| THG: 'Denied': Trump lawyer and J6 architect disbarred for good |
| THG: That's funny SECOND; meanwhile, Six House Republicans have broken with Donald Trump on immigration, forcing a floor vote to restore temporary legal protections for some 350,000 Haitians living in the U.S. |
| second: Did Trump graduate last in his class at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968? Thankfully, no. There were two who were dumber. [go to link] |
| second: it’s just too easy for a president to do a lot of damage. So we put layers of insulation. Members of the Federal Reserve Board are appointed for long terms. The whole setup doesn’t allow a madman in the Oval Office to muck with monetary policy.
It’s especially bad if the guy in the Oval Office is somebody like Trump, who is impulsive, very much short-term reward-centered, and, of course, doesn’t read, doesn’t study, doesn’t listen to experts. And we know that Trump has a bee in his bonnet, that interest rates should be drastically lower than they are now, which is simply not supported by any of the facts about what’s happening to the economy.
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| second: It’s Not Just Iran. Trump Is Flailing on Multiple Fronts.
The Venezuela raid in the year’s first days altered the course of Trump’s presidency. By the closing months of 2025, the momentum of his first six months in office had dissipated and his party had suffered a series of electoral losses. He looked to some like an early lame duck. But the Caracas military operation, White House aides felt, righted the ship. Trump, though never restrained, was transformed into pure id, acting on impulse and goaded on by advisers who saw an opportunity to further expand executive power. And he fell further in love with the might of the U.S. military, telling advisers that it was an unstoppable force. Greenland. Iran. Cuba. His legacy, he believed, would be redrawing the world’s maps.
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| 6ixStringJack: I think Ted needs a hug. I wonder how many years it's been since somebody gave him one. Decades, perhaps? |
| THG: |
| Brenda: I wonder when a hug became a thing of comfort? It probably started out as some sort of protection move. But then changed over time to mean something else. |
| THG: Americans not giving Trump’s tax plan 'two thumbs up' |
| THG: Was the assassination attempt on Donald Trump staged? |
| 6ixStringJack: Yeah, Ted. You're right. The assassination attempt on Trump was staged. Corey Comperatore died shielding his family from the fake bullet. |
| 6ixStringJack: That circus freak has been saying this every day since 2016. |
| THG: Was the assassination attempt on Donald Trump staged? |
6ixStringJack: David "The Cyclops" Pakman? Really, Ted?  |
| THG: Political analyst suggests remainder of Trump's term will be 'absolute disaster' |
| THG: Trump's blanket pardon plan has a loophole — and there's nothing he can do about it |
| 6ixStringJack: |
| second: Trump’s Truth Social posts are driving the news cycle — and raising alarms. From attacks on the pope and an AI image of himself as Jesus, the president’s posts have drawn unusually broad criticism. The most disturbing post came last week when he threatened to wipe out Iran, writing, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
Let’s not gloss over this. The president of the United States threatened genocide. And that is what passed as a normal Tuesday-morning update from the Trump White House: a warning of mass destruction and what international law would define as war crimes. [go to link]/ |
| second: The US is going to have to have a reckoning for its open embrace of war crimes. Trump boasted to Fox News, “We could take out every one of their bridges in one hour. We could take out every one of their power plants in one hour,” if he wanted. Destroying all power plants would cause massive civilian casualties of the kind Putin can only dream about. [go to link] |
| second: When the US and Israel are killing Iranian civilians at a higher rate that Vladimir Putin was killing Ukrainian civilians in 2025, that requires some serious acknowledgement and reflection. This casualty toll has hurt the one actual thing that might have made the campaign worthwhile—regime change. It must be hard for the Iranians to believe that the US actually wants to help them free themselves when civilians are being killed like this. [go to link] |