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3 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

 

 

 

That’s not a country club. That’s a Panera Bread patio that opens onto a parking lot which in turn opens onto a six-lane state highway in a third tier suburb of a fourth tier city. 

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I’m sure Greg Abbott will promptly order the cute little Texas wall to be painted. He can roll in front of it for a photo op and maybe Trump will notice he exists.

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32 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:

I’m sure Greg Abbott will promptly order the cute little Texas wall to be painted. He can roll in front of it for a photo op and maybe Trump will notice he exists.

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Trump would probably request they find a governor who's not crippled for the photo.

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So weird how the right is now fixated on slavery. Re-construct statutes and tributes to white, confederate “heroes” and downplay slavery. But they’re adamant that they’re not racist. 

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5 hours ago, elfenix said:

Had to walk through the griftshop on their way out like a fucking cracker barrel 

 

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Can’t imagine what’s going through their minds other than he’s an idiot. 

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5 hours ago, elfenix said:

Had to walk through the griftshop on their way out like a fucking cracker barrel 

 

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Notice the top left is “Trump 2028”

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6 hours ago, elfenix said:

Had to walk through the griftshop on their way out like a fucking cracker barrel 

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I respect Zelensky for holding it together at that moment.

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1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

So weird how the right is now fixated on slavery. Re-construct statutes and tributes to white, confederate “heroes” and downplay slavery. But they’re adamant that they’re not racist. 

Silly boy! Haven't you heard?

The only people discriminated against and objects of racism are white men. We've had it with being subjugated!

And we're all alphas!

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1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

"When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them.  The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born.  Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.  I am the LORD your god."

Leviticus 19:33-34

 

"Love thy neighbor as thyself"

Jesus

 

I'm an atheist, so why am I better at this than all of these believers?

Religion damages critical thinking skills 

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Robert Reich:

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Friends,

Monica Crowley, a former Fox News personality who is now Trump’s chief of protocol, apparently left behind in a public area of an Alaskan hotel documents describing confidential planned movements of Trump and Putin during their Friday meeting in Alaska.

That’s nothing compared to Emil Bove, Trump’s new nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, who reputedly told subordinates at the Department of Justice that they should tell the courts “f*uck you” and ignore any court order blocking the deportations of Venezuelan migrants declared to be gang members.

Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with little background in tax policy beyond promoting a fraud-riddled tax credit. Long has already been fired after clashing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Long was the seventh person to head the IRS this year.

Let’s not forget E.J. Antoni, whom Trump just nominated to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics after firing former BLS chief Erika McEntarfer for presiding over a disappointing jobs report earlier this month.

Antoni is that rarity who has drawn harsh criticism from economists on the right as well as the mainstream for being ignorant, unprincipled, and incompetent. He recently called it “good news” that “all of the net job growth over the last 12 months has gone to native-born Americans.”

I haven’t even mentioned the towering ineptitude of Trump’s Cabinet picks, such as Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Kristi Noem. Or the flagrant cruelty and wild negligence of Trump assistants Russell Vought and Stephen Miller.

How to explain the rise of so many inept and unprincipled people?

Easy. They could never succeed on their own merits. As soon as their brainless incompetence became apparent — likely as soon as they took the first job that required some degree of intelligence and integrity — they were fired.

So they learned that the if they wanted to be rewarded with promotions, money, and power, they could not rely on the normal processes and systems of recognition for jobs well done. If they were to make anything of themselves, they must instead become ass-lickers, lapdogs, and sycophants.

They must latch onto someone who values loyalty above integrity or competence, someone for whom fawning obsequiousness is the most important criterion for being hired and promoted, ideally someone who cannot tell the difference between a groveling toady and a knowledgeable adviser.

Enter Trump.

History is strewn with the wreckage of dictatorships that have attracted and promoted incompetent lapdogs lacking talent or integrity. As Hannah Arendt explained in her classic The Origins of Totalitarianism:

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.

Early in his career, Trump apprenticed himself to Roy Cohn, an unprincipled lawyer who taught the young Donald how to gain wealth and influence through ruthless bullying, profane braggadocio, opportunistic bigotry, baseless lawsuits, lying, and more lying.

Yet as Trump’s “fixer” with politicians, judges, and mob bosses, Cohn remained utterly loyal to Trump and his father, Fred.

Years later, in his first and bestselling book, The Art of the Deal, Trump drew a distinction between integrity and loyalty. He preferred the latter, and for him, Roy Cohn exemplified it. Trump contrasted Cohn with

all the hundreds of ‘respectable’ guys who made careers out of boasting about their uncompromising integrity but have absolutely no loyalty …. What I liked most about Roy Cohn was that he would do just the opposite.

Cohn died a disgrace, disbarred by the New York State Bar for unethical conduct after attempting to defraud a dying client by forcing him to sign a will amendment leaving Cohn his fortune.

People who climb upward by sacrificing their integrity to slavish subservience almost always fall on their faces eventually. Blind ambition trips them up. They cannot explain or defend their behavior by relying on principled competence because, like Roy Cohn, they are unprincipled and incompetent to their cores.

The people they latch onto meet similar fates but for a different reason.

Leaders who value loyalty above all else find themselves surrounded by sycophantic crackpots and fools who will not provide leaders objective or useful feedback about their actions — no warnings beforehand and no criticism afterward. All they get are ass-licking commendations —“Wonderful idea, sir!” “Brilliant execution, sir!”

These cocoons of flattery seal off such leaders from the real-world consequences of what they do — which inevitably leads them to make grave mistakes. Some of those mistakes eventually cause their downfalls.

This perverse symmetry — the certain demise of grovelers because they’re incompetent and unprincipled, and the inevitable downfall of those to whom they grovel because they never receive useful and accurate feedback — marks the endpoint of all totalitarian systems. It’s the path on which Trump now treads.

This is not necessarily cause for hope. If history is any guide, many innocent people will suffer before the incompetent grovelers and the vain objects of their groveling meet their inevitable fates. America and the world are already suffering.

What are your thoughts?

 

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44 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

Silly boy! Haven't you heard?

The only people discriminated against and objects of racism are white men. We've had it with being subjugated!

And we're all alphas!

Very dangerous when those in power start to gaslight everyone that they're in fact the true victims. In fairness, you can point out when the Dems have done this as well but Trump is actively deploying a secret police who might be rounding up undocumented people today, and expand it to political enemies tomorrow. After all if the political enemies are actually enemies of America, why wouldn't you want them rounded up?

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2 hours ago, TexArcher said:

"When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them.  The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born.  Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.  I am the LORD your god."

Leviticus 19:33-34

 

"Love thy neighbor as thyself"

Jesus

 

I'm an atheist, so why am I better at this than all of these believers?

Read some more of Leviticus.  It is a wild ride

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3 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

So weird how the right is now fixated on slavery. Re-construct statutes and tributes to white, confederate “heroes” and downplay slavery. But they’re adamant that they’re not racist. 

What’s even more weird is how the media goes along with it. 

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10 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Ha ha:

 

I wonder if it even registers to MAGA that they're being insulted and mocked, or if they're seeing the News on stuff and completely unironically saying, "Well, that's dumb."

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Ya know, Trump could have just arrested Putin at their meeting in Anchorage, sent him to Alligator Alcatraz, then said….”Let’s negotiate”!   He could have won the Nobel Peace Prize for this move……gzzzzzzz.

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36 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

I wonder if it even registers to MAGA that they're being insulted and mocked, or if they're seeing the News on stuff and completely unironically saying, "Well, that's dumb."

Newsom autocorrected to News on. Neat.

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21 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Ya know, Trump could have just arrested Putin at their meeting in Anchorage, sent him to Alligator Alcatraz, then said….”Let’s negotiate”!   He could have won the Nobel Peace Prize for this move……gzzzzzzz.

Or....guaranteed a nuclear WWIII response.

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1 hour ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Ya know, Trump could have just arrested Putin at their meeting in Anchorage, sent him to Alligator Alcatraz, then said….”Let’s negotiate”!   He could have won the Nobel Peace Prize for this move……gzzzzzzz.

that wasn't putin

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3 hours ago, babysdaddy said:

Read some more of Leviticus.  It is a wild ride

 

Oh, I've read it, and the rest of the Bible.

I've read most of the Qur'an, too.

It's important to be able to confront these people on their own ground, and surprisingly easy to know it better than they do.

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3 hours ago, C-Man said:

These cocoons of flattery seal off such leaders from the real-world consequences of what they do — which inevitably leads them to make grave mistakes. Some of those mistakes eventually cause their downfalls.

This perverse symmetry — the certain demise of grovelers because they’re incompetent and unprincipled, and the inevitable downfall of those to whom they grovel because they never receive useful and accurate feedback — marks the endpoint of all totalitarian systems. It’s the path on which Trump now treads.

Thanks for posting that, @C-Man. Reich is so very smart.

I think what he writes and refers to makes great sense regarding the ass-lickers he so pleasingly describes with such bluntness.

The place that all of this may not kill the totalitarian movement under Trump's name is that the hate engine that Trump took over will still be running no matter what his personal fate. The GOPs will take back the reins and be much smarter in setting up their dictatorship for the applauding moron chorus molded by Rush Limbaugh.

Trump falling would not erase the hate reservoirs created since Reagan regarding the ebil Dem socialists. IMHO

Trump's humiliating fall would, of cours, be worthwhile for its own sake no matter what else is affected. He's looking so shitty that maybe he'll croak before he ruins everything too much and be preserved forever lying in state like Lenin in the Kremlin.

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54 minutes ago, Red Five said:


Um, I don’t think he understands how his religion works.

i think he understands it perfectly. be shitty your whole life and then end it with one good, grand act and all is forgiven. you know, the christian way!

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