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  #3399548 3-Aug-2025 16:43
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quickymart: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who apparently thought it was a good idea to spend two days interviewing her, has promised to “share additional information about what we learned at the appropriate time.”


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Clint Eastwood (Jed Cooper) "pock‑marked man” is one of the nine men who falsely accuse Clint Eastwood of cattle rustling, and get him hanged ("pock‑marked man" is not in this scene, but is in same gang).

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  #3399555 3-Aug-2025 17:31
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quickymart:

First time I recall the don using a near curseword on Twitter.

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  #3399604 3-Aug-2025 17:50
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gzt: First time I recall the don using a near curseword on Twitter.

 

 

Executive Summary: Trump is an aggressive, mindless BS/con artist.

 

Nothing new here. It's what he is, and always has been.

 

Thank you for your attention ...   đŸ˜




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  #3399608 3-Aug-2025 18:11
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kingdragonfly: A rule of thumb: if you live in a country where the an authoritarian leader doesn't like factual employment figures, so invent a new unemployment figure

 

  • certainly has an authoritarian leaders
  • very likely somewhere you don't want to live.

Nazi Germany reduced official unemployment by excluding women, Jews, forced laborers, public works programs (e.g., Autobahn).

In Argentina, under authoritarian ruler Kirchner, the economy began to deteriorate and stagnate. So naturally he manipulated inflation and poverty data to paint a rosier economic picture.

The Soviet Union (USSR) officially claimed “full employment” because unemployment was ideologically considered impossible. Those that weren't employed were called parasites.

In present days, authoritarian regimes Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan often shows inflated GDP growth and virtually nonexistent unemployment, despite widespread hidden poverty.

China local officials often overstate GDP growth and underreport unemployment to meet central government targets. Urban unemployment rates often exclude migrant workers.

North Korea claims near-full employment and rapid growth.

Notice again: not time and places most would want to live in.

 

Unreal. Stats come out, they don't suit so fire him. In other countries such as Germany in the distant past, or Russia in the present, thats a bullet.

 

That Trump isnt firing a bullet doesnt make it any better. Its the SAME

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  #3399614 3-Aug-2025 18:32
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gzt:
quickymart:

First time I recall the don using a near curseword on Twitter.

 

Now it can only be a matter of months, or weeks if we are lucky... 😁




     

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  #3399839 4-Aug-2025 11:21
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Recommended reading ...

 

The Guardian - He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity

 

Mon 4 Aug 2025

 


Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump’s increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored.

 

Donald Trump’s frequently bizarre public appearances, which this month have seen the president claim, wrongly, that his uncle knew the Unabomber and rant unprompted about windmills on his recent trip to the UK, have once again raised questions about his mental acuity, experts say.

 

For more than a year Trump, 79, has exhibited odd behavior at campaign events, in interviews, in his spontaneous remarks and at press conferences. The president repeatedly drifts off topic, including during a cabinet meeting this month when he spent 15 minutes talking about decorating, and appears to misremember simple facts about his government and his life.

 

Over the weekend Trump, during a meeting with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, abruptly switched from discussing immigration to saying this: “The other thing I say to Europe: ​we’ve – we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States​. They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery.” Trump proceeded to speak, non-stop and unprompted, for two minutes about windmills, claiming without evidence that they drive whales “loco” and that wind energy “kills the birds” ...

 

The abrupt changes in conversation are an example of Trump “digressing without thinking – he’ll just switch topics without self-regulation, without having a coherent narrative”, said Harry Segal, a senior lecturer in the psychiatry department at Weill Cornell Medicine. ...

 

Segal said another characteristic of Trump’s questionable mental acuity is confabulation. “It’s where he takes an idea or something that’s happened and he adds to it things that have not happened.”

 

 

Typical dementia - Trumps father had the same problem at the same age.  đŸ™

 

 




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  #3399876 4-Aug-2025 14:25
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Kraft Heinz makes a food products that appeal to lower and middle class Americans, like Heinz Ketchup, Kraft Mac-N-Cheese, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Oscar Mayer Lunchables.

Profits drop at Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway as it writes down its Kraft Heinz investment: AP

Warren Buffett’s company reported less than half as much profit in the second quarter as it took a $3.76 billion writedown on the value of its stake in Kraft Heinz
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Most of Berkshire’s myriad assortment of companies — major insurers like Geico, BNSF railroad, a group of utilities and a collection of manufacturing and retail businesses — generally performed well despite the uncertainty about the economy and President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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  #3399961 4-Aug-2025 18:31
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Trump Goes to Hell

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  #3400142 5-Aug-2025 14:06
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Oh, this is almost too good.

 

 

Some of the comments in here are hilarious:

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1m50uii/an_owner_of_trump_burger_in_bellville_thought/

 

 (Leopards Ate My Face, indeed!)

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  #3400145 5-Aug-2025 14:24
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Trump Burgers - 90% fat, 5% brains, 5% tar*.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*With apologies to Richard Pryor




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  #3400155 5-Aug-2025 15:43
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The NY Times - Opinion - The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away

 

Aug. 4, 2025

 


Of all the terrible things Donald Trump has said and done as president, the most dangerous one just happened on Friday. 

 

Trump, in effect, ordered our trusted and independent government office of economic statistics to become as big a liar as he is.

 

He fired Erika McEntarfer, the Senate-confirmed head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for bringing him economic news he did not like, and in the hours immediately following, the second most dangerous thing happened: The senior Trump officials most responsible for running our economy all went along for the ride. ...

 

Going forward, how many government bureaucrats are going to dare to pass along bad news when they know that their bosses will not only fail to defend them, but will actually offer them up as a sacrifice to Trump to keep their jobs? ...

 




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  #3400156 5-Aug-2025 15:49
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quickymart:

 

Oh, this is almost too good.

 

 

Some of the comments in here are hilarious:

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1m50uii/an_owner_of_trump_burger_in_bellville_thought/

 

 (Leopards Ate My Face, indeed!)

 

This is the one I liked

 

 

 

A bunch of people were told that all of their problems were caused by bad people. And that if the bad people were just stopped, all their problems would go away. They didn’t really pay attention to what the problems were, or who the bad people, or what the bad people did or why they did it. They just knew that they had problems and it was caused by the bad people. And Trump told them he would stop the bad people. And nobody else told them they would stop the bad people. So they supported the only person who obviously understood their problem and the solution. And then Trump started doing bad things to people. And they were told that the bad things were happening to bad people. And that was a very good thing! So they loved Donald Trump even more.

 

But now bad things are happening to them, and they are very confused. Because obviously they weren’t the bad people! It must be a mistake!

 

 

 

 




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  #3400230 5-Aug-2025 22:21
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quickymart: Trump burger


Trump Burger Chain Embroiled in Lawsuits: Texas, The Fayette County Record

One of the people behind the Trump Burger restaurants in Flatonia and Kemah might get his green card revoked,
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Lawyers for President Trump’s private business, the Trump Organization, sent Trump Burger of Bellville a cease and desist letter on Feb. 3.

The letter stated “... we were surprised to learn that you have been flagrantly infringing upon the Trump Organization’s valuable and well-established intellectual property right by operating at least three restaurants under the Trump name and brand.”

The letter included a reference to the Trump Burger location in Flatonia.

“... this use risks misleading the public into falsely believing that your business is affiliated with the Trump Organization or endorsed by our clients,” the letter went on to say.

The letter demanded that the business stop using the Trump name, brand and trademarks and to remove all references to the Trump name in all websites, social media, marketing and communication materials. It also demanded a “full accounting of all revenues generated directly or indirectly from your unlawful use of the Trump name, brand or trademark.”

The letter concluded by saying the Trump organization would pursue legal action if no action was taken.
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  #3400284 6-Aug-2025 09:21
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"They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up."

Except

when you're on team Trump. Close advisor Roger stone
  • Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.
  • One man’s dirty trick is another man’s civic participation.
  • he also quote The Joker “Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order... I’m an agent of chaos"
Texas ignited a gerrymandering war. We will all pay the price.: Washington Post

The 2026 midterms might not be decided by tariffs, President Donald Trump’s approval ratings or even Sydney Sweeney’s divisive American Eagle ad — but by gerrymandering. Just a handful of seats separate the two parties, and first Republicans and now Democrats are angling for more before votes are cast.

Texas Republicans stand ready to adopt a new map that could award them as many as five additional seats in the U.S. House. Ohio, Missouri and other red states are prepared to go next. Democrats, meanwhile, might retaliate by redrawing lines in Illinois or even upending California’s independent commission. Lawmakers in blue New York, New Jersey and Maryland are weighing options as well.

It’s dangerous enough for fair elections and representation that the gerrymandering wars have reignited mid-decade with such dramatic consequences — especially since frustrated voters had success forming nonpartisan coalitions and winning reforms just a short time ago. This scourge could have been ended. Instead, the astonishing victories and hopes for fair representation could be extinguished as both parties race to claim every seat they can, and electoral reform becomes another polarizing, hyper-partisan blood sport.
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Map men

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  #3400307 6-Aug-2025 12:24
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A comment on today's Bulwark made me realise how badly the orange buffoon's second term is going so far, and it even gives a nod to Reagan:

 

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/maybe-the-american-experiment-isnt-dead-trump-poll-epstein-inflation-tariffs-unpopular

 

Paraphrasing Reagan, are you better off than you were six months ago? Have the administration's actions primarily against people and things been an adequate substitute for being for something? How has targeting migrants who pick your fruits and vegetables, clean your rooms, and put a roof on your house on a hot summer day improved your quality of life? How has that end-inflation-on-Day-One promise worked out for your pocketbook? Is that Russia-Ukraine thing done already? Has his Sharpie magically changed your daily reality? Has his renaming bodies of water led to more and better jobs for us? Are those tariffs saving you any cash at the grocery store? Does the Epstein connection make you feel more confidence that your President is a stand-up, honorable guy with nothing to hide? And on and on and on.

 

Very good points there, pity most (or all?) of the MAGA crowd would just completely ignore these in their blind lust for anything Trump says or does 🙄

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