Yes. Not only is your list longer now that it was just minutes ago, but each of your Horrors deserves further discussion (as you yourself noted). Here’s a bit:
Note that Bolton has been targeted by Iran BECAUSE HE DID EXACTLY WHAT TRUMP ASKED HIM TO DO, namely: exterminate Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Mike Pompeo and aide Brian Hooke are targeted by Iran for the same reason, and Trump has revoked their protection details, too.
Some were puzzled by the latter two being put on Trump’s ‘please assassinate these guys’ list, as they had not spoken out against him. (Bolton had done so though he’d declined to go as far as to endorse Harris.) But there’s something else behind Donald’s malice:
So, ‘these guys said that the help I got from Russia was help from Russia!!!’ is the particular outrage here. (The ‘help from Russia’ part is the Alexander Smirnov involvement; see bottom of this post for a citation.)
I was going to comment on each of your points, but the post would be epically-long. So just this one:
Turns out that Colombia said “no” to Donald’s relocation program----so in retaliation, Donald has hit that nation with an “emergency 25% tariff.”
So now coffee prices (among other things) will be jumping up. Put that together with this week’s rise in egg prices, and it would appear that Americans are simply going to have to skip breakfast from now on.
Thanks, Donald!
The Russian involvement that Trump is enraged anyone noticed:
Bloated sack of fucking garbage who doesn’t kow jack about tariffs is slapping one on Colombia because waaaaaa the country rejected military deportation flights.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those GOP rally-goers who proudly wore ‘I’d Rather Be a Russian than a Democrat’ shirts, are already converted to tea and kasha for breakfast.
Greg Palast, FWIW, takes issue with that. More like, the Rs managed to jigger the system to make it look like he got more votes. And we all know who else did that.
Meanwhile, the CDC has been muzzled until such time as the administration can set up a vetting process to make sure any statements being issued by any health-related government agencies are acceptable/favorable to the ShitGibbon.
I get where you are coming from, and I do not exactly disagree. The biggest problem I have with that story is Palast. From the first time I encountered him, I thought, there is something wrong with this guy – the material probably has substance to it, but his entire presentation sounds all CT.
The Rs have shown themselves, repeatedly, to be criminals. It is the Fuck-the-Law Party. So, as long as we play out the leash, this shit will only get worse, and looking the other way is not an answer. We do not want to go there, but somebody will have to or we are just done.
Slight disagreement. The Republican’s are all about the trope of Laws that Protect, but do not bind themselves, and enforcing Laws that do not protect but DO bind on others. Lawful Evil at it’s absolute worst. So it’s totally okay for someone on “their” side to have, as a not-random example, dozens of spurious appeals and delays, but if someone gets convicted due to prosecutor misconduct and a court-assigned defender “it’s all an inevitable part of justice”.
So, for Lawful Evil, the emphasis is on Evil (or supreme selfishness to the extent that they even differ) with Law as the tool.
Speaking in North Carolina, Trump dismissed concerns about the safety risks these decisions might pose. “You can’t have a security detail for the rest of your life because you worked for government,” he said.
Let’s try to remember that for when we get a real president again. That real president can quote this as they cancel Trump’s security detail.
There is all of course years and years of fraud and conning people out of money, and of course all the rape.
Not to take a back seat -
Extortion
Insurrection
Espionage
Those last three = treason. Yeah, yeah, people will nit-pick about what the constitution says. But it’s treason through and through. He extorted friendly countries for his own and a hostile countries benefit. He tried to overthrow the government for god sake. Nobody knows who has ahold of those documents, but I bet it turned the state department and many operatives on their head. All so he can make a buck or boost his ego.
