At this point Trump owns a coffin composed entirely of nails.
Now you get it! 
So it was as a businessman, so it was as POTUS 1.0, so it is again as POTUS 2.0.
His own little Naglfar.
Certainly there must be another thing to compare the felon and his accouterments to. After all, a Naglfar is supposed to be maneuverable.
Days of Whine and Doses, indeed, heavy on the whine. (Hat tip to @dasmoocher.)
Wouldn’t it be something if the former de facto president were to be sent to CECOT in El Salvador first?
And the felon is whining about someone grifting. It must be jealousy that caused this divorce.
The felon threatens to arrest two politicians he does not like.
Here’s the “Need to Know” section of that link.
Always the diplomat, the felon has a very flowery description of President Biden.
WTF is he on about Biden wanting to incarcerate him there? I’ve never heard of Alligator Alcatraz until his mis/mal/non-administration floated the idea.
The Big Bullshit Bill is now the Large Lousy Law.
University of Pennsylvania caves to the Second Felonial Era.
Never let it be said that he lacks attention to detail. Oops! My mistake. Let it never be said he does NOT crave attention and flattery.
Silly me. I figure a blank on the wall is the perfect representation for him. A big fat nothing.
Who says the Democrats and Republicans can’t work together?
Dollars to donuts the felon starts talking about “looking into the circumstances of Obama’s birth to see if deportation is on the table”. And maybe he’ll threaten to arrest Bush to boot.
And the latest grift, which should properly be named L’odeur de l’odorant.*
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*French Canadian (nice touch, huh?) for *Odor of the odiferous".
Not yet, technically.
Yes, it passed the Senate, but only after that body made changes to the version of the bill (including changes to the Medicaid provisions) which had passed the House. Now, it goes back to the House for reconciliation. It’s still likely to wind up becoming law, but it’s not a done deal yet.
Yeah, I know. But it will be reconciled and the felon will scribble it.
But I don’t understand how Iranian hackers could have stolen anything from Trump’s associates! Their grasp of electronic security is unparalleled!
I pity anyone who had to read 100GB of emails from Trump’s inner circle. The damage to their braincells must have been severe.
One of my first thoughts was that Trump wants to show Putin he can be a big boy, too.
Remember Mikhail Khodorkovsky?
Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky (Russian: Михаил Борисович Ходорковский, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil xədɐrˈkofskʲɪj]; born 26 June 1963), sometimes known by his initials MBK , is an exiled Russian businessman, oligarch, and opposition activist, now residing in London.[1] In 2003, Khodorkovsky was believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, with a fortune estimated to be worth $15 billion, and was ranked 16th on Forbes list of billionaires.[2]
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In 2001, Khodorkovsky founded Open Russia, a reform-minded organization intending to “build and strengthen civil society” in the country. In October 2003, he was arrested by Russian authorities and charged with fraud.[3] The government of President Vladimir Putin then froze shares of Yukos shortly thereafter on tax charges. Putin’s government took further actions against Yukos, leading to a collapse of the company’s share price and the evaporation of much of Khodorkovsky’s wealth. In May 2005, he was found guilty and sentenced to nine years in prison. In December 2010, while he was still serving his sentence, Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev were further charged with and found guilty of embezzlement and money laundering. Khodorkovsky’s prison sentence was extended to 2014. After Hans-Dietrich Genscher lobbied for his release, Putin pardoned Khodorkovsky, releasing him from jail on 20 December 2013.[4]There was widespread concern internationally that the trials and sentencing were politically motivated.[5][6] The trial was criticized abroad for the lack of due process. [snip]
Threatening Musk (or just anyone who opposes him) seems standard for Trump and I’m not sure how much he could carry through on it–Musk has deep pockets (for now) and as the Big, Bullshit Bill shows, donor money runs the show (with some spite and cruelty thrown in for good measure)–but I confess I visualized Trump saying to Putin:
“Look Daddy, I can do it, too! Do you approve of me now? Please approve of me! I’m a big boy, just like you!”
…for now. As bad as the US has become, they still haven’t quite figured out that they could just take the rich people’s money, like Putin does. I’m sure this will happen eventually, but there are still some residual traces of the societal norms of yesteryear lurking about in MAGA world.
Paul Krugman reminds Leon Skum and all the US oligarchs who want to listen that Planet Money explained in a newsletter how Putin conquered Russia’s oligarchy. Paul Krugman’s substack ends like that:
Just to be clear, much as I hate what Musk has done, I don’t want to see him exiled or falling out of a window, because I don’t want to live in that kind of country. But if we do become that kind of a country, people like Musk will bear much of the responsibility — and, whatever they imagine, may pay part of the price.
I appreciate the reason he gives for not wanting this kind of evil happening to the SACANUS* citizen.
* South Africa, Canada, USA
Yeah. The donors don’t seem to be able to understand that they are destroying the system that gives them their power and privilege, and that once the US fully transitions to fascism their money won’t matter any more. Only force will matter.
Yep. I like to point out that, sure Musk has something like $400 billion in assets, which on an individual level is a fuck ton of money, but if he were to convert it all to cash, it would cover maybe 6 months of the US military annual budget. The US Government operates on a fundamentally different scale than individual finance, and someday the Musks of the world might finally realize that.
I’m sorry if this is a dumb question, but I don’t understand why Musk couldn’t just hire someone to kill Trump. He may not want to, but it’s within the realm of possibility, right?
The Secret Service exists in large part to prevent that from working. Something any actually capable prospective assassins would know, and refuse the job because they don’t want to get killed or imprisoned for life.
He could try bribing the secret service to look the other way, but that becomes very risky very soon.
Spitballing the hypothetical here:
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Musk is way too much of a coward to directly order someone’s death. He may be fine with the incidental deaths of hundreds of thousands (e.g. thanks to his USAID cuts) but to actually decide to order a death? Way too much of a weenie.
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Whatever the fallout between the two of them, Musk knows at some level he’s better off with Trump in office than Vance or someone else, particulary if it means the kleptocracy at the top starts to wobble.
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He’s not remotely smart enough to come up with a plan to assassinate the US President and find one or more assassins willing and able to carry it out, given the levels of security to overcome.
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The consequences if the plan were to fail (as it likely would) would be enormous to him. See point 1 about him being a weenie.
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He still thinks he’s smart enough to convince Trump to give him what he wants, no matter the current “setbacks” he’s facing on that front.
The concept of the professional assassin for hire is basically a movie fiction. The only plausible means by which Musk could do that is to recruit and groom someone from scratch with the requisite skills (say, a disgruntled military sniper), and there’s a thousand ways that could go wrong.
I would argue the only person in the world who could make a realistic organized play for Trump’s life, if he really wanted, is Putin.
Hasn’t Iran issued a fatwa on Trump? (Iran Issues Fatwa Against Donald Trump: 'Enemy of God' - Newsweek)
A fanatic assassin doesn’t care about his/her persoal safety as long as they are “doing God’s will.”