& the moon's a balloon.
& the moon's a balloon.
I'm surprised that his royal Bonkers hasn't proposed to run the country from his grave after the end of his 3rd term.
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All this points to one conclusion: as a tyrant, let alone as president, Trump is actually pretty useless – and as his failures, frustrations and fantasies multiply, he will grow ever more dangerously unstable. Trump’s biggest enemy is Trump. Those who would save the US and themselves – at home and abroad – must employ all democratic means to contain, deter, defang and depose him. But right now, the best, brightest hope is that, drowning in hubris, Trump will destroy himself.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/donald-trump-us-constitution-president
We are tottering on the edge of dictatorship. Powerful voices across institutions, from politics to academia and religion, must speak out
Wed 30 Apr 2025 19.07 BST
We have witnessed the first 100 days of the odious Trump regime.
The US constitution is in peril. Civil and human rights are being trampled upon. The economy is in disarray.
At this rate, we will not make it through the second 100 days.
Federal judges in more than 120 cases so far have sought to stop Trump – judges appointed by Republicans as well as Democrats, some appointed by Trump himself – but the regime is either ignoring or appealing their orders. It has even arrested a municipal judge in Milwaukee amid a case involving an undocumented defendant.
Recently, Judge J Harvie Wilkinson III of the court of appeals for the fourth circuit – an eminent conservative Reagan appointee who is revered by the Federalist Society – issued a scathing rebuke to the Trump regime. In response to its assertion that it can abduct residents of the US and put them into foreign prisons without due process, Wilkinson wrote:
If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home? And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive’s obligation to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed’ would lose its meaning.
Wilkinson’s fears are already being realized. Ice recently deported three US citizens – aged two, four and seven – when their mothers were deported to Honduras. One of the children, who has stage 4 cancer, was sent out of the US without medication or consultation with doctors.
Meanwhile, the regime continues to attack all the independent institutions in this country that have traditionally served as buffers against tyranny – universities, non-profits, lawyers and law firms, the media, science and researchers, libraries and museums, the civil service and independent agencies – threatening them with extermination or loss of funding if they do not submit to its oversight and demands.
Trump has even instructed the Department of Justice to investigate ActBlue, the platform that handles the fundraising for almost all Democratic candidates and the issues Democrats support.
We are no longer Democrats or Republicans. We are either patriots fighting the regime or we are complicit in its tyranny. There is no middle ground
Meanwhile, Trump is actively destroying the economy. His proposed tariffs are already raising prices. His attacks on the Fed chief, Jerome Powell, are causing tremors around the world.
Trump wants total power, even at the cost of our democracy and economy.
His polls are plummeting yet many Americans are still in denial. “He’s getting things done!” some say. “He’s tough and strong!”
Every American with any shred of authority must loudly and boldly explain the danger we are in.
A few Democratic members and progressives in Congress (Bernie Sanders, AOC, Cory Booker, Chris Van Hollen, Chris Murphy) have expressed outrage, but most seem oddly quiet. Granted, they have no direct power to stop what is occurring but they cannot and must not appear to acquiesce. They need to be heard, every day – protesting, demanding, resisting, refusing.
Barack Obama has spoken up at least once, to his credit, but where is my old boss, Bill Clinton? Where is George W Bush? Where are their former vice-presidents – Al Gore and Dick Cheney? Where are their former cabinet members? They all must be heard, too.
What about Republican members of Congress? Are none willing to stand up against what is occurring? And what of Republican governors and state legislators? If there were ever a time for courage and integrity, it is now. Their silence is inexcusable.
Over 400 university presidents have finally issued a letter opposing “the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education”. Good. Now they must speak out against the overreach endangering all of American democracy.
Hundreds of law firms have joined a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the law firm Perkins Coie’s appeal of the regime’s demands. Fine. Now, they along with the American Bar Association and every major law school must sound the alarm about Trump’s vindictive and abusive use of the justice department.
America’s religious leaders have a moral obligation to speak out. They have a spiritual duty to their congregations and to themselves to make their voices heard.
The leaders of American business – starting with Jamie Dimon, the chair and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, who in normal times has assumed the role of spokesperson for American business – have been conspicuously silent. Of course they fear Trump’s retribution. Of course they hope for a huge tax cut. But these hardly excuse their seeming assent to the destruction of American democracy.
We have witnessed what can happen in just the first 100 days. I’m not at all sure we can wait until the 2026 midterm elections and hope that Democrats take back at least one chamber of Congress. At the rate this regime is wreaking havoc, too much damage will have been done by then.
The nation is tottering on the edge of dictatorship.
We are no longer Democrats or Republicans. We are either patriots fighting the regime or we are complicit in its tyranny. There is no middle ground.
Soon, I fear, the regime will openly defy the supreme court. Americans must be mobilized into such a huge wave of anger and disgust that members of the House are compelled to impeach Trump (for the third time) and enough senators are moved to finally convict him.
Then this shameful chapter of American history will end.
...Indecent Obsession was a boy band from Australia. I saw them live in the Goodhope Center in 1992...33 years later and only now do I truly understand...
The normal collection of B Stes all in one place, Unbelievable.
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With Musk and SpaceX ….the universe is next.
The emperor has no clothes...
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The USA contribution to the GDP has been static while the Federal debt were increasing by leaps and bounds so at present the federal debt is at 125% of the GDP with the Debt increase based on bidenomics was set to be 200% by 2030. That means the GDP was collapsing and all Trump is trying to do is by means pf tariffs to force USA billionaires who export their manufactoring to China and other cheap labour countries and bring it back to the USA - without that the USA economy would collapse and the consequences for the world would make the 1933 depression looks like a Sunday school picnic.
If you do not understand that you must be totally dumb. In the meantime the Dow Jones index is back to where it was on election day and the private sector added 177 000 employees that would add to the growth it in the GDP as well. Amazing since by election day there was a major rise in share prices because of a ptotential win by Trump and to get it back to where it was on election day showed a rowth off 20% above what it was under he Biden regime.
So keep us entertained by BS on site and then we will realize who areally are deficient in thinking ability - because they have been brainwashed into idiotic level inability to think for themselves. You are too ignorant to deal with teh item I post on UK election issues. As things lpok now the UK po;itical sstem is colapsinga and the Woke culture you obviously you believe in is under serious attack and bound to collapse, So where would a UK collapse o ultra-leftist ideology is set to collapse and one wnder where you will go to next . Canada is i that Woke cultiue leftist rule and may be your favored country to flee too, But indications are that Trump is going to help Starmir to introduce economic changes that would save the UK from economic collapse.
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The Trumpanzee species must be squealing in delight that their master runs the world. They want to bend over backwards at the mere thought of their beloved My Führer.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5270899-trump-i-run-the-country-and-the-world/
America make up 20-25% of the world economy, and this is going to drop over the next 5-10 years.