Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
Citizen
Nope; the criteria is solely "how much can you kiss trumps ass". The incompetence is built in because only stupid people want to kiss trumps ass.
 

Pale Rider

...and Hell followed with him.
Citizen
Servility (I wouldn't even call it loyalty) is the only reason Pam Bondi got the job and the only reason she still has it. The same can be said for the rest of his appointments.
 

The Mighty Mollusk

Scream all you like, 'cause we're all mad here
Citizen
Competent people question poor orders, or bend them for their own benefit. Fascists hate being questioned, and Trump only wants people that benefit Trump.
 

Pale Rider

...and Hell followed with him.
Citizen
FB friend:
Millions of Americans say openly that they turned off the Super Bowl half-time show because of Bad Bunny's ethnicity, yet they still expect us to believe that there's no racial discrimination in policing or the job market.

How many of these millions of Americans are in positions of authority? How many of them are cops? How many of them are in positions to deny jobs or promotions to people if they don't like the way you look?
What's happening with the Epstein files is like that moment when the school acknowledges that they know your kid was being bullied, but you can already tell halfway through the meeting that they'll never do anything to the attacker.
Just so we're clear, the right-wing tactic for marginalizing communities is not to write laws which explicitly target those communities. Their tactic is to write laws that affect everyone, and then selectively enforce those laws so that they are only used to punish a targeted community.

They've been doing this for generations, with selective enforcement of drug laws for example, but we've never seen a more blatant example of this technique than the ICE crackdown on Minnesota: a state whose immigrant population per capita is roughly half that of Texas.

This longstanding technique is such a poorly kept secret that many Trump supporters actually counted on it. Latino Trump supporters all assumed that they would be exempt from ICE brutality simply because they're Trump supporters.

The US has never really had consistent rule of law, and now they're not even pretending anymore. The farcical true nature of American law and order has been laid bare by the Trump administration, and this cannot be unseen.
 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
Citizen
More to the point: we know they're lying. This half time show was the most watched in history. While the TPusa temu knock off caught 6 million, half of which were bots. If they're willing to lie ABOUT THAT, what else will they lie about without fore thought or regret?
 

The Mighty Mollusk

Scream all you like, 'cause we're all mad here
Citizen
Everything they can get away with and plenty of things they can't.

Who am I kidding, they can get away with all of it because they got rid of anyone who could actually do anything about it.
 

Pocket

jumbled pile of person
Citizen
Nope; the criteria is solely "how much can you kiss trumps ass". The incompetence is built in because only stupid people want to kiss trumps ass.
Stupid people, or people who are looking to advance an agenda of their own and are willing to suck up to someone they hate (or at least consider to be beneath them) to make that happen. So far we've only seen that happen with people who are even more evil than he is, but who knows what saboteurs might be lurking behind the scenes. Think about it: their standards are so low that anyone who's a half-decent faker could get a foot in the door, and we've seen enough instances of public figures taking a sudden swerve into genuine Trump fanboyism (Kanye, Scott Adams, Tatsuya Ishida) that the press and the public would probably fall for it too.

That's what I'm hoping for, anyway. Obviously if they're any good at their job, we won't have a clue until their plans have already come to fruition. At this point it's probably the best hope we have.
 

Fullstrength Motleypuss

Well-known member
Citizen
So Stephen Colbert was supposed to have Texas Democrat James Talarico on his show last night, but CBS's lawyers decided instead to kiss the FCC's ass and strongly forbid Stephen from broadcasting the interview and (less strongly) forbid him from even talking about it. So instead, Stephen went full scorched earth and gave CBS a giant middle finger on air and then uploaded the interview to the Late Show Youtube Channel.



It's a pretty good interview - he talks a lot about Christian Nationalism and how it contradicts a lot of Biblical scripture.
 

Fullstrength Motleypuss

Well-known member
Citizen
So Stephen Colbert was supposed to have Texas Democrat James Talarico on his show last night, but CBS's lawyers decided instead to kiss the FCC's ass and strongly forbid Stephen from broadcasting the interview and (less strongly) forbid him from even talking about it. So instead, Stephen went full scorched earth and gave CBS a giant middle finger on air and then uploaded the interview to the Late Show Youtube Channel.



It's a pretty good interview - he talks a lot about Christian Nationalism and how it contradicts a lot of Biblical scripture.
 

CoffeeHorse

Hanging in there
Staff member
Council of Elders
Citizen
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

116100300268316472.png
 

Ungnome

Grand Empress of the Empire of One Square Foot.
Citizen
It will be a whole lot of nothing like every other time the government has released information on aliens and, yea, he's only doing this as a distraction because his approval rating is in the gutter.
 

Pocket

jumbled pile of person
Citizen
If we had anything on file proving that aliens have actually landed on earth, we'd have found out back in Trump's first term because (A) it's the sort of thing every President would be briefed on early in his administration and (B) he absolutely would not have been able to keep his mouth shut about it.
 

CoffeeHorse

Hanging in there
Staff member
Council of Elders
Citizen
The announcement alone is an improvement over the usual non-answers about whether there even are any files.
 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
Citizen
Because it's a DISTRACTION. It's literally going to be the same kind of event as when he gave binders of blank paper to all those right wing pod casters and said it was the epstein files.
 

Dekafox

Fabulously Foxy Dragon
Citizen
Last edited:


Top Bottom