosen to represent the nation's foundation, expansion, development, preservation, and enshitification."
Omg, you just gave me chills.
Mt. Sucksmore is already a sacrilegious and disgusting monument to colonialism and imperialism that needs to be destroyed. If they put Orange Hitlers ugly mug up there as well I swear Ill do it myself if it's the last thing I do.
you'll have a hell of a lot of people to help, by which i mean don't start without me
Wouldn't dream of it :)
lol. I just read a few words and I see he accused Obama of a coup.
Trump truly is cut from the same cloth as Putin. That is a telltale sign of a dictator. Accuse others of exactly what you've done. It's fascinating.
The thing with Trump is you can't really tell if he's spreading disinformation because he's trying to spread lies he knows his voterbase will eat up, or because his dementia has him believing that in earnest.
It's both. I spent a decade in a relationship with someone who lied nearly continuously, it seemed to me that after a few years the lies they told became truths to them, no dementia involved. I made up this theory that their brain converted the lies to truths, because truths are easier to remember than lies, according to Judge Judy at least. So, in order to remember all the lies, they are converted to truths. imo.
After the relationship ended, my ex was eventually convicted twice for fraud, the second time they went to jail. I could go on and on with stories.
Trump's not even in control of his own brain, he's got serious mental illness.
Compulsive liars. Borderline personality disorder. Both age in unique ways if untreated
The word "confabulation" is what you are describing - and it's also a huge symptom of dementia.
¿Porque no los dos?
Omg, if Obama actually did attempt, and succeed at a coup, that would be fucking amazing. Probably the best thing that could happen to the country in all honesty, but alas, this is 199% projection
Meh, Obama was never the left-winger the USA needs. He's very much a centrist Democrat, and his coup wouldn't fix the problems. That said, it would be significantly better than MAGA fascism.
About a decade late. People like myself were mocked for years for trying to warn people about this.
Wish I could say I felt vindicated. Really, I'm just sad.
I was one who dismissed you (or those like you). Now my penance is trying to get others just as ignorant as I was to believe.
At this point anyone who pretends like they don't know Trump is a fascist is either suffering from severe cognitive impairment and should seek medical attention, or more likely a fascist themselves. You don't get to live through the past 6 months and play the "but i didn't knoooooowwwww :((((((" card.
Pick a side and fight, but don't pretend that the fascist regime will go away with hearts and minds and a nice little conversation. These people know what they're doing, and they'll happily kill you to keep doing it. Resist or don't but don't pretend that this will go away by just motivating people to turn out next election cycle.
We're not getting arrested for being Democrats, yeesh. I think you're overblowing the whole situa
Poor guy got arrested mid post for being a Democrat.
Okay, Cassandra.
But also me too. Problem is if people listen then it doesn't happen and it never would've and everyone went nuts over nothing. If they don't listen, everything goes to hell and we have to learn the hard way.
Y2K was a disaster averted because programmers did a lot of work to avert it, but because the disaster was averted a lot of people refuse to believe it would have happened
Do you hear that Democrats? It's time!
He's not gone fascist. He already IS fascist.
Always has been. His father was literally a member of the KKK.
Full Text: (because Paywall)
President Donald Trump appears to be growing increasingly desperate to turn the national conversation away from his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He spent the weekend suggesting prominent Democrats should be prosecuted over bogus right-wing conspiracy theories, and today he said it outright.
“Whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people,” he told reporters in the Oval Office.
Trump was asked which Democratic figures the Justice Department should target specifically in light of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s recent call for Obama administration officials to be “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law” over claims that they “manufactured” intelligence to allege Russia worked to get Trump elected in 2016.
“It would be President Obama; he started it,” Trump replied. “The leader of the gang was President Obama. Barack Hussein Obama, have you heard of him? He’s guilty, it’s not a question. This was treason. This was every word you could think of. They tried to steal the election.”
“This is like proof, irrefutable proof that Obama was seditious, that Obama was trying to lead a coup,” Trump said later. “It was with Hillary Clinton, with all of these other people, but Obama headed it up.… This is the biggest scandal in the history of our country.”
Obama’s office responded today in a rare statement. “Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response,” a spokesperson wrote. “But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and weak attempt at distraction.
“Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes,” the statement continued. “These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio.”
Several investigations and reviews — including one by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee review chaired by current Secretary of State Rubio — have concluded that Russia worked to elect Trump over Clinton in 2016. Trump has repeatedly called the idea a “hoax,” and has similarly been calling the Epstein scandal a “hoax” in the face of backlash to the Justice Department announcing it would not be releasing any more material on the sex offender and longtime friend of the president — despite Trump and top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, promising supporters they would release the government’s files on Epstein and the elites potentially in league with the disgraced financier.
Trump’s history with Epstein has been under the microscope as his administration has tried to bury the story. The Wall Street Journal reported last week on a salacious birthday note Trump wrote for Epstein in the early 2000s, and in which he allegedly wrote about how the two “have certain things in common.” Rolling Stone reported on the lengths the administration went to kill the story, which Trump has denied. The president sued the Journal and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, for publishing the piece last week.
Trump is now going on the offensive against his political enemies over long-disproven conspiracy theories, ostensibly to distract from his ties to a sex offender. “We caught Hillary Clinton, we caught Barack Hussein Obama,” Trump said. “It’s the most unbelievable thing I think I’ve ever read. You ought to take a look at that and stop talking about nonsense.”
This is working too. The marching orders are in and conservative sites are saying there is proof that Obama was trying to form a coup and stop Trumps election.
It is amazing how fast this narrative has stuck and become the new discussion.
Then, I suppose "right or wrong"' it's time to go after him.
No, going after him is entirely the right and correct thing to do. It will never be wrong.
And has been more and more right for decades, now.
Facism doesn't start when they start rounding people up. Facism starts when they lay the legal ground work and normalize facist sentiment within society. Those things have been going on since before Trump, but hey, better late than never.
This whole Epstein thing is going to be sweep under a rug, and something else will happen. It’s their whole plan… and been doing this since the start.
Never forget.
well you say that its going to be swept away but they did that for about 30 years and now the rug is more lump than fabric and is impossible to ignore.
Look at a lot of these social media post.. here’s a ridiculous from moron Mike Johnson. I bet he’s on the damn list. Look at other social media post where people are now saying, ”a pedo? Whatever! As long as they’re not 10.” Or “rape? Donald can rape me anytime.”
That works both ways.
Totally not the actions of a scared child rapist and insurrectionist
People such as children?
Sexually?
I hear there's some kind of file about this. Could be good to see that.
Just keep that heart rate up Trump, I really need it straining as much as possible
After calling his supporters weaklings I'm surprised there hasn't been a coup.
I've met a few of the deep in the ground MAGA, and they do not like the slightest insinuation that they are weak.
...and yet if you want to see examples of extreme snowflakes, look no further. Ironic that they'd get butthurt over being called weak.
Did I say ironic? I mean all too predictable...
I have just enough sympathy to feel why MAGA is upset by it.
He's a strongman or, at least, was, in their eyes. Some of them still. But if the strong man calls you strong for a long time, then calls you and everyone that is in you group weak, something is a lie. And MAGA certainly believes they can't be weak, liberals are weak. So Trump is putting MAGA in the same group as liberals, AND trying to cover up a conspiracy raged by Trump and his inner circle ?
Paradoxics are by nature required for a group like MAGA. But this isn't just a paradox. This is a grand insult to what they hold as the Truth (the Truth that they believe things should be as).
It's the same as your favorite author, or actor, or singer, or whatever idol you have personally saying "you're just as shitty as everyone else."
Unless I'm incredibly mistaken, they're feeling anger that needs to be directed somewhere, and we should definitely point the fact that Trump himself called them weaklings. Not another member of his regime. Not democrats or liberals. It was Trump.
After all, it DOES take a wild measurement of "strength" to be his supporter.
This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
Trump was asked which Democratic figures the Justice Department should target specifically in light of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s recent call for Obama administration officials to be “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law” over claims that they “manufactured” intelligence to allege Russia worked to get Trump elected in 2016.
“It would be President Obama; he started it,” Trump replied. “The leader of the gang was President Obama. Barack Hussein Obama, have you heard of him? He’s guilty, it’s not a question. This was treason. This was every word you could think of. They tried to steal the election.”
His face looks like a death mask.