The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Ellie]

Great American State Fair Crowd So Small Trump Cancals Fake Assassination

Nuclear Oatmeal :paranoid: (@NuclearOatmeal@beige.party)

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Found my new pickle brand

Mt. Olive Pickles withdraws from Great American State Fair after Confederate flag at NC booth

Gov. Josh Stein's office told WRAL News the flag has since been removed.

www.witn.com

 

[Free]

Found my new pickle brand

Mt. Olive Pickles withdraws from Great American State Fair after Confederate flag at NC booth

Gov. Josh Stein's office told WRAL News the flag has since been removed.

www.witn.com

They've been mine for a long time. I prefer their dills to Vlasic.

 

[detrius]

Yes, and the three day Notting Hill Carnival in London regularly attracts between one and two million visitors every year, but it's not the same as state fairs, since it's not competing with local carnivals all over the rest of the country.

Well, Washington DC's metropolitan area has a population of over six million. They could have increased the visitor numbers by adding a one-time regional holiday before July 4th.

But since the metropolitan area extends into Maryland and Virginia, this is easier said than done.

It also would have increased the number of non-white visitors at the event, which they didn't want.

 

[Free]

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Gov. Jeff Landry on Trump's fair: "It's unbelievable to see people out here" 😆😆😆

bsky.app

Your condition is called "delusional."

 

[Free]

I guess they can blame A.I. for designing it.

(Note: The entire image is A.I. generated...)

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-stock-taser-axon-ice-contract-b3005284.html

President Donald Trump purchased as much as $5 million in stock in law enforcement technology company Axon before Immigration and Customs Enforcement proposed a $220 million contract that was likely to go to the company, which makes widely used police body cameras and Taser stun guns.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

It’s a truly Trumpian tragedy: he’s made billions of dollars but can’t buy love or respect

He's clearly trying to prove something to himself (and to his late father?). On the face of it he has everything he wants -- wealth, power -- but despite all this he's desperate for praise, reassurance and adulation, and has to fill up the empty hours at night when sleep eludes him by rage-posting and reposting self-soothing flattery, presumably because he knows that he's so widely hated and despised and that he's empty inside.

 

[Free]

He's clearly trying to prove something to himself (and to his late father?). On the face of it he has everything he wants -- wealth, power -- but despite all this he's desperate for praise, reassurance and adulation, and has to fill up the empty hours at night when sleep eludes him by rage-posting and reposting self-soothing flattery, presumably because he knows that he's so widely hated and despised and that he's empty inside.

 

[Noodles]

It’s a truly Trumpian tragedy: he’s made billions of dollars but can’t buy love or respect

He's clearly trying to prove something to himself (and to his late father?). On the face of it he has everything he wants -- wealth, power -- but despite all this he's desperate for praise, reassurance and adulation, and has to fill up the empty hours at night when sleep eludes him by rage-posting and reposting self-soothing flattery, presumably because he knows that he's so widely hated and despised and that he's empty inside.

Same for Musk.

Sorry Trump/Musk, daddy will never love you.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump Regime Lists "Nine Canadian Grievances" Of Unfair Canadian Trade Practices Ahead Of Free Trade Negotiation Deadline That MIGHT Have Been Written By A Three-Year-Old.

The Trump regime’s “key complaints” against Canada are, honestly, REALLY f***** funny.

deanblundell.substack.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

For allies and adversaries alike, America at 250 is a solid global citizen gone rogue -- interesting round-up of how traditional allies, partners and rivals see Trump's US and their relationship with it.

ETA: and a more idiosyncratic view

Ice, Ice Baby: America's national decline

The 250th anniversary is corrupt, embarrassing and an utter failure. It's the perfect encapsulation of Trump's US.

iandunt.substack.com

It’s not going well. There are many definitions of failure, but Vanilla Ice has historically been the most widely accepted. In cultures across the world and in different eras, Vanilla Ice has functioned as one of the key metrics for decline, the gold standard measurement for what happens when you’re a gurning cunt.

The ancient Egyptians used to feature him on the inside of a Pharaoh’s tomb. The Normans stitched images of him looming over the battle scenes in the Bayeux Tapestry. It is a rule as old as time: If your country is relying on Vanilla Ice to save its national reputation, then something has gone horribly wrong.

Now he has come again, like Halley’s Comet, to inflict a devastating moment of humiliation on America’s 250th birthday. The problem began when the artists who had been booked to perform at the celebrations realised what was happening. What had been presented to them as an event for the country as a whole was in fact a piece of idol-worship for an insane president.

 

[Noodles]

For allies and adversaries alike, America at 250 is a solid global citizen gone rogue -- interesting round-up of how traditional allies, partners and rivals see Trump's US and their relationship with it.

ETA: and a more idiosyncratic view

I just want to say you post some great articles about all this and I often forget to come back and reply or react because I end up actually reading them.

 

[Free]

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.lol)

Trump's fireworks will push air quality into “very unhealthy” range with fine particulate pollution. People are warned to limit outdoor exposure, and to use N95 masks. This isn't a fireworks show - it’s a Superfund site.

bsky.app

Oh, the irony. They're warning people to WEAR MASKS.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Most of what I know of state fairs comes from my friend in Massachusetts, but since she tends to return from their state fair muttering about her theory that overindulgence in deep-fried foods affects both intelligence and DNA, and how this explains a lot about the western parts of the Commonwealth, I'm not sure she's a completely unbiased informant.

You haven't lived until you've eaten a stick of deep fried butter smothered in ranch dressing.

Most fairs are held in the fall, but not all. The county fair in neighboring Kings County was held last month. I don't know the exact reason, but I suspect it's to avoid competing head-on with the Tulare County and the much larger Fresno County fairs, which are held in September and October, respectively.

 

[Casey Pelous]

You haven't lived until you've eaten a stick of deep fried butter smothered in ranch dressing.

It's almost poetic that you won't live long after, either....

... Fresno County fair...

FRESNO REPRESENT! *smugly flashes all sorts of garbled gang signs or something*

 

[Innula Zenovka]

English legal commentator David Allen Green on US vs English views on executive power

England and the United States: two countries divided by a common law

Recent US Supreme Court judgments uphold executive power in a way English law does not

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

Evernote Link

Recent judgments of the US Supreme Court, especially this week in the case of Trump v Slaughter, have upheld sheer executive power. This is the sort of legal brute force at which even George III would have blanched—perhaps even Henry III. The point here is not that the executive can act outside the law, but that the law is that the executive can do as it wishes.

 

[Beebo Brink]

American law does NOT uphold extreme executive power. These recent Supreme Court decisions run contrary to every thought and intention of the founding fathers. The conservatives on SCOTUS are betraying our democratic republic by deliberate misinterpretation of those laws because they have an undemocratic agenda. They have ceased to believe in "all the people" and have thrown their lot in with a very small elite group of people who want to rule the world.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

American law does NOT uphold extreme executive power. These recent Supreme Court decisions run contrary to every thought and intention of the founding fathers. The conservatives on SCOTUS are betraying our democratic republic by deliberate misinterpretation of those laws because they have an undemocratic agenda. They have ceased to believe in "all the people" and have thrown their lot in with a very small elite group of people who want to rule the world.

Yes, and David Allen Green is making the point that the Supreme Court's attempts to use English common law to interpret the Constitution are based on a massive misapprehension:

Some would doubt that the US Supreme Court has a fair and accurate understanding of the English common law basis of the US constitution. It sometimes seems that paragraphs of Blackstone’s commentaries are selected in the same way that some people select biblical verses to justify preconceived ideas.

 

[Beebo Brink]

This is my point of difference: I don't see it as a misapprehension or the myopia that comes from preconceived ideas. I believe it is conscious and deliberate. They know what they're doing and why.