Post inauguration Trump:

[Pies4shaw]

And another one bites the dust:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... -committee

The chair of Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee was arrested on Tuesday on charges alleging he conspired to influence Trump’s foreign policy positions to benefit the United Arab Emirates and commit crimes striking at what prosecutors described as “the very heart of our democracy”.

Tom Barrack, 74, of Santa Monica, California, was among three men charged in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, with conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent as they tried to influence foreign policy while Trump was running in 2016 and later while he was president.

...

Barrack is the latest in a long line of Trump associates to face criminal charges, including his former campaign chair, his former deputy campaign chair, his former chief strategist, his former national security adviser, his former personal lawyer and his company’s longtime chief financial officer.

That last list would be more than a "full house" in a poker hand.

[pietillidie]

[pietillidie]

It is completely misplaced to keep pretending this can be engaged sensibly:

One-fifth of respondents believe it is “definitely true” or “probably true” that COVID-19 vaccinations contain government-issued microchips.

The survey, which polled 1,500 Americans ages 18 and over, was conducted by The Economist/YouGov and published this week.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/we ... k-vaccines

So, on top of things like general deprivation which are a battle to deal with already (severe poverty, crime, abuse, mental illness), you've got a fifth of the population - I always say a quarter for good measure - no longer in control of their rational faculties and driven by extreme motivations.

Add to that those driven by extreme motivations who don't count among that fifth but whose madness takes other malignant political forms, and you're creeping up to an absurd proportion of society. Further add classical destructive greed in its worst corporate forms, and you wonder how things hold together at all.

Very easy pickings for malignant narcissists like Trump.

[Pies4shaw]

How do such people dress themselves unassisted?

[Pies4shaw]

[What'sinaname]

Never thought a President could be more incoherent than Trump, but here we are with Biden.

I genuinely wonder if Joe is all there. He is en embarrassment. He looks and acts like a lost old man.

[David]

I think it should be obvious to most by now that he has dementia (which is hardly unusual or unexpected for his age, and was clear during the campaign to anyone not in denial). But I feel like it doesn’t really matter so much as long as he’s good at delegating. In an ideal world, the president shouldn’t actually be doing all that much off his own bat. I guess we’ll see what happens in the lead-up to 2024; expect a Democratic Party bunfight if he decides not to run again.

[stui magpie]

I remember when Reagan was president and people were playing up that he had dementia and he also had access to the nuclear launch codes. One cartoon I recall showed ole Ron laying in bed, with two call buttons on the wall. Once said Nurse, the other Nuke.

[Pies4shaw]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... lead-biden

A partisan, Republican-instigated review of the 2020 election result in Arizona failed to turn up any evidence of widespread fraud, a major blow to Donald Trump and other conspiracy theorists who celebrated the effort.

The investigation, which lasted several months, confirmed that Joe Biden did indeed beat Trump in Maricopa county, the state’s most populous county, Doug Logan, who led the review, told the Arizona senate on Friday. In fact, a hand recount found 99 additional votes forBiden and 261 fewer votes for Trump.

Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based firm leading the review, said in a presentation Friday afternoon to the Arizona senate that the discrepancies were “small”.

“The ballots that were provided to us in the coliseum very accurately correlate with the official canvas numbers that came through,” he said.

What's the World coming to, when you can't even get an election-fraud conspiracy theorist to come up with a better result?

[Pies4shaw]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... side-story

[watt price tully]

And the beat goes on…….

Now that the Bipartisan January 6 Committee has handed down its report based on evidence from those not just on the outside but on the inside with Trump (which makes the evidence so compelling against Trump and his sycophants) the Department of Justice (DOJ) is continuing on with measured and considered actions.

The trial of the Proud Boys on the not so trivial charge of Sedition is commencing

[watt price tully]

Fascinating article about one of Donald Trumps favourite films “Sunset Boulevard” and him. Brilliant film and the parallels are fascinating.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyl ... a-desmond/

[stui magpie]

Another movie I haven't seen.

I'm surprised no one has drawn parallels with the Titanic, Trump standing on the bow proclaiming "I'm King of the world" while the ship sinks.

I haven't seen that movie either

[think positive]

Haven’t seen sunset boulevard, titanic is shit,

I gotta say it seems wrong trumps tax figures are public knowledge

[What'sinaname]

^ Yeah, I'd like to see Pelosi's