Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[The Mighty Mollusk]

There are so many ways to read that.

I hate this timeline.

 

[Ungnome]

There are so many ways to read that.

I hate this timeline.

Worst part is I can guarantee almost all of the ways it can be read would be accurate

 

[NovaSaber]

Mysterious ‘Orange Shape’ Raises More Questions About Epstein Footage

A CBS investigation claims officials may have misled the public about a series of details on Jeffrey Epstein’s final night alive.

www.thedailybeast.com

Conor McCourt, a retired NYPD sergeant and forensic video expert, told CBS News he disagrees with the conclusion reached by the DOJ’s Office of Inspector General.
“It’s more likely it’s a person in an [orange] uniform,” he said. More specifically, a person wearing an orange inmate jumpsuit. CBS reported that other forensics experts were also “skeptical” of the conclusion reached by federal investigators.

 

[Axaday]

Trump says Epstein 'stole' young women from Mar-a-Lago spa, including Virginia Giuffre

President Donald Trump says Jeffrey Epstein “stole” young women who worked at Mar-a-Lago, including Virginia Giuffre, one of the disgraced financier's most well-known accusers.

apnews.com

I will not go so far as to pity Trump's publicists because a good person should not apply for that job, but you can imagine their frustration. How do you get this man to shut his mouth?

He tells a reporter that he stopped letting Epstein into Mar-A-Lago because he was poaching employees and when asked about a specific public Epstein accuser who had worked at Mar-a-Lago as a teenaged spa attendant, Trump remembers who she is (which is something he never seems to do when discussing anyone connected to trouble) and expresses upset that Epstein stole her. Her being a teenager who what? Carried towels? That job cannot be hard to fill and I don't know when I have seen a billionaire upset to lose a minimum wage teenage summer worker.

Yikes man. I want you to keep talking, actually. But...you should really shut up.

 

[Dekafox]

More TACO tariffs

Trump tariffs: President rages at weak jobs report as Wall Street falls

Stocks fell on Wall Street Friday after a significant slowdown in hiring in July with the president claiming, without evidence, that the numbers were ‘RIGGED’

www.the-independent.com

 

[Pocket]

OK, who else read "mysterious orange shape" and immediately had the same thought I did? I don't even need to say what it was.

 

[abates]

Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com)

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-someone-waived-ghislaine

bsky.app

Nothing to see here.

 

[Axaday]

Will it be easier for her to get killed there?

Edit - Probably not, because so many of the citizens have guns?

 

[Pocket]

I mean, fair interpretation: but vance absolutely NEEDS trumps cult to follow him. Even with the cult, vance will lose the subsequent election, but he needs them to acknowledge him as the next in line for the leadership of the magats. So the only thing he can do is try to be a trumpier trump than trump was.

He'll fail, cause he's vance and literally everyone in the world hates him.

Also he seems dead-set on pissing off all of Ohio, in particular. First it was Springfield, now Akron, Canton, and Columbus all in one go. Man, if there's one state you don't want to get on the bad side of if you want to become President...

 

[Steevy Maximus]

Voting along party lines, the Senate OBVIOUSLY confirmed Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro as Attorney General for Washington DC. She joins a cadre of former Fox News personalities that now inhabit key federal positions

Senate confirms former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia

The vote was along party lines, with all present Democrats voting against Pirro's confirmation.

www.nbcnews.com

In related news, Special Counsel Jack Smith, who had a criminal case building against Donald Trump in the run up to the 2024 election, is reportedly going to be investigated after Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas claimed his work interfered in the 2024 election and was politically motivated. Despite building felony level cases, Smith resigned just a week before Trump’s inauguration, with no charges ever filed.

Office of Special Counsel launches investigation into ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith

GOP Sen. Tom Cotton requested that Smith be investigated for alleged “unprecedented interference in the 2024 election.”

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Axaday]

Voting along party lines, the Senate OBVIOUSLY confirmed Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro as Attorney General for Washington DC. She joins a cadre of former Fox News personalities that now inhabit key federal positions

So they ARE draining a swamp.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Yeah, right into a bigger one.

 

[KidTDragon]

"Maybe playing our Greatest Hits will get their minds off Epstein."

 

[Ceir]

Welp. RIP to the dangerous and subversive Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

5/ The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down after Trump and Congress eliminated its federal funding. The $1.1 billion rescission signed into law last month removed the CPB’s entire budget for the next two years. Most of its roughly 100 employees will be laid off by Sept. 30, with a small team staying on through January to wind down operations. The closure ends CPB’s nearly 60-year role in funding local NPR and PBS stations, licensing music for classical and jazz radio, supporting emergency alerts in 25 states, and backing educational shows like Sesame Street. “Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans […] we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” CPB CEO Patricia Harrison said. Trump, meanwhile, called CPB “a biased, taxpayer-funded scam” and wrote, “REPUBLICANS HAVE TRIED DOING THIS FOR 40 YEARS, AND FAILED […] BUT NO MORE.” (Poynter / NPR / CNN / Axios / CBS News / NBC News / Politico / New York Times / Associated Press / Washington Post)

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

Imagine how difficult it would be to edit the movie "Goodfellas" to redact/remove all references to Henry Hill. Imagine how long it would take to cut out a central character like that.

Now you understand why it's taking so long for Trump's administration to release the Epstein files.

Trump supporters don't really understand how he's going to help them, but they know he's hurting other people, so they figure that as long as he's hurting other people, this will eventually help them.

I'm serious: this is how they think. They think the economy is like a pile of money on the table, and everyone is trying to grab some. Therefore, they reason that the way to ensure they get a bigger share is to knock out all the competition. But it doesn't occur to them that the competition is also helping to grow that pile, so knocking out the competition might not have the effect they think it will.

It never occurred to Trump that his (largely successful) second-term plan to take complete control of "the deep state" would turn many of his anti-government supporters against him, because he no longer has the ability to deflect criticism of his government by pointing his followers to "the deep state".

Imagine a guy promising to mow your lawn, but instead of moving it, he douses it in gasoline and then sets it on fire, burning the lawn and your entire house to the ground.

Now imagine him saying that he did a great job mowing your lawn, and in fact, he mowed the lawn at levels never seen before. And a large audience of his supporters starts wildly clapping and cheering because he did such a fantastic job.

That's what it's like to watch Trump in action.

If you want to imagine what's going on inside Trump's head when he's stupidly rambling on about something he obviously doesn't understand, try to imagine that you've just been asked a question about helicopter safety, but you don't know what a helicopter is.

Seriously, you've never seen one, you don't know how they work, you're not even sure what they do, but now you're about to confidently talk about helicopter safety on live TV because you are so unbelievably egotistical that you figure you can just make something up and it will probably be correct. And while you're at it, you'll get in a dig against someone you don't like.

That's what's going on in Trump's head when he's going on some bizarre idiotic rant about windmills or economics or drug prices, etc.

 

[NovaSaber]

Trump plan to end free elections in 2026 and 2028 revealed

NEW YORK—The Trump administration and its radical right foot-soldiers in the federal government and in the states are undertaking a comprehensive scheme to undermine future state and federal elections, in effect rigging the rolls to keep themselves in power no matter what the voters decide.

www.peoplesworld.org

“Why do we conclude this represents a concerted strategy? Among other things, President Trump tried to do this before,” the Brennan Center points out. “He was the first president to try to overturn the results of a presidential election and used federal power to do so.

“This campaign to undermine elections runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution. Only Congress and the states can set election rules. The executive branch, especially the Department of Justice (DOJ), is charged with enforcing federal laws. But neither the president nor the DOJ has the authority to set rules governing elections or to supervise” state elections procedures.


Yet Trump is trying just that. And, as CREW and the Brennan Center point out, the misnamed SAVE Act, a key goal of the House’s ruling right-wing Republicans, would aid and abet that campaign. Other specifics include:

• Attempting to impose a “Show Your Papers” requirement on voters.

Trump, in a March 25 executive order, and the GOP congressional majority, in the SAVE Act, say doing so would prevent “voter fraud,” which even Trump’s last Attorney General in his first term, Bill Barr, called non-existent. But “show your papers” mandates, using a citizenship document to even register to vote, “would undermine voting and disrupt election administration in multiple respects.”


Estimates are that the mandate, the SAVE Act, or both, would disenfranchise at least 21 million voters nationwide. Most of them would be women, whose names on their initial voter registrations are different from the name they now use.

 

[Axaday]

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"Maybe playing our Greatest Hits will get their minds off Epstein."

What's SUPER weird about this is that bringing stuff like this to light through indictments is what her job IS. And she is congratulating someone else for asking her to work on it...

 

[Ceir]

Not that this is new to anyone, but my god living in the "Well YOUR plan doesn't hurt ENOUGH people!" "Well YOUR plan doesn't hurt people ENOUGH!" administration is depressing. I saw a quote somewhere about "my opinion that a government should support its people and protect the most vulnerable apparently makes a lot of people very angry", and boy aint that a f*cking vibe.

And at this rate, my feeling dumb because I don't understand how anyone can think anything that's going on is good will also never go away. This is also not news, but I have to ask the question (rhetorically) now and again.

 

[Axaday]

So it isn’t today news, but Trump had a speech at a tech conference recently and told about his uncle who was a professor at MIT and taught the Unabomber. He said he ask his uncle what kind of student Unabomber was and was told he was a very good student.

Unabomber didn’t go to MIT and Trump’s uncle died in 1985, 11 years before the Unabomber's identity was publicly known.

What is the purpose of the lie?

 

[Ungnome]

It's Trump. He's a pathological liar who does everything in his power to sound more impressive than he actually is. There's not really anything more to it than that.