"CARTOONISHLY EVIL"
quoth one who should know! (see below)
April 23, 2025
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When the school playground bully sees that no one is impressed by his BS bluster, the bully backs down.
Tariffs? Aw, shucks. Let's back off that (since no one fled in panic).
Firing the Fed Chief? Aw, shucks. Let's back off that (since all it did was panic the market--the market the bully is supposed to be an "expert" at).
Sic' the little doggies, the DOGE junkyard dogs at it? Well, that, of course, is just another bomb, just like every other venture in this multiple bankrupt dumb ass bully's life.
So what does the bully do now? That's a very good question: as the bully has no training or expertise in finance--unless you count business bankruptcies and other failed business ventures. So what 'Bright Idea' BS will the bully come up with next???
That depends on what the bully's wonderful education taught him!
Wharton Profs Demand Probe Of Claim That Trump Cheated On The SAT
“When a student gains admission by fraudulent means, it undermines the integrity of our academic standards and fairness of our admissions process,” the professors wrote in a letter to Penn President Amy Gutmann. “Concerns about cheating are exacerbated when the alleged perpetrator is a public figure in high office.
JOHN A. BYRNE ON AUGUST 25, 2020
https://poetsandquants.com/2020/08/25/wharton-profs-demand-probe-of-claim-that-trump-cheated-on-the-sat/
The only thing the bully can do is to continue to BS his gullible supporters... BS his political subservient supplicants,,, and try to BS the leaders of other countries who know the bully is just a BS'er!
That is what America has become... the home of the BS'er!
Every day the financial markets are roiled by the BS'ers BS... Up and Down, depending on what BS the BS'er decides to regurgitate.
There is no rhyme or reason to events... everything moves according to the BS'ers daily BM.
Who'da thunk it !!!
Wait. We almost forgot. Here's another piece of BS the BS'er has BS'ed about...
Fact check: Trump lies about the price of eggs, groceries and gas
Gas. Groceries. Eggs. Over the last week, President Donald Trump has lied about the price of all of them — using this repeated deception to try to minimize widespread concerns that his tariffs will fuel inflation.
CNN, Daniel Dale, Published 1:41 PM EDT, Wed April 23, 2025
April 22, 2025
We’re suddenly talking about the Great Depression when discussing Trump’s stock market
...investors have been sending a clear message: President Donald Trump’s trade war is making America an unsafe place to invest.
“The level of uncertainty is too high. It’s not productive”... “It will have an effect on the growth of the economy, and we will see that, in my opinion, relatively quickly.”
CNN, David Goldman, Updated 12:29 PM EDT, Tue April 22, 2025
April 21, 2025
$160B / 161,000,000 = $993.79
$993.79 / 365 = $2.73
Previous daily saving of $2.64 means America has gained .09 cents to add to their extra cup of coffee.
What's wrong with POTUS's math?
Are Lunatics in charge of the asylum?
Dow drops 1,200 points, S&P 500 loses 3% as Trump’s Powell attacks add to investors’ concerns:
Trump says things are "going very well" after worst stock market drop in years over tariffs.
CNBC, Lisa Kailai Han, Sean Conlon, MON, APR 21 20252:19 PM EDT
AP News, DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Updated 2:19 AM EDT, April 4, 2025
'I'm not even sure it's legal': New York farmer in disbelief at Trump tariffs imposed on critical cow feed
The average family is expected to pay an estimated $3,800 more a year for groceries, clothing, furniture, cars and more.
Yahoo Finance, Rudro Chakrabarti, Fri, April 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM EDT
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/im-not-even-sure-legal-010000861.html
20 April 2025 --- EASTER DAY
Elon Musk’s next move has Americans ‘worried’ about their Social Security benefits
Yahoo Finance, Vishesh Raisinghani,
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-next-move-americans-102700391.html
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
19 April 2025
doge.gov
$155B / 161,000,000 = $962.73
$962.73 / 365 = $2.64 per day
Our fearless leader, POTUS frankenmush has saved the American taxpayers the cost of one cup of coffee per day.
Is one extra cup of coffee per day really worth the true cost of the chaos, upheaval, and the damage to Human well-being and Constitutional consistency?
Do the math on that...
Elon Musk’s Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movements
Elon Musk’s grandfather is arrested. They find documents sympathetic to the Nazis and other subversive documents inside his house. And he is sent to prison for a few months, then remains on essentially a subversion watch list for the rest of the war (WWII) here (Canada). So, he’s basically regarded as a Nazi sympathizer... about a decade later, he moves to South Africa. Why? ...after the war, he founds another political movement, which has deep antisemitic roots and actually promotes the forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion...
...in 1942, John Vorster, later prime minister, stands up and gives a speech, and he talks about the system that they — their kind of ideological belief system, which was Christian nationalism. And he says Christian nationalism in South Africa is the same as Nazism in Germany and fascism in Italy. It’s all anti-democratic. It’s all the same thing. By 1971, when Elon Musk is born, that man is the prime minister of South Africa. And Christian nationalism is the basis of not only the political philosophy, but the entire education system that Elon Musk is brought up into.
Chris McGreal, The Guardian, DemocracyNow.org - MARCH 27, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/27/elon_musk_south_africa
Elon Musk’s daughter says father’s rally gesture was ‘definitely a Nazi salute’
Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk’s eldest child, has spoken out publicly about her father, saying that Musk “definitely [did] a Nazi salute” at two rallies in January and that he is part of a White House that’s “cartoonishly evil”.
The Guardian, Lauren Aratani, Thu 20 Mar 2025 10.18 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/elon-musk-daughter-vivian-jenna-wilson-salute
--- HAPPY EASTER, BOYS AND GIRLS ---
As Prior Philip said, "Pray for a miracle. But plant cabbages, too!"
"DOOM"
NOTE: words in "quotes" are the actual words, spoken/written, by certain characters in this cartoon. This is based on ten+ years of documentation in a 371 page, 119,753 words text file. Words not in quotes are used with a certain literary license.
19 April 2025
This cartoon had been working from earliest date at the top then adding new stuff at the bottom. Going forward, the most current will be at the top.
fear
/fir/
noun
an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.
at·mos·phere
/ˈatməˌsfir/
noun
Intangible but Palpable:
While not a physical entity, the social atmosphere is a sense of the environment that can be felt and experienced by those present.
In pre-WWII Germany, of a population of 70 million, 8 million were members of the Nazi Party. That minority 12% of the population inflicted upon the other 62 million people such an atmosphere of fear that the Nazis were able to take over the entire country. The Nazis, in their quest for ultimate power, using industrial-scale robbery and murder, caused the deaths of about 85 million people.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats,"
How Often Has President Trump Played Golf Since He Took Office? By Niall McCarthy, Forbes.com. Nov 11, 2020, 06:36am EST
‘Trump's golfing trips have cost American taxpayers $142 million so far. That total includes $59 million worth of trips to Mar-a-Lago on Air Force One… August 2016… he said’ "I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf".
“Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?! Are we serious?”
“WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID.”
"... hundreds of billions of dollars worth of... transgender surgery on mice…. The whole thing's a scam..."
“I was in Moscow and I was in Russia and they treated me so fantastically. I met so many incredible people.”
"In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution."
"I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right."
Is Donald Trump the blackmailed tool of Vladimir Putin? Everything DTrump has done seems to point toward this conclusion. What does Putin have on Trump? Financial pressure for sure, but it is most likely some sexual perversion that forges the bond.
Of course, to be fair, there is nothing morally, psychologically, or culturally wrong or demeaning in same-sex attraction, but in the spy-trade, naughty pictures have traditionally been used as a means of blackmail. If an individual, a fat boy with ambitions or in a position of power, for example, is presented with evidence, color photographs and video, of an illicit assignation with a boy / transvestite / he-she dressed and dolled up like a girl, and the fat boy is slobbering all over the boy's body parts, then, WTF, the fat boy is hooked for the blackmail game.
Мои три приспешника
(My three stooges)
“When I went to Russia with the Miss Universe pageant, (Putin) contacted me and was so nice. I mean, the Russian people were so fantastic to us,” he said on “Fox and Friends.” “I’ll just say this, they are doing – they’re outsmarting us at many turns, as we all understand. I mean, their leaders are, whether you call them smarter or more cunning or whatever, but they’re outsmarting us, they’re outsmarting us.”
March 3, 2014
“I never met Putin, I don’t know who Putin is. He said one nice thing about me. He said I'm a genius. I said thank you very much.”
June 18, 2013
“It’s obvious that the United States will continue to systematically advance its geostrategic, military-political and economic interests in the Arctic.”
“It might be that you’ll have to do something. The Panama Canal is vital to our country. We need Greenland for national security purposes. No, I never take military force off the table. But I think there's a good possibility that we could do it without military force."
President Donald Trump has criticised Volodymyr Zelenskyy, "You should have never started it. You could have made a deal... I’m very disappointed, half baked... Russia wants to do something. That’s not a Russian thing."
Hitler gave a speech in Berlin on 26 September 1938 and declared that the Sudetenland was "the last territorial demand I have to make in Europe".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Czechoslovakia_(1938%E2%80%931945)
NBC News EXCLUSIVE March 30, 2025, 12:10 PM EDT
By Kristen Welker and Megan Lebowitz
and:
PBS May 7, 2024 11:37 AM EDT
"President Vladimir Putin began his fifth term at a glittering Kremlin inauguration Tuesday, embarking on another six years as leader of Russia after destroying his political opponents, launching a devastating war in Ukraine and concentrating all power in his hands." (21 years in office + the four years as Prime Minister when his toady Dmitry Medvedev was in office.)
Richard Law's Speech at the Connecticut Ratification Convention (January 9, 1788)
"Our President is not a king, nor is our Senate a House of Lords. They do not claim an independent hereditary authority. But the whole is elective; all are dependent upon the people. The President, the Senate, the Representatives are all creatures of the people. Therefore, the people will be secure from oppression, though I admit that, if our President and Senate possessed an independent hereditary authority, the democratical branch would be too weak for the others."
"The collective net worth of Trump’s top appointees is reportedly estimated to exceed $460 billion, including Elon Musk’s $400 billion net worth. Even without Musk, Trump’s cabinet and top appointees in 2025 by far exceeds the wealth of previous cabinets, including his previous cabinet (and previous record holder), which was worth $3.2 billion. President Biden’s cabinet collectively was worth $118 million."
"Sixteen of Trump’s 25 wealthiest appointees and nominees are members of the 0.0001%, meaning they are among the 813 billionaires in the United States, where some 341 million of the rest of us make up the 99.9999% (earning an average yearly income of about $61,000). Elon Musk’s outrageous wealth places him in a category all his own, as the world’s richest person. By contrast, cabinet members who are mere members of the top 1% – members such as J.D. Vance, Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio – appear almost working class, even if the wealth of each is more than triple the median income Americans earn over their entire lives ($1.7 million)."
https://swalwell.house.gov/issues/russia-trump-his-administration-s-ties
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/03/27/is-elon-musk-remaking-government-or-breaking-it
"There's a silly notion that failure's not an option... Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact. I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right."
Trump, January 2018: "... I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!"
Washington, D.C.
New York City
San Francisco, CA
Planet Earth
IF NOT ALL OUT WAR - LOCAL, STATE, FEDERAL, GLOBAL - THEN A "RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY" OF CIVILIZATION.
249 YEARS OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL REPUBLIC DESTROYED IN A MATTER OF JUST A FEW MONTHS.
PUT THAT ON YOUR CALENDAR...
NEWSWEEK
DOGE Cuts Update Today: Millions of Social Security Records Changed
MARCH 31, 2025 / 3:00 PM
UPI Goldman Sachs: 35% chance Trump policies will spike inflation, lead to recession
"Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.”
“Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m f***ed.”
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. The funniest things are the forbidden. Mark Twain
"sense of humor" noun, a person's ability to perceive humor or appreciate a joke
"The sense of humor is vital for one's sanity. If you can't see some humor in what's happening around you, you'll go insane."
Of course, some people are already insane, all we can do is laugh at them, otherwise they will drag us down into their dark putrid pit. So, we will endeavor to persevere.
(to be continued)
April 3, 2025
Stocks in major decline as Trump’s tariffs spark global trade war
STORMY DANIELS IDENTIFIES TRUMP’S PENIS FROM MUSHROOM LINEUP ON ‘KIMMEL’
ROLLING STONE Adult performer details sex with future president, spanks Jimmy Kimmel with her book 'Full Disclosure'
Trump’s penis envy
Why winning the presidency is more important to him than preserving democracy.
"I've never had any trouble in bed, ...I love the poorly educated.
Frankly, I wouldn't mind if there were an anti-Viagra, something with the opposite effect.
I'm not bragging. I'm just lucky. I don't need it."
CNN ‘It’s a bloodbath’: Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies
Scientific American MARCH 31, 2025
Top U.S. Scientists Speak Out against ‘Climate of Fear’ Wrecking U.S. Research
Despite fears that speaking out will make them targets, top researchers warn that the Trump administration’s “wholesale assault on U.S. science” will harm the nation
BY DAN VERGANO EDITED BY DEAN VISSER
Newsweek Apr 03, 2025 at 5:04 PM EDT
Potential American Recession Gets New Timeline From Analyst
"the US could experience a recession as soon as June of this year."
"Trump's policies are steep in 'magical economic thinking' and ignore 80 years of proven global trade practices. It is a fool's errand..."
(to be continued)
April 4, 2025
Trump Tariff News, April 3, 2025: Tariffs Send Dow to 1600-Point Decline, Dollar Slumps
Asian stocks were hit for a second day; fears of recession rose
WSJ April 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM EDT
Layoffs spiked by 205% last month to third-highest ever recorded, fueled by DOGE mass firings
By Aimee Picchi, Edited By Anne Marie Lee
April 3, 2025 / 10:51 AM EDT / CBS News
Russia escapes Trump Tariffs, as envoy pushes deals with Washington
APRIL 3, 20256:02 PM ET
NPR By Charles Maynes
‘There will be blood’: JPMorgan raises recession risk to 60% as global stock market sell off continues
FORTUNE BY CHRISTIAAN HETZNER
April 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM EDT
Is Putin secretly one of the world’s richest men? Experts estimate a $200 billion net worth
BYMAHNOOR KHAN AND JANE THIER
FORTUNE November 23, 2024 at 5:01 AM EST
How Russian Money Helped Save Trump’s Business
After his financial disasters two decades ago, no U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in.
DECEMBER 21, 2018, 1:31 PM
Foreign Policy By Michael Hirsh
'We'll make mistakes' says RFK as fired US health staff asked to return
April 4, 2050
BBC News Brandon Drenon
Robert F Kennedy Jr, said the mass firings (10,000 employees) were consistent with the government's goals to purge the federal workforce but said 20% of them were made in error.
"Personnel that should not have been cut, were cut. We're reinstating them. And that was always the plan", he said, adding "we'll make mistakes".
The chainsaw approach to shrinking government is being led by tech billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) team.
‘The Press Has Sanewashed Trump’s Dementia and Mental Illness’: Dr. John Gartner
MindSite News Diana Hembree April 1, 2025
"There is absolutely no doubt Trump has dementia. He is losing his capacity for coherent speech and has difficulty even finishing a sentence... there is an accelerating rate of decline"
April 5, 2025
Images courtesy of:
Signs seen during the UAW 4121 "Hands Off!" Rally in Seattle | | dailyuw.com
HAND'S OFF - Indivisible's Nationwide Protest - Village Independent Democrats
Meals on Wheels, Child Welfare: Key HHS Staff in SF ‘Woke Up and Our Jobs Were Gone’
KQWD PBS Katie DeBenedetti Apr 4 2025
'Shoot them in the legs': Trump
The Guardian Maanvi Singh
Wed 2 Oct 2019 03.29 EDT
U.S. Peace Corps says Musk's DOGE has arrived at its HQ
Reuters Nathan Layne, Alexandra Alper and Tim Reid
April 4, 20254:08 PM EDT
Trump did not put his hand on the Bible at inauguration. Here's what to know about the tradition.
"I was saved by God to make America great again,"
CBS News Aliza Chasan January 20, 2025 / 5:01 PM EST
Hundreds of Doctors Are Demanding Trump’s Health Records
The ex-president promised hard evidence that he was fit to serve. Where is it?
"...highlights: swaying on stage for a half-hour to “Ave Maria,” “Hallelujah,” and “YMCA”; calling himself the “father of IVF”; falsely claiming “nobody died” on January 6 and that “there were no guns” among the insurrectionists; making lewd comments about both his opponent and the late golfer Arnold Palmer’s genitalia."
MotherJones Julianne McShane
Oct 21,2024
Minnesota Republicans' bill to define "Trump derangement syndrome" as mental illness provokes backlash
The bill's authors define, in the bill's wording, the syndrome as "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump," and go further to argue that it "produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald J. Trump's behavior."
CBS Minnesota Eric Henderson, Caroline Cummings
March 17, 2025 / 4:41 PM CDT /
Wait! What?
Republicans are using their tax-payer funded salaries to, NOT WORK FOR AMERICANS, but to defend their dementia-addled-minded Russian-traitor Deity so that He can continue to wreck civilization?
These guys/gals are getting $174,000 + Gold Card Benefits per year; what do they do to earn that $83 per hour?
Good question...!?
Uh, oh. The trouble-pot is brewing for the Three POTUS wanna-Be's.
Бункерный дед (Grandpa in his bunker) is obviously the Большой Босс that маленькая киска # 2 and маленькая киска # 3 take their orders from.
маленькая киска # 2
маленькая киска # 3
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” Shakespeare, 'King Henry the Fourth, Part Two.'
“Hands Off!” demands “an end to this billionaire power grab.”
“Whether you are mobilized by the attacks on our democracy, the slashing of jobs, the invasion of privacy, or the assault on our services – this moment is for you,” the event flyers state. “We are setting out to build a massive, visible, national rejection of this crisis.”
Is the U.S. witnessing the rise of oligarchy?
In 1948, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas argued that, “Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy”.
The ultra-richest segments in the U.S. control a greater portion of wealth than they did during the Gilded Age. Just the top five billionaires today together own more than a trillion dollars in wealth. 7 out of 10 of the world’s largest corporations are owned by a billionaire or have one as a principal shareholder.
What about the electoral process? Don’t we all have equal power in that system? Not quite. We’ve seen 150 billionaire families spend a total of $1.9 billion in support of presidential and congressional candidates in 2024.
January 17, 2025 By Oxfam America
The problem is:
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas apparently was under the impression that the "elected officials" would truly be the Representatives of the People.
Obviously not, as those Reps are increasingly servile to the wealthiest 1%. The Big Three’s Grip on Corporate America: BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street collectively known as the “Big Three,” dominate the $15.1 trillion global passive equity funds industry, and control over $60 trillion in assets under management. This includes 90% of the Media and 88% of the manufacturing and retail markets.
The politicians - of both sides of the aisle, but especially the GOP - have sold their collective souls to the God of Money.
(to be continued)
April 6, 2025
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/05/trump-tariffs-stock-market-recession
Trump touts "economic revolution"...
Economists say a recession is highly likely, potentially even a dire stagflation scenario...
Investors lost more than $6 trillion the last two days...
"Workers are going to take this on the chin as their employers try to cut costs."
https://newrepublic.com/post/193614/donald-trump-tariffs-dumb-history-income-tax
Donald Trump Really Is a Lot Dumber Than We Thought. Like, a Lot!
I want to focus on Trump’s understanding of history. It’s so shockingly dumb—yes, even for him—that it’s hard to believe that we have a president of the United States who is this ignorant.
TNR Michael Tomasky April 4, 2025/10:22 a.m. ET
The odd thing is, the people who once warned America about their Deity now kowtow to the Deity. What's up with that?
The six bankruptcies were the result of over-leveraged hotel and casino businesses in Atlantic City and New York: Trump Taj Mahal (1991), Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino (1992), Plaza Hotel (1992), Trump Castle Hotel and Casino (1992), Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts (2004), and Trump Entertainment Resorts (2009).
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-king-of-debt-224642
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_career_of_Donald_Trump#:~:text=The%20six%20bankruptcies%20were%20the,Trump%20Entertainment%20Resorts%20(2009).
How Trump’s Casino Bankruptcies Screwed His Workers out of Millions in Retirement Savings
'More than 400 employees lost a total of more than $2 million from their retirement accounts, the lawsuit states.'
“I didn’t realize he was as stupid as he is,” says a former casino worker at Trump Plaza.
Mother Jones PATRICK CALDWELL // October 17, 2016
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/donald-trump-atlantic-city-bankruptcy/
Donald Trump has begun a mafia-like struggle for global power
But the new rules do not suit America
The rupture of the post-1945 order is gaining pace. In extraordinary scenes at the un this week, America sided with Russia and North Korea against Ukraine and Europe. Germany’s probable new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, warns that by June nato may be dead. Fast approaching is a might-is-right world in which big powers cut deals and bully small ones.
The Economist Feb 27th 2025
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/27/donald-trump-has-begun-a-mafia-like-struggle-for-global-power?utm_campaign=a.25uspolitics_fy2526_q1_conversion-cbdr-sub_prospecting_nam-usca_direct_all-devices&utm_medium=digital-display.external-content.pd&utm_source=outbrain-outbrain&utm_content=conversion.content.non-subscriber.content_staticnative_np-mafialike-n-apr_na-na_article_1x1_na_na_na&utm_term=sa.all&utm_id=ouq11505&OutbrainClickId=v4-B0ovdxu-1080386085-1&ob_cvr_pixel_domain=economist.com&dicbo=v4-B0ovdxu-1080386085-1
'Steve Bannon has predicted Donald Trump "is going to prison" unless "we" win the 2028 presidential election.'
'Bannon has already said Trump should run for a third term in 2028, though the 22nd Amendment bans any one individual from serving more than two terms.'
"...God forbit we don't win in 2028 President Trump is going to prison just like Bolsonaro in Brazil."
https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-fears-donald-trump-could-go-prison-2051939
April 7, 2025
'US President Donald Trump has slapped comprehensive tariffs on 185 countries worldwide, but not on Russia and Belarus. Why is that?'
'... its (Russia's) omission from Trump's new tariffs cannot be explained...'
DW Alexey Strelnikov | Alex Izmaylov 04/05/2025April 5, 2025
https://www.dw.com/en/trump-tariffs-russia-belarus-sanctions-trade/a-72150328
Dow Jones Industrial Average
37,723.13
−591.73 (1.54%)
Apr 7, 11:55 AM EDT
Major stock market indexes have lost trillions since Trump’s inaguration — The S&P has lost 15 percent of its value since the Friday before Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, while the Dow has lost 12 percent and the Nasdaq has lost 21 percent.
Boston Globe Christina Prignano and Kirkland An, Globe Staff 10:46 a.m.
U.S. stock market has wiped out $9.6 trillion since Inauguration Day
U.S. stocks have had a rough go of it since President Donald Trump was sworn into office for his second term in January.
Market Watch Joseph Adinolfi Last Updated: Apr 4, 2025, 4:56 PM EDT
This is the stock market’s worst start to a presidential term in modern history
“You want to see a market crash?" ...Trump confidently predicted... "economic crash, a 1929-style depression.”
U.S. indexes are lower as stocks gyrate
CNN Harry Enten Matt Egan6:37 AM EDT, Mon April 7, 2025
Trump Threatens Additional 50% Tariff on China
WSJ.com April 7, 2025
Republican Senator Warns Trump Tariffs May Spur 'Political Decimation'
Newsweek Andrew Stanton Apr 03, 2025 at 11:29 AM EDT
(Flip a coin, dude! Get off the fence!)
Longtime Republican Senate leader slams Trump tariffs: ‘The last thing we need’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday defended comments he made following the 2020 election where he privately slammed Donald Trump as “stupid” and “despicable.”
“Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now,” McConnell said in a statement to POLITICO.
AL Howard Koplowitz Apr. 03, 2025, 1:35 p.m.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/17/mcconnell-trump-comments-00184188
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-blasts-mcconnell-hack-who-lacks-political-insight-n1258051
https://www.wattagnet.com/blogs/blog/15523905/7-quotes-from-president-trump-to-farm-bureau-wattagnet
https://www.agriculture.com/this-trade-war-will-force-farms-to-close-and-more-reactions-from-ag-industry-on-latest-tariffs-11708206
Trump headlining $1 million a person super PAC dinner as stocks sink over tariffs
As stocks continued to slide after markets opened, President Trump is speaking at a $1 million dollar-a-person candlelight dinner Friday at Mar-a-Lago.
Another $1 million-a-head MAGA Inc. dinner is scheduled for April 24 in Washington, according to the invitation. Donors can "co-host" that dinner for $2.5 million or become a "host" for $5 million.
On Thursday, a day after Trump announced worldwide tariffs, the president attended a LIV Golf dinner in Miami ahead of a three-day LIV tournament taking place at Trump National Doral.
CBS News Arden Farhi, Kathryn Watson April 4, 2025 / 12:23 PM EDT /
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-hosts-liv-golf-fundraiser-as-stocks-sink-over-tariffs/?intcid=CNR-02-0623
(And the daytime/nighttime nightmare proceeds at its manic pace... to be continued)
April 8, 2025
"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."
"My whole life I've been greedy, greedy, greedy. I've grabbed all the money I could get."
Trillions down the drain. Trump’s top trade adviser remains unbothered
A top White House trade official has a message... “just the beginning.”
CNN Anna Cooban 11:20 AM EDT, Tue April 8, 2025
How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multitrillion-dollar market swings
Multitrillion-dollar stock market swings on Monday appear to have been set off by false reports on Elon Musk's X.
How did it happen?
Around 8:30 a.m. ET, the National Economic Council's Kevin Hassett was asked during a live Fox News interview whether President Trump would consider a 90-day pause to the sweeping tariffs he imposed on many countries last week. Hassett responded: "I think the president is going to decide what the president is going to decide."
On X, that morphed into a bogus headline that Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs for all countries except China. It appears the X account "Hammer Capital" was the first to share this false report, around 10:11 a.m. ET on Monday. From there, the erroneous headline took on a life of its own. Around 10:12 a.m. ET, cheers broke out across the New York Stock Exchange trading floor, according to CNN, as the market rallied on the false premise that the White House was weighing a tariffs pause.
Stock markets gyrated to the tune of $2.4 trillion between the time of 10:08 a.m. and 10:18 a.m., according to Dow Jones Market Data.
NPR Bobby Allyn APRIL 7, 20256:14 PM ET
Wait! What?
In just ten minutes the markets swung back and forth to the tune of ---
$2.4 TRILLION DOLLARS !!!
That's $4 BILLION DOLLARS A SECOND [2,400,000,000,000 / (10 X 60)]
HOLY BAT POOP, BATMAN! Seems like an October 29, 1929 Crash could be just another Stupid Tweet away. On that previous Crash the total losses were $14 Billion on that one day. That = just .00583 of that $2.4 TRex number.
What event? What personality? Could be the Trigger to the Madness?
How about Jan 20, 2025...
April 9, 2025
Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin
Regular contacts between world’s richest man and America’s chief antagonist raise security concerns; topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters
WSJ, Thomas Grove, Warren P. Strobel, Aruna Viswanatha, Gordon Lubol and Sam Schechner
Updated Oct. 25, 2024 11:53 am ET
Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
Alleged talks between billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications
The Guardian, Julian Borger
Fri 25 Oct 2024 10.47 EDT
U.S. to split by 2010? Russian analyst thinks so
Igor Panarin… a Russian state-media celebrity… the KGB-trained, Kremlin-backed senior analyst
"(predicts) Alaska goes to Russia. Hawaii goes to Japan or China. The California Republic — the West from Utah and Arizona to the Pacific — goes to China. The Texas Republic — the South from New Mexico to Florida — goes to Mexico. Atlantic America — the Northeast from Tennessee and South Carolina up to Maine — joins the European Union. And "The Central North-American Republic — the Plains from Ohio to Montana — goes to Canada."
NBC News, Joel Garreau
Jan. 3, 2009, 4:01 AM EST
"...after World War II, Joseph Stalin reneged on Yalta agreements promising free elections in Eastern European countries, instead establishing communist governments and suppressing non-communist parties."
George Smiley once said (as written by John Le Carré) that "our present war began in 1917 with the October Revolution, and it hasn't ended yet."
What Smiley was referring to is the West’s coalition of free countries engaged in a life or death struggle against the Communist behemoth; an overarching, powerful bureaucracy that threatens world-wide domination.
They don't (officially) call themselves "communist" anymore but their plans have not changed. The Czar wanted an empire from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans, from the North Pole to the oil fields of Arabia and, now, the U.S.A.
Don't believe it? Study history, bone up on current events, look at the Kremlin-led disinformation campaigns to influence elections all over the globe.
Just remember: it's a trick, don't fall for it. And don't let elected and non-elected special government operatives rig the game.
Be careful out there!
‘Truly a moron’: Elon Musk escalates spat with Trump adviser Peter Navarro over tariffs
“Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks.” Musk’s Tuesday remarks come after he posted, and then deleted, a comment saying Navarro’s PhD from Harvard is a “bad thing,” and that he hasn’t “built sh*t.”
"Boys will be boys and we will let their public sparring continue,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said"
Hadas Gold
CNN, Hadas Gold, 7:58 PM EDT, Tue April 8, 2025
Bridgewater Founder Dalio Calls Out ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Breakdown
The world is undergoing a “classic breakdown of the major monetary, political, and geopolitical orders” that only happens once in a lifetime, says Ray Dalio, founder of the hedge fund giant Bridgewater.
Barrons, Anita Hamilton
1 day ago
Trump tells supporters they won’t have to vote in the future: ‘It’ll be fixed!’
Former president implores Christian supporters to vote ‘just this time ... in four years, you don’t have to vote again’
“Christians, get out and vote! Just this time – you won’t have to do it any more,” the Republican former president said on Friday night at a rally hosted in West Palm Beach, Florida, by the far-right Christian advocacy group Turning Point Action.
“You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians,” he said with a slight shake of his head and his right hand pressed against the left side of his chest.
He added: “I love you. Get out – you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”
‘Terrifying’: Democrats react to Trump saying people won’t have to vote again
The Guardian, Ramon Antonio Vargas
Sat 27 Jul 2024 09.44 EDT
(Presidential Prayer Meeting participants identities blurred to protect the Stupid)
“I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.”
“When I drink my little wine – which is about the only wine I drink – and have my little cracker, I guess that is a form of asking for forgiveness..."
WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAMMING FOR AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
AI Overview
"Stock investors exhibit a "mob mentality," or herd behavior, because they tend to follow the actions and opinions of others, driven by fear of missing out (FOMO) and a belief that the majority is likely right, often leading to irrational decisions."
Consider: If a person is taking investment advice from a "smart person" who went bankrupt six times to the tune of $3.4 Billion dollars, well, good luck with that.
The stock market is having another wild day after Trump signals apparent shift in trade policy
US stocks surged in the afternoon after Trump posted on Truth Social that he authorized a 90-day pause on most reciprocal tariffs (with the exception of China). The Dow skyrocketed more than 2,300 points, or 6.2%. The S&P 500 shot up 7%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq soared 8.5%.
Fear has gripped investors across the world as the tariffs threaten to plunge the global and US economies into a recession this year. Businesses and consumers will end up footing those massive tariff bills, and uncertainty has led to a slowdown in hiring and consumer spending.
CNN, David Goldman Anna Cooban, and John Towfighi
Updated 1:37 PM EDT, Wed April 9, 2025
If this is "Leadership" ---wow! --- we'd be in trouble if a Village Idiot was in charge.
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
(quote unknown but attributed to Vladimir Lenin or Joseph Stalin)
April 10, 2025
All joking aside, we must ask ourselves a question - an unimaginable question - but a serious one.
Is the President of the United States being blackmailed by a foreign power?
(a note of explanation) words in "quotes" in this web cartoon are precisely that, direct quotes. Words that are not in quotes are rendered with a certain literary license.
I have a 364 page, 118,397 words letter size text document containing the exact wording of quotes from various individuals, dating from 2016.
I began keeping this record long ago thinking I might one day write something about this extraordinary time in our history.
The last ten years have been so strange that the events rival anything a fictional writer could have dreamed up.
It is my intention to continue crafting these hieroglyphics and investigations in a search for the Holy Grail of Political Treachery. Also, this cartoon is made available in the spirit of Fair Use. Attributions and credits are diligently recorded but if someone is overlooked, please accept my sincere apologies.
That being said, let us continue...
Bond. James Bond, he ain't
https://www.cfr.org/article/trumps-abrupt-turn-russia-and-whether-us-russia-team-could-gain-any-sway-south-and
Trump’s Abrupt Turn to Russia—and Whether a U.S.-Russia Team Could Gain Any Sway in South and Southeast Asia
President Trump’s new geopolitical strategy of aligning with Russia to counter China is highly controversial and raises questions about its effectiveness and impact on U.S. interests and global politics.
In recent days, President Trump and his administration have released a radical new geopolitical strategy, one in which the White House seems to be turning against traditional European allies and building closer ties to Vladimir Putin’s Russia … by disdaining Ukraine, blaming the war on Ukraine (Russia invaded Ukraine), and Trump himself lavishly praising Putin...
One can debate whether this radical shift, besides the wisdom of disdaining longtime U.S. allies and throwing a high amount of uncertainty into global politics, ...makes any sense at all in promoting U.S. interests and U.S. leadership.
Even if Russia provided some minor help with a few countries in South and Southeast Asia, it likely would not match the enormous influence China already wields in these regions.
The Trump administration’s destruction of many U.S. soft power tools, from aid to broadcasting, is only going to further alienate much of Southeast and South Asia and allow China to bolster its regional public diplomacy.
Council on Foreign Relations, Joshua Kurlantzick, February 19, 2025 4:22 pm (EST)
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-intel-chief-dan-coats-suspected-putins-blackmail-bob-woodward-1971807
Donald Trump's Intel Chief Suspected Putin's 'Blackmail': Bob Woodward
On Miller's The Bulwark Podcast, Woodward discussed how he spoke with Coats while writing his latest book, War, about Trump's relationship with Putin during his presidency and after.
Discussing the pair's relationship, which Coats reportedly called an "enigma," Woodward said, "Coats who, for two and a half years was Trump's director of national intelligence, all the intelligence agencies, including the CIA, sees this. They don't have all of the information, but he sees it."
He continued, "This is so strange, it is so subservient on Trump's part. He actually asks when I discussed this with Coats several months ago, he said 'is this blackmail?' In other words, is Trump being blackmailed?"
Coats, who has previously issued warnings on Trump's behavior since leaving the former president's employ, was the director of national intelligence from 2017 to 2019, before being let go from the position after disagreeing with the then president on several issues.
Newsweek, Maya Mehrara, Oct 20, 2024 at 6:47 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/dan-coats-raises-red-flag-donald-trump-behavior-lives-could-lost-1873503
Ex-Trump Aide Raises Red Flag on Donald's Behavior: 'Lives Could Be Lost'
(Trump’s) plans that his allies are putting together that would significantly reshape parts of the federal government, including the hiring of staffers vetted for loyalty to Trump. The former president has also discussed plans to implement a "truth and reconciliation commission" which he claimed would feature a "10-point plan to dismantle the deep state." One of the points in this plan would involve removing employees from intelligence agencies.
"We will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus, and there are plenty of them," (Trump) said in March 2023. "The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled."
Politico reported that … numerous former staffers who warned that the former president will "push even harder to replace people perceived as hostile to his political agenda with inexperienced loyalists."
Coats was speaking in reference to the allegations that Trump mishandled classified documents, which he wrongfully retained after leaving the White House and stored at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The investigation into the matter resulted in a criminal indictment last June from the Department of Justice (DOJ) against Trump on 37 counts, including 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information.
Newsweek, Thomas Kika Feb 26, 2024 at 1:52 PM EST
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-says-our-country-stake-whistleblower-account-made-public-n1059011
Trump says those who gave info to the whistleblower are like spies, reports say
"I want to know who's the person, who's the person who gave the whistleblower the information? Because that’s close to a spy," Trump said, according to The Los Angeles Times. "You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? Right? The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now."
(Trump) ripped the press as "scum." "What these guys are doing to this country is a disgrace, and it shouldn't be allowed. There should be a way of stopping it,"
The intelligence whistleblower, whose name has not been released, has said they lodged the formal complaint because they believed that Trump was "using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country" in the 2020 election. In the call, Trump discussed having Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy help investigate the Biden family’s business dealings. "The interference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the president's main domestic political rivals," the whistleblower continued. "The president's personal lawyer, Mr. Rudolph Giuliani, is a central figure in this effort. Attorney General Barr appears to be involved as well."
NBC News, Shannon Pettypiece
Sept. 26, 2019, 10:15 AM EDT / Updated Sept. 27, 2019, 7:15 AM EDT
"There's my black man!"
“Did Crooked Hillary help..."
“Look at that face!"
“All of the women on ‘The Apprentice’ "
“A person who’s flat-chested"
“Fat. Pig. Slob. Disgusting animal.”
"I am the Chosen One"
Your mission - should you decide to accept it (well, yeah!) - is to totally destroy the economy of the United States of America, and to make the Russian Federation (formerly the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) into the Great World Power.
Trump told investors to ‘buy’ on social media hours before his tariff pause rose stocks, raising questions about manipulation
NEW YORK (AP) — When Donald Trump offered some financial advice Wednesday morning, stocks were wavering between gains and losses.
“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT,” he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social at 9:37 a.m.
Less than four hours later, Trump announced a 90-day pause on nearly all his tariffs. Stocks soared on the news, closing up 9.5% by the end of trading. The market, measured by the S&P 500, gained back about $4 trillion, or 70%, of the value it had lost over the previous four trading days.
It was a prescient call by the president. Maybe too prescient.
“He’s loving this, this control over markets, but he better be careful,” said Trump critic and former White House ethics lawyer, Richard Painter, noting that securities law prohibits trading on insider information or helping others do so. “The people who bought when they saw that post made a lot of money.”
The question is, Was Trump already contemplating the tariff pause when he made that post?
Asked about when he arrived at his decision, Trump gave a muddled answer.
“I would say this morning,” he said. “Over the last few days, I’ve been thinking about it.”
He then added, “Fairly early this morning.”
PBS Politics, Apr 10, 2025 10:27 AM EDT
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-told-investors-to-buy-on-social-media-hours-before-his-tariff-pause-rose-stocks-raising-questions-about-manipulation
Stock Market Today: Dow tumbles 1,000 points, S&P 500 and Nasdaq drop as indexes give back much of Wednesday's epic rally
U.S. stocks plunged on Thursday after the previous day's enormous rally
MarketWatch, April 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM EDT
https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-nasdaq-to-dip-after-historic-rally-on-trump-tariff-turnround-cpi-on-tap
Another question: HOW DID THIS ALL HAPPEN ???
To paraphrase the immortal words of our very own Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod, 'Look at that face!' on Meech.
On the left he is apparently frightened the bully will kick his butt, and on the right he is so grateful the bully didn't kick his butt he's almost weeping.
The psychiatrists will study this relationship for years.
But, the main question is: What power or threat is being used against these GOP subservient sycophants, that makes them kneel before their King?
After Voting To Acquit, McConnell Torches Trump As Responsible For Riot
"There's no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day," McConnell said shortly after the 57-43 Senate vote that ended in the former president's acquittal.
NPR, Barbara Sprunt
FEBRUARY 13, 20215:16 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-trial-live-updates/2021/02/13/967701180/after-vote-mcconnell-torched-trump-as-practically-and-morally-responsible-for-ri
Some in South Jersey have a message for Trump: Pay your old Atlantic City casino bills
Of all the troubling accusations that have followed Trump into the White House, there is little talk these days of the trail of unpaid bills he left behind from his days as an Atlantic City casino mogul.
But for the carpenters, electricians, plumbers, window installers and other contractors who built Trump’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City three decades ago, the wounds from not being paid still fester.
“It’s terrible,” said Jenkins, who runs Triad Building Specialties. “I can’t stand Trump. I think he’s nothing but a snake oil salesman.”
Jenkins was just 19 when Triad Building Specialties, started by his father in the mid-1970s, got the $300,000 contract to provide guardrails, doors, stalls and paper dispensers for the nearly 300 public bathrooms at the Trump Taj Mahal casino overlooking the Atlantic City beachfront.
Trump bragged that the Taj Mahal — which he claimed had a price tag of $1.2 billion — was the “eighth wonder of the world.” Not only was it considered the largest casino anywhere, it was adorned with crystal chandeliers from Austria, hand-sewn carpets from Britain, Carrara marble from Italy and 70 onion domes that towered over the Atlantic City boardwalk.
But the Taj, as it came to be called, was built on financial sand.
What Trump didn't say was that he financed the Taj with junk bonds. And what he did not tell the scores of contractors who worked on the overly lavish casino was that he could not pay their bills.
Triad Building Specialties ended up taking out a $40,000 loan just to pay its suppliers. And then the firm needed another decade just to pay off the loan. In the end, Triad received only 40 cents on the dollar from Trump for its work on the Taj, said Jenkins, now 49 and the firm’s co-owner.
“If it was just us, you could understand, but this has been a pattern over his entire career,” Jenkins said. “He’s owned so many failed or fraudulent companies over the years. It’s staggering to me."
Trump, who once bragged that he was the “King of Debt,” owed $70 million to 253 contractors who worked on the Taj and who, in turn, hired thousands of workers.
Some firms sculpted the cement on the Taj’s domes and minarets. Others installed the casino's windows and chandeliers. Still others laid the pipes and concrete pavers.
When contractors complained about delays in pay, Trump said he needed to complete audits to make sure they weren’t overcharging. Years later, when he ran for president and was asked about his failure to pay, Trump suggested that he needed to carefully check the bills because he feared that some contractors were cheating him.
That kind of strategy in delaying payment on his bills was not new. In “Trump: The Art of the Deal,” he wrote: “You have to be very rough and very tough with most contractors or they’ll take the shirt right off your back.”
In this case, Trump took the shirts off the backs of contractors — and emptied their wallets.
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. was only a teenager when the news emerged of Trump’s failure to pay for the workers at the Taj Mahal. But even today, he said, the subject stirs anger in the city.
“It’s still a talking point, anytime his name is brought up,” Small said. “It’s still a horror story for all of these people. He took advantage of people.”
With Trump delaying payments, contractors reached into their pockets to pay their workers and suppliers. In desperation, some contractors eagerly accepted a new offer from Trump: If they would agree to less than they billed, he would pay the lower amounts immediately.
By 1991, when the Taj collapsed into bankruptcy, Trump offered those contractors only 33 cents in cash for each dollar he owed. He promised another 50 cents on the dollar later. But many contractors say it took years to get anything.
And they were the lucky ones.
An Atlantic City firm that supplied paving stones lost $1.2 million. An Ohio company that made the Taj Mahal’s onion domes was shortchanged $2 million. A firm that brought in the Carrara marble from Italy went bankrupt.
Steven Perskie, a former Democratic assemblyman and state senator from Margate, had an appallingly close-up view of Trump’s battles with contractors. In 1990, then-Gov. James Florio appointed Perskie to run the New Jersey Casino Control Commission.
Perskie, who later became a state Superior Court judge, said “a number of local contractors and suppliers” simply gave up and went out of business. And when Trump gave up the last of his Atlantic City casino holdings in 2009, it ended any chance that contractors would get paid.
In 2016, when asked by The New York Times in the midst of Trump’s presidential campaign for his opinion of the former casino mogul, Perskie thought back to those unpaid contractors and their lingering financial scars.
“When he left Atlantic City, it wasn’t, ‘Sorry to see you go,’ ” Perskie said. “It was, ‘How fast can you get the hell out of here?’ ”
Meanwhile, Trump's own wallet seemed as fat as ever. He has never said his poor business dealings in Atlantic City hurt his personal finances. In fact, he says he continued to make money from his casinos. "Atlantic City fueled a lot of growth for me," Trump told The New York Times in 2016. "The money I took out of there was incredible.”
NorthJersey.com, Mike Kelly Jan 26, 2020 5:36 PM
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/mike-kelly/2020/01/24/donald-trump-still-owes-money-to-contractors-who-built-taj-mahal-atlantic-city/4547037002/
That's as far as we can go today, boys and girls.
Be sure to tune in tomorrow for more exciting adventures of America's Super Hero, the arch villain known as:
"DOOM"
MAKE HALLOWEEN GREAT AGAIN
April 11, 2025
Speaking of Halloween, how about we look at some Trick or Treating!
Follows is a Rogue's Gallery of those who associated themselves with "DOOM" and who have most likely come to rue the day they met the "DOOM" Super Hero.
This is probably not a complete list but it demonstrates the risks of not heeding the advice, 'Choose your friends carefully'.
Including the 15 shown above plus the 648 +/- rioters at the Capitol insurrection on Jan 6 who have pleaded or been found guilty of various crimes, the implications are staggering.
Not since the Nuremberg Trials (a total of 199 individuals) has a political leader inspired so many to commit crimes on that leader's behalf.
The moral of this story is: Hey, all you persons out there who have tied your destinies to the Super Hero "DOOM" in his latest episode of seeking 15 minutes of fame and fortune --- it's recommended that you study this piece of history to see the Future that awaits You!
Trump associates who have had legal trouble of their own
Roger Stone... convicted in 2019 of lying under oath to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Trump commuted his sentence the day before Stone, a veteran Republican political operative, was due to report to prison to serve a sentence of three years and four months. Trump later pardoned Stone.
Steve Bannon... charged after defying a demand to appear before a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack by Trump supporters seeking to prevent Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden's November 2020 election victory.... Trump pardoned Bannon in the final hours of his presidency in 2021.
Michael Cohen... sentenced to a three-year prison term after pleading guilty in 2018 for his role in making illegal hush money payments before the 2016 election to two women - porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal - who have said they had sexual encounters with Trump years earlier. Cohen has become a fierce critic of Trump.
Allen Weisselberg... Former Trump Organization CFO... Weisselberg pleaded guilty in 2022 and served as a star witness in the Trump Organization's criminal trial on tax fraud charges. Weisselberg pleaded guilty to additional charges of perjury and was sentenced to serve five months at the Rikers Island jail complex.
Elliott Broidy... former Trump fundraiser and official at the Republican National Committee, pleaded guilty in 2020 to violating foreign lobbying laws by attempting to influence Trump's administration on behalf of Chinese and Malaysian interests. Trump pardoned Broidy.
Paul Manafort arrives at a Manhattan courthouse in June 2019 on to face mortgage fraud charges that were later dismissed. Trump's former campaign chairman was found guilty in 2018 of federal tax evasion and bank fraud charges in Virginia, and pleaded guilty that same year to federal conspiracy and witness tampering charges in Washington, D.C. Manafort was sentenced to 7-1/2 years in prison but was pardoned by Trump in December 2020.
Michael Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, served as Trump's national security adviser for less than a month in 2017. He pleaded guilty later that year to lying to the FBI about his interactions with Russia's ambassador to the United States in the weeks before Trump took office, then tried to withdraw that plea. Trump pardoned him in 2020.
Peter Navarro turned himself in to a federal prison on March 19, 2024, following a conviction for contempt of Congress. Navarro was sentenced to four months after refusing to provide testimony to the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
Rick Gates, former campaign aide to former President Donald Trump, departs federal court after being sentenced to 45 days in jail and three years probation, in Washington, DC, U.S. on December 17, 2019. Gates was Paul Manafort's former business partner and served as deputy chairman of Trump's 2016 campaign. He pleaded guilty in 2018 to conspiracy and lying to investigators in the Russia campaign probe. Gates was sentenced in 2019 to 45 days in jail. He testified as a prosecution witness at Manafort's trial.
Rudy Giuliani speaks with the media after being processed at the Fulton County Jail. A grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia indicted Donald Trump. The indictment includes 41 charges against 19 defendants, from the former president to his former attorney Rudy Guiliani and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. The legal case centers on the state's RICO statute, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Mark Meadows, who was charged with Trump and 17 others in what prosecutors say was a sprawling conspiracy to reverse President Joe Biden's 2020 victory in Georgia, argued the crimes he is accused of committing were part of his federal job.
John Eastman sits in Fulton Superior Court in Atlanta on January 19, 2023. He indicted alongside former President Donald Trump and 17 others accused of a scheme to steal the 2020 election from President Joe Biden. He faces charges on conspiracy to impersonate a public officer, conspiracy to commit false statements and writings and other charges.
Jeffrey Clark, charged along with former President Donald Trump and 17 others, accused of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential election victory and keep the Republican Trump in power in Fulton County Superior Court, speaking during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Maryland.
Sidney Powell, pleaded guilty on Oct. 19, 2023, to a half-dozen misdemeanors dealing with a conspiracy to interfere in the 2020 election. Legal experts said Powell's central role in the conspiracy, as an election lawyer who baselessly claimed widespread election fraud in 2020, could have an impact on other defendants charged in the alleged racketeering conspiracy that sought to keep Trump in power.
Jenna Ellis, an attorney and prominent conservative media figure, reached a deal with prosecutors on Oct. 24, 2023, in Atlanta, and pleaded guilty to a reduced charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia.
Richard William Gates III[1] (born April 27, 1972) is an American former political consultant and lobbyist who pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States for making false statements in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
Rioters stand on the West front of the U.S. Capitol building to protest the election of President-elect Joe Biden on Jan 6, 2020. More than 1,000 people have been charged in connection with the Capitol attack. The most serious charge has been seditious conspiracy - a felony involving attempts "to overthrow, put down or to destroy by force the government of the United States." Roughly 570 have pleaded guilty and 78 have been found guilty at trial. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the right-wing Oath Keepers militant group, was given the longest of the sentences - 18 years in prison - for seditious conspiracy and other crimes. Leaders of the Proud Boys, another right-wing group, also were convicted of seditious conspiracy. They have yet to be sentenced.
USA Today, Politics, 5:40 PM Sep 5, 2024
What is behind this sudden attempt to de-educate America's citizens?
Why suddenly is Ignorance the goal instead of Knowledge?
Benjamin Franklin:
"The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths"
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest"
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn".
Trump's Department of Education Attack Explained
The Trump administration just issued an executive order to begin dismantling the Education Department, putting millions of students’ education and civil rights at risk.
The Education Department (ED) has historically played a critical role in protecting civil rights, promoting equity, and providing opportunities for all students, including those in marginalized communities, students with disabilities, LGBTQ students, and multilingual learners. This reckless action strips students of vital resources and tears down statutorily mandated functions that are essential to addressing racial and economic inequality in education. It also threatens decades of bipartisan progress toward educational fairness and reverses the commitment of previous administrations — Republican and Democrat alike — to ensure equal access to education. As the Supreme Court unanimously recognized in Brown v. Board of Education, public education “is the very foundation of good citizenship.”
President Donald Trump refuses to accept this mandate. Instead, he is attempting to dismantle the ED — undermining its ability to safeguard these critical protections — and weaponizing the department to carry out a deeply unpopular political agenda.
ACLU, March 21, 2025
https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/trumps-attack-on-the-department-of-education-explained
Universities push back against Trump's cuts on federal funding
The White House says it is freezing more than one billion dollars in federal funding for Cornell University and almost 800 million dollars for Northwestern University. The cuts are part of an effort by the Trump administration to use government funding to encourage colleges and universities to comply with the President's political agenda.
HEARD ON MORNING EDITION , Elissa Nadworny, Michel Martin
APRIL 10, 20254:05 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5357619/universities-push-back-against-trumps-cuts-on-federal-funding
Countless articles have been written reporting on the "DOOM'S" attempts to dumb down America, but none have answered the Big Question: WHY?
What really is behind this attempt? Could it be a devious scheme by a Foreign Power?
Inquiring minds want to know!
The Nazi book burnings were a series of public events in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s, where books deemed "un-German" or subversive to the Nazi ideology were ceremonially burned, starting in March 1933 and ending in October 1933.
Purpose:
The Nazi regime, through the German Student Union, organized these events to publicly display their control and suppress dissenting voices and ideologies.
Targeted Books:
Books by Jewish authors, those critical of the Nazi regime, or those promoting pacifism, socialism, or other ideologies opposed to Nazism, were targeted for burning.
Timing:
The first major book burning took place in Bebelplatz in Berlin in March 1933, with subsequent events occurring in other cities.
Significance:
The book burnings are seen as a symbol of the Nazi regime's cultural genocide and its suppression of intellectual freedom and diversity.
Precursors:
The burning of books has a long history of being a tool utilized by authorities both secular and religious, in their efforts to suppress dissenting or heretical views that are believed to pose a threat to the prevailing order.
Book banning in America is a growing problem, with PEN America reporting over 10,000 instances of book bans in public schools during the 2023-2024 school year. This trend is driven by conservative backlash against discussions of race, LGBTQ+ issues, and diversity in schools. The practice raises concerns about free speech, the right to information, and the ability to challenge ideas.
Key Aspects of Book Banning in America:
Increased Frequency:
Book bans have surged in recent years, particularly in the second half of 2023, with PEN America reporting a 4,349 book ban spike in that period.
Motivations:
Many bans are prompted by concerns about age-appropriateness and potentially controversial content, such as books dealing with sexuality, gender, or racism.
Impact on Education:
Critics argue that book bans undermine the principles of free expression and critical thinking, hindering students' ability to engage with diverse perspectives.
Concerns about Censorship:
Some view book bans as a form of censorship, suppressing access to information and ideas.
Legal Challenges:
The First Amendment protects the right to receive information, and book bans can be seen as a violation of this right.
Specific Instances:
Some commonly banned books include "1984" by George Orwell, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, and "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker.
Geographical Distribution:
PEN America has tracked instances of book bans across 33 states, with Florida and Texas leading in the number of bans.
Examples of Book Bans:
Books by authors of color, LGBTQ+ authors, and women, as well as books about race, sexuality, gender, and history, are often targeted for bans.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Please understand the author of this web cartoon is NOT advocating violence or insurrection of any kind.
As Steede Asberry said (or was it Control?), "We are fighting for the reasonable man and in a reasonable manner" or something to that effect.
The point is, as Dr. Marcus Brody said, "The pen is mightier than the sword" and, as Wael Ghonim said, "the Power of the People is greater than the people in power."
April 13, 2025
The Economic TimesNews English Edition | Today's ePaper. The FeedLast Updated: 27 March, 2025 07:43 AM -4 GMT
Is Putin suffering from a deadly disease?
Synopsis
Speculation about Vladimir Putin's health… the 72-year-old… has intensified… According to many reports, Putin is battling thyroid, prostate, and pancreatic cancer. A leading thyroid cancer surgeon paid Putin at least 35 visits at his Black Sea resort, Sochi, according to a Proekt media investigation. Despite the Kremlin's denials, Putin's public appearances showing shaking limbs and puffy features… reports of bloated features and trembling "jelly" legs… a puffy face, a twitching leg, and bloodshot eyes… rumors circulated by the General SVR Telegram channel that Putin had defecated "involuntarily" after falling down a set of stairs because of "cancer affecting his stomach and bowels,” has only served to heighten rumors. Allegations also arose about Putin using body doubles…"
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/is-putin-suffering-from-a-deadly-disease-zelensky-says-he-will-die-soon-heres-the-truth/articleshow/119615602.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
Why is this news about Putin important? Because, some people are criminally insane. When they die, like a suicide bomber, they want to take other people—innocent people—with them. They are consumed by an attitude of "Misanthropy" where a general hatred, dislike, or distrust of the human species, human behavior, or human nature rules their emotions and decisions.
I typed in this prompt, “Why do people like to be frightened by horror movies?” and got this response:
AI Overview
People enjoy horror movies for a variety of psychological and neurological reasons, including a craving for intense experiences, a way to process and manage emotions, and a chance to feel a rush of excitement and adrenaline. Additionally, horror can provide a controlled environment to confront and overcome fears, offering a safe space to experience and process anxiety.
The problem with this particular horror show, it is not fictional nor is it a controlled environment. This show is as real as the Doomsday Clock which is showing “89 seconds to midnight” (https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/).
Of all the dangers facing humanity - existential crises – there is one that shouldn’t be ignored. That is this экзистенциальный кризис emanating from the Kremlin. If the foreign and domestic policy of America is being dictated out of the Kremlin, by a sick and dying man with a certain history "Vladimir Putin’s Inhumane Blueprint to Terrorize Civilians" then this horror show is suddenly getting more horrific.
(https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/vladimir-putin-chechnya-syria-ukraine?srsltid=AfmBOoraWrmfFqp_rBU31khgRLUQ1SQyhPiuOejqyzqi5fTcd4WnLR7F)
Please note the word "If" at the beginning of the last sentence in the last paragraph above (not counting the citation).
This is all speculation, okay? It's what's called Humor, and political satire uses ironic comedy to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt.
In the world of politics there is lots of material to satirize.
Everyone should be able to look in the mirror and laugh at themselves.
It's a sign of a healthy mind.
April 14, 2025
"We have the best government that money can buy."
Mark Twain
"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money."
W. C. Fields
Three billionaires with a combined wealth over $1 Trillion dollars have thrown their support behind the arch villain "DOOM".
Why?
Meta faces trial on claims it built an illegal monopoly through Instagram, WhatsApp acquisitions
Case threatens to unwind deals, poses existential threat to Meta
Trial seen as test of Trump administration's resolve to take on Big Tech
Reuters, Jody Godoy, April 14, 202510:00 AM EDT Updated 8 min ago
What could Trump's second term mean for Amazon?
The new administration could also scrap a sprawling antitrust lawsuit accusing Amazon of acting as a monopoly in the e-commerce industry. ...set up a National Labor Relations Board that is less sympathetic to unions than the current one appointed by President Joe Biden, which could affect an ongoing wave of unionization efforts at Amazon's warehouses.
Amazon has denied the allegations... set to go to trial in October 2026, but the FTC could vote to end the case before then, said John Kirkwood, a law professor at Seattle University.
The Seattle Times, Lauren Rosenblatt, NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Elon Musk’s backing of Donald Trump... gives the billionaire entrepreneur extraordinary influence to help his companies secure favorable government treatment.
Musk contributed at least $119 million to a pro-Trump spending group... reflects a wider strategy to insulate his companies from regulation or enforcement and boost their government support... to take full advantage of his deepening relationship with Trump.
His rising political involvement could put his industrial empire in a position that current and former employees likened to the Gilded Age, when industry barons such as J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller held broad sway over government policy impacting their businesses and wealth.
Reuters, Marisa Taylor, Rachael Levy and Chris Kirkham, November 7, 20246:00 AM EST
The Existential Threat of Ultra-Billionaires
A handful of rich guys will burn human society to the ground rather than pay a dime in tax.
BY RYAN COOPER MARCH 25, 2025
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-existential-threat-ultra-billionaires-elon-musk/
dis·il·lu·sion·ment
/ˌdisəˈlo͞oZHənm(ə)nt/
noun
a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.
AI Overview
A disillusionment arc in literature is a negative character arc where a character initially believes in a lie or a flawed belief, and then discovers a harsh reality that is worse than their initial belief. This arc involves a character experiencing a loss of faith in a belief system, ideology, or way of life, often due to personal experiences, social upheaval, or realizing their beliefs don't align with reality.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
Core Elements:
Initial Belief (Lie):
The character starts with a strong belief, often based on a false or limited perception of reality.
Discovery of Truth:
Through events and experiences, the character begins to realize the truth, which contradicts their initial belief.
“I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful — embarrassed is a huge one. I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Trump,” she said.
...there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest “I voted for Trump last election, but...” is an increasingly common sentiment.
“biggest mistake of my life.”
There are the federal workers who backed the Republican ticket, only to be fired without cause after Inauguration Day.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/seven-weeks-trump-voters-start-feel-buyers-remorse-rcna195620
Fact check: Chart of job growth by president shows historic unemployment under Trump
The claim: Trump is the worst jobs president in history
USA TODAY, Chelsey Cox
8:35 PM EST
Author’s note:
I was recently asked, by a concerned friend, “Why are you doing this? Don’t you know that ‘They’ will come for you and put you in a black box prison?”
My answer was, “Fear is the great undoing. If you allow ‘They’ to put you in a position of fearfulness, and you do not speak or act, then ‘They’ are free to do anything ‘They’ want to do.”
To paraphrase Julius Robert Oppenheimer, “In the microsecond before the chain reaction, all you can do is bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.”
So, if We, All of Us, don’t join together to Resist this RICO ‘They” who are determined to force their regime upon Us… well, then... (see Oppenheimer)
That’s why I’m doing this.
April 15, 2025
What is “DOOM’s” reasons for threatening to Take Over Greenland?
“Why did the Nazi dictator Hitler want the Sudetenland?”
Hitler sought to annex the Sudetenland, to control military defenses and resources in the area, facilitating future expansion into the rest of Czechoslovakia. Hitler claimed that the Sudetenland was his final “territorial demand in Europe.”
Trump donors eye potential bonanza if US succeeds with Greenland land-grab
Ethical doubts over role of campaign backers and investors with financial ties to president worth hundreds of millions
A Guardian analysis of campaign finance records and corporate filings show US tech moguls who invested in mining companies operating in Greenland, fossil fuel executives and crypto tycoons with their own set of plans for the country collectively gave at least $243m to the president’s 2024 campaign.
Meanwhile institutional investors bankrolling Greenland mining interests also amassed $314m worth of shares in Trump Media, most just ahead of the election.
“There’s a closed loop among these investors, billionaires, Trump and the crypto projects,” said Emily DiVito, a senior adviser for economic policy with the Groundwork Collaborative economic thinktank. Greenland is an example of that in action, she added.
“These donations are investments, and they were made with particular outcomes in mind, and even if they weren’t stated at the time, the money changed hands,” DiVito said.
Trump has vowed to acquire Greenland “one way or another”.
The Guardian, Tom Perkins, Tue 15 Apr 2025 07.00 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/trump-greenland-donors-investors-finance
Obviously, there are three heads occupying the one body that is seated in the Big Chair in the Oval Office.
All three heads are intent on World Domination.
What territorial demands come after Ukraine, Greenland, and the Panama Canal?
Seriously, who is in charge? Who is the POTUS?
Tune in tomorrow for the next episode of:
"DOOM"
