All Things Trump: the story continues...

[Tero]

FBI ready tear up everything on Trump on Day 1
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-h ... =116342099

[Tero]

Elsewhere:
I think a lot of Trump voters select the bits they want to hear and ignore the rest. My mother, bless her heart, told me today that she doesn't like RFK but does like that he suggests kids should eat healthy. The heroin thing, vaccines, fluoride...all that just washed right off her attention. When I brought them up she ignored me. She's old enough that she had an aunt who wore leg braces due to polio, but nope, she didn't want to hear it so she didn't. Selective acknowledgement of reality.

[pErvinalia]

What's the heroin thing?

[macdoc]

caption: The sign should bigger!

[Tero]

What's the heroin thing?

He used heroin for over a decade.

[Tero]

Heading into the 2025 disaster of the Trump II era

The earlier post expressed my disappointment at voters in my state. It was not so much that they would go for Trump a second time, it is that they full well knew he will be close to a dictator. About the only thing holding him back is the federal court system and the states themselves. Those can maybe guarantee a fair 2026 election. We can still hang on to some first amendment rights. But any federal worker resisting Trump now or in the past (Vindman) will be prosecuted.

The middle aged men sit behind him at rallies. One photo had one half in cowboy hats, the other in trump hats. Oklahoma maybe? These are the cult from back in 2016. They will be difficult to appraoch in any manner. They have an axe to grind with liberals. It will never end. Even as Trump takes away the ACA (they might need it at age 60-65) nothing will change their minds. The only hope we have there is that Trump will not fix the economy. He will not. Inflation may be under control but the workers there will never get the raises to be the equal to the upper middle class. So my guess is that they will never admit being wrong, but will sort of fade out of political activity and voting in 2-4 years. There cannot be another Trump for them.

https://esapolitics.blogspot.com/2024/1 ... mp-ii.html

[Tero]

Financial Times on Trump threat tools:

https://www.ft.com/content

...That is no surprise. Throughout his career — and first term in office — Trump has consistently aimed to destabilise his rivals by issuing unpredictable and extreme threats. He will now double down. After all, his experience has taught him that the boundaries for possible action lie well beyond mainstream norms. And such threats often work.

People in big cities who can’t understand countryside anger don’t remember this experience, because this only happened in the countryside. Most people now laughing at Trump supporters for “voting against their interests” have not felt abandoned by all sides of their government yet. That must be nice. In that moment, as now, I felt abandoned by all political sides in so many different directions that everything is still spinning years later. As for that moment, in the midst of that unique countryside disaster, the sense of neighborly community felt during Hurricane Fran in my childhood was long gone.

[Tero]

https://www.threads.net/@esa55jarvi/pos ... 0N7AEQqskA

[Tero]

Thiel is billionaire that creted Vance

[pErvinalia]

In a lab?

[L'Emmerdeur]

What's the heroin thing?

The Kennedy fruitcake didn't just do heroin for years. He claimed it made him a better student.

[Tero]

Tricks for democracy in 4-8 years.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... s-00191724
"Trump Will Overplay His Hand. Here’s How to Be Ready.
I lived through the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey. Here’s what I learned."

I think I had it once.

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‪𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖‬ ‪@mk-indy.bsky.social‬
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To save millions in data storage, the National Sex Offender Registry has announced it will merge with the White House’s government website.

Sex Offenders can be viewed on the ‘Meet the Team’ page beginning January 20th, 2025.

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[Brian Peacock]

In a lab?