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#grift

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Al

@clive
This sounds like its the typical conservative project. They say the right thing but always do the opposite.

The words are there to mislead and to provide cover. They take up the news cycle so that the real actions get no coverage.

Words have no meaning to those folks. it just a tool of the #grift

#democracy is more than voting.

#GOP#conservative#con
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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

Tip Taxes?

In the grand tradition of American innovation, President #Trump has revolutionized the presidency—not by governing, but by turning it into the world’s most exclusive cash machine. Forget the cattle futures scandal that once haunted Hillary #Clinton; today, $28 million movie deals for #Melania and $500,000-a-head crypto dinners are just another Tuesday.
#grifter #grift #criminal
nickanderson.substack.com/p/ti

Text Shot: While previous presidents tiptoed around ethics, Trump’s team stomped on the rulebook with gold-plated boots. Luxury jets from Qatar? Sure. A crypto coin named after himself? Obviously. A country club called The Executive Branch? Subtle. His sons have declared ethical restraint passé, his allies now moonlight as regulators and business partners, and conflict-of-interest laws are as inapplicable to him as humility. Meanwhile, outrage has gone the way of dial-up internet. Ethics watchdogs have been replaced with lapdogs, and GOP investigations are reserved for Hunter Biden’s laptop while the Trump family hauls in billions, seemingly unchecked. In a world where selling access is frowned upon, Trump Inc. just sells the entire White House gift-wrapped. The public, once easily scandalized by pricey curtains or email servers, now shrugs at presidential NFTs and multi-billion-dollar Middle East real estate deals. Trump, America’s first fully monetized president, has turned…
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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

You’ve been warned: The New Dark Age

“The warlords who sacked Rome did not intend to doom Western #Europe to centuries of ignorance. It was not a foreseeable consequence of their actions.”

“The same cannot be said of the sweeping attack on human knowledge and progress that the Trump administration is now undertaking—a deliberate destruction of education, science, and history, conducted with a fanaticism that recalls the #DarkAges that followed #Rome’s fall”

#trump #maga #history #harvard #nih #columbia #law #fascism #project2025 #abortion #trans #lgbtq #republicans #politics #grift #kleptocracy #idiocracy

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

Text Shot: Every week brings fresh examples. The administration is threatening colleges and universities with the loss of federal funding if they do not submit to its demands, or even if they do. The engines of American scientific inquiry and ingenuity, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, are under sustained attack. Historical institutions such as the Smithsonian and artistic ones like the Kennedy Center are being converted into homes for MAGA ideology rather than historical fact and free expression. Libraries are losing funding, government-employed scientists are being dismissed from their jobs, educators are being cowed into silence, and researchers are being warned not to broach forbidden subjects. Entire databases of public-health information collected over decades are at risk of vanishing. Any facts that contradict the gospel of Trumpism are treated as heretical.
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Kim Perales

Trump has transformed DC since his return to power is the normalization of💰making schemes that once would've generated endless pol blowback, televised hearings, official investigations & damage control. The death of outrage in the Trump era exemplifies how far he's moved the lines of accepted behavior in DC.

The NYT finally holds Trump's feet to the fire, but doesn't mention his co-conspirators: R MOC. We must amplify his & waste, for Americans.
nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/poli

President Trump at a business round-table meeting in Abu Dhabi this month.
The New York Times · Trump Profits Like No Other President, as Outrage Is MutedBy Peter Baker
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