Posts Made By: Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

BTW, this was a 1am post from Trump, probably while sitting on his gold plated thrown as he was struggling to pass the previous day's Big Macs, KFC, french fries, and diet cokes.  

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

People on all sides have stopped listening to him...

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

You can't make this stuff up. I haven't ragged on Sleep Donny lately, but yesterday was over the top. I'd describe it all but the guy who Trump wants fired says it all with some humor.  

I'm off on my next world travels heading today to southern California to visit my lady friend for the rest of the week then were going on a Mexican Riviera 11 day cruise the following week. 

Cheers everyone.  

Originally Posted by David Cotterell

Welcome back, Richard.

The place just wasn't the same without you.

Dave

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Agreed, and my guess is Rich washed out of an ICE academy, even though the latter has been selectively advertising for right wing extremists and gun nuts, and hence his "hiatus" from the AM. 

Coming back on topic, Rich, of course, in his "mind", will take the moral high ground and claim, as he did, that Trump is pursuing Maduro for altruistic purposes. So, for example, if the main natural resources of Venezuela was bananas and walnuts and not oil, Trump, in his psycho version of the "Donroe Doctrine", would have gone for it anyway...

Originally Posted by James Lacey

It's pretty disgusting how Trump and his enablers are trying to gaslight us all and rewrite history. There are tons of video evidence from police body cams, and the rioters themselves who were posting their actions in real-time that clearly show it was anything but a "peaceful protest," and a "day of love," by "great patriots." NPR even has a public database detailing every Jan. 6th prosecution, of course, as you pointed out, all pardoned now. I saw some reporting recently, too, where the journalists did an investigative follow-up on these rioters, and not surprisingly, many of them went on to commit more violent crimes after their pardon, and a sizeable number are in jail now for further violent crimes, including sexual offenses against minors. As I like to say, it boggles the mind that anyone can condone or make excuses for what Trump and the rioters did that day. And then to think we put Trump back in office, I sometimes wonder if we have not crossed the Rubicon with Trump, and that our democracy is now in a descent that's unstoppable.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

It truly boggles the mind that Trump and people like Stephen Miller are in control. Stephen Miller, one of the most powerful policy advisers in the White House right now, told Jake Tapper in a recent interview that, in effect, might makes right. And that the US had the right to invade Venezuela and kidnap Maduro simply because no one could stop us. Miller is fascism and authoritarianism on full display in the White House, and it flies in the face of everything we should have learned about this kind of ideological thinking in the 20th century. Didn't the US fight a World War and help usher in an era where values and rules are supposed to matter? It's terrifying what Trump is allowing to happen in the White House, and recent actions in Venezuela and the rhetoric coming out of the White House about it are only making us less safe.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

According to the judge who oversaw the E. Jean Carroll case, Trump's action constituted rape as most people commonly understand the word. He would have been convicted in a criminal court if E. Jean Carroll had been able to convince a DA to press charges at the time. It didn't happen for all the usual reasons: shame and self-blame, fear of retaliation from Trump, she had little chance of prevailing against a rich and powerful man, and would the police even take her seriously? The only reason she was able to sue him in civil court was that New York passed the Adult Survivors Act in 2022, which allowed one year for victims to file sexual assault lawsuits in the state involving claims that would have usually exceeded statute limitations. So, you can split hairs about whether he's a criminal or not. Still, all of this, coupled with the mountains of other evidence detailing his sexual deviance, makes it clear he's, by anyone's standard, a criminally horrible person who has only gotten away with what he has for so long because he's rich and powerful. And you voted for what is arguably the most immoral and disgusting man to ever be in the White House; congratulations.

Originally Posted by James Brown

By an unreasonable man?

Kevin Warsh nominated as fed chair to replace Powell in May. The FT article I posted was paywalled.   😟

This is not the high emotion stuff of a police shooting, but it sure is important for the world economy.   There were plenty of Trump sycophants he could’ve chosen.    I’m sure the economic press will have lots of coverage, but will the average political news consumer even notice The Warsh nomination?

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

ps And yes, I am not accidentally or frivolously using the term Gestapo.