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Apologies to Jackie Gleason …
New hairplugs
He’s so life-like!
Pasty white is the new orange.
LOL
He looks like a Far Side character.
Never noticed how dainty and feminine his wrists are. That fat bitch.
Tweedle Dee
No, definitely Tweedle Dum, or maybe Tweedle Dumbest. (I always thought that was Eric, but with this tariff things…Holy Christ.)
Does his belt go up higher the more the economy crashes? Should be neck level by next week.
He must have an amazing constitution. I don’t believe I have ever seen anyone that age who is that fat. The big boys usually take a dirt nap before they reach 78.
JD has his fingers crossed.
As much as I despise Trump, I revile Vance. I think Trump actually believes his idiocy will help the U.S. economy, but Vance is smart enough to know these tariffs will make Smoot- Hawley seem like an economic stimulus. Republican politicians have campaigned against tariffs since before Reagan. They know how bad these tariffs will be for the economy, but they are too cowardly to stand against Trump. The Republican Party will be hurt in the midterms, but unless someone does something about this insanity, they will be destroyed in 2028.
I believe just about every Republican in Congress deserves to lose their seat. However, it will not be good for the country if the hard Left can pass their most extreme ideas, like abolishing the filibuster and packing the Supreme Court. Chuck Schumer is smart enough to know that would be a bad idea. How would Democrats feel if they lost the power to filibuster Trump? No matter how large the landslide that puts them in power, one day, they will be in the minority again.
But that’s all worry about the future. What can we do now to combat Trump’s idiocy?
I always try to remember never to ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence, but I really think there must be smart people in Trump’s administration who are whispering in the Cheeto & Chief’s ear and simultaneously profiting from the economic destruction.
Citizens United is one of the worst SCOTUS decisions of all time allowing the money that people like Trump, Musk, Koch brothers, among many others to manipulate elections and funnel money up to the 3,000 billionaires running the world. I’m not sure what’s more extreme than treating these human made inventions called corporations like the Romans treated their gods and letting it ruin society. And then when any of them fail and crash society, the C-suite and rich investors come away with hundreds of millions for the effort.
Its laughable worrying about packing the court with “extremists” when the most extreme decisions are already in effect.
I believe Citizens United was correctly decided, but I don’t like the effects of that decision. However, you have its effects exactly backwards. Citizens United stands for the rights of non-billionaire’s to pool their money to influence elections. Citizens United has allowed small-dollar donations to have profoundly negative effects on our politics. A billionaire like Elon Musk doesn’t need to use a corporation to purchase campaign ads.
The Citizens United case started when a group of conservatives financed a movie about Hillary Clinton that they planned to release prior to the 2008 election. Corporations are often created for film productions as a way for the investors to organize themselves. However, the Federal Elections Commission decided that would violate campaign finance law. If Citizens United had upheld the campaign finance law, Elon Musk would still be free to spend as much of his own money as he liked to influence elections. He just couldn’t give money to any candidates, at least not in excess of the legal limit.
According to Buckley v. Valeo (1976), the government may limit the amount of money you can donate to a political candidate because the federal government has a compelling interest in avoiding the appearance of impropriety that may result from very high contributions. However, a candidate may spend as much of their own money on their own campaign because that wouldn’t create an appearance of impropriety. At least, that’s what the Court felt in 1976. Without CU, Elon Musk, George Soros, and/or other billionaires could hire people to create attack ads and then pay for those attack ads to be run during the Super Bowl (if they wished). Billionaires have First Amendment Rights, too. Those of us who are not billionaires can’t really afford to pay for campaign ads, at least not enough of them to matter.
When the Supreme Court says that corporations are people, do you know what that means? There are pragmatic reasons for the law to treat a corporation as a legal person for some purposes. But that’s not why corporations have constitutional rights. Corporations have constitutional rights because they are owned by people. Citizens United had free speech/freedom of the press rights because its shareholders did. Hobby Lobby, Inc. had a right of free exercise of religion because it was a closely held corporation owned by a family of devout Christians. Instead of looking at the Hobby Lobby decision as giving First Amendment rights to a corporation, think of it as saying that the owners of Hobby Lobby didn’t lose their First Amendment rights just because they incorporated their business.
There’s no one that thinks Citizens United was a good decision allowing regular people to pool their money. It’s just allowed billionaires to do so and offers a front where none of it is directly exposed through SuperPACs.
Corporations, specifically the common for-profit type-C mechanism, is nothing but an invented artifact of society to funnel the majority of wealth in the world to the top through executive compensation and investment manipulation. By people, the ones making the most are the 3,000 billionaires in the world that is hoarded for further exploitation. It’s a mechanism to funnel over $16 trillion dollars to a group of individuals who could fit in a high school gymnasium.
When one goes under, people lose their ability to survive, yet executives and investors siphon hundreds of millions off their failure: see the Lehman Bros CEO among many, many others who have run companies into the ground and “earned” lifetimes of resources for it.
At its best, you could say corporations provided R&D funding for the engineers and scientists of places like Bell Labs or Xerox PARC, or large scale investments like the IBM System/360 – but ironically it took shedding the entire nature of profiteering to let these widescale initiatives take place and act more like an open source or public project. For the most part, manipulation of the legal system to take inventions of groups of individuals and place under the corporate banner of protection for profiteering has caused nothing but harm and stifles improvements: see Oracle, Apple, and others.
These entities are as invented as idols created for Egyptian or Roman deities, and the deification of businessmen who exploit these entities for personal gain is no different than what people did with Pharaohs or Emperors. If humanity survives another thousand years without the idiocracy of the many destroying the species, it will be looked at the exact same way.
I agree with you, and with Indy, too. All I want to say is that I HOPE there will be free and fair elections in 2028. And in 2026, for that matter. I think it might be a mistake just to assume there will be.🤞
Sadly, JD may be the closest thing this room has to an adult in it.
Scoop, he’s not worked a real day his entire life. That’s why his fat ass is still alive.
Remember, only the good die young…
waist line rising faster than prices
The next pair will incorporate a bra.
I wonder where he buys his corsets?
He likes to sign off with a large felt tip. Stormy Daniels says its not that large.
I keep reading things like how could they do this, and doesn’t he know. I saw the comment above saying that they actually believe this will help the economy. They really don’t give a shit. The whole point is to tank the economy as a means to take over more control. I hear things like could he be this stupid. Again they don’t care. All they care about is consolidating power so they can make more money off the backs of the working class.
The commerce secretary on Face the Nation said: “”The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones — that kind of thing is going to come to America.”
Really, that’s what they think of everyone else, that they’re below them and the working class should be a mass of human drones for wage slavery they can control easier. That’s why they push for privatization, forcing people into offices when it doesn’t make sense, and talk about 80 hour work weeks. They don’t think they give a shit about the economy, they literally just want citizens under their thumb, they want no unions, and they want anyone not in the machine to go off and die.
They wish every penny of human capital to be extracted because no amount of power, resources, or ego boost is good enough for them. It must be infinite. They’re psychopaths, dutifully followed by their cult of mini-psychopaths that think they’re just disenfranchised future billionaires who are a roulette spin away from becoming just like them.
Yeah, the suffering seems to be most of the point and if they can make a *kid* suffer, they’re that much happier.
I suppose screwing tiny screws into Iphones will be what they describe as a “good” job. This will be the “long-term gain” they’re promising.
Almost worth it though, to have a silk jacket with “Screwers Union” on the back.
An iPhone assembled in the US would incur a labor cost of $300 v. $30 in China per the WSJ.
Lutnick acknowledged that “it’s gonna be automated,” which is just one of the reasons more manufacturing may not mean more jobs.
You sure that isn’t Harry Dunne?
(Way) back when I was in school they had this thing called the “Presidential Fitness Test.” I wonder it would take to get a passing grade now, given the example shown.
Remember the picture of him they had to take down in Colorado for being overly accurate? Here’s your replacement.