Poetic even.
This payment seems like a clear misuse of the fund, since no lawsuit or settlement existed afaik in this context.
And this instance is just one of the daily occurances of corruption under the trump regime. They are robbing us blind, destroying the rule of law, and using the constitution as toilet paper.
This will take decades to fix, if it even can be fixed. I'm less worried about 2028 and much more about 2032 or 2036, when the next GOP POTUS takes over. Every GOP president is an order of magnitude worse than the previous.
While shouting we are going to follow the law. When called out on corruption he’s the most transparent president LMAO.
The media are responsible. If the media barons wanted to end Trump they could take him down tomorrow. Never mind full-throated investigative journalism - a tiny shift towards accurate reporting would be enough.
Trump is just the distracting figurehead on the horse and cart that's stealing all the money. The rot goes far deeper, and will still be there after Trump has gone.
Us textbooks everywhere tell of the Teapot Dome Scandal, where some of the presidents buddies in 1920 did a little bit of self dealing. This was it! This and Nixon were the stories of corruption! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal
On Bluesky we talk a Watergate a week, a Watergate a day. A massive incredibly corrupt totally fallen beastly abuse of power, week after week, day after day. This hasn't been constant. Even during Trump 1 there was nothing like this. This is the Project 2025, this is the Freedom Caucus, this is the insurrectionist Business Plot scum who have for well over a century wished to seek the downfall and hollowing out of the US. They've never had the chance to do this before, there's been nothing like this. They've tried to overthrow the US order before, but this time, they have their man. It's working. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
Annoyingly, the news seems to focus more on some politically incorrect thing he said or "wahh he Obama'd more foreign drug boats."
They are being responsible, by not doing anything - it's not the job of 'the media' to ride in like a knight in shining armor and save the princess (citizens) from the dragon (bad politician).
The real world is not a children's fairytale.
If you think at the level of a child - you can only spot a problem, you are not equipped to talk about solutions.
It's such a weird syndrome. You're looking at someone who isn't psychotic - no CIA-controlled spiders coming out of their TV - but is still trapped in a subjective state where the outside world is a constant, terrifying threat, and the only way to deal with it is constant self-reassuring pretence and delusion.
Democrats should stand against antifacism? What is your reasoning for this statement?
The Antifa nonsense is classic DARVO.
You already sound defeated.
Patriotism is more than just waving a flag and shouting “U-S-A”.
Take some lessons on protesting from the French.
Most Americans either actively supported this administration, or didn't mind it enough to even do the minimum (which is to vote against it).
How you'd possibly convince such people to reconsider is beyond me, and an uprising without popular support would go essentially nowhere.
Trump's obvious graft, corruption, and general behavior disgust me, but why exactly would a meaningful number of people risk throwing their lives away to protest a man-baby who will be out of office in a little over 2 years if a cheeseburger doesn't get him first, and will probably be politically neutered in under 6 months?
.....whereas Americans stereotypically mumble something about the Second Amendment keeping a government in check, then go back to being screwed over and launching a gofundme to pay for their chemotherapy.
You only need a million people in Washington to make a change. It starts with one.