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tanyev

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September 9, 2025

Well said.

Marking to save that for myself.

September 7, 2025

"Trump has a child's understanding of the world"

That is a great way to put it. I don’t know what happened to him at a young age, but it seems to have brought his emotional and cognitive development to a screeching halt.

August 16, 2025

I'd like to think that people working as political reporters aren't the most gullible rubes

on the planet, but here we are. Also from the article:

Twelve minutes later, it was all over. The press pack, who had flown more than 2,000 miles to the most remote state capital in America in the hopes of witnessing history, were left shouting into the abyss.

Colleagues looked around in bewilderment.

Almost immediately, chatter between journalists turned from astonishment to frustration, as we realised that the pair had spoken for a twentieth of the painstaking time that it took for us to each be individually screened by the Secret Service that morning.
August 15, 2025

Exactly! I just commented on this in another thread:

Newsom is focusing on how Trump acts/talks/writes like a childish bully,
which I think is the perfect thing to focus on. Do Trump’s Truth Social posts look or read like something a competent, rational adult would produce?

COME ON, MEDIA—the real story they should be following each and every day is that a country of 300 million people is being run by someone who is not a competent, rational adult, and nearly every Republican in every branch of our government is supporting and enabling this.

June 14, 2025

That's awesome.

And I’m so glad the world is finally seeing us protest and resist. I think the lack of citizen reaction to Trump’s first 100 days was even more upsetting to the rest of the world than what Trump was doing.

To be fair, those of us that pay a lot of attention to this stuff had our own shock and trauma to deal with. The flip side of that is that there are a lot of Americans that pay so little attention they had to be shocked into action.

April 20, 2025

This. The lies are a reflexive response to something that's getting negative news coverage--

the only thing Trump really cares about. So he instantly lies or denies, denies, denies and kicks the can down the road for another news cycle or two, until the media’s attention is diverted by some other horrible thing he’s done.

April 18, 2025

Hey, remember when he said he didn't sign the proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act,

even though his signature was at the bottom of it, and his administration kept following the proclamation and not one single elected Republican expressed any concern? Seems like it just happened a couple weeks ago.

Oh, that’s because it did….

CNN - March 22, 2025

President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, even as he stood by his administration’s move.

“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters before leaving the White House on Friday evening.

The president made his comments when asked to respond to Judge James Boasberg’s concerns in court on Friday that the proclamation was “signed in the dark” of night and that migrants were hurried onto planes.

“We want to get criminals out of our country, number one, and I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump said. “Other people handled it, but (Secretary of State) Marco Rubio has done a great job and he wanted them out and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”

The proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/politics/trump-signature-alien-enemies-act-proclamation/index.html


April 14, 2025

Sanewashing. What AP says Trump said:

Trump, meanwhile, said on his social media platform that there ultimately will be no exemptions for his sweeping tariff agenda, disputing characterizations that he has granted tariff exceptions for certain electronics, including smart phones, whose production is concentrated in China.


Exact quote of what the Deranged Lunatic posted on “Truth”Social:

NOBODY is getting “off the hook” for the unfair Trade Balances, and Non Monetary Tariff Barriers, that other Countries have used against us, especially not China which, by far, treats us the worst! There was no Tariff “exception” announced on Friday. These products are subject to the existing 20% Fentanyl Tariffs, and they are just moving to a different Tariff “bucket.” The Fake News knows this, but refuses to report it. We are taking a look at Semiconductors and the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN in the upcoming National Security Tariff Investigations.

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