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    Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'​

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    Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'

    Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the 2024 election.
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    WASHINGTON – It looks like American politics is entering a new age of anxiety, triggered by an unprecedented legal development: The potential indictment of a former president and current presidential candidate.

    Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests by his followers – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the unknowable impact all this will have on the already-tense 2024 presidential election

    I’ll reframe this is a more accurate way, Are Presidents above the law? This new age was spurred into existence when home grown dummies elected a corrupt, mentally ill, anti-democratic, would be dictator as President and don’t bother to hold him responsible for his crimes, don’t want to because in the ensuing mayhem and destruction, they think they will be better off. The man is actually advocating violence (not the first time). And btw, screw democracy too. If this feeling spreads, we are In deep shirt.

    This goes beyond one treasonous Peice of work and out to all his minions. This is on you or should we be sympathetic to the idea of they can’t help being selfish suckers to the Nation’s detriment? Donald Trump is the single largest individual threat to our democracy and it‘s all going to boil down to will the majority of the GOP return to his embrace and start slinging his excrement to support him?
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    On a weekend day in the summer of 2020, President Donald Trump phoned his education secretary, Betsy DeVos, out of the blue.

    DeVos’s focus that summer was the mass disruption the pandemic had inflicted on students, but Trump was worked up about something else: the 1619 Project, a set of essays published in the New York Times that centered slavery in understanding the founding of the nation.


    In a “rant,” DeVos recalled, Trump wanted to know how the administration could ban it from classrooms.
“I had to remind him that the United States does not have a national curriculum, and for good reason,” DeVos wrote in her 2022 memoir, “Hostages No More.” She told him directly: “The federal government can’t ban the 1619 Project.”


    That wasn’t what Trump wanted to hear, and he didn’t drop the idea of a national curriculum. Soon he announced a new 1776 Commission, aimed at telling a far more patriotic story about the place slavery and racism have played in America’s history.

    If Trump had scant understanding of curriculum development, he saw clearly how Republicans could use the politics of race and education to inflame passions.

    The commission ultimately produced a 41-page report on patriotic education that was posted on the White House website two days before Trump left office. It was disbanded by President Joe Biden as one of his first acts in office.


    The little-noticed story of how Trump personally commissioned this initiative in his final months as president shows his instinct for spotting and stoking a simmering culture war issue, the same approach that has shaped his political comeback in the years since he left office.


    It also offers a granular example of how Trump’s impulse to use federal power expansively to execute his political goals was at times thwarted in his first term by aides who took a more traditional conservative view of the role of government — and what he might achieve should he return to the White House without such guardrails.

    DeVos declined to comment, a spokeswoman said.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt responded that Trump has always supported “bringing education back to the states, closest to parents and educators, where it belongs” and said the 1776 Commission focused on patriotic education at federal agencies.

    “The Harris-Biden Administration shut down the 1776 Commission because the Democrat Party abhors common sense American principles and wants to rewrite our nation’s history with divisive ideologies,” she said……….

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    Well, we can start with Betsy DeVos is an idiot. She is not stupid but she has a clearly locked into place white supremacist, Christian nationalist position, even if she does not call it that, regarding civic theomythology. It can be very dangerous to tamper with theomythology because, in the case of the U.S., it undergirds individual belief structures of those who believe that the “other” is “coming to take” something which the believers view as belonging to them solely due to skin color and/or religion. By unmooring them from the theomythology we note that the end result is a hyper psychological response in the form of belief in charlatans and tendency to violence.

    Does this mean that theomythology should not be addressed? No, in point of opinion, in a multi-cultural, multi-group democracy actual truth-telling is required. DeVos’s comment regarding shutting down the 1776 agitprop group underscores this. We must also note that those in the lower classes that support Trump do so for different reasons that the wealthy like DeVos. Wealth wishes for rigidity in class structure which theomythology supports even if on the surface it claims “anyone can grow up to be president” or anyone can move socially upward. The rigidity that wealth supports provides a service structure aimed at serving wealth while the rest of service economy must make due with low wages since their fellows are in the same position as they are.

    Truth is as critical as belief and confidence in democratic institutions, perhaps even more so. For truth unmasks charlatans and power holders for what they are.
     
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is promising to make America the “crypto capital of the planet” if he returns to the White House. Fulfilling that promise would likely pay off for him personally.

    Amidst his run for president, Trump has launched a new venture to trade cryptocurrencies that he’s promoting on the same social media accounts he uses for his campaign. His two eldest sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, are also posting about their new platform, called World Liberty Financial, as is his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, who is married to Eric and also serves as co-chair of the Republican National Committee.

    Trump has long melded his political and business interests, promoting his hotels and golf courses in the White House while selling sneakers, Bibles and shares in his social media company during his current campaign.

    Now, Trump has launched a new moneymaking venture that could explode in value if he’s elected and gets the power to push through legislative and regulatory changes long sought by crypto advocates.

    “Taking a pro-crypto stance is not necessarily troubling; the troubling aspect is doing it while starting a way to personally benefit from it,” said Jordan Libowitz, a spokesperson for the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.……

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    Trump's new crypto business could create more conflicts if he's elected president

    Donald Trump is promising to make America the “crypto capital of the planet” if he returns to the White House.
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    dam Kinzinger's Way-Too-Specific Description Of Trump Body Odor Might Make You Gag​

    “That’s the Trump formula?” Kimmel said.

    “A little bit of a pungent odor, I would say,” he said. “You definitely wouldn’t want to bottle it up and wear Trump cologne.”
    Kinzinger said people around Trump are scared to talk about it, but he added that it was obvious ― and that he got a whiff himself more than once.



     
    One of the more humorous parts of Donald Trump’s hours-long conversation with Elon Musk last month was the way in which the two ideological and stylistic allies disagreed on inflation.

    “Inflation was caused by oil,” the former president said at one point in the rambling discussion. This is a reiteration of a point Trump makes regularly on the campaign trail, one suggesting that higher oil prices a few years ago were fundamentally President Joe Biden’s fault to suggest that the country needs more oil production. (Energy prices did push other prices higher, but oil production in the United States has hit new highs under Biden and is not tightly correlated to gas prices.)

    The business leader, though, had different desired outcomes. And, so, he offered a different root cause.

    “A lot of people just don’t understand where inflation comes from,” Musk said — after Trump had offered his assessment of where inflation comes from. “Inflation comes from government overspending because the checks never bounce when it’s written by the government.”

    Trump didn’t cede the point but he didn’t debate it. And, later, when Musk again insisted that spending was the cause of inflation, Trump agreed to the executive’s proposal for the creation of “a government efficiency commission that tries to make the spending sensible.”

    And why not? Musk had already endorsed Trump, and news reports indicated that he planned to spend millions to boost his candidacy. Trump had already flipped his view of electric vehicles in a nod to the Tesla CEO; why not acquiesce here, too?

    Speaking to the Economic Club of New York on Thursday, Trump indicated that this whole commission idea wasn’t simply one of dozens of similar riffs during his chat with Musk.

    “At the suggestion of Elon Musk,” he began, then hopping into a little aside about how smart Musk was for endorsing him, “I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms.”

    What’s more, he said, Musk would be in charge of the thing. And “as the first order of business,” Trump said, “this commission will develop an action plan to totally eliminate fraud and improper payments within six months. This will save trillions of dollars.”

    “Trillions,” he reiterated. “It’s massive. For the same service that you have right now.”

    The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein notes a few problems with this idea, including the alleged scale (in a federal budget that included $6 trillion in total spending last fiscal year) and the idea that nothing would be affected as a result. But there’s another thing worth considering here: Is Musk really the guy you want to put in charge of overhauling the government?

    After all, we do have some recent evidence about what it looks like when Musk is given sweeping power to overhaul an institution not of his making. His purchase of Twitter in 2022 (after an abandoned attempt to renege on the idea) offers several hints that this is perhaps not Musk’s forte.

    One thing that Musk did in his efforts to restore the profitability of Twitter was to cut a significant source of cost: employees. The company went from about 8,000 employees at the time he bought it to fewer than 2,000. Apply that math to the federal government, and you end up with more than 2.4 million people out of work. That’s an eighth of the job losses recorded between March and April 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic kicked in. The result would probably not be “the same service that you have right now.”..........

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    Optimus Prime said:
    One of the more humorous parts of Donald Trump’s hours-long conversation with Elon Musk last month was the way in which the two ideological and stylistic allies disagreed on inflation.

    “Inflation was caused by oil,” the former president said at one point in the rambling discussion. This is a reiteration of a point Trump makes regularly on the campaign trail, one suggesting that higher oil prices a few years ago were fundamentally President Joe Biden’s fault to suggest that the country needs more oil production. (Energy prices did push other prices higher, but oil production in the United States has hit new highs under Biden and is not tightly correlated to gas prices.)

    The business leader, though, had different desired outcomes. And, so, he offered a different root cause.

    “A lot of people just don’t understand where inflation comes from,” Musk said — after Trump had offered his assessment of where inflation comes from. “Inflation comes from government overspending because the checks never bounce when it’s written by the government.”

    Trump didn’t cede the point but he didn’t debate it. And, later, when Musk again insisted that spending was the cause of inflation, Trump agreed to the executive’s proposal for the creation of “a government efficiency commission that tries to make the spending sensible.”

    And why not? Musk had already endorsed Trump, and news reports indicated that he planned to spend millions to boost his candidacy. Trump had already flipped his view of electric vehicles in a nod to the Tesla CEO; why not acquiesce here, too?

    Speaking to the Economic Club of New York on Thursday, Trump indicated that this whole commission idea wasn’t simply one of dozens of similar riffs during his chat with Musk.

    “At the suggestion of Elon Musk,” he began, then hopping into a little aside about how smart Musk was for endorsing him, “I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms.”

    What’s more, he said, Musk would be in charge of the thing. And “as the first order of business,” Trump said, “this commission will develop an action plan to totally eliminate fraud and improper payments within six months. This will save trillions of dollars.”

    “Trillions,” he reiterated. “It’s massive. For the same service that you have right now.”

    The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein notes a few problems with this idea, including the alleged scale (in a federal budget that included $6 trillion in total spending last fiscal year) and the idea that nothing would be affected as a result. But there’s another thing worth considering here: Is Musk really the guy you want to put in charge of overhauling the government?

    After all, we do have some recent evidence about what it looks like when Musk is given sweeping power to overhaul an institution not of his making. His purchase of Twitter in 2022 (after an abandoned attempt to renege on the idea) offers several hints that this is perhaps not Musk’s forte.

    One thing that Musk did in his efforts to restore the profitability of Twitter was to cut a significant source of cost: employees. The company went from about 8,000 employees at the time he bought it to fewer than 2,000. Apply that math to the federal government, and you end up with more than 2.4 million people out of work. That’s an eighth of the job losses recorded between March and April 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic kicked in. The result would probably not be “the same service that you have right now.”..........

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    A little back story here. Tesla under Elon musk would have gone backrupt without the government paying for all of those tax rebates that people got for buying Tesla cars. Musk demonizes government spending, but anytime the electric car tax rebate is on the chopping block, Musk jumps up and down about how the government has to keep doing it.

    Also, SpaceX is getting paid a lot by the government to fund their development. Anybody think that Musk will pay the government back or provide services to the government at a discount, if he ever starts generating profits from private ventures based on SpaceX's government funded research?
     
    The media has absolutely failed at their job. They consistently treat Trump and Vance as though they are, to borrow from The Rude Pundit, Very Serious People. The media is actively participating in the destruction of the country.
     

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