" He who saves his Country does not violate any law" ~ Napoleon Bonaparte~
The president of the United States posted that quote on Saturday, February 15, 2025. I repeat: The president of the United States posted that quote on Saturday, February 15, 2025.
Napoleon was a despot, who believed that his regime reflected the will of the people of France.
Are we there yet?
I need your thoughts and feedback on this one.
*BTW, the image above is that of Benito Mussolini, not Napoleon Bonaparte or Donald J. Trump.
118 comments:
We’re certainly “there” in terms of Trump attempting to be a dictator. Mass firings of civil servants, decisions about what federal money to spend or not, and alterations of the definition of citizenship are not within the powers of the presidency. If Trump is allowed to get away with them, then he has achieved his goal of becoming a dictator.
The horrifying thing is the number of people that are still tuned out, even as liberals’ worst warnings about Trump come true. The apathy and cluelessness of a large percentage of Americans is still shocking.
EOs are no good outside USA borders so Gulf of Mexico can not be name changed by a sick fuck despot. They also only pertain to federal government not state.
“EOs are no good outside USA borders so Gulf of Mexico can not be name changed by a sick fuck despot. They also only pertain to federal government not state.”
Names of international geographical features are decided through international bodies, not by any leader of an individual country. So Trump pretending that he is allowed to rename the Gulf of Mexico implies he thinks the Gulf of Mexico isn’t an international geographic feature and the US actually owns it (and presumably all the oil under it).
This is 19th century colonialist nonsense, much like his expressed desire to retake the Panama Canal or invade Greenland.
Launching colonialist wars in the Western Hemisphere was listed nowhere in Trump’s campaign platform, any more than dismantling half the federal government was. Nobody voted for this.
Too bad millions more Americans didn't pay attention to alarms about Project 2025 when it coud have changed their vote. FAFO!
Some commenter said dumpf's quoting Napoleon was just begging to be assassinated.
While heavy rains flooded several southeastern states and people were killed, drumpfuck was doing circles at Daytona 500 after AF1 flew over the racetrack. Millions wasted to massage drumpfuck's insatiable ego.
“Too bad millions more Americans didn't pay attention to alarms about Project 2025 when it coud have changed their vote. FAFO!”
Yes, this is what liberals were warning about. Project 2025 is, effectively, a plan for dictatorship, since Trump and the Republicans don’t have the votes to make almost any of those policies happen — not without setting fire to the Constitution.
Still, while voters were incredibly gullible, none of this lets Trump off the hook. He swore that Project 2025 had nothing to do with him and he wouldn’t be implementing any of it. Which is now proven to be a lie.
If Fergus has his way, we are there. But he is not too bright, and keeps walking in to the same traps over and over. Also, he's just lazy. Could he have enacted more of his batshit crazy EOs if he had followed procedure? Of course. But the point is not the content of those EOs, but their very conflict with the processes in place to enact EOs. In other words, he just wants everyone to have to do what he says, and doesn't really care what the things he says actually are.
It's been said that anyone who believes that they should be the president by definition has a massive ego, but there is a difference between ego and narcissism.
Narcissism and the lust for unbridled power go hand in hand, or in Fergus' case penis in rectum.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
" Project 2025 is, effectively, a plan for dictatorship, since Trump and the Republicans don’t have the votes to make almost any of those policies happen — not without setting fire to the Constitution."
Their guru, Curtis Yarvin is all about getting a dictator to replace the government.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Doug and Mike, it's good to hear from you again. I got so fed up with the Russian bots wasting everyone's time that I had to go away for a while. But then I remembered that this is where I discovered Homeless on the High Desert and Juanita Jean (RIP). I decided to come back, looking for hope in these desperate days. Each day is worse than the day before.
Ivan says hello!
Doug, no one wants to know what you and Teagan do to each other.
By Ivan are you referencing Russia, by any chance.
As long as I am able I will always be a beacon for truth which is kryptonite to magats, beth. I am sure other regulars here feel the same way, except the trolls. BTW, el jefe is keeping Juanita Jeans running as long as he can.
drumpf is whining to the scotus to mallopw him t fire independent IGs and replace them with loyal sickofants. Some magat justices are inclined to allow it to happen. Midas, since the scotus is no longer even pretending to be independent or impartial.
Besides being stupid you are incredibly dense.
Hi Beth!
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Could not have said it better myself.
Mike, it would not have made a difference to most of them. Some are in a cult, and others are too caught up in their own selfish lives to see the big picture.
No, I am and always have been straight. I was made an honorary lesbian by the night staff at the restaurant where I was a cook in the mid eighties, though. That got me and my girlfriend invited to parties in Albany, on the stipulation that we both dance to at least three songs during the evening.
I tried teasing them a couple of times and asking when I would get my hazing, but they just told me not to push my luck, and as we were all pretty good friends, I didn't.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Thank you for ssharing this
Simple question, moron. Russia or not?
Sorry simp, you didn't use a question mark. Does Des Moines, Russia ring a bell? How about Bismark, North Russia? Maybe you've heard of Chicago, southern Russia?
All legitimate places for the Trump deranged.
You've been pillow biting again.
We know he lacks the intellectual wherewithal to have found that quote on his own. Who might have fed it to him? Junior? Laughable! Erik? Even more so! Queen Melanoma? Can she even read? Your guess is as good as mine.
War criminal netanfuckface's army put an explosive cord around an 80 y/o Gazan and forced him to probe buildings fo 8 hours and then another unit killed him.
https://www.972mag.com/gaza-human-shield-mosquito/
They can always claim, he was an armed suicide bomber, I suppose.
-9 this morning with a forecast high of -7 today. -17 tonight with highs in the single digits until Friday when t starts warming up. Sat in the 30s. Sun in the 40s and Mon-Wed in the 50s. About three inches of snow cover.
Both Trump’s net favorability and net approval — meaning the difference between the share with a positive view and the share with a negative one — were higher than they ever were during his first term as president.
But Economist / YouGov Polls since then have shown Trump’s approval rating and personal popularity both falling over the past two weeks; this week’s poll finds Americans are less likely to approve of Trump (46%) than to disapprove (48%), and less likely to view him favorably (46%) than unfavorably (52%).
Trump is losing younger Americans:
Two weeks ago, 50% of adults under 30 had a favorable opinion of Trump, while 46% had an unfavorable opinion; today, 39% have a favorable opinion and 57% have an unfavorable opinion.
Trump’s favorability among adults aged 30 to 44 has also fallen, from 45% favorable / 51% unfavorable to 42% favorable / 55% unfavorable.
Mike, whether or not Trump's ratings fall to record lows, before he's finished with his first 100 days he's going to have eviscerated the federal government, perhaps beyond the ability to restore it. Those federal employees and federal agencies are there for a purpose. I was dismayed at the thought of losing federal funds for NPR and PBS, but now that OSHA and FEMA fighting for their lives it's gotten way more scary!
They could learn to code. Remember that one creeps.
German Chancellor just declared a state of emergency over drumpf's unhinged speech selling out Ukraine to Putie Pie.
Supido Rubio leads American delegation to Saudi Arabia to meet with Putie's henchmen and discuss the giving away of Ukraine. tomorrow.
The fire elongated skum ad Bezo's WAPO refused to run....
https://www.alternet.org/elon-musk-ad/
https://apnews.com/article/gulf-mexico-america-sheinbaum-trump-google-maps-81daabb926ab2bc4d90eb5665d96f515
drumpf has no authority to change the name of anything outside the USA. Google should get sued and lose bigly.
“drumpf has no authority to change the name of anything outside the USA. Google should get sued and lose bigly.”
Questionable whether a lawsuit would work. There’s no international court whose ruling Trump won’t ignore, and Mexico may or may not have the right to sue in a US court under these circumstances.
Also, can Mexico prove they have experienced actual harm (rather than just offense) as a result of Trump referring to it as the “Gulf of America”?
drumpf isn't the target. Google is.
Border czar homoman wants the DOJ to investigate AOC for legally explaining rights to immigrants.
https://www.politicususa.com/p/trump-border-czar-asked-doj-to-investigate
“drumpf isn't the target. Google is.”
Similar legal questions apply with Google as a defendant. Now, maybe Mexico can sue Google in a Mexican court for this instead. But if they do, maybe Google will just make Google Maps inaccessible from Mexico, which would probably not make Mexican citizens very happy.
"They could learn to code. Remember that one creeps."
The government employees know how to code. It's the brain-wizard Muskrat squad that can't understand fucking COBOL.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
The New Republic
@newrepublic.com
Two coders have already infiltrated the DOGE website and left their own messages on it at the time of 404’s reporting on Thursday evening: “THis is a joke of a .gov site,” said one, and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro” said another.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Cool! Prison awaits them.
Plane from Minneapolis to Toronto flipped on its topo in Toronto. Thanks drumpf.
btw I have seen zero comments from drumpfuck about flooding disasters in Kaintuck and the Virginias.drumpf was all over Biden everytime something occurred even though Biden was already on top of the situation.
“Cool! Prison awaits them.”
Unlikely. Haven’t you heard? Trump is firing everyone. After he fires all the federal cops and replaces them with Trump-loyal, incompetent dolts, the feds will never catch any criminals ever again.
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As a result of Pete Hegseth’s nomination for secretary of defense, his finances got examined. This led to “irregularities” being found and shared with the IRS, which caused them to audit him, and now he owes the IRS $33,000 in back taxes and penalties. Oopsie!
Naturally, being a Trumpster, he has immediately started whining about persecution by the libs and the Deep State. Everyone else is at fault except him for screwing up his taxes (or, more likely, cheating).
Another one of the best people ....
https://www.propublica.org/article/frank-schuler-gsa-doge-syndicated-conservation-easements-tax-scam
Came up with what the IRS called the worst of the worst tax scam ever. Bi-partisan congressional committee excoriated it.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/whoa-doge-reveals-4-7-trillion-taxpayer-money/
elongated skum does not run or work with doge?
https://www.mediaite.com/news/huh-trump-white-house-claims-elon-musk-doesnt-actually-work-for-doge-in-striking-new-legal-filing/
Griting family fortune while in office. The most corrupt, least law abiding POS ever in the WH....
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/brazen-conflict-of-interest-trump-reportedly-held-oval-office-meeting-to-forge-merger-involving-business-partner-liv-golf/
Some small measure of sanity for women's reproductive rights...
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/02/judge-missouri-voted-choice-period
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/what-is-an-executive-order-and-how-does-it-work
If magats could read and comprehend then they could learn real and true stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC2xBZY1OoY
Brilliant businessman drumpfuck the dumbfuck reported truth(optional) social lost over 400 million last year and looks reay to join the other 6 businesses this savbvy businessman bankrupted.
You get 3 out of 5 bad orange man bad. Keep trying, you'll get there.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/18/judge-orders-eric-adams-doj-court-case-dismissal-request.html
Judge orders Adams, his attorneys and doj to appear in his court Wednesday to explain dropping charges in exchange for Adam'a helping deport immigrants.
No rubber stamp for injustice here.
Stoopid fucking drumpf fires 600 employees at working n uclear power plant...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ntGOjUI3MmQ?feature=share
drumpfuck threatened to take the canal away fron Panama, by force if necessary, and now he wants them to house US deportees.
The dumbfucker is unbelievable.
Shoppers backlash against korporations that align themselves with drumpfuck's non exstent moral values.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/18/shoppers-political-boycotts-spending-patterns-poll
Adter WW2 Amerticans ncharged, tried and executed Japanese soldiers for waterboarding prisoners. In Vietnam, at least one American soldier was charged, tried, convicted and sent to prison for 20 years for waterboarding a prisoner. Under dumbass dubya's neo-con reign of tewrror, waterboarding was given a pass.
https://www.credaily.com/briefs/fema-eases-protections-for-properties-in-flood-zones/
Endangering public's lives. Thanks drumpf!
https://www.alternet.org/trump-john-roberts-salon/
Roberts s to blame for dumpf's assault on congressiional and judicial powers.
https://apnews.com/article/fire-jenkintown-abington-township-pennsylvania-0fa271a68f9c778a88f93427a76884c8
Thanks drumpf. If only Pennsylvania released that water as they were ordered to do in California 7 years ago, blah, blah, blah.
No conditions on flooded states getting FEMA monies. Just California.
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-trump-pepfar-hiv-aid-freeze-0d9def2a63b0e2f53bfda9441baf584d
More pople have AIDs in South Africa than any other country. Have to screen all them white refugees drumpf and skum want brought here.
This will not surprise anyone, freezing USAID funds for AIDs reseach has not been helpful.
40% of the workforce for USAID are lawyers and accountants to prevent waste and fraud that skum, drumpf and lying liar Leavitt so easily lie about.
Retired SCOTUS justice David Souter in 2012 describing pretty much what is happening right now, but with the omission of the fact that the ignorance is intentional:
“I think some of the aspects of current American government that people on both sides find frustrating are partly a function of the inability of people to understand how government can and should function,” Souter said. “It is a product of civic ignorance.”
After quoting Benjamin Franklin’s admonition about democracy struggling to survive “too much ignorance,” the retired justice added, “I don’t worry about our losing republican government in the United States because I’m afraid of a foreign invasion. I don’t worry about it because I think there is going to be a coup by the military, as has happened in some of the places. What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible. And when the problems get bad enough ... some one person will come forward and say, ‘Give me total power and I will solve this problem.’ That is how the Roman republic fell.”
Souter concluded, “If we know who is responsible, I have enough faith in the American people to demand performance from those responsible. If we don’t know, we will stay away from the polls. We will not demand it. And the day will come when somebody will come forward, and we and the government will in effect say, ‘Take the ball and run with it. Do what you have to do.’ That is the way democracy dies. And if something is not done to improve the level of civic knowledge, that is what you should worry about at night.”
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Laura Ingrate Ham of fake noize describes the very scenario we see today with drumpfuck's reign of terror except she was accusing Biden and Dems of being the oppressors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okZkWwKYb68
magats cry about Libs efforts to pack the already packed by magats scotus. Fucking Hillary ous.
Last time Libs dominated the scotus? 1969. It has een run by magats ever since.
The Warren Court was the period in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969 when Earl Warren served as the chief justice. The Warren Court is often considered the most liberal court in U.S. history. Washington, D.C.
We are getting ther, Field.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/02/13/nazi-flags-can-fly-utah-school-not/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/global-cooling-temperatures-expected-fall-record-50-degrees/
Trump!!
Trump is the best!
Google says it is.
Trump not part of Project 2025
Totally false
Trump not involved in Project 2025
So says the communist
Move to North Korea
So much for global warming.
Trumps approval very high. Scoring real well with 18-39 year olds.
She is obstructing federal officers
More DEI failures no doubt...
Trump spews Russian propaganda like a ventriloquist’s dummy with Putin’s hand up his ass, says Ukraine “shouldn’t have started” the war.
Gosh, how do you think Trump will bring about peace, as he’s promised? Could it possibly be by the very clever strategy of letting Russia win?
Wolf.....Wolf.....Wolf.....
So much for global warming.
Communism is a bad thing.
All lefty grifters
Didn't his commission also cover up the JFK assassination? That's something to hang your hat on.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/trump-musk-expose-media-lies-bureaucratic-corruption-bidens/
Then why are you and Neville Chamberpotdrumpf embracing Putie Pie?
https://newrepublic.com/post/191647/donald-trump-press-secretary-social-security-fraud
Not only are 150 y/o people getting SS, but, 10s of millions of the dead are, too. It's okay if they use it to buy Neville Chamberpotdrumpf merchandise, though.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-media-brazilian-judge-bolsonaro/
Nevillechmberpotdrumpf is suing a Brailian judge in Floriduh court for some unfathomable reason or another and getting mocked mercilessly for it.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice is investigating Nevillechamberpotdrumpf's buddy Bolsonaro.
Nevillechamberpotdrumpf is calling Zelensky a dictator. and blames him for attacking Russia first.
Nevillechamberpotdrumpf just declared himself as head of all independent agencies and declared only he and the AG get to interpret the rules for those outfits. dick tater much?
I am going to quote from the 1954 Britannica article on Fascism regarding Mussolini's rise to power. His movement was born out of the chaos of WWI, but you may see some striking similarities and parallels to what is happening to our government now under the Trump takeover. What made me think of it was the takeover of the means of transportation and other sectors that actually preceded Mussolini's aligning himself with the wealthy classes. It is also interesting that he characterized the liberal government as doddering and inept touting a more forceful and youthful takeover. Also I noted that the upper classes saw Mussolini's fascists as a means of protection against the socialists and other political factions.
carried the social revolutionary motto by Blanqui, “Who has steel has bread,” and Napoleon’s saying, “The revolution is an idea which has found bayonets.” Mussolini’s first famous editorial bore the characteristic title, “Audacity.”
In the social unrest and moral confusion which followed the war of 1914-1918, Mussolini founded the Fasci di Combattimento on March 23, 1919, in Milan. The new group had no definite program; at first Mussolini was still a revolutionary syndicalist, who propagated the expropriation of the land, the mines, and all means of transportation. It was not until the beginning of 1921 that he allied his group openly with the propertied classes, with the landowners and the industrialists. But whatever his sociological affiliations, he was moved throughout by a fierce nationalism and by the love of violence and adventure. When he ran in Milan for a parliamentary seat in the elections of Nov. 16, 1919, he got less that 5,000 votes out of 346,000. But the deep social unrest prevailing in Italy in 1920 gave Mussolini a chance, and though the danger of any bolshevist or socialist success had entirely faded by the end of the year, Mussolini and his squads of violent young men appeared to the frightened upper classes as a guarantee of security. Thus, with the army conniving, Mussolini’s followers set for themselves the task of “restoring order” and breaking up the socialist movements and organizations. With a boastful ruthlessness, with the proud sacrifice of all ethical scruples to success, the local squadristis, under the leadership of men like Grandi, Balbo, Farinacci and others, set out for the conquest of power in the name of youth against what they called “the tottering parliamentarism” of the “senile” and undecided liberals. The lack of resistance on the part of the government, the army and the police, emboldened the fascists who had formed themselves into the national fascist party in Nov. 1921.
In the following year Mussolini completely abandoned his original socialist, anti-monarchist and anti-Catholic program. He had no definite doctrine to offer. “Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs, but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy, but men and will power.” On Oct. 28, 1922, the famous march on Rome was staged.
The judge in the Adam's case has no discretionary powers, but a federal judge in Hunter Biden's case was allowed to break up a plea bargain. Can someone enlighten me?
You are not very smart.
Hear the squealing of the Pig People as the leopards they voted for eat their faces:
https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2025/02/decimation.html
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Well, what Zelensky did was repress ethnic Russians in the Donetz(sp?) and the Luhansk regions of Ukraine. Then he started terrorizing them. The ethnic Russians fought back. Then Zelensky shelled and bombed the ethnic Russians. Then he invaded those two regions of eastern Ukraine. He invaded his own country and waged war on his own people.
Eventually Putin agreed to help the ethnic Russians in the eastern part of Ukraine.
Yes, you could say Zelensky started it.
What will be interesting is when Putin demands the de-nazification of Ukraine. This is a paramount purpose of the SMO.
Particularly the AZOV terrorist.
Just Google Stefan Bandera.
Mussolini quoted Napoleon as well. Birds of a feather. Not that tR*** is 1/10 the men that Napoleon or Mussolini were. He's a creampuff.
Scroll down to comment 103 and read my excerpt about Italian-style fascism from 70 years ago in the Encyclopedia Britannica, Mike.
Who?
It's not unheard of for judges to torpedo plea deals, although it raised a lot of suspicions of political interference when this happened in the Hunter Biden case. With conservatives spinning wild, evidence-free conspiracy theories that made out that Hunter was some kind of Al Capone-like mega criminal and demanding he be crucified, liberals wondered whether someone had pressured the judge into making this decision.
But I don't know what a judge is supposed to do if, as in this case, prosecutors have been explicitly ordered not to prosecute a case because their boss (and their boss' boss) is a corrupt autocrat. Can the judge force them to prosecute? The correct remedy here should really be Congress impeaching Trump, so he can be replaced by a president who respects the rule of law. But congressional Republicans are all spineless jellyfish who mindlessly rubber-stamp Trump's decisions, so we know that ain't happening.
That's an extremely strange sentence.
What are you drinking? More importantly, stop drinking it.
Hey MAGA boy. Here's some math for you. It may be over your head.
According to Bernie Sanders, Musk most wealthy at $420 billion, Zuckerberg next at $290 billion and Bezos in third place at $250 billion which at over $900 billion is more than the combined wealth of the lower 50% of all Americans.
Put that in your computer. Now take a wild guess at how much of the $4.5 trillion in tax cuts is actually going to working people who could use it. Not very much if you follow my logic. It's all for the top 1% you dumbass.
Hey look!! The official Russian party line. Thanks RTV consumer!
magat life is a breeze when your daily talking points are shoved up your ass by nevillechamberpotdrumpf.
Moar Nevillehamberpotdrumpf chaos as two more die wen 2 small planes collide in Arizona.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/2-dead-after-small-planes-collide-arizona/story?id=118975822
The good news is that Louis DeJoy is stepping down after five years of buggering the USPS. The bad news is that Fergus will appoint someone even worse in the hopes that he can privatize (that is, sell it to billionaires) it and fuck over the rural voters who got him elected.
"That's an extremely strange sentence.
What are you drinking? More importantly, stop drinking it."
Nothing strange about it if you can read. I haven't gotten high on anything at all since 2008.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Fergus says that Ukraine never should have started the war with Russia. (Hint: he's right and they didn't) I'd say that he probably blames Poland for starting WW2, except that he doesn't know enough about WW2 to even come up with that particular lie.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Waste, fraud and abuse....Nevillechamerpotdrumpf checks all three boxes.
https://www.politicususa.com/p/trump-spent-nearly-11-million-on
Wasted 11 million txpayer's bucks on golf in less than a mo nth on the job. Remermber his incessant whining aout federal workers working remotely? He has met the enemy and he is it.
There are three Venezuelans b eing held as convicted, violent felons who have no gang ties, no convictions and are not violent. They have no arrest records and yet they are being kept at Guantnamo prison for no justifiable reaso ns and there are at least a hundred other detainees that might be just as innocent.
ICE isn't looking for or even cares who they deport. They just want to ake it look lie Nevillechamberpot is eeping a promse to deport all illegals.
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