How many pallets of cash is $300 billion? Asking for a friend
oh look, the trump "made in america" phone wound up being an overpriced two-year old Taiwanese-made knockoff pre-loaded with propaganda
who could have predicted something so on brand
President Jimmy Carter putting his peanut farm in a trust to avoid a conflict of interest feels like a long time ago. trib.al/cQ6Fgab
Wow, just when I thought tonight's tacky cage match fight couldn't be any more like vulgar Donald Trump . . .
This is a private, for-profit event, for a company the President personally has bought stock in.
So this admin lets a private company, that the president owns stock in, use the White House and grounds for a pay-per-view spectacle using troops & staff, rents out ads everywhere, and has it streaming on the company whose monopolistic merger it just approved.
Grift never ending
CBS: The Iranians are saying they're gonna have access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund. True or false?
JD VANCE: That's the sort of things they could have access to so long as they honor their end of the obligation
If you built a case study on how an authoritarian hijacks public power for private gain, you would get exactly this: a White House fight card, a presidential stock position in UFC’s parent company, a fresh super PAC windfall, and a licensing deal on the merch.
“ ... figure of the giant mass of things to come at large.” ~ Troilus and Cressida (A1,S3).
#ShakespeareSunday #StuartFailsToSaveTheUniverse
I can't think of anything that sums up today's Republican Party better than this.
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Alex Pereira, a prominent mixed martial arts fighter set to headline the U.S. president's 80th birthday UFC event at the White House, is facing allegations of violence from two women — and it isn’t th...
it's notable to me that the administration tried to frame tonight's UFC event as a "gift to Americans" but you can't watch it unless you have a paid subscription to Paramount+
