I mean . . . Yeah. We know. We’ve been watching it happen every goddamned day.
Thanks for the reminder Guardian. Maybe you could name and shame a little more? It’s not happening magically. People with names and institutions are doing this corruption, so. Map it out. kthx.
What the hell should they do?? Investigate and do journalism???
I’m a rebel, Dottie. A loner.
How do any remaining supporters justify this?
They don’t, they will just scream ‘fake news!’
They only trust the news that reports the things they want to hear.
I think there’s others that think the things he does for the country are good. And they take the good with the bad. Like lowering taxes (even though mostly the rich benefitted from that). Or whatever the fuck DOGE claimed to do. Or brain worm measles you.
They believe that everyone does it, and that Trump is just better at it.
That's why if you point out something corrupt they point to someone else who the think did something corrupt, instead of saying both should be investigated and punished if actually guilty.
Exactly: "Hunter Biden and his laptop! And Hunter sold art, can you even believe it? Hillary's emails! Bill Clinton gets speaking fees, how is that even possible?"
Lol remember when Hillary's emails was this years-long scandal? And we just rolled over Signalgate in a couple weeks.
"Look at what a good businessman he is!"
"If it was actually illegal, he'd be in prison!"
"He's so savvy to not pay for things when payment is due. Why would you pay if you didn't have to?"
"He's made more money while president than any other president because he's the first non-politician president."
My personal favorite: "he donates his salary, that proves he isn't in it to make money. That's why we elected him!"
They don't have to.
They'll never hear about it, and will tell you it's fake when you show them
The response you will get is "This is nothing new! Bill Clinton was worse..."
But he DOESNT take a Salary!
-Free Thinking NOT GULLIBLE Republicans!
Just call them fucking stupid at this point. If you voted for a conman TWICE you're a fucking idiot
A lot went three times.
I so want him and all of his family thrown into prison. It is all so brazenly corrupt.
Don't forget to take every last cent the family has. Literally leave them with nothing as punishment.
Agreed. Because they are not likely to serve full sentences; they should have to come out and live as paupers.
And that $2.2B is just what he reported on his taxes--i.e. the technically legal income.
Well yes and also it doesn't include the money his family has made from deals made after he got office. It's on the order of 5bil+.
We could end this in a few weeks if we acted. Everyone wants to hold on to what little they have instead of losing it for a better future.
People will die. People have kids they need to raise. People have parents they need to take care of. If we burn the system down, all that is over. Your hopes of a good life in your lifetime end with revolution. You basically have to sacrifice an entire generation to burn this system down. Maybe we'll get there soon, but people are still hoping to make it to the other side in one piece.
Yeah, let's make our kids figure this out. It's not like they'll be kind of busy dealing with global warming and all those other nice challenges we've left them.
I believe part of the issue is that in addition to the regulatory system being captured, the media has been as well. Sure there are some late night shows poking fun, but major news networks are being bought up one after another.
It's difficult to organize when half the news pretends this is normal and the other half openly celebrates this degradation of our systems. Unfortunately I fear things will get worse before they get better.
Wishing tons of non viloent misfurtunes to happen to all republicans.
I'm also wishing violent ones. After all, republicans are nazis, and the only good nazi is the dead nazi.
There is no need to stress. The next Democratic President will issue blanket pardons, will no do investigations, or Presidential Commissions, or anything that sort.
The Epstein Class always protects each other.
"Now is the time for unity, and to forgive our neighbors" Says every Democrat after a Republican president.
"The Democrats are all antifa-terrorists and should be rounded up into a camp." Says every Republican after a Democratic president.
All that money and still an utterly worthless man.
He has set the precedent that presidents and their families can not only continue to run businesses while in office, but make governing decisions that lead to profit for those businesses. Oh, and getting payments for advertisements from the Resolute desk, and putting up paid advertisements on government property. Oh, and punish federal funding to states, companies, Universities, etc. for not following his executive orders, which are not laws, but are being treated as such.
The only way to remedy this, I figure, is to have a democrat in office do every. single. thing. he is doing in office, until each thing has a law created by the other branches of government to make it illegal going forward.
The only way to remedy this, I figure, is to have a democrat in office do every. single. thing. he is doing in office
If you think Ritchie Torres, Elissa Slotkin, and Pete Buttigieg are going to save the county, you're going to be very disappointed.
Likewise some analysts are troubled by how Trump has circumvented the constitution’s prohibition on foreign emoluments by accepting a $400m plane as a gift from Qatar, and how other wealthy foreigners have backed some Trump family hotel and golf deals abroad.
Doesn't the constitution ban all emoluments?
Or is this just saying that the other reps are only outraged by accepting foreign bribes, because they all accept domestic bribes..
an “unprecedented” $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by...expanding his Truth Social business and more
What? How does that make money? Is he selling sugar pills that claim to make your penis bigger or sth?
Edit:
Canter added that “Trump is increasingly dependent on the presidency to generate business profits since his media company has been losing money over the past several quarters.”
Trump Media & Technology, the company behind the Truth Social platform, on 10 August announced it lost a whopping $238m in the three months through June as it branched out into new businesses including crypto.
Oh, that sounds more correct
He's selling early access to his tweets for money laundering and stock manipulation
"You too can enjoy the same insider access as Barron Trump for the low, low price of $100,000 a month!"
So glad we elected this guy again instead of putting him in prison...
As far as I can tell republicans chose this life for all of us because they were upset that:
They had to wear a mask during covid. Gay people are allowed to be happy. Obama wore a tan suit that one time. Buttery emails.
So now we all get to live shit hole life’s because the crabs at the bottom of the bucket decided to yank everyone down with them and install a king.
If you vote republican, fuck you, genuinely.
Many Americans seem to be fine with that, must be some kind of national kink.
"But he doesn't even take a salary!" -MAGA Morons
Trump is the most openly American president to ever live. The stuff he does in the open, were happening in secret for decades. The secret is out.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Just pure robbery in board daylight. Trump cultists don't care mind you these people were stuck on a laptop for like 5 years lmao.
Early access for 100k? Fuck me sideways. Some twats will do it.
They do it and then cash in on Polymarket bets based on advance knowledge.
It's crazy that Martha Stewart went to prison for insider trading, and now the president is selling it.
And what's he even going to do with it? Dude is a walking caricature of American diet related health problems, in his 80s. Beyond the fact that so many groups would love to take a shot at him, he's pretty likely to take himself out within the next few years anyway.
So what's the point of getting absurdly rich? You can't take it with you, and he very obviously only cares about himself, so he isn't doing it for his family.
My father was a malignant narcissist.
They do live through their children. Not in any sort of nice, generous way. But they try to clone themselves via their offspring. Look like me, follow in my professional footsteps, have the same opinions about everything.
Now isn't that funny? It cost MORE to make a rich person richer than it does to make me rich.
Go figure.
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