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It would be tempting to label this as regular grift, but, one of the few areas the guy’s been consistent is his Quixotic quest against windmills
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It most certainly justifies the use of 'windmill' instead of 'wind turbine' :-)

Poetic even.

The USA is a joke. The constant grifting and the staggering incompetence is stinking mad.
What's happening now is unprecedented in extreme.

Us textbooks everywhere tell of the Teapot Dome Scandal, where some of the presidents buddies in 1920 did a little bit of self dealing. This was it! This and Nixon were the stories of corruption! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal

On Bluesky we talk a Watergate a week, a Watergate a day. A massive incredibly corrupt totally fallen beastly abuse of power, week after week, day after day. This hasn't been constant. Even during Trump 1 there was nothing like this. This is the Project 2025, this is the Freedom Caucus, this is the insurrectionist Business Plot scum who have for well over a century wished to seek the downfall and hollowing out of the US. They've never had the chance to do this before, there's been nothing like this. They've tried to overthrow the US order before, but this time, they have their man. It's working. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

This is what I say every time my Republican friends ask why I didn't vote for Trump, knowing I'm generally right-wing. He's obviously corrupt, that's a dealbreaker. They've taken for granted all these decades of not having the country run like Mexico or Russia. I get if they voted for him the first time, but after that?

Annoyingly, the news seems to focus more on some politically incorrect thing he said or "wahh he Obama'd more drug boats."

Don’t expect the news to do the protesting for you. It’s up to you to do that.
This is just disgusting. If republicans weren’t immune to hypocrisy, the world would be a better place.
Low information base, easily baited every time, hooked on terrormongering media telling them the cities are all being burned by antifa. Having their hearts drilled holes into them time and time again by those vicious vicious "leaders" and media, broadcasting nonsense Fear Uncertainty and Doubt, nonstop. There is such a deliberate attempt to weaken the souls and spirit of the people, to hollow out patriotism to such malleable pliant forms, to be manipulated and directed by fearmongering.
You know what, Democratic party should've stood against Antifa if they wanted the votes. Stop giving grifters easy wins.
'Antifa' is a wholly imaginary organisation, and always has been. And the biggest riot was Jan 6.

The Antifa nonsense is classic DARVO.

> Democratic party should've stood hard against Antifa

Democrats should stand against antifacism? What is your reasoning for this statement?

Because a lot of groups that go under that name are violent and don't try to hide it. And just because they say they're "anti-fascism" doesn't mean you need to believe them.
How does he get to spend $900M without the approval of Congress?
I was wondering about this too, wish the article said. It's the Treasury Judgment Fund according to https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/08/17/Trump-administrat... which is Executive branch, but now I'm wondering if the Judicial branch has a say too
> The Judgment Fund is used by the government to pay for court judgments and settlements when it is the subject of a lawsuit, for example.

This payment seems like a clear misuse of the fund, since no lawsuit or settlement existed afaik in this context.

self-dealing corruption is so rampant in this administration that $900M going to some Trump buddy is just another day in America
Again, third word levels of blatant corruption lol.