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Not getting into the cryptocurrency rug-pull he just pulled during his inauguration 2 months ago.
Not even getting into his lie about election fraud.
Here's just a small smattering of the civil and legal judgements Trump has lost in regards to defrauding people.
> In December 2022, two entities of the Trump Organization were found guilty on 17 counts, including tax fraud and falsifying business records. The scheme involved providing executives with off-the-books perks to evade taxes
> In May 2024, Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The charges were related to hush money payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign to conceal information.
> In February 2024, a New York judge ruled that Donald Trump and his companies had engaged in a years-long scheme to inflate his wealth on financial statements. The court imposed a $355 million penalty and barred Trump from serving in top roles at any New York company for three years
> In August 2022, Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's former CFO, pleaded guilty to 15 felony charges, including grand larceny and tax fraud, admitting to a scheme that evaded taxes on $1.7 million in income.
> In November 2019, a New York state judge ordered Donald Trump to pay $2 million in damages for misusing the Trump Foundation's funds to further his political and business interests.
> Trump University, a for-profit real estate training program, faced multiple lawsuits alleging that it defrauded students by making false claims about the value of its courses and the involvement of Trump himself. In April 2018, a federal judge finalized a $25 million settlement to resolve these lawsuits
> Trump and his companies have been accused for decades of refusing to pay contractors, workers, and small businesses after work was completed
Which is why I was pointing out your comment is disingenuous by insinuating Sanders would support the tariffs because it's anti-free trade.
Hospitals were absolutely overwhelmed at many points during parts of the pandemic, outside of the first month. That was a major concern during the "surges" and spread of new variants.
I know this because my state routinely publishes hospital census levels and at many points during the pandemic elective and even non-elective procedures had to be cancelled due to lack of bed and staff capacity. The facility I work at was regularly impacted.
Search hospital related COVID stories during 2021 and 2022 and you'll find plenty.
In fact he called these tariffs along with Trump's plan to cut taxes on he wealthy an absurd transfer of wealth:
> Trump's absurd idea to replace the income tax with a sales tax on imported goods would be the largest transfer of wealth in U.S. history. If enacted, taxes would go up by over $5,000 a year for a middle class family, while those in the top 0.1% would get a $1.5 million tax break.
https://xcancel.com/BernieSanders/status/1850933809384137106
And Trump's economic plan "insane"
> https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/bernie-sanders-...
Many agree, most polls have Trump far underwater in his handling of the economy.
> Respondents gave Trump poor marks for his handling of the economy, which 37% approved of, with 30% approving of his work to address the high cost of living, an issue that also dogged Biden.
https://www.reuters.com/default/trump-approval-falls-43-lowe...
I bought it knowing the features it had at the time, I don't need the icons rearranged in a yearly UI redesign, or the adaptive cruise control algorithm changing from one week to the next, or needing to fork out for some subscription every month. If there's a bug or two? I will have the car for years, it's something I'll figure out.
It's a tool to get from A to B, not another IoT gadget I want to have to worry about updating and babying all the time.
It never made sense that dentistry somehow is considered a separate form of healthcare from the rest of your body.
Especially considering researchers are increasingly finding links between oral health and other conditions such as Alzheimer's heart disease. And that preventative dental care is so much cheaper and less invasive than treating major decay when care is delayed.
And he scammed the taxpayers of New York State for a billion dollar factory to build solar roofs. Factory built, stock was pumped, no solar roofs though.
The puffery about waste and fraud is pure projection coming from a scammer like Musk.
Let's not forget this is the same state and superintendent, that recently made a disgusting attempt to merge church and state by forcing Bibles into public school curriculum. Not only that but he tried to use millions in public funds to buy "Trump Bibles" that Trump hawked at $55/piece.
https://apnews.com/article/bible-oklahoma-schools-walters-gr...
It's honestly so deranged to watch these people contort themselves in this weird alternate reality. The future of the US looks supremely fucked when so many leaders seem to disregard education and actual goverance for cult and religion. America's own cultural revolution.
The party of "free speech" is only for speech they approve of. Again, there is no defense of this.
It is so shameful and disgusting.
"Wipe out"? Absolutely abhorrent and authoritarian take. I'll note the common thread of brutal authoritarian regimes who executed purges of scientists and professionals convicted of wrongthink.
You want to destroy the future of science in this country because of some manufactured culture war. So much for free speech.
> As pointed out by InsideEVs, investment consulting firm ICF claims that the federal EV fleet was going to cost $6 billion less than a conventional combustion fleet over the lives of the vehicles.
Culture war garbage over actual governance.
Expanding the same tax cuts Trump passed last time that added trillions to the debt
The GOP concern about the debt is feigned because they are the ones who ran it up.
The right is deranged with intolerance. All the talk about "free speech" and they can't stand that someone might not think or act like them.
The "anti-woke" crusaders are honestly more unbearable than any social justice warrior type I've met because they will not shut up about it and it colors their whole life.
It's just another flavor of identity politics with in and out groups.
Show me proof of their claims that entire $29 million grant went to to that agency was spent on work in Bangledashi elections as Musk/DOGE claimed, despite no federal contract indicating that.
Show me the proof that DOGE "saved" that money after the contract was almost done and money was almost entirely granted.
Show me the proof that it went to an agency of two people as Trump claimed.
You can't show me proof of any of those things because they are lying.
You either ignorantly or willfully continue to repeat that lie, likely for partisan reasons.
And they're looking to double down by giving billionaries trillions more in tax cut while driving up the debt. Trump/Musk/GOP do not actually care about debt or spending, it's a distraction.
It's all in the Notice of Funding Opportunity for the program.
The only reference to actually diversity in the actual build out are:
* Complying with CFR 200.321, considering MWBE are considered in subcontracting, which is standard in many federal contracts
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-A/chapter-II/p...
* Non-discrimination in hiring, also standard in federal contracts
* Encouraging, but not requiring awardees to broaden their recruitment to underrepresented groups: > Ensuring that subgrantees prioritize hiring local workers and have robust and specific plans to recruit historically underrepresented populations facing labor market barriers and ensure that they have reasonable access to the job opportunities created by subgrantees
They didn't come up with program out of nowhere, it's been well studied those groups had less connectivity and broadband availability.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10688393/
I'm not sure what your point is here besides that you dislike inclusion. The point of the program is to level the playing field by offering broadband where it might not normally have been profitable to expand.
Outreach shouldn't slow anyone down. The cost of doing some marketing and data analysis is probably miniscule compared to the actual infrastructure build out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/fda-flu-vacci...
> The F.D.A. sent an email to members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee on Monday afternoon informing them of the cancellation, according to a senior official familiar with the decision. There was no reason given. The panel was to meet March 13.
> One committee member, Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, an outspoken critic of Mr. Kennedy, confirmed the cancellation and warned that it could interfere with or delay production of flu vaccines.
> “It’s a six-month production cycle,” Dr. Offit said. “So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.”
Considering the flu kills tens of thousands every year and hospitalized hundreds of thousands more, with the potential of evolving to be more lethal - yes this is important.
If the Trump, GOP and Musk fucked up staffing by firing people who have the expertise to make these decisions, yes they are at fault. If RFK Jr is interfering with this for his anti-vax and anti-science crusade, he is also at vault.
But I'm skeptical this is an issue. In the same way that Joe Rogan and conservative media decided to start saying schools letting children use litter boxes in school was a big problem, which was also not true.
The NCAA president testified before Congress there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes in an organization that represents 510,000 college athletes.
I'm sure at the professional level it's even fewer.
How much time do right wing politicians spend on this topic? An inordinate amount. It's identity politics through and through, in my opinion a distraction to the fact that their economic positions like billionaire tax cuts are extremely unpopular.
That organization has many employees, not 2 like Trump claimed.
It operates in countries around the world, not just Bangladesh. It's unlikely all those funds were spent in Bangladesh there like Trump was claiming.
Bangladeshi government officials can't confirm Trump's claim.
Musk/DOGE lied about what the funds were used for, and lied that they somehow saved the money by cancelling the contract - the funds were already almost entirely granted. Cancelling a contract doesn't mean those funds already spent are returned.
The org does monitor elections, but did you know that the US also has international observers during our elections?
There's no indication any funds went to election interference. A quick browse of their site shows they conducted a few surveys and held some workshops to encourage women to engage in the the political process - if you consider that election interference, I'm not sure what that says about you.
Seems like a great idea to me in a country that frequently ranks near the bottom in studies of global women's rights.
This is the problem. Trump and Musk spew out lies and make wild out-of-context claims, they get repeated thought because it fits a partisan view. But it takes effort to debunk lies so they spread faster than they can be responded to.
Trump is a known liar. It's why his supporters are always telling other people not take him literally
They lied about $50 million for condoms in Gaza, just like he lied about Haitian immigrants eating pets and the dozens of other lies he spews out daily.
DOGE has posted a ton of lies about what they saved and cut, including contracts that were already canceled or completed, and including amounts orders of magnitude off.
Elon Musk's parents and grandparents were adovactes and beneficiaries of a violent, racist apartheid South Africa. His dad had children with his step-daughter.
Fred Trump was arrested for participating in a KKK rally and prosecuted for racist discriminatiory housing practices.
How do you land on Trump and Musk being far from violent ugly racism?
Very similar to the recent story people accused the hosted DeepSeek model of government censorship by the CCP.
Or the nonsense "Twitter Files" story.
Except in this case it's undeniable the person ordering the censorship is the unelected president.
Every accusation is a confession.
This is outright corruption. These ghouls don't even attempt to hide the conflicts of interest.
Musk is hiring employees from his own company SpaceX, using a backdoor to avoid vetting, to an agency that regulates his own company, to change critical safety systems. After the secretary of that department outright lied about what's happening.
Meanwhile contracts continue to be awarded to SpaceX with no attempt from Musk to recuse himself or separate the conflict of interest.
> By the time these posts were made, though, according to sources who were granted anonymity because they fear retaliation, SpaceX engineers were already being onboarded at the agency under Schedule A, a special authority that allows government managers to “hire persons with disabilities without requiring them to compete for the job,” according to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Musk and Trump are not concerned about debt or spending. If they were, Trump and Republicans wouldn't be rushing a billionaire tax cut bill that will add tens of trillions of dollars to the national debt.
If Trump cared about debt he wouldn't have run up $8 trillion in debt his last term with PPP helicopter money and more billionaire tax cuts.