Weekly: Dead End

17 thoughts on “Weekly: Dead End”

1. If Cantor Fitzgerald starts buying refund rights via World Liberty Financial, those refunds will start flowing.

   I’ve noticed lately that Republicans have once again turned their anger toward Tim Walz, the Somali lover and baby killer. The salt-of-the-earth schtick is just a cover so he can take his cut of the ill-gotten gains from Somalis who took advantage of pandemic relief programs.

   Meanwhile, Trump repeatedly takes bribes in open daylight and pardons actual fraudsters because if you’re white and rich, you were a victim of the Biden administration.

   I wonder if my kids will believe me when I someday tell them of the stupidity of the era they are growing up in. Thankfully, they are too young and I don’t and won’t expose them to any of this for many years.

   1. One of these days the floodgates will open and we will hear all the insiders’ versions of these times and how they themselves were unaware of how illegal and immoral this whole thing was…..

      1. +1.

   2. Don’t wait too long to expose your kids to “how the world works “- both the good and the bad! Although, I’m guessing they pick up a lot at your dinner table (my main source of information regarding “this is how the world works” when I was growing up).

      And don’t leave out the part about how corrupt politicians, even in the USA, and especially throughout the world, actually are.

      Better to make decisions about what they want their life to look like, as adults, with actual knowledge.

2. One; neither party is able to make things better, government in DC is broken. More elections between Democrats and Republicans won’t fix it. Unless something major happens, like an alien invasion, the spiral down continues.

   Two; healthcare isn’t going to get better, see item one above. Both parties are so entangled with healthcare lobbyists that they are bound by unbreakable chains.

   Three; just reading this post gives a good explanation why Americans are so depressed. Trump One was a lot of talk and ‘fake news’ accusations. In Trump Two world the results of governing insanity
   are real for the average citizen and none but the criminally insane like it.

3. SNAFU!

4. Mitch deserves a lot of credit for where we are as a country. He stacked the high court with hacks that back whatever the far-right wants, to the point it takes everyone else that isn’t 100 percent bought-and-paid for to do the right thing.

   Also, Mitch managed to block or distort any legislation that would have really helped anyone, leading to people feeling like government can’t be a good thing, so we should burn it all to the ground.

   Credit where credit is due Mitch. I hope history records your great works as such.

   1. Almost forgot, Mitch could have impeached, but choose not to.

   2. +1

5. The election of a twice-impeached convicted felon, … etc. may not say anything good about Biden and Harris, but it says clearly that at least a majority of US voters are brain-dead.

   1. Not exactly a majority of Americans. There was no majority vote for anyone in 2024. Trump beat his opponents by scant plurality of those eligible who actually voted. Sadly, so many didn’t vote (I was one of them) that the total vote was less than 90% of those eligible and no one one received a majority.

6. Nice read. This whole situation is ripe for Trump corruption. What’s new. Piling on. Soon the court will win SCOTUS decision – Trump vs Slaughter, giving him control over independent agencies. He will be free to fire and hire as he pleases without cause – think FTC, Fed Reserve, Fed Communication Commission, National Transportation, SEC, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, AND Federal Elections! Lisa Cook case will go away, my guess. Lastly, Imagine how our mid-term elections will be run after he fires and hires new leadership at the Fed Election Agency?

   1. Whoops, soon the court give Trump a win…

7. The only plan is to throw sand in the gears, bring Washington to a grinding halt, and try to make sure that it can never truly function again. The courts are stacked, there are more lawsuits than legislation, and the Congress isn’t even pretending to try anymore. The only functioning governments are now state and local, and they seem as bewildered as we are.

8. Sadly, you are 100% right. Here is how the majority of your neighbours, looks at the state of the union:

   https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-donald-trump-american-democracy-us-corruption-extremism-authoritarian/

9. The most underreported story about Trump is the level of corruption, including “pay to play”, that Trump is dragging our country into. H has touched on this, but just the tip of the iceberg, imho.
   This is the problem with ignoring “low level” corruption because each successive politician/set of politicians can potentially justify a slightly higher level of corruption- thinking they will be allowed to get away with it because the last guy did.
   Unfortunately, the level of corruption throughout the world seems to be increasing significantly. In some ways, people are just as fearful of calling Trump out on his corruption as people are in China and Russia. Just because the “whistleblower” doesn’t get killed in the US, their lives can still be destroyed by retaliation.
   This article from Matthew Syed includes descriptions of some of the deals that Trump and his family are entering into that are absolutely inappropriate and corrupt.

   US foreign policy is simply a racket but no one dares defy Trump

   https://www.thetimes.com/article/b32ca55b-ee7f-497c-adf5-10b7854f12c1?shareToken=0a71bb6403f99169e707c25a511e858d

   1. Another in a long, long line of examples of Trump’s out-in-the-open corruption was his berating of the democratic lawmaker he pardoned because the lawmaker had the audacity to not switch parties as thanks for Trump’s mercy. It’s so comically brazen.