CNN’s Republican Shill Says Tariffs Are Not Enough, Proposes Starting a Drug War with Mexico

Posted by on November 27, 2024 at 2:14 pm. NO Comments :

One of the absolute worst ideas that Donald Trump has proposed since becoming president-elect is his promise to impose new tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico, America’s biggest trading partners. His justification for this is that it would serve as a lever to make them end the trafficking of drugs into the United States.

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Never mind that economists and trade experts agree that such a reckless and ill-considered act “would significantly increase U.S. inflation next year [and] curtail economic growth.” Trump doesn’t really care about the welfare of the American people. If he did he wouldn’t lie to them so flagrantly and frequently.

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If the gullible rubes who voted for Trump think that he is going to lower the price of gas or eggs, they are going to be woefully disappointed. To the contrary, his plans will increase the costs of everything from fruit to toys to shoes to cars, and more. And to rub some salt into those wounds, it won’t have the slightest impact on drug trafficking.

Which makes the following exchange about Trump’s initiatives on CNN, between economic contributor Catherine Rampell and Republican hack Scott Jennings, all the more troubling…

Rampell: Mexico has actually put a lot more border security on its southern border.
Jennings: It’s really working wonders. This is crazy.
Rampell: Yes, again, border crossings are down 75 percent. They’re back to what they were under Trump.
Jennings: If I were [Mexican President Sheinbaum], I would be prepared for my country to possibly have United States military incursions to take out the drug factories and the people who do this to us too.
Rampell: So, you think we should not only have a trade war, we should have a military war with Mexico?
Jennings: I think we have to do what we have to do to stop the drugs.

So Jennings, who has previously supported deploying the military within the U.S. to round up immigrants for mass deportation, now also wants the Army to invade our allied neighbor to South to put an end to the Fentanyl crisis at home. The minions of MAGA have become the foremost advocates of military engagements. Unless, of course, it is aimed at preventing Vladimir Putin from invading and annexing our friends in Ukraine.

Rampell was correct to note that border crossings are down 75 percent. What’s more, most of the Fentanyl coming into the U.S. is brought in by American citizens through legal ports of entry. And there is a reason for the flood of drugs into the U.S. There’s a huge market for it. Fentanyl trafficking would end if Americans would stop buying it. It isn’t an international crime problem. It’s a domestic public health problem. These and other concerns were addressed by President Sheinbaum following Trump’s tariff threat…

“Mexico’s main exporters to the U.S. are General Motors, Stellantis and Ford Motor Company, which came to Mexico 80 years ago. Why put a tax on them that puts them at risk? It is not acceptable and would cause the U.S. and Mexico inflation and job losses.” […]

“Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours.”

The military “solution” that Jennings proposed would be worse than ineffective. It would be objectively harmful. It would put the lives American soldiers, as well as innocent Mexican civilians, at risk. It would do nothing to reduce drug trafficking because, as long as there is a demand, the traffickers will seek to fill it. They would just raise their prices along with the legal businesses who respond to the tariffs.

Worst of all, it would destroy the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico, it’s biggest trading partner. It would accelerate inflation at home, and waste billions of dollars and military resources.

Yet somehow CNN is comfortable having a regular contributor on their air making these preposterous and dangerous proposals. Jennings is not a serious conservative commentator. He is war mongering fanatic whose opinions are not worthy of being disseminated by any reputable news enterprise. And if CNN wants to be regarded as “reputable,” they need to dispose of Jennings.

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MAKE IT STOP! Crybaby Trump Continues His Infantile Whining Weeks After Winning the Election

Posted by on November 26, 2024 at 1:28 pm. NO Comments :

There is just no satisfying a malignant narcissist with delusions of grandeur and aspirations of authoritarian dictatorship. And Donald Trump is a textbook example of someone suffering from this acute psychosis that produces a relentless stream of anxiety and unrestrained animosity.

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Emotionally stable persons are generally pacified when they achieve some long sought after goal. But Trump is congenitally incapable of pacification. He relentlessly regards himself as a victim no matter what the circumstances at any given moment in time. In fact, he’s actually proud of his ceaseless proclivity for whining, bragging that “I am the most fabulous whiner. I do whine, because I want to win. I am a whiner and I keep whining and whining until I win.”

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So even three weeks after election day, Trump is still complaining that he is a victim of nefarious entities determined to destroy him. On his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, Trump posted a message griping about some unexplained offense by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. He began by asking…

“Will the failing New York Times apologize to its readers for getting years of ‘Trump’ coverage so wrong. They write such phony ‘junk,’ knowing full well how incorrect it is, only meaning to demean.”

Trump doesn’t bother to cite any particular story that he asserts was “wrong,” or “phony,” or “junk,” or intended to “demean.” But he does resort to disgorging his standard issue insults and misogyny, referring to Haberman as “Magot Hagerman,” a slur that most seven year olds have outgrown.

Trump goes on to malign Haberman as “a third rate writer and fourth rate intellect [who he] almost never speak[s] to.” Never mind that he has spent many hours with her over the years, and proudly posed with her for photos in the Oval Office (see above). She also published a book – “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America” – based on her lengthy interviews of him. Despite these easily verifiable facts, Trump continued with a baseless charge against the New York Times, alleging falsely that…

“They do no fact checking, because facts don’t matter to them. I don’t believe I’ve had a legitimately good story in the NYT for years, AND YET I WON, IN RECORD FASHION, THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN DECADES. WHERE IS THE APOLOGY?”

For the record, Trump’s “RECORD FASHION” of winning was actually one of the narrowest margins of victory in modern times. He led Kamala Harris by less than 2%, and didn’t even muster a majority of the popular vote, for the third election in a row. But he still has the gall to ask for an apology? WTF for? Telling too much of the truth about him?

As usual, Trump’s temper tantrum was likely triggered by something that he came across in the press. Since he doesn’t mention what it was, we have to make an educated guess. In the hours before his hissy fit, the Times had published two stories by Haberman. One was about his long time aide, Boris Epshteyn, who is alleged to have sought payment from people seeking jobs in Trump’s administration. Proving that everyone in the Trump orbit is corrupt.

The other article was about Natalie Harp, a starstruck Trump flunky and former OAN cable “news” host who was known for writing “devotional letters,” to Trump, including one that said, “You are all that matters to me.” Her ultra-sycophantic presence in the Trump camp “has generated concern among other aides who feel she has been far too willing to serve as a funnel for conspiratorial information.” No wonder Trump loves her.

One other possible provocation for Trump’s outburst was a segment Monday night on CNN where Haberman talked about what Trump might do to retaliate against special counsel Jack Smith and other prosecutors in the Justice Department who indicted him for inciting the January 6th insurrection, and for stealing and hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home/hotel and lying to the FBI about it.

Whatever the cause, it is clear that Trump is not mentally stable enough to perform the duties of the presidency. Not that he ever was. But now he is wracked with a frenzied hostility aimed at his perceived enemies without any rational basis. And as bad as this is now, it is only going to get worse over time. Hopefully Democrats in Congress will will provide some protection from the harm he is preparing to unleash. The MAGA GOP – and his family – obviously don’t care that he is a danger to himself and the nation.

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Fox News Host Attacks Republican Senators for Supporting the Constitution – No, REALLY!

Posted by on November 25, 2024 at 1:04 pm. 1 Comments :

The emergence of a demagogic cult figure like Donald Trump tugs at the boundaries of American politics as the nation leaps recklessly into the realm of dystopian fiction. Who could have imagined a few years ago that the government of the United States could be led by an aspiring dictator whose public persona was wholly manufactured by reality TV and propaganda, much of which emanated from foreign sources?

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Unfortunately, that is the situation that this country finds itself in today. And it isn’t just Trump that is fomenting the dire circumstances that have captured the nation. Most of what was once the Republican Party has succumbed to the anti-democratic seduction of a self-professed strongman with divine providence who promises to cure all of our ills, and insists that only he can do so.

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Trump is now assembling the Cabinet for his upcoming reoccupation of the White House. And it is dreadfully apparent that his foremost prerequisites for service are…

True to from, Fox News is fulfilling its mission to fluff Trump on all matters. Even if doing so requires chastising otherwise devoted Trump flunkies and repudiating the Constitution. To that end, Fox’s Laura Ingraham posted a couple of messages on the former Twitter castigating GOP senators who weren’t sufficiently worshipful of Trump.

In the first message, Ingraham asked “Why does NDakota have a senator who is already undermining Pres-elect Trump?” She was referring to GOP Sen. Mike Rounds, who is actually the senator from South Dakota. What she was complaining about was that Rounds delivered a speech in which, according to Politico, he said “that there are still three branches of the U.S. government, and the Senate will guard its independence.”

OH NO! A United States senator indicated his support for the Constitution’s separation of powers doctrine. She believes that an elected representative who would exercise his constitutional duties is “undermining” the president. Because that would impose on the omnipotent powers bestowed on Trump by Gawd! Ingraham surely wasn’t going to abide that sort of usurpation of the divine authority of Trump.

The second message that Ingrahm posted asked “Why does Oklahoma have a Senator who hates Trump? Strange given that Okla. voters overwhelmingly support Trump.” This time she was referring to GOP Sen. James Lankford, whose state she managed to get right. However, her complaint was that Lankford told reporters that “he doesn’t know ‘one way or another’ if President-elect Trump and his new Department of Justice (DOJ) pick, Pam Bondi, will apply political interference from the nonpartisan department.”

MY GOODNESS! A United States senator acknowledged that the Constitution gives the Senate the duty to provide “advice and consent” to a president’s nominations to his Cabinet and other executive branch positions. It isn’t optional. It’s required. But to Ingraham it’s proof that the senator “hates Trump” if he seeks to make an informed decision. Because, once again, that would impose on the omnipotent powers bestowed on Trump by Gawd!

This is how far the GOP has declined into the abyss of Trump cultism. and their Ministry of Propaganda (aka Fox News) is along for the ride to the bottom. They are unwaveringly faithful to Trump, even when it is flagrantly contrary to the Constitution. And he hasn’t even been inaugurated yet. So buckle up, America. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride.

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Former Trump Advisor HR McMaster’s Brutal Smackdown of Republicans Who Parrot Vladimir Putin

Posted by on November 24, 2024 at 12:51 pm. 2 Comments :

It will come as no surprise to those who have been paying attention, that Donald Trump is a wholly owned asset of Vladimir Putin and the Russian regime that is dedicated to destroying America. Trump has explicitly backed Putin in matters that are contrary to U.S. policy. He even said that he takes Putin’s word over that of American intelligence during a press conference with Putin at his side grinning.

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In all the years of his political life, Trump has never said a negative word about Putin. But he constantly maligns America as “corrupt” and “failing” and whose leaders are “stupid.” Trump has made it abundantly clear who he regards as this nation’s adversaries.

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It is important to recognize that it isn’t just Democrats who have noticed Trump’s fealty to Putin and Russia. Many of Trump’s closest associates from his first occupation of the White House have spoken out about his dangerously dictatorial aspirations. His former White House Chief of Staff, Gen. John Kelly, has revealed that Trump frequently spoke of his admiration for Adolf Hitler. And those opinions about Trump’s fascist tendencies are shared by his military and national security colleagues, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, his former Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, and his former National Security Advisor, John Bolton.

Among the patriots calling attention to Trump’s treasonous intentions was his National Security Advisor, H.R. McMaster. And on this Sunday’s episode of CBS Face the Nation, McMaster took another stab at warning the nation about what awaits them in a second Trump term. He began by noting the lunacy of “blaming ourselves for the acts of our adversaries as Tulsi Gabbard [Trump’s current nominee for Director of National Intelligence] has done, talking about how Putin felt aggrieved and that’s why he had to invade Ukraine.” The discussion continued…

Margaret Brennan: Right. That’s a right-wing talking point that she has repeated in direct contravention to what U.S. intelligence has concluded.
McMaster: This is what I can’t understand. There are some people in the Republican Party these days who kind of tend to parrot Vladimir Putin’s talking points. I don’t know if it’s because they’re drawn to him and they see him as a defender of Western civilization, just a shirtless guy on horseback.

But they’ve got to disabuse themselves of this strange affection for Vladimir Putin, who is not gonna stop in his efforts to restore Russia’s national greatest at our expense. That’s what he is obsessed with. He’s obsessed with reestablishing the Russian empire.

Unfortunately, the fascist, so to speak, rots from the top. Trump is, of course, the leading disseminator of Putin’s talking points, and is the most seduced by the “strange affection” for Vlad. It is, therefore, unlikely that any of the Republicans that McMaster is referring to will alter their views. They are fully indoctrinated members of the Cult of Trump and believe that he has been blessed with divine infallibility.

Some of the glassy-eyed MAGA GOP (Gaga Over Putin) are set to join Trump in the White House next year. They include the aforementioned Gabbard, Pete Hegseth (Secretary of Defense), Michael Waltz (National security adviser), and John Ratcliffe, (CIA director). And Trump’s nominees for Secretaries of State and Homeland Security, and ambassadors to the U.N. And NATO, are no better. This is why Russian state TV was recently celebrating Trump’s victory and his Cabinet picks…

MORE HERE: Trump’s Cabinet Picks Make it Hard to Tell the Difference Between Russian State TV and Fox News

The American people who still cherish our legacy of freedom and independence will remain focused and committed to preserving it. It’s going to take a mighty effort to prevent the Trump team from handing over the keys to America to Putin & Co. But, in the end, it will be worth it.

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The Daily Show Skewers MAGA Rep Nancy Mace for Supporting Trump and Other GOP Sexual Predators

Posted by on November 23, 2024 at 1:23 pm. NO Comments :

There is a lot to be worried about now that Donald Trump is about to reoccupy the White House. His Cabinet and staff nominations thus far are a nightmare rotation of hacks, halfwits, and hopelessly felicitous followers of the Trump cult. Many of this motley crew were recruited from Fox News, because Trump’s foremost prerequisite for hiring is that he has seen the candidate slobbering over him on TV.

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At times like these it becomes necessary to have some emotional escape in order to maintain some measure of mental health and to reenergize for the battles ahead. And since laughter is the best medicine, it ought to be prescribed in large doses. That’s where programs like The Daily Show come in. And it also helps that they are often better sources for news than much of the traditional media.

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This week The Daily Show host, Desi Lydic, addressed the purely performative attacks on transgender Rep-Elect Sarah McBride by Republican Nancy Mace (SC-MAGA). Lydic noted the inherent prejudice of Mace’s hate speech as well as her blatant hypocrisy. And she names names. Lydic lashed out at Mace saying that…

“Yes, of course, you just want to protect women from hypothetical predators. That would play a lot better if you weren’t trying to get actual predators into the highest levels of government. Pete Hegseth, RFK, Matt Gaetz.”

Lydic goes on to play a video clip of Mace complaining about men in women’s spaces, followed by a clip of serial predator Trump bragging about invading the private spaces of women…

“I’ll go backstage before a show and everyone’s getting dressed and everything else. And you know, no men are anywhere. And I’m allowed to go in, because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it.”

That sounds conspicuously similar to Trump’s boast that “when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the p*ssy.” He truly believes that he has the right to sexually harass and assault women at will. And Mace is perfectly fine with this, so long as it doesn’t involve a transgender woman in the ladies restroom. Funny, but I never hear people like Mace talk about trans men in the ladies restroom…

Mace’s obsession was evident in her 36 hour marathon posting of more than 250 tweets on this subject. However, one thing that she neglected to mention in all of that was her position on LGBTQ+ rights just three years ago when she said that…

“I strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality. No one should be discriminated against. I have friends and family that identify as LGBTQ. Understanding how they feel and how they’ve been treated is important. Having been around gay, lesbian, and transgender people has informed my opinion over my lifetime.”

That’s quite a reversal. What changed? Was it that she decided that sucking up to Trump was more important than standing up for equal rights? Or was it just her ploy to get more airtime on Fox News?

More importantly, will the rest of media display the journalistic integrity of The Daily Show by exposing Trump and his Cabinet cretins as the sexual deviants that they are?

Hopefully the Senate will exercise their constitutional duty of advice and consent to prevent these sleazeballs from attaining positions of power. And not just because of their utter lack of morals. But also because they have zero experience for the jobs they have been nominated to do by the Sleazeball-in-Chief.

Although Trump isn’t gonna make it easy for them. He’s considering foregoing the routine FBI checks for proposed presidential appointments. Because he knows his nominees won’t pass. Even worse, he has called for Congress to abdicate their role by closing up shop and allowing him to make recess appointments. These are the tactics of a totalitarian dictator, which is what Trump aspires to be.

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WATCH Trump’s Attorney General Nominee, Pam Bondi, Threaten to ‘Prosecute the Prosecutors’

Posted by on November 22, 2024 at 2:44 pm. 1 Comments :

During the first occupation of the White House by Donald Trump, he distinguished himself by having the highest turnover in his Cabinet and White House staff in history. Despite bragging that he would hire “only the best people,” he ended up hiring people that he later fired because they were, in his own words, “incompetent, stupid,” and/or “losers.”

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Things are not getting off to much of a better start as Trump begins to put together the team for his next reign of error. Before a single confirmation hearing has been scheduled, Trump’s choice for Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, has withdrawn his name from consideration due the flood of allegations of his criminal sexual misconduct and flagrant dishonesty. And the fate of Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, is facing a growing barrage of similar allegations.

SEE THIS: One Down: The Demise of Matt Gaetz’ AG Aspirations Spells Trouble for Pete Hegseth at Defense

Within hours of the Gaetz nomination being scrapped, Trump announced his replacement for the post, former Florida state Attorney General Pam Bondi. The announcement was made, as usual, on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, which appears to also be his official platform for presidential press releases. The notice listed some of Bondi’s experience as a prosecutor, taking credit for Florida’s middling to poor record on drugs and crime. It also addressed a familiar theme in Trump’s repertoire of whining…

“The partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans – Not anymore. Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime.”

Let’s set aside the fact that there is no evidence whatsoever of the Justice Department being partisan. To the contrary, it has also prosecuted several prominent Democrats, including President Biden’s son, Hunter. But if fighting crime is actually what Trump wants from his Justice Department, they can start with his own record of 34 felony convictions and 54 still pending charges.

What Trump doesn’t bother to mention about Bondi is that she was on his defense team during his first impeachment trial for attempting to pressure the president of Ukraine into investigate Biden, withholding U.S. security aid, and obstruction of Congress. He also didn’t mention that she accepted an illegal donation from him, then dropped out of a lawsuit against his fraudulent Trump University.

MORE HERE: Donald Trump Caught Outright Lying About ‘Donation’ To Florida Attorney General

Furthermore, Trump’s assertion that Bondi wouldn’t be “weaponizing” the Department of Justice herself has no basis in reality. She actually made the opposite case last year in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity that…

“When Republicans take back the White House – and we will be back in there – you know what’s gonna happen? The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad ones. The investigators will be investigated. Because the deep state, last term for President Trump, they were hiding in the shadows. But now they have a spotlight on them and they can all be investigated. The house needs to be cleaned out because now we know who most of them are.”

That’s right. Bondi actually took the position that under her leadership, if confirmed, she would favor prosecuting the career attorneys at the DoJ who would be working for her. That’s gotta be unsettling from both a professional and a personal perspective for the staff at the Department.

Finally, Bondi would become another member of Trump’s Fox News Cabinet being cast by the former reality TV game show host. According to Media Matters, she has made 64 appearances on Fox News since January 2023. That’s about once every week and a half. Which is why Trump nominated Bondi to begin with. She holds the single most important qualification to Trump: He’s seen her face on TV.

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One Down: The Demise of Matt Gaetz’ AG Aspirations Spells Trouble for Pete Hegseth at Defense

Posted by on November 21, 2024 at 3:08 pm. NO Comments :

The cartoonishly catastrophic Cabinet of Donald Trump is quickly devolving into an unprecedented political disaster area. As he has endeavored to cast his reality TV show administration, the glaring dearth of qualified, ethical nominees is impossible to ignore.

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On Thursday morning Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, withdrew his name from consideration for the post after the flood of allegations of his criminal sexual misconduct and dishonesty became too abundant to pretend they were merely innocent misunderstandings. To the contrary, they were consistent with Trump’s utter deprivation of principles that is now following him back into the White House.

SEE THIS: Trump’s Refusal to Sign the Required Ethics Agreement is His Virtual Promise to Violate It

The fact that Gaetz was so tainted that his nomination could not go forward is just the first sign of trouble for Trump’s nascent second term. His other nominees have problems that are even more disturbing. For instance, his pick for National Security Director, Tulsi Gabbard, is a Russian sympathizer. His choice for Health and Human Services, Robert Kennedy, Jr, is a conspiracy crackpot with a dead worm in his brain. His chosen head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Mehmet Oz, is a a quack and a Snake Oil salesman. His Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, is a puppy killer.

However, perhaps the worst of Trump’s motley screw ups is Pete Hegseth, his proposed Secretary of Defense. Hegseth has zero experience managing any kind of large institution, much less the largest in the U.S. government. Nor does he have experience with senior Pentagon level command. What he has is a face that Trump has seen on television as a co-host on the Fox News morning program, Fox and Friends.

Despite Hegseth’s TV resume, he seems entirely unprepared for the media encounters he would face as a member of Trump’s Cabinet. During a brief Q&A on Thursday, Hegseth pitifully mishandled what ought to have been an easy question…

Reporter: Did you sexually assault a woman in Monterey, California?
Hegseth: I have…ah…As far as the media is concerned, it’s very simple. The matter was fully investigated and I was completely cleared, and that’s where I’m gonna leave it.

What is painfully obvious in Hegseth’s response is that he does not bother to deny that he committed the sexual assault. Wouldn’t that be the first thing that an innocent person would want to establish before commenting on anything else? But to Hegseth, it was just a matter of what “the media is concerned” with.

What’s more, Hegseth is lying about the matter having been “fully investigated” and his being “completely cleared.” In fact, more details about the assault came out the very same morning that Hegseth was saying this. And not being charged doesn’t mean that he isn’t guilty, There are many reasons that prosecutors decline to file charges, even when there is evidence of guilt. As reported by CNN…

“A California woman told police that Trump Cabinet pick Pete Hegseth physically blocked her from leaving a hotel room, took her phone, and then sexually assaulted her even though she ‘remembered saying ‘no’ a lot,’ a police report obtained by CNN shows.” […and…] “Hegseth later entered into a settlement agreement with his accuser that included an undisclosed monetary payment and a confidentiality clause.”

Hegseth shares much in common with his mentor Trump. He is on his third marriage, after the first two ended due to his serial adultery. And he also emulated Trump’s fraudulent financial practices as head of a veterans organization that ripped off the vets it purported to help.

Given the nature of these legal and moral lapses by Hegseth, and their similarity to those by Gaetz, could an announcement that Hegseth’s name will be withdrawn from consideration as well be far from hitting the news wires? If not, there will only be more exposure of his degenerate behavior in the weeks to come. Not to mention his utter lack of relevant experience.

All of this should make for some interesting reality TV melodrama as Trump’s own lack of principles bleed over to every one of his nominees. Unfortunately for America, it doesn’t bode well for the administration of critical government services. The one bright spot is that Trump’s inability to get anything done also means that the manifestly harmful things he wants to do won’t get done either. It’s small comfort, but we have to appreciate whatever we can get.

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The Grifter-In-Chief: Will Donald Trump Divest From His Bribery Platform, Truth Social?

Posted by on November 20, 2024 at 2:01 pm. NO Comments :

After Donald Trump was elected in 2016, there was a fierce debate over whether he would divest from his many business interests. The potential for unscrupulous persons and/or foreign agents to seek favor from Trump by exploiting those interests was undeniable, and many took advantage of the opportunity.

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Trump never did divest himself in his first term in office. Subsequently, it has been estimated that he made millions off of such nefarious dealings. He took in funds from hostile foreign governments with business pending before U.S. government agencies over which he had jurisdiction. Then he lied about doing so.

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An investigation by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) found that Trump earned as much as $160 million dollars from foreign sources – predominantly the Middle East and China – during is first occupation of the White House…

“Throughout his time in office, President Trump, his family and his Republican allies repeatedly assured the public that his refusal to divest from his businesses wouldn’t lead to any conflicts of interest. Americans were promised that Trump would donate his salary, which he did, until maybe he didn’t — all while siphoning millions from taxpayers that more than offset his presidential pay. When it came to foreign conflicts of interest, Trump and his company pledged to pause foreign business. They did not.”

So what can we expect from Trump as he prepares to reoccupy the White House? Oddly, no one seems to be asking that question. Surely he is not planning to divest from any of the businesses that he didn’t divest from last time. But there is now a new entity that Trump didn’t have before, and that presents an even more troubling prospect for shady dealing.

Trump’s Truth Social, via its parent corporation, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. It is therefore available for any crooked scheme-ster to shovel shiploads of cash into, enriching the other shareholders, of which Trump is the biggest. And the funds can go directly into Trump’s bank account when he sells shares. Is this legal? Or ethical? Does he care?

SEE ALSO: Trump’s Refusal to Sign the Required Ethics Agreement is His Virtual Promise to Violate It

The potential for bribery is not the only value that Truth Social has for Trump. It also serves as his public relations platform where he announces everything from his Cabinet nominees to his hatred for Taylor Swift. There is no precedent for a sitting president to own a media company that is his primary source of communicating with the public. And he already has Fox News, which he doesn’t own financially, but does own ideologically.

What’s more, Truth Social serves as a flea market for Trump’s various merchandise sales. He has hawked all sorts of trashy products, including sneakers, books, gold coins, and NFT collectible cards. And he is still pitching his merch, even after the election. The latest item that he’s peddling is a personalized guitar…

Trump’s scammy social media website is proving to be a valuable PR and marketing venue, even though it’s an epic disaster financially. It can’t attract or retain users or advertisers. It reports losing millions of dollars in every quarterly report. It’s principle executives are embroiled in financial and legal scandals. And it is unable to compete with the other social media platforms that are far bigger.

Nevertheless, Truth Social still has some significant value for Trump. Because it is able to serve as a depository for bribes from nefarious entities. And nobody in the regulatory, legal, or even political fields seem to care. See the following for more…

LOSER Trump’s Truth Social is Well on its Way to Becoming His Next Bankruptcy
TMTG reported its earning for the second quarter of 2024. And it was not a pretty sight. As reported by Investor’s Business Daily, “Trump Media reported net sales of $836,000, down 30% vs. a year earlier. Operating costs soared to $19.5 million vs. $4.9 million a year earlier.”

Trump’s Truth Social is Shedding Users Like a Miserable Childless Woman’s Mangy Cat
The Donald Trump-controlled Truth Social platform recorded its third straight month of declining traffic. Truth Social attracted 2,112,000 unique visitors, down 38% compared to June 2023 when the site generated 3,407,000 unique visitors. It was the platform’s second worst traffic performance since June 2022 when Truth Social had only 1,891,000 unique visitors.

Trump Crime Syndicate: Investors Arrested for Insider Trading in Failing Truth Social Scam
Trump’s associates in his truthless, anti-social media venture were arrested and charged with insider trading. Reports indicate that “the three individuals together made more than $22 million in illegal profits.”

Truth Social Disease: Ads on Trump’s Twitter Ripoff are Mostly Scams and Trump-Fluffing Merch
Advertisers are afraid of their ads being juxtaposed with hate speech and other noxious content. Consequently, the only advertisers who are willing to shell out are sketchy scammers, conspiracy theorists, and junk peddlers.

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Trump Picks Dr. Oz (Another Fox News Hack) to Lead Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Posted by on November 19, 2024 at 3:35 pm. NO Comments :

The Cabinet of Donald Trump is shaping up to reflect his most notable range of experience, that of a former reality TV game show host, with a reputation that was wholly manufactured by network public relations agents. Heaven forbid that Trump would select someone with the actual skills and knowledge to do the job he is appointing them to.

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The single most common characteristic of the team Trump has put together thus far is their shared employment and/or association with Fox News. To date at least ten of Trump’s proposed agency heads have been either Fox News hosts or regular contributors. They include such ill-equipped talking heads as Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense, Mike Huckabee for ambassador to Israel, Tulsi Gabbard for director of National Intelligence, and many more.

SEE THIS: Trump is Stacking His Cabinet with Fox News Trump-Fluffers

On Tuesday morning Trump added to that list of disrepute Dr. Mehmet Oz, who Trump is nominating to be the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In the announcement that Trump posted on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, he said that…

“Dr. Oz will work closely with Robert F Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake.”

Well, Oz will be working with the RFK, Jr, the guy with the dead brain worm, who collects road kill, and says that no vaccine is safe. That’s comforting. What’s more, Oz has no background in health care administration or social services. What he has is a face that Trump has seen on his TV.

As for his medical background, during the COVID pandemic, Oz “promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, as a cure for COVID-19 on more than 25 Fox News broadcasts in March and April 2020.” And “In April 2020, Oz appeared on Fox News with Sean Hannity and said that reopening schools in the United States might be worth the increased number of deaths it would cause.” And he has also said that he wants “local political leaders“ to join with women and doctors in their personal decisions about abortion.

Suffice to say that this is another department within the Trump administration that would be run by an incompetent who lacks the basic skills to conduct its business. And his opinions are diametrically opposed to those of most of the American people. But fear not. Trump assured us in his announcement that he will carry out Trump’s mission to slash the budget for these healthcare programs that millions depend on, saying that…

“He will also cut waste and fraud within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency, which is a third of our Nation’s Healthcare spend, and a quarter of our entire National Budget.”

The obsession by Trump and the Republican Party to cut Social Security and Medicare is totally understandable when you recognize that they have to do it in order to pay for the tax breaks that they plan to give to corporations and the wealthy. Someone has to pay, and it sure isn’t gonna be Trump or his billionaire buddies. And if the suffering it causes happens to impact the MAGA minions in rural America, well, it’s what they voted for. It’s just unfortunate that the rest of the country will have to suffer along with them.

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Morning Joe’s Craven Capitulation to Trump is Just Cause for MSNBC to Consider Pulling the Plug

Posted by on November 18, 2024 at 3:05 pm. 1 Comments :

Whenever an emerging totalitarian regime starts to reveal its intentions, there are weak citizens and organizations that seek to get in front of the tyrannical train and declare their allegiance to the dawning dictatorship before it actually assumes power.

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That display of spinelessness was evident when the Washington Post and other media enterprises withheld their endorsements of Kamala Harris prior to the election. It’s especially disturbing when comedy news satire programs are more credible journalists than mainstream media…

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With the election behind us, it took less than two weeks for a usually reliable news network to fall under the spell of the demagogic cult leader, Donald Trump. On Monday morning the hosts of Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, opened their program with a report on their recent visit to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home/hotel. It was not exactly a story of courage or journalistic integrity (video below). Mika began…

“Over the past week, Joe and I have heard from so many people from political leaders to regular citizens deeply dismayed by several of president-elect Trump’s Cabinet selections, and they are scared. Last Thursday, we expressed our own concerns on this broadcast and even said we would appreciate the opportunity to speak with the president-elect himself. On Friday, we were given the opportunity to do just that.”

Joe said that he talked to Trump about a lot of issues, including those with which they disagreed. “What we did agree on,” Mika said, “was to restart communications” [and that] “He seemed interested in finding common ground with Democrats on some of the most divisive issues.” And if she believes that Trump has any genuine interest in finding common ground she is terminally naïve. She continued…

“We have been as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump’s actions and words in the coarsening of public debate, but for nearly 80 million Americans. election denialism, public trials, January 6th, were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote. Joe and I realized it’s time to do something different and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him.”

First of all, Trump had less than 77 million votes, and only about two million more than Harris. It was one of the closest elections in modern times, and not in any way a mandate for Trump, or reason for Democrats to cave in. Furthermore, merely because Trump came out slightly ahead is no reason to forget the atrocities he was responsible for, including the violent January 5th insurrection, and his dozens of felony charges and convictions.

Joe suggested that “this is a president who is not seeking reelection, so maybe, just maybe now could be time for both parties to get to work.” Which is patently absurd. Trump is not thinking about reelection as a factor in pursuing his authoritarian power grab. In fact, he may not be thinking about ever having to stand for election again at all, while still staying in power.

Mika added that “Hyperbole and personal attacks will not work. My hair on fire doesn’t work. We have all seen that. What also does not work is threatening political opponents with arrest, harassment and even jail. That is a failed path.” Of course, she’s wrong. Trump succeeded with his threats and fear mongering and therefore, will see no reason to abandon those tactics now. Continuing…

“We know that this will be a consequential presidency. The question is whether it will be constructive. It will take a new approach from all sides, from both parties, and a leader who can bring them together. And only time will tell if Donald Trump can be that leader.”

Wrong again. Trump has no intention of bringing anyone together. He has said so explicitly, reiterating his threats against his critics, political opponents, and the media.

Joe closed by saying that he is “not here to defend or normalize Donald Trump.” But that’s precisely what he is doing. How else can he justify cozying up to someone he once compared to Hitler? A comment that drew a response from Trump’s spokesperson threatening that “their sad, miserable existence will be crushed when president Trump returns to the White House.”

This would be a good time for MSNBC to reconsider whether having Joe and Mika on for three hours every weekday is really a good idea while Trump and his regime are dismantling democracy. And it will be interesting to see how their network colleagues (Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Jen Psaki, Alex Wagner, Nicole Wallace, etc., respond. Katie Phang has already made her feelings clear…

https://x.com/KatiePhang/status/1858520409710182606

UPDATE: CNN is reporting that “According to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, Scarborough and Brzezinski were credibly concerned that they could face governmental and legal harassment from the incoming Trump administration.” [and that] “the incoming Trump administration could use its wide-ranging powers to punish people deemed enemies.”

So in other words, the cowards capitulated.

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