Today in Trump

[Kirkland Laing]

It's actually good that Americans without a degree or a trade can live in a nondescript suburb and earn $100k+/yr driving for UPS or managing a restaurant.

https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1879280655865200865



I thought conservatives recognising the strength of the economy wouldn't start until Trump's inauguration but here we are. Looks like there's going to be a deluge of this stuff soon afterwards then. Coupled with the goldfish bowl memories out there it'll create a huge turnaround in consumer confidence numbers. Has already started to be fair. I wonder how long it'll take trump to start with it.

[TitoFan]

Attachment 6334

This is EXACTLY right, and should be trumpeted far and wide. Trump (predictably, I might add) has chosen to: 1) criticize the firefighters for being "unable" to put out the fires, 2) rake the California governor over the coals (excuse the pun), 3) make asinine comments about how Norway supposedly keeps their forest floors clean and free of potentially combustible material (this one pegs out the Trump ridiculousness meter).

ANYTHING... other than offering to help in any way he can, and express sympathy to the many thousands who have lost their properties and livelihoods.

In fact... an old article (which I'll dredge up in due time) told how Trump in the past had threatened to cut off funding to firefighters in California for some dumbass reason, consistent with Trump's diabolical, nonsensical nature.



But once again... the PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES ELECTED THIS GUY.

What else can be said?

[TitoFan]

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...refighting-aid

"California firefighters’ union: Trump should ‘be ashamed’ over threat to withhold firefighting aid"



This is from September of last year. Look at what's happening now.

By the way, it was Austria, not Norway.

Doesn't make Trump any less of an idiot. A dangerous one, at that.

[TIC]

la & maui had smart city programs, i wonder if any of the land involved in these fires will be used for those initiatives

https://ita.lacity.gov/smartla2028

https://social-innovation.hitachi/en...tmaui-project/

[TitoFan]

It will be interesting to see how Los Angeles recovers and deals with these staggering losses. Forty thousand acres of land is a hell of a lot. Homes, businesses, and others. I would think the first order of business is to somehow rehouse all these displaced residents, many of whom lost everything they had. This, compounded by the fact that not long ago many of them had their home insurance policies suspended. Not sure how any of that (rebuilding) is going to look like. It seems highly probable that the population distribution will look very different than what it used to be. That's where the land use comes in. Smart city concepts sound pretty exciting, with lots of potential benefits... and sounds like something that will be better defined and implemented moving forward. Yeah, who knows. Maybe LA would be more inclined to look in that direction now, given the circumstances. The whole idea sounds pretty good. Can't wait to see if my favorite TV channel, Curiosity, puts together a series on that, like they've done with other areas of technology.

[Kirkland Laing]

https://jabberwocking.com/cbs-is-mul...-donald-trump/


Forty million for a worthless documentary from Bezos and now who knows how much from CBS to get a merger OKd. This is straight up corruption. The GOP banged on for for years aut a bunch of Hunter Biden bullshit. Hunter is a garbage human being and was selling the illusion of access to his dad like Neil Bush did with George W and Roger Clinton did and so on. It's not illegal. And all of the Hunter stuff happened from 2017 onwards, a period when Joe Biden was out of office and retired and somebody else was president.

If the Democrats don't crank up the outrage to Republican levels over this stuff it'll become normalised. There's actually something new here, a level of corruption never seen before in America and don't forget the Supreme Court has now legalised bribery. Trump is going to do it anyway but low/no information voters need to be made aware of it otherwise the country will just be a huge kleptocracy by net election and the kleptocrats will be so terrified of a rule of law government returning they'll fix future elections. This stuff is not difficult to predict, it's happened every single time a country anywhere in history has backslid from democracy.

In soon to be relevant news when the tax cut coverage starts:

https://jabberwocking.com/do-we-have...venue-problem/

A slight fall in government spending from 1980 to the start of the pandemic but a big change in revenue.

[Kirkland Laing]

You'd think he could afford a decent tailor.

[Beanz]

You'd think he could afford a decent tailor.

Should have got Hugo Boss to make him a new whistle.

[TitoFan]

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-j...af85ac7b969606

"Trump grants sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants, including rioters who violently attacked police"



Trump did what??!!??

Well... I'm absolutely SHOCKED.

Shocked I tell ya.

Absolutely didn't see this coming.

[Kirkland Laing]

You'd think he could afford a decent tailor.

Should have got Hugo Boss to make him a new whistle.

Early contender for post of the year.



Also.

https://x.com/TomDreisbach/status/1881431757553324230

[Master]

One of the people who served jail time for taking part in the US Capitol riot four years ago has refused a pardon from President Donald Trump, saying: "We were wrong that day."

Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 60 days in prison, told the BBC that there should be no pardons for the riot on 6 January 2021.

"Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation," she said.

"I pleaded guilty because I was guilty, and accepting a pardon also would serve to contribute to their gaslighting and false narrative."

Hemphill, who was nicknamed the "Maga granny" by social media users - in reference to Trump's "make America great again" slogan - said she saw the Trump government as trying to "rewrite history and I don't want to be part of that".

"We were wrong that day, we broke the law - there should be no pardons," she told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme.

Senator Thom Tillis, from North Carolina, said he "just can't agree" with the move, adding that it "raises legitimate safety issues on Capitol Hill".

Another Republican US senator, James Lankford from Oklahoma, told CNN: "I think we need to continue to say we are a party of law and order."

He added: "I think if you attack a police officer, that's a very serious issue and they should pay a price for that."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvged988377o

[Kirkland Laing]

https://x.com/theliamnissan/status/1881858575003492658

[Kirkland Laing]

https://x.com/emilybrooksnews/status...70432142672131

[TIC]

Forty thousand acres of land is a hell of a lot.

many of whom lost everything they had.

This, compounded by the fact that not long ago many of them had their home insurance policies suspended.

That's where the land use comes in. Smart city concepts sound pretty exciting, with lots of potential benefits...

that is a lot of land

hopefully they can keep their land

convenient timing to suspend their insurances

many will be forced to sell their land now. the smart city concept sounds terrible to me, that's how to suck you in, by presenting things to you as a benefit or convenience to you

[TIC]

did anyone see don out there adjusting mics, patting people on the back, shaking hands et cetera?

politics is an incessant marketing campaign that strategies' on how best to manipulate the minds of the masses

this was great marketing optics whether they were genuine or not