All that bulbous, misshapen, jiggly muscle.
As long as it works the same way as the paint in Goldfinger.
The fascist in chief celebrates his Beer Hall Putsch in song backed by a choir of imprisoned insurrectionists.
I assume ‘charity’ means the Donald Trump Preservation Society, or something similar.
Bingo. First thing I thought. Charity? Bullshit.
Is there a lyric in there about how he didn’t pardon them because he prefers insurrectionists who don’t get arrested?
I caught the reference. But in the movie, I was rooting for those guys.
It’s probably a “January 6 Defense Fund” where 90% or more of the money is funnelled directly into Trump’s pocket.
First thing I thought was, “Charity bullshit”. It’s Tan the Conman, after all.
Trump said, "Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine settled. It will be settled quickly,” adding that he “got along very well” with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who would listen to him.
If he’s such good buddies with Putin, why doesn’t he end the war now? Why wait to become President, when thousands of people are dying? Oh, right. ‘I’ll gladly end the war on Tuesday, for Presidency today.’
Trump does have a plan to win the war, and it’s easy. Total and complete capitulation by Ukraine, lifting of all sanctions against Russia, and the dismantlement of NATO.
I don’t usually bother with “fact checking” of Trump. We all know there are more lies per minute than can even be counted. This summary, however, was a classic for anyone needing a refresher course.
I particularly like this section:
Trump and job creation
Promising to save Americans’ jobs if he is elected again, Trump claimed, “We had the greatest job history of any president ever.”
Facts First: This is false. The US lost about 2.7 million jobs during Trump’s presidency, the worst overall jobs record for any president. The net loss was largely because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but even Trump’s pre-pandemic jobs record – about 6.7 million jobs added – was far from the greatest of any president ever. The economy added more than 11.5 million jobs in the first term of Democratic President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/politics/fact-check-trump-cpac/index.html
None of which would bother today’s GOP voters in the slightest.
In fact the surest way for Trump to re-win the Presidency in 2024 is to grab every opportunity to praise and associate himself with Putin. GOP voters love that guy.
How on God’s Good Green Earth did the saber-rattling anti-communist party become the ultimat fanboy club of Putin? <----Rhetorical question. I already know the answer: They let Fox pretend to be a news organization, Fox radicalizes their base, their base falls in love with a conman, conman gets played by Putin, wash and repeat.
He pissed me off today after I read that at CPAC, his repulsive eldest male spawn again called John Fetterman “a vegetable”, fit only for “bagging groceries”. I guess being “a vegetable” (not!) is worse than being an ignorant leech desperate for Daddy’s love which will never manifest.
Yeah, pretty much.
The new battle lines - at least in the minds of right-leaning Americans - are between traditionally moralistic authoritarianism and gentler, inclusive democracy.
Vlad, like his butt buddy Donald, is unhesitant to persecute the marginalized parts of society. Our US conservatives are maddened by their increasing comfort and wants to see them hurt.
Absolutely.
In addition: what @Red_Wiggler said, and also a bit more explicitly: today’s GOP sees Putin as the world’s foremost champion of White Christian Supremacy. (Also Straight and Male supremacy, of course.)
And so overwhelming is the force of this attraction, that they conveniently forget to notice that Putin doesn’t let his people own guns.*
*with a tiny number of largely-irrelevant exceptions.
Wasn’t sure quite where to stick this bit of twitter insanity, but I’m attaching screenshots of a conversation I was having.
Essentially, according to this conversation, Kamala Harris is only eligible to be vice president in the state of Indiana, and apparently she’s going to be removed from office due to a combination of the 14th Amendment Article 2, “WRIT OF QUO WARRANTO“ [all caps in original. Not my emphasis] and Wong K Ark.
It’s batshit crazy.
What if she wears a gold fringe? Then she can be an admiral.
Twitter’s pretty scary today, with all the MAGAts screaming to have the J6 committee arrested since they saw Tucker Carlson’s “proof”.