I was fortunate to have traveled around the US before the truly local identities were stolen by corporate restaurants, broadcast radio&tv, newspapers, and most of the other mom-and-pop small businesses that were truly unique. The political duopoly has done the same thing to inclusive, diverse, unifying, and critical thinking replacing it with defacto irrational emotional insular platforms that reduce the populace to warring tribal cults unable to embrace the unity of a democratic republic. Without common goals and mutual tolerance of our differences, we are incapable of the self-rule that a democratic republic requires and will fail as easy prey to a self-serving authoritarian seeking control.
Well. once the orange baboon is behind bars, away from the general prison population, he just might change his ways. Right now, his saffron color is the only thing he has in common with a Buddhist monk.
A “contentious interview” — with Fox? When has anyone from Fox ever treated Trump as anything other than The Saviour Of All Mankind? Don’t the people there address him as “Lord?”
The press has run with a lot of stories that turned out to be nothing more than Democrat propaganda hit pieces. The Russian collusion hoax. The laptop is Russian disinformation. And that ’s just two examples.
But who recalls them admitting their errors and pledging to do better in the future? Just where are the real investigative journalists? How many “news” outlets gave you the story of the Hunter message to the chinese about paying up or his father in the room would cause problems? Can anyone even think of a bigger corruption story in all of history?
Trump is not off the mark here with his comments. If the press did their job we’d all be better off.
‘Only in it for himself’: Former GOP lawmaker trashes Trump for pushing Russian talking points
Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tore into former President Donald Trump for his latest defense of Vladimir Putin.This comes after Russia saw an explosion of chaos as the Putin-affiliated mercenary group, Wagner, turned on the Russian military and was halfway to Moscow before a hasty resolution was brokered that prevented a potential coup.
“Donald Trump … warned against cheering on upheaval in Russia, writing on Truth Social, ‘A big mess in Russia, but be careful what you wish for, next one may be far worse,’” said anchor Poppy Harlow.
“First off, Donald Trump is the most whiny — I mean, I’m just going to be straight. He’s the most whiny victim, but the strongest person that’s always the victim of everything and all he does is talk, he takes every crisis around the world, where we need to show unity, and he talks down the United States,” said Kinzinger, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel and one of the only Republicans to work on the House January 6 investigation. “He thinks because he’s only in it for himself, that’s it. All he cares about is himself.”
Ex-CIA official highlights most frightening top secret docs pilfered by Trump
“These are programs or activities so sensitive they require enhanced safeguards and the strictest access requirements,” wrote Pfeiffer. “Even those who go through the arduous and sometimes years-long process of obtaining a Top Secret clearance often require additional security adjudication for to gain access to SAPs. Details of SAPs are usually limited to the bare minimum number of people with a ‘need to know.’ Some are divided into several compartments with individuals given access only to those compartments requiring their expertise or knowledge; only a select few — a dozen or so, maybe fewer — might have access to the totality of the SAP.”
The key point, noted Pfeiffer, is that prosecutors have revealed many of the “top secret” documents actually went even higher than that classification, as they were part of “special access programs,” a type of intelligence so secret that prosecutors even had to redact the codenames, because just the disclosure of those without any information about what they were could put military and intelligence officials in danger.
“These included documents about the nuclear capabilities of another country, military attacks by a foreign country, the military capabilities of a foreign country, the timeline and details of an attack in a foreign country, the regional military activity of a foreign country, the military activity of foreign countries and the United States, and military activity in a foreign country,” wrote Pfeiffer. “And as sensitive as the subjects of those documents are, what was really put at risk by our former commander-in-chief were the nation’s most sensitive activities and information derived from them.”
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”~Carl Sagan
“I’m being indicted for you. And I believe the ‘you’ is more than 200 million people that love our country. They’re out there and they love our country,” said Trump before the crowd cheered him on.
Christie, who endorsed Trump’s 2016 campaign and was a Trump ally before the Capitol riot, slammed the remarks during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.”
“He had the audacity to say that he got indicted for us. Now I don’t know how it benefited the American people for him to take highly sensitive intelligence and secret documents out of the White House to stonewall the government on returning them for over a year and a half to subject himself to a raid by the FBI even though they had asked him voluntarily to return this stuff,” Christie said.
“And, to then be subject to an indictment which is obviously going to be one of great trouble for the country because no one wants to see this happen. Donald Trump says that’s for us? It’s absurd.”
How bad must Biden be as to allow Trump another bite at the POTUS apple. Democrats defeated and prosecuted Trump, yet today he still stands as a winner in a head to head with veggie in chief Joe. What was the DNC long game after cheating to a win in 2020, kneepad Commala? I get why liberals are afraid, I would be too, Trump kept receipts.
Trump judge denies request to keep identities of 84 potential witnesses under seal
Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday denied a request from the special counsel’s office seeking the keep secret the identities of 84 potential witnesses in the case against Trump over alleged mishandling of classified documents, The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell reports on Twitter. “US judge Aileen Cannon denies Special Counsel request to file 84 potential witnesses in the Trump classified docs case under seal — says the government does not explain why it is necessary and notes media coalition has moved to have it public,” Lowell tweeted.
Leaked audio of Trump bragging about holding classified info about Iran attack planning
On Monday, CNN obtained the audio of former President Donald Trump boasting to patrons of his Bedminster golf club that he was in possession of highly classified national defense information.In addition to Trump admitting he didn’t have the power to declassify the documents, he casually laughed and joked about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, and he could be heard waving around a sheet of paper, suggesting the document was actually there on the scene — despite his claims in his own defense that he didn’t actually have it.
Legal experts: ‘Devastating’ Trump audio ‘as close to a smoking gun as you can get’
CNN published a recording of Donald Trump showing biographers classified documents that he took from the White House when he left in 2021. “These are the papers,” Trump says in the tape, talking about Gen. Mark Milley. It’s a quote, CNN remarks, was not in the indictment.
George Conway: ‘Sociopathic criminal’ Trump committed ‘multiple felonies’ on tape
Following CNN’s exclusive airing of audio of former President Donald Trump boasting about his improper possession of highly classified military documents to staffers and patrons of his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, conservative attorney George Conway laid out the seriousness of his actions on “Anderson Cooper 360.”“How d word is this for the former president, do you think?” asked Cooper.
‘Devastating’: Legal expert says Trump tape is ‘gold’ for Jack Smith
Following CNN’s release of audio footage of former President Donald Trump bragging about holding highly classified military intelligence about Iran attack plans to staffers and patrons of his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig discussed the key implications on CNN on Monday.This, he argued, is close to the best kind of evidence special counsel Jack Smith could possibly have for the Espionage Act charges
braindead Premium Member 11 months ago
His Disciples will continue to send money to the guy who claims to be a billionaire.
Their analysis skills continue to amaze.
Erse IS better 11 months ago
I’m having a hard time typing while ROFLING!
XF8U-3 11 months ago
I feel such shame as an American.
knutdl 11 months ago
Buddha? OMG
knutdl 11 months ago
https://www.gbtribune.com/opinion/columnists/why-the-media-loves-donald-trump/
ElEfJay 11 months ago
Is the typical Trump done speak. Not unlike the opening part of 1984, hate is love, war is peace etc.
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
Liar Benedict Arnold Trump, the perfectly corrupt Confederate Republican..
superposition 11 months ago
I was fortunate to have traveled around the US before the truly local identities were stolen by corporate restaurants, broadcast radio&tv, newspapers, and most of the other mom-and-pop small businesses that were truly unique. The political duopoly has done the same thing to inclusive, diverse, unifying, and critical thinking replacing it with defacto irrational emotional insular platforms that reduce the populace to warring tribal cults unable to embrace the unity of a democratic republic. Without common goals and mutual tolerance of our differences, we are incapable of the self-rule that a democratic republic requires and will fail as easy prey to a self-serving authoritarian seeking control.
Direwolf 11 months ago
Like a schoolyard bully who punches people in the face then blames THEM for being violent when they defend themselves.
VegaAlopex 11 months ago
Is Drumpf supposed to be another Buddha?
Henwood 11 months ago
Well. once the orange baboon is behind bars, away from the general prison population, he just might change his ways. Right now, his saffron color is the only thing he has in common with a Buddhist monk.
Zebrastripes 11 months ago
Some never learn…it’s all in the approach!
Words matter!
Gen.Flashman 11 months ago
You have to give him credit (no matter what you think of him political) he is a skilled performer and knows what sells and can sell it.
hmofo813 Premium Member 11 months ago
A “contentious interview” — with Fox? When has anyone from Fox ever treated Trump as anything other than The Saviour Of All Mankind? Don’t the people there address him as “Lord?”
aristoclesplato9 11 months ago
The press has run with a lot of stories that turned out to be nothing more than Democrat propaganda hit pieces. The Russian collusion hoax. The laptop is Russian disinformation. And that ’s just two examples.
But who recalls them admitting their errors and pledging to do better in the future? Just where are the real investigative journalists? How many “news” outlets gave you the story of the Hunter message to the chinese about paying up or his father in the room would cause problems? Can anyone even think of a bigger corruption story in all of history?
Trump is not off the mark here with his comments. If the press did their job we’d all be better off.
old1953 11 months ago
That and a whiskey will leave you more drunk than just a whiskey.
The sound of one brain cell flapping without a partner.
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
‘Only in it for himself’: Former GOP lawmaker trashes Trump for pushing Russian talking points
Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tore into former President Donald Trump for his latest defense of Vladimir Putin.This comes after Russia saw an explosion of chaos as the Putin-affiliated mercenary group, Wagner, turned on the Russian military and was halfway to Moscow before a hasty resolution was brokered that prevented a potential coup.
“Donald Trump … warned against cheering on upheaval in Russia, writing on Truth Social, ‘A big mess in Russia, but be careful what you wish for, next one may be far worse,’” said anchor Poppy Harlow.
“First off, Donald Trump is the most whiny — I mean, I’m just going to be straight. He’s the most whiny victim, but the strongest person that’s always the victim of everything and all he does is talk, he takes every crisis around the world, where we need to show unity, and he talks down the United States,” said Kinzinger, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel and one of the only Republicans to work on the House January 6 investigation. “He thinks because he’s only in it for himself, that’s it. All he cares about is himself.”
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
Ex-CIA official highlights most frightening top secret docs pilfered by Trump
“These are programs or activities so sensitive they require enhanced safeguards and the strictest access requirements,” wrote Pfeiffer. “Even those who go through the arduous and sometimes years-long process of obtaining a Top Secret clearance often require additional security adjudication for to gain access to SAPs. Details of SAPs are usually limited to the bare minimum number of people with a ‘need to know.’ Some are divided into several compartments with individuals given access only to those compartments requiring their expertise or knowledge; only a select few — a dozen or so, maybe fewer — might have access to the totality of the SAP.”
The key point, noted Pfeiffer, is that prosecutors have revealed many of the “top secret” documents actually went even higher than that classification, as they were part of “special access programs,” a type of intelligence so secret that prosecutors even had to redact the codenames, because just the disclosure of those without any information about what they were could put military and intelligence officials in danger.
“These included documents about the nuclear capabilities of another country, military attacks by a foreign country, the military capabilities of a foreign country, the timeline and details of an attack in a foreign country, the regional military activity of a foreign country, the military activity of foreign countries and the United States, and military activity in a foreign country,” wrote Pfeiffer. “And as sensitive as the subjects of those documents are, what was really put at risk by our former commander-in-chief were the nation’s most sensitive activities and information derived from them.”
StackableContainers 11 months ago
So his behavior is the fault of the media / others? Classic excuse for immature behavior.
morningglory73 Premium Member 11 months ago
He is despicable.
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”~Carl Sagan
I Play One On TV 11 months ago
My most fervent hope is that one day, for at least 24 hours, no one prints an article, draws a cartoon, or posts a picture of the Dotard.
Most of us don’t even like to burp loudly in order to be polite. This guy flings excrement, and we can’t get enough?
ncorgbl 11 months ago
So, someone expected tRump to stop being dishonest, misleading and lying? What new?
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
Egotistical narcissist Trump thinks he is JC now.
“I’m being indicted for you. And I believe the ‘you’ is more than 200 million people that love our country. They’re out there and they love our country,” said Trump before the crowd cheered him on.
Christie, who endorsed Trump’s 2016 campaign and was a Trump ally before the Capitol riot, slammed the remarks during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.”
“He had the audacity to say that he got indicted for us. Now I don’t know how it benefited the American people for him to take highly sensitive intelligence and secret documents out of the White House to stonewall the government on returning them for over a year and a half to subject himself to a raid by the FBI even though they had asked him voluntarily to return this stuff,” Christie said.
“And, to then be subject to an indictment which is obviously going to be one of great trouble for the country because no one wants to see this happen. Donald Trump says that’s for us? It’s absurd.”
Ammo is on a break Premium Member 11 months ago
How bad must Biden be as to allow Trump another bite at the POTUS apple. Democrats defeated and prosecuted Trump, yet today he still stands as a winner in a head to head with veggie in chief Joe. What was the DNC long game after cheating to a win in 2020, kneepad Commala? I get why liberals are afraid, I would be too, Trump kept receipts.
Uncle Joe Premium Member 11 months ago
I’ve always thought of Trump as a carnival barker, but a carnival buddha??
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
Trump judge denies request to keep identities of 84 potential witnesses under seal
Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday denied a request from the special counsel’s office seeking the keep secret the identities of 84 potential witnesses in the case against Trump over alleged mishandling of classified documents, The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell reports on Twitter. “US judge Aileen Cannon denies Special Counsel request to file 84 potential witnesses in the Trump classified docs case under seal — says the government does not explain why it is necessary and notes media coalition has moved to have it public,” Lowell tweeted.
wildthing 11 months ago
I love the imagery here………………….Transcendent Trump………………… If only he didn’t speak.
wildthing 11 months ago
As if there’s enlightenment through evil stupidity.
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
The extreme right sees the center as ‘the radical left’.
jvscanlan Premium Member 11 months ago
Bout time to do an interview on CNN Donald . . . If you can handle real questions
macmantoo 11 months ago
My answer to the cartoon is ROFLMAO
Radish the wordsmith 11 months ago
Leaked audio of Trump bragging about holding classified info about Iran attack planning
On Monday, CNN obtained the audio of former President Donald Trump boasting to patrons of his Bedminster golf club that he was in possession of highly classified national defense information.In addition to Trump admitting he didn’t have the power to declassify the documents, he casually laughed and joked about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, and he could be heard waving around a sheet of paper, suggesting the document was actually there on the scene — despite his claims in his own defense that he didn’t actually have it.
Legal experts: ‘Devastating’ Trump audio ‘as close to a smoking gun as you can get’
CNN published a recording of Donald Trump showing biographers classified documents that he took from the White House when he left in 2021. “These are the papers,” Trump says in the tape, talking about Gen. Mark Milley. It’s a quote, CNN remarks, was not in the indictment.
George Conway: ‘Sociopathic criminal’ Trump committed ‘multiple felonies’ on tape
Following CNN’s exclusive airing of audio of former President Donald Trump boasting about his improper possession of highly classified military documents to staffers and patrons of his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, conservative attorney George Conway laid out the seriousness of his actions on “Anderson Cooper 360.”“How d word is this for the former president, do you think?” asked Cooper.
‘Devastating’: Legal expert says Trump tape is ‘gold’ for Jack Smith
Following CNN’s release of audio footage of former President Donald Trump bragging about holding highly classified military intelligence about Iran attack plans to staffers and patrons of his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig discussed the key implications on CNN on Monday.This, he argued, is close to the best kind of evidence special counsel Jack Smith could possibly have for the Espionage Act charges
patrickab7 10 months ago
How Ted sees Trump?