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Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?

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Sunday, November 16, 2025 11:48 AM

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Reopening the government drags the Jeffrey Epstein files back into the spotlight.

His opposition to releasing the documents is a political disaster waiting to happen. Why fight transparency if there's nothing to hide?

Because he's waiting to dump it on you before an election. If he put it out there now, the idiots will forget a year from now.

You had 4 years to do something about it and you didn't.

If Trump is guilty, you would have nailed him to a fucking cross with this.

Grow up, faggot.

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Sunday, November 16, 2025 12:37 PM

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Reopening the government drags the Jeffrey Epstein files back into the spotlight.

His opposition to releasing the documents is a political disaster waiting to happen. Why fight transparency if there's nothing to hide?

Because he's waiting to dump it on you before an election. If he put it out there now, the idiots will forget a year from now.

You had 4 years to do something about it and you didn't.

If Trump is guilty, you would have nailed him to a fucking cross with this.

Grow up, faggot.

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Trump has been on trial in state courts thousands of times and lost. He happens to owe people many $millions for raping them and he owes others for fraud, but only in state courts. Meanwhile, in Federal Court, the cases take years to get in front of a jury. Why the difference between state and federal? Because Republican Senators have packed the Federal courts with goofy fucking bastard judges who won’t move cases to trial. Same thing happens at the IRS.

The Republican congressmen keep cutting budget for the IRS, Trump fires auditors, and there is nobody to force Trump to pay his taxes. Guess what? Trump doesn’t pay Federal taxes for the same reason Trump doesn’t go to trial in Federal court. By the way, Trump does pay many $millions in real estate taxes each year because cities and states don’t have Republican Congressmen interfering in the collection of local taxes.

Trump’s tax returns released by House committee show he paid little in taxes (“little” means $750 for an entire year. The next year was another $750. Will Trump go on trial for fraud? Not in Federal court, but he has in state court. And been convicted, too!)

The House Ways and Means Committee released six years of Trump's personal and business returns, ending years of legal wrangling and speculation.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-tax-returns-relea
sed-house-committee-years-legal-battles-rcna62408

Trump could be in jail for tax cheating now, but he is not, only because Republican Congressmen have control of the IRS and the Federal courts.

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Sunday, November 16, 2025 1:32 PM

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Reopening the government drags the Jeffrey Epstein files back into the spotlight.

His opposition to releasing the documents is a political disaster waiting to happen. Why fight transparency if there's nothing to hide?

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Sunday, November 16, 2025 2:05 PM

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Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles

https://www.comicsands.com/onion-trump-headline-epstein-emails

The pedophile in chief still has a 37% ish approval rating. So it's less about the moral reprehensibility of Trump and the Republican politicians that stick with him - we already know that about them - it's the moral reprehensibility of a whole lot of our neighbors and I'm tired of pretending otherwise.

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Sunday, November 16, 2025 2:25 PM

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In 2024, only 2 states had all counties vote unanimously - let’s compare

Trump won in all counties in Oklahoma, which is ranked
44th in education
49th in healthcare
44th in quality of life
50th in test scores
The top ten worst poverty

Trump lost in all counties in Massachusetts, which is ranked
1st in education
2nd in healthcare
1st in quality of life
1st in test scores
The top ten least impoverished

https://www.facebook.com/groups/antiqanonmemes/posts/2056040011604340/

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Sunday, November 16, 2025 3:01 PM

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As Dershowitz claims Epstein wasn’t a pedophile, Marjorie Taylor Greene pushes back against Trump

November 15, 2025

https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/11/15/as-dershowitz-claims-epste
in-wasnt-a-pedophile-marjorie-taylor-greene-pushes-back-against-trump/

The Daily Beast reports:

Emeritus Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz entered the latest public spat around the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his friendship with President Donald Trump by arguing that Epstein wasn’t all that bad.

Speaking with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation on Friday, Dershowitz thought it prudent to clarify the nature of Epstein’s crimes.

“The predecessor on your show described Epstein as a convicted pedophile,” Dershowitz complained to Cuomo.

“[Epstein] pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. That’s not a pedophile.”

While Epstein is alleged to have committed far more numerous and wide-ranging crimes, the case Dershowitz is referring to is that of his 2008 plea deal, under which he served 13 months (of an 18-month sentence) in a work-release program.

However, that investigation began after accusations were made about his interactions with a 14-year-old girl, and federal officials identified 36 similarly aged girls whom Epstein allegedly abused.

In 2019, CNN reported: A woman who claims to be a victim of multimillionaire alleged pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has filed a defamation lawsuit against high-profile attorney Alan Dershowitz, claiming that he made “false and malicious” statements about her.

According to the lawsuit, which was filed in April in the Southern District of New York, Dershowitz – who used to represent Epstein – knowingly made “false and malicious defamatory statements” against Virginia Giuffre, formerly known as Virginia Roberts, who claims to have been a victim of sex trafficking and abuse by Epstein when she was underage.

Giuffre alleges in her suit that Dershowitz, 80, was a participant in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, and that she had sex with Dershowitz as part of that operation. Giuffre has made similar allegations against Dershowitz in court filings in the past.

“Defendant Dershowitz was Epstein’s attorney, close friend, and co-conspirator. Dershowitz was also a participant in sex trafficking, including as one of the men to whom Epstein lent out Plaintiff for sex,” the lawsuit alleges.

HuffPost reports:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday pushed back against President Donald Trump for saying any Republican who supports the release of documents about Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender who once called him his “closest friend,” is “stupid.”

Greene responded in a “CBS Mornings” interview, noting her concern is for “the victims.”

“These women have been waiting, some of them for decades,” she said. “I talked to several victims that were raped by Jeffrey Epstein back in the ’90s, and so this is information that has needed to come out for a very long time, and the American people have demanded it.”

Greene was one of only four House Republicans to support a discharge petition from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee to force a vote on the release of documents on Epstein. Trump called those Republicans “very bad” earlier in the week.

During the Friday interview, Greene said “the American people deserve to see transparency from their government” and that “rich, powerful people should not be protected.” She added that her stance is “a message” to all children, rape and human trafficking victims that the government supports them.

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Sunday, November 16, 2025 3:11 PM

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Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles

Awwwwww...

That sounds to me like peak crybabyism.

You suck. Your party sucks. Your world is dead.

Go away now. Everybody hates you, Second.

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Sunday, November 16, 2025 3:13 PM

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In 2024, only 2 states had all counties vote unanimously - let’s compare

Trump won in all counties in Oklahoma, which is ranked
44th in education
49th in healthcare
44th in quality of life
50th in test scores
The top ten worst poverty

Trump lost in all counties in Massachusetts, which is ranked
1st in education
2nd in healthcare
1st in quality of life
1st in test scores
The top ten least impoverished

Instead of making fun of them, maybe you should have fucking done something for them instead of doing it for everybody else in the world and bringing in rejects by the tens of millions to suppress their wages or just outright displace them from their already shitty jobs.

America hates Democrats.

Good riddance.

Your party is officially dead. Get fucked.

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Sunday, November 16, 2025 3:17 PM

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Oh... and spoiler alert:

All you college educated, fart-smelling smug pricks are about to be jobless too with AI, so your worthless fucking piece of paper is going to put you all in a worse position than the rest of us are in with all that college debt you'll never be able to pay off and your egos the size of Mt. Rushmore being blown to bits all the while.

And none of you pussies know how to use a fucking hammer.

Have fun with that, White Liberal trash.

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Monday, November 17, 2025 10:39 AM

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In 2024, only 2 states had all counties vote unanimously - let’s compare

Trump won in all counties in Oklahoma, which is ranked
44th in education
49th in healthcare
44th in quality of life
50th in test scores
The top ten worst poverty

Trump lost in all counties in Massachusetts, which is ranked
1st in education
2nd in healthcare
1st in quality of life
1st in test scores
The top ten least impoverished

Instead of making fun of them, maybe you should have fucking done something for them instead of doing it for everybody else in the world and bringing in rejects by the tens of millions to suppress their wages or just outright displace them from their already shitty jobs.

America hates Democrats.

Good riddance.

Your party is officially dead. Get fucked.

Are you aware of who Beavis and Butt-Head are, voiced by Mike Judge? Judge is familiar with Trumptards and their children. He modelled Beavis and Butt-head on them. They never learn, never have any insight, and are never going to change for the better. That is the reason why Trumptards will always struggle. You are Butt-head, and there is no way for you to escape from yourself.

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Monday, November 17, 2025 10:40 AM

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Gunboat diplomacy

The US has a long history of military extortion. The latest example is Trump’s saber-rattling movement of Navy battle groups off the coast of Venezuela and the extrajudicial assassinations the administration has been conducting off the Venezuelan coast in the name of drug interdiction.

Part of it is the classic right-wing pathology: Venezuela has huge oil reserves and a government unfriendly to the US. If Trump can depose Venezuela’s president and install a US puppet regime, it will flood the world market with cheap oil, lowering gas prices in the US.

The other part is that Venezuela is the only remaining benefactor of Cuba. Cut off that lifeline and Cuba folds, realizing the life-long dream of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Casual inspection of the history of US gunboat diplomacy doesn’t inspire confidence, but since when have history, facts and evidence deterred the right-wing fever dream?

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Why Trump is threatening Venezuela

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/opinion/trump-venezuela-maduro-
invasion/

Preparations for a military assault on Venezuela raise an obvious question: Why? President Trump campaigned on a promise to “end the endless foreign wars.” In his inaugural address, he asked Americans to judge him “not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.” Given all that, why has he been threatening to launch a war of choice against Venezuela?

Maybe it’s an empty threat. Trump said in a recent interview that the Venezuelan government’s days are numbered, but when asked if he will order an invasion, he replied, “I don’t think so.” That would mean he has approved a massive and highly expensive deployment just for show.

The stated reason for intensifying pressure on Venezuela is that it exports deadly drugs to the United States and President Nicolás Maduro is complicit. It is not persuasive. Venezuela produces no fentanyl and is a smaller player in the cocaine trade than Colombia, Peru, or Mexico. War in Venezuela will not substantially reduce the availability of drugs in the United States. Despite what the White House says, this war would not be waged only to fight drug traffickers.

Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. Big powers throughout history have seized foreign lands in order to loot their resources. Chevron is eager to repair Venezuela’s collapsing oil infrastructure and drill Venezuelan oil if political conditions change. President Trump is notoriously willing to shape his foreign policy to suit corporate interests. Even if war in Venezuela would open up a new energy supply and produce rich corporate profits, though, it would probably not be waged for that reason alone.

A third possible explanation for the Venezuela war fever is that Washington is driven by a wish to depose Maduro. He has been harshly authoritarian and outspokenly anti-American. In August the United States doubled the bounty it has placed on his head, from $25 million to $50 million. Taking him down would feel like a geopolitical victory. The recent awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Venezuelan activist who has urged the United States to invade her country could cloak an overthrow in moral legitimacy. But if taking down odious Latin American leaders is the goal, why not start with President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, whose regime is equally anti-American and even more repressive? Some in Washington would enjoy seeing Maduro handcuffed and in an orange jumpsuit. Nonetheless, that wish is hardly intense enough to justify an invasion.

Nor could an invasion be explained as a simple attention-grabber, a kind of “Operation Distract From Epstein.”

The real reason this administration is threatening Venezuela may lie beyond Venezuela itself. Trump’s policy toward Latin America is driven by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has built his career on confronting Cuba. Today Cuba and Venezuela are close partners. If the United States can depose Maduro, Cuba could edge closer to collapse. For Rubio, that would be a transcendent victory. Forcing change in Venezuela would not be worth this massive deployment if the reason had to do with Venezuela alone. The real reason is that Venezuela is a stepping stone toward the grand prize: Cuba.

For three generations, Cuba has been this hemisphere’s chief tormenter of the United States. Today Venezuela is its last bastion of support in South America. Venezuela supplies Cuba with most of its oil. In return, Cuban advisers have helped Maduro build an effective security service and an apparently loyal military. As Cuba’s economy spirals downward, Venezuela is its lifeline. Rubio wants to cut it.

This strategy has an appealing logic. Deposing Maduro and establishing a pro-American regime in Venezuela would indeed be a great blow to Cuba. Isolated and without means to provide electricity for its people, the Cuban government could face social unrest and ultimately fall. That, at least, is the tantalizing fantasy.

As with many fantasies, this one may be more complicated in reality. An American military attack on Venezuela would be a return to the days of gunboat diplomacy, when the United States landed Marines to depose and install governments around the Caribbean Basin. That would touch a nationalist nerve even in many Latin Americans who have no love for Maduro.

If military action against Venezuela includes the landing of American troops, guerrilla war could break out. Venezuelans deeply admire their national hero, Simón Bolívar, who fought against a foreign power. Some Venezuelans today might take up arms against invading Americans as a way to honor and emulate Bolívar. So might hotheads from other Latin American countries. Whether in Veracruz in 1914, Santo Domingo in 1965, or Panama in 1989, invading American troops have repeatedly faced resistance from determined nationalist fighters.

The fixation on Cuba that drives Rubio reflects the extraordinary hold that country has on the United States. Presidents since Thomas Jefferson have dreamed of seizing Cuba. Americans invaded in 1898 and dominated the country for more than half a century. Fidel Castro’s revolution chased American companies out, and when the CIA sought to topple him at the Bay of Pigs in 1961, it suffered a humiliating defeat. Since then, six decades of American efforts to bend Cuba to Washington’s will have failed. Rubio hopes to change that. His route to Cuba is through Venezuela. That, more than any other factor, is driving the escalation we are now seeing off Venezuela’s coast.

Stephen Kinzer is a senior fellow at the Watson School of International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

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Monday, November 17, 2025 10:54 AM

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Construction crews completely demolished the East Wing of the White House without any input whatsoever from historians or structural preservationists. The East Wing as we know it (well, as we knew it) dates to 1942.

It took only about three days to destroy 83 years of presidential history. This from the same administration that just had D.C.’s only Confederate statute reinstalled while crowing the same tired lies you always hear from the right about how much they love and feel the need to preserve history whenever it’s a monument to racism they want to protect rather than the East Wing of the effing White House.

At any rate, the Trump administration has been bragging about how Trump’s new ballroom will not be taxpayer funded, but will instead be funded by private donors. I mean, taxpayers still aren’t getting compensated for the total destruction of the historical East Wing of the White House that we already owned, but sure.

Also I don’t really see how the president selling influence to giant corporations and obscenely wealthy individuals is going to be better for us than the waste of a few hundred million more tax dollars by the administration that just made history of its own by ballooning America’s national debt by an additional $1 trillion in the span of only two months.

More at https://angrybearblog.com/2025/11/donating-to-trumps-white-house-east-
wing-demolition

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Monday, November 17, 2025 11:24 AM

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All I see in the Republican Party today is a creepy, weird fealty to someone who doesn’t deserve it. During Covid, I binged every Netflix documentary about cults — NXIVM and the Way Down Cult and Sarah Lawrence, everything. And what they all have in common is this weird, passionate devotion to an utterly unremarkable person. That’s where I feel we are now. I see the man-on-the-street interviews where people are calling Donald Trump authentic and honest, and he means what he says. I think you've got to be kidding me. What’s new is this strange, cult-like devotion to the very last person who would deserve it.

https://deadline.com/2025/11/aaron-sorkin-the-american-president-movie
-wouldnt-be-made-1236619651/

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Monday, November 17, 2025 2:11 PM

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Do you know what you know?
(Over-confident Trumptards struggle to reach success in America because they are extremely mistaken about their competency in all areas of life except one or two)

It is inevitable that someone 91% or more certain about their answer when asked a question that they don't really know the answer to is foolish. See Trump for that phenomenon.

How confident are you?
How likely do you think the previous statement was true?
51%-60%
61%-70%
71%-80%
81%-90%
91%-100%
50-50 (absolutely no idea, it’s a coin flip)

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Monday, November 17, 2025 6:55 PM

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Do you know what you know?

How Our Society Started Worshiping Idiots

We live in an era where noise is mistaken for wisdom and popularity for truth. But how did we get here — to a world that celebrates ignorance and mocks intelligence?

In this powerful video inspired by the philosophy of Socrates, we explore how modern society has begun to worship superficiality over substance, and why thinkers, truth-seekers, and critical minds are increasingly silenced. From the digital age to the age of the Sophists, this reflection uncovers how our craving for attention has replaced our pursuit of understanding.

Discover what Socrates, Carl Jung, and Nietzsche can teach us about the illusion of knowledge, the manipulation of truth, and the psychological forces that make the masses follow fools instead of the wise. More importantly, learn how you can reclaim your ability to think freely in a culture that rewards conformity.

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Monday, November 17, 2025 7:19 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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In 2024, only 2 states had all counties vote unanimously - let’s compare

Trump won in all counties in Oklahoma, which is ranked
44th in education
49th in healthcare
44th in quality of life
50th in test scores
The top ten worst poverty

Trump lost in all counties in Massachusetts, which is ranked
1st in education
2nd in healthcare
1st in quality of life
1st in test scores
The top ten least impoverished

Instead of making fun of them, maybe you should have fucking done something for them instead of doing it for everybody else in the world and bringing in rejects by the tens of millions to suppress their wages or just outright displace them from their already shitty jobs.

America hates Democrats.

Good riddance.

Your party is officially dead. Get fucked.
Are you aware of who Beavis and Butt-Head are

Shut the fuck up, dude.

I'm always right, and you're always wrong.

Look around you. The world you thought you were living in doesn't exist anymore. It never did.

You're finished. Everything you ever wanted will never come true now.

Your party is dead. Globalism is dead. Your ideology is dead. Kevin Drum is dead.

If you hate America so much, I suggest you take your billions and get the fuck out of here.

We hate you too, and there are A LOT more of us than there are of you.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2025 7:34 AM

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Originally posted by second:
In 2024, only 2 states had all counties vote unanimously - let’s compare

Trump won in all counties in Oklahoma, which is ranked
44th in education
49th in healthcare
44th in quality of life
50th in test scores
The top ten worst poverty

Trump lost in all counties in Massachusetts, which is ranked
1st in education
2nd in healthcare
1st in quality of life
1st in test scores
The top ten least impoverished

Instead of making fun of them, maybe you should have fucking done something for them instead of doing it for everybody else in the world and bringing in rejects by the tens of millions to suppress their wages or just outright displace them from their already shitty jobs.

America hates Democrats.

Good riddance.

Your party is officially dead. Get fucked.
Are you aware of who Beavis and Butt-Head are

Shut the fuck up, dude.

I'm always right, and you're always wrong.

Look around you. The world you thought you were living in doesn't exist anymore. It never did.

You're finished. Everything you ever wanted will never come true now.

Your party is dead. Globalism is dead. Your ideology is dead. Kevin Drum is dead.

If you hate America so much, I suggest you take your billions and get the fuck out of here.

We hate you too, and there are A LOT more of us than there are of you.

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6ix, you literally are crazy. There is zero possibility of you coming back from your insanity.

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Tuesday, November 18, 2025 7:34 AM

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Trump’s Nearly $2 Billion Postelection Windfall

Even though his campaign ended a year ago, the president hasn’t stopped fundraising.

By Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker | November 18, 2025, 6 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/trump-fundraising-ballroo
m/684963/

On the morning after he won a second term as president, Donald Trump placed an unexpected call to his top fundraiser, Meredith O’Rourke. The night before, he’d told a ballroom of supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida, that he had held his last political rally—“Can you believe it?”—and was ready to focus on governing. But his message to O’Rourke after the break of dawn was different. “I want you to keep going,” he told her.

Within weeks, that message had gone out to his Republican donors, as well as to Fortune 500 companies and billionaire investors who typically avoided electoral politics. Their first opportunity was his second inauguration committee, which would eventually raise $241 million, about $90 million more than organizers needed to fund the events—and nearly four times as much as Joe Biden had raised for his own inauguration, in 2021. But that was just the beginning.

Trump wanted money for the sorts of political operations that many politicians support—the Republican National Committee, his own political action committee, a new dark-money nonprofit group, a super PAC run by longtime advisers. But he was also requesting money for technically apolitical nonprofit causes that offered corporations and wealthy individuals a chance to make tax-deductible contributions, including a dramatic White House renovation, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (now under his control), his presidential library, and a celebratory Army parade on his birthday. By August, Trump estimated that he had collected at least $1.5 billion since the election, more than all the money raised to support his 2024 campaign over two years, including funds raised by supportive independent super PACs. The tally is now approaching $2 billion, two people familiar with the effort—who, like others, were not authorized to speak publicly—told us.

Read: ‘I run the country and the world.’ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/trump-second-term
-comeback/682573/

Trump has kept careful track of the money coming in, regularly calling O’Rourke late at night for updates. He monitors who is giving, who is not, and the role of lobbyists who bundle donations, those familiar with his efforts told us. At times, the actual donation amount is less important to the president than the percentage of the donor’s overall assets. He thanks the most generous benefactors at swanky events at the White House and his clubs.

Much of the money has come from people or entities that have business before the government. Defense contractors, cryptocurrency investors, and technology companies have put in tens of millions of dollars as he has deregulated the industry or dropped enforcement proceedings. A select group of companies and executives—Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Coinbase, Palantir CEO Alex Karp—are top donors to multiple Trump projects.

Nothing on this scale was ever attempted by a sitting president prior to Trump. Other recent administrations have faced their own scandals over fundraising efforts. But Trump’s approach—in the extent of the donations he’s soliciting, the secrecy with which some are handled, and the frankness of the exchange of dollars for presidential favor—puts even the most ambitious prior efforts to shame. And he’s just getting started. “He hasn’t stopped,” a third person told us, “and I don’t anticipate that we will stop.”

Trump’s relentless fundraising has alarmed ethics watchdogs who have worked for years to reduce the role of large donations in buying access or protection from government regulation.

“While it is not unusual for lame duck presidents to fundraise for their Libraries, what we are seeing from President Trump in his first year of office is shockingly unprecedented,” Trevor Potter, a former Republican chair of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) who now runs the Campaign Legal Center, told us in a statement. “The president’s seemingly insatiable drive for money from corporations and billionaires seeking government favors (or merely hoping to procure protection from Trump attacks on their business interests) sends a clear signal to everyday Americans that their needs come far behind those of the ultrawealthy who are buying access and favor.”

Trump advisers maintain that the only reason people are giving is that they support the president’s agenda. The White House spokesperson Davis Ingle described Trump as “the most dominant figure in American politics from fundraising to the campaign trail,” and said that donors were willing to give because of the “historic progress” of his administration.

Others familiar with the efforts say that more transactional motivations are at play. Media and technology companies that Trump has sued have collectively made $85 million in payments to some of his pet projects in order to settle the lawsuits. These include donations made by Meta (sued for deplatforming Trump after January 6) and Paramount (the parent company of CBS News, which Trump sued) to the Trump library, and a donation from Alphabet (the parent company of YouTube, which deactivated Trump’s account after January 6) for the ballroom. The donations came at a time when those companies were also seeking regulatory favor from his government. In Paramount’s case, the incoming chair of the Federal Communications Commission said that Trump’s unsettled complaint could complicate its planned merger with another company, pressuring Paramount to pay up despite significant doubts over the case’s merits. Some companies and executives also fear unfavorable government action if they don’t give.

“There are people being asked to do 10-to-25-million-dollar checks for the ballroom, for the inauguration, for the presidential library,” another person familiar with the requests told us. “That spigot is never going to close, ever. This is just the cost of doing business. They will write a multimillion-dollar check to avoid the $2 billion lawsuit. It’s a business decision.”

Only parts of Trump’s $2 billion haul have been publicly disclosed, often in media reports or in comments by the president. Under public pressure, the White House released a list of three dozen major donors to the new ballroom, which Trump expects to cost $300 million. (The president said late last month that “more than $350 million” had been raised.) Trump’s team disclosed the $241 million in inauguration fundraising to the FEC, as required by law. Trump’s team raised about $33 million for an Army parade in Washington, D.C., and other celebrations, The Atlantic previously reported. The Kennedy Center raised $58 million last month, according to its president, Richard Grenell, after a separate Trump fundraiser for the center in June requested checks of $100,000 to $2 million.

Little is known about how much fundraisers have collected for the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation, which Trump’s son Eric and Trump’s son-in-law Michael Boulos established in May. Efforts by Miami Dade College to give land to the foundation for a future library site in downtown Miami have been blocked by Florida courts. The foundation has yet to report any revenue, though ABC News announced that it would pay a $15 million settlement to the future library to resolve a lawsuit by Trump against the anchor George Stephanopoulos for his false claim that Trump had been found “liable for rape,” when the jury verdict was for sexual abuse. (A New York judge said that the jury’s findings against Trump described rape “as the term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York Penal Law.”)

Trump is also continuing to run a presidential-scale political-money operation alongside the fundraising efforts by House and Senate leaders for the 2026 midterm elections. From the end of November 2024 to June 30, 2025, his team brought in $229 million to MAGA Inc., a super PAC run by aides that is not directly controlled by Trump. During the same period, he raised an additional $63 million through Trump National Committee JFC, a small-dollar joint fundraising operation with the Republican National Committee, according to FEC records. Both groups will report their fundraising for the second half of the year at the end of January.

His team has also collected funds for a dark-money group, Securing American Greatness. The organization will not disclose its fundraising in 2025 until it releases its tax forms next year, and it has no legal obligation to reveal individual donors. One technology company, Qualcomm, disclosed to its shareholders a donation of $1 million to Securing American Greatness along with a gift of $1 million to the inaugural committee, suggesting the possibility that other corporations are also pairing their public donations with secret ones. Since early May, Securing American Greatness has spent nearly $18.5 million on advertising, according to independent tracking of ad spending that a political operative shared with us. The ads, which included a major spring campaign in support of Trump’s budget bill, have targeted congressional districts that are expected to be competitive in 2026, and the group also spent money to get out the vote before the off-year elections in Virginia this month that Democrats dominated.

Trump and his aides cast donations to his political groups or priorities as acts of patriotism, often celebrating donors at lavish dinners. About 125 donors to the ballroom project gathered with the president in the White House’s East Room on October 15. As they sat around candlelit tables decorated with white roses, Trump debuted a model for a memorial arch, inspired by the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, that he has discussed building near Arlington National Cemetery—which could soon present another opportunity to donate.

“We have a lot of legends in the room tonight, and that’s why we’re here, to celebrate you,” Trump told the crowd. “So many friends in the audience, and I just want to thank you all. You’re very special people. You love the country, you love the White House, and what you’ve done is very important.”

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Trump, through his private investments, positioned himself to profit from decisions in his role as president

Trump was legally obligated to release the financial disclosures, which show he purchased more than $337 million in corporate and municipal bonds since August.

Trump waged a yearslong conspiracy-driven campaign against former President Joe Biden, accusing him of using the presidency to enrich himself and his family.

The suggestion that the president is staying out of his family’s business affairs has been contradicted by Trump Organization statements to foreign governments and by Eric Trump himself.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/15/trump-buys-82-million-in-bonds-since-l
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In 2024, only 2 states had all counties vote unanimously - let’s compare

Trump won in all counties in Oklahoma, which is ranked
44th in education
49th in healthcare
44th in quality of life
50th in test scores
The top ten worst poverty

Trump lost in all counties in Massachusetts, which is ranked
1st in education
2nd in healthcare
1st in quality of life
1st in test scores
The top ten least impoverished

Instead of making fun of them, maybe you should have fucking done something for them instead of doing it for everybody else in the world and bringing in rejects by the tens of millions to suppress their wages or just outright displace them from their already shitty jobs.

America hates Democrats.

Good riddance.

Your party is officially dead. Get fucked.
Are you aware of who Beavis and Butt-Head are

Shut the fuck up, dude.

I'm always right, and you're always wrong.

Look around you. The world you thought you were living in doesn't exist anymore. It never did.

You're finished. Everything you ever wanted will never come true now.

Your party is dead. Globalism is dead. Your ideology is dead. Kevin Drum is dead.

If you hate America so much, I suggest you take your billions and get the fuck out of here.

We hate you too, and there are A LOT more of us than there are of you.

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6ix, you literally are crazy. There is zero possibility of you coming back from your insanity.

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That's fine.

I'll just keep being right about everything while you continue being wrong about everything.

You're the idiot here. Everybody knows it.

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I'll just keep being right about everything . . .

Whether the phrase "I'll just keep being right about everything" is considered "sane" depends entirely on context and interpretation.

From a literal, psychological perspective, it suggests a delusion of infallibility, which is factually impossible and not reflective of a rational self-awareness. Psychologically healthy individuals understand that they make mistakes.

From an informal, conversational perspective, the phrase can be used in a variety of non-literal ways:

• Sarcasm or humor: Someone might say this self-deprecatingly after correctly predicting a minor outcome (e.g., the weather or a sports score).

• Arrogance: In a debate or argument, it might be used to express extreme confidence or dismiss an opponent's viewpoint, often perceived as an arrogant or prideful statement.

• Frustration: It could be said in exasperation if a person feels their correct opinions are consistently ignored.

In short, while it's an extreme statement that literally describes an irrational belief, its "sanity" in a given situation is determined by the speaker's intent and tone of voice.

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I'll just keep being right about everything . . .
Whether the phrase "I'll just keep being right about everything" is considered "sane" depends entirely on context and interpretation.

Let me put it another way then...

I'll just sit here and laugh while you continue to be wrong about everything.

There.

Much better.

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I'll just sit here and laugh . . .

6ix goes to his happy place. Joker laughing scene:

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I'll just sit here and laugh . . .
6ix goes to his happy place. Joker laughing scene:

You're the one who pirated that movie and watches it everyday thinking about me, Arthur.

Believe it or not, I don't' laugh a whole lot. You, however, are an endless source of laughs out of me.

I didn't realize that they made people this stupid until I sobered up and saw you two retards and your 60IQ between you, completely sober.

It's a good thing you never did drink or do drugs. You don't have a single braincell to spare. You lose anymore you'll start shitting yourself and a few more after that and you'll forget how to breathe.

Do the entire world a favor and have yourself a drink tonight.

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Believe it or not, I don't' laugh a whole lot. You, however, are an endless source of laughs out of me.

I didn't realize that they made people this stupid until I sobered up and saw you two retards and your 60IQ between you, completely sober.

It's a good thing you never did drink or do drugs. You don't have a single braincell to spare. You lose anymore you'll start shitting yourself and a few more after that and you'll forget how to breathe.

Do the entire world a favor and have yourself a drink tonight.

The passage you shared contains highly offensive, abusive, and derogatory language, including insults related to intelligence and the use of the ableist slur "retards". The content is hateful and promotes self-harm.

As an AI, my purpose is to be helpful and harmless, and I must adhere to strict safety guidelines that prohibit generating or condoning such content. I cannot agree that this passage "sounds sane" and actively advise against using such language.

6ix, an AI can see what is wrong with you. Why can't you?

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Believe it or not, I don't' laugh a whole lot. You, however, are an endless source of laughs out of me.

I didn't realize that they made people this stupid until I sobered up and saw you two retards and your 60IQ between you, completely sober.

It's a good thing you never did drink or do drugs. You don't have a single braincell to spare. You lose anymore you'll start shitting yourself and a few more after that and you'll forget how to breathe.

Do the entire world a favor and have yourself a drink tonight.
The passage you shared contains highly offensive, abusive, and derogatory language, including insults related to intelligence and the use of the ableist slur "retards". The content is hateful and promotes self-harm.

As an AI, my purpose is to be helpful and harmless, and I must adhere to strict safety guidelines that prohibit generating or condoning such content. I cannot agree that this passage "sounds sane" and actively advise against using such language.

6ix, an AI can see what is wrong with you. Why can't you?

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AI that was written by America hating, faggot, Liberal soyboy cucks like you.

Go fuck yourself.

Maybe you should ask it to give you advice on all the people you want to murder or you want to see somebody else murder because you're too much of a fucking coward to do it yourself.

Don't ask me to do it for you. I wouldn't dare feed your bile which is beyond treasonous at times into an AI.

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AI that was written by America hating, faggot, Liberal soyboy cucks like you.

Go fuck yourself.

Maybe you should ask it to give you advice on all the people you want to murder or you want to see somebody else murder because you're too much of a fucking coward to do it yourself.

Don't ask me to do it for you. I wouldn't dare feed your bile which is beyond treasonous at times into an AI.

Trump helps sex criminals escape justice because they are his kind of people.

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation

Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

By Robert Faturechi and Avi Asher-Schapiro | November 18, 2025, 5:30 am

https://www.propublica.org/article/andrew-tate-investigation-dhs-paul-
ingrassia

Online influencer Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers, was facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries when he and his brother left their home in Romania to visit the United States.

“The Tates will be free, Trump is the president. The good old days are back,” Tate posted on X before the trip in February — one of many times he has sung the president’s praises to his fans.

But when the Tate brothers arrived by private plane in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, they immediately found themselves in the crosshairs of law enforcement once more, as Customs and Border Protection officials seized their electronic devices.

This time, they had a powerful ally come to their aid. Behind the scenes, the White House intervened on their behalf.

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AI that was written by America hating, faggot, Liberal soyboy cucks like you.

Go fuck yourself.

Maybe you should ask it to give you advice on all the people you want to murder or you want to see somebody else murder because you're too much of a fucking coward to do it yourself.

Don't ask me to do it for you. I wouldn't dare feed your bile which is beyond treasonous at times into an AI.

Trump pardons sex criminals because he has been accused of the same.

Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say

Andrew Johnson claimed to an alleged child molestation victim that Trump’s pardon entitled him to multi-million dollar reparations.

By Amanda Moore | November 17 2025, 9:39 p.m.

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/17/pardoned-jan-6-child-abuse-molesta
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A pardoned January 6 rioter has been charged with sex crimes against two children. Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old, joining a growing list of U.S. Capitol rioters pardoned by President Donald Trump who now face new legal trouble.

Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money because, Johnson claimed, he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest, according to a police report from a Hernando County Sheriff’s Department detective.

Those convicted and later pardoned for involvement in the January 6 riot have not been rewarded any reparations, though Trump and January 6 rioters have floated the idea of a compensation fund.

Johnson said he would put the victim in his will to receive any of the money left after his death. Police believed this was done to keep the child from “exposing what Andrew had done,” according to the arrest report, which was filed in court.

Police believe Johnson offered to put the alleged victim in his will to keep the child quiet.

Johnson faces two criminal cases in county court, one for each child. In one case, he has been charged with lewd or lascivious molestation of a child under the age of 12. In the other case, he faces a charge of lewd or lascivious behavior to a child under the age of 16, transmitting harmful information to minors, and exhibition with a victim under the age of 16.

Johnson has pleaded not guilty, and his trials are set to start early next year. (Johnson’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment.)

Though some records, like the redacted arrest affidavits, are public, the indictments and other court filings in Hernando County are not available to the public. Florida law allows authorities to withhold information from public records that would identify victims of child sex crimes.

Two police arrest reports detail Johnson’s alleged crimes, which range from sexual contact with the genitals of an 11-year-old to asking a minor for sex. Johnson’s victims, according to a pair of arrest affidavits, were the child of his now ex-girlfriend and a friend of the first child.

On August 26, eight days after an arrest warrant was issued for the child sex crimes charges, Johnson was arrested in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee, according to local media there, which noted his January 6 pardon, and set for extradition to Florida.

Johnson was among the 1,500 people charged in connection with the riots on January 6, 2021, in which supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in Washington in an attempt to overthrow the president’s election loss to Joe Biden. According to an FBI affidavit, authorities found probable cause to charge Johnson for entering the Capitol illegally and trying to interfere with Congress’s certification of Biden’s victory. An FBI affidavit includes photos of Johnson climbing into the building through a broken window.

Johnson, 44, represented himself in court and pleaded guilty in the spring of 2024 to charges of violently entering the Capitol and disorderly conduct, though he unsuccessfully attempted to take back his plea months later.

In January 2025, after Trump took office for his second term, he pardoned Johnson, who had been charged with violently entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct, and demonstrating inside the Capitol. (The White House did not respond to a request for comment.)

In the 2025 affidavit that details the alleged sex crimes against the younger child, Johnson’s ex-girlfriend told police that she found out he was using Discord to send her child photos of girls. Johnson included sexual comments with the photos. According to the affidavit, she told police she asked the child if Johnson had ever been inappropriate in person, and the child responded that Johnson had molested them three times over a six-month period in 2024.

The abuse started when the child was 11 years old, the child told the mother, according to the affidavit, when Johnson was still living with the family. The police document says the minor described two incidents of falling asleep in the living room and awaking to Johnson touching the child’s genitals.

Another incident, according to the affidavit, occurred in a hotel, with no further detail given. The child told Johnson they knew this was wrong. Johnson apologized, the police document said, and asked the child to not tell anyone, so that he would not get in trouble.

After the third instance, Johnson mailed the child an iPhone 7, which he said to keep a secret. Johnson then used Discord to communicate with the child, without their mother’s knowledge. Photographs on the phone showed Johnson sneaking into the home to spend time with the child, according to the arrest affidavit.

Both children said Johnson showed them lewd photographs and videos of himself, according to both arrest affidavits, and exposed himself to them in person.

The second child, who is under the age of 16, told police Johnson made comments that led them to believe he was a “pedophile,” according to an arrest affidavit in that case, where Johnson was charged with lewd or lascivious behavior.

Johnson, according to the second affidavit, also encouraged children to have sex in his van.

Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioters

Many of those charged in January 6 cases, especially those who went to jail or prison, have formed a loose-knit community that socializes and fights with each other, both online and offline. Johnson has been a fixture within the January 6 online community.

He regularly led Spaces, conversations on X (formerly Twitter), that would sometimes last over nine hours. On both X and his YouTube channel, Johnson positioned himself as a person who exposed perceived bad actors among the January 6 rioters, namely those who, he argued, were federal agents or provocateurs sent to make the Trump supporters at the Capitol that day look bad.

Johnson has been a fixture within the January 6 online community.

Many rioters have spent time defending themselves against Johnson’s allegation or joining him in casting blame on others. Earlier this year, Johnson said he traveled from Florida to Pennsylvania to attend the funeral of fellow January 6 rioter Bart Shively, staying in an Airbnb organized by Jake Lang, a white nationalist rioter who is now running for Congress in Florida.

The right-wing outlet Gateway Pundit ran a story about Johnson in June 2024, ahead of his sentencing, referring to him as a “single father” who was “on the brink of homelessness.”

The Gateway Pundit story, which uncritically offers Johnson’s version of the events of January 6 — including his conspiracy theories about agents provocateurs — encouraged readers to donate money to the defendant. The article was based on an interview of Johnson by Jenn Baker of CondemnedUSA, an organization that raised money for January 6 participants. (“I have had no contact with him since just after his pardon for J6,” Baker told The Intercept. “I’m completely disgusted and horrified at these charges and if he is proven to be guilty I support any punishment he receives.”)

Baker has recently been added to the Pentagon Press Corps for Gateway Pundit. Earlier this year, Baker wrote a sympathetic Gateway Pundit profile of Dillon Herrington, a January 6 defendant who is currently in jail while awaiting trial on a 2023 charge of first-degree rape.

Johnson joins a short list of pardoned rioters who have been convicted or charged with sexual crimes against children, in most cases for conduct before the January 6 riot.

Like Johnson, David Daniel was accused with a child sex crime allegedly committed after the January 6 riot; he was charged in April 2024 of possessing and production of child sexual abuse materials after the FBI raided his home in relation to the riot investigation. In deliberations, Daniel argued that because the raid and search were related to January 6, the evidence was inadmissible. So far, Daniel has not been successful in getting his charges dropped, and his case is ongoing.

In two other cases, Trump issued second pardons to other January 6 defendants who were charged with crimes related to investigations of their roles in the riots; neither was charged with sex crimes.

One defendant was pardoned this month for an illegal gun charge that arose from a search of his home during the investigation into January 6 related crimes. The second pardon came after courts rejected the man’s attempt to have the charge vacated because of the original pardon.

In another case, Trump this month pardoned another rioter who made online threats to shoot police officers after they sought to question her about January 6.

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Who Will Replace MTG in Trump's Clown Car?

By Andy Borowitz | Nov 15, 2025

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/who-will-replace-mtg-in-trumps-clown

A clown of MTG’s magnitude is not easily replaced. Of all the heinous things Donald Trump has done, by far the most unforgivable is making me agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene.

For as long as I can remember, the Georgia congresswoman has been a reliable firehose of braying jackass clownery. Lately, though, I’ve been subjected to the unsettling spectacle of Marge behaving in a sentient manner. It’s like enjoying a new song and finding out it’s by Kid Rock.

I’d come to count on Marge to educate me, in her addled, QAnon-marinated way, about how the world really works. In October 2024, as a ferocious hurricane headed for Florida, she posted on X, “Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.” (Of course, as everyone knows, the only thing that can alter the course of a hurricane is a Sharpie—also useful for creating pornographic birthday cards for that special sex trafficker in your life.)

Putting her money where her free-range mouth was, one year later Greene announced a plan to make “weather modification” a crime. “I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity,” she declared on X. “It will be a felony offense.”

This, of course, was not the first time she accused supervillains of exploiting the skies for nefarious ends. In 2018, she famously proposed that California wildfires were being ignited by “lasers or blue beams of light” emitted by “space solar generators” financed in part by the Rothschild banking family. This majestically loony riff inspired the phrase “Jewish space lasers,” a term she didn’t invent but probably wished she had.

(Full disclosure: I love the concept of Jewish space lasers. I’m flattered that anyone would consider me capable of operating one—I can barely mute myself on Zoom. And space lasers would have come in so handy for my Jewish ancestors, especially when they were running from the Gazpacho.)

Yes, I’ll admit it: I adored Marjorie Taylor Greene in all her crackpot glory and eagerly awaited every pearl of paranoia that spewed from her piehole. But, alas, this highly entertaining wackadoodle version of MTG seems to be a thing of the past, supplanted by a shockingly rational MTG who’s no fun at all. I am not a fan of this reboot.

I’d been pondering the mystery of MTG’s transformation, but then, on Instagram, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cleared the whole thing up. She revealed that Trump blocked Greene’s bid for the US Senate and that “she has been on a revenge tour ever since.”

So that explains it! Marge isn’t a new person after all—she’s just been wreaking revenge on Trump by doing the thing he hates most: making sense.

The first stop on Marge’s revenge tour involved the client list of Trump’s erstwhile BFF Jeffrey Epstein, which Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed was sitting on her desk before her own DOJ declared the document as nonexistent as Trump’s healthcare plan. Greene smelled a conspiracy worthy of the Illuminati—and, much like the proverbial stopped clock, she was right.

In September, she openly defied Trump by appearing on the steps of the Capitol in solidarity with a group of Epstein survivors. “If they want to give me a list, I will walk in the Capitol on the House floor, and I’ll say every damn name that abused these women,” Greene vowed. “I can do that for them, and I’d be proud to do that.”

But her revenge tour was just gearing up. MTG broke with Trump on immigration, stating, “As a conservative and as a business owner in the construction industry, and as a realist, I can say we have to do something about labor. And that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them just like that.”

And when Republicans plotted to let Obamacare subsidies expire, Antifa Marge cried foul. “I’m carving my own lane. And I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year,” she posted on X.

Although I was bewitched by her coinage of the phrase “carving a lane,” it was clear that the unhinged MTG who had earned a special padded cell in my heart was no more. All across the nation (and probably on the Alitos’ front lawn) QAnon flags flew at half-staff.

But her sudden defection to sanity raised an urgent question: if Marge had left the clown car, who would take her place?

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The Trump Administration’s Favorite Tool for Criminalizing Dissent

Federal prosecutors have charged more than 100 people with Section 111 violations. Was their crime anything more than opposing Trump’s immigration policies?

By Quinta Jurecic | November 18, 2025, 8:48 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/favorite-statute-section-111
-ice/684961/

The videos have become commonplace. Federal officers wearing masks and bulletproof vests subdue a moped driver in the middle of a busy D.C. street. A 70-year-old protester in Chicago is pushed to the ground by an armed Border Patrol agent holding a riot gun. In Los Angeles, an agent shoves away a demonstrator.

These videos capture the aggressive tactics of immigration officers under the second Trump administration. But they share something else, too. In each instance, following documented violence by federal officers toward protesters and immigrants, the Justice Department pressed charges—against the victim of that violence. Those three people, according to the DOJ, had all broken a law prohibiting “assaulting, resisting, or impeding” federal officials.

As the government continues to attempt mass deportations, that law, Section 111 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, has become a favored tool of the Justice Department for painting opposition to immigration enforcement as a corrosive, lawless force. The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security often describe these cases in exaggerated language, even referring to defendants as “domestic terrorists,” though the law has nothing to do with terrorism. Across the country, prosecutors have charged case after case in federal court—one against a member of Congress; one against a congressional candidate; another against a bystander who happened to walk by a protest at the wrong time; and, most memorably, another against a Washington, D.C. man who hurled a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer, creating an instant symbol of protest for a city patrolled by the National Guard and other federal forces. I was able to tally more than a hundred prosecutions charged under Section 111 in recent months—and given the difficulty of searching federal court records across more than 90 judicial districts, my data are almost certainly an undercount.

Not every Section 111 case is obviously a stretch: Some court filings allege that protesters threw rocks at immigration officers or pepper-sprayed them at close range—seemingly clear-cut violations of the law, which might be charged by any Justice Department under any administration. There’s even a decent argument that throwing a hoagie could potentially violate the terms of the statute. Still, though, instances where immigration officers appear to have been genuinely at risk are the exception compared to the growing number of cases where agents were scraped, bumped, mildly inconvenienced, or themselves attacked the defendant. The statute’s widespread use isn’t merely a sign of prosecutorial overreach; it has become an indicator of the administration’s quest to silence dissent.

Until this recent spate of charges, Section 111 was not a particularly interesting or controversial law. It originates from a 1934 statute passed after the attorney general urged Congress to draft legislation enabling “the protection of Federal officers and employees.” (In 1948, that law was further consolidated with a separate, extremely specific prohibition against assaults on employees of the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Animal Industry.) Under the statute, anyone who “forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes” with federal officials carrying out their job can face either a misdemeanor or a felony charge with up to 20 years of incarceration, depending in part on the degree of force used.

Over the years, the Justice Department has wielded the statute to prosecute cases of prison inmates attacking guards or irate individuals who committed such sins as poking an IRS agent in the chest or spitting at a mail carrier. More recently, it became a workhorse of the January 6 prosecutions: Insurrectionists who tried to fight their way into the Capitol were charged under Section 111 for shoving police officers or hitting them with gas masks or bike racks. A number of rioters faced charges under a more stringent subsection of the statute, Section 111(b), for attacking officers with “deadly or dangerous weapons”—including hockey sticks, baseball bats, and flagpoles. One man was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison for pepper-spraying the Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who later died.

By now those rioters have all been pardoned or had their sentences commuted. Since taking office the second time, Trump seems to be obsessed with reverse-engineering legal processes to subject his enemies to the treatment that, in his mind, he and his supporters suffered unjustly. James Comey and Letitia James, indicted on flimsy allegations, are the most obvious examples of this form of government by playground taunt: “I know you are, but what am I?” Similar reasoning appears to animate the DOJ’s eagerness to transform Section 111 from a tool used to charge the Capitol rioters into a means of criminalizing dissent.

I first started to notice the flood of Section 111 cases around the anti-ICE demonstrations in Los Angeles early this past summer. Federal prosecutors there filed dozens of cases under the statute against protesters, organizers, and even people who happened to be walking by. In subsequent cities that have seen a surge of immigration enforcement—D.C., Portland, Chicago, and, to a lesser extent, Memphis—the pattern has repeated. In a prominent recent case, prosecutors announced an indictment of six Chicago-area residents, including the Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, for allegedly conspiring to “hinder and impede” law enforcement by standing in front of a federal agent’s car as he tried to drive into an immigration detention center. (Last week, Abughazaleh and her co-defendants pleaded not guilty to what the candidate described as a “political prosecution.”) Yesterday, only days after a fresh wave of immigration officers descended on Charlotte, North Carolina, the Justice Department unveiled its first Charlotte prosecution under Section 111.

But the Justice Department has charged prominent cases under Section 111 outside those epicenters, too. After the Department of Homeland Security tried to keep Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and several Democratic members of Congress from entering a Newark immigration detention center, Representative LaMonica McIver was charged for trying to shield Baraka from DHS officers in the scuffle. Her office has denounced the prosecution as “purely political” and “meant to criminalize and deter legislative oversight.” (Last week, a judge rejected McIver’s request to dismiss the case.)

Perhaps the most extreme example of specious Section 111 allegations may be that of Marimar Martinez, whom the government says repeatedly rammed her car into Border Patrol vehicles in Chicago before driving toward officers, one of whom fired at her in self-defense. According to Martinez’s lawyer, however, it was the Border Patrol officer who rammed Martinez, telling her, “Do something, bitch,” before shooting her five times. Text messages from the officer released in court show him later bragging about his aim. Martinez, despite bleeding profusely, was able to drive herself to a repair shop, where an ambulance took her to the hospital.

If Martinez’s story is disturbing, other cases drift toward farce, like that of the sandwich thrower or the D.C. woman who—in what the legal journalist Chris Geidner dubbed “The Case of the Scraped Hand”—was alleged to have lightly abraded the knuckles of the FBI agent who pushed her up against a wall to stop her from filming an immigration arrest. (The agent later joked about the injuries as “boo boos.”) In both cases, juries were not impressed. Grand juries refused to indict the defendants on felony charges—three separate times, in the case of the alleged hand-scraper Sidney Reid—and petit juries later acquitted them both of lesser misdemeanors. Likewise, at least two Section 111 prosecutions in L.A. have also resulted in acquittals. The Justice Department has dismissed more than 30 other cases before they could reach a jury, in some instances because prosecutors failed to secure indictments. Such failures were, at least until this year, almost unheard of in federal court.

Faced with so many questionable cases, some judges are starting to lose their patience. In the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Judge Xavier Rodriguez dismissed a felony Section 111 case against a Honduran man arrested by ICE on the grounds that the man could not conceivably be held criminally liable for the scrapes on an ICE agent’s hand after the agent punched a hole in his car window—a use of force that the judge found to be unconstitutionally excessive. The indictment, Rodriguez wrote, was “shocking to the universal sense of justice.” In Chicago, Judge April Perry pointed to a string of failed indictments against protesters as evidence that immigration officials’ claims of violence against them could not be relied upon as a justification for sending National Guard troops into the city.

There is often an inconsistency between the administration’s swagger and its claims that its immigration officers are helpless public servants hounded by vindictive “terrorists.” As my colleague Nick Miroff has reported, this tension runs through the debate about ICE officers and masking: Face masks are tools for transforming federal agents into menacing manifestations of state power and, at the same time, are supposedly a necessary protection against doxxing by activists. Section 111 is a perfect fit for that double vision, allowing federal officials to present themselves as victims of violence while enabling the Justice Department to turn the machinery of the state against the supposed attacker. This intertwining of power and powerlessness recalls Umberto Eco’s description of fascist movements as defining themselves by their war against enemies who are “at the same time too strong and too weak.”

Even when the Justice Department fails to win a conviction or embarrasses itself by filing an absurd case, Section 111 charges have proved useful as a way to make those enemies afraid. In an interview last month with the local outlet Block Club Chicago, the head of a community council in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood described how he and his neighbors had followed immigration officials in their cars, blowing whistles to alert residents of their presence. After the shooting of Marimar Martinez, though, the group had stopped driving around. They were rethinking their protest tactics to avoid accusations of violence from DHS.

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Another day at the office, huh Second?

Just another day at the White House: Trump’s guest is a murderer, but Trump denies it all because the guest brings $1 trillion for Trump

(Photo of Trump and Mr Bone Saw staging love-in as Saudi’s $1 trillion wipes the bloody slate clean. The two men laugh about the reporter’s murder while holding hands. Special note: if Trump's guest raped children, Trump won't mind.)

What happened to Jamal Khashoggi? Trump resurfaces memories of journalist’s brutal murder

President’s claim that Mohammed bin Salman had nothing to do with 2018 killing contradicts US intelligence

By Andrew Roth | Wed 19 Nov 2025 05.41 EST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/19/what-happened-jamal-khas
hoggi-murder-trump-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman

Donald Trump on Tuesday said that Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, had nothing to do with the murder of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, whose assassination in 2018 left the Saudi leader an international pariah.

But Trump’s own intelligence services, as well as a 2019 UN investigation, have painted a very different picture. The assassination took place inside a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where a 15-person team led by a close associate of Prince Mohammed was said to have drugged, murdered and dismembered Khashoggi in order to hide evidence of the crime.

“Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen,” Trump said when asked about the killing by a reporter during an Oval Office appearance with Prince Mohammed on Tuesday. “But [Prince Mohammed] knew nothing about it,” continued Trump. “And we can leave it at that. You don’t have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that.”

That is not what the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence concluded in 2021, when a report by the agency laid the blame for Khashoggi’s death directly on Prince Mohammed, who on Tuesday made his first visit to the US since the assassination.

“We assess that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey, to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,” the 2021 report read.

The crown prince denied ordering the operation but acknowledged responsibility as the kingdom’s de facto ruler.

The motive for Khashoggi’s murder was clear: the journalist was a leading critic of Prince Mohammed, who had amassed power under his now-deceased father, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, whom he sought to succeed.

When Khashoggi entered a Saudi consulate in Turkey to certify divorce papers, he was not aware that a 15-person team, including members of Prince Mohammed’s elite personal bodyguard, as well as his close adviser Saud al-Qahtani, had been dispatched to capture or kill him. Inside, one of the men asked whether the “sacrificial animal” had arrived. “He has,” another answered.

What happened next became public only because Turkish spies had bugged the premises, allowing them to listen in as the hit squad prepared and then carried out the gruesome murder.

Inside the embassy, Khashoggi was told by Saudi officials that there was an Interpol warrant for his arrest and that he would be taken back to Saudi Arabia. Khashoggi protested before a struggle began in which he was overpowered.

“Assessments of the recordings by intelligence officers in Turkey and other countries suggest that Mr Khashoggi could have been injected with a sedative and then suffocated using a plastic bag,” read a report prepared by Agnès Callamard, who was the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

Before Khashoggi entered the consulate, a Saudi doctor was said to be describing an operation by which he would dismember Khashoggi’s body so it could be secretly transported out of the premises.

The process would “be easy”, the doctor said. “Joints will be separated. It is not a problem. The body is heavy. First time I cut on the ground. If we take plastic bags and cut it into pieces, it will be finished. We will wrap each of them.”

That is what took place next.

“Sounds of movement and heavy panting could be heard in the remainder of the recordings,” the UN report continued. “The sound of plastic sheets (wrapping) could also be heard.”

“The Turkish intelligence assessment identified the sound of a saw,” the report added.

Minutes later, CCTV cameras captured three men carrying plastic bin bags and at least one rolling suitcase carrying what investigators believed to be Khashoggi’s dismembered corpse.

The killing, which took place during Trump’s first term, caused a diplomatic crisis, but the US president is now seeking to boost the US’s relationship with the Saudis.

Prince Mohammed said it had been “painful” to hear about Khashoggi’s death, but that his government “did all the right steps of investigation”.

“We’ve improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that. And it’s painful and it’s a huge mistake,” he told reporters.

Trump’s comments prompted a rebuke from Khashoggi’s widow. “Nothing [can] justify just a horrible crime,” Hanan Elatr told Reuters in an interview, adding that she wished the US president would meet her so that she could introduce him to the “real Jamal”.

Khashoggi’s widow also told US media that she still had not recovered her husband’s remains.

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The Five Stages of MAGA Scandal

(1) Denial
What?! That’s fake news!
Trump had nothing to do with Epstein!

(2) Denial
What a nothing-burger!
So he knew Epstein!
He knew a lot of people!

(3) Denial
It's a Democrat hoax!
Just like Russia, Russia, Russia!
Trump said so!

(4) Denial
All this stuff is phony!
They're fake documents!
Probably A.I.!

(5) Acceptance
So what!
No one said he was perfect!
And it's not like the girls were eight!

Repeat for next horrifying scandal.

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of-maga-scandal-grief.html

First Bonus Comic: Do you have Trump Derangement Syndrome? Dementia?
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ntia.html

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The Trump Steamroller Is Broken

Infighting. Bad polls. Party divisions. Midterm fears. It’s all back.

By Jonathan Lemire | November 19, 2025, 7:49 PM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/trump-has-lost-control/68
4987/

President Donald Trump’s administration has been embroiled in scandal and sloppiness. His own party has defied his political pressure. His senior staff has been beset by infighting. He has sparred with reporters and offered over-the-top praise to an authoritarian with a dire human-rights record. A signature hard-line immigration policy has polled poorly. And Republicans have begun to brace themselves for a disastrous midterm election.

That was 2017. But it’s also 2025.

Ten months into the president’s second term, Trump 2.0 is for the first time starting to resemble the chaotic original. And that new sense of political weakness in the president has not just emboldened Democrats who have been despondent for much of the past year. It’s also begun to give Republicans a permission structure for pushing back against Trump and jockeying for power with an eye to the elections ahead.

This was not the plan. Trump and his inner circle used their four years out of office to create a policy blueprint—drawn substantially from Project 2025—and form a disciplined team of true believers who used their experience with the levers of power to dominate their political opposition. The beginning of Trump’s second term was marked by an unprecedented display of executive authority, as the president dominated a subservient Congress and defied the courts, brought to heel some of the nation’s most formidable institutions and wealthiest people, fulfilled long-held conservative wishes to dramatically shrink the size and influence of the federal government, reoriented the nation’s relationship with the rest of the world, and rammed through legislation that benefited the rich over the working class and the poor. Trump has been a steamroller.

But that has begun to change. Voters punished Trump’s party in this month’s elections, seeming to condemn his presidential overreach and the abandonment of his central campaign promise to rehabilitate the nation’s economy. A rare Republican rebellion on Capitol Hill rattled the West Wing and embarrassed the president. And although the White House likes to project a political image of never surrendering, a pair of retreats in the past few days has punctured Trump’s aura of invincibility.

Few things have frustrated Trump like his inability to make Jeffrey Epstein go away. The disgraced sex offender and financier, of course, has been dead for six years. But questions about the powerful men with whom he associated—and the mystery around his death in prison, which was ruled a suicide—created a conspiracy theory in the MAGA base that has overwhelmed the White House. Trump angrily ordered his supporters to let the matter go this past summer but was largely ignored. And then, last week, four GOP lawmakers—some of whom have been among Trump’s most ardent acolytes—triggered a full House vote to release Department of Justice records related to Epstein.

Revolt was in the air. One of those defiant lawmakers, the MAGA icon Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, did not buckle, even as Trump called her a traitor. “Let me tell you what a traitor is,” she responded yesterday. “A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves.” GOP leadership signaled to the White House that most lawmakers could not put their name to a vote to protect a pedophile and that the measure would pass easily, two officials told me on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. Trump was furious, but he didn’t want to be seen as getting rolled by his own party.

Trying to save face, he begrudgingly posted on social media that he would support Republicans who voted to release the files. The measure passed the House yesterday 427–1. It then cleared the Senate by unanimous consent. Trump announced tonight he had signed it. (Questions persist as to whether the Justice Department may try to block the release of some or all of the files, citing a need to protect an ongoing investigation of prominent Democrats that it launched last week at Trump’s request.)

The other Trump walk-back came far less dramatically, buried in the text of an executive order released late Friday. But it was no less noteworthy. Trump, as is often said, has few constant ideological stances, yet one is that tariffs will spur economic growth and benefit the consumer. In a tacit admission that tariffs have, in fact, caused prices to rise (as most economists have long said), the administration quietly lifted tariffs on goods such as bananas, beef, and coffee.

The reversal came days after Republicans were swept in off-year elections in places such as Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City. Voters made clear that the GOP was not fulfilling its promises on affordability that helped Trump get elected last year. A number of Republican lawmakers loudly insisted that Trump needs to refocus on prices and inflation—defiance reminiscent of when senators voted down the White House–led efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2017.

Chaos within the White House was the norm during Trump’s first term. This time around, the president’s team has prioritized professionalism and tried to minimize turnover. Senior-level firings have been rare, and even the president’s deposed national security adviser, Mike Waltz, was given a soft-landing spot as ambassador to the United Nations. Trump’s first administration was plagued by sloppiness; the original travel ban, Trump veterans will remember with a shudder, was hastily scrawled by Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon and not properly reviewed by government attorneys before it was enacted. (It was promptly tossed out by a federal court.) This time, Trump aides vowed they would be methodical and efficient, and for months, they faced little resistance as they rolled out the president’s agenda.

But that sense of disorder has returned, and the losses have begun to pile up. Just in the past two weeks: Trump’s prized tariffs were greeted with great skepticism by the Supreme Court, with the justices appearing unsympathetic to the notion that the president could usurp what is normally congressional power on the back of a flimsy declaration of a national emergency. The president’s campaign of retribution may have hit a snag when a federal judge found that the case put forth by Trump’s handpicked interim U.S. attorney, Lindsey Halligan, was marred by a series of errors that could lead to the dismissal of the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey.

And yesterday, a Trump-appointed federal judge issued a rebuke of the methodology used by Republicans in Texas to redistrict the state’s congressional map. (The judge wrote in his opinion that it was “challenging to unpack” all of the “factual, legal, and typographical errors” in a Justice Department letter that claimed that the original districts were to be eliminated because they were created solely on the basis of race. The administration is confident that the Supreme Court will ultimately side with it.) Trump, desperate for his party to keep control of both houses of Congress next fall, had pushed for a number of GOP-led states to create more Republican seats, but he took a loss in Texas and has been rebuffed by Indiana, meaning that the Democrats—who responded to the Texas push by successfully creating friendly districts in California and may follow suit in Virginia and Maryland—could end up besting the Republicans at their own game. The administration is confident that the Supreme Court will take up the Texas case and ultimately approve the new districts.

There have been other recent flashbacks to Trump’s first term. Much like in 2018, the president and the Republicans were on the losing end of a government shutdown. Infighting was frequent during the first Trump administration, as aides tried to knife one another in the press to improve their standing with the boss. There has been less internal dysfunction this time around—especially after Elon Musk departed DOGE—but last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had to publicly ask his supporters to stop criticizing White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles for allegedly blocking his MAHA agenda. And yesterday, the president ignored the CIA’s conclusion that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman played a role in the murder of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi—much as in Helsinki in 2018, when Trump famously sided with Vladimir Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies on Russian election interference. When an ABC News reporter asked about Khashoggi in front of MBS, Trump threatened to revoke the network’s broadcast license.

The White House spokesperson Kush Desai told me in a statement that the past two weeks have brought nothing but victories. “President Trump and the Administration have been delivering results since Day One, and the past two weeks have objectively been a continuation of this winning streak for the American people,” he said. But White House aides have privately admitted that this month has been the most challenging stretch of Trump’s second term.

Other Republicans have begun to notice. Some of Trump’s closest allies have warned him about polls that show the public is unhappy with some of his extreme moves, including cheering on masked ICE raids and demolishing the East Wing of the White House. Trump has so far been unwilling to do much to take on—or even acknowledge—the problem of affordability, but aides say that plans will be unveiled soon. Meanwhile, an urgency has set in: The calendar churns even for a president who has wielded power in extraordinary ways. Each day closer to next year’s midterms is a reminder that Trump is a lame duck whose time governing with Republicans in charge at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue could soon be coming to a close. Even before then, his sway within his own party appears to be ebbing. One official who worked in both Trump administrations told me, “The president has had absolute loyalty from Republicans this year.” But, the official added, “losing that would be the first step toward losing power—and relevancy.”

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Rubio Says Maduro Is Terrorist-In-Chief Of Venezuela’s “Cartel De Los Soles.” Is It Even A Real Group?

The Trump administration’s push for war on Venezuela includes alleging Maduro controls a government-run “narcoterrorist” conspiracy.

By Noah Horowitz | November 20 2025, 7:00 a.m.

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/20/rubio-maduro-venezuela-cartel-de-l
os-soles/

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced this week his intention to declare the so-called Cártel de los Soles a foreign terrorist organization, ratcheting up the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Venezuela.

In a statement Sunday, Rubio described an organized cabal of Venezuelan military officers and politicians working hand in glove with drug traffickers to oversee the shipment of massive quantities of cocaine to American shores, all overseen and managed by President Nicolás Maduro.

“Based in Venezuela, the Cartel de los Soles is headed by Nicolás Maduro and other high-ranking individuals of the illegitimate Maduro regime who have corrupted Venezuela’s military, intelligence, legislature, and judiciary,” Rubio said.

The announcement came months after the Treasury Department issued its own sanctions against the group, known in English as the Cartel of the Suns, which it accused in July of “using the flood of illegal narcotics as a weapon against the United States.”

It’s a troubling image: a state captured by ideologically motivated drug lords hell-bent on the destruction of the American way of life.

Rubio’s push to label Maduro and his allies as terrorists, though, is just the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s fusion of America’s two forever wars: the war on drugs and the war on terror.

Since February, the State Department has slapped the foreign terror organization label on more nearly a dozen street gangs and drug-trafficking networks across Latin America, and Trump has used the highly fungible phrase “narcoterrorists” to justify a series of dubiously legal strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela.

There’s just one giant problem: There is little evidence that Cartel of the Suns exists. The organized communist plot to poison Americans with drugs doesn’t remotely resemble the reality of Venezuelan corruption or the country’s drug trade.

“The idea that this is a narcoterrorist cartel, and that Maduro is directing the traffic and sending drugs and dangerous criminals to the U.S. to undermine the U.S. government — that’s really wide of the mark,” said Phil Gunson, a Caracas-based analyst with the International Crisis Group.

“The war on drugs is not really about drugs.”

To critics of American drug policy abroad, the move against Cartel of the Suns is the latest display of how the U.S. uses anti-drug policies as a smokescreen to bully its neighbors.

“The war on drugs is not really about drugs,” said Alexander Aviña, a professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University. “It’s a way of extending the U.S.’s geopolitical interests and a way to hit at governments deemed to be antithetical to imperial designs.”

How Corruption Works

References to the Cártel de los Soles date back to the 1990s, when local reporters used the term to refer to a handful of generals in the Venezuelan National Guard accused of collusion in the drug trade, according to Gunson, who has lived and worked in the country since 1999.

A former journalist, Gunson also happens to be a co-author of a 2005 Miami Herald article that appears to be one of the earliest English-language reports to use the name.

“It was kind of a jokey label,” said Gunson. “The press started calling it ‘Cártel de los Soles’ because of the sun insignias on their epaulets.”

Like many countries around the world, corruption runs rampant in Venezuela.

“It’s pretty well known and accepted in Venezuela that the government has been collaborating with drug traffickers and other criminal organizations in the country,” said José De Bastos, a Venezuelan journalist based in Washington.

That corruption took on a new intensity during the reign of Maduro, who was elected in 2013 as the handpicked successor to Hugo Chavez, the left-wing populist whose 15-year rule transformed the country. When falling oil prices, capital flight, and U.S. sanctions tanked the economy, however, government involvement with criminal rackets emerged as a form of patronage, revenue, and control.

“Since before the beginning of Chavismo there’s been corruption in the military — accepting bribes and allowing criminal groups to move in certain areas,” De Bastos said. “Basically the government needed other sources of income, and illicit activities gained importance. It’s not just drug trafficking. It’s minerals, it’s oil, you know, a lot of things are moved illicitly.”

Rubio and other officials’ notion of a unified government-cartel conspiracy that can be sanctioned, however, is a far cry from the way these interactions function. A 2022 report by the research outlet Insight Crime describes a “fluid and loose knit network of trafficking cells embedded within the Venezuelan security forces, facilitated, protected, and sometimes directed by political actors.”

“The government plays a key role,” De Bastos said, “but it’s more like a patchwork of networks that take advantage of having the government as an ally in their illicit activities.”

Gunning for Maduro

The effort by the U.S. to position Maduro as Venezuela’s drug lord-in-chief began in earnest during Trump’s first term in office when, in 2020, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York unveiled an indictment naming Maduro as the leader of the Cartel of the Suns.

One of the prosecutors on that team was Emil Bove, a right-wing Trump loyalist who, before becoming a federal judge in September, served as the acting deputy attorney general. During his recent stint at the Justice Department, Bove said he was uninterested in arresting drug traffickers, urging the U.S. to instead “just sink the boats,” according to a report by NPR.

Maduro has denied any connection to drug trafficking and has cited United Nations data showing that only a tiny fraction of the global cocaine supply passes through Venezuela.

Venezuela has never been a major producer of cocaine, the majority of which is grown and produced in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Nor does Venezuela rank as a particularly significant transshipment point for the drug, about 74 percent of which is estimated to make its way north through smuggling routes in the Pacific, according to one Drug Enforcement Administration report.

By the mid-2000s, after Chavez expelled the DEA, U.S. officials estimated that around 250 metric tons of cocaine were smuggled through Venezuela each year — small in comparison with its neighbors, but enough to generate significant income for officials paid to protect the shipments.

In the years after his 2013 election, Maduro’s rule was marked by several drug-related scandals.

The State Department and the Pentagon, however, have long been happy to look the other way when state-allied drug traffickers happen to align with their foreign policy and security priorities.

“You can’t pin them down — but you can accuse almost anyone of being part of it.”

U.S.-backed warlords churned out record amounts of opium and heroin in Afghanistan throughout the U.S. war there. And, closer to home, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who cooperated with Trump’s efforts to staunch the flow of migrants to the U.S., was left largely alone as he turned Honduras into a haven of drug traffickers. (Hernandez was eventually convicted on drug trafficking charges in the same federal court where Maduro was indicted, but the U.S. did not move against him until he was out of office.)

Neither the announcement by Rubio nor the State Department sanctions against the cartel in July name specific members beyond its alleged leader, Maduro. That lack of a defined structure, however, may be exactly why it makes it useful as the latest pressure point in the Trump administration’s campaign to unseat Maduro, according to Gunson.

“It’s this sort of vaporous thing that floats in the ether with no domicile, no email address,” he said. “They don’t have board meetings or present quarterly reports, so you can’t pin them down — but you can accuse almost anyone of being part of it.”

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The Trump Steamroller Is Broken

Infighting. Bad polls. Party divisions. Midterm fears. It’s all back.

Uh huh...

Trump's Favorability 43.5%: https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump

Republican Party Favorability 40.6%: https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/republican-party

Democratic Party Favorability 34.1%: https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/democratic-party

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Thursday, November 20, 2025 6:20 PM

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Donald Trump Made the Worst Statement of His Presidency

Trump’s Foreign Policy Is About One Thing

Donald Trump may have cleared the high bar of uttering the most appalling remark of his presidency on Tuesday. “Things happen,” the leader of the free world said with a shrug when asked about the assassination of American-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi while seated next to the man who ordered the murder, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and American resident who frequently criticized the Saudi regime, was brutally murdered—his body hacked with a buzz saw—in 2018 during an interview with officials in the Saudi embassy in Turkey. At the time, even Trump, then in his first term as president, said MBS (as the prince is often called) should be held responsible if he played a role in the assassination. Soon after came the leak of a CIA report concluding that MBS approved of the operation—an assessment that the entire U.S. intelligence community reached in a public report in 2021. Even before then, Joe Biden, during his 2020 campaign for the presidency, declared Saudi Arabia a “pariah” state.

No case can be made for simply brushing the murder aside, as Trump did during the press conference that started off this week’s summit. When ABC’s White House correspondent, Mary Bruce, asked the two men about the intelligence report charging MBS with the murder, Trump interrupted her, denounced her network as “fake news.”

The crown prince, who has plenty of blood on his hands quite aside from the Khashoggi killing, rose to the occasion with a veneer of class. After Trump’s brusque dismissal of the issue, MBS solemnly recited the answer that he had no doubt rehearsed, in anticipation of the quite natural question:

“It’s really painful to hear anyone losing his life for no real purpose or not in a legal way. We’ve improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that [in the future].”

This was a ruse, of course, but at least the Saudi autocrat pretended to condemn the murder; he wanted to convey the impression that he knew the murder was contemptible and criminal. This was more than the current American president could bring himself to do.

Trump’s show of disrespect stood out, because it concerned a foreign head of state’s politically motivated assassination of a legal U.S. resident (Khashoggi was married to an American woman) working for an established U.S. newspaper on the soil of a NATO ally.

The “things happen” remark, and in fact the entire MBS summit, clarifies, in case matters weren’t clear before, that U.S. foreign policy under Trump is simply about the aggrandizement of Trump’s ego, his wealth, and the wealth of his richest corporate donors. Period, full stop.

The centerpiece of the summit was MBS’ aspiration to rebuild Saudi Arabia as a global tech capital. Trump agreed not only to sell the kingdom an unspecified number of F-35 stealth aircraft (over the objections of Israel, which is now the only Middle Eastern country that has those planes) but also to let the Saudis buy a large number of A.I. chips manufactured by Nvidia (which followed the news by announcing yet another quarter of bar-busting profits and revenue). The subsequent state dinner was attended not only by Jensen Huang (Nvidia’s CEO) but also Elon Musk, Tim Cook (Apple), Michael Dell (Dell), Chuck Robbins (Cisco), Lisa Su (AMD), David Ellison (Paramount, which owns CBS and may soon own CNN), as well as, for old times’ sake, the heads of various oil, construction, and financial firms.

Also in attendance was Trump’s son Don Jr., who has recently been discussing private investment deals in Saudi Arabia on behalf of the Trump Organization. (Remember when Jimmy Carter had to put his peanut farm in a blind trust to avoid possible conflicts of interest in his agriculture policy?)

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/donald-trump-worst-stateme
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Donald TrumpMade the Worst Statement of His Presidency

Oh yeah. It must be a day that ends in day.

Go fuck yourself.

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Donald Trump Made the Worst Statement of His Presidency

Oh yeah. It must be a day that ends in day.

Go fuck yourself.

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U.S. foreign policy under Trump is simply about the aggrandizement of Trump’s ego, his wealth, and the wealth of his richest corporate donors. Period, full stop.

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 Made the Worst Statement of His Presidency

Oh yeah. It must be a day that ends in day.

Go fuck yourself.

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U.S. foreign policy under Trump is simply about the aggrandizement of Trump’s ego, his wealth, and the wealth of his richest corporate donors. Period, full stop.

This dumbass take brought to you by Slate:

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And so a big question, asked several times in many contexts, gets raised again: What is Trump’s foreign policy—what is his vision of American interests and ideals, much less the balance between the two—about?

The “things happen” remark, and in fact the entire MBS summit, clarifies, in case matters weren’t clear before, that U.S. foreign policy under Trump is simply about the aggrandizement of Trump’s ego, his wealth, and the wealth of his richest corporate donors. Period, full stop.

You can't even manage to string a single sentence together on your own, dipshit?

You both are so fucking retarded.

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You can't even manage to string a single sentence together on your own, dipshit?

You both are so fucking retarded.

So, because Trump will personally receive $billions, it is okay for Trump to make business deals with a Saudi Arabian prince who ordered a murder. It is not a problem to sell computer chips and warplanes to a country that should not have either, so long as Trump profits. What next? Sell weapons and high tech to Russia because Trump will get a 10% commission? Nothing could go wrong there!

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