Everything Trump and his coconspitators have done this past year has been done to further the agenda of surrendering America's future. They are trying to break the country. The xenophobia, the targeting of universities, the brain drain, the trade wars, the persecution of immigrants and foreign tourists, the massive debt, and the destruction of the economy. It's all to make us weaker and cedes American influence and our future goals to our adversaries.

More: On January 20, 2025, the first day of his second term, Trump issued a sweeping clemency proclamation that effectively pardoned nearly all of the approximately 1,600 people charged or convicted for offenses related to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

"If the pipe bomber intended to aid and abet the planned Capitol riot the next day by diverting law enforcement resources and causing chaos, are his crimes 'related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021' such that he has been pardoned?" muses X user Patterico.

The Bulwark's Tim Miller perked up, sharing Patterico's post, saying, "great [question]."

"I'd be pretty surprised if he did not at least try to make this argument. After all, those pardoned were not all convicted based on their actions on January 6 at the Capitol. Many were convicted based in part on their planning, before that day, in other locations," Patterico theorized.

More: Sources close to the elderly president, both inside and outside of the administration, told Zeteo the negative press coverage of his health angers him more than almost any issue other than the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

"Trump will fixate on the offending news outlet or coverage for several days," the publication noted.

"He is sensitive to being compared, even if not explicitly, to Sleepy Joe," a Trump adviser said. "Especially if it's coming from a reporter he already hates."

Trump's frustration has grown as he faces increased scrutiny for exhibiting many of the same signs of physical and cognitive slippage he once mocked Biden for. Media coverage has picked up on Trump's display of troubling signs of mental decline, which has, in turn, fueled concerns about his fitness for the presidency.

More: The trick here is simple and old. You starve the public systems until they're so weak that anything looks like relief. Then you let a billionaire deliver a drop of water and call it a miracle. Americans have been trained to applaud the spectacle. They forget to ask why one of the richest men in the country gets to decide how twenty-five million children experience their first introduction to money. They forget to ask why the richest people get public praise for giving back pennies compared to what they extract. They forget to ask why children need investment accounts instead of stable housing, food, medical care, and schools that aren't falling apart.

The applause is the point. When billionaires are cast as heroes, no one has to admit that the system has collapsed so thoroughly that private charity is now doing the work of the state. This is how the social contract dies without anyone calling it what it is. People look at the $250 and say at least it's something. They say maybe it'll grow. They say maybe it'll help someday. They don't say what's obvious. They don't say the quiet part. They don't say that America now expects the financial markets to raise children because the country has decided it won't.

There's also the quiet financialization happening underneath. These accounts invest in index funds. That means millions of new dollars flowing into the same corporate structures that already dominate the economy. Kids become passive capital generators before they can read. Their "gift" enriches the very companies that helped create the inequality this program is pretending to solve. It's a perfect loop. The wealthy get to look generous while reinforcing the machine that made them wealthy. The public gets a story about hope. The corporations get the money.

Even if you don't know his name you've heard him play.

SecDrunk refusing to be interviewed by the IG is pretty telling.

Possibility? Two national guardsmen were shot last week while they were deployed to an American city for no good reason other than Donald Trump wanting to seem tough.

More: "There are some guys at Leavenworth who made really bad choices on the battlefield, and I do think there have to be consequences for abject war crimes," he said. "If you're doing something that is just completely unlawful and ruthless, then there is a consequence for that."

"That's why the military said it won't follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief," he added. "There's a standard, there's an ethos, there's a belief that we are above what so many things that our enemies or others would do."

Small businesses hemorrhaged 120,000 jobs last month. Are we great yet?

And still some of you continue to believe that poor immigrants are the problem.

Aren't Melania and Barron dual citizens?

"The party of law and order."

Another reason for foreign tourists to stay away. Trump is killing the tourism industry.

She was reviled by the left for years and felt perfectly safe.

Then she was hated by the right for a few days and she had to hire extra security because of all the threats and then quit congress.

Every lawyer and judge associated with this should be disbarred and/or removed.

Yeah we just don't invite my uncle and his wife, the only MAGAts in our extended family, to gatherings anymore. No one wants to have to hear their BS. Their kids and grandkids show up every year and we have a wonderful time.

Kind of telling that they chose to spend time with the rest of the family rather than their parents.

He is on the trail though. His specter will be in every voting booth in the country. The blowout will be because of him and his disastrous failure of a presidency.

Yeah let us know when Stacey Plaskett spends Thanksgiving with Epstien or a few hours alone in a room with one of his victims.

I think that Trump vetoing the Epstein bill remains a possibility.

Definitely but it passed both chambers of Congress with veto proof majorities. Assuming no one has a change of heart (big assumption, I know) his veto won't matter.

It's a good start. This only applied to a few schools.

Glad to see he's concentrating on the most important issues we face. /s