Pinned: ↓How to ruin a mostly-magnificent nation -- over false, mostly-imagined matters. LUDICROUS:

(Excerpt:)"MAGA has a cosmology, a mythology: There is a corrupt elite — in the most extreme forms, it’s a corrupt, pedophilic elite — and that elite controls everything."

(Insert: Ref.: "Pizzagate")

..Much of this because MAGA refuses to take a long hard look at THEMSELVES in the mirror ..(..Too many of the cult's members will not examine a primary source of their troubles.. Perhaps one high-profile example ..though not as influential as before.. )

P.S. Corruption = Donald Trump

(Source link for excerpt:) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-will-sommer.html

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Also pinned: "If the U.S. motor-vehicle sector were a country, it would be the fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, according to the E.P.A.’s own data."

Base data verification source link follows: The U.S. transportation sector (most = 'light duty vehicles') emitted 1,855 million metric tons of CO2 in 2023. Look up that amount on a current list of total CO2 emission by world countries...: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1118464/transportation-co2-emissions-in-the-us-energy-consumption/

(Source link for quote: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-repeal-proposal.html)

↓Ref.: (Copy)

Global temperature reconstruction of the last two millennia with instrumental temperature from 1880 to 2020
(Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Common_Era_Temperature.svg, attrubution: "Efbrazil, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons")

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Also pinned: Do not ever, ever believe a word that Donald Trump - and his sycophants - say. EXCEPT: Their words of HATE and cruelty. Those are real... MAGA 'leaders' are (..to put it mildly) DECEIVERS: (Sample links)

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/06/trump-now-citing-murder-stats-he-used-to-dismiss-as-fake-news/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/fact-check-trump-inflation-lies


..P.S. Also: ..NEVER FORGET, never forgive what really happened on January 6th, 2021. (Violent images:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iludfj6Pe7w&ab_channel=TheTelegraph

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(Excerpt, linked to source:)

"..While the investigation found no evidence that President Trump or any of his aides coordinated with the Russian government's 2016 election interference and there was insufficient evidence of a criminal conspiracy, members of the campaign were indicted, including national security advisor Michael Flynn and the chair of the Trump presidential campaign, Paul Manafort. The investigation resulted in charges against 34 individuals and three companies, eight guilty pleas, and a conviction at trial.."

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A fact-check for yet another MAGA falsehood. Excerpt, linked to source:
"Immigrants in the United States commit crimes at lower rates than the U.S.-born population, notwithstanding the assertion by critics that immigration is linked to higher rates of criminal activity."


Also: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/debunking-myth-immigrants-and-crime/

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..Access Hollywood tape...E. Jean Carroll vs. Donald Trump... Karen McDougal...Stormy Daniels....pageant dressing room "visits"... on and on.

A Donald Trump connection to convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein also was generally well-known prior to 2024.

..NOW some of you are agitated and dismayed ..?? (..For whatever strange reasons..) Know it: 99%-100% certain that we would be getting NONE of this slimy garbage with President Kamala Harris (or family guy Joe Biden). Way, way too many of you actually voted a known sleaze-bag in to the highest government office in the land. (Yeah: Not too much of the Trump (otherwise) well-known smarmy-ness made it onto 'Faux News'..)

..Just more evidence that, collectively, this is no longer a serious or sane, or smart country ↓anymore..

(P.S.
..Sleazy Trump worms his way out of this current mess ..? ..Also more evidence that there is some kind of amoral *cult* in place here..)

(One example: Sane + sound U.S. leadership:)


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Yeah...BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:


YT video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA9CA3nOou0


↑↑ Average polling as of 8/16/25. Linked to source

Defend your right to vote + free and fair elections ...from despots and cheaters like THIS: (Excerpt)

"...Though Trump has insisted his [election] fraud claims are real, there’s no evidence they were, and the lawsuits in the Fox and Newsmax cases show how some of the president’s biggest supporters knew they were false at the time. Trump’s then-attorney general, William Barr, said there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
Trump and his backers lost dozens of lawsuits alleging fraud, some before Trump-appointed judges. Numerous recounts, reviews and audits of the election results, including some run by Republicans, turned up no signs of significant wrongdoing or error and affirmed Biden’s win."


Source link:
https://apnews.com/article/dominion-voting-newsmax-defamation-trump-2020-3b2366dfdae3a8432afe822bf14fe1ef

**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************↓ ..We will be using AI models for fact-checking more often here. ...Will learn if the technology can keep up with the never-ceasing torrent of Trump lies:

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Source article link: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ai/

...7/6/25: Let's start off fact-checking a top Trump admin. misleading 'spin-meister': "ICE Barbie Dodges Blame for Disastrous Texas Flooding on Trump’s Watch" (Ref.: Off-site article link:) https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbie-kristi-noem-dodges-blame-for-disastrous-texas-flooding-on-trumps-watch/

↓↓↓Reposted partial screen-grab of AI evaluation summary of Noem's claims. (Image source is linked:)

7/10/25 reposted article. Yet more...courtesy of the Trump clown car "cabinet" 🤡🤡🤡: "ICE Barbie Delayed Texas Aid While Asking Instagram Which Portrait to Order"

Unaffiliated source link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbies-new-spending-rule-delayed-fema-response-to-texas-floods-cnn/

7/12/25 reports: 🤡🤡🤡🤡 ↓..Worse and worse.. (Recall Donald Trump's history of bashing governors and other administrations about FEMA's disaster responses:)
"'Horrific': Thousands of flood survivors called for aid — but FEMA didn’t answer"


Source article link: https://www.rawstory.com/fema-2673142115/

↓Also: Reposted 7/12/25 AI fact-check summary, per ChatGPT.com:

"In **short**: yes, FEMA did **not** answer thousands of calls during and just after the Texas floods, and the main reason was a **bureaucratic delay in renewing call‑center contracts** under new spending controls mandated by Noem."

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🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 P.S...An actual reported quotation from a supposed "leader" ...someone above you and me..(??):

"“These contracts were in place, and those people were in those call centers, and they were picking up the phone and answering these calls from these individuals. So that report needs to be validified,” Noem said, making up a new word — “validified.”"

(Source article link:) https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/texas-fema-calls-kristi-noem-fake-news-1235384583/

Insert: ↓Excerpts from a plausible explanation for Kristi Noem, and those of her kind:

"...In the world of MAGA, stupidity is a badge of honor for both sexes, but the heads of women need to be thoroughly empty. Book learning, in MAGA-land, is for lesbians and cat ladies. Intelligence gets in the way of the true duties of MAGA womanhood: keeping up your highly artificial appearance and, crucially, defending the man you serve with your whole heart and soul. Especially if said man, in this case Donald Trump, is himself dumber than a box of rocks. It's so much easier to be a yes-woman for such a man if you turn your own brain off completely..."

"...The 20th-century version of the "bimbo" was dim, but almost always good-hearted, exhibiting a childlike generosity to others. The innovation of the MAGA movement, however, is to make the bimbo a nasty figure, as cruel as she is dumb. In the past, what men wanted from a bimbo was someone with dog-like loyalty. For the right-wing man of our time, the craving is more for an attack dog, someone who will charge in to fight your battles, unconstrained by intellectual concerns about whether doing so makes sense."


Unaffiliated source article link: https://www.salon.com/2025/05/23/kristi-noems-proud-maga-bimbo-act-builds-on-the-legacy-of-sarah-palin/


P.P.S. (Excerpt:) ..↓Pretty much all that anyone needs need to know about (too) many current U.S. Republicans:

"A group of Republican lawmakers has complained that smoke from Canadian wildfires is ruining summer for Americans, just days after voting for a major bill that will cause more of the planet-heating pollution that is worsening wildfires."


(Source article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/republicans-canada-wildfire-complaint-letter)

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(↓Off-site article link:)

"USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say"


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↓7/15/25 excerpt:

"The Trump administration has ordered 500 metric tons of emergency food aid—enough to feed 1.5 million malnourished children for a week—to be incinerated tomorrow rather than be distributed as part of its ongoing purge of USAID. The high-energy biscuits, intended for children under five living in war and disaster zones, are currently being stored in a warehouse in Dubai and were meant to be shipped out this year, but will instead go to waste due to cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effectively halting nearly all forms of foreign aid. Current and former aid workers, speaking anonymously for fear of retaliation, told The Atlantic that the sheer scale of waste is unprecedented."

Source link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-to-incinerate-500-tons-of-emergency-food-for-children/

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..Hey, Mr. Stephen Miller, Xenophobe+: Please NOTE ..."Americans have made a U-turn on immigration since 2024 election"

Source article link: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/trump-immigration-crackdown-poll-00448342

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HINT:..NOT at a tin-pot dictator's silly + wa$teful (..up to $45 million cost) vanity parade. 6/13/25 update: ..It's likely going to be millions of people, despite bad weather in some forecasts..

(↓Linked to source:)

..↓6/14/25: Just a couple of representative photos from approx. 2000 separate protests..:
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..↓'Sparse-ness' of "crowd".. ..Desperate to leave..?
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YT video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GscjJWIS9VU



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..Now ↓this↓ cruel zillionaire crazy (..but he is 100% correct, below..) may think of running for president..😱 (Musk is not a natural U.S.-born citizen.. So, NO.) 🥳🥳

(↓6/3/25 copy, no affiliation:)

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Off-site article link: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/us-treasury-auction-debt-interest-rates
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(Reposted 5/20/25 video. No affiliation:)


YT video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMB5OdzKsVg&ab_channel=GOPFootage

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(Off-site link:)"Attack of the Sadistic Zombies"

Also credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbzXaL5aYVo&ab_channel=MSNBC
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↓..Only re-posting two samples from the near-infinite Trump vileness continuum. Copies, no affiliation:



BTW: (5/26/25) ↓INSANITY..The real, actual SCUM name-calling non-scum people 'scum'... (etc.)This isn't normal. ..What if Joe Biden or Barack Obama - or anyone - did this (repeatedly)?? (↓Reposted false GARBAGE:)


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Your first question (..next time): Is the candidate mentally stable? ..Basically sane??

Screen-captured image, April 2025. No copyright, no affiliation. Linked to source
MORE, 4/27/25: "Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades" (https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/politics/approval-rating-trump-100-days/index.html)

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Unaffiliated 2/23/25 source article:https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20250223176/warren-buffett-warning-of-scoundrels-and-fiscal-folly-slashes-his-exposure-to-us-stocks
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2/9/25 article excerpt:

"..The second Trump administration’s brazen pattern of blowing through myriad apparent legal limits has prompted debate about its intentions. One theory is that it is deliberately setting up test cases that would ultimately pave the way for the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed supermajority to expand presidential power by striking down the statutes as unconstitutional.

But the escalating pace of courtroom clashes has raised the question of what would happen if Mr. Trump simply started ignoring decisions he did not like, rather than appealing them. The result would be a constitutional crisis."


Unaffiliated source link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/us/politics/vance-trump-federal-courts-executive-order.html

2/10/25 update: "Judge finds Trump administration violated court order halting funding freeze"(Off-site link:) https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-finds-trump-administration-violated-court-order-halting-funding-rcna191528

(>>>>A couple of suggested links for taking some action. No direct affiliation here: https://democracyforward.org/, and, https://www.fiftyfifty.one/)

...Selected 2/2025 polling result: "Overwhelming majority of Americans say Trump should follow federal court rulings"
(Source link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-poll-unpopular-post-ipsos/)

↑Public domain photo, edited. "Office of Speaker Mike Johnson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons"

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Reposted 1/21/25 news story (link): "Trump grants sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants, including rioters who violently attacked police"
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'“We won in a landslide,” Trump claims, again. In fact, he won the popular vote by just 1.5 percentage points, one of the smallest margins of victory since the 19th century."
Unaffiliated source link for ↑quotation: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/16/us/trump-news/65fa139e-2785-5caa-9e35-272e582b00b1?smid=url-share. Also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-fact-checker-tracked-trump-claims/2021/01/23/ad04b69a-5c1d-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html
P.S. 12/2024: ..The unhinged person that so many actually chose to vote for. (Link) ..Spewing out hate and screwball insults -- on Christmas no less -- isn't "normal", decent or sane. It's SICK in the head, most likely. (..Parental discretion suggested): https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113716074695799383
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Saturday, February 16, 2019

Reposted: A key excerpt from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's recommended sentencing memo for former Trump campaign chairman/convicted felon Paul Manafort Jr.:

(Commentary, including reposted material. Temporarily posted.)

(One background article link: Who is Paul Manafort Jr.?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manafort)
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2/15/19 sentencing memo excerpt. (Footnotes omitted. Emphasis has been added:)

"THE GOVERNMENT’S SENTENCING MEMORANDUM

The United States of America, by and through Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III,
files this submission to address the sentencing of defendant Paul J. Manafort, Jr.

As an initial matter, the government agrees with the guidelines analysis in the
Presentence Investigation Report (PSR) and its calculation of the defendant’s Total Offense
Level as 38 with a corresponding range of imprisonment of 235 to 293 months, a fine range of
$50,000 to $24,371,497.74, a term of supervised release of up to five years, restitution in the
amount of $24,815,108.74, and forfeiture in the amount of $4,412,500.

Second, while the government does not take a position as to the specific sentence to be
imposed here, the government sets forth below its assessment of the nature of the offenses and
the characteristics of the defendant under Title 18, United States Code, Section 3553(a).

The defendant stands convicted of the serious crimes of tax fraud, bank fraud, and failing to file a foreign bank account report. Manafort was the lead perpetrator and a direct beneficiary of each offense. And while some of these offenses are commonly prosecuted, there was nothing
ordinary about the millions of dollars involved in the defendant’s crimes, the duration of his criminal conduct, or the sophistication of his schemes. Together with the relevant criminal
conduct, Manafort’s misconduct involved more than $16 million in unreported income resulting
in more than $6 million in federal taxes owed, more than $55 million hidden in foreign bank
accounts, and more than $25 million secured from financial institutions through lies resulting in
a fraud loss of more than $6 million. Manafort committed these crimes over an extended period
of time, from at least 2010 to 2016. His criminal decisions were not momentary or limited in
time; they were routine. And Manafort’s repeated misrepresentations to financial institutions
were brazen, at least some of which were made at a time when he was the subject of significant
national attention.

Neither the Probation Department nor the government is aware of any mitigating factors.
Manafort did not commit these crimes out of necessity or hardship. He was well educated,
professionally successful, and financially well off. He nonetheless cheated the United States
Treasury and the public out of more than $6 million in taxes at a time when he had substantial
resources. Manafort committed bank fraud to supplement his liquidity because his lavish
spending exhausted his substantial cash resources when his overseas income dwindled.
Finally, Manafort pled guilty in September 2018 in the United States District Court for
the District of Columbia to others crimes committed over an even longer period.

The government references those crimes below principally as they pertain to the Section 3553(a)
factors and, in particular, because they demonstrate the defendant’s concerted criminality,
including the conduct to which he pled guilty, from as early as 2005 and continuing up until the defendant’s involvement in an obstruction of justice conspiracy between February 23, 2018 and
April 2018—a crime Manafort committed while under indictment in two jurisdictions and
subject to court-ordered bail conditions in each. The District of Columbia offenses are also
relevant to the application of § 2S1.3(b) of the Sentencing Guidelines to the FBAR offenses
and to the issue of acceptance of responsibility, as discussed below.

In the end, Manafort acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law, and
deprived the federal government and various financial institutions of millions of dollars. The
sentence here should reflect the seriousness of these crimes, and serve to both deter Manafort and others from engaging in such conduct..."

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