What the fucking fuck?
Is that real?
A friend sent it to me with the same consternation as you. No idea.
Nothing would surprise me with that arsehole.
What will he do when the National Guard jacks up.
Stamp his foot!
Oh dear, massive foot stamp coming up!
We are an intake of breath away from another Kent State. These guys are not trained for what they are being asked to do, they are in many cases not motivated or interested in what they are being told to do, and they are not being paid properly for what they are doing, and so are bearing enormous personal costs. Some demonstrator somewhere is going to scream in some guardsman’s face, and the moment will come.
Ezra Klein had a great convo with Radley Balko last week about this week. If you’ve read anything on the militarization of America police it was probably from Balko.
And it will be spun in such a way that most Americans will support it.
https://x.com/esjesjesj/status/1962887615629213873
Meanwhile, last week Amtrack did a big promotion of the new Gen trains on Acela lines that can do Boston to DC, a trip of 400 miles, in 7 hours. And they celebrated that as an improvement. The train’s top speed is only half this Japanese train, but due to shitty lines and stupid routes, it is only averaging under half that top speed through the entire trip. It should be an express route that takes 2 hours with stops only in NYC and Philly, but this has more stops than that before it even gets out of Boston.
But but I have a Dodge…
America: has awful trains
Americans: trains are a pointless investment because everyone hates them
Everyone else: see point 1
American trains - going from where no one is to where no one needs to go and doing it way too slowly.
And yet the country was built on them.
Cornelius Vanderbuilt built his fortune on the railroads and was considered America’s richest man of that era. That wealth that still props up an entire family 5 generations after Rockerfeller destroyed his business model with pipelines. Unfortunately most of the system is not too much more advanced today as it was when he exited the scene, which was shortly after the civil war.
Sometimes you just have to put your hands in the air and say
" I Surrender… I can’t take anymore "
If this article is true, which apparently it is… Wellllllllll..!
Trump asks supporters for £15 to ‘get him to heaven’
Story by Sarah Hooper
Just pay $15 and you’ll help America’s President ‘get to heaven’
President Donald Trump sent out an email blast to his supporters, begging them for donations for a cause which to many seems implausible.
‘I want to try and get to Heaven,’ the Commander-in-Chief wrote. ‘Last year I came millimetres from death when that bullet pierced through my skin. My triumphant return to the White House was never supposed to happen!
‘But I believe that God saved me for one reason: TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!’
Trump rambled in the email, telling his supporters they had been with him through ‘everything’ – his impeachments, a ‘rigged’ election, ‘sham’ legal cases and his assassination attempts.
‘This is our moment to show the world that we will NEVER back down, NEVER give an inch, and NEVER SURRENDER in our fight to save this country,’ he added.
‘That’s why I’ve launched a 24-HOUR TRUMP FUNDRAISING BLITZ, and I’m asking everyone to chip in $15 to make it one for the record books!’
The email blast was sent by ‘Never Surrender, Inc.’, and has been verified by multiple sources.
According to the Federal Election Commission, which enforces federal campaign finance laws, in this year alone, the corporation has raised $1,865,656.03.
Raising money doesn’t guarantee passage to heaven, which is something Trump seems to be thinking a lot about recently.
Last month, Trump told Fox and Friends: ‘I want to try to get to heaven if possible. I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I’m really at the bottom of the totem pole.’
He went on to speak about how if he brokered peace between Russia and Ukraine, it would be ‘one of the reasons’ why he gets to the pearly gates.
It’s not the first time Trump has mentioned heaven
His remarks last month prompted some Christians to offer advice to the President about how to actually get to heaven.
In a column published in Christianity Today, Russell Moore wrote: ‘Jesus said that it is very difficult for those who are wealthy or powerful to enter his kingdom (Mark 10:25). He said that to follow him means we lose our lives in order to find them again in his life.
‘To actually enter heaven, you have to give up that mindset of earning your way there. You have to recognise your own need for something you can’t win or achieve or earn,’ he added.
‘To see the way to heaven, stop thinking of yourself as a president or a billionaire, if only for a moment. You can’t get to heaven with the art of the deal.’
He’s the ultimate fucking shyster, isn’t he?
Yet probably thousands will dutifully send him cash.
He’s the personification of the word scam. Plain and simple.