David Floren
@d-flo1
Fighting good fights like John Lewis. Currently reading Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger. 🎷🎹⚖️🇺🇸🔬🔭🇺🇦🍉
Given some of the things Trump has said over the years about wars against Iran being nothing but a pretext for deflecting poor domestic popularity numbers, and what Putin did with Ukraine when his poll numbers were plummeting domestically, could this be happening here, with Trump, right now?
It's good when the lamb that you take to work doesn't emit nasty odors and spends most of the time sleeping. Jackson Lamb only meets one of those criteria.
Don't ever underestimate Trump's willingness to sacrifice the interest of the nation for the advancement of his own personal interests, like installing a top loyalist to accomplish no more than declassifying info Dump could use against domestic political opponents. Can you spell weaponization?
This is Mike Waltz' new argument that a girl's school is now considered "co-mingled infrastructure that powers the Iran military" b/c it's w/in a certain number of miles of a military base & could never constitute a war crime. Don't you just love having these guys on our team? He asks sarcastically.
I'm a little worried about today's New York times article about the Trump administration attempting to round up all of the names of the Jews at institutions of higher learning. The Trump administration installed someone at Dept Transportation to set up train schedules? Someone named Eichmann?
Another Harmon Dhillon approved personnel decision at DHS. Someone who will uphold Dhillon's iron clad commitment, one she demonstrated in her Dartmouth years, to protecting white supremacy as one of the top conservative value against what she called the Holocaust of liberal multiculturalism.
At a time when ice seems to be the villain, why isn't anyone but a panel of academic experts paying any attention of this fact about CBP?
This, from the man who systematically discriminates against black lessors at his residential real properties. From the guy who paid for a full page ad in 4 major New York dailies calling for death penalty for the Central Park 5, BEFORE TRIAL BEGAN (an unrelated man later confessed to the crime).
Bongino inadvertently confesses that opinions he shares on his Bongino "show" (which he plans to return to within 2 months) are NOT based in fact, unlike conclusions he reaches in FBI investigations, which he alleges are "based on facts", totally the opposite of what his opinions are based on.
Note that Sec Def Hegseth just issued a death threat against Sec DHS Noem. Hegseth posted on X that “if you target Americans — anywhere in the world...the United States will hunt you, find you, and ruthlessly kill you." Noem certainly did wrongly sic ICE on several US citizens.
How dare the Germans upset JD Vance's feelings toward right wing nationalists in Europe. For shame! Do you realize this could cause Vance's eyeliner to begin to run and smear as his tears cascade down? This puts Vance at severe risk of suffering from RGS (Runny Guiliani Syndrome).
And now with the Crimer-in-Chief putting and chipping (and napping) his way through the White House, all the Roger Stone types can honestly say, like their hero, "I am not a crook!" and actually mean it now that ...
I wonder if Usha has ever read a Trump tweet? Talk about "ridiculous psycho". Anyway, as JD says, leaving your wedding vows at home when you go to work is not a big deal when you have three young growing projects at work to engage in the occasional infidelity to blow off some "steam".
Odds Trump pardons this guy in exchange for some of that laundered money (as a campaign donation or East Wing upgrade donation)? Or maybe pardon him as part of Trump's coordinated effort to declare fraud, embezzlement, corruption, & money laundering essential (& legal) facets of The New Golden Age?
Aside from the verifiable fact that this White House & Dept of Defense have been taking steps for months now consistent with intermediate phase "ratching up" changes absolutely necessary for success of a US constitution-destroying military coup, we don't want our military to act this unlawfully....
47's failure to respect the court ruling (that the Natl Guard siege of DC must end) by waiting until the last second of the absolute compliance deadline means Trump is directly responsible for those Natl Guard members being in the line of fire when they could have been home well before Thanksgiving.
Now that his ploy to liberate Bolsanaro from Brazil, and his plan to throw an additional $20 billion of taxpayer money got ixnayed, maybe he's simply decided
This whole White House-caused fiasco reminds me of the Game of Thrones character Ray who abandoned the soldier's life to join the clergy -- he was so disgusted w/ himself for atrocities he committed under orders, horrors that no law or morality, except unbridled malevolence, would ever countenance.
Everyone should remember Trump DOJ atty Edward Martin's ludicrous investigation into Senator Chuck Schumer's statements re certain SCOTUS Justices & how their personal reputations may be damaged by the way they rule. Attorney Martin interpreted it as the Senator urging people to cause bodily harm.
🚨 5 Alarm Fire! Mace urges people to cause serious bodily injury or death to airport CEO by means of stabbing him w/ a lethal weapon in form of a dangerous stabbing weapon known by its nickname among murders and assassins: a "fork". Mace unequivocably urges people to "stick a fork in him" DOJ? FBI?
Here's another example. Check out this NYT article from today. The blurb about the picture asks Trump if Maduro's days as president of Venezuela are numbered. AS IF TRUMP'S DAYS ARENT!!! TRUMP HAS 1172 MORE DAYS UNTIL 1/20/2029 when the US Constitution says he can no longer be President.
The style mavens at YSL seem to have picked their winners in the autocracy v democracy fight. Judging by this YSL ad in today's WaPo, the fascist brutality of Darth Vader's black leather wardrobe is the new "be yourself" individuality.
Autopen pardon? Or maybe just the standard autodementia we've all come to expect lately?
This is what agreeing to serve in a Grimma Wormtongue type role does to you. Hollows out the soul. Grays the hair. Kills all joy. Replaces those things with dumb fear and heart palpitation horror. I sure hope lawyer wife is having a crisis of conscience because her husband seems to totally immune.
He's lucky the funeral wasn't in Las Vegas, or otherwise he would be guilty of sleeping in public which is punishable with up to 10 days in jail, per today's NYT story about Trump's new "homeless concentration camps" in Utah.
I wonder. Are companies that use their US President father in law's temporary power (placed in his hands by US voters) to win no bid contracts to rebuild in war zones allowed to make money from such activities? someone should ask Dick Cheney. I think he knows the answer.