The fact that no one has risen up in arms shows that America is well-done cooked.

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    I’ll save you a click:

    From Politico:

    President Donald Trump and the Justice Department have reached a settlement of a $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the IRS over the leaking of his tax returns, ending a case that both perplexed and outraged critics as the president sought to sue the government he runs. Under the deal announced Monday, the Justice Department is setting up a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to pay claims to people acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called “victims of lawfare and weaponization.” Blanche did not elaborate on who will be eligible for the compensation, but some people who were convicted of crimes in connection with the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot have already sued the government. The fund, to be overseen by a five-person commission, will process claims through mid-December 2028—about a month before Trump’s term is set to end.

    And, of course, the revisionism is ramped up as well.

    Under the settlement, Trump also agreed to drop damages claims he filed against the federal government over investigations into his 2016 presidential campaign’s ties to Russia and the court-approved FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago in 2022 as part of a probe into the handling of classified documents, a DOJ statement said. Trump and his family members “will receive a formal apology but no monetary payment or damages of any kind,” the statement said.
    The statement was silent about whether the IRS had agreed to waive any past or future claims or to end past or future audits of tax returns filed by Trump, his family or his companies. The department acknowledged that language it released Monday detailing the anti-weaponization fund was only “part of the settlement agreement” resolving Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS.

    Clickbait title, with a massively editorialized article. The only thing of substance is the multi-paragraph quote from politico.

    Still shit, but nowhere near the hyperbolizing superlative that the article/title frames it as.

    Edit: one thing I notice is that since they set the claims process to end in December 2028, that indicates that they know there’s at least a possibility they won’t be reelected.

    Maybe they haven’t rigged the elections as much as they want us to believe?

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      Thanks for that. Most commenters (me too) got totally triggered by that stupid headline, but this is fucking disgusting. But I’m getting tired of going into details with this admin, because even if one or two things it does aren’t completely evil, that cannot change my final judgement. But having somebody extract the main points helps, thank you again.

      Also for ending on a positive note. It’s not naive to believe this shitshow will end rather sooner than later, and doomerism doesn’t help.

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    I hope the fact that he is a child rapist is the one that goes down in history. Epstein files you old mottled orange teratoma.

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    We’re tired, boss. The elites designed the world to overwork us to the point of numbness.

    We are the United States of Russia.

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      Yeah me sick still dragging myself to work, because here we aren’t guaranteed sick time. Fuck this country.

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    More disgusting than the scheme to overthrow the lawful government and conquer the united states under the confederate flag to preserve slavery?

    Of course Trump has been a treasonous bastard too, but the writer seems surprisingly okay with enslavement to call this the most disgusting theme in US history.

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      The pedo stuff is still not “proven” and things like Iran he’s still somewhat removed (was it him vs hegseth, was it intentional). The thing with this is it is unabashedly in the open and he’s the one directly calling the shots.

      Not saying that it makes it better or worse, but there is no whitewashing it. He’s directly paying himself and his cronies from taxpayer dollars, he’s literally saying it himself.

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    We keep saying that, yet he keeps beating it. I’m guessing we’re nowhere close to the bottom yet.

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      You know? The thing nobody tells you about hitting rockbottom is that you don’t need to go up from there, you can move horizontally to reach other rockbottom areas. Don’t be the lowest on just one point when you can visit the whole rockbottom!

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        There is no “rock bottom”; just increasingly lower and denser extremes of bad. Every time we hit a new layer, it seems like it’s as bad as it can be, and then with the weight of how far we’ve fallen; we’re pushed further down.

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      Yeah, this. Haven’t journalists learned in the past more-than-a-decade? There’s no “surely this time he did [negative_superlative]!” - we said that about the Rocket Boy Debacle in 2017. How harmless and whimsical that seems now.

      Keep reporting by all means though. Put it on the pile. A) People need to hear it now and B) they will need it later. For the courts.

      This isn’t an isolated incident. It’s the final sell-out of the USA, profiting a thin crust of fascist rich people.

      PS: there’s no rock bottom. Well technically there is: the annihilation of the human race. And we’re still very, very far away from that. Things can always get worse. And I’m not a doomer.

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      His pedophile behavior is definitely a new low but never previously documented so he’s the first multiple kiddie and adult raping president we know of.

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    Yeah, yeah. Someone let me know when this cretin suffers one actual negative consequence for ruining literally everything he touches.

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    Can’t wait to see this headline again in October or before. This guy is such a piece of absolute shit.

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    This entire current era in the US right now is the most disgusting in American History