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Quote:Here is a US Attorney who is 100% cheap plastic, and anyone except Trumptards could tell he is fake, but Trump wants him confirmed:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Your focus on plastic hands is puzzling, SECOND.
Why?
Do YOU have plastic hands? Plastic feet?
Trump’s Top D.C. Prosecutor Apologizes for Lauding Nazi Sympathizer as ‘Extraordinary Man’
Ed Martin has been a long-time supporter of the Jan. 6 rioters, including Timothy Hale-Cusanelli
By Nikki McCann Ramirez, Andrew Perez | April 24, 2025
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ed-martin-apologiz
es-lauding-timothy-hale-cusanelli-1235324617/
Ed Martin, Donald Trump’s top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., claimed he had no idea that a Jan. 6 defendant, whom he once praised as “an extraordinary man,” was a known Nazi sympathizer and white supremacist. It is bullshit, not only because Hale-Cusanelli extremist history is both public and well documented, but because Hale and Martin have directly interacted in the past.
Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a former Army reservist and Navy security guard, gained notoriety as a Jan. 6 defendant convicted on charges related to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. While the charges against Hale-Cusanelli were non-violent, his public persona and social media presence were littered with racist and extremist statements and views. In one now notorious selfie, Hale-Cusanelli sports a Hitleresque mustache with a hand to his chest in the first motion of a Nazi salute. According to court documents, former Navy service members who spoke to investigators said that Hale-Cusanelli had once said that “Hitler should have finished the job,” and that “babies born with any deformities or disabilities should be shot in the forehead.”
In September, Martin described Hale-Cusanelli as an “extraordinary man” and “leader,” while presenting an award to him at an event at Trump’s Bedminster golf club. In an interview with The Forward, Martin said that he was “sorry” for his praise of Hale-Cusanelli.
“I denounce everything about what that guy said, everything about the way he talked, and all as I’ve now seen it,” Martin told The Forward. “At the time, I didn’t know it.”
“I certainly didn’t know all the terrible things that he said and how he had acted. I think that’s terrible, and I denounced it completely. I hate it. I hate that it happened,” he added.
It’s hard to see how Martin could have been unaware of Hale-Cusanelli’s history, as he himself represented Jan. 6 defendants — and Hale-Cusanelli’s case was one of the most prominent at a national level.
The apology comes as Martin, currently Trump’s interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, seeks Senate confirmation to lose the interim moniker and hold the role permanently. Senate Democrats have urged Republicans to hold a confirmation hearing — which is uncommon for U.S. attorney nominees — given Martin’s track record so far.
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who announced he was putting a hold on Martin’s nomination, recently told Rolling Stone that when Democrats “outlined all of the list of horribles that [Martin’s] been engaged in, Republicans seem genuinely surprised.”
“While U.S. attorney nominees don’t generally get much scrutiny, this one really needs to,” Schiff says. “And if they end up confirming him anyway, we’re going to make sure that they own him, that they’re forced to wrap their arms around him as he’s wrapped his arms around Nazi sympathizers.”
As the interim U.S. attorney, Martin has spent his few months declaring himself a legal attack dog for the president. In February, Martin referred to himself and the prosecutors in his office as “President Trumps’ lawyers.” Martin has pledged to “protect” staffers working for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
On Thursday, Martin was featured in a Justice Department press release touting misdemeanor charges filed against a man accused of vandalizing Teslas in Washington. The press release quoted
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Originally posted by second:Quote:China plays Trump card: curbs on exports of rare-earth minerals
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Focus on the real economy, where everything says that policy chaos will soon take a real toll.
Oh wow! Oh no!
It's an empty graph!!!!!!!!!!
We've just forced your fiction writers to do even less work now.
Senior administration officials are scrambling to stem economic damage from China’s restrictions on rare-earth exports, as President Donald Trump’s trade war risks cutting key industries and defense contractors off from supplies of metals crucial to production, according to three people familiar with internal deliberations.
While companies search for alternative suppliers and urge the White House to cut a deal that will keep the materials flowing to U.S. manufacturers, the Trump administration is finding there are no easy solutions. China has a lock on the supply of certain elements that are essential to making such things as military drones, consumer electronics and battery-powered vehicles.
“China knows this is a very strong bargaining chip, and it is why they are playing it,” said Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes, who was a deputy director for batteries and critical materials at the Energy Department during the Biden administration. “This is fast emerging as our Achilles’ heel. What makes these bans particularly dangerous is oftentimes one of these materials is a single point of failure for entire supply chains, and its production rests solely in China.”
The restrictions, imposed by Beijing in response to Trump’s steep new tariffs, have provoked deep consternation at high levels of the administration. Aides at the White House National Security Council, National Economic Council, Council of Economic Advisers, Commerce Department, Energy Department and Office of the Trade Representative, among other agencies, have been involved, said the people familiar with the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect internal matters.
Beijing curbed exports to the United States this month of the rare earths, a group of 17 metals critical for industry. Amid deepening concern over potential economic fallout from the trade war, Trump has softened his tone in recent days, saying the U.S. is eager to make a deal and floating substantial reductions in the import duties.
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/04/24/u-s-agencies-alarmed-after
-china-plays-trump-card-curbs-on-exports-of-rare-earth-minerals/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I guess Tesla will continue crashing.
Win/Win, right?
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Here is a US Attorney who is 100% cheap plastic, and anyone except Trumptards could tell he is fake, but Trump wants him confirmed:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Your focus on plastic hands is puzzling, SECOND.
Why?
Do YOU have plastic hands? Plastic feet?
Nobody cares about Rolling Stone or the TDS suffering USAid-funded idiots working there or what they have to say on any topic in 2025.
But by all means, please do keep following them down the path they've been leading you down. You'll make sure that the Democratic Party never rises from the dead.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Here is a US Attorney who is 100% cheap plastic,
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Your focus on plastic hands is puzzling, SECOND.
Why?
Do YOU have plastic hands? Plastic feet?
What?
You have MORE plastic parts???
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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I no longer pretend to have serious discussions with SECOND.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Quote:Signym, I have never had a discussion, serious or frivolous, with a Trumptard because I cannot take you silly things seriously. The co-workers I knew to be idiots, who went about their jobs incompetently, became Trumptards, at least the ones that didn't die young from the foolish way they lived before Trump arrived on the ballot.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I no longer pretend to have serious discussions with SECOND.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:One more thing for Trump retards to not care about:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody cares about Rolling Stone or the TDS suffering USAid-funded idiots working there or what they have to say on any topic in 2025.
But by all means, please do keep following them down the path they've been leading you down. You'll make sure that the Democratic Party never rises from the dead.
Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story.
By Michael Tomasky / April 25, 2025/11:27 a.m. ET
https://newrepublic.com/post/194420/trump-memecoin-dinner-corrupt-pres
ident
Imagine that Joe Biden, just as he was assuming office, had started a new company with Hunter Biden and used his main social media account to recruit financial backers, then promised that the most generous among them would earn an invitation to a private dinner with him. Oh, and imagine that these investors were all kept secret from the public, so that we had no idea what kinds of possible conflicts of interest might arise.
Take a minute, close your eyes. Let yourself see Jim Jordan’s face go purple in apoplexy, hear the moral thunder spewing out of Jesse Watters’s mouth, feel the shock (which would be wholly justified) of the New York Times editorial board as it expressed disbelief that the man representing the purported values and standards of the United States of America before the world would begin to think it was remotely OK to do such a thing. The media would be able to speak of nothing else for days. Maybe weeks.
Yet this and more is what Donald Trump just did, and unless you follow the news quite closely, it’s possible you’ve not even heard about it. Or if you have, it was probably in passing, one of those second-tier, “this is kind of interesting” headlines. But it’s a lot more than that. As Democratic Senator Chris Murphy noted Wednesday: “This isn’t Trump just being Trump. The Trump coin scam is the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done. Not close.”
Lots of details beyond the comprehension of Trumptards at https://newrepublic.com/post/194420/trump-memecoin-dinner-corrupt-pres
ident
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Greenland, trade wars and more
By Paul Krugman | Apr 26, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-to-yascha-mounk
It is a paradox how Trump talks about the world. On one hand, he doesn't seem to like the idea of American power projection. He doesn't seem to like the idea of America being a world policeman. He seems to actually want to step back from American power in the world.
So he doesn't care about the fate of Ukraine, and seems to think of the country effectively as part of Russia's sphere of influence. When it comes to a place like Taiwan, he has suggested in various comments that he doesn't really mind what China might do with it. In his inaugural address, he said he wants to be measured by the wars he doesn't start.
On the other hand, he has this incredibly bellicose rhetoric around places like Panama where he feels that the United States should get control of the Panama Canal and, of course, Greenland, which he said repeatedly, America absolutely must get control over. And I think that the way to understand that is he thinks of a world in terms of spheres of influence.
Ukraine is part of Russia's sphere of influence in his mind. Doesn't really matter what happens over there. Let the Russians do what they want. Taiwan? Part of China's sphere of influence, not really a concern of America. But the places that he thinks of as America's sphere of influence, the places that he thinks of as part of where America should rule the roost, he thinks America should just be much, much more brutal; much, much more ruthless in what we might do there. And so I think that we should take seriously when he repeatedly says America must get control of Greenland. That really is part of his mental model. And there's nothing really stopping him if he wants to go ahead.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trade wars and more
By Paul Krugman | Apr 26, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-to-yascha-mounk
We've seen over the last decades that contrary to the expectations of protesters against the WTO in Seattle in 1999, who were saying “this is going to impoverish countries like China,” we've actually seen billions of people rise out of poverty in good part because of that international trade and those international investments over the course of the last few decades.
But of course, it has also given huge benefits to the United States, which is a phenomenally wealthy country to an extent that I think many Americans don't realize.
And one of the stories of my lifetime, I was born and raised in Germany at a time when German GDP per capita was pretty similar to America's GDP per capita in the 80s and 90s. And today, the United States has a GDP per capita that's about twice that of most European countries. The GDP per capita of West Virginia is now higher than that of the United Kingdom.
The US got many benefits from this international trading system. And one of the interesting things about the Trump administration is that it perceives all of the burdens that America's dominance of this global system has imposed on the country, but it doesn't seem to be able to recognize any other benefits.
I'm much more keen to European discussions than the great majority of American economists. While Trump feels terribly victimized and that everybody's taking advantage, I'm reading the Draghi Report, which is, “Oh my God, the Americans are pulling away from Europe. Why can't we compete?
It's a weird failure. If the system is so wrecked against us, why are we doing so well? I guess that's not how Trump sees it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The man-babies of MAGA never grew up because they never had to
By John Stoehr | April 26, 2025
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/maga-babies/
Recall that the week began with news that the US secretary of defense had been involved in a second Signal chat in which he shared the same war plans he shared in the first one. This time, Pete Hegseth set up the chat himself and included his wife, his brother and his attorney. Oh, and he used his own phone, not the government’s.
Last weekend, in an opinion piece for Politico, a former Pentagon spokesman warned that “there are very likely more shoes to drop in short order, with even bigger bombshell stories coming this week.”
And lo, a voice came:
• Wall Street Journal: “Polygraph Threats, Leaks and Infighting: The Chaos Inside Hegseth’s Pentagon”;
• Associated Press: “Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal”;
• Times: “Hegseth’s Personal Phone Use Created Vulnerabilities”;
• National Public Radio: "Former Pentagon official on Hegseth turmoil: ‘It looks like they actually broke the law’”;
• CBS: “Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon.”
Unfortunately, we are where we were at the beginning of the week. Hegseth isn’t going anywhere. Yes, he is “embattled,” as we say in the news, but every story about him says that Donald Trump has his back.
The closest we’ve come to accountability was in the Journal: “Trump has begun to ask people around him about Hegseth’s performance, and his advisers have closely watched his recent media appearances.”
Until he’s gone, there’s going to be lots more to say about Hegseth. I want to focus on an aspect about him and the maga movement that can be found in the opening scene from the Journal article above.
In it, he reacts after being “rattled” by the fact that someone had leaked word of his classified briefing on China with Elon Musk.
“I’ll hook you up to a f—ing polygraph!” Hegseth shouted at Adm. Christopher Grady, the then-acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to two people familiar with the exchange. Hegseth demanded proof that Grady hadn’t leaked news of the March 21 briefing.
Grady was never subjected to a polygraph, and Hegseth would go on to accuse a number of other people for the leak, including Lt. Gen. Doug Sims, the Joint Staff director, whom Hegseth also threatened with a polygraph test.
I mean, I get it.
The secretary of defense is America’s highest ranking military official. In theory, Hegseth can talk to anyone at the Pentagon in any way he wants to, no matter how accomplished they are, no matter how much older they are. But we’re not talking about what you can do. We’re talking about what you should do among men of honor and distinction.
And there’s your problem.
Admiral Grady’s resume is so deep and long, and so full of achievement and military jargon, that it would be almost discourteous of me to copy and paste excerpts of it. (You can find his bio here, https://www.jcs.mil/Leadership/Article-View/Article/2022515/adm-christ
opher-w-grady/ ) He has seen some things and done some things, with the ultimate cost of failure being that someone under him could have died.
Meanwhile, Hegseth’s resume for the job is nearly as thin as mine.
He’s a 44-year-old former TV personality with a drinking problem and a history of indiscretion with women, shall we say, as well as no experience running anything of size, much less the planet’s biggest bureaucracy. Since taking the job, he has compromised national security, broken dozens of laws, conduct that would get anyone else at the Pentagon court-martialed if he were not Donald Trump’s No. 1 yes-man, and on top of all this, he feels justified in throwing fit with a man who was answering the call of duty when Hegseth was still in diapers.
Again, Hegseth has the right to say what he wants to Admiral Grady. He outranks him. No doubt Grady accepts that. But no man of honor would cuss out an admiral out, question his honesty, doubt his loyalty, impugn hi
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