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)

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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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"...a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens."

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Sunday, February 17, 2019

Rhetorical: Generally speaking, whom would you tend to believe? The (former) SWAT team, (former) counter-terrorism, lifelong Republican, triathlete, former FBI director? Or the mercurial guy who's frequently been entangled in various legal cases (etc.) much of his adult life? (Updated:)

(Commentary, including reposted material. Temporarily posted. Is it 'whom' or 'who' in the headline above? FWIW, I went with 'whom'...)

...Assuming that the entries below are basically accurate. Please compare and contrast the following Wikipedia pages:

Donald Trump (link)

Donald Trump legal affairs (separate article link)

Andrew McCabe (link)

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2/18/19 update: Involved-in-multiple-legal-investigations Donald Trump: The paramount "expert" of our time on the subject of legality...
(Re off-site article link:) "'Very Illegal Act'. Trump lashes out...."
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Reposted partial excerpt from the published transcript of the 2/17/19 60 Minutes interview with Andrew McCabe. Source link:

"...McCabe is a lifelong Republican who had a sterling 21-year career at the FBI; serving as head of counter-terrorism and number two under Comey. But he was fired last year for allegedly lying to his own agents about a story he leaked to a newspaper. Not since Watergate has the FBI been drawn so deeply into presidential politics. Andrew McCabe was pulled into the center of the tempest on May 9, 2017 when he was summoned by the president hours after Comey was fired.

Andrew McCabe: "I was speaking to the man who had just... won the election for the presidency and who might have done so with the aid of the government of Russia, our most formidable adversary on the world stage.

Andrew McCabe: I'd never been to a meeting in the Oval Office before. I'm a career FBI agent-government worker.

Scott Pelley:  Oval Office was above your pay grade.

Andrew McCabe: It certainly was. And the president immediately went off on a almost a gleeful description of what had happened with the firing of Jim Comey. And then he went on to state that people in the FBI were — were thrilled about this, that people really disliked Jim Comey and that they were very happy about this and that it was, it was a great thing.

Scott Pelley: He was telling you what the reaction inside the FBI was?

Andrew McCabe: He was. It was very different than the reaction I had seen immediately before I came to the White House.

Scott Pelley: Which was what?

Andrew McCabe: People were shocked. We had lost our leader, a leader who was respected and liked by the vast majority of FBI employees.  People were very sad. But anyway, that night in the Oval Office what I was hearing from the president was, not reality. It was the version of the events that I quickly realized he wished me to adopt. As he went on talking about how happy people in the FBI were, he said to me, "I heard that you were part of the resistance."

Scott Pelley: What did he mean by that?

Andrew McCabe: Well I didn't know. And so I asked him. And he said, "I heard that you were one of the people that did not support Jim Comey. You didn't agree with him and the decisions that he'd made in the Clinton case. And is that true?" And I said, "No sir. That's not true. I worked very closely with Jim Comey. I was a part of that team and a part of those decisions."

Scott Pelley: You had the sense you'd given him the wrong answer.

Andrew McCabe: I knew I'd given him the wrong answer.

Scott Pelley: You weren't trying to hang onto this job.

Andrew McCabe: I wasn't willing to lie to keep it. I didn't know when I'd be out of the job. I thought it would probably be pretty soon. And so I just put my head down and got to work trying to stabilize the people around me and do the things that I felt we needed to do with the Russia investigation, getting cases opened and getting a special counsel appointed.

After Comey was fired, McCabe says he ordered two investigations of the president himself. They asked two questions. One, did Mr. Trump fire Comey to impede the investigation into whether Russia interfered with the election. And two, if so, was Mr. Trump acting on behalf of the Russian government.

Andrew McCabe: I was speaking to the man who had just run for the presidency and won the election for the presidency and who might have done so with the aid of the government of Russia, our most formidable adversary on the world stage. And that was something that troubled me greatly.

Scott Pelley: How long was it after that that you decided to start the obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations involving the president?

Andrew McCabe: I think the next day, I met with the team investigating the Russia cases. And I asked the team to go back and conduct an assessment to determine where are we with these efforts and what steps do we need to take going forward. I was very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid ground in an indelible fashion that were I removed quickly or reassigned or fired that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace.

Scott Pelley: You wanted a documentary record—

Andrew McCabe: That's right—

Scott Pelley: —That those investigations had begun because you feared that they would be made to go away.

Andrew McCabe: That's exactly right....""

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(One additional reference article for this post:
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