#Trump's Wall

[perseuspixl]

Every single time Republicans try to use the border issue, remind them that they killed the bipartisan border bill to help Trump.

#republicans #gop #usa #america #trump #donald trump #democrats #politics #us politics #activism #border wall #border issue #us mexico border #us election 2024

[jackassdemocrats]

#joebiden #election fraud #nwo #wef #democrat corruption #transgender #election integrity #fani willis #letitia james #trump 2024 #illegal immigration #border wall

[alwaysbewoke]

#new york attorney general #judgments #westchester county #donald trump #golf course #private estate #seven springs #state lawyers #judge arthur engoron #trump organization #billionaire #legal bills #third run for the white house #creditor #property recovery #liens #foreclosure #trump tower #40 wall street #central park #mar-a-lago #trump national doral golf club #cook county #illinois #truth social #appeals court #bonding companies #lmao #humor #funniness

[rosiesriiveters]

Rosie at the flak house is like... he's compartmentalising... he's holding it together, but he's scared that if he stops, actually stops, he won't be able to get in the saddle again. That if he actually thinks about Munster, then he won't be able to stop thinking about it.

It's Rosie keeping to himself almost the entire time he's there, watching from afar - watching his men laugh together and cry alone - but just that, watching, and never with them. It's Rosie not sleeping, it's Rosie and this underlying sense of dread of how the hell he's going to get back in the plane.

Then - it's Rosie's conversation with the doctor. Rosie's the drummer, and yes, he has to keep his own beat, but he has to keep everyone else's beat too. If Rosie's rhythm is disrupted, then his crew's rhythm is disrupted. And it's only then, that pushes Rosie to pull up a chair and sit with and comfort his crew at the flak house.

#i really felt like from this whole episode that rosie couldn't really admit it to himself that there is a #Possibility that he might not be ok but the love his men trumps everything and he realises he needs to be there for them #like rosie keeps everything inside #he really is a brick wall sometimes and doesn't give much up #so the scene of him finding the rhythm to get back in the plane was so good and felt so real to me #the doctor read him so well tho #realising he's not going to get through to rosie through trying to convince him he needs to take care of himself but instead using rosie's #crew as motivation to help rosie process what happened to him #rosie loves his boys and he may not be able to acknowledge his own trauma but he will love and care for the others (and by doing that he #also is able to do a better job at taking care of himself #rosie rosenthal #robert rosenthal #masters of the air #tv: masters of the air #ch: rosie

[musicalgifs]

currently obsessed with theatre and long-running shows and how lines that were originally throwaway lines can take on new meanings based on the time and environment the show is performed in. anyway here’s a clip of ‘i know him’ from hamilton west end on the day liz truss resigned.

#never thought that line would be a show stopper #but like why we build the wall in hadestown being written in 2006. obviously not about trump. #and yet anyone who saw it post 2016 would assume so #i just think it's so interesting how things change over time!!!

[simply-ivanka]

Germany Should Have Listened to Trump

Tuesday 2.27.2024 Wall Street Journal

By Walter Russell Mead

Trump was right about Berlin’s self-defense and risky energy dependence on Russia.

The lower house of Germany’s Parliament voted to legalize the recreational use of cannabis last week. It was a timely move. Germany’s leadership class is going to need all the mellow it can find in a world that isn’t going Germany’s way.

Russian advances in Ukraine and American paralysis over the next aid package are reinforcing the reality that Germany needs to defend itself but lacks the power to do so. So are developments in the Red Sea, where German manufacturers must cope with shipping delays as the Biden administration fails to keep the vital waterway clear.

Forget the 2% of gross domestic product that Germany has repeatedly promised and failed to spend on defense. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius shocked many observers this month when he said that in the new world situation, Germany may have to spend as much as 3.5% of GDP for defense.

The economic news is also grim. Last year Germany’s GDP shrank 0.3%, and last week the government slashed 2024 growth estimates to a pitiful 0.2%. Economists expect negative growth during the first quarter of 2024, placing the country in recession. The outlook for housing is bleak, with business confidence reaching all-time lows. The news in manufacturing is little better. This month the widely followed HCOB German Flash Composite Purchasing Managers’ Index fell to 46.1, the eighth month in a row that the index has pointed to decreasing economic activity.

Energy prices are a particular sore spot. The chemical giant BASF announced €1 billion in spending cuts in its German operations, blaming a mix of weak demand in the German market and “structurally higher energy prices.” Enormous U.S. subsidies under the so-called Inflation Reduction Act are leading German companies to look across the Atlantic.

Chinese competition is another massive worry. China long ago passed Germany as the world’s largest car producer. Increasingly, especially in electric vehicles, it is challenging Germany as both a low-cost and high-quality manufacturer. Beijing aims to marginalize German capital goods and automobile companies in China while Chinese exporters challenge German dominance in world markets.

With the associations representing the small and medium-size Mittelstand firms that make up the heart of the German economy warning in a rare joint open letter about Germany’s loss of competitiveness, Economy Minister Robert Habeck isn’t mincing words. The economy is in “rough waters.” The “competitiveness of Germany as an industrial location” is in doubt.

It isn’t all doom and gloom. The outlook for the service sector is brighter than for manufacturing, and as the Journal reported last week, the Ifo Institute’s business-climate index improved slightly this month. The best that can be said for the outlook? “The German economy is stabilizing at a low level,” according to Ifo’s president.

Meanwhile, Germany’s dysfunctional three-party coalition government is paralyzed by internal struggles. The largest party in the coalition, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), is deeply divided over foreign policy, with many nostalgic for good relations with Russia and allergic to military spending. The SPD also wants Biden-like government spending initiatives to revive the German industrial machine and expand social benefits. The Greens, the next-largest party, are by German standards foreign-policy hawks but continue to press for a rapid energy transition that drives up costs for business and consumers. The third party in the coalition, the Free Democrats, wants to hold the line on government spending. As if this weren’t enough trouble, the conservative opposition parties have a blocking minority in Parliament’s upper house.

This is not where Germans thought they would be. Sixteen months ago, I visited Berlin and heard from a stream of government officials, think tankers and economists that everything was working fine. Russia was failing in Ukraine. The energy transition would boost German competitiveness and employment. Germany’s Mittelstand would handle anything China could throw at it.

Under the circumstances, it’s no surprise that antiestablishment parties are growing in Germany. The far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) currently has more support than any of the governing parties, with one recent poll showing the AfD at 19%, the Social Democrats at 14%, the Greens at 13%, and the Free Democrats at 4%.

The most bitter pill of all for Germany’s establishment may be the realization that on the most important issues facing Germany, Donald Trump was right where they were wrong. Getting in bed with Vladimir Putin for cheap energy was both foolish and deeply disloyal to the West. German defense policy was self-defeating and dangerous. China wasn’t a reliable partner.

“Ich bin ein Berliner,” was President John F. Kennedy’s message to Germany. If Donald Trump returns to the White House, his message will likely be “Das habe ich gleich gesagt,” or “I told you so.”

#Today's #Wall Street Journal #Trump Was Right About Everything #trump 2024 #trump #president trump #repost #donald trump #art #nature #democrats #Biden #Obama #love #Russia #Germany #landscape #fashion #leadership #honest #integrity #guts #energy #GNP #NATO #DIY #GIF #IG #Europe #listen

[saywhat-politics]

#wall street journal #editorial board #donald trump

[froggymagician]

Aww there showing all the dead eggs and IM JUST LEARNING THAT JUANA LASTED 11 DAY AND TILIN ONLY LAST 20 DAYS

#qsmp #qsmp awards #AINT NO WAY CHARLIE NOT THE TRUMP WALL JOKE #BRO THAT JOKE WAS OUT OF POCKET

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Desierto (2015, dir. Jonás Cuarón)

(these gifs also feature Alondra Hidalgo)

#gael garcía bernal #desierto #ggb filmography gifs #desierto 2015 #gael garcia bernal #this is ultimately a pretty standard thriller of the being-chased-by-an-inexorable-killer type #where the cast is picked off one by one until only the most conventionally physically attractive remain #this is good news for gael's character #on account of being played by gael #i think this one is elevated by the setting both in terms of beauty (it is stunning) and by making effective plot use of it #that apparently meant they were shooting two hours' drive away from the nearest towns with no cellphone reception etc. #which may be why we don't see more films set here #also elevated by the performances which are uniformly good #also elevated by the themes (jeffrey dean morgan's antagonist is targeting migrants crossing the border) #so we're back in the territory explored in documentaries like who is dayani cristal but this time as fictional thriller #this film came out as the trump wall discourse was hotting up and that was naturally something that got talked about in interviews #clever inclusion of antagonist's dog which effectively constrains what the characters could do to get out of the situation #so unlike in many films of this type there isn't a screamingly obvious course of action that they should have taken but unaccountably don't #still it remains a genre film sticking broadly to the conventions of that genre so the plot isn't going to astonish you #i've still avoided giffing the most spoilery moments though #tbh i suspect gael's character is still screwed at the end but then i think that's also the point (see: themes)

[we-re-always-alright]

so the guy who lives below me is an asshole (for a multitude of reasons including but not limited to: parking his dumb giant subaru so cockeyed in the middle spot that it only could have been done drunk, handwriting an hoa check so bad it gets flagged for fraud by the bank twice, leaving dog poop in bags on his deck so long that the rats start getting bold) but he’s moreover an asshole for being a Grateful Dead fan with a shitty sound system which means I hear the same thumping bass line for upwards of 40 minutes to the point where I am now playing my horror movies across my homepods (which are in every room) at top volume where it rattles my glasses so I hope this dude likes the shining

#my dad hates this guy and also calls him Gandalf because he has long gray hair #also I could go on but like he’s just a bad neighbor #so when he has people over I play loud music (hardcore or nu metal) loudly in the morning #my horror movies all day #and I also wear high heels to clomp around and remind him he’s not living lone #I dealt with trump supporters and thin walls at my last place do not test me #tagging this: #the positive supportive saga #so people can see my previous neighbor gripes lol #thoughts? thoughts

[jackassdemocrats]

Trump 2024

#trump 2024 #joe biden #nwo #wef #socialism #election fraud #election interference #election integrity #illegal immigration #border wall #economic collapse #china #iran #n korea

[doyouknowhowtowaltz]

Fandom Trumps Hate Bidding is officially open! I'm offering one 5-10k OTGW fic rated up to M, of almost any focus for my winning bidder. It's bidder's choice of FTH's supported charities this year, and bidding closes on the 9th.

Bidding instructions for me can be found right here.

#otgw #over the garden wall #Fandom Trumps Hate

[gothhabiba]

Fundamentally, a lot of self-described "progressives," "liberals," "leftists" &c. believe that white supremacy and fascism and Naziism are icky scary ideas to be disavowed or vaguely countered (largely by pointing out logical inconsistencies in those ideas). They don't understand or believe that white supremacists are actual people with whom they could potentially be interacting online or in-person. They don't recognise white supremacist dog whistles, they don't recognise baseline obvious white supremacist rhetoric, they will see someone online spouting obvious white supremacist rhetoric and believe that said person is joking or being sarcastic.

Their idea of progressivism is inherently social—our social circle of the educated anti-racist élite are obviously against that sort of thing. The logical inverse also seems to apply—if someone is socially interacting with them, that person (by virtue of that social interaction) must belong to said circle of the educated anti-racist progressive élite. Their social circle is their politics. They have no understanding of fascism as anything dangerous, anything real, anything that must be seriously intellectually or physically countered. Probably this applies to a lot of self-identified "communists" too.

#like I saw a normal liberal patriot--the kind to call Trump a racist and fascist and call for the U.S. to get back to its core #'democratic values'--laugh along with a literal white supremacist fascist who stated that a U.S.-Mexico wall should be built #higher and with spikes and barbed wire &c. #apparently because they thought that said white supremacist fascist was being sarcastic!!!!!!!!!!! #mine

[moderat50]

Another Trump Claim That Can't Be Confirmed

No one saw him or the hundred people he claimed he brought to help. None of the "helpers" came forward to confirm his story. Trump, being such a celebrity & attention seeker, there would have been news reports of this event and many would have remembered his appearance. Another Trump'd tall tale.

#democrats #republicans #election #trump 2024 #biden 2024 #Nba #Mlb #march madness #border wall

[simply-ivanka]

Letitia James Turns the Screws on Trump

The inflated $464 million bond required to appeal effectively denies him due process.

By The Editorial Board

Wall Street Journal

March 18, 2024 

New York Attorney General Letitia James’s use of lawfare to take down Donald Trump is getting uglier by the day. She is now threatening to seize the former President’s assets after effectively denying him the ability to appeal the grossly inflated civil-fraud judgment against him.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers wrote Monday in a court filing that they’ve been unable to obtain a bond to guarantee last month’s $464 million judgment. Defendants are required to post bonds to appeal verdicts. Mr. Trump’s lawyers say securing the full bond would be “impossible” since most of his assets are illiquid.

One way to satisfy the bond would be to borrow against his real-estate holdings. But Mr. Trump’s lawyers say that only a handful of insurance companies have “both the financial capability and willingness to underwrite a bond of this magnitude,” and “the vast majority are unwilling to accept the risk associated with such a large bond.”

What’s more, his lawyers say that none of the insurers that Mr. Trump’s team approached “are willing to accept hard assets such as real estate as collateral for appeal bonds.” This isn’t surprising given the recent write-downs in commercial real estate and enormous uncertainty about their valuations, especially in places like New York. Insurers may also fear Ms. James’s legal retribution if they provide the bond to Mr. Trump.

Thus in order to appeal the judgment, Mr. Trump could have to unload property in a fire sale. If he were later to win on appeal, his lawyers rightly argue that he would have suffered an enormous, irreparable loss.

Ms. James no doubt knows she has Mr. Trump in a bind. She and courts have opposed his requests to reduce the bond even though a court-appointed independent monitor overseeing his businesses eliminates the risk he could dispose of or transfer his assets to make the judgment harder for the state to enforce.

As we wrote last month, the judgment is overkill. None of Mr. Trump’s business partners lost money lending to him or claimed to have been deceived by his erroneous financial statements. No witness during the trial said his alleged misrepresentations changed its loan terms or prices, and there was no evidence that he profited from his alleged deceptions.

Nonetheless, state trial judge Arthur Engoron ordered him to “disgorge” $355 million in “ill-gotten gains.” This sum was based on the interest-rate savings that a financial expert retained by Ms. James estimated Mr. Trump netted from his legerdemain. But this calculation seems dubious since banks said they didn’t alter their loan terms.

The judge also tacked on profits that Mr. Trump putatively made on properties for which he submitted false financial statements without demonstrating that the latter enable the former. He also added “pre-judgment interest” dating back to the day Ms. James launched her investigation in 2019. This makes Mr. Trump liable for alleged wrongdoings before he was even charged. All of this provides plausible grounds for appeal.

Whatever his transgressions, defendants are entitled to due process, which includes the right to appeal. Ms. James is trying to short-circuit the justice system to get Mr. Trump, as she promised she would during her 2018 campaign. Anyone who does business in New York ought to worry about how Ms. James could likewise twist the screws on them.

#trump #trump 2024 #ivanka #americans first #america #america first #repost #president trump #donald trump #democrats #wall street journal #New York #Democrat Corruption

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Stephen Millies

The corporate media has been obsessed about the downfall of their former hero, Rudolph Giuliani. The ex-mayor of New York City was seen leaving 2nd Chance Bail Bonds in Atlanta after surrendering to authorities as one of Trump’s co-conspirators.

Giuliani should have been jailed a long time ago.

#Rudy Giuliani #Donald Trump #racism #white supremacy #NYC #NYPD #killer cops #Jan 6 #Atlanta #fascism #capitalism #Wall Street #protest #Struggle La Lucha