Are you kidding me?????
Trump is delusional! His mental illness is progressing. He is an increasing danger to this country and in fact the world. He should be impeached ASAP but instead, he is being enabled and encouraged by Rs that control both houses in Congress.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/politics/trump-mail-in-voting
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/trump-voting-mail-ballots-putin-analysis
But it was instructive in one way: It made clear the president elected to lead the party of states’ rights has very little regard for states’ rights.
Indeed, he almost seems to disdain them.
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No kidding!
He ran on draining the swamp but he filled up a much, MUCH bigger swamp with incompetent, Trump worshiping creatures to do his bidding.
He was supposed to REDUCE the federal government. Instead, he's been all about federal government/Trump power grabs.
He was supposed to reduce government spending to reduce the deficit. His Big NOT Beautiful Bill does the opposite.
He was supposed to be about states having more control and the Federal government less but in practice, it's been the opposite. He took control of the state of California to stupidly send in the National Guard against their objection.
He's decimating the global free markets with his absurd, damaging tariffs, applied without rhyme or reason. Punishing Brazil with high tariffs because they are not treating his political, far right friend well. Threatening to put tariffs on countrys that trade with Russia......that punish US companies and US consumers that are the ones paying the tariffs.
Deranged President Trump has decided that mail in voting was cheating by Ds and why he lost in 2020, so now that he's president again (thanks to mail in voting in 2024) he is trying to ban mail in voting that supposedly cost him the 2020 election with him focused on revenge on his enemies and revenge on anything that he thinks harmed him in the past.
I am dead serious when I say that this pathological mentality could result in a nuclear war with Russia if he gets it in his head that its Putins fault that he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize or that Putin embarrassed him on the world stage(again).
Great way to try to get to heaven
Watching Fox this evening.
They applaud and cheerlead for Trump's worst policies. Actions and words that as portrayed as being brilliant that in reality are catastrophically bad using authentic, objective eyes and reality based, apolitical facts.
Trump watches Fox much of the time, which is how he knew which ones to appoint to almost 2 dozen key positions.
He uses Fox's propaganda as positive reinforcement to continue down a corrupt, ruinous, self enrichment driven path that violates basic standards of responsible leadership. Violates our Constitution, democracy and betrays his vows to the American people.
When I type this stuff or think about it, these realities seem so surreal. Fox News in the evening is like watching science fiction the way they twist everything like a pretzel to maintain their block busters ratings from MAGA tuning in the hear things that they wish were true every year.
On Jesse Watters tonight, I just heard that all the other stations are saying different things than they report because all those stations care about is ratings. Hugh???
How is it possible that the United States has a president saying these insane things and acting this way, almost with impunity? The #1 rated news show in the evenings just a high priest for Trump religion?
And getting worse and worse.
Where will this end up?
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Predator Trump's NEW swamp continues to be much "swampier" and much less competent than the old swamp as he seeks revenge on people that disagree with him or that he thinks may have harmed him in the past and tries to silence/censor information that doesn't line up with the narratives to support him............including, looking to remove mail in voting that his delusional mind thinks was used by Ds to cheat and steal the 2020 election from him.
Predator Trump is a very dangerous man right now.
The completely unjustified search of John Bolton's house, weaponizing the FBI against him for being on CNN as a source for his analysis that didn't repeat the right pro Trump narratives (and has been a vocal Trump critic) is an extremely egregious violation/abuse of Predator Trump's power.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/20/trump-mortgage-fraud-adam-schiff-lisa-cook-letitia-james
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/trump-retaliation-revenge-biden-security-clearance
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/19/trump-probe-dc-crime-data-manipulation
Re: Re: evolution of Atlanta fed est. of GDP...shocking
By metmike - Aug. 2, 2025, 12:19 a.m.
Trump fires Biden-appointed Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner after bad jobs report: ‘Numbers were RIGGED’
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Trump contends the numbers were "rigged" to make him look bad.
The president’s second term has been marked by his eagerness to go after his foes and his assertions of presidential authority. Both traits are on display as he seeks control over the central bank.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/trump-fed-federal-reserve.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/21/trump-powell-cook-fed-mortgage-fraud.html
https://www.cryptopolitan.com/pulte-feds-cook-will-help-expose-powell/
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/fed-powell-jackson-hole
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The entire reason that the Fed has not lowered interest rates like Predator Trump has commanded is BECAUSE OF TRUMP'S ruinous tariffs schemes which are causing and will cause inflationary, upward price pressure on the US economy based on the principles of global and domestic economics and math that Donald Trump is completely unable to comprehend. The Fed and other knowledgeable/responsible leaders DO understand and are acting accordingly, despite attempts by Trump do undermine them.
50% tariffs on EU starting June 1
50 responses |
Started by metmike - May 23, 2025, 8:13 a.m.
think you better pull back on your critcisim of the Bolton search. You may not know but this is identical to the Clinton foundation mess. Except there were 3 seperate investigations into that but all three were stopped by the corrupt Biden adm. This Bolton thing was started and strangely just like the Clinton case, was suddenly stopped under Biden.
Thanks, mcfarm!
You provide authentic evidence of that, NOT Fox News rhetoric and I will cheerfully adjust my position with a huge thank you to boot.
Regardless, these are many of the authentic facts on August 22, 2025.
https://time.com/7311634/john-bolton-raid-ambassador-trump/
The precise focus of the Bolton investigation remains unclear, though it is believed to concern a potential mishandling or retention of national security information. Trump had previously threatened to jail Bolton over his 2020 memoir, The Room Where It Happened, which depicted Trump as uninformed on foreign policy and driven primarily by personal political gain.
On his first day back in the Oval Office in January, Trump revoked security clearances from more than four dozen former intelligence officials(all of them as personal retribution from Trump-metmike), including Bolton. Trump also canceled Bolton’s Secret Service protection, despite the fact that the Justice Department had said he was the target of an alleged murder-for-hire scheme by a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Speaking to reporters later in the day, Trump insisted that he didn’t know about the raid but expected to be briefed on it by the Justice Department. “I could know about it. I could be the one starting it. I’m actually the chief law enforcement officer. But I feel that it’s better this way,” Trump said.
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Extremely unstable and dangerous person because he's the most powerful man on the planet. His pathological, impulsive and delusional thinking makes him extremely unpredictable. He feels that he can abuse his tremendous power with impunity to impose anything he wants for self serving objectives!
That is an indisputable fact rooted in all the evidence besides being my opinion.
are you that one sided you will type the words "biden doj pulls Bolton investigation" into your computer? Really? Damn TDS must be a bitch and 1/2.
Thanks very much for your opinion, mcfarm!
These so-called “new” things (Bolton, Russia-gate, mail-in) are very likely just diversions to take away attention from Epstein-gate.
Ask yourself “why now?”
And by the way, Trump used to use mail-in!!
This really is The Twilight Zone of politics.
Edit: And what about the gerrymandering going on in TX to try to avoid the Dems from getting a majority in 2026?
Good way to put it, Larry!
2 of my favorite shows............when they represented extremely creative science fiction entertainment on television.
TwilightZone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORbseYAkzRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dzxGlcErUo
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Most of us prefer our politics to be rooted in real world principles that apply ethical standards and rational thinking which is beneficial to MOST people.
Not the version being served up right now that has so many extremely bizarre elements which defy real world, logical principles.
Previous threads related to classified documents. Nobody is going to read all this stuff, so why do I post it?
1. In case people Do want the background and all the relevant information, it's right there.
2. I DO actually read much of it to access previous discussions that can be used for citations and many sources of rock solid evidence that I don't need to do the research all over again that, in some very long discussions with numerous threads to me many hours to accumulate. Now, it's all there below on this 1 page/post.
3. To refresh my memory about what was important in previous discussions and also appreciate my own thoughts that were wrong at the time and why. And also, what has been proven right and wrong since then.
4. I counted 15 threads below with hundreds of posts. It took me many dozens of hours of research to post the stuff in them the first time. It took me more like 40 minutes to review most of it and copy the posts below that will be my "go to" page to quickly get that old information in a flash to use with this new discussion. Even if this new discussion goes nowhere, while compiling this list, I was reminded of a dozen different things related to this topic that I completely forgot about.
inspector general report on classified documents
Started by mcfarm - Sept. 23, 2024, 6:42 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/107610/
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Classified documents case dismissed against Trump
8 responses |
Started by metmike - July 15, 2024, 10:49 a.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/105846/
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Classified documents found from Biden’s time as VP
37 responses |
Started by metmike - Jan. 9, 2023, 10:36 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/reply_post/114140/
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Best/WORST president in the last 40 years
40 responses |
Started by metmike - Oct. 21, 2023, 10:32 a.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/99844/
Re: Best president in the last 40 years
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/feb/08/trump-supreme-court-2024-election-ruling
By metmike - Feb. 8, 2024, 10:10 p.m.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: It is NOT about the 1st Amendment
By metmike - Aug. 6, 2023, 6:45 p.m.
New counts in Mar-a-Lago documents
19 responses |
Started by metmike - July 28, 2023, 1:29 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/97678/
MIKE ....... WAAAAAAAY NTR LOL
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/96274/
TRUMP'S GONNA BE CHARGED
28 responses |
Started by 12345 - June 8, 2023, 2:01 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/96041/
Classified documents found from Biden’s time as VP
37 responses |
Started by metmike - Jan. 9, 2023, 10:36 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/92033/
Documents marked classified found at Mike Pence's
1 response |
Started by 12345 - Jan. 24, 2023, 12:40 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/92455/
About those Classified Documents
3 responses |
Started by joj - Oct. 10, 2022, 7:27 a.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/89583/
Trump special master ruling ‘troubling’
26 responses |
Started by metmike - Sept. 8, 2022, 4:42 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/88661/
FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
14 responses |
Started by metmike - Aug. 15, 2022, 2:18 a.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/88118/
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This one discusses Clinton's emails:
Houthi war plans discussed on group chat that included journalist
42 responses |
Started by WxFollower - March 26, 2025, 10 a.m.
These so-called “new” things (Bolton, Russia-gate, mail-in) are very likely just diversions to take away attention from Epstein-gate.
Ask yourself “why now?”
***Because Trump doesn't wait. As soon as something comes up he acts. It's like he knows he will not be here forever.
His 1st term wasted, now not wasting any time for anything.
Thanks, cutworm!
Trump sure has wasted tons of time releasing the Epstein files that were promised to us.
When he has so much unchallenged power (by Congress that has ceded their power to him) why wouldn't he impose his agenda, including absurd policies with impunity?
This seems to be more about his pathological belief that the Ds stole the election from him with mail in voting in 2020 (even though mail in voting won him the election in 2024) and he wants to stop the process that he thinks caused his loss.
Just the fact that he goes on and on and on and on and on and on about how the Ds stole the election from him in 2020, no matter where he is or who he's having a conversation with tells us how disturbed his thinking is. Mental illness, I tell ya. And it's getting worse with time.
Giving the most powerful man in the world, with pathological thinking even more power(and already blatantly abusing what the Constitution gave him) is putting us at great risk for escalating, negative consequences.
With regards to Russia-gate. Here's the biggest problem. Trump is doing so many bogus, authoritarian/fascist things, including telling thousands of easy to verify lies and politically weaponizing his power to take down enemies that he has no credibility outside of MAGA.
Russia-gate as I documented while it was happening here with many hundreds of posts, really did happen as the Trump people are showing right now. Almost exactly! Hard to believe but it did.
But this is like a blind squirrel finding an acorn.
more actual evidence of The Hoax
21 responses |
Started by mcfarm - July 19, 2025, 10 a.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/113315/
OK, make that finding several acorns when we add in the NY trial shams
Trump civil fraud trial-nonsense
By metmike - Oct. 2, 2024, 4:31 p.m.
Politically Unstable: Americans deserve accountability for ‘Russiagate’ lies
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Regardless of how this turns out, people on both sides have long, long ago decided what to believe and no matter what Trump's people show, it's not going to change that. Instead it will just waste time on something that is not going to accomplish anything positive and instead create additional division and LESS support for Trump by people outside of MAGA. Trump is obsessed with retribution, so this is destined to be a focus for the rest of his term.
On Bolton.
OF COURSE this is political!
However, we don't know what the evidence was that got a court to authorize this search in 2 different locals. So commenting specifically is premature.
Trump claiming that he didn't know anything about this and then going on about how he was harmed by a similar search of Mar a Lago and telling us about why he thinks Bolton is such a dirt bag and deserves it doesn't make sense. They would have absolutely briefed him on this, so telling lies discredits this even more.
We know its political between Trump and Bolton because he revoked Bolton's security clearance on day 1 and took away his Secret Service protection at the same time in retribution for Bolton speaking out against Trump (including revealing who Trump really is in Bolton's book). He has made dozens of comments about his bad opinion of Bolton.
And we are supposed to think that this search evolved independent of that and from a justice/FBI with hand picked, Trump loyalists that projects Trumpism all day long???
No way, man!
Let's see what they supposedly have before commenting more.
Larry what will you guys think when you see the search warrant? your brain will explode when you see words like trading cash for national security....but just knowing that Bolten was just following the Obama.biden model should ease your pain. Hell in the Biden family that has biden common practice for over 50 damn years
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Trump will always have Fox and MAGA but he is eroding his support from more and more people and sources that once supported him, including me by his erratic, unprofessional, dangerous abuse of power and some really, REALLY bad decisions, like his tariffs that are destroying long lived trading relationships with our trading partners.
No, mcfarm everybody that has this opinion isn't TDS. I voted for Trump last November and have defended him with more authentic facts/posts, when he deserved to be defended than everybody else here combined.
Even if Trump ends the war in Ukraine (which is extremely unlikely because Putin won the war and NATO/Ukraine are living a delusional dream, insisting Russia give it back and Ukraine get into NATO-which will NEVER happen), the reason I voted for him, I regret the vote but heck, the election wasn't decided by my vote
In fact, what happened the past week with Trump meeting with Putin, then NATO/Ukraine, in retrospect seems to likely just have been another Trump political stunt to elevate himself(bragging last Monday all meeting long about ending all 6 wars, except for the one in Ukraine which is another fictional Trump world) .
I believe now that Trump just staged all of this to increase his chances to get the Nobel Peace Prize that he doesn't deserve. If he ended the war in Ukraine.........then he deserves it. If he ended the war in Gaza(that he is making worse) then he deserves it.
"However, we don't know what the evidence was that got a court to authorize this search in 2 different locals. So commenting specifically is premature." MM 8/23/25......man if you ever took you own advice as where Trump was involved that would be revelation
Thanks much, mcfarm!
That's exactly what I'm doing. Everything that I've stated here is based on facts, despite not knowing what is in the warrant yet. The relationship between Trump and Bolton is a very inconvenient fact though, isn't it! Trump's behavior is extremely relevant.
Hell in the Biden family that has biden common practice for over 50 damn years
What has Biden got to do with this?
This is about Bolton, Trump and Trump's FBI, applying Trump's justice. Bringing in Biden and the past is just evidence that Trump is seeking vengeance for the past and I know that's not your intention.
Here's another extremely relevant fact that can be stated without knowing what's in the warrant yet.
No evidence suggests Trump ordered the FBI raid of John Bolton’s home and office. Significant evidence shows that Trump was angry about Bolton’s criticisms.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/23/trump-bolton-raid-retaliation-concerns/
https://deadline.com/2025/08/trump-abc-nbc-fcc-licenses-1236496635/
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Predator Trump wants to control EVERYTHING. Including the people that he appointed to key positions. The media. The rules of free trading with our long lived trading partners from other countries. The application of laws. The interpretation of the Constitution. The release of the Epstein files(NOT) and an absurd scheme to elevate a despicable, convicted felon of an under age sex trafficking scheme and liar as his proof of his innocence(but its evidence of his guilt, actually)......and much, MUCH more.
By metmike - Aug. 22, 2025, 7:32 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/113561/#114171
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/113561/#114176
That is fascism/authoritarianism by definition.
President Donald Trump on Monday called his predecessor's team "evil people."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/-going-brought-trump-vows-go-bidens-advisers-rcna227019
https://thehill.com/homenews/5468923-ty-cobb-bolton-raid-analysis/
“I went down and locked my door,” Cobb, who was White House attorney during Trump’s first term, joked in an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep. “I think anybody that’s critical of the president has justifiable paranoia at this stage of the game, but, you know, I think it’s important on the Bolton thing to not overreact.”
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Bolton held the high-profile position of National Security Advisor from 2018 to 2019. He later became an outspoken critic of the president, particularly in regard to his approach on Russia
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bolton-unleashes-trump-ukraine-policy-days-after-fbi-raid
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By metmike - Aug. 25, 2025, 6:37 p.m.
https://www.investors.com/news/economy/president-trump-fires-federal-reserve-governor-lisa-cook/
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The biggest reason that the Fed has not acted to lower interest rates like Trump has been demanding from the negative impacts of the Trump economic slow down is because of the Trump tariffs causing inflationary pressure. Trump caused stagflation.
50% tariffs on EU starting June 1
54 responses |
Started by metmike - May 23, 2025, 8:13 a.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/112084/
It's only going to get worse!
What has Biden got to do with this? MM 8/22.....again, reading is fundamental. If you cared to read the post instead of jumping to your typical......I was explaining to Larry that the Bolton behavior being researched by the doj was a copy of what he learned from guess who? Biden after 50 damn years of the same. By the way this case was lawfully researched and presented to a court with a judge who approves the search. Now unless something untoward comes like Comey Biden
Clapper Brennan and company deliberately lying to a court and committing fraud and a presidential coup we will soon see what is and what is not. Well of course and unless Trump is involved because once that name appears naturally he is guilty. Period guilty as hell, not trial needed.
Thanks much, mcfarm!
What the 2020 investigation of John Bolton says about the new probe
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/23/politics/john-bolton-2020-investigation
A criminal grand jury investigation resulted in no charges and was closed during the early months of the Biden administration.
At the time the cases were dropped, Bolton’s attorney said the Biden administration had “tacitly acknowledged that President Trump and his White House officials acted illegitimately.”
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mcfarm, this was already investigated and a criminal grand jury's investigation made a legal decision that no charges be filed. Trump doesn't like that decision and he wants to retry Bolton for the same thing the grand jury cleared him for. Knowing Trump's people, they are trying some legal tricks to justify retrying Bolton for the same thing that the grand jury failed to indict him over in 2020. So what if Biden was the president. Grand juries are grand juries that should be respected.
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Navarro pretty much confirms that this is political and related to Bolton's book that criticized Trump, so now he wants to punish him for it. That book went thru the proper protocol to be approved before it was published.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5469812-peter-navarro-accuses-bolton-profiteering/
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This confirms that this is political. About the book that embarrassed Trump, which the grand jury had already ruled on in 2020 but Trump wants retribution against Bolton in 2025 for what is in the book.
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For the background on Navarro, he's a president Trump loyalist that will violate laws for him, which is why he's in the current key position of the Trump administration. He has an allegiance to Trump and NOT the Constitution or America.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/politics/peter-navarro-jail-contempt-of-congress
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peter-navarro-trade-counsel-trump/
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MAGA sees this guy as a hero, just like Trump's pawns in his cult that committed felonies for him during the insurrection are heros. Regardless, this is clearly political based on what Trump puppet, Navarro just stated.
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Just a reminder. Despite what Trump insists daily, the Ds did NOT cheat to beat him in November 2020. We know too, with 100% certainty what he did for 2 months after that, trying to overturn the results to make himself the winner. We also know all the indisputable details of how he plotted/planned out his Insurrection in an attempt to have a coup to overthrow the results of the 2020 election on January 6, 2021.
Navarro was Trump's partner in crime after the loss in 2020! Insisting that the election was stolen and trying to overturn the results, along with Trump.
Instead of testifying under oath about his role (and either admitting his/Trumps crimes or having to lie under oath), he refused to testify. Considering what he and Trump actually did after the 2020 election, trying to overturn the results, he and Trump should still be in prison today.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4542369-peter-navarro-prison-trump-jan-6-committee/
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Trump, MAGA, Navarro and Fox's manufactured version of what happened belongs in the Hall of Shame.
And they cling to this fairy tale version with the faith of a religion..........because that's how cult thinking works.
Jan 6th again
14 responses |
Started by mcfarm - July 5, 2025, 7:14 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/112997/
wow you sure topped your self there....CNN and Bolton's attorney said.....If things pan out like there are looking today Bolton traded national security for cash......and things are looking likely he did it. After years of what he called fighting the good fight he sure appears Bolton went to the dark side and wanted paid. So sad if TDS pushed him into such a dark place. But as I said and this is for the 3rd time he learned t the feet of pros. After under grad and grad school with Clinton and obama he went full masters degree with the entire biden crime family showing him how it was done.
Thanks very much, mcfarm.
I had to use my other handle because the moderator is blocked from the 2nd link.
I have NEVER liked John Bolton and still don't:
Re: Re: Re: Re: BRINK OF WAR? SHE'S SPOT ON, IMO
By metmike - Feb. 1, 2024, 3 p.m.
Biden 'Paralyzed With Fear' Amid Iran Response: John Bolton
https://www.newsweek.com/john-bolton-joe-biden-fear-iran-attack-response-1865710
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican, said following Sunday's attack: "The only thing the Iranian regime understands is force. Until they pay a price with their infrastructure and their personnel, the attacks on U.S. troops will continue."
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Where to start on this hogwash?
1. The attacks are entirely being caused by Israel's obliteration of Gaza and Genocide against Palestinians/fellow Muslims based on ethnic and religious superiority and power. Not 1 mention of this indisputable truth in the article. This is yellow journalism at its worst.
2. John Bolton is almost the worst source on the planet on a topic related to wars. I proved that indisputably here: https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/100388/#101018
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Re: Re: Who wants peace in Ukraine?
By metmike - Dec. 3, 2023, 9:23 p.m.
Bolton argues US must ‘act quickly’ on additional Ukraine aid or ‘Russia will win’
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4339230-bolton-argues-us-must-act-quickly-on-ukraine-aid/
Bolton said a rising worry is one of diplomatic victory for Russia, an agreement to keep the land in eastern Ukraine it has illegally annexed.
“I think we’ve got to be very concerned about a Russian diplomatic offensive that tries to win over at the bargaining table with the Russian troops can’t win on the battlefield,” he said. “That could come at any time, so we need to be ready for that.”
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John Bolton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton
Bolton is widely considered a foreign policy hawk and is an advocate for military action and regime change by the US in Iran, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen, and North Korea.
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metmike: Bolton represents the WORST of the worst when it comes to our failed, manipulative diabolical foreign policy efforts and imperialism that has gotten 10s of millions of people needlessly killed (including thousands of our own brave soldiers) and has so many people hating our country for it.
Politicians love wars and the U.S. is vulnerable Started by metmike - Oct. 29, 2023, 10:36 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/100127/#100128
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metmike, December 23, 2023: With regards to Bolton's statement about the risk of Russia winning. RUSSIA WON A LONG TIME AGO! Stop the additional death and destruction to thousands of human beings and profoundly negative impact to millions of humans beings and the negative impact to billions of human beings(that need food/energy from this region).
With regards to this topic and the people, I give near 0 weight to how much I like or dislike the people involved and near 100% of the weighting on the facts.
By cash, is that the new interpretation for him writing a book that Trump didn't like (selling their book makes money for the author) and that information already went before the grand jury and they ruled NOT to charge him with a crime over it?
Or is this something new?
https://deadline.com/2025/08/trump-chris-christie-investigation-1236496456/
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Another perceived enemy, another person to investigate by weaponizing the justice department so that it serves Donald Trump.
Trump is a very dangerous person right now. Blatantly abusing his power as the most powerful person on the planet using the mind of a mentally ill narcissist who seeks vengeance on those that disagree with him and in need of constant attention and adoration. Using Fox news as one of his key advisors.
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One of the most insane things is that this has been accepted as the new normal. Trumps completely unacceptable behavior and words, no character, ethics and lying hundreds of times a day, while attacking anybody that disagrees with him using childish/immature expressions.
Not little lies but huge, nonsensical and easy to verify lies.
For Petes Sakes, this guy is the president of the United States. This is embarrassing, offensive but entertaining at the same time.
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Trump's cabinet meeting today:
Q
It's just a really weird coincidence that every single one of those that prosecuted Trump for anything are all being investigated by the Trump justice department.
It's like flipping a coin and getting tails............15 times in a row and claiming the coin, which never lands on heads isn't loaded
USA TODAY
August 27, 2025
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WOW! What another coincidence!
July 18, 2025
“This lawsuit strikes at the heart of a growing crisis: the weaponization of the legal system against political opponents,” said Jessica Hart Steinmann, executive general counsel at AFPI. “We are taking this fight to court because the American people deserve to know whether this unprecedented prosecution was a product of justice—or politics. Bragg’s refusal to comply with basic public records law raises serious concerns about what he’s trying to hide.”
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No question that Alvin Bragg weaponized the legal system to target Trump, his political opponent and I am for this case above, which is scrutinizing the records but Trump has elevated this style of justice to an all new level!
Trump isn't fighting for justice if he's using the same tactics used on him but on steroids to get revenge.
Trump WAS targeted several times when he was completely innocent. But Trump was guilty as heck at other times. The insurrection that HE intentionally caused should have landed him in prison for numerous years. He completely got away with that one. Pardoned all the convicted felons related to it and now seeks justice for people critical of his REAL crimes?
His sued the Wall Street Journal for 10 billion for publishing a LEGIT story about the birthday letter and naked woman image (and his mention of "their secret") that he gifted Epstein in 2003, when he says he and his best friend, Predator Epstein had broken up.
So he goes after people/sources that are 100% legit when they state THE TRUTH about him to.
ANYBODY AND EVERYBODY!
And he always tells the truth and he is always the victim!.
https://time.com/7312624/greenland-covert-operation-trump-denmark/
Trump spent his first few months back in office pushing for the United States to take control of Greenland, and refusing to rule out using military force to acquire it.
“We need Greenland for national security and even international security,” Trump said during a joint session of Congress, pointing to the influence of other global powers in the Arctic, specifically Russia and China. “And I think we’re going to get it one way or the other.”
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Trump's swamp is even swampier than the one that he's seeking revenge with. Also I would call Trump's swamp, the ignorant but loyal swamp. Their leader can't keep his mouth shut and all his lies are easy to bust. Their allegiance to him is much more important than the Constitution, the American people, our allies and the truth.
Trump in a nutshell is a real mess. I don’t know how else to put it!
Thanks, Larry!
NUTshell is great term to use!
Here's the latest nutty, decision by Trump and his unqualified people:
Re: RFK Jr. Says US Will Know Cause of Autism
By metmike - Aug. 28, 2025, 12:28 a.m.
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Monarez’s lawyers said she “refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives.” The White House responded that she was “not aligned with the President’s agenda.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-director-monarez-out-confirmed-rfk-jr-rcna227620
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nuzUtA2PL1E
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so Mm is running the local weather station. Has full and complete control of who and when he hires. Seems he has a particular employee who comes in each evening and instead of giving the evening weather she insists on a 5 minute screed about global warming and humans will die within 7 years spectacular. MM warns her that she was not hired for that. She says I yes I forgot as good little libs do. She resigns. Then thru her lawyer says ohh, I really did not resign. So MM is forced to fire her because she will not give the weather forecast. Then she has the audacity to say she will not be fired. Well boys that is plenty for the executive to wash his hands of this lunitic which is what Trump did. Not the silly revenge nonsense fairy tail that was told in the above post about this situation.
Thanks very much, mcfarm!
This lady that worked for the FED was doing her job and doing it well, if you want to know the facts. Trump wants the Fed to lower interest rates so he fires people on the Fed(or threatens them) to try to get that.
The Fed, unlike Trump is NOT political and know what they are doing. Trump has proven repeatedly that he has no comprehension of what would happen (just look at what he's been doing with mind boggling, ruinous tariffs). He's decided that we need lower interest rates in his pathological, omnipotent mind and will abuse his power to get them.
Not only is that the TRUE story but one of his biggest defenders in recent years is now his biggest critic on this because Kevin O'Leary actually UNDERSTANDS why the fed is not dropping interest rates, while Trump has no clue.
“The reason we don’t have hyperinflation like Venezuela is we have a Fed. If you allow the ‘el presidente’ to set interest rates, you end up with bread costing $1,000 more every day,” O’Leary said during a Thursday appearance on Fox Business.
“And that’s what happens in Venezuela. So, you know, these — the idea that you have the executive deciding monetary policy, that just doesn’t work,” he added.
This week, Trump attempted to fire Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cookfor alleged mortgage fraud. Democrats said the effort was launched to interfere with the independent agency’s nonpartisanship to force lower rates.
so the fed is not political? Wow. say that three time without breaking into complete laughter. The fed is not political. No MM, the fed is not supposed to be political but just how obvious do you want it. Jerome Powell. Jerome Powell. Jerome Powell. Inflation inflation inflation and yet just how many time did he lower under the worst President we ever had to try to influence politics.
and by the way I think our dollar should have great value and never be lowered to the point of devalued. There should of never been such a thing as a zero interest rate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbKBtLAp4mI the best explanation of her fraud, firing, including the organizational chart in black and white and why this is another non story trying to prove Trump is a Nazi jew hater dictator
Thanks very much, mcfarm for giving us the side of Fox news/your side!
Trump has sought to remove Cook over mortgage fraud allegations that her lawyers call "unsubstantiated."
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/fed-governor-lisa-cook-sues-donald-trump-rcna227716
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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5477496-trump-challenges-fed-independence/
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/21-fox-news-personalities-contributors-221718333.html
Re: 50% tariffs on EU starting June 1
By metmike - Aug. 29, 2025, 10:07 p.m.
Federal court strikes down Trump tariffs as illegal under federal law in appeals ruling
An appeals court affirmed a ruling that trafficking and reciprocal tariffs exceeded presidential authority under International Emergency Economic Powers Act
I didn’t know where to put this.
I agree 100% with Trump regarding CB going back to the old man/barrel logo. The new one was bland/pointless.
I love the country atmosphere and good country food. My favorite is pancakes!
Outstanding post to start a new thread, Larry! Thank you and I agree!
Cracker Barrel
Started by metmike - Aug. 30, 2025, 5:09 a.m.
just a silly question from fly over country MM. This "lady" at the fed. Why have we not heard these words? "I did not commit mortgage fraud" ....that is so strange.
Thanks, mcfarm!
Do you remember this:
Trump civil fraud trial-nonsense
35 responses |
Started by metmike - Nov. 12, 2023, 2:43 a.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/100509/
Trump civil fraud trial-nonsense
By metmike - Oct. 2, 2024, 4:31 p.m.
You sure had a different take that time when they were investigating YOUR GUY, with Latisha James of NY, weaponizing the criminal justice system for political reasons.
Now, when YOUR GUY is weaponizing the criminal justice system for political reasons(investigating one of the Fed governors that won't vote to lower interest rates like Trump is insisting on to find a reason to fire her) She's guilty because Fox/MAGA and Trump says she is.
Re: Re: Trump civil fraud trial-nonsense
By mcfarm - Nov. 13, 2023, 6:18 p.m.
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I explained in detail in the thread above what Trump and his bank did at that time. I'll explain in the next post what Fed Governor Cook and her banks did.
There are facts that we don't know about these mortgage agreements between Cook and the banks.
What Trump did with his banks was to INTENTIONALLY, massively inflate the value of his properties so that he could borrow more money at a better interest rate. What made this ok is that the bank's appraiser KNEW THIS. Deutche Bank wanted to make the bigger loans because they wanted to make more money on Trump. The Deutche Bank appraiser, agreed with those inflated values, KNOWING everything about them.
James claimed it was unfair/fraud because the bank and Trump negotiated for a better interest rate and loan than most people get. This is nonsense. The PRIVATE bank can loan however much money they want at whatever rate they want to whoever they want based on their risk departments knowing all the factors like this.
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What Cook did was claim that 2 of her 3 properties were primary residences. Typically banks require the borrower to have only 1 primary residence BUT THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS, just like the Trump exception above that was ok because Trump was on board with everything and the bank authorized it, knowing all the facts and know rules/laws were broken.
This is an entirely different case. The most important element is whether Cook intentionally deceived the banks to get a better interest rate on 1 of the homes (which comes with a primary home mortgage). The mortgage rates that she got, actually were NOT better than market rates at the time. Also, there are exceptions that allow a person to have 2 primary residences. We have no idea if Cook qualified for an exception and will need to know the actual agreement that was made, just like we needed to find out from Deutche Bank what the agreement was between them and Trump, which was ABOVE BOARD.
Here's a wonderful explanation for Cook's situation:
By Reuters
"The real question to ask here was, was there any misleading of lenders," Cornell University Law Professor Robert Hockett said. "If the lenders knew... and they were able to factor that in in order to risk-price the lending, then that's above board."
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https://themortgagereports.com/29744/mortgage-qualifying-two-primary-residences
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At this point, we don't have the facts to know for sure but it could potentially be intentional deception, just like it looked like Trump's agreements with Deutche Bank looked like it might be intentional deception.........UNTIL WE GOT THE BANKS TAKE!
There could potentially be an infraction here too if she didn't qualify for an exception but we can't know that without facts.
The only thing that we know with 100% certainty is that Trump had HIS justice department investigate her, weaponizing it for political means to eliminate her because she disagrees with him on the current interest rate that the Fed, an independent organization sets.
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He's also investigating Fed Chairman Powell with the objective of finding some reason to fire/replace him but has had to back off temporarily:
Privately, White House officials acknowledge uncertainty about Trump firing Powell solely based on accusations he mismanaged a multi-year renovation project.
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The Trump justice system is actively investigating everybody that he thinks wronged him in the past as well as those on the current playing field that are in his way and preventing him from imposing his agenda. This is not debatable. It's an accepted, proven fact of the REAL world.
So Trump drained the swamp from the swamp creatures who were targeting him and filled it up with MUCH MORE swampier MAGA creatures that aren't just targeting all his enemies, he wants retribution against all the old swamp creatures.
Again, this is indisputable and 10,000 times more concerning than whether a Fed. Governor legally claimed 2 properties as primary residences or not. On the later, I remain objective and will report authentic facts, when we get them on the arrangements that she had with her banks. Maybe this is a violation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3p85TBzwF4 don't look now, second criminal referral and 3rd mortgage discrepancy
Thanks, mcfarm!
Fox claims that she did this to get lower rates but as the previous post showed, she apparently paid a rate HIGHER than what the market was offering to most people at that time.
This is why I will wait to hear/read what the banks state, like I did for Trump when Latisha James was targeting him by weaponizing the criminal justice system, EXACTLY LIKE TRUMP IS WEAPONIZING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM here to eliminate somebody that doesn’t agree with him.
Could be that she did do something wrong here if she intentionally lied to the bank (which is my speculative guess right now) but I’m not going to take the word of the worst sources on the planet ….Trump and his minions, including Fox. More often than not, the truth is the complete opposite of their false narratives manufactured for political impacts.
Sometimes they are right and this could be one of them. Usually not, though!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qofndGOjfBg the only news I have seen on Bolton
Thanks, mcfarm!
Looking at the sources from your site:
Charities fighting to keep Trump on the ballot paid $145 million to the Sekulow family and their firms while pushing Supreme Court decisions to the right
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So their wild speculation that Bolton is guilty because he's being silent is rooted entirely in far right bias.
Maybe Bolton is just SMART.
Trump's big mouth and keyboard get him in more trouble than any other president in history. He should try to learn to be silent as every defense attorney will tell their clients. Fight the battle in court using facts/evidence and laws and don't' open yourself up to unnecessary charges or evidence with public statements that can only be held against you. Trump, instead has no self control(impulsive) and knows that Fox/MAGA will interpret all his words, including nonsense as Gospel.
I see this as SMART!!! Whether he is guilty of anything, we'll have to wait and see but with absolute certainty, this is President Trump weaponizing the justice system to target his enemies.
I spoke out very strongly against that when they were doing it to Trump. Every time they did it to him. Something like1,000 posts here defending him in dozens of threads and calling them out for targeting Trump by weaponizing the justice system.
mcfarm, you agreed with almost every one of those posts.
I noticed that we're on different sides this time when Trump is the one weaponizing the justice system, with at least as much gusto as when they did it to him.
Care to explain that? Thanks in advance!
I do appreciate your sincere opinions and would rather have them than not have them and still, really like posts that disagree with me.
Again, I have always greatly disliked warmonger Bolton and he's the last person I want to defend.
Mail in voting/Trump's revenge justice
By commodityman - Aug. 26, 2025, 8:15 p.m.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/trump-announce-space-command-headquarters-location/
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I found it interesting that during the questioning and Trump went off script with his answers, he mentioned that one of the biggest factors in moving it out of Colorado was that they have corrupt, mail in voting there so we can't trust them.
Further down in that CBS link is this, which says the ENTIRE CO congressional delegation is criticizing this. Is that true? If so, that would include 4 GOP representatives, which I bolded below. Mike, do you know?
Colorado's entire congressional delegation criticized the Trump administration's decision to move U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, and warned the relocation would harm not only the state, but also the country.
"We are united in fighting to reverse this decision," Colorado's two senators and eight House members said in a joint statement. "Bottom line — moving Space Command headquarters weakens our national security at the worst possible time. Moving Space Command sets our space defense apparatus back years, wastes billions of taxpayer dollars, and hands the advantage to the converging threats of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea."
The lawmakers said that Space Command's presence in Colorado Springs has created a civilian workforce that it now relies on, and said these businesses and their employees will not move with the command.
"Moving Space Command would not result in any additional operational capabilities than what we have up and running in Colorado Springs now," they said. "Colorado Springs is the appropriate home for U.S. Space Command, and we will take the necessary action to keep it there."
Colorado is represented in Congress by Democratic Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet. It's delegation in the House includes Democratic Reps. Diana DeGette, Joe Neguse, Jason Crow and Brittany Pettersen, and Republicans Jeff Hurd, Lauren Boebert, Jeff Crank and Gabe Evans.
I'm glad you posted that, Larry!
It's getting almost impossible for me to keep up with all the chaos that Trump is causing. I watched his press conference and thought this sounded like a great idea based on the (manufactured) facts that Trump and his people were giving. I'm sure that some of them were good reasons too.
I have not followed this issue at all.
However, when Trump mentioned a key factor being getting it out CO because they have mail in voting and rig their elections..........alarm bells and red flashing lights went off in my head.
Later on, when a reporter asked him about tariffs, he actually stated that he ended 7 wars thanks to his tariffs.
Addressing Trump’s Claims About Ending Multiple Wars
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/08/addressing-trumps-claims-about-ending-multiple-wars/