Well... it's Trump... again. #47, here we go.

[ideologyhunter]

I thought it was at Whiskey Pete's, next to the Bonnie and Clyde death car, as part of a Notorious Criminal Artifacts exhibit.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are..."

I mean, Michael Faraday figured out electromagnetic induction and invented the first electrical transformer (using...wait for it...magnets) a century before Fuckface Von Clownstick was a glimmer in the eye of Ma and Pa Trump, but please...go on, Don...

He is still going on about magnets?

 

[crazyfingers]

WTAF?!?

He's a thief. We all know that.

 

[Elixir]

WTAF?!?

He's a thief. We all know that.

Yabut … I mean … seriously???
I DID predict he’d steal everything that wasn’t bolted down, but I thought that was bolted down.

 

[Ford]

WTAF?!?

He's a thief. We all know that.

Yabut … I mean … seriously???
I DID predict he’d steal everything that wasn’t bolted down, but I thought that was bolted down.

I have a theory (that's still half-baked and in my head as I type this) that it wasn't just knocking down part of the White House to build a ballroom. He originally wanted the whole thing bulldozed so he could build "Mar A Lago on the Potomac." His staff told him "that's a bridge too far, and people will be mad. Here's an idea...you can festoon the Oval Office with as much gold leaf as you want, you don't have to spend your weekends in the building, and we'll replace the White House kitchen with a McDonald's. Okay?"

That's only partially hyperbole. He's made no secret of his disdain for the White House, and given his druthers, he'd knock it down in a heartbeat.

 

[ideologyhunter]

We'll soon have a better sense of how up Trump's arse the Supremes are. He's petitioned SCOTUS to overturn the E. Jean Carroll verdict, which they have the power to do. It takes 4 justices to agree to hear the case.
I don't even buy lottery tickets, but my bet is that the court will not take up the case. They've got to be sensitive by this point about how they've kowtowed to Trump, and this one isn't about executive powers. OTOH, the sinister six have clearly drunk the Koolaid on how the left has besieged our poor 47th. Alito and Thomas will jump aboard. Hard to know about the other four. Brent: maybe, because he had his own Carroll moment.
What do I know. Our country is a Dali canvas at this point.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[ZiprHead]

What and where is Resolute Desk now? Fact check and complete truth on Donald Trump moving it to Mar-a-Lago rumors. Here's what happened

What and where is Resolute Desk now? A viral claim says Donald Trump moved the historic Resolute Desk from the White House to Mar-a-Lago. The photo sparked confusion online, but evidence suggests the desk seen in Florida is a replica. Heres the full explanation and timeline of events.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

 

[ZiprHead]

What and where is Resolute Desk now? Fact check and complete truth on Donald Trump moving it to Mar-a-Lago rumors. Here's what happened

What and where is Resolute Desk now? A viral claim says Donald Trump moved the historic Resolute Desk from the White House to Mar-a-Lago. The photo sparked confusion online, but evidence suggests the desk seen in Florida is a replica. Heres the full explanation and timeline of events.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

Here's Reagan at the Resolute desk.


Here's trumps Resolute desk.


Notice the difference between the corners of the top of the Trump desk and Reagan's desk.

 

[crazyfingers]

What and where is Resolute Desk now? Fact check and complete truth on Donald Trump moving it to Mar-a-Lago rumors. Here's what happened

What and where is Resolute Desk now? A viral claim says Donald Trump moved the historic Resolute Desk from the White House to Mar-a-Lago. The photo sparked confusion online, but evidence suggests the desk seen in Florida is a replica. Heres the full explanation and timeline of events.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

Here's Reagan at the Resolute desk.
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Here's trumps Resolute desk.
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Notice the difference between the corners of the top of the Trump desk and Reagan's desk.

Besides that Trump can't read or write?

 

[Colonel Sanders]

So the Dems folded in the shutdown (or at least the "moderate" ones in the negotiating pool), and gain nothing. No promise that the GOP would force Trump to execute spending. Nothing but a fucking worthless vote in the Senate on extending ACA subsidies. Why even go through this? This effectively gives Trump the authority to do whatever he wants. The adults (including on SCOTUS) just shrug their shoulders as the toddler wields the flamethrower.

Now do you understand why I condemn "moderates"?

I remember people pissing on the Dems in 2004 and 2005 as well as they walked into a position to obtain a Super Majority in the US Senate. I saw what Dean was doing then.

I'm not big on this deal, I'm not little on this deal either. It is very troublesome, but I hope there is something under the surface that makes this strategic and not merely capitulation. There are inklings out there for it, but it feels more like hope on my part than clear strategy. But I doubt Schumer would have allowed this without a plan. And Schumer has been surgical with making the most of almost nothing.

"Hoping something is going on under the surface" is what got us to this point. What is going on under the surface? I expect that what is going on under the surface is that Schumer orchestrated this because of pressure from corporate interests, and that it is not merely capitulation, but active back-channel coordination.

Every one of these traitors to the need to sweat the GOP and claw back political momentum from them just so happens to not be running for reelection right now.

It is pure hope on your part.

Quit hoping and start getting angry and doing something.

Whether it's being so goddamn annoying and persistent that they can't shut you up or shut you out, or placing votes for people who do not align themselves with "centrist" forces.

One of these spinless shit stains actually said "standing up to Trump didn't work"...

Because you quit fucking doing it...

There is no plan there, Jimmy.

Your votes, and your rhetoric, enabled this.

Sure. Just "do something." I'm sure no one's thought of that.

There have been persistent protests and marches. What have they accomplished? The fact is that the GOP doesn't give the slightest shit about flaccid protests and outrage from anyone but those who vote GOP. That's it. Noise has been made and it's done NOTHING. When those in power don't cared about the citizenry or the rule of norms and laws to the degree that TrumpCo doesn't, it doesn't matter how much screaming there is.

Young people make the most noise but then don't show up to vote. You want to blame any one demographic that could've swung the last election? Blame them.

Actually doing something starts with the need to "do something". The "something" is left vague because what each person CAN do is highly dependent on their context.

Lifting up your hands and saying "we've tried nothing and are all out of options" is NOT effective.

Yet again one of the reasons you g people don't vote is because old people give them no reason to. If you forced people to earn your vote as young people do they would fear the consequences of this kind of assfuckery.

But because there are no consequences for negative behavior, for rolling over, for doing nothing, our representatives do nothing.

Republicans got dragged further right because the Republican party feared losing elections to the loss of voters.

Democrats can do that too. They just have to be willing to reject establishment candidates entirely in the primaries. YOU have to play ball with the young folks, because it is their world, not yours, at this point.

Baby the young'ns and make all the pathetic excuses they make for themselves all you want. They'll soak that shit up and then claim it's worse than the Great Depression when you don't feed them more.

And this is my world. I f'ng live in it. I voted for Harris and I gave her campaign $1500. What'd the kids do? They whined about not being tall enough and that the world isn't fair because Homer Simpson and Al Bundy had two story houses. Fuck the young people. They're all pants-shitting and no action.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Baby the young'ns and make all the pathetic excuses they make for themselves all you want. They'll soak that shit up and then claim it's worse than the Great Depression when you don't feed them more.

And this is my world. I f'ng live in it. I voted for Harris and I gave her campaign $1500. What'd the kids do? They whined about not being tall enough and that the world isn't fair because Homer Simpson and Al Bundy had two story houses. Fuck the young people. They're all pants-shitting and no action.

I want to take offense to that, but then realize I'm not a young person.... but when I was I voted. I voted in what may have been the most important election in our nation's history, 2000. What I learned in college is that young people just don't understand how this stuff affects them. I learned this in the US Government course elective that I, as an Engineer student aced, among a bunch of liberal art folks that didn't quite get it as much.

In the end, you can piss on young people all you want, but the true source of this nonsense is males, primarily white males, but hispanic and black males have also helped this misogynic, racist, fascist movement.

 

[Politesse]

Can we stop making up bullshit Trump stories, please? The real things he's doing are more dangerous by far than supposedly stealing a desk, and accusing him of nonsense stories easily refuted risks putting the actual dangers of this administration in the Boy Who Cried Wolf zone.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Baby the young'ns and make all the pathetic excuses they make for themselves all you want. They'll soak that shit up and then claim it's worse than the Great Depression when you don't feed them more.

And this is my world. I f'ng live in it. I voted for Harris and I gave her campaign $1500. What'd the kids do? They whined about not being tall enough and that the world isn't fair because Homer Simpson and Al Bundy had two story houses. Fuck the young people. They're all pants-shitting and no action.

I want to take offense to that, but then realize I'm not a young person.... but when I was I voted. I voted in what may have been the most important election in our nation's history, 2000. What I learned in college is that young people just don't understand how this stuff affects them. I learned this in the US Government course elective that I, as an Engineer student aced, among a bunch of liberal art folks that didn't quite get it as much.

In the end, you can piss on young people all you want, but the true source of this nonsense is males, primarily white males, but hispanic and black males have also helped this misogynic, racist, fascist movement.

Look at the voting demographics. Young people screech like tortured cats on social media, but come voting day they're absent from the voting booth.

And just stop with the "primarily white males" stuff. that shit's part of the reason young white males and males in general have been driven away from the Dems. They not only don't feel welcome, they feel resentful of that.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Baby the young'ns and make all the pathetic excuses they make for themselves all you want. They'll soak that shit up and then claim it's worse than the Great Depression when you don't feed them more.

And this is my world. I f'ng live in it. I voted for Harris and I gave her campaign $1500. What'd the kids do? They whined about not being tall enough and that the world isn't fair because Homer Simpson and Al Bundy had two story houses. Fuck the young people. They're all pants-shitting and no action.

I want to take offense to that, but then realize I'm not a young person.... but when I was I voted. I voted in what may have been the most important election in our nation's history, 2000. What I learned in college is that young people just don't understand how this stuff affects them. I learned this in the US Government course elective that I, as an Engineer student aced, among a bunch of liberal art folks that didn't quite get it as much.

In the end, you can piss on young people all you want, but the true source of this nonsense is males, primarily white males, but hispanic and black males have also helped this misogynic, racist, fascist movement.

Look at the voting demographics. Young people screech like tortured cats on social media, but come voting day they're absent from the voting booth.

And just stop with the "primarily white males" stuff. that shit's part of the reason young white males and males in general have been driven away from the Dems. They not only don't feel welcome, they feel resentful of that.

Every election when the polls close I go to the exit polls (when available) and look straight at gender. I do a little math (hopefully right the first time), to determine who most probably won. It is always majority approaching super-majority male for the assholes. Generally it was just whites, but Trump has really gotten into the heads of misogynistic blacks and hispanics too.

You don't have to like it, but that is the problem. Men want to elect assholes by a close to super-majority.

As far as them having their feelings hurt by a white male listing off a statistic, maybe they should man up for once in their life and stop acting like a damn snowflake.

Oh woe is the fragility of the while male.

 

[Jarhyn]

Baby the young'ns and make all the pathetic excuses they make for themselves all you want. They'll soak that shit up and then claim it's worse than the Great Depression when you don't feed them more.

And this is my world. I f'ng live in it. I voted for Harris and I gave her campaign $1500. What'd the kids do? They whined about not being tall enough and that the world isn't fair because Homer Simpson and Al Bundy had two story houses. Fuck the young people. They're all pants-shitting and no action.

I want to take offense to that, but then realize I'm not a young person.... but when I was I voted. I voted in what may have been the most important election in our nation's history, 2000. What I learned in college is that young people just don't understand how this stuff affects them. I learned this in the US Government course elective that I, as an Engineer student aced, among a bunch of liberal art folks that didn't quite get it as much.

In the end, you can piss on young people all you want, but the true source of this nonsense is males, primarily white males, but hispanic and black males have also helped this misogynic, racist, fascist movement.

Look at the voting demographics. Young people screech like tortured cats on social media, but come voting day they're absent from the voting booth.

And just stop with the "primarily white males" stuff. that shit's part of the reason young white males and males in general have been driven away from the Dems. They not only don't feel welcome, they feel resentful of that.

Every election when the polls close I go to the exit polls (when available) and look straight at gender. I do a little math (hopefully right the first time), to determine who most probably won. It is always majority approaching super-majority male for the assholes. Generally it was just whites, but Trump has really gotten into the heads of misogynistic blacks and hispanics too.

You don't have to like it, but that is the problem. Men want to elect assholes by a close to super-majority.

As far as them having their feelings hurt by a white male listing off a statistic, maybe they should man up for once in their life and stop acting like a damn snowflake.

Oh woe is the fragility of the while male.

It's a failure of parents, too, and of society.

As someone who roundly believes responsibility is momentary and not zero-sum there are many moments we can identify mistakes in, largely centered around the manufacturer of the myth of the "man", and of the ultimate fragility that has been formed up around the reliance on that identity.

 

[thebeave]

WTAF?!?

No, Trump did not move the Resolute Desk from Oval Office to Mar-a-Lago

To summarize, it's not clear if the picture circulating online even represented a replica of the Resolute Desk at Mar-a-Lago. However, overwhelming evidence indicated that the Resolute Desk remained in the Oval Office, at least as of Nov. 10, and that Trump did not move it to Mar-a-Lago.

In other news, it has been confirmed that the word "gullible" has been actually removed from the dictionary (for real this time!)

 

[ZiprHead]

WTAF?!?

No, Trump did not move the Resolute Desk from Oval Office to Mar-a-Lago

To summarize, it's not clear if the picture circulating online even represented a replica of the Resolute Desk at Mar-a-Lago. However, overwhelming evidence indicated that the Resolute Desk remained in the Oval Office, at least as of Nov. 10, and that Trump did not move it to Mar-a-Lago.

In other news, it has been confirmed that the word "gullible" has been actually removed from the dictionary (for real this time!)

How does Getty Images know that's the real desk and not the replica?

 

[ZiprHead]

Remember when Derec freaked out about the candidate for mayor of New York City was seen with a terrorist adjacent Muslim priest? How much he freaked out about it?

Now we have Trump hosting an actual Islamist terrorist head-chopper in the Oval Office and not a peep.

Trump hosts Syrian president once wanted as 'terrorist' in historic White House visit

No reporters or cameras were allowed into President Ahmed al-Sharaa's meeting.

abcnews.go.com

 

[ZiprHead]

Hey @RVonse

Trump Organization requested record number of foreign workers in 2025

The Trump Organization requested 184 foreign workers to work across various company properties, a record number that has increased over the years.

The company sought to hire workers through H-2A and H-2B visas for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, two golf clubs and at Trump Vineyard Estates in Charlottesville, Va., according to data from the Department of Labor.

Over the course of Trump’s first term and the first nine months of his second term, the Trump Organization’s visa requests increased from 121 in 2021 to 184 in 2025, according to Forbes. Overall, the company has filed to hire 566 foreign laborers, primarily to work as servers, farm workers, kitchen staff, clerks and housekeepers.