Alternative: he plans the speech but it’s not just a speech. It’s a loud religious revival style sermon, and all the ‘amen’ beats are replaced with “release the Epstein files” peppered in so frequently it’s impossible to get a clip or a sound bite without hearing it.
This guy is going to walk around the halls of government like he has a real job and HE DOESN’T! The president has as much authority to create this position as I do to appointment myself High Chancellor for the federal ministry of silly walks and demand everyone gangsta lean their way to their desks.
The IRS was created by Congress which set out the leadership positions and the manner of their appointment in the statute. His confirmation process is unclear BECAUSE IT ISN’T A REAL POSITION! By referring to his appointment in the past tense you help him solidify the lie that he has this power.
Let’s not forget that he’s also on an international murder spree in the Caribbean and publicly muses plans for the removal and final genocide of the people of Gaza which Netanyahu then adopts as policy.
My main takeaway from reading the judges order is that the protests aren’t big enough. Portland should be in a general strike and the streets should be choked with people. They should have to airlift those assholes out of there like it’s fucking Saigon.
Some of us are old enough to remember protests in Ukraine so big that Viktor Yanukovych fled for his life to Russia. If we had any sense we would do that same and Trump would be living in the apartment next door.
The excuse for entering this building was that there were a lot of Venezuelans in it. Replace Jew with Venezuelan or even just brown and the instinctive template followed by the dictator becomes impossible to miss.
Picture in your mind what happened in that article and then consider this image and think about just how close we are. I don’t want to minimize that some of the people in this image were likely shot mere minutes after this photo, but genuinely how far away are we? How quickly could we be there?
The president is sending combat troops into cities he doesn’t like and talking about using them as training grounds in his continued campaign to erode our rights and our way of life. But is he doing it in a smart way?
I love NPR but sometimes I wonder if you even hear yourself with some of these.
