True, I did not think of that. Trump’s new favorite tactic seems to be doing (or saying that he will do) the thing that everybody wants, but then complaining that his hands are tied by the courts or the law, even though neither of those things prevent him from breaking the law when it suits him. “Oops, sorry, we so badly wanted to release the full unredacted Epstein files but the law says we can’t gosh golly darnit, what a bummer, you saw that I supported it, but it’s these activist judges that are preventing the truth from getting out!”

Bondi is 100% running cover for him if they do get released.

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My own theory on the flip-flop back to his original stance:

1. The DOJ/FBI have finished sanitizing the entire document to clear Trump and Republican loyalists, so releasing it now will only help them.

2. The worst of the damning information (about Trump knowing about the girls and not stopping it) has already been made public so there’s no point in hiding it anymore. Republicans have already spun the narrative as “not that bad” and Trump survived, so why not win some brownie points and release the official document in it’s entirety?

I can’t see any other reason for why he suddenly wants them to go public again. Trump only ever does things that serve his own self interests, so him blocking it for so long was beneficial to him in some way, and now continuing to block it doesn’t benefit him.

Deeds, not words.

I’ll believe this shit when I see it, which will probably be never.

I’m too old to be fooled by these MAGA morons and their crocodile tears.

My guess is that he finally realized that his base won’t give up on him no matter what he does and republican legislators have completely lashed themselves to the ship of Trump so they have no choice but to go along with it or see their entire political career go up in flames during the next primary.

Why do you need fixers when you are invincible and you have a legion of rubes who will stop at nothing to excuse your bad behavior? We are at “Trump is a pedophile, but that’s okay” levels of cognitive dissociation amidst republican voters. I’m not sure the bar could go any lower that this without Trump directly committing an act of homicide. Even then, it probably wouldn’t budge an inch.

For Trump, bad press is good press, and good press is very very good press.

Try telling anybody that Humans are animals too and there’s a better than 50% chance they will argue with you about that as well.

He has to get the to point where he thinks MAGA are too leftist before he ratchets over to the other extreme and suggests maybe a communist dictatorship ain’t so bad. So I’d say he’s at least 1 more brain injury and/or lead exposure away from that point.

Fantastic read, thanks for sharing. At a realistic interest rate, the savings per month are literally just a few dollars. Unbelievable.

This idea seems like something that someone who understands absolutely nothing about economics and doesn’t care to learn anything beyond initial vibes would latch onto, which is precisely why Donald Trump is pushing it.

One of the only things the Trump admin is doing that I actually agree with and have since I was a child. Fuck coins in general but getting rid of the most dead weight coin of them all is a step in the right direction.

You’re right, but he did say the monthly payment was the difference, not the interest payments. That typically doesn’t change throughout the life of the loan. I wonder what the math formula looks like for a 50 year fixed?

Isn’t that just renting?

It’s an imaginary wrench, because it’s still going to pass.

Boy, if only the spineless wimp dems didn’t cave, Trump would be in a fucking panic right now with the ATC situation. Instead, they delivered him a win right before he would have felt the most squeeze.

Just make him a fucking king already then, you spineless mollusks. That’ll make your jobs much easier so you won’t have to make hard decisions like choosing to fight for your constituents.

Dems fucking caved. FOR NOTHING. Stupid motherfuckers.

What a pooch!

Yeah, this is giving me “disbanding the watchdog organization in Wuhan, China to save taxpayer dollars” vibes.

It’s this. A rational person would be fine with the court order, because Trump’s argument was that it wasn’t legal to continue funding SNAP.

But Trump and Republicans aren’t rational. They “lost” the court battle and now must appeal to save face. The subject of the court order is irrelevant - fascist ideology does not permit the autocracy to admit defeat or allow their absolute rule to be challenged.

It’s so simple and yet so damn infuriating. Why are people still under this spell even after everything that has happened?

If the sole reason you have a Costco membership is for the hotdogs, then I would agree, but for the vast majority of people the reason they shop at Costco is to buy items in bulk and save money compared to buying the same amount at the local chain grocery store.

It’s not even because the hotdog itself is particularly good. It’s your standard beef frankfurter and a fountain soda. There’s no magic with the item from a culinary standpoint. It’s the fact that they still haven’t raised the price on it when they almost certainly could have done so silently a long time ago and nobody would have noticed or cared. It’s the one act of upper management bothering to think about their customers for a change rather than just gouging every single cent they can get out of their members because some math formula told them that it was possible.

If they claim they know that these boats have drugs on them, they could just apprehend them when they made port.

But then they would have to actually find said drugs to use as evidence to prosecute them.

This is just extrajudicial murder, plain and simple. I hope Trump and everyone who is involved with this dies an excruciatingly painful death.

Sometimes they can’t even win when Trump is on the ballot. Seems more accurate to say that they can’t win unless a woman is on the democratic ticket.