| second: The FBI Director Is MIA.
Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences. [go to link] On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out.” |
| second: Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump. The interesting thing that comes out of this Ukrainian pivot is that they are not doing it out of desperation. Writing the United States off as a friend might once have been a sign of doom for Ukraine. It isn’t anymore. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Why do you keep posting in the Tags now, faggot? |
| 6ixStringJack: You're right. He should be suing Rachel Maddow and MSNOW instead. |
| 6ixStringJack: You're right. He should be suing Rachel Maddow and MSNOW instead. |
| second: Trump is in negotiations with the Internal Revenue Service to settle the $10 billion lawsuit he filed against it after an IRS contractor during his first term leaked some of his tax information. $10 billion is more than 80% of last year's IRS budget. Several watchdog organizations have filed briefs challenging Trump's lawsuit, arguing that the case is extraordinary because the president controls both sides of the litigation, which raises the perspective of collusive litigation tactics, and that the conflicts of interest make it uncertain whether the Department of Justice will zealously defend the public treasury in the same way that it has against other plaintiffs claiming damages for related events. On Wednesday, the Ban Presidential Plunder of Taxpayer Funds Act was introduced to ban presidents and vice presidents from stealing taxpayer money. [go to link] |
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| THG: Sparse turnout at Trump’s Phoenix rally raises strategic questions |
| second: “What your budget does include are projections that the President's tariffs will raise an eye-popping $1.6 trillion in revenue more than CBO estimates. And CBO's estimates were made before the Supreme Court ruled Trump's tariffs unconstitutional. So, your revenue projections should have been even lower than CBO's, not higher. Making your estimates here simply fictional.”
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| second: $2.2 trillion deficit in Trump budget
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“Immediately upon opening this budget, I was struck by what was missing. No plan to bring down gas prices. No plan to bring down grocery prices. No plan to save Social Security, which will start running out of money in just six years, requiring a 28 percent cut to seniors' benefits according to the most recent estimates from the Congressional Budget Office. And no credible plan to reduce the debt, which is now over 100 percent of GDP.” |
| 6ixStringJack: Get a life, losers. |
| 6ixStringJack: Get a life, losers. |
| THG: Progressive Democrat wins New Jersey seat in blowout victory |
| THG: Trump smears Epstein victims after Melania’s demand |
| THG: Some have further speculated that Trump is the antichrist, citing biblical prophecy |
| THG: QAnon promoter MJ Truth polled his 100,000 followers about the shooting narrative, and the vast majority agreed it had been staged. |
| THG: MAGA loyalists believe Trump staged his assassination attempt and demand he admits it |
| second: Famous people and public figures often discussed in analyses as exhibiting Dark Triad traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy—include figures like Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and historical figures such as Stalin, Hitler, and Saddam Hussein. |
| second: Some of the suffering that has filled human history since the beginning of the 20th century has been caused by psychologically disordered dark triad leaders. Before the 20th century, inheritance-based systems of power restricted access to leadership roles. But once these social structures broke down — and particularly if they weren’t replaced by democratic systems — the most brutal and amoral individuals tended to rise to the most powerful positions. Some examples may include Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Mussolini, General Franco (of Spain) Pol Pot (of Cambodia), Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi. Towards the end of the twentieth century, most of Africa and South America was ruled by ruthless, amoral dictators who inflicted massive amounts of suffering on their own people. [go to link] |
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