The last time someone tried to sell oil in anything other than the US dollar, his country was invaded under false pretenses.

have you seen exTwitter?

"The most ironic thing is with the settlement that I did receive [20 million pounds from his father’s estate since John only gave him 100K in his will], is that I’ve been buying his stuff back with that, so, I’m buying his stuff back with his money, which is absolutely insane.”

Secretly posted on Twitter that he did this because who is going to hold him accountable?

He’s the richest man in the world. He could buy his own fucking island and never be arrested. Can one country shut down Twitter, Tesla, or SpaceX?

He controls 10K satellites, the electric car charging infrastructure, and a massive global communications platform. He’s too big to control. Good thing we hero-worshipped him for years. 🫢 🤭

Candidate Trump needs to be belligerent and defiant. Defendant Trump needs to STFU.

The problem is those two things are in competition. So he has to say, Russia, Russia, Russia as candidate Trump, but that isn’t a relevant or useful argument for defendant Trump. He has to say, “I’m allowed to do this thing” as candidate Trump, but as defendant Trump, I’m allowed to break the law is not a defense.

His only hope is to delay. If he goes to trial on anything, defendant Trump loses. If he can hold out, then candidate Trump will win.

This is his bet. He wins and it all goes away and the US is ruled by a guy who believes he can get away with anything.

Canada has many parties but is about to become a right-wing nightmare.

This isn’t a party problem, it is a comms problem. The right feels like it must stop progress for human rights in any way possible. Lying, cheating, whatever. And in many places, the right is funded by rich people who want less taxes and regulations.

In Canada, it is tar sands oil. Since tax cuts and let’s screw up the planet are not popular, you need a wedge issue. Here’s Trump marveling at how a wedge issue is spread:

“It’s amazing how strongly people feel about that. You see, I’m talking about cutting taxes, people go like that,” Donald Trump said while making a muted applause gesture. “I talk about transgender, everyone goes crazy. Who would have thought? Five years ago, you didn’t know what the hell it was.”

The only cracks here is that the senate are all a bunch of olds who don’t understand the internet.

‘Kids Online Safety Act’ will deliberately target trans content, senator admits

He’s a granddad. We shouldn’t have granddads who can’t work a remote be president. I assume he can’t work a remote.

It is a for profit place that has always put reach before speech. For-profit places are not bastions of free speech, they are bastions of making decisions that make them more money.

He has to, take a look at what is coming in Texas. He has to fight imaginary things because reality is indefensible.

This is worth your time on Graham.

He did sell Mara Lago to his son Donald Jr.

“My son Eric is much more involved with it than I am,” Trump said.

“My son Eric is much more involved with it than I am”, Donald Trump throwing his son under the bus.

The two countries with the most vaccines and the least number of people vaccinated are the US and Russia. Russia’s vaccine isn’t even from the evil west! But still people won’t take it.

You propagandize enough people and they don’t trust you when you’re telling them the truth.

This is what he does. He argued that his inauguration was the biggest ever, even though it plainly wasn’t. He just lies and dares you to call him out on it. Which most people won’t do.

He lies. Dares you to call him out on it. All the while, his people will parrot the lies like the little bitches fans they are.

Ah. I guess I just use the one that comes with my iPhone.

TIL IBM owned the weather app.