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Toni's avatar

Just think about it, Trump has been operating like this his whole life maybe not to this degree because he has total power now.

this is his MO!

jon norstog's avatar

It's absolutely breathtaking! Too bad he is such a worm, doing it as a side-grift on his henchmen's plot to destroy everything that is fine and just in our country; otherwise it would make a king-hell caper movie.

Adam S. Grant's avatar

You missed the most important scandal: the DOJ ban of IRS investigations into Trump, his family, his businesses and affiliates. That is the ultimate grift.

If this ban, which will be challenged in court, is upheld, then the trumps will never pay taxes ever.

That places them above everyone. And that pisses me off more than any of the outright grift.

Screw these people.

joni's avatar

You are too mild...Screw these people" doesn't begin to cover the "Epic Rage" I am experiencing.

Will there ever be a reckoning ? Will Justice remove the blindfold ? Will it take a revolution -a la "Storm the Bastille" to strip these grifters of their ill-gotten wealth ?

If we can EVER find some HONEST people to resurrect this country, there should be an immediate reversal of fortunes for the trmp crime family. Their assets should be frozen and reallocated to all the people they have robbed...and that would be ALL of us !

jim king's avatar

IMPEACH AND DUMP TRAITORS, NAZIS PREDATORS AND ENABLERS , IMPERIALIST CRIMINALS, WAR MONGERS, CAREER CRIMINALS, CRIMINAL GRIFTERS, FASCIST PIGS, FRAUDSTERS, RACIST, AND CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE. RELEASE ALL UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES AND JAIL CON RTRUMP. AVOID CON RTRUMP'S AND THE REPUBLICON'S RECESSION AND DEPRESSION. FIX CLIMATE CHANGE, FOR THE FAIR DEAL, NOT THE RAW DEAL. VOTE BLUE AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. STOP THE RTRUMP OLIGARCHY. BOYCOTT CRIMINAL RTRUMP & ELON THE NAZIS.

Connie Larsen's avatar

Yes! trump n his entire family, kkkabinet, administration friends need to be investigated, arrested n imprisoned!!!

Bec's avatar

We have to get involved and have a massive turnout, they cannot cheat! This is True, the GRIFT IS MASSIVE.

Suel J's avatar

This right here. That actually gave me goosebumps. The corruption, dishonesty, self dealing and absolute lack of any care towards the people that prop them up (US!) is something I've not experienced on such a scale. Perhaps we need to stop paying taxes. If we all don't pay there isn't a jail big enough to lock us in. Or, just all stop working for a few days. Wouldn't take much. There'd be little left for the trumpers to grift and spend.

Tess's avatar

The truth in all its corruption. Excellent article!

CE's avatar

And the sound coming from Capitol Hill???? Crickets…..

Connie Larsen's avatar

Hard to believe that almost all rethuglikkkrussians in congress have gone quiet!! Hopefully, rethuglikkkrussians up for reelection or election, get the 💩 beat out of them! I don’t think we can trust any of them! Can’t pull their heads out of trumps ass!!

WJB Motown's avatar

What about the smell of BoneSpurs overflowing, stinking, dripping Depends diapers that need changing 24/7/365

Suel J's avatar

Yeah their spending our money is why.

LT's avatar
2hEdited

Why is it so hard to stop this? The ignorance racism and self-absorption is staggering.

And bad news circulates faster w more intensity than the wins. That's got to change

Wtfu America - trauma. For many years

Jean Conley's avatar

That's what I'd like to know. (Why is it so hard to stop this?) Somehow, Dump's powers have gotten way out of hand. No other president has ever had this much power. Or actually, if any of them have, they didn't use it to establish a dictatorship and enrich himself and his friends.

Merry's avatar
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Agree. It feels like a gigantic, uncontrollable avalanche or a massive tsunami that’s suddenly roaring in with no ability to stop it or even get out of the way! But of course that’s the whole ideal… generate massive amounts of chaos and confusion which in turn creates shock and paralysis and panic and fear and uncertainty. Then ultimately, surrender.

We must unite, stay strong and actively engage, and destroy this corrupt, criminal cabal that’s now operating in plain sight!

Jean Conley's avatar

Bingo! Thanks for your reply!

dang's avatar

Democracy, unfortunately slow but very valuable.

Hound's avatar

All the previous scandals with presidents and political figures damaged those people because there was a time when most Americans were honorable. It’s different today. If there was a republican candidate running who was a conservative, a devout Christian and didn’t have any sex scandals and his opponent and the primary was some pig like Trump, the Republican voters would reject the moral conservative devout Christian Republican for the scumbag.

Ron Contra, Watergate and Teapot Dome were dealt with and compared to the depravity and just the severity of the depravity with Trump and all of the filth he surrounds himself with makes every other scandal look pretty minor in comparison.

The MAGAT is a two-faced rat bastard. They pretend to have the morality of a conservative Christian like Mike Pence but they tried to kill him because he was everything Trump wasn’t. At great personal risk to himself vice president Mike Pence followed the law. Republicans like that are never going to win in a primary against the typical scandalous lying perverted modern day Republican. MAGA Republicans prefer sleaze and lies.

olderwoman's avatar

RE: your first paragraph. Well isn't that what is happening in Texas with John Cronin and Ken Paxton? I think Republicans must vote for the asshole they wish THEY could be. It just seems to me like Republican voters are just the bullies amongst us.

Connie Larsen's avatar

Paxton is a scum bag! Adulterer, embezzling, lieing, greedy, corrupt po💩!!

Suel J's avatar

I really hope the people of Texas feel their worth and vote for someone that will advance their causes, not someones personal bank statements or balance sheet. The pols have been treating us like open checkbooks

Hank Adams's avatar

As if dishonor wasn’t stewing in the GOP before Trump; Nixon’s “Southern Strategy,” the War on Drugs (which was a cover to explicitly target leftists and/or black people), pandering to Christian Evangelicals, Newt Gingrich, the patriot act, creationist bullshit, and being unreasonably uncooperative with Obama just because of his race are all examples of poor behavior from the Republicans.

Historically there are Republicans I admire (i.e., Lincoln, Ulysses S Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Gerald Ford), but the party went to shit once Regan came to power. To quote my dad, “Regan fucked everything up.”

Mike Hammer's avatar

Staggering, unprecedented, ironic, insane, words that sadly don’t seem to carry much weight anymore.

BF's avatar
2hEdited

Correct.

Want to remedy that corruption, at scale and persistently?

If so, here's how:

https://substack.com/profile/92755196-bf/note/c-265173377?r=1j82d8&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web

And, be sure you read the specific actions Mr @Christopher Armitage has already explicated in considerable detail and made very easy to advocate.

Zenovia's avatar

Armitage is an absolute asset we all need. I follow him too and filed complaints against in NY & Ca asking AG to investigate World Liberty Financial & other action items he recommends on the daily. He makes it so easy to do, I wish MTN would also provide tool kits for advocacy & encourage ppl to use them like Christopher does! Folks will act if they are given the tools and can do so with spending hours upon hours out of their busy schedules.

BF's avatar

Agree!

Just sent this note:

Dear @Ron Filipkowski,

Please invite Mr @Christopher Armitage to join MTN and arrange for him to provide his guidance to your entire audience.

Thank you

william logan's avatar

PMURT IS A SCANDAL AND AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE WORLD

Christine Karp's avatar

All of us who know the truth about these scandals going on in front of the nations eyes agree that President Felon needs to be thrown out of office. But these damn Republicans have their hands in the billionaires pockets won't do anything about it and they are more afraid of losing their own elections instead of love of country and the Constitution. A pox on all of them. What goes around comes around and they will suffer immense loses when the rest of the country wakes up to what is going on once the truth hits every one in the face, especially these maga idiots.

Carol Kopelman's avatar

And this doesn’t even include the exemption from IRS review for Trump, his family and businesses.

Connie Larsen's avatar

That must be overturned!!!!

mary thiel's avatar

How come we never direct protests at Vought, also? Or talk about him?

Maria Jette's avatar

That’s what I’ve been wondering…ever since his name appeared in the pre-election times when Project 2025 started leaking out, and none of us could believe the crazy stuff in it! Wasn’t cutting funding for pediatric cancer research in it? stuff like that, where you’d think, “oh, come on! Nobody would cut funding for kids’ cancer research—that’s obviously going nowhere!”

But HE was there then, and he’s here now, and he’s like the Invisible Man. It’s like there’s some kind of mysterious cloaking device which blurs his very existence—you can’t see him, you can’t remember his name (which nobody even seems to agree on how to pronounce), you can’t picture his face. I’ve never heard anyone talk about his background—is it really possible that he believes in all the religious claptrap which is supposed to be achieved by moving ALL AMERICA’S MONEY away from stuff like USAID and pediatric cancer research research?

I would love to see SOMEONE in Congress start up an investigation into Vought, and his beliefs, and his goals. They’d probably have to wear special goggles to be able to find him in the mist which conceals him from public view…

Renee Goodman's avatar

Maria, along with STEVE MILLER and PETER THIEL!

Connie Larsen's avatar

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/people/russell-vought/

I’d love to beat the crap out of him! Creepy lil bastard!

Maria Jette's avatar

And all of the horrible cruelty and destruction he put into Project 2025 is for JESUS CHRIST????? Let’s not forget that he’s part of that contingent of Christian Nationalists who want Israel to finish crushing Palestine so it can fully occupy Jerusalem, which (according to their magical view of a bit of biblical folderol) will be the last puzzle piee to click into place, and make JESUS come back, and them be sucked into Paradise!

Connie Larsen's avatar

Vought n nazi miller are in the drivers seat! I hope they have a serious wreck!

elliemae.padme66's avatar

Am soooooooo disappointed in Representative Reuben Gallegio.

No wonder people think there's no difference between the two Political Parties 🤔

jim king's avatar

IMPEACH AND DUMP TRAITORS, NAZIS PREDATORS AND ENABLERS , IMPERIALIST CRIMINALS, WAR MONGERS, CAREER CRIMINALS, CRIMINAL GRIFTERS, FASCIST PIGS, FRAUDSTERS, RACIST, AND CON REPUBLICONS EVERYWHERE. RELEASE ALL UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES AND JAIL CON RTRUMP. AVOID CON RTRUMP'S AND THE REPUBLICON'S RECESSION AND DEPRESSION. FIX CLIMATE CHANGE, FOR THE FAIR DEAL, NOT THE RAW DEAL. VOTE BLUE AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. STOP THE RTRUMP OLIGARCHY. BOYCOTT CRIMINAL RTRUMP & ELON THE NAZIS.

Stephanie Ollis's avatar

Thank you for the history lessons and the excellent mapping of what is happening now. I think the only thing that will save our democracy is a blue wave in November, and our representatives having the appetite for change.

L B Rose's avatar

This is what happens when you put a convicted felon in the WH. Why is anyone surprised?