The Refried Presidency: Trump Hateful Machine/Fossil Fuel Boogaloo or Whatever Continuation

I think one of MAGAs true joys is being able to find ways to express their racism while not explicitly saying it. Few things seem greater to them as to signal to their people, push the anti-black narrative to the edge, and then feign outrage when called on their blatant efforts.

 

True. It was always a out shoving the gay coalition back in the closet, with a bottle of cyanide and locking the door. Depriving the. Of their humanity, make them kill themselves then blame "choosing" to be gay the problem.

I hate everyone who stayed home.

 

I think you all will find this article on the Yale U prof who left the US very interesting.

Some notable quotes:

 

About the lying, the purpose of the lying…we’ve been discussing the health of our democracy for a while now. I’ve never considered how normalized lying about Iraq’s WMD program served as a kind of test run.

Now, lying a nation into war, that’s not hard or unprecedented. But getting away with it, after the lies were exposed and obvious? That’s different. For example, Americans felt lied into WW I, and that’s why the 1920s were so isolationist. I don’t think the Democratic Party has recovered yet from the split over Vietnam, a war we actually were lied into. But Republicans were over 99% in favor of the Iraq War, and it hurt them in precisely 2 elections, all of the gains of which were wiped out in 2010.

As shitty and morally empty as Trump is, I don’t think he has one scandal (except Jan 6) as bad as lying us into the Iraq War.

 

That is a massive exception.

 

Think of the children!

 

There's a doom & gloom thread for this!

Interesting to see whether we'll have elections in 2026 or if Donnie declares "marital" law on X

Edit - as I type, the news said Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was freed from detention in Louisiana. See, TrumpCo can follow court orders!

But not without the usual anti-democratic unhingey-ness:

Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin lashed out at "rogue" U.S. District Court Judge Michael Farbiarz, saying he had no authority to order Khalil’s release.

"This is yet another example of how out of control members of the judicial branch are undermining national security," McLaughlin said. "Their conduct not only denies the result of the 2024 election, it also does great harm to our constitutional system by undermining public confidence in the courts."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mahmoud-khalil-ordered-released-federal-judge-rcna214163

 

Its not the one lie with Trump, Its the never ending stream of lies that don't stop, yet normalize.
His whole life is a lie.

 

It’s a good post, IMO, but the word “except” is basically this guy in that parenthetical clause…

 

And Im having a hard time lifting my coffee cup.

 

G&T ain’t the same through a straw.

 

Reminds me I have to buy Gin today. But the tonic on sale the other day

 

Stocked up on tonic, it was on sale but i have to go sugar free, not “quite” the same !!!

 

Yeah, I was writing it with a flourish and thought wait, is that actually true? And then I thought of Jan 6 and put in that little incident with John Wilkes Booth.

But yeah, other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?

 

lol I was going to post about this in the racism thread.

A literal Nazi, who is also a law student, wrote a paper that We the People only refers to white people. He used that argument to argue against voting protections for non whites and other odious things. He won an award in that class. The professor is a Trump appointed judge.

Another aspect of Trumpism is that insane strivers like Vance and Judge Cannon and presumably this prof all are performing for him. And the kind of performance Trump rewards is very bad for America.

The LGM post has a gift link in case this doesn’t work

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/...e_code=1.Qk8.gDQK.RB5UiSCYQG4p&smid=url-share

 

Had to smile at his closing paragraph.

“Oh yeah, more more thing for now: The dean of the law school, who is so vigorously defending the Sacred Rights of Nazis to Nazi, is transgender!”

 

FWIW as historical context:
1. George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention.
2. George Washington fairly forcefully supported the rights of free blacks who served in the Continental Army--and there were more than a few-- to receive the same benefits and bonuses and pensions as everybody else.

 

Yes, people are buay focusing on the last outrage that they miss the 3-4 new ones.

I posit that he's not just the worst president we've ever had. But due to the power that he yields, the worst American...PERIOD!

 

Elsewhere in another thread, posters are pondering why conservatives are happier now than liberals.

 

Brown factor down, Cletus happiness up. As ye olde as 'Merica itself.

 

I know Trump doesn’t do strategy but as strategy goes, it’s an obvious move.

Either Trump gets a dyed in the wool ally like Cannon on the bench or,

he gives Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski a chance to show off their independent bona fides in the easiest way possible. “No, the Constitution isn’t unconstitutional, and no, we shouldn’t strip voting rights for people of color.”

And the Overton Window moves so that anything short of this guy is coloring inside the lines.

 

That is wild. It is fitting that liberals want to care about feelings so much that they will hand their killer the murder weapon. But also it's Florida and I wouldn't move there to begin with. Damsky sounds like a future circuit Judge and Supreme Court Judge in the making for Leo and company

 

Not sure it's a performance. Most are true believers, that have found a useful idiot.