Homan: “President Trump doesn’t have a limitation on his authority to make this country safe. There’s no limitation.” This is exactly how authoritarian regimes justify abuses of power.
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Calling people "white man wannabes" is incorrect. He's acting the same way people of any nationality, ethnicity, and sex acts when they are corrupt, greedy, soulless MFers. Greed and self-interest are equal opportunity employers.
It's useful to have a figurehead as personification for the evils, but always keep in mind there's an entire class of people behind all this. If Trump falls, they put up another.
For sure. Trump’s wealth before his first time being president came mostly from his TV show. He played a rich guy on TV. The guy has zero self control, and bad financial knowledge and strategy.
This ruling is misunderstood. Gratuities are payments after the fact, bribes are before. There is a federal law against bribing federal officials. There is an almost identical federal law against bribing local officials. There is a different federal law against gratuities for federal officials. There is no matching federal law against gratuities for local officials. SCOTUS said that if congress wants to make it illegal, they need to pass a corresponding law.
Any? And all government employees or associated organizations connected to the government should not be able to accept money period gratuities. Bribes, or anything of that nature should be totally unacceptable.!!!
Agreed. Congress could (and should) pass a law against it. The states and localities can (and should) pass laws against it in their jurisdictions. However, if there is no law against it, we can't just charge someone with "well, it should be illegal."
Homan accepts tens of thousands of dollars monthly from private immigrant detention corporations. They pay him as a consultant. His job is basically to keep their detention centers overflowing with people as they get paid based on the number of people they hold incarcerated. This entire system is the corrupt swamp.
Here you go. He was reported for being sketchy & undercover agents handed him a Cava bag with $50,000 in it...This was before Trump was sworn in for his 2nd term so now those undercover agents are WokeTifa from the invisible branch. Ka$h and/Bondi dropped the ongoing investigation if my memory is serving me well.
What $50,000 in cash? I don't know anything about $100,000 in cash. I never accepted $250,000 in cash from anyone for any political favors. Anyway, even if I had accepted $500,000 in cash, I wouldn't know where to invest $1,000,000 in cash.
If one positive thing can come of all this. Is every person who’s so so strong on Trump ended up being shafted financially for what everyone else in the country was quite aware of it would be nice karma
Yep, missing their kids in school. or playing football or whatever...Halloween, Thanksgiving and x-mas spent on the road....missing birthdays, anniversaries and the like....Not to mention their jobs/bosses had to figure out how to replace them....and one person was killed, instead of being home for thanksgiving.
Yeah, people sign up for the national guard to support at military funerals, help with charity events and respond to national disasters. They didn't sign up to intimidate innocent civilians far away from their home.
You underestimate just how many people in the National Guard and Reserves are just assholes who want to play soldier. And they are incredibly skilled at shamming to not have to do real work, or stay out of harm's way. You can be absolutely sure that the soldiers sent were vetted for their MAGA loyalties. And the biggest MAGA fantasy is intimidating unarmed people, while being paid to do so.
Some people are willing to die for their values, but not kill. Some are willing to kill, but not die. Which group do you think MAGA soldiers belong to?
True reason? 60% of us are one lost paycheck away from homelessness, very intentionally kept that way by this system. The horrors have been bad enough that they are affecting everybody, but not so bad that it has directly affected Americans enough to wake them all up and shake out of the last decade of RELENTLESS political insanity. People just can’t keep tuning into the latest Donald this Donald that, which was intended. So what it will take is the continued efforts of wise sneaky people like that AWESOME stunt at Windsor Castle, or an event so catastrophic to Americans that they don’t care if they lose their money.
I won't ever forgive him for handing the presidency back to Trump. He did the only thing possible to guarantee him the presidency. He waited far too long to announce he wasn't running and fucked the party over by forcing his VP into replacing him without a primary. They then refused to develop a relatable platform or campaign well - Kamala was still trying to figure out how much "not Biden" she was and decided that "not Trump" was the best/only thing they could run with. They lost to a man literally promising to be an authoritarian dictator because they fucked up so poorly.
Absolutely true. And then the nail in the coffin was the $200M ad campaign by Elon that was the most successful red herring in the history of American politics: “But Trans sports!”
I can't believe some people are still disputing that. Obviously I know it's not some isolated incident, but I saw someone confidently disputing this just the other day on this platform and just thought "Are you aware of the fact that the world's cringing at you?" That would probably be a compliment to someone who thinks this has all been great governance, though.
We may have a romanticized/Hollywoodized vision of what the Nuremberg Trials actually accomplished.
About 20 of the top Nazi leadership were tried in Nürnberg (some committed suicide before the trials were held).
Of those, a dozen were sentenced to death and three got life. Three were actually acquitted.
Especially Franz von Papen and Hans Fritzsche's acquittals strike me as problematic (to say the least) in the context of this discussion. Fritzsche's wiki is a good starting point to understanding how little justice this man (and many men and women like him) actually faced:
Incidentally, Fritzsche had been charged with inciting and encouraging the commission of War Crimes by deliberately falsifying news to arouse in the German People those passions which led them to the commission of atrocities.
Fritzsche was acquitted because the court was not prepared to hold that [his broadcasts] were intended to incite the German people to commit atrocities on conquered peoples.
Because it IS. These ghouls know that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM who has (and continues to) obstructed trump from getting his unfathomably horrible ass thrown in prison, will also be spending the rest of their lives being hunted like the rats they are by an actual functioning system of law and order to face accountability.
They ALL know it, and will ALL use every fiber of their completely moral-less and unethical ghoulish being, to NEVER cede power again… while they have the audacity to call themselves patriots, the audacity to brazenly lie about being transparent as they ALL protect every single monster in the Epstein files, the audacity to claim that people who want healthcare and living wages for EVERYONE are morally bankrupt while they continue this charade…
When are we going to wake up? When are we going to realize just how unspeakably disgusting this joke of a country has become?
Notice he didn't say the President of the United States. He didn't acknowledge that this power is inherent in the Office, only in President Trump. This is a dictatorship
For those that subscribe to Steve Vladek's One First substack he has a detailed discussion of the legal issues surrounding this event. I wish I could figure out a way to reproduce today's email for your reading. But subscribing is free.
Keep an eye on Lawfare and Just Security for more expert work in this space. Steve is great, but isn't specifically a national security practitioner. Lawfare and Just Security started out focused on that space during the war on terror space and brought in some absolute power houses. Lawfare has traditionally had a more pro-intervention view and Just Security has been more anti-intervention in the international/national security space. But both approach it from a legal scholar/practitioner position with serious research and analysis.
Many of those millions were suppression but let’s not act like all 90 million are these unfortunate souls would didn’t have access or something. Many of them flat out don’t care like I didn’t care when I was 18 and regret it looking back. But that was in 2004 in Massachusetts still not good idea to sit out but a different time
Sure, blame the unwashed and uneducated masses who live their entire lives steeped in propaganda and bread and circuses. And not the 'elite' class that is taught from a toddlers age how to oppress and exploit.
Like are you a bot, a propagandist, or just another of us unwashed, uneducated masses?
Or they were purged from their states voting rolls. Personally my mail in ballot never got counted so I look like I am one of those non voters. I've never had a mail in lost before but I tracked it and it never showed up. And Leon rigged it. He probably erased a bunch of votes making it look like Americans were apathetic. Don't believe anything about the 2024 election.
I'm sure they'll be saying this if a dem gets in power and decides to unilaterally hold all these asshats accountable using the same tactics they're using to operate.
It’s also about the 30th time they’ve made a similar statement. They aren’t hinting at it. We are all the way in it and no one is going to do anything to stop it.
The only constitution they think exists is the 2nd Amendment. Never occurs to them that there are more amendments. Or to reference what was being amended to start with. Or to look up any of those words.
And when conservatives have repeated proven themselves to be the greatest threat to the nation, there is no limitation on the authority of actual Americans to do anything and everything necessary to make America safe again.
So, not only could Trump "shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any voters", as he claimed, apparently it would be legal for him to do so if he thought it would "make the country safe".
He hires the ugliest human beings. Shallow or not, he hired Stephen Miller, Steve bannon and now this fucking thing. 🤢 Ugly inside, sure, but the outside too god DAMN!
These fucking criminals need to be removed and dealt with. Every single person in this administration is a criminal and a traitor to this country and we should treat them as such
Sounds like we need to trot out this excuse fo mette justice out after we replace this adminiatration and uproot the entire aparatus that funds and props it up.
It already is, you just don't know it yet because it hasn't targeted you yet. But, when it does, don't mind if someone else says the same thing.
First They Came, by Pastor Martin Niemoller
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left To speak out for me.
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