This is what I’ve been saying from the beginning, and this is why I predict I am going to have one hell of a time getting back into the United States when I come back from my trip in one month.
I found the original tweet from August 29, 2018 and pulled the link.
“Trump spent a lifetime learning that the rules didn’t apply to him, which may have been why back in 2015 the idea that he could become president didn’t sound as crazy to him as it did to everyone else. Then he proceeded to teach us all how weak the safeguards against a corrupt demagogue becoming president really are. His party couldn’t stop him from winning its nomination, the media let his history of corruption slide while vivisecting his opponent for ludicrously trivial misdeeds, some timely intervention from the FBI director gave him a last-minute boost, and the electoral system allowed him to triumph despite winning the votes of 3 million fewer Americans than his opponent. And now, Trump’s last line of defense (apart from his willingness to use the powers of his office to protect himself) is the Republican Congress, an uncommonly craven collection of politicians. Fortified by a conservative media raising an increasingly urgent drumbeat of demands to hold fast, they will stand by Trump’s side because abandoning him poses the greater risk of backlash from their constituents, no matter what he is revealed to have done. So long as there are enough of them in office, Trump will be safe.”
Trump finance secretary/supervillain Steve Mnuchin
says he wants to unilaterally allow Americans to factor in inflation
when calculating capital gains; the move would cost the US government
$100 billion and 97% of that would go to the top 10% of US earners (66%
would go to the 0.1% of US earners).
Trump and Mnuchin say they can do this without Congressional approval,
based on cherry-picked legal opinions that contradict earlier Republican
presidential findings – Bush I’s legal team concluded that it would be
illegal for the President to pull a stunt like this.
However, if they manage it, it means that President Elizabeth Warren
will have broad latitude to raise taxes on the super-rich in 2020, even
if Congressional Republicans object. Trump and his looters are obviously
betting that they’ll hold onto power indefinitely (or they’ll take
their money and go into hiding in a Caribbean tax-haven with no
extradition treaty).
America’s deficit skyrocketed this year after Trump’s earlier tax-cuts for the super-rich resulted in a massive shortfall in expected tax revenues.
Okay but seriously, do this. This is the number one way to topple narcissist agendas. You want your name everywhere? You want to be adored? Here’s consequence. Now no one will be able to look at you without remembering those kids and how utterly despicable you are. Attach his name all over this shit. Make it impossible for him to get away from it in future years too. #Trumpcamps.
Make this trend. Make it a top google search. Make this his fucking whole presidency. The only thing he did. Trumpcamps.
That’s kinda catchy, honestly. And his base would love it too.
The remarks have proven particularly useful for immigration advocates
who are suing the Trump regime over its policy of revoking Temporary
Protected Status from 200,000 brown people from four countries who are
lawfully resident in the USA.
At the first hearing last week at a US District Court in San Francisco,
ACLU Southern California legal director Ahilan Arulanantham argued that
“shithole country” was evidence that the Trump regime’s ethnic cleansing
program “was motivated by its racism against non-white, non-Europeans
immigrants,” and “That racist motivation was obvious from a number of
statements that this president and others in the administration made,
including about TPS holders specifically.”
