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Yes. Yes, he is.

I'm sorry I have to disagree with you. Trump is the Deep State liar. He's signing a contract with Peter Thiel to develop a national data base on Americans. Trump is fulfilling his dream of a surveillance state.

Washington DC had it's lowest reported level of crime in 30 years in 2024. When Trumpty Dumpty calls out the National Guard, or the Marines, it'll be about culling protesters and preventing demonstrations by American citizens, it won't be because of crime. The bully needs to be called out and confronted.

Yes the Incompetent-in-Chief is a racist, sexist pig who's self-servicing and using the White House like his personal slot machine. More dangerously, he's incompetent and trashing - for a second time - the US economy. The danger for all of us is the cornered dog scenario. As his polling numbers continue to fall, as the damage he causes can't be bullshitted or distracted away, how dangerous will this man become. The FBI is now tracking down elected representatives of the State of Texas. The Mad King is only tempered by people who stand up to him.

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Felicidades. Espero que tengas una buena vida sin trabajo.

The Mad King has been talking about this for a while now. His takeover of the City of Washington D.C. His own feudal fiefdom. Maybe it's just easier to rename things if there's no elected government. The Mad King does hate representative democracy. Is he going to call it Washington D.D. - District of Donald. (In 2008, in hindsight, the Obama administration should have granted it Statehood - finally taxation with representation.) 25th Amendment for the Mad King.

The 25th Amendment has never been more relevant than with the delusional incompetent currently in the White House.

For the second time Trump was handed a growing economy from a Democratic administration, and for the second time he's fucked it up and blown up the national debt. Job growth is something that Republican administration, during the last 30 years, haven't been successful at. Democratic administrations have been successful with job growth. In the last 30 years, 1 million net jobs were created under Republican and 80 million net jobs were created under Democratic administrations. I'm not a Democrat, but credit where credit is due.

For the second time Trump was handed a growing economy and fucked it up.

The MAGA debt increase from their Contract On America, is now $4.1 trillion.

America is more dependent on the international community than at any time in the last 60 years. For the next two years American democracy depends on other nations standing up to Trump and calling the bully's bluff. The more other nations don't confront Trump the more dangerous he will be to the America people. The more they do stand up, the Trump fake facade will be exposed quickly. When the facade starts to crumble he'll be very dangerous, as the cornered beast he is. It'll also be quick because no one in his inner circle is truly loyal to the man.

Those Canadians, they just had a national election in April. Total spending by all of the national parties for the entire election campaign - $40 million dollars. Campaign finance laws over corporate and union donations. Imagine. Estimated cost of the upcoming Senate race in North Carolina - $1 billion dollars. Electing one Judge to the Wisconsin State Supreme Court - $100 million dollars. How could they not want to swim in the cesspool of corporate donations (corporations are people) that this Supreme Court has unleashed on America?

Those other countries use things like objective facts to inform economic decisions. UnMAGAmerican! We use spin to inform us about economic issues. Spin people. Spin. Facts bad. Spin good. Yes, it's the second time the Incompetent-in-Chief has been handed a growing economy and tanked it with the added bonus of blowing up the national debt. How could Canada not want to join us? Lose their universal public health insurance, die five years earlier, have more babies die, State control over your body, daily mass shootings. Oops. Facts. Sorry (how Canadian), only spin. Only spin. What's the legal argument that could be put before the Supreme (Christian Sharia Law) Court to outlaw the use of facts?

Bleach your hair blonde, get lip injections and wear something tight, there's still time for you for a Trump secret. Maybe you could even be a spokesmodel.

Sports writer Rick Reilly wrote a book about Trump's cheating at golf. Lots of details and facts, if you want to take a deep dive into how pathetic Trump is.

I get your point about all the lying that anyone at a microphone has to do to service in the Trump administration. All these people who become brainless minions, it's embarrassing to watch them grovel. However, I have to say Karine Jean-Pierre did a poor job for the Biden administration. She was slow on her feet, and I never got any sense of her being genuine. She wasn't smart to enough to have that job. And with her whiny after the election loss book - sister, you are only looking out for yourself, and it's obvious.

MAGA would freak out at the change of representation in the House of Representatives and Senate. Canada is geographically larger than the USA and has a population that is larger than the combined populations of North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nebraska, Mississippi, Kansas, Arkansas, Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Louisiana and Alabama combined. There are 10 provinces and 3 three territories, that's 26 Senators and 53 House seats. The existing 50 States would have only 382 House seats, not the current 435. Anyone think that Montana, Idaho, Nebraska, Mississippi, Kansas, Arkansas, Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Louisiana and Alabama will be happy giving up House seats to the great "liberal" north. In the Senate only two provinces would be reliably conservative, and maybe not even crazy MAGA, more in line with "establishment" Republicans. The rest would likely be liberal, or maybe even a few from the left. With the current Senate that'd be a change to 57 caucusing with the GOP and 69 caucusing with the Democrats. With the House, the split would likely be 212 caucusing with the GOP and 228 with the Democrats. The only party that benefits from Canada joining the USA is the Democrats. A more likely scenario is that there are a few States who give up on the MAGA chaos for the sake of chaos and opt to join Canada.

Trump's Iwo Jima moment, raising the flag over Epstein's island.

The curators, trained to respect history, must be vomiting over the Smithsonian presenting blatant lies (of omission) about our history. It's frightening for America, and incredibly embarrassing for the Incompetent-in-Chief man-baby in the White House. In five years we can hope there will be an exhibit presenting information on Trump's attempts to re-create his false story. I'd suggest "Red, White and Bullshit" as a title.

Off topic but I thought interesting, Neil Diamond went to high school with Barbra Streisand and Bobby Fischer.

I regretted the "Defund the Police" phrase as soon as I heard it thinking, that's a slogan that the worst of the law and order crowd are going to misinterpret. When I listened to what people were saying on the street, I thought for a lot of people it was about our shredded social safety net and they wanted to "re-fund supports and crime prevention." Yes they wanted police budgets reduced, because they were as concerned about crime in America as anyone else was concerned and wanted that money reallocated to initiatives that might have more impact on reducing crime levels and/or supporting victims of crime. But I was working with the police at the time so I saw reactions first hand to "defund the police". The gun nuts have made America a cesspool of gun crime, defunding the police, at this moment, with these gun non-laws is not an option. (North Carolina MAGA legislature this week tried to override the Governor's veto of a law to allow concealed handguns without a permit - it's insane.)

As much as Bill Clinton irritates me (his light embrace of the Reagan revolution's attack on the American middle-class [and Hilary would have been a better president than him]) I thought his quote from the Democratic convention was stunning. When he said that in the last 30+ years 1 million net jobs have been created under Republican presidents, and 80 million net jobs have been created under Democrats. Research backs up his statement. There's a message to bang home to anyone who's listening. (I chose the word 'bang' because you might be thinking about Man-do-me's messaging.)

The most spot on song from Hamilton (in my opinion) describing America under the MAGA autocracy.