Given how horrible Trump looked the other day, with his drooping eye, I bet the sharks smell the blood in the water.

In Musk’s case they would be Pretorian Guards

Bill is going to be serving this on all his jets and yachts

I think it started sooner, with Nixon being pardoned and all the senior Reagan White House officials getting away with Iran-Contra

They will manage the fallout just like the sub-prime crash and PPP program, with huge cash transfers straight to the wealthy.

Sure, we’re losing energy with every He atom we fuse, but we make up for it in volume!

His full time job is being a fascist shitbag; he just moonlights as SecDef

They are both worth about a billion dollars. I think they’ll be fine. Consequences are for the poors

Money is speech when it’s billionaires funding PACs. You just need at least 100 million dollars to have full citizenship in this country.

Dershowitz went to a farmer’s market in Martha’s Vineyard and was refused service by a perogi stand because he was Epstein’s lawyer. Dershowitz, of course, claims antisemitism

And they’d both get destroyed by StockFish

Ernst Roehm did it first

They increase demand for domestic goods and therefor raise the price of goods that were already more expensive than the imported goods.

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

The Naval Research Laboratory invented onion routing and open sourced the code.

The Imperial Boomerang always comes back to you

Hey now, the fact that Trump’s main source of information is FoxNews, and Kegsbreath was a presenter there was a big part as well. The crusader tats helped too.

And it makes sense that the US is turning into a Banana Republic itself, considering the Banana Republics were a result of American corporations and the US government using their power to undermine democracy in those countries.

From wikipedia:

A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, where the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites.The ruling class controls the primary sector of the economy by exploiting labor.

Sounds pretty familiar

How it happened in Guatemala:

During the 1950s, the United Fruit Company sought to convince the governments of U.S. presidents Harry S. Truman (1945–1953) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961) that the popular, elected government of President Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala was secretly pro-Soviet for having expropriated unused “fruit company lands” to landless peasants. In the Cold War (1945–1991) context of the proactive anti-communist politics exemplified by U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy in the years 1947–1957, geo-political concerns about the security of the Western Hemisphere facilitated Eisenhower’s ordering and authorising Operation Success. It was a 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état by means of which the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency deposed the democratically elected government of Árbenz and installed the pro-business government of Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas (1954–1957), which lasted for three years until his assassination by a presidential guard.[2][19]

I was at the gym yesterday running on the treadmill. I usually avoid the ones that are in front of one of the TVs that have Fox News on (there’s a bunch of TVs in front of the treadmills). Fox News was talking about some fight that happened in Ohio somewhere. They were talking about of for seriously 25 minutes and then they covered the nuclear submarine thing. No mention of jobs report and subsequent firing of the BLS person. The fight in Ohio was the focus because there were blacks and whites involved.

The veneer of respectability is gone. 250 years of slavery, 100 of segregation, COINTELPRO, overthrowing democratically elected governments across Latin America, the Red Scare, ‘Regime Change’, the Patriot Act etc. This has always been an authoritarian country controlled by the wealthy. Trump just stopped pretending to be anything else.