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I'm wondering if the next administration will be able (or more likely willing) to pass legislation to retroactively recoup the money stolen through the rampant corruption of using the Oval Office like an ATM for the personal enrichment of our current Incompetent-in-Chief. There has never been a more corrupt (and incompetent) occupant of the Oval office than the Trump crime family.

Stop. I really don't want to think of Mandami fucking a TACO

Marjorie Taylor Greene was quoted as saying that Trump's latest comments about her could endanger her personal safety (from crazy Trump supporters with TDS). Who's going to break the news to her that Trump doesn't give a shit if he endangers anyone's personal safety, and, more than that, he gets off on threatening people's personal safety. Hate, fear and division are the three pillars of his dunce stool of politics.

The USA has never had a more incompetent and embarrassing President. Americans are pretending to be Canadians in Europe. The Canadians are getting pissed about it.

The Incompetent-in-Chief survives by distraction. If his actions to create fear and support with his attack on the economy doesn't work. He'll distract with a foreign war, no doubt defending his bullshit Gulf of "America".

District 9 State Senate race in Texas last Tuesday, almost 15 point swing to the Democrat running. From an Incompetent-in-Chief +20 district, the State district (which is larger became a +5 for the GOP. A loss for the Democrat, but it paints a bleak picture for the MAGAists for their marginal seats in the coming election. Let's hope the Incomeptent-in-Chief doesn't hide away for the last couple weeks of the campaign as in 2024. Americans hate him when he's front and center.

Even the MAGA deniers knew, on some level, that the Incompetent-in-Chief was involved with Epstein's crimes. As a serial sexual harasser and convicted sexual predator himself, of course the Incompetent-in-Chief is involved. Even the MAGA sheeple know this. It's just another level of the Trump Derangement Syndrome that the MAGA supporters are suffering from.

I hope she's working on an autobiography. It'd be required reading for anyone interested in American politics, and how to work within a system of power. It'd be so interesting, I expect that she'd name names, and I want to know why a public option never made it into the Affordable Care Act.

Did FOX News show any consistency and bring out their stale old racists tropes and mention anything about her "anchor baby" and her "intellectual" visa?

To me it's just the latest instance of needing to say "release the names". The secret benefactors and the obscene dark money politic that the extremists on the Supreme Court unleashed on the American public with their "Citizens' United (for Corruption)" decision. The secret benefactors the Incompetent-in-Chief has used to fund all his vanity projects.

That would work well in the newly re-named Michelle Obama Ballroom.

This just came to mind. In Britain after Thatcher passed away, Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, rocketed to Number 1 on the Billboard charts. What song will go viral after the Incompetent-in-Chief passes away? A digression from this thread I realize. "A Six Dressed up as a Nine"? It's nicely Canadian.

I was surprised that Senator Dick Durban, Illinois, was one of the senators who caved. He was one of the 25 Democrats who voted in the Senate against the GOP plan to invade Iraq in 2003.

The percentage of agricultural goods produced by family farms is a lot higher in Canada than in the USA because of their system of supply chain management that guarantees adequate price levels for goods produced. Rather than the American system of stepping in with subsidies during a crisis. Supply chain management is hated by the MAGAists was part of the 2018 free trade agreement negotiations, and will likely be part of the 2026 free trade renewal agreement. MAGA wants to kill the Canadian family farm, as well as the American family farm. And speaking of bankruptcies, America remains the only major economy where citizens have to declare bankruptcies because of medical debt issues. And now MAGA wants to throw even more people off of their health insurance with their Big Ugly Bill, part of their Contract on America.

How can you tell he's lying? His lips are moving. The people who are paying the tariffs are the American people. A good is imported, a tariff is applied to the good, the price of the good has the tariff price added to it. It's not mathematics, it's arithmetic. Even the Incompetent-in-Chief should be able to handle arithmetic.

The lack of any sort of anti-trust legislation from the government (where are you when we need you Teddy Roosevelt) is allowing a bunch of extremist right-wing billionaires to buy up the media landscape (the latest being Tik Tok). We will see what kind of impact that'll have on public opinion, versus the public reality of the Incompetent-in-Chief collapsing the USA economy. I still think that the Incompetent-in-Chief is deliberately tanking the economy, because the MAGA politics of fear and hate sells best in a crisis. ln spite of the attacks on the USA economy by this White House regime, the Democrats still managed to pull off sweeping electoral victories across the country campaigning against you know who.

The "main stream" media is mostly owned by extreme-right wing billionaires who interfere with editorial content. (In Los Angles, in Washington.) You either know this and demonstrate hypocrisy daily or are one of the low-information Americans who vote for the Incompetent-in-Chief. What was it that Trump was quoted as saying by FOX: "I love stupid people."

Ripping up that hateful speech of the Incompetent-in-Chief was a master class of non-violent political protest.

The Canadian Liberal government tabled a national budget with a record $75 billion dollar annual national deficit. It's was heavy on investments on national infrastructure - port expansions, LNG infrastructure, national housing program etc. - to begin moving the country's economy to great diversity of trading partners beyond the USA. That's the level of debt this current Washington regime racks up in three days - three days. MAGA goes into debt to give tax breaks to billionaires. Canada goes into (much smaller) debt to build national infrastructure.

With Mandami's (or as Steve calls him Man-do-me) win in New York I'm thinking that the rent freeze and drop in transit fairs will be the easiest planks of his platform to deliver on (as an unimportant aside it's nice to see a politician elected who can actually do a plank). I think the free childcare is a very big plan and more challenging, with significant costs involved if the staff of those childcare centers are going to be paid decently. The government supported grocery stores (I'm presuming these are in "food desert" neighborhoods that have been abandoned by the big retailers) would be a smaller financial cost but also have innumerable legislative hurdles to figure out (and would RFK the Smaller attempt to intervene?) It's great to see someone campaign and win on increasing taxes on billionaires. There lies hope. Mandami will be faced with the spiteful and vengeful regime in Washington denying funding. Good luck to him, New Yorkers voted Mandami in by a wide margin.

The GOP lost state wide races in Georgia. Lost State Senate seats in Mississippi. Lost State Supreme Court votes in Pennsylvania. Lost 13 (at least at this point) State House seats in Virginia. Lost the races for Governor in New Jersey (by a lot more than expected) and Virginia. JD Vance's brother lost the race for Mayor of Cincinnati. The GOP endorsed candidate lost the race for Mayor of New York. With the Cuomo endorsement by Trump I figure it was the history of sexual harassment that tipped the balance and led to the endorsement embrace.

The Incompetent-in-Chief's politics of fear and hate only work when there is an atmosphere of fear and hate. The anger, the pitting people against each other isn't just an effect of the Incompetent's actions, it's the whole point of his actions.