Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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The only news that matters today is how your party is destroying the reputation of one of its own as a sacrifice for maintaining power in California.
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Quote:So, you want Democrats to elect a rapist much like Trump so that authentic Trumptards who elected a rapist President don't look foolish, comparatively? Why do Trumptards defend rapists, tax cheats, bribe-takers, and the generally incompetent?
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The only news that matters today is how your party is destroying the reputation of one of its own as a sacrifice for maintaining power in California.
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Donald Trump’s Incompetence Is Costing Him the Country
An unpopular war, skyrocketing gas prices, unsteady financial markets, a cabinet filled with sycophants — the president’s colossal missteps have led to calamity at home and abroad
By Matt Bai | April 12, 2026
Illustration by VICTOR JUHASZ (Look closely at the illustration. Can you see Trump's error?)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/donald-trum
p-incompetence-chaos-maga-1235544798/
It was the first week of September in 2005, about a week after Hurricane Katrina leveled New Orleans, when George W. Bush uttered the line that would come to define his second term, if not his entire presidency: “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.” It was a throwaway comment, a plainspoken president telling his aide, FEMA Director Michael Brown, that he appreciated the effort. But the effort wasn’t nearly adequate, the federal response pitiful, and Bush’s ad-lib became the slogan for an out-of-touch administration that either couldn’t run the government or, worse, didn’t care. For the rest of Bush’s dismal time in office, every new failing would be met with the same sardonic response from his critics. Heckuva job, Brownie.
Donald Trump’s “great job” to Marco Rubio, tossed out during his State of the Union speech in February, didn’t have quite the same staying power. (“I think he’ll go down as the best ever,” Trump told his secretary of state, causing Henry Kissinger to bolt upright in his grave and laugh out loud.) But however much he may try to distract us with outrageous posts and circus-like spectacle, it’s becoming clear that second-term Trump is sinking faster and deeper than Bush ever did, and the dead weight on his back is pretty much the same.
It’s really not ideology that’s tanking Trump right now. I mean, yes, his administration is the meanest, most xenophobic, and most imperialist in at least the past century. And I’d like to think that would be a deal-breaker for the vast majority of middle-ground American voters, but if we’re being real, it probably isn’t. Independent and moderate voters have been with Trump on immigration, broadly speaking, since he first started doing his nativist routine a decade ago. And even a lot of populist leftists can get behind an “America First” foreign policy and protectionism for American manufacturers. Maybe Trump should be flailing politically because he’s brazenly profiting off the presidency and renaming half of Washington after himself, but near as I can tell, that part doesn’t especially trouble people, either.
No, what’s killing Trump right now isn’t the extremist agenda — it’s the mind-blowing incompetence. Deporting immigrants is one thing; masked agents executing American citizens on Midwestern boulevards is another. Ending Iran’s nuclear ambitions might get majority support on paper, but launching a war without any clear rationale, without having thought through even the most basic consequences, is how you lose the electorate in a hurry. (About six in 10 Americans disapprove of Trump’s wartime performance, according to Pew Research, and that number isn’t going down anytime soon.) Gas prices are spiking, mortgage rates are soaring, financial markets are lurching back and forth. Airport terminals look like Disneyland in July.
Competence — and by that I mean the most fundamental, entry-level, don’t-blow-up-the-world kind of competence — was more of a thing in the first Trump
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Originally posted by second:Quote:So, you want Democrats to elect a rapist much like Trump so that authentic Trumptards who elected a rapist President don't look foolish, comparatively? Why do Trumptards defend rapists, tax cheats, bribe-takers, and the generally incompetent?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The only news that matters today is how your party is destroying the reputation of one of its own as a sacrifice for maintaining power in California.
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Nope.
I want Democrats to stop attempting to ruin men by any means necessary for the sin of being in their way.
You're nothing but a bunch of liars, and you manipulate women's minds more than any Muslim leader ever did.
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Donald Trump’s Incompetence Is Costing Him the Country
All polling data still shows that this is just another lie.
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Peter Magyar: former govt insider promising system change
https://www.digitaljournal.com/world/peter-magyar-former-govt-insider-
promising-system-change/article
Good for Hungary.
Now there will be ZERO Muslims in the country.
Lefties wanted this guy, and I just can't figure out why...
He's for no immigration. He's going to end any work programs they had under Orban and there won't be anybody in Hungary that doesn't belong there.
Maybe he can teach Trump how to finally get that done here, because we're going on 2 years now and the poison of the Democrats has still blocked us from doing what needs to be done.
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Quote:Why are Trumptards so angrily opposed to Trump paying $88.3 million for raping E. Jean Carroll?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:So, you want Democrats to elect a rapist much like Trump so that authentic Trumptards who elected a rapist President don't look foolish, comparatively? Why do Trumptards defend rapists, tax cheats, bribe-takers, and the generally incompetent?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The only news that matters today is how your party is destroying the reputation of one of its own as a sacrifice for maintaining power in California.
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Be Evil. Be a dick.
Nope.
I want Democrats to stop attempting to ruin men by any means necessary for the sin of being in their way.
You're nothing but a bunch of liars, and you manipulate women's minds more than any Muslim leader ever did.Quote:
Donald Trump’s Incompetence Is Costing Him the Country
All polling data still shows that this is just another lie.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll_v._Donald_J._Trump
Why are Trumptards so indifferent to Trump taking $billions in bribes in exchange for government contracts, pardons, and tax relief directed toward billionaires?
Trump net worth increased by $4 billion in one year
https://www.bing.com/search?q=trump+net+worth+increased+by+%244+billio
n+in+one+year
I know why, and it's the same reason why Trumptards struggle in America, but I love hearing Trumptards explain their own version of why they act as badly as they do.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Donald Trump, the worst US president ever?
Under his administration, governance became performance; truth became negotiable; and power became personal.
By Kua Kia Soong, former MP and a former director of Suaram
March 31, 2026
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2026/03/30/donald-t
rump-the-worst-us-president-ever
Have you often wondered how history will remember Donald Trump?
If history were a meritocracy, Trump would be remembered as a footnote – an eccentric real estate showman who mistook television ratings for governance.
Unfortunately, history is not so tidy. It occasionally hands immense power to a man who believes instinct outranks knowledge, volume outranks reason, and spectacle outranks substance – and then watches as the consequences unfold in real time.
To call Trump “the worst president in American history” is not merely an insult. It is an attempt to describe a presidency that did not just fail – it redefined failure itself.
His tenure can be understood through four defining breakdowns: the collapse of intellectual seriousness, the corrosion of truth and law, the reckless mismanagement of economic power, and the normalisation of cruelty without borders.
The cult of ignorance in power
Previous US presidents at least paid homage to expertise. Trump treated it as an obstacle.
His handling of Covid-19 stands as the clearest indictment. Faced with a once-in-a-century public health crisis, he downplayed the threat, saying “it will disappear”, contradicted his own scientists, and publicly mused about injecting disinfectants, turning White House briefings into global spectacles of confusion. While other governments mobilised coherent responses, the US lurched between denial and improvisation.
This was not merely poor communication; it was a governing philosophy.
Expertise was sidelined, agencies were undermined, and scientific consensus became politically negotiable. The result: one of the world’s highest death tolls, paired with a president more interested in television optics than epidemiology.
The war on truth, law and democracy
Trump did not merely bend the truth – he attempted to bury it under an avalanche of falsehoods. Fact-checkers stopped counting after tens of thousands of misleading or false claims. But the deeper damage lay not in any single lie, but in the normalisation of unreality as a political environment.
This culminated in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. Having lost, Trump refused to concede, promoting baseless claims of fraud and pressuring officials to overturn certified results.
His call to Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” votes was not satire – it was an unvarnished attempt to bend democratic machinery to personal will. The inevitable climax came with the Jan 6 Capitol attack, when a mob, animated by his rhetoric, stormed the seat of American democracy. It was a moment that would have been unthinkable in a system that still commanded universal allegiance to the rule of law.
Human rights norms, already fragile, were further weakened as they became transactional. The message was unmistakable: principles were negotiable, truth was optional, and power was personal.
Economic nationalism as strategic self-harm
Trump promised to restore American economic greatness through toughness, chiefly in the form of tariffs and trade wars. The results were instructive.
His trade confrontation with China triggered retaliatory tariffs that hit American farmers particularly hard, forcing the government to spend tens of billions in bailouts – an ironic outcome for a policy meant to strengthen domestic industry. Supply chains were disrupted, uncertainty surged, and businesses faced rising costs.
Even allies were not spared. Tariffs were imposed on steel and aluminium imports from partners like Canada and the European Union under the dubious justification of “national security”, straining ties that had underpinned decades of economic stability.
Markets oscillated wildly, not because investors admired bold str
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Donald Trump, the worst US president ever?
I'm sure you have no shortage of idiots who will tell you that.
So why are you picking the guy nobody heard of, from the country that nobody could point out on a map, working for an organization nobody ever heard of?
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Quote:6ixStringJoker, read Trump's words. If you conclude he is NOT the worst President in history, you demonstrated why your own life is a goddamn mess that you ought to be ashamed of:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Donald Trump, the worst US president ever?
I'm sure you have no shortage of idiots who will tell you that.
So why are you picking the guy nobody heard of, from the country that nobody could point out on a map, working for an organization nobody ever heard of?
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about “fear” of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart. I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t! I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country. And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History. Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican. Unfortunately, Leo’s Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons, does not sit well with me, nor does the fact that he meets with Obama Sympathizers like David Axelrod, a LOSER from the Left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clerics to be arrested. Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Apr 12, 2026, 8:03 PM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116394704213456431
Roll Call tracks Trump's written nonsense:
https://rollcall.com/factbase/topic/twitter
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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IRS Cuts Open Door For Cheats. More Taxpayers Bet ‘The IRS Isn’t Going to Catch Me’
The Internal Revenue Service shed thousands of enforcement employees — and some taxpayers appear eager to cheat
By Richard Rubin | April 12, 2026 9:00 pm ET
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/irs-staffing-tax-enforcement-1a18e
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WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is scaling back tax enforcement, leaving fewer federal employees to audit returns, collect unpaid tax debts and deter Americans from skirting the law.
The Internal Revenue Service has shed thousands of enforcement workers since President Trump returned to office, and his fiscal 2027 budget proposal seeks further cuts amid the administration’s broader pullback of white-collar law enforcement. The IRS enforcement workforce would fall below 30,000, fewer than at the end of Trump’s first term and about a third less than the Biden-era peak.
The retrenchment is spurring a vibe shift across the tax landscape ahead of the April 15 deadline, and lawyers say they see more taxpayers and tax-shelter promoters eager to cut corners or cheat.
“There’s seemingly this mentality building which is, ‘The IRS isn’t going to catch me,”’ said Carolyn Schenck, a former IRS national fraud counsel, now at law firm Caplin and Drysdale in Washington.
Audits of people with at least $10 million in income dropped 9% last year, and they are on track to decline another 39% this year. Partnership audits declined, reversing an attempt to scrutinize private-equity firms and other complex entities that have long bedeviled the government. In 2025, the IRS collected less direct revenue from audits and appeals than in any year since at least 2012, though the money can arrive years after audits start.
Even without the proposed cut for next year, inflation-adjusted spending on tax enforcement is already the lowest in at least 20 years, according to the progressive Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
“They have defunded the police,” said Matthew Rappaport, a tax lawyer at Falcon, Rappaport and Berkman in New York. “There’s no more succinct way to describe what’s happened.”
The cutbacks will be costly for the government's bottom line and expand budget deficits. The administration’s own IRS budget document acknowledges that chasing scofflaws generates more money than it costs. “Reductions in enforcement spending create missed opportunities and lost revenue for the United States,” the document said.
The IRS workforce reductions so far would cut an estimated $46 billion in federal spending over the next decade and reduce revenue collections by $643 billion, according to The Budget Lab at Yale.
While in office, Charles Rettig, who was Trump’s first-term IRS commissioner, described the agency as outgunned by wealthy, well-advised taxpayers. He estimated that the tax gap — the difference between taxes owed and paid — was approaching $1 trillion a year.
More at https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/irs-staffing-tax-enforcement-1a18e
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Parable of the President
Trump’s criticism of Pope Leo XIV reveals that to him, religion is primarily about power, not morality.
By David A. Graham | April 13, 2026, 2:15 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/04/trump-vs-pope-contradi
ctory-message/686784/
Many people get the Sunday scaries, but most of them are not a sitting president facing self-inflicted global chaos and the growing possibility of a bruising midterm election in a few months. What feels like a weekly social-media crashout from the president of the United States usually starts some time on Sunday and continues into the early hours of the next morning. Given the failure of negotiations with Iran on Saturday, the likelihood of elevated gas prices for months, and the resounding defeat of Trump’s ally and role model Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Donald Trump had plenty of fuel for a freakout last night.
But the most notable subject in this week’s edition was Pope Leo XIV, who has been critical of Trump’s attack on Venezuela and war in Iran. The posts illustrate that Trump views religion much the way he views everything else: as something that can serve him but does not create any obligations on him.
“Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, kicking off a lengthy jeremiad. “I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History.” Trump claimed that Leo XIV was elected only because the cardinals believed he’d be good at dealing with the current administration. Trump is also upset that Leo met with David Axelrod, the Democratic strategist and commentator. “Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician,” Trump said.
Forty-six minutes later, Trump posted an illustration of himself as a Jesus-like figure, reaching out to heal a man in bed while a nurse, a soldier, and others look on, and with a background of patriotic bric-a-brac (flag, eagles, fighter jets). The image has been circulating for at least a couple of months, during which time an angel near the top of the image has somehow transformed into a creepy monstrosity, presumably through the wonders of generative AI. The illustration drew claims of blasphemy and even demonic possession from some usual Trump allies on the right; the president has since deleted it, telling reporters he believed that the picture depicted him as a doctor.
Too many contradictions appear here to list them all. For example, Trump insists that Leo renounce politics yet also complains about the pope’s policy stance on crime. What he’s referring to here is a mystery. (The Catholic Church could be said to have a decarceral agenda: Jesus, quoting the Prophet Isaiah, said that he had been sent to preach freedom to prisoners, and the first pope, Peter, was imprisoned at least once and likely executed for professing Jesus. Then again, the Vatican City has, by some accounts, the highest per-capita crime rate in the world, due mainly to pickpocketing.)
Another contradiction is that Trump doesn’t actually seem to have any problem with the intermingling of religion and politics—as the Christlike image shows, and as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aggressive rhetoric about the war demonstrates. The president’s reflexive response to criticism (or perceived criticism) from any public figure is to unleash a social-media barrage against them, without much thought about who the person is or what their role in society might be. This black-and-white view of the world owes more to Mani, another religious leader whose death was depicted as a crucifixion, than to Jesus of Nazareth.
The tirade at Leo is the latest escalation of anti-Catholic sentiment among some figures on the MAGA right. Trump has a number of devout Catholics in his administration, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vi
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