Wingate

It was an execution. Nothing less. Carried out by fascist psychopath stormtroopers of the Bone Spurs Coward Brigade. That kind of violence makes loser Never Served MAGAs feel better about themselves, in their obese, aged, decrepit last stages of their meaningless lives. You know who you are, MAGAs.

As Tina Turner sang, what's love got to do with it? Love is lust that either morphs into boredom or habit. "Shared experience" is merely a fancy way of saying habit, or fear of change. Fear of change keeps some men (and women) faithful and makes other men (and women) deceitful. I've heard a few old folks say, as one of life's regrets, "I wish I'd had sex with more people."

Calm down, old fella. At your advanced age and in your admittedly poor physical condition, you don't want to blow a fuse. Heck of a source you've got there. What, the National Enquirer hasn't yet run the story?

A deranged MAGA (pardon the redundancy) just attacked Rep Ilhan Omar at a town hall meeting. Fascists, one and all.

There was a time I wondered how Hitler came to power. Germans were not necessarily evil people, but circumstances (WWI reparations, the Weimar inflation) made them susceptible to both easy answers as well at directed hate. With Trump---and in the face of anyone trying to invoke Godwin's Law---I now understand how it happened. Trump, whose first wife Ivana claimed he kept one book on the nightstand: the speeches of Adolf Hitler), seems to have known how to appeal to the forlorn and losers of society...or he is just incredibly lucky to arrive on the scene at the right time. A good portion of society has been falling behind for decades, as human labor has been losing pricing power, and the elite---who have always found ways to enrich themselves---took greater control of the economy. People became anxious. They became frustrated. They became desperate. Along comes Trump with easy answers, albeit fake answers. Failure was not the fault of the failures. Trump provided excuses. He provided targets to hate. That siren song had special appeal to white males, which is to say those who lived to a great extent by entitlement. Even his main slogan was a totally transparent attempt to appeal to the time when white males did not have to compete against women and minorities. That is what "Again" in MAGA was intended to elicit. It worked. The weak took the bait. They saw Trump as their savior, who would reestablish their birthright (even though Trump only cares about himself). Immigrants were the problem. Feminism was the problem. The late Charlie Kirk was the "good cop" embodiment of Trump's message of white supremacy, telling women their function was to make babies, not strive for career success. The bad cop Trump just produced his message with hate right out in the open. Anyone who did not accept his message was "deranged". The human that most made white male losers see their own inferiority was the Black woman, as she coupled gender with minority status. Trump told his sycophants that Black women were "low IQ", an epithet he has used repeatedly to go after women of color. White losers felt better. His message resonated. Trump has doubled down by physically attacking, at least by order, the very targets he produced as the reason the Loser Class gravitated to him and sucked in his message. He has made violence against those, who do not worship him, acceptable. Trump orders the killing of people who are no actual threat to the US---small boats incapable of making it to US shores, much less do so carrying any appreciable amount of drugs. He asked in his first Administration if he could "just shoot [protesters] in the legs" in Portland. He once had his goombahs tear gas and clear out a legal, 1st Amendment protest in Lafayette Park just so he could hold a Bible upside down in front of a church, in an attempt to appeal to Evangelicals. He has redirected his Department of Justice to go after anyone and everyone who has criticized him, looking for indictments well before identifying anything even remotely resembling a crime. His sycophants applaud his militant and illegal use of his justice department, forever claiming things like "Jack Smith" or "John Brennan" or "Adam Schiff", etc., are going to jail. For what? We are kind of led to believe, by the DoJ's laser focus on critics, that all other crime in the US has vanished. In fact, the institutional memory and skills that previously went after things such as terrorism and organized crime has been decimated, because some of the folks embodying that memory also happened to investigate or prosecute the 6 January 2021 terrorists, or were involved in investigating the Trump campaign's obvious (even to Republicans) willful cooperation with Russia in the 2016 campaign (Manafort-Kilimnik, as one example). So captured is Trump's cult that it willingly and gladly denies what their own eyes see, and instead accept whatever lies Trump and his Administration make up to justify their fascism. The killings in Minnesota are the latest examples, similar to how his cult still believes 2020 was "stolen" and the 6 January terrorists were "typical tourists". Society's losers, who finally see a way out of their own mediocrity, simply cannot afford not to believe what their cult leader tells them. The cult also overlooks Trump's abject hypocrisy. Trump goes after small fish using his "Dept of War", but pardons big fish, like the guy who helped run 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US. Trump wants to prosecute the NY AG for supposed "mortgage fraud" (what she did was legal according to her loan documents), but pardons a guy who helped launder money to Hamas, because Trump's family firm of World Liberty Financial does business with Binance. Trump barks about "law and order' and claims love for law enforcement, but he pardoned people who beat and bear sprayed 140 Capitol police. He supposedly champions law, but ignores it when inconvenient, such as lying about returning classified documents or failing to release the full, unredacted Epstein files. The same playbook worked in 1930s Germany. It also worked during the McCarthy Era. It's the same playbook today and it works the same way---give losers what they need, and they will love you forever and believe whatever lies you spew. The hell with US ideals. The hell with the 1st Amendment, the 4th Amendment and any other that gets in the way of salving the losers' painfully weak egos and insecurity. Ideally this, too, shall pass. Sanity will return at some point. Germany came to terms with its period of evil. McCarthyism died. MAGA will also die, and not before time.

If Trump's goal is to destroy the USD, he's certainly on the right path. His massive deficit, which will top $2.2 trillion for 2025, plus the EU-India trade deal, coupled the idiocy Trump displayed for all the world to see at Davos, seems to be bolstering the euro. It's sniffing 1.2, after trading about 1.04-1.05 when Trump took office. A tumbling dollar is not going to entice foreigners to fund the 30-40% of the deficit, nor with Trump's unpredictability and vindictiveness, is it likely to prompt foreigners to invest in US plants and production. Other than miscreant leaders like the ghoulish MbS and dictator Orban, no civilized leader anywhere likes Trump. That means declining business with, and investment in, the US. Manufacturing jobs are down since Trump took over, and also spending on new plants and factories is down, since he took over. So much for tariff benefits.

I guess that's why you're a MAGA. The first person I've ever come across who confused Iceland for Greenland was Trump. Now I know two. It's a rare affliction, easily cured by looking at a map. Is it the 'land' thing in the name? Do you confuse Thai-land with Ice-land, too? Or New Zea-land with Switzer-land? Po-land with Fin-land, or maybe Mary-land? How about Polaroid-Land cameras? Or the Landman TV show? For the record, Greenland is that big thing on the map, just a touch east of Canada. Iceland is that little thing a bit farther east. Iceland has lots of blonde people, hot springs, a lesbian PM, and the worst smelling rancid shark flesh "delicacy" one could imagine. Active volcanoes, too. Oh, and Bjork.

The video lied? One thing I have learned since 2016: everything Trump or one of his Carnival people say is a lie. I bet you think Trump stopped the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, because he claimed he did. Or the war between Cambodia and Armenia? Maybe the war between Azerbaijan and Albania? There is reality....and then there's is Trumpistan, and never the twain shall meet.

Perhaps when you get a chance, you might post stories of the heinous crimes committed by the MAGA terrorists pardoned by Trump. Everything from murder to child rape. Trump will pardon anyone who likes him or can make him rich. That's why he shoots tiny boats carrying maybe enough drugs to help Junior's sniffle habit, but pardons a guy who ran 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US, or pardoned a guy who laundered money for Hamas, because his firm World Liberty Financial does crypto business with Binance.

The rancid scent known as O-dor-Trump is not new. He "wore" the same putrid stench back in his first term. Trump came to the agency on 21 January 2017, trying to avoid the 'dangerous' Women's March in downtown DC. He first met with SIS officers and gave a speech telling everyone how great he was, and then was taken to CTC to view the manner in which the agency tracks international terrorists. Everyone picked up on it, first checking their own shoes to see if they had stepped in something before coming to work, but then realizing it was the defecator-in-chief himself. It's kind of funny that when he gave his public speech in front of the memorial wall, the first three rows of seats were reserved for sycophants he had bussed from the WH to act as trained seals, whooping and hollering for their boss. Actual agency people who chose to stay were seated much farther back. No one complained about the distance. I can only assume it's gotten worse as he's aged and lost more control of his bodily functions, and it's unlikely his personal hygiene has improved. My guess is constant close approximation to Trump is what caused Stephen Miller to go bald, and might even explain why he's such a nasty person. I pity shorties like Kash Patel or Speaker Johnson or Rep Jim Jordan, because at their vertically challenged level, they are closer to the source. MAGA might have better stood for Make Arsebreath Go Away.

Thank you Joe Biden! And Barack Obama, after cleaning up that little 2008 hiccup.

Those of us who worked on Wall Street know there is absolutely no need for any sort of regulation. Let us do what we want, because we add an incredible amount of value...to our own accounts. As they say, "to err is human; to forgive is the job of the Taxpayer." Think of the value we added with those glorious Synthetic CDO Squareds with a CDS Kicker back before that little ripple in 2008. Those products bought summer homes in the Hamptons, winter places in Telluride, Aspen, Jackson Hole.....and much of Montana, and refurbished many the interiors of Gulfstreams and Falcons. And they didn't just put Lambos and Ferraris in the garage....it set the stage for Paganis and Bugattis and bespoke Koenigseggs. Oh, and let's not forget financial deregulation kept many a paramour in Graff and Harry Winston. Wall Street will do it again. They can't help themselves. No matter what they do, they know they always have a free put option, courtesy of the masses. And it's not just banks that benefit from deregulation. Flexible GAAP is also a major plus. The hyperscalers are now lengthening the depreciation schedule of all those chips. Sure, chips stuffed to the gills with circuits might not last more than 2 years, but it's a blessing to all that there's no real need to depreciate them just over their useful life....and certainly not over the time frame of a new Nvidia introduction. Nvidia comes out with a new generation maybe twice a year, but hyperscalers can run chips---at least per the depreciation schedule---a decade or more. Look what that does for reported earnings, and isn't that most important. Hyperscalers and the AI firms that are the future of our collective future now know, just as banks in 2008, that too big to fail is Darwinian Socialism. What use are taxpayers if not to help the elite stay elite, and the Donor Class filling campaign coffers. Does anybody think Sen Tuberville understands chips or CDSs? That little Mikey Johnson has time to study data centers when he's busy running his Pray Away the Gay Foundation? Everything works until it blows up, and then the taxpayer steps up and makes sure the deserving still get their bonuses. And the phrase we'll all use is "Nobody could have seen this coming".

Trump's one dimensional game of Tiddywinks did win him something: much greater mistrust of the USA and a belief that Trump is dangerously insane. MAGAs like to argue that Trump's threats of military force were some high level negotiating tactic. That's some truly sycophantic spin. He sounded like a madman, got former allies to strengthen their resolve against participation with the US, encouraged former allies to build bridges with China, and the US got absolutely nothing it didn't already have re Greenland. Trump's Carnival People team should have advised him that unveiling his "Board of Peace" was going to flop bigly and make Trump look like a self-absorbed fool. He seems to need to keep padding his resume with fake titles and borrowed prizes, as if he's applying for a job at Goldman or Google and needs to look special. I think the whole world is probably just waiting for, and hoping, the old clown just dies sooner rather than later, so the idiocy can end. I suspect when he does pass, if world leaders do attend his funeral it will be to party and celebrate, and if they don't attend, they will send in their stead something like a Third Secretary of their Washington Embassy.

Wow! A whole lot of onanism going on in this thread. Just to correct a basic point, it's actually: Real American patriots vs fascist rightwing scum.

Gee, I think you missed the one on 6 January 2021. Who was President on that date? Who was it who called his goobers to DC for that date, Tweeting, ""It'll be WILD !!!!!" Who was it that sent the mob to the Capitol telling them to "fight" 37 times, and said "peacefull" but once, knowing full well what they would do? I bet you have a framed copy of the Reichstag Fire Decree next to your bed. I believe riots in Germany stopped after their fascist leader took over, as criticism of that Fuhrer was also viewed as criminal.

The brown shirt stormtroopers and the fascist scumbucket Trump are now selectively erasing the Bill of Rights, suspending the 4th Amendment and making the 2nd Amendment only applicable to MAGAs. 250 years of Freedom are evaporating. Time to fight back. Well, Castle Doctrine allows one to use whatever force needed to stop unlawful entry into one's place of residence, and the stormtroopers now, per the fascist Trump, can enter homes unannounced and without a warrant. That is illegal and gives residents every right to gun the suckers down. Shoot the scumbuckets. They're going to shoot anyway and likely kill the homeowner, as they're poorly trained psychopaths, so take as many of them as time and your weaponry allows. The 2nd Amendment still allows Americans to load up on semi auto rifles like AR-15s using everything from .223/5.56 NATO to 300 blackout (which can be in subsonic form so that it kills the intruders but can be suppressed so as not to upset the good neighbors). Bumpstocks are legal again, too, so put one of those on the AR-15 and you can unload a 30 rd mag in three seconds. Add a 100 rd mag to make sure you get as many of the illegal intruders as possible. Handguns like the FN Five-seveN have a range of ammo, some of which is armor piercing and can get through the vests worn by the stormtroopers. If a homeowner survives, he must doxx the dead....name and addresses. Turn up the heat; melt the ICE. If the stormtroopers violate the Bill of Rights, time to send them to Hell. The only good fascist is a dead fascist. Everything I have written here is legal according to the Constitution written by and supported by true patriots. Know your rights. Fight the fascists.

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict Trump TACOs yet again.

Castle Doctrine: The Castle Doctrine is a legal principle that allows individuals to use reasonable force, including deadly force, to defend themselves against intruders in their home without a duty to retreat. This doctrine is based on the belief that a person's home is their sanctuary and they have the right to protect it from unlawful entry. The 4th Amendment is in the Bill of Rights. Ignoring it and saying stormtroopers are allowed to enter any home without a warrant, runs afoul of the 4th Amendment and runs squarely into the Castle Doctrine. Oh, and the 2nd Amendment allows homeowners to arm themselves. ICE makes mistakes. Wouldn't we all hate to see violators of the 4th Amendment (which makes them criminals, even if they were given an unlawful order by their fascist overlords) gunned down by people availing themselves of the Castle Doctrine.

As I wrote in another thread, there are no coincidences.

What silly hyperbole from Trump! "what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time". I'm not sure, but I think the picture of the Kazakhstan leader is actually Sasha Baron Cohen, back in character.

That's actually a pretty bipartisan view. Only the captured Carnival People in Trump's Administration, along with the losers who are MAGA, believe otherwise. During the recent House Judiciary Hearing with SC Smith, Rep Eric Swalwell drops some serious truth bombs. “These guys, my Republican colleagues, are a joke. They’re wrong. History will harshly judge them…..these guys are so lucky they’re not under oath. Because then they’d have to tell you what they really think of Trump. They call him crooked, they call him cruel, they call him a scumbag…….I’ve heard you all say it. But when the lights go on and the cameras go on, you’re tiny. You’re small. You shrink.” (This is kind of funny, as in the C-Span video, you can see Rep Jordan, who is maybe 5’2” walking around.) Swalwell finishes by praising SC Smith and telling him, “You, unlike many here, are a man of honor”.

The POS fascist scum squatting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is doctoring images using AI. of people arrested to try to look tough. How do the moronic losers known as MAGAs spin that? https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-white-house-altered-photo-ice-protester-armstrong

Not being invited---or being uninvited---to join Trump's Board of Peace is like not being invited to Jeffrey Epstein's island. I think PM Carney will survive.

George Orwell was prescient in so many ways, predicting you MAGAs: “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command," Good little MAGAs.

Your comment shows all the awareness and self-reflection decent people have come to expect from MAGAs. 6 January 2021 They were not "typical tourists" and contrary to your messiah's lies, it wasn't a "day of love". Those MAGA terrorists make jihadis attacking an embassy look like Code Pink (a collection of post-menopausal grandmas who scare the bejesus out of Trump, who runs to the White House bunker when the women gather on Pennsylvania Ave. Maybe it's because Trump sees the Code Pink women are in much better shape than the typical obese MAGA fatboy).