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Warden Gulley's avatar

The Hand-Me-Down 747 which the Qatari's were unable to sell to some other sucker and loser is but a trifle in his portfolio of corruption. Deals in cryptocurrency and with sovereign wealth funds will make this little plane seem, well, little in comparison. Trump ingratiates himself with the desert tribes by meekly accepting what they deem is a gracious gift.

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Charlie Hardy's avatar

Birds of a feather flock together.

The difference is the population disUSA freely elected Trump ( somewhat by default ie. failure to vote) with a seriously flawed polity in structure and operation backed by vast amounts of uncontrolled money. Greed backs greed encourages greed, enables corruption The 'traditional' opposition is either largely scared or complicit and effectively in a catatonic state listening to themselves in an echo chamber of lazy money grabbing hypocracy not communicating with the deluded Magaistas who will be smashed by Trumps 'budget'. The Dems are truly ineffective and despicible (are they part of this plot/dictatorship too?) in the face of fascism clearly intent on establishing medieval feudism on the people. Apart from Bernie S, AOC and Jasmine from Texas there is zero effective resistance to this process of despicible totalitarianism heading for an utterly immoral dictatorship.

It seems to me the only faint hope is a military coup as per the carnation revolution in Portugal over 50 years ago. This weak complicit Dem muttering and spluttering is irrelevant, displacement activity for show.

They now simply underpin Maga.

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Keith Sherman's avatar

So he's destroying Harvard and Columbia because of their response to anti-Semitic actions on campus but accepting gifts from the people funding the protestors.

Make it make sense! (Rhetorical question)

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Kiera Stroup's avatar

“Trump’s toe-suckers”. Ew. 🤮😂

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Brent Rickertsen's avatar

I look at Trump and his cohorts, and I always ask: "What's the deal behind the deal?" Everybody (presumably) knows NOTHING is free, not even a grand, luxurious jet. Another tick on the grift-o-matic machine.

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Claudia W Mann's avatar

The last bits of hope I had for the survival of this democracy are now gone.

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Marti MacArthur's avatar

Money, money,money for me, me, me, said the empty, soulless shell of a human being. All his minions smile and clap and say not a word because the red hatted boss is the dear leader and they handed him their brains and souls so they could smile and look for more ways to make more money for themselves.

Such fine, upstanding hucksters who pretended that they were the right people for the job of governing the nation.

I feel nauseated and angry that something so clearly wrong is presented as something so complicated that we just can’t fix it.

Fraud is fixable for a little longer in this country if there were only the will to save us all.

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Ian D. Carroll's avatar

Uh, so maybe it was a bad idea to make a lobbyist for Qatar the Attorney General of the United States simply because she wasn’t Matt Gaetz

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Publis's avatar

Yes but she is hardly alone. As others have documented the Qataris have been connecting themselves closely to his entire circle for years. He is a long-term investment. Bondi, if anything, was late to the party.

https://substack.com/inbox/post/163237591

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jane's avatar

Thank you, Mr. Sykes. Everyone can understand how you struggle sometimes to find the perfect gift for someone you care about. You cannot fault the Qatari’s perfect gift - it’s large; it’s golden; it’s tacky and in poor taste but it flies.

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Mark Rodin's avatar

Trump comes with his palms open ready to receive money and gifts

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Ian D. Carroll's avatar

And flattery. Flattery will get you anywhere with Trump.

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Abigail's avatar

GOP Senate and House members are complicit in all of Trump’s corruption. We the people need to make sure they will be held accountable for failing to fulfill their oath to the Constitution!

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Rolyac's avatar

Dispicable is an understatement. The sleaze that oozes from every pore of his body is only second to his sycophants who lick it off to make him smell respectable. When Loomer calls you on your corruption you have sunk below whale dung. What an f-ing mess.

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JA's avatar

Trump made the comment that the U.S. Government would outfit the grifter’s gift properly so he could use it-plus pay for the cost! How will Trump ever be able to afford running that thing?

Trump will be 80+ by then! Will be an expensive BOY TOY?

Can only imagine that Trump is obsessed with this new offer?

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Cascadian's avatar

Trump's reaction to the criticism is the truest thing he's ever said:

"I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/12/trump-maga-loomer-plane-qatar-00341653

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Chris Gay's avatar

Thought: At what point does the junta’s corruption and lethal malfeasance become so egregious that it’s reasonable to propose regime change by any means necessary? Ever? What we're witnessing is institutionalized impunity that would make the Suhartos blush. The criminal organization itself controls the means of prosecution, and may do so beyond 2029. Trump clones like Don Jr., equally shameless and rapacious, could hold power for years if they can continue to bamboozle the bovine MAGA mob. In the presence of a vertebrate-free Congress, are we consigned to stand by and watch as long as no legal authority steps in? Just asking questions.

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