When Trump, Republicans, and their fascists do something that is unconstitutional, undemocratic, untrue, unAmerican, illegal, irrational, deranged, or whatever they’re doing that is against our norms and traditions, and the press doesn’t report it as such, it makes it seem like a political attack when Democrats do. It is another failure of the for-profit press.

The Fifty Year Mortgage

The fifty year mortgage is just another Trump scam to transfer the wealth of the middle class to the oligarchs. When a loan is made both parties are professing their belief that the economy will be strong enough to allow the borrower to be able to make their payments for the duration of the loan.

  • Does anyone have such confidence in a Trump led economy that they think they would be able to repay a FIFTY year mortgage?
  • Fifty years stretches well into retirement, defeating the point of buying a house.
  • A fifty year repayment schedule about doubles interest payments.
  • A fifty year mortgage just ensures that working people are indebted for the rest of their natural lives.
  • The only people helped by this are the lenders. It will help ensure that ALL OF OUR HOUSING STOCK is owned by corporations, and we will all be renters.

Merde-a-Lardo North

FDR famously had the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. It was a retreat he would frequently work from during his presidency. The operative term here is work. He had what he needed to continue prosecuting World War II, lift the country out of the Great Depression, and generally running the administration. I don’t know that he remodeled the place so that it would more closely resemble the White House, though.

Trump isn’t making Merde-a-Lardo White House South because we all know he doesn’t work. He golfs and has lavish parties. Trump is making the White House Merde-a-Lardo North by paving the beloved Rose Garden and renaming it the Rose Garden Club and building a ballroom so vast that it doubles the floor space of the original building. And, now he says that he didn’t have to tear down the East Wing of the White House to build it, he just wanted to.

Ask Ted Kennedy

So the infamous eight voted to open the government on a promise to hold a vote later this year on extending the ACA subsidies. It isn’t even a promise to extend them, just that the Republicans will allow a bill to be voted on. Spoiler: there ain’t gonna be no bill and if there is, it will fail. Just ask Ted Kennedy what happens when you accept a Republican promise on legislation.

Trump, Sex Abuser… the Beat Goes On

Of course, Trump chose two of the three Republicans signing the Epstein File discharge petition who have publicly disclosed a history of sexual abuse and violence to remove their names from the document that would seek justice for sexual abuse and violence survivors. Of course he did. It is just another form of sexual abuse and violence to make such an ask.

One of the milestones on the healing journey of abuse survivor is to reclaim your power over the abuse. Advocating for justice for other survivors is a powerful healing move. Of course, Trump sought to take that from these women. Of course he did. Just another instance of sex abuse from the Felon-in-Chief.

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