I think it’s worse.
“The next year, I got a shoe,” she continued. “Singular. A shoe.”
I know this is small potatoes, but this just irked me.
I just got a settlement check from a lawsuit against Amazon Prime. However, the letter telling me what it is says,
“The enclosed check is the result of a settlement reached by President Trump’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with Amazon.com, Inc. regarding Prime subscription practices.”
That’s right - the orange oaf has to take credit for the actions of the FTC. Not the US FTC, President Trump’s FTC.
He wants to make sure you associate getting a check with him personally. Fucking bitch.
There’s that sadism at work again.
It’s all too easy to imagine Donald’s glee at the thought of the recipient finding ONE shoe in the gift box.
I read the article earlier, and it said something about a gift exchange. I got the idea that someone got a gold lamé shoe and used it as a ‘jar’ to hold candy; not that Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head were giggling at giving someone one shoe. They just wrapped up whatever was free.
Another year it was a gift basket that clearly had items missing. He picked out what he wanted then gave the scraps away as a gift.
Like tossing your dinner bone to a dog.
Girl… Dog… They’re the same to Mr. Potato Head.
Cue the sound of a whimpering dog.
I received the same check, and noticed the same thing. The letter refers to Trump’s FCC twice.
The settlement, by the way, is due to a lawsuit filed in 2023. Y’know: Biden’s FCC.
It should be noted that the FTC is an independent agency of the U.S. government - in other words, it was created by Congress to be the peoples’ FTC. By design, no president can take credit for its actions, only for its commissioners.
Although, when Humfrey’s Executor is overruled 6-3 next summer, it will become the president’s FTC.
Next, they’ll overrule International Shoe on the grounds that it’s perfectly normal for a traveling salesman to sell shoes one at a time.
Nitpick as to spelling: Humphrey's Executor v. United States - Wikipedia
Perfect for our wannabe king.
As brilliant an economic thinker as he’s been a faithful husband:
Surely no one in his circle of advisors was pushing for these stupid tariffs? Were they entirely a product of his warped imagination?
I’ve long thought that the only class that Trump attended at the Wharton School of business was one on tariffs. And he was absent the day the professor explained that Americans pay tariffs.
Peter Navarro, aka “Ron Vara”, was the economist who was the big proponent of them in the first term, and he still thinks they’re peachy-keen. He was a long time talking head economist on various news programs but shockingly bad in his economic predictions to the extent it almost couldn’t be an accident that the opposite of what he predicted ended up happening quite a bit of the time.
The likes of Hassett, Bessent, Peter Schiff, and others have joined him, but no idea if they actually believe it or if they’re just yes-men. Note, Hassett and Schiff are particularly known to be mathematically challenged (Hassett’s “model”, aka Excel cubic polynomial interpolator, predicted new COVID cases would drop to zero by Memorial Day 2020), so maybe they’re just really dumb.
Neither of these piss me off, as such, but the USS Golden Vasa seems like a bad idea, and I’m willing to sacrifice the Kennedy ctr, at least temporarily.
If it gets him out of the Oval Office for good, it’s a price I think the nation would be willing to pay.
Chest binders are undergarments worn by transgender persons to minimize their breasts, like spanx for the chest. Purely cosmetic.
But the Trump FDA has decided they are “medical devices” and sent letters to manufacturers that they are violating the law because their products are not registered with and approved by the FDA.
They are pathologically obsessed with the trans boogeyman.
Yes. The right has a sick, twisted obsession.