"There are signs that all of this is going to get worse too. Trump has no way out of the Epstein problem; he can either continue to stonewall, which makes him look guilty, or he can release everything, which may make him look even guiltier.

Prices are rising again, thanks to a tariff strategy that makes no sense whatsoever and amounts to yet more inflation for the American consumer.

The massive tax cut for the rich Trump just signed into law will soon have to be paid for by stripping poor people of their health care and jacking up costs for those on the Affordable Care Act exchanges.

The situation in Gaza is worse than it has been in two and a half years.

His deportation regime, which will only expand under the new budget law, is causing widespread horror and outrage in communities across the country."

more at the link

Loyalty to the President is more important than loyalty to the Nation and the People.

That's the lesson of Trumpism so far; authoritarian control over democracy.

And Trumpers love having someone to tell them what to think and say.

"I'm never speaking to any of you again, ever!" - BJ

Number 2 Son think himself more evolved than evidence suggests.

Devolution more likely suspect!

- Yeah, better than Trump's numbers

Willing to bet they aren't in Gaza today.

The bible from cover to cover, OT to New is about how we treat each other, and especially about how we treat strangers and immigrants.

Do they get Free Tacos with that?

Wolff interview: how the friendship ended plus more

So... about half the Palestinian people don't now support Hamas?

Good to know.

That poll is from March 21, 2024.

I bet now Hamas is even more underwater there than Trump is here.

- that war they started.

I've seen fights before where some little dumbass started a stupid fight because he was egged on into it, maybe even thought he had to prove himself or something... and at some point the bystanders pulled the bigger guy offa him.
There's no good guys in the leadership of either side, but the People of each side are getting screwed badly.

Which we here should take as an example of what happens in far rwing nationalist authoritarian led governments.

And is happening here now, too.

- Palestinians want

Surely you meant that's what Hamas' Oligarch Leaders in Qatar that are still left want.

The Palestinian people not so much.

Of course, Settlers would have loose their gub'mint income bulldozing Palestinian homes, and sometimes murdering the neighbors, but all Peace comes at a cost, I s'pose.

There was no excuse for Oct 7, nor is there one for Israeli's over the top reaction... that just so happened to be what Trump's Evil Israeli Twin needed to stay in Office.

Those guys understand each other.

"President Trump said on Thursday that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza will end if Hamas releases the hostages and surrenders.

Why it matters: The comment from the president marks a change in tone from others he made in recent days that put the onus on Israel to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

What he is saying: "The fastest way to end the Humanitarian Crises in Gaza is for Hamas to SURRENDER AND RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!!!," Trump wrote on his Truth Social account.

State of play: Trump's post was published as his envoy Steve Witkoff met with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."

"Trump seems to be realizing what a lot of us observed from early on " that [Ukrainian President Volodymyr]Zelensky is not the problem," Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, told the Times.

"Ukraine is not the problem. Putin is the problem."

No ---, Sherlock! I mean, EffetePuty.

"As the author of three books on Trump, he was so well-sourced in Trump World that he could sometimes predict what Trump's attorneys, Todd Blanche (now deputy attorney general) and Emil Bove (soon to be a federal judge), would do in court. That impressed me."

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JONATHAN ALTER:

What was the size of his estate?

MICHAEL WOLFF:

He died with an estate of $600 million.

"JONATHAN ALTER:

His meeting with Epstein nine days before his death isn't particularly relevant?

MICHAEL WOLFF:

I don't know if it's true; Schoen was not his lawyer. Epstein's lead lawyer was Reid Weingarten. I should check with Reid about his opinion on Epstein's death, but it's clear Epstein's will was quickly rewritten in the days before he died, leaving everything to a trust to shield beneficiaries' identities.

JONATHAN ALTER:

Are you agnostic about whether Epstein killed himself?

MICHAEL WOLFF:

Yes, I don't see how he could have committed suicide by breaking his own neck, but it's also hard to believe a conspiracy [to kill him] could be kept secret by so many."

excerpts

Is he going to park his 'free' + $1 billion in upgrades jet there?

and btw, Ball Room may not mean what Trump thinks it means, as that's where they held the cheerleader contests he and Jeffrey sponsored.

Trump and Epstein's biographer Michael Wolff says that it was Trump that dropped the dime on Epstein after Epstein threatened to expose Trump's money laundering for a Russian Oligarch:

Were it a black woman and the company mentioned her genes... the right would have cried DEI! and demanded she be Deported to Batswana.

What... no Simpsons Love?

I thought this was the Retort, lol!

short talk

short talk

#62

His health was the Issue... at least that's what you were saying then. Or can you not keep up with your lies?

I'd love to hear your superbly intelligent analysis of the merits of the sort talk given in #40.... ROFL!

- nazi planning a holocaust....or a pedophile.

More like both, actually... let's not short-change Trump's past or future.

Our substance-free rwingers here are all about the Horse Race, not about the Issues; they finally won one, and they will continue to lie in the face of facts about things like the Russian "Hoax", no matter how many times that tired old mule has been shot and buried on these pages.

They just ignore the Facts and believe whatever Dear Leader tells them... when he isn't busy screwing them over.

It's sad, really.

Republicans went from being real Conservatives like the one in the link at #40, which they will never see because any new information is Fake News if it wasn't Orange Hitler who spewed it... to being the radical rwing voting block controlled by the Corporations and the Oligarchs.

Just like in 1930's Germany, which Project 25, which they also have not read, intends.