dey'gon'git'Drumph'dis'tine'o'no?

[tp4tissue]

Ohhhh looook, all the demo (raps voting against Dump im pea chm3n7.

What's going on here, could it be perhaps, their state benefits from War Mongering tax influxes?

[fohat.digs]

What's going on here,

Are you referring to the psychotic gibberish of the "victory" speech?

[fohat.digs]

Maybe there are still some rules left.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5370671-medicaid-trump-bill-senate-parliamentarian/

And look at how he allowed Iran to "save face" ....

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-says-he-gave-iran-permission-to-bomb-u-s-base-in-qatar-andwell-mostly-crickets

[noisyturtle]

Canadian Citizen died in ICE custody in Fla.
and so it begins...

[fohat.digs]

"Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte just ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to treat cryptocurrency — a volatile and largely unregulated mess — as an asset when evaluating whether to purchase mortgages from banks.

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae support about 70% of the mortgages in the country. They don’t issue loans but instead buy up home loans and package them into mortgage-backed securities, which are then sold to private investors. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae then guarantee payments to those investors if the mortgage holder defaults.

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are likely going to have to issue loans to people partly  based on their cryptocurrency holdings. So when the cryptocurrency market collapses and homebuyers default on loans, Freddie and Fannie will have to cover the resulting losses."

- Lisa Needham 2025-06-27
 

[noisyturtle]

"Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte just ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to treat cryptocurrency — a volatile and largely unregulated mess — as an asset when evaluating whether to purchase mortgages from banks.

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae support about 70% of the mortgages in the country. They don’t issue loans but instead buy up home loans and package them into mortgage-backed securities, which are then sold to private investors. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae then guarantee payments to those investors if the mortgage holder defaults.

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are likely going to have to issue loans to people partly  based on their cryptocurrency holdings. So when the cryptocurrency market collapses and homebuyers default on loans, Freddie and Fannie will have to cover the resulting losses."

- Lisa Needham 2025-06-27
 

Crypto was due for its predictable 4-year surge in 2025, but with everything going on in the world it likely will not happen now, or even in the next few years. All we get is the 24hr blip on inauguration day, right before everyone realized we are all totally ****ed. Trump stupidly played his hand on that with his own memecoin. Idiot.
2017 surge was great, 2021 surge was amazing, 2025 is looking less and less likely

[tp4tissue]

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are likely going to have to issue loans to people partly  based on their cryptocurrency holdings. So when the cryptocurrency market collapses and homebuyers default on loans, Freddie and Fannie will have to cover the resulting losses.[/i]"

- Lisa Needham 2025-06-27
 

All that is, is they're printing more dollars without "saying" they're printing more dollars.

When you go to the bank and borrow, they create the money out of thin air, asset and liability. The central banks have fully disclosed that that is how the majority of money comes into being.

Crypto is just a new intermediate for the dollar, which on the surface obfuscate what it is they're doing.

[fohat.digs]

When Bill Clinton left office in 2001, he left Bush Jr a  Budget Surplus

[noisyturtle]

When Bill Clinton left office in 2001, he left Bush Jr a  Budget Surplus

Eliminated the national deficit, and had the highest employment rate of any sitting President since.
But all anyone remembers is a cum-stained dress

[fohat.digs]

cum-stained dress

Republicans endeavor to find leaders who are devoted to marital fidelity, to be sure.

[fohat.digs]

"A former FBI agent who was accused of inciting rioters to kill police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, now holds a post within President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice.

The ex-agent, Jared Wise, is serving as an adviser in the DOJ’s so-called “Weaponization Working Group,” a task force Trump created to pursue political retribution while claiming to root out abuses in law enforcement.

Wise will serve as a counselor to Ed Martin, the controversial former head of the Eagle Forum and Trump’s original pick for U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. Martin, who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection himself, now leads the Weaponization Working Group after Trump quietly pulled his nomination when it became clear that the Senate—including some Republicans—wouldn’t support him.

Martin’s past defending of insurrectionists has already raised eyebrows, but bringing Wise on board is a particularly striking move. A man once accused of encouraging an angry mob to kill police officers is now helping steer the DOJ’s effort to go after anyone who tried to hold those insurrectionists accountable.

According to a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi, the group’s mission includes investigating “improper investigative tactics and unethical prosecutions” tied to the insurrection. But its name signals a broader and more troubling agenda: using the DOJ as a weapon against Trump’s enemies."

- Alex Samuels 2025-07-02

[tp4tissue]

All of these illegal killings existed before. It's just a slightly different banner in this case.

[fohat.digs]

"A former FBI agent who was accused of inciting rioters to kill police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, now holds a post within President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice.

The ex-agent, Jared Wise, is serving as an adviser in the DOJ’s so-called “Weaponization Working Group,” a task force Trump created to pursue political retribution while claiming to root out abuses in law enforcement.

Wise will serve as a counselor to Ed Martin, the controversial former head of the Eagle Forum and Trump’s original pick for U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. Martin, who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection himself, now leads the Weaponization Working Group after Trump quietly pulled his nomination when it became clear that the Senate—including some Republicans—wouldn’t support him.

Martin’s past defending of insurrectionists has already raised eyebrows, but bringing Wise on board is a particularly striking move. A man once accused of encouraging an angry mob to kill police officers is now helping steer the DOJ’s effort to go after anyone who tried to hold those insurrectionists accountable.

According to a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi, the group’s mission includes investigating “improper investigative tactics and unethical prosecutions” tied to the insurrection. But its name signals a broader and more troubling agenda: using the DOJ as a weapon against Trump’s enemies."

- Alex Samuels 2025-07-02

edit - today I heard a recording of him yelling "kill, kill, kill" at the January 6 riots

[noisyturtle]

I'm convinced there are really only two types of people in American Government right now:
A. Sociopaths who care not about the damage and harm they are causing, knowingly being cruel for the sake of self-serving opportunity.
B. Those who are too fearful of the sociopaths to go against them, knowing if they speak up they will be devoured.

Ruling through naked corruption and fear. It all just happened so quickly and efficiently.

[tp4tissue]

One would guess NT's psyche degree was made up too.

Sociopathy is an element of personality that everyone has.  To frame the political argument as sociopathy = bad, is an overwhelming over simplification, and explains nothing.

[fohat.digs]

It all just happened so quickly and efficiently.

The Republican long game took 2+ decades to get Reagan into office and another 2+ to get Trump in. That was mostly a fluke (who knew that Putin would be so effective?) and they were like the dog that finally caught the car it was chasing.

This time, the Heritage Foundation had Project 2025 fully worked out and printed up.

“We know what direction to go. We just need a president to sign this stuff. Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to be president of the United States.” - Grover Norquist 2012

[noisyturtle]

[fohat.digs]

"The crypto industry and Donald Trump are one House vote away from pulling off the biggest financial grift in a generation. After ramming the so-called GENIUS Act through the Senate, crypto billionaires are pressuring Congress to pass it before anyone realizes what it really does by legalizing stablecoins with virtually no safeguards and paving the way for Trump to profit directly from a private currency that bears his name.

The GENIUS Act is crypto industry propaganda wrapped in a bill. It’s been crafted, not to protect consumers or modernize finance, but to help Donald Trump and his billionaire backers rig the system in their favor. This is corruption plain and simple, written in legalese to fool the public and enrich the powerful.

And while the public is still trying to figure out what “stablecoin” even means, House Republicans are lining up a second bill, the deceitfully named CLARITY Act, that would actually make crypto regulation less clear. This bill includes exemptions that could lead to another FTX-style collapse, threaten national security, and enshrine Trump’s crypto con into law."

- Patrick Woodhall 2025-07-05

[tp4tissue]

The lining their pockets, is not the point.

America is trying to print $ without saying we're printing $.

That's what this entire new crypto push is. This is our only opportunity to stabilize the financial system. By inflating our way out of the insurmountable debt.

At best this gets us 10 years or so.  And then we will face the financial failure of a major $dollar debt country,  and then it all blows up.

[noisyturtle]

A national tragedy and state of emergency in Texas with 66+ dead, homes destroyed, 22 school children washed away, and still nearly 30 more missing.

What does Trump do? He goes golfing.

Out of 167 days in office, Trump has spent 38 days golfing. That is nearly 25% of his serving time. Costing the American taxpayers apprx. $30million so far.

[fohat.digs]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/6/2331945/-So-Texas-is-a-Sh-tHole-state-that-s-incapable-of-Emergency-Management

And that golf ratio has always been pretty consistent.

[kurplop]

Trump has already signed a disaster declaration. I don’t know what else he can do until the rains subside. His past actions in states hit by catastrophes has been to get in as soon as possible. Of course then people accuse him of grandstanding.

[tp4tissue]

Nah.. too busy upgrading the jestap0 to the tune of 170 Billion dollars.

Buckle up. No more elections

[fohat.digs]

No more elections

JD Vance will be president long before November 2028, and hopefully before November 2026.  I doubt that he will wield the sort of power that Drumpf enjoys.

But it sure would be nice to have a Supreme Court that was not constantly re-interpreting the values that determine the rule of law.


*   *   *   *   *   *   *

Pam Bondi in February: "The Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now to review."

Pam Bondi today: "There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted.""

[noisyturtle]

The one thing Conservatives and Democrats both agree on right now is the FBI finding on the Epstein case is total complete bull**** and lies. Trump was on the list, prob near the top. Everyone knows it, and to blatantly lie saying there was no list? I've never seen both sides agree more than on this. We all know it is a lie.

Elon has the perfect setup to do the funniest thing right now....

[tp4tissue]

Bond in February: "The client list is sitting on my desk right now to review."

Bond today: "There is no client list and no "further disclosure" of -related material "would be appropriate or warranted.""

m0 55 d has completely captured American politics/policy.  We are the vnited states of 1s  ralely.

[fohat.digs]

I managed to miss this on the 4th.

t=50s

[fohat.digs]

Dig it.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/13/2333183/-That-Jeffrey-Epstein-evidence-isn-t-missing-there-s-more-than-you-can-imagine

[tp4tissue]

This is not likely to see the light of day, it hurts demo and repu equally.

Neither party wants it released.

[fohat.digs]

This one is more fun. I think that the Democratic Party, in general, would be willing to hold its nose and take its licks in order to bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/13/inside-the-abandoned-sex-dens-jeffrey-epstein-shared-with-ghislaine-maxwell/ 

[fohat.digs]

I am hoping that Mike Nellis is correct in his post today:

"f Trump completely loses the conspiracy theory part of the base — the true believers who thought he was going to burn it all down — then he's toast. Not just in the midterms, where he’s already struggling, but in the long game. Because that idea that he was different? That he would break the mold, challenge the system, create a coalition that could last decades, give people something to believe? It’s dying in real time.

He’s mismanaging this worse than anything I’ve seen before. He’s usually a master at slithering out of these messes because his control over the Republican Party is so absolute, but if this part of his base abandons him, the GOP establishment won’t be afraid of him anymore."

[noisyturtle]

Exposing 'elite pedos' and releasing the Epstein Client List was one of the #1 priorities of MAGA supporters
They have lost so much more trust with their base then they can even fathom with this circus

[tp4tissue]

They've lost 0 support. 

Highly doubtful this makes any difference whatsoever.

[fohat.digs]

Classic smoke and mirrors. First, smoke screen that high-ranking Democratic officials actually wrote the files.
That was too absurd, so they mirrored and said that those same officials merely "altered" or "doctored" the documents.

Grasping at straws, but it may be enough.

[tp4tissue]

PS5 pro is equivalent to 7700xt.

PS6, in principle, they can cram a die-shrunk 9070xt in there easily, similar die size as 7700xt at around $600-700.

They might actually hit 5080/4090 lvl on a new process, by the time the new gpu wraps.

[fohat.digs]

Eliminating waste.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/

“According to USAID inventory lists from January, more than 60,000 metric tons of food—much of it grown in America, and all already purchased by the U.S. government—were then sitting in warehouses across the world.”

[fohat.digs]

"71% of Americans say nothing he’s done in the last eight months has improved their lives."

- Mike Nellis 2025-07-18

[fohat.digs]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/trump-epstein-fbi-durbin.html

[fohat.digs]

"People who watch Fox “News,” for example, believe that what they hear on NPR is “liberal propaganda,” which is why they support defunding public broadcasting. What they actually hear on public broadcasting, however, is just the news. It reflects reality. Actual reality. But they think it’s liberal propaganda because their cult told them so.

Murdoch now has to make a tough decision. He’s already gotten most of what he needed from Trump — a massive tax break for himself and his family, and deregulation of the broadcast and internet space — so he only needs Trump now because Donald makes for good television.

But “good television” can work two ways for a public official, for or against them. If Trump has sufficiently pissed off Murdoch, or he thinks that Trump’s beginning to harm the GOP and thus the cult that the Murdoch family and their well-paid talent largely control, he could give Trump the old heave-ho.

So if Trump gets thrown out of the Fox “News” Viewer cult — essentially gets fired as the cult leader — the cult will continue. It would simply lose a very small percentage of its hard-core true believers who’d completely surrendered their personalities to Trump, and even those folks are probably retrievable.

The problem for Murdoch and other facilitators of the Fox “News” Viewer cult that Trump now leads is who will fill the vacuum that’ll be created when Trump is gone, whether it’s from natural causes or an impeachment or 25th Amendment action that Murdoch and Fox could provoke. Who will continue to defend the interests of the morbidly rich and the monopolistic parts of corporate America and become the next leader of the GOP?"

-Thom Hartmann 2025-07-21

[noisyturtle]

Remember when Trump was touting those $5k stimmy checks for everyone. He was mentioning it on a daily biases, and then weirdly, he hasn't mentioned it at all in the past few months. No one has even brought it up, as if they were constantly distracted by impending doom or something...

[fohat.digs]

The Bigger Picture

"This isn't just about Trump's relationship with Epstein. It's about how power protects itself.

For years, wealthy and powerful men enabled Epstein's crimes through willful blindness. They saw young girls around him and asked no questions. They attended his parties and said nothing. They treated child trafficking as an open secret—something to whisper about, not report.

Trump's latest admission confirms what many suspected: Mar-a-Lago wasn't just where Epstein socialized. It was where he recruited.

And Trump's primary concern? His staffing problems.

The most chilling part isn't Trump's narcissism—we've seen that for years. It's his complete inability to understand why anyone would care about the victims in this story.

To him, they're still just "people who worked for me" who got "stolen" by someone else.

That's not just narcissism. That's sociopathy."

- Loba Chevsky 2025-07-29