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

Even Liddle Mikey knows what a ridiculous statement this is

Johnson: Today wouldn't be possible without the leadership of arguably the most powerful and most successful and most respected president in the modern era of United States.

Democrats: *laughing* pic.twitter.com/OWddqbU2OA

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 22, 2025

 

Straight from the Kremlin. Putin's Small Batch Potato Vodka

 

Same as it ever was. GOP redistributes wealth up and loses power leaving Dems with a poisoned economy. They then obstruct the recovery while pointing fingers until they regain power again. Rinse and repeat with a stronger oligarchy and a more discombobulated citizenry each cycle.

 

They're gonna be means-tested though, right?

 

Like his orange cheeto hero, he DGAF who is harmed by Donnie's harebrained policies. Just another wingnut sociopath.

 

Yet this bill gives a tax break to the rich. Another day 1 promise broken by saying he'd lower the deficit. Add on his multi-billion dollar "Gold Dome", a few billion dollars for his Qatari plane, and 900 million for his birthday parade. Once again, he's screwing over the middle and lower class.

 

How so? My taxes will now be insulated from an increase and I consider myself middle class.

 

The gold dome is going to be paid for by Arabs investing trillions into America. How that gets distributed out of the Trump bank accounts is yet to be determined.

 

So why give tax breaks to the rich and not the middle and lower class? He's feeding his rich buddies' palms very nicely now.

 

You’re reading too much propaganda. Current rates are being maintained.

 

I can watch liddle bitchboy Marquitos get roasted all day

Keating: Is Putin a war criminal?

Rubio: I think you can look at instances there and characterize them as war crimes but our intent is to end the war

Keating: Is he a war criminal?

Rubio: It’s not a simple answer pic.twitter.com/RtR1Or1Qtx

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 21, 2025

 

I’m pretty sure you were one of the true believers arguing that the Biden economy was roaring with these tax rates.

 

Another TrumpCo L in court

 

Really? Because as I recall, she played a Trump fan on an episode with a Trump cameo.

 

I knew it was before Trump became the face of something called MAGA, but man... that was a freaky coincidence.

 

... and the problem is???

 

Might as well hit up Coach too

 

I'll take Coach's foreign policy knowledge over Trump's, every day of the week.

 

The more blatant lies in Trump's "genocide against white South African" tirade in the Oval Office yesterday:

" The footage played by Trump in the Oval Office showed rows of white crosses stretching off into the distance along a rural road. Trump claimed: "These are burial sites right here. Burial sites. Over a thousand of white farmers."

However, the crosses do not mark graves. The video is from a protest against the murder of white farming couple Glen and Vida Rafferty, who were ambushed and shot dead on their premises in 2020. The clip was shared on YouTube on 6 September, the day after the protests."

And:

"There was an image clearly visible as Trump spoke and said: "Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are all white farmers that are being buried."

But the image isn't from South Africa - it's actually from a report about women being killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9vxve994ro

 

So my buddy, Brit with a green card, has been waiting a couple months for updated fingerprints to come back clear (so I can assign him, grr).

My son, US citizen AFAIK and with ID that matches his birth certificate, got his updated prints cleared yesterday in HOURS, which is consistent with my last update in 23/24.

Not a surprise that there's one line for the Elect and one for Brexicans, but that second one is just...frozen

 

So, you mean Trump is completely full of shit with the white genocide in SA? You don't say ...

He gets fed complete complete bollocks constantly by the right wing media complex and buys it hook, line and sinker, everytime.

 

On the one hand, my general attitude is ******** Harvard, since it (and the rest of the Ivy League) exists mostly to replenish the population of rich ********s who comprise the establishment and who, pretty much since Halberstam wrote The Best and the Brightest in the 50s, have been responsible for disaster after disaster from Viet Nam to the Banking crisis in 2008 to our ongoing Middle East quagmire.

On the other hand, this is fascism:

Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students - The New York Times

The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source for the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college in a major escalation in the administration’s efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president’s agenda.

The administration notified Harvard about the decision after a back-and-forth in recent days over the legality of a sprawling records request as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s investigation, according to three people with knowledge of the negotiations. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
. . . .
“I am writing to inform you that effective immediately, Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification is revoked,” according to a letter sent to the university by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary. A copy of the letter was obtained by The New York Times.

About 6,800 international students attended Harvard this year, or roughly 27 percent of the student body, according to university enrollment data. That was up from 19.7 percent in 2010.

The move is likely to have a significant effect on the university’s bottom line. Tuition at Harvard is $59,320 for the school year that begins later this year, and costs can rise to nearly $87,000 when room and board are included. International students tend to pay larger shares of education costs compared with other students.
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Shocking. The most extreme example of fascism yet I'd argue.