Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 14 Sep 25 - 09:53 AM

…and here we are in Germany in the 1930s once more.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 25 - 08:19 AM

Stephen Miller did his best GOEBBELS IMPRESSION AND PROMISED all leftists will find themselves in exile for criticizing Charlie and MAGA.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 25 - 07:40 AM

I heard 100,000 people were at that demonstration.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Sep 25 - 06:25 AM

The turnips ex-pet muskrat turned up yesterday on video telling UK right wing protestors at a rally organised by Tommy Ten Names that they must 'fight back or die'. I hope that, if he ever sets foot on British soil, he is arrested for inciting violence

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Sep 25 - 02:04 PM

Trump called for revenge, retribution, and payback, while the Utah governor called for a watershed moment of ending political violence on all sides.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Sep 25 - 06:02 AM

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaking truth, making the statement Trump should have made but doesn’t have the grace or intelligence to.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 13 Sep 25 - 03:02 AM

Hubby was telling me today a story about a Halloween pumpkin and I suddenly had the idea of carving a Butternut Pumpkin to look like Trump. I mean, it is already orange, but also it is swollen at the lower end to represent his cankles. Think Trump baby balloon but carved out of a pumpkin, or maybe his face in the top part and the cankles at the base. Or maybe the whole pumpkin being his head with swelling dropped from his chin down.

I'm almost tempted to do a photoshop rendition of his butternut sculpture. It would give me a laugh. Or I could do it IRL and put it in the front window for the neighbours to have a laugh as well.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Sep 25 - 02:51 AM

So, after Trump announced to the world on TV (without a scintilla of evidence, BTW) that Kirk was shot by someone from the ‘Far Left’, the suspect they have in custody turns out to be a kid from a gun-loving Republican family who dresses up as Trump at parties.

No acknowledgement of, or apology for, the blatant, bare-faced lie from the Orange Rapist though?

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Sep 25 - 11:22 AM

Officials have identified the suspect in the Kirk shooting, and his family talked him into turning himself in or whatever. He's in custody.

The man who was shot didn't deserve to be killed, but he was not a hero or even a good guy. He was a demagogue - spouted hate and lies with a golden tongue.

The FBI was a PR mess yesterday, announcing things fast before they knew if the information was correct, then this morning Trump announced the suspect. Like when does a president do this? Only when he wants the attention.

All of this is a diversion from the budget that looms this month, and the Democrats, if they stick together, are going to try to at least get all of the Obamacare subsidies put back. This isn't Medicaid that was clobbered, this is everyone else.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Sep 25 - 05:48 PM

When money is depleting and friends begin leaving
After getting riffed and 20 years set adrift
You're just one more clown whose home burned down
You're left outside yourself looking inside for help.

That is not the worst because there is a curse
of sending a child to school to be shot
Bedrooms are shrines showing all that they got
Entire lives just suddenly stopped.

How is a murdered MAGA man worse than
A killer of schoolkid's bloody plan
The kids aren't given a choice
The MAGA man gives his hate a voice

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 11 Sep 25 - 02:39 PM

”There are ironic elements here that show the difference between mainstream people and MAGA. On MSNBC, Matthew Dowd was fired for describing Kirk's schtick as hate speech (it is), and leading to his own shooting (he's probably correct) and it isn't that he holds that opinion, it's that he said it out loud.”

For once, I agree with the Bible - “Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.” (Proverbs, 22:8).

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Sep 25 - 01:29 PM

LEFT WING?
imo, doubtful, more likely the work of one of the secret services However none of us know at this stage
who does this suit... Trump
who benEfited from the murder of JFK,...LBJ

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 11 Sep 25 - 12:58 PM

From The Hungry Black Man on FB, commenting on Kirk’s murder…

”We should also understand the warning buried in this moment. What we say matters. How we live matters. The words we choose, the causes we defend, the way we treat one another, these become the bricks of our legacy. Kirk’s words were often sharp, sometimes cruel, but they are now etched into his memory as surely as his death. Let the rest of us take note: legacies should be rooted in love, in justice, in equality, not in division or deflection.”

Full text here…

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Sep 25 - 11:04 AM

There are ironic elements here that show the difference between mainstream people and MAGA. On MSNBC, Matthew Dowd was fired for describing Kirk's schtick as hate speech (it is), and leading to his own shooting (he's probably correct) and it isn't that he holds that opinion, it's that he said it out loud.

Look at the MAGA behavior, and what you see is all of the socially unacceptable stuff that before Trump wouldn't have been uttered they are now saying out loud. The double standard, as it is - do regular folks and the left want to stoop to the MAGA socially inept form of dialog, or do they want to continue to draw the lines of polite behavior? If they go low (as Michelle Obama said not to), all is lost.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 11 Sep 25 - 10:57 AM

”Trump is blaming the left wing.”

Well duh!

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Sep 25 - 10:01 AM

npr tried to eulogize Charlie with a guest but the guest turned on the moderator and accused her of denigrating and not honoring the great patriot. She had to shut down the segment.

Trump is blaming the left wing.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Sep 25 - 09:52 AM

A quick scan of Bluesky and Instagram this morning shows Charlie Kirk is rapidly becoming the martyr that the American Taliban needs. Forget how horrible it was that school children were shot from afar last week, they wouldn't deign to compare that with Kirk's tragic death.

Companies that remove DEI, law firms that negotiate with Trump to do pro bono work have all made themselves collaborators. I've changed where I do some of my local shopping because of that, and online have avoided Amazon a lot more than usual. I saw a group forming recently that I need to follow up on, something to do with grandparents for vaccines. People of that generation had many of the things that vaccinations protect us from, now stepping up to tell their stories. I keep wondering if one of these new groups is going to take off and have enough influence to tip other groups into more resistance activities. Waiting for the spark to ignite.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Sep 25 - 04:58 AM

Each of us shall decide what is a real emergency. In a democracy the citizens present their numbers. In a dictatorship, a ruler chooses.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Sep 25 - 10:48 PM

The preachers and manifesto writers of fear who strive to control people are not the leaders we are looking for. These narcissists are the creators of scapegoats, or invent liars, or the demons who preach love that must be punished for their interference and manipulation. Some of them lack empathy and are beyond the hope of change. Some others may learn the errors of their fascist gangster ways. Both are human beings and have their purpose in times of extreme crises. However, we do not need them in times of fake emergencies.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Sep 25 - 10:27 PM

That's the big question.

And I found myself thinking back to my remark earlier this morning, and will only note "be careful what you wish for." (I was thinking of a bloated orange one and natural causes.)

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Sep 25 - 08:12 PM

Why is this shooting a great national vile disgusting reprehensible act compared to a school shooting when kids are mass murdered?

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Sep 25 - 07:29 PM

That kind of act is never the answer, and it only turns the victim into a martyr, regardless of party.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Sep 25 - 06:10 PM

Far-right commentators like Charlie Kirk, Matt Walsh and Donald Trump Jr. are calling trans folks “dangerous” and even more severe terms like “t3rror!sts.” This type of fear-mongering and is part of a well-oiled disinformation machine called “trans panic.” We look into how this tactic was deployed during the recent church shooting in Minneapolis that k!lled two children, where the shooter was a trans woman. Authorities however found no evidence that connected the shooter’s gender identity as a reason for their actions...and yet commentators were quick to single out their gender identity as a reason for this tragedy.
#transgender #lgbtq #minnesota #disinformation #politics #trump

Charlie was assassinated at noon today in Utah. He was a friendly modern-day leader of a Trump youth movement Turning Point..

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Sep 25 - 04:06 PM

Duh.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Sep 25 - 03:15 PM

What is needed is less corruption in politics, whoever is President, but he need to be turned out and prosecuted

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 10 Sep 25 - 02:30 PM

Yes SRS, I do agree with you. Normally I would have picked up on the articles being faked.

Compared with all the Trump-ist fake news it is just a tiny glimmer of light in a dark world to see their tactics turned back and used against them.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Sep 25 - 01:52 PM

And now Lord Mandelson another Establishment Poodle has been mentioned in connection with Epstein, all these people are perverted control freaks

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Sep 25 - 10:25 AM

It's not more ammunition, it's obfuscation. It didn't happen, isn't marked as fiction, and is clogging social media. It was probably written with a chat app by someone suggesting the scenario then publishing it. Worthless and unworthy of anyone's time to read it. It's fan fiction gone mainstream instead of being tucked away in a Wiki somewhere.

My two cents. :)

Heading over to check the obituaries . . .

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Sep 25 - 08:23 AM

THE DANGERS OF LOYALTY

We saw how the inner circle's loyalty to Biden became the death knell for a Democratic victory. Similar hazards exist in the Trump administration, despite its control of every branch of government.

A single crack in thin ice will spread with pressure, no pun intended.
Democrats often clutch defeat from the jaws of victory. They could run Kamala again or maybe Hillary. The next election may face internal criminal corruption as never before or something so new and unexpected from AI that there is no defense. So far, lies have not become untenable.

There is an irony that Trump must survive his term to give Democrats a better chance. The martyr sympathy vote could be hard to overcome.
Trump is a total failure at foreign policy, with Putin and Netanyahu defeating him at every turn. A failure of the economy may not matter or even the reestablishment of extreme racism. I am amazed at how the moral choices of the Democratic Party have worked against them.

The conservative fascists have gotten everything they ever wanted at the levers of government, which may be their popular undoing.

It remains a mystery how the democrats will self-sabotage themselves on top of the forces waged against them. In two years, we will see what the Democratic primaries will deliver, good, bad, or indifferent.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 10 Sep 25 - 02:00 AM

But we could look on the bright side of the Springsteen/Leavitt fake news: it is more ammunition for the good people in the fight. I saw a couple of sites which were trying to build up Leavitt's reputation but that, IMHO, would be as we say here in Oz, "pushing $hit uphill". LOL

I keep musing on how Leavitt was appointed to her position. I ambeing reminded of a quirkily funny woman I met some decades ago who would walk into a crowded room and loudly say, "Who do you have to f*** around here to get a drink?". (Note: she was an older lady and not a Barbie type.) I wonder whether the same process applied to Leavitt for her job application. :-D

Sorry!!

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 10 Sep 25 - 12:21 AM

I was wondering if it was legit when I went searching for it. I noticed there was no specific date mentioned.

This is the link my Hubby sent me to a different site.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Sep 25 - 10:58 PM

That's another made up article, Helen. It describes a conversation but never quotes it? There's a similar one that supposedly has her taking on Mick Jagger. AI rears it's ugly head. (A giveaway - the comments are turned off so no one can protest that its bogus and the photos are all of Springsteen concerts.)

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 09 Sep 25 - 08:40 PM

There are articles available about this recent confrontation:

Bruce Springsteen takes on Karoline Leavitt

I noticed that Trump is described as "the controversial former President Donald Trump" - maybe that's a prediction for the future.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Sep 25 - 03:24 PM

Last year I switched a portion of my modest investments (all index funds) into a "Social Index" fund - one that is following socially responsible and environmentally sound businesses. While everything stumbled for a while, this one is holding its own even with all of the anti-DEI and pro-gas and oil crap going on with Trump.

A lot of people are biding their time until this Trump era crap is over, but they're still putting their money where their mouths are, even if they're not being heard much at the moment.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 25 - 01:06 PM

No idea is so strong that it should not be tested by doubt and no man so powerful that he is infallible.

...and that goes double for AI.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Sep 25 - 11:54 AM

Rachel Maddow discussed that last night, how Todd Blanch was asking Maxwell, and when she volunteered that "some of your colleagues" were part of that group, it was crickets. After a pause he moved to a new subject.

They're trying to set up a national voter database, but voting is always run by the states. Lets see how the Supreme Court mangles this one.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 25 - 10:59 AM

Don't believe your lying eyes, believe the denials from the redacting liar and chief. Maxwell testified that members of Trump's cabinet were Epstein clients but Trump was never seen getting a massage.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 Sep 25 - 03:35 AM

According to the new york times, the signature in epsteins book resembles trumps hand writing

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Sep 25 - 07:59 PM

Trump has promised a Blitz on Chicago. "THE MIDWAY BLITZ" Is the name of the ICE operation.

The way ICE is rounding up groups of Latino residents is identical to the laws that the Ku Klux Klan used to round up black people.

Hyundai employees and advisors were frog-marched to deportation on the premise that foreign companies may not keep the technical know-how away from American citizens. Stilly had some other plausible reasons. Note that there was no raid on the Mercedes factories.
Trump has not inspired other foreign companies to establish factories in the US as he had hoped.

Tariff problems have caused suicides in the farming community already.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: The Sandman
Date: 08 Sep 25 - 05:27 PM

Some live in Cloud Cuckoo Land.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Sep 25 - 05:13 PM

No surprise here, from a Substack blog called The Big Picture: The MAGA Lifestyle Influencer Bait And Switch
Alt-right women posing as lifestyle content creators are virtual sleeper cells for MAGA sexist politics

Women like Clark—who hosts the Culture Apothecary podcast under the umbrella of Charlie Kirk’s conservative youth organization Turning Point USA—are part of a growing movement of far-right or alt-right women who use seemingly innocuous lifestyle and wellness content to draw unwitting women into their fandoms. What happens next is a bait and switch.

Once they’re on the MAGA creator’s feed, the unsuspecting audience is fed a much more serious and indoctrinating type of content alongside the casual lifestyle fare. Take for example, as in Clark’s case, the idea that women who prioritize their babies’ sleep might really just hate their husbands, or that it’s funny to insult people worried about getting the measles, no need to get vaccines for your children(!), or that you really might want to consider just prioritizing serving and obeying your husband as a lifestyle tip. One troubling recent video, billed as a “wife school” episode, is titled “How to Nag Less and Let Him Lead.”

Pardon me while I go out and pick okra in my front-yard garden and try later, when I have extra to give away, to convince my GOP neighbors to dump Trump. Hopefully it can work both ways.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: The Sandman
Date: 08 Sep 25 - 04:55 PM

Sandman,most of us this side of the water, including myself, have little knowledge of the US system of government". quote
Raindog it is not rocket science
I understand it well enough to realise that the gun lobby has considerable influence, with the result that gun laws do not get changed,

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Helen
Date: 08 Sep 25 - 02:55 PM

Rain Dog, I was friends with an American couple who lived here in Oz for two years, about 30 years ago. I was surprised to hear the man say that he had learned more about US politics and social issues while living here than he had ever known at home because our media coverage was more comprehensive.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Rain Dog
Date: 08 Sep 25 - 01:10 PM

"Since when have the Democrats been of the left?Biden Clinton Obama are establishment politicians.The Democrats have done nothing to control or alter gun laws."

Sandman,most of us this side of the water, including myself, have little knowledge of the US system of government. I have to say that i was surprised recently when meeting with my American cousin & her husband & friend, that they said i had more understanding of the political system in the US than a lot of the citizens.

I should add of course, that quite a few people here in the UK don't understand our own system.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Sep 25 - 12:04 PM

There is a looming government shutdown - the last time, Schumer blinked, and I've heard an essay from Ezra Klein that says he can see why it happened then. But now there is nothing to lose except have a story ready to tell the public about the GOP failures and let it shut down.

Distrust clouds Democratic strategy amid shutdown battle with GOP

House Democrats are hanging their hopes on party leaders in the Senate to block any government spending bill crafted solely by the GOP, but there’s plenty of distrust between the chambers hovering over the debate.

Behind House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), House Democrats were virtually united against a Republican spending bill in March, only to watch angrily as Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and a small group of upper chamber Democrats backed the bill, sending it to President Trump’s desk.

With another shutdown deadline looming at month’s end, House Democrats are delicately predicting a different outcome this time, arguing that the political environment has changed so drastically over the past six months that Schumer has almost no choice but to oppose a GOP spending bill negotiated without Democratic input.

“The world has literally changed since that occurred,” Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) said. “He made a calculated risk and it did not turn out well. I don’t think he’ll make that mistake twice.”

“I think they hold the line,” echoed Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.). “The American people have expressed themselves clearly and loudly that they want us to fight back at all levels. And if, in fact, we engage in a shutdown, it would be a Republican shutdown, because they’re the ones that are making it difficult for anybody to reach an agreement with these egregious cuts.”

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Sep 25 - 11:59 AM

Because they haven't doesn't mean they didn't try. Clinton banned assault weapons successfully for years, but that expired and was never renewed.

Meanwhile, Trump's ICE folks are totally off the rails (still): South Koreans feel betrayed by workforce detentions at Georgia Hyundai plant

Since battery-operated cars are clean energy and the oil and gas folks hold sway in D.C., it's no surprise that someone decided to put a crimp in that operation.

The Trump administration has made a series of workplace raids to fulfill its mass deportation agenda, but this was the Homeland Security agency’s largest yet at a single site, and targeted Georgia, a symbol of bilateral cooperation where many large South Korean businesses operate and plan future investments.

Particularly stunning is that this raid came only weeks after South Korea promised to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into U.S. investments as part of a tariff deal, and days after Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung held their first summit meeting in Washington on Aug. 25.

“The way that Trump is pressuring the Korean government and inflicting damages on its people is very rough and unilateral,” said Kim Taewoo, former head of Seoul’s Korea Institute for National Unification. “Can this be forgotten easily in South Korea? In a long-term perspective, it won’t be good for U.S. national interests as well.”

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: The Sandman
Date: 08 Sep 25 - 11:05 AM

Since when have the Democrats been of the left?Biden Clinton Obama are establishment politicians.The Democrats have done nothing to control or alter gun laws.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Sep 25 - 08:23 AM

Democrats say the crime rates are down in some big cities, but they do not admit that murders are up. Half-truths are as bad as bald-faced lies. The left is handing this issue to Trump on a platter.

US children are still dying from gunfire, as their leading cause of death.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Sep 25 - 08:15 AM

The dread pirate Trump blew up a boat in international waters.
It probably was carrying drugs but due process is such a bother compared to summary executions.

Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47 Pres /Thiel coup 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Sep 25 - 03:43 PM

There was some kind of glitch going on in my browser with the Substack window. I've seen this happen occasionally, it could be that a referring link defaulted to a Spanish version.

This week is the anniversary of when Donald Trump suddenly owned the tallest building in Manhattan. That's what he was thinking about while everyone else watched in horror. Boatlift - An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience.