Saturday, December 28, 2024

The steady drip, the steady erosion



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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) December 28, 2024 at 3:08 PM



Holiday weekend or not, the Donald Chump supporters war continues.  In one corner, the wealthy swamp sewer rats he's bringing into his administration.  In the other, the deeply stupid MAGA who thought the unChristian con artist was one of them.   David McAfee (RAW STORY) reports the latest:


Donald Trump on Saturday sided with appointee Elon Musk over MAGA influencers including Laura Loomer, a report suggests.

Loomer is among those who have picked a fight with Musk over certain immigration visas, which he says are necessary for him and other executives to conduct their regular business. Far-right Trump supporters argued that big businesses should instead rely upon talented workers from the United States.

The GOP rift has taken over the news cycle for days, but Trump over the weekend finally gave his perspective, according to a report.

Jon Levine, a political reporter at the New York Post who has investigated Hunter Biden and worked on the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, said he spoke to Trump about the visas for skilled workers in a phone call.

"President-elect Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers, appearing to side with Elon Musk in the roiling intra-MAGA debate on the issue," the Post reported. The article quotes Trump as saying, "I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them."


So he's not even in office and he's already making clear to the voters who delivered the victory for him just how little they truly matter to him.  


While MAGA is at war… there is a life to live!!! Don’t get too caught up in their BS!

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— Danielle Moodie (@daniellemoodie.bsky.social) December 28, 2024 at 5:26 PM



So many of us saw it coming.  What happens next?  MAGA fights back?  More likely they roll over and take it for now.  They've lied to themselves for so long about Chump.  Chump delivered nothing for them in his first four year term.  





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— Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) December 28, 2024 at 10:02 AM



They made up excuses and lies and turned out to vote for him in 2024.  And now, he's yet again made how clear they don't matter to him


Tom Boggiono (RAW STORY) reports:


According to longtime political observer Jonathan Alter, the moment Donald Trump is sworn in on Jan. 20, the clock begins ticking on his hold of power since he will be widely regarded as a lame-duck president.

Speaking with MSNBC host Charles Coleman Jr. on Saturday morning, Alter said that the president-elect stands no chance of running for a third term on 2028 despite speculation that he might attempt it, and lawmakers won't have to go along with every demand he makes.

As he explained, "In the short and middle term I think he'll be held to account for all sorts of campaign promises. If he is not successful in lowering prices, as he promised he would do, and if his tariffs and other policies contribute to renewed inflation, he will be judged very harshly on that."


He's probably right but he's also possibly wrong.  Wrong in that he's thinking this is going to emerge when it's already emerging.  Chump's already bloodied and not just due to the Elon Musk issue but also because of the nominations he keeps announcing.  Not making.  He's not President yet.  He can't nominate until he is.  But they're chipping away at his image as well.  He doesn't know what he's doing and that seed was planted when he announced his intent to nominate Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General of the United States.  The report, released Monday, is a stain on Chump that will only grow larger.  He's an idiot and he's a crook -- Chump is.  And that's why he nominated drug using, pedophile Matt Gaetz.  And some of his supporters will try to shake it off but it's there with each nominee -- the nagging doubt that Chump doesn't know what he's doing.  And that nagging doubt will only grow.  Pete Hegseth?  Chump's choice for Secretary of Defense?  His defense of the torture that took place at Abu Ghraib?  He's not fit to serve as Secretary of Defense.  If he's forgotten a general got demoted over that torture -- Bully Boy Bush signed off on the demotion.  That was a scandal and Hegseth can't embrace it and be effective as Secretary of Defense.  As Secretary, you're supposed to represent the best that the military can be -- not be a drunken abuser of women.  


This is eroding him right now.  And if he gets crazy Tulsi Gabbard on as Director of National Intelligence and there is one terrorist attack on US soil, the American people will be calling for his head on a platter because he appointed a cult member with no experience to the post.


There will be no hesitation among the public.  There will be no call for national unity.  There will only be the fact that a crazy cult member got appointed to a position she had no experience or training for and America was left defenseless as a result.  That will be on Trump and Tulsi and the country will not be forgiving.


Lame duck?  Alter thinks Chump's going to be a lame duck.  He's going to be as effective as a dead duck.  He'll hang himself with each passing week.


Lived experience will be a slow cruel lesson for MAGA.  Whether or not the country -- or the world -- will survive is another question. Gerren Keith Gaynor (THE GRIO) reports:


The newly formed Affirming Leaders Council is sounding the alarm in fear of Trumpism, global authoritarianism, and an international decline in human rights.

The bracing for President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming White House and its implications extends beyond Black, Brown, and marginalized communities within America’s borders. A second Trump term and its hostility toward racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, and its embrace of White Christian nationalism are also concerning on the continent of Africa. 

Faith and religious leaders in Africa are banding together with Black American allies to fight back against what they see as a political movement driving Trumpism, global authoritarianism, and an international decline of human rights. Together, they formed the Affirming Leaders Council, led by Pan-African advocate Bishop Joseph Tolton, executive director of Interconnected Justice, and Rev. Mpofu Andrea Tutu, the daughter of the late Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa.

“The extreme religious right is a global force that is not only undermining the life and well-being of African Americans but very much so has been meddling in African affairs for many, many, many years,” said Bishop Tolton, who has for years worked throughout the African continent to build a Pan-African, pro-LGBTQ coalition that advances human and civil rights.

In other news, Senator Chuck Schumer has yet again disappointed.  Ten empty slots that should have been filled but that Chuckie wants to let Donald Chump fill.   And this is yet another reason DC needs real voting rights in Congress and real representation.  


This paragraph kept getting moved further and further down the entry:


Speaking of seeing it, Aunt Jemima.  Don't usually use the term "Uncle Tom" or "Aunt Jemima" here.  But we'll be addressing Aunt Jemima here in the year-in-review piece that will go up early January 1st.  She's a Black woman filled with self-loathing who worked on the left or 'left' to defeat Kamala and put Trump back in the White House.   


Originally, it appeared right after the excerpt of David McAfee's report.  It was followed by eleven paragraphs that I pulled from the entry and might use in the year-in-review. Aunt Jemima was a new one to me.  I didn't know her and didn't know the way she worked to ensure Kamala lost.  A lying outlet that lied big time in 2008 brought on Aunt Jemima.  As they did in 2008, they lied for their whore.  If Aunt Jemima had been forced to disclose, her statements would have carried less weight.  But whores gotta whore, right?  


I love how these people get away with it -- lying every four years to advance their candidate and to destroy others.  They pretend to be fair and honest and to be journalists but in reality they are whores.  DEMOCRACY NOW! is the worst of the whores and if you're still trusting Amy Goodman, you're no better than a MAGA member.  

 

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