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Preaching to the choir.  But it's the wrong choir.
His choir wants the symbol of a gulag.  And would be so delicious in the heart of wokeness.
The sad thing is he could make his gulag in a place that destroys so much more.
Mindfulness is tough in the age of the Dotard.


Every day is something new and worse. There can never be calm else past actions will be scrutinized.
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Trump’s business conflicts ‘worst since there were slave owners in the White House’

US president has ‘terrible’ financial conflict of interest, warns former chief White House ethics lawyer

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/05/trumps-business-conflicts-worst-since-slave-owners/

Gotta love this lede: 

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Donald Trump’s conflicts of interest are the worst since there were slave owners in the White House, a former presidential ethics adviser has said.

Richard Painter, who was chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005-2007, said Mr Trump’s business empire – spanning hotels, real estate, crypto currency and social media – meant he was more compromised than any president in post-Civil War history.

Mr Painter, who served under President George W. Bush, told The Telegraph: “The financial conflicts of interest of the president himself are unprecedented in our country, at least since the Civil War.

“Some of our earlier presidents had financial conflicts of interests with plantations, but not since then, until Donald Trump came along.”

At least 13 presidents owned slaves at some point during their lifetimes, according to the White House Historical Association, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

Mr Trump’s conflicts of interests are even worse than during his first term, Mr Painter added.

The president’s business empire has expanded beyond hotels and golf clubs to include the cryptocurrency venture World Liberty Financial – which the Trump family has a majority holding in – and the social media site Truth Social.

Last week World Liberty Financial announced that a fund backed by Abu Dhabi was planning to make a $2bn (£1.5bn) transaction using one of its digital currencies, in a move that is expected to generate revenues for the Trump family.

The deal comes less than two weeks before Mr Trump’s state visit to the Middle East – which will see him travel to the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The Trump Organisation, which is managed by Eric Trump, also recently announced a deal to build the first Trump real estate project in Qatar with Qatari Diar, which is owned by the Qatari government, and Saudi Arabian development company Dar Global.

Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, also has extensive business dealings in the Middle East.

Mr Kushner’s investment company Affinity Partners received $2bn of initial investment from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in its early stages and then secured more than $1.5bn from the UAE and Qatar last year.

‘Type of corruption’

Mr Painter, who is a professor of law at the University of Minnesota, said: “I can’t prove that they’re going to influence the President’s decisions, but you can tell that he sees those that do business with him as his friends, that’s just the way it is. But it looks terrible.

“It looks like the way you are going to conduct diplomacy with Donald Trump is by doing business with his family. This idea of your family cutting deals while you’re on a diplomatic mission, it makes it look like everybody’s on the take.”

Under what is known as the “emoluments clause” in the US constitution, any person holding government office must not accept any emolument (a fee or profit) or gift from a sovereign state without congressional approval. However, the rule does not extend to family members.

Mr Painter said: “It’s a workaround of the emoluments clause, it is a type of corruption the founders of our country did not want and it looks terrible.”

He also criticised former president Joe Biden for setting a precedent by allowing his son, Hunter Biden, to take a role on the board of one of Ukraine’s largest gas companies.

The Trump family’s involvement in crypto also mean they stand to benefit from Mr Trump’s policies on digital currencies.

The Senate is preparing to pass Mr Trump’s Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (Genius) Act, governing how some cryptocurrency will be used.

Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren called the Genius Act a “greenlight the grift”.

In a video posted on X, Ms Warren said: “This is a bill that will make it even easier for the President and his family to profit off their own stable coin.”

Mr Trump has denied that he has any conflicts of interest because he has resigned from his roles in his businesses and has handed over management to his children.

A White House spokesman said: “President Trump’s assets are in a trust managed by his children. There are no conflicts of interest.”

World Liberty Financial, the Trump Organisation and Affinity Partners were contacted for a comment.

 

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16 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

Trump wants to cut 75% of the funding for NPS and close the majority of parks across the country.  Because he wants to sell them.

Fucking duh.

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18 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Blood and Soil American. What a fucking joke.

I'm expecting to see a slew of Blood and Soil American decals on the rear windows of micro peen jacked up trucks by Memorial Day.

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1 minute ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

I'm expecting to see a slew of Blood and Soil American decals on the rear windows of micro peen jacked up trucks by Memorial Day.

 

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1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

when he finally dies and we're all partying in the streets and his family and cult are offended i'll remember to say "they can't take a joke?"

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3 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Hot dog brain

 

 

People were offended by your post. 

They can't take a joke.

It's fake news.

I had nothing to do with it!

It was AI.

I don't even own a dog!

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On 5/2/2025 at 5:13 PM, Ted Lange said:

I was told Obama was the most divisive President ever.   

He is the reason we have what we have now, so technically...

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Just now, Biff Tannen said:

Welp. Time to protest. 

It won't.

Fucking.

Matter.

 

Just know that going in.  Protest, make noise, call your congressman, do whatever.  None of it will matter.  Trump could propose to burn the actual National Archives copies of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence in the middle of Yellowstone as he strikes the park with a high-yield nuke.....and nothing and nobody will stop him.

 

We're getting very close to the point where we're going to have to make some existential choices as a society.

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56 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

Time to fight like hell or lose our national parks forever.  Trump wants to cut 75% of the funding for NPS and close the majority of parks across the country.  Because he wants to sell them.

 

https://www.npca.org/articles/8495-president-trump-s-proposed-budget-could-decimate-at-least-350-national-park

 

I'm just going to assume there are renderings in a room at Mar-A-Lago of Trump Yellowstone, Trump Sequoia National and Trump Yosemite Golf Clubs

 

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5 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

I'm just going to assume there are renderings in a room at Mar-A-Lago of Trump Yellowstone, Trump Sequoia National and Trump Yosemite Golf Clubs

 

Don't forget Big Musk Bend Spaceport and Harem Headquarters, and Your Mom's Grand Canyon, Brought to You by Tesla Models S3XY.

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6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

This.  Focus on the shit that's actually fucking us.  For the rest of it, the only response should be "he's a moron who thinks and does moron things -- what's new?"

Oh, and the corruption.  But not because corruption matters to people ethically (it clearly doesn't).  But rather, because he's using YOUR government to make HIM billions, while YOU get fucked.  The only people doing better from Dipshit Donnie's policies are Donny and his band of billionaires.  They are taking YOUR money and putting it in THEIR pockets.  

This could not be more true.

Angers me that the Dems cannot figure out how to crush this bullshit.

I will say it again…

James fucking Carville should show them the way.

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42 minutes ago, immamac said:

They are eating the dogs they are eating the cats. 

That happened in a fucking debate for the President of the United States. He still won. 

America is getting what it voted for. 

Absolutely. There was no deception which is ironic consider how much he trafficks in lies. They just won.

When Trump's failures build up, the cult and the NFL Jersey GOPs will blame his underlings or the ebil Dems. It will take everybody else embracing rage and hate to at least put up a fight.

Roll the dice on what the Army does.

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"The courts decided all of a sudden that we have to have trials." -Dotard, President of the United States, today. Re: the kidnappings our government has been doing.

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56 minutes ago, Pancho said:

If Covid taught us anything it’s that Americans do not like or appreciate shared sacrifice 

 

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Narrator from Idiocracy: "The American people most certainly did NOT understand shared sacrifice.  The 2025 Christmas shopping season turned out to be the most deadly in U.S. history, with over 5,000 Americans losing their lives in gunfights over toys - over 25% occurring in Walmarts throughout SEC country."  

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28 minutes ago, Red Five said:

"The courts decided all of a sudden that we have to have trials." -Dotard, President of the United States, today. 

Now that’s the kind of rigorous constitutional ignorance we’ve come to expect from the party of textual originalism!

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19 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

Narrator from Idiocracy: "The American people most certainly did NOT understand shared sacrifice.  The 2025 Christmas shopping season turned out to be the most deadly in U.S. history, with over 5,000 Americans losing their lives in gunfights over toys - over 25% occurring in Walmarts throughout SEC country."  

Black Friday gonna be off the rails… RAILS! 

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a purge of military officers ????

hitler would be proud ....

Just in: SecDef Hegseth has ordered senior Pentagon leadership to cut the number of four-star generals and admirals by at least 20% across the military, according to a memo signed by Hegseth dated Monday and obtained by CNN.

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1 hour ago, Gap03 said:

Narrator from Idiocracy: "The American people most certainly did NOT understand shared sacrifice.  The 2025 Christmas shopping season turned out to be the most deadly in U.S. history, with over 5,000 Americans losing their lives in gunfights over toys - over 25% occurring in Walmarts throughout SEC country."  

By Christmas 2025 85 percent of SEC country won't be able to afford Walmart

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12 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Literally insane

 

 

"Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

11 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

He's back on renaming Veteran's Day.

 

 

I love that one.  "We never took credit for it."

The literal fucking name of the days is VE day and VJ day.  And the "V" doesn't stand for "virgin."  Our government...the one he heads...literally has a whole page on the DOD site about it: https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Experience/VJ-Day/

So, to make it even BETTER....his "victory day" of May 8th....ISN'T EVEN THE FUCKING DAY THE WAR ENDED FOR US.  WE WERE STILL FIGHTING AND DYING IN THE FUCKING PACIFIC FOR SEVERAL MORE MONTHS.

Dumbest.

Motherfucking.

Motherfuckers.

In the history.

Of all of motherfucking humanity.

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Was watching Anderson Cooper just now talking to a CNN reporter that visited Alcatraz today.  He kept it together but he looked like he was about to break into laughter at any moment on live tv.

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19 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

By Christmas 2025 85 percent of SEC country won't be able to afford Walmart

They'll do their Christmas shopping a Dollar General then.

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40 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Literally insane

 

 

I can only imagine how upset Johnny Sack must be with this egregious lawfare 

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6 hours ago, Horn Dog said:

She is trying really hard to keep it together...

 

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As an expert on black body language/facial expressions you are correct. This man is on this woman's last nerve, and she wants to be anywhere else but here.

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