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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • He does it a lot, actually. I’m fairly convinced it’s a sign that he has a disorder of some sort as discussed in this salon article from 2020.

    “While most frequently observed in Parkinson’s Disease, the bent posture so evident in Trump may also be seen in Alzheimer’s Dementia, movement disorders of the basal ganglia, and as the side effect of certain medications,” Cytowic continued. “Also noted are the sudden, jerking movements of Trump’s right arm. Since they occur only on one side, the prefix “hemi” is applied, while “ballistic” means sudden or flinging in the manner of a projectile. Trump’s hemiballistic arm movements are evident in news clips from Memorial Day (also here via C-Span) at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as are his uncontrolled swaying and forward tilt. He is seen to grab his wayward arm with the left one in an effort to keep it under control.”

    Youtube video here. You can see he stands with the same kind of lean (starting about 0:30) and keeps wobbling the whole time. The wobble gets very pronounced after he walks up to the wreath (around the 2:15 mark). As for the arm movements described above, you can see some good examples starting after the 4:15 mark. There’s also an earlier point at the 2:28 mark where you can see him suddenly clench his left hand on his right wrist as if to hold it in place.

    I really think the man is not well and he is basically a puppet for the far-right and all those billionaires.











  • This is actually scary. I had thought that that Trump’s promise to pardon the Jan-6 terrorists was just blather to get him elected. I assumed that once in office he would just go full throttle on grifting and forget about his campaign promises. Since he cannot run again, I didn’t think there would be any direct benefit for Trump to actually follow through with them so I assumed he wouldn’t bother because Trump doesn’t do anything unless he personally benefits.

    Now I have to wonder how Trump directly benefits from this. All I can think is that his slathering hordes will now assume, rightly or not, that they can do whatever they want in his name and they’ll get pardoned. In the coming months, Trump will drop hints on Truth Social that he doesn’t like certain people, and those people are going to be found beaten half, or even all the way to death that night.


  • I don’t think they are preemptive pardons in the sense that they are pardons for future crimes. They are pardons for unspecified past crimes that have not yet been charged. That is not unheard of. For example, Carted issued blanket pardons for everyone who dodged the draft during the Vietnam war whether they had been charged or not.

    Where it is untested is if he tried to pardon himself. That has never been tested in the courts and is generally considered invalid on the premise that you cannot be the judge in your own trial.


  • You’re right and we’re not that far from the absolute chaos that will come with a new Constitutional Convention.

    Article V of the Constitution of the USA

    The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

    If two thirds of the state legislatures call for it, there will be a new convention to propose amendments to the constitution. Currently, there are four groups pushing states for a new constitutional convention; the Balanced Budget Amendment campaign, the Convention of States campaign, the Wolf-PAC campaign, and the term limits campaign. These groups have it total convinced 28 states to call for it. They need just six more states. It could happen during Trump’s term because the right has been pushing for one for a long time. Here’s why it would be a mess.

    But here’s the catch: there are absolutely no rules for an Article V Convention outlined in the Constitution.

    That means the group of people convening to rewrite our Constitution could be totally unelected and unaccountable. There is nothing that could limit the convention to a single issue, so the delegates could write amendments that revoke any of our most cherished rights – like our right to peaceful protest, our freedom of religion, or our right to privacy. There are also no rules preventing corporations from pouring money into the convention to ensure they get their way.

    In short, an Article V Convention would be a disaster. It would lead to long and costly legal battles, uncertainty about how our democracy functions, and likely economic instability.


  • Bad? Trump’s coin went to $75 for a total value of $14 billion, of which he owns 80%. Melania’s release dropped Trump’s by 50%, so down to only $7 billion… Only $7 billion… briefly. The article states that his coin recovered to $64 or, I’m estimating here, around $12 billion total value. Her coin topped at $13 billion total value which, again, he owns 80% of through his companies. That means off these two scams, he raked in 80% of $25 billion dollars. That’s around $20 billions dollars in value.

    This is, in your opinion, a bad thing?






  • Not to mention that Nixon was the one who started the whole thing so he would have a tool to use to harass and arrest blacks and hippies.

    In a 1994 interview, Mr. Ehrlichman [Nixon’s domestic policy chief] said, “You want to know what this was really all about?” He went on:

    “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”