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D Glen's avatar

Makes one wonder how much $Trump meme coin bought that visa & who paid for it. HMMM….

Sara Abreu's avatar

So many people’s lives have been upended due to this administration’s erroneous visa revocations, travel bans, etc., yet she is granted a waiver and granted entry to the US. Wonder what she thinks of Stephen Miller’s views on birth right citizenship.

Jean-Luc Lachance's avatar

Does anyone have doubt about the fact that Trumph, of Nazi descent, is a Russian asset ?

Different drummer's avatar

Gobsmacked yet again. The depravity of the T regime truly is a bottomless pit. And Will is a rock star for keeping us informed about such vast and endless vileness - something most of us couldn't stomach being immersed in.

DeEuphemize's avatar

Guns don’t kill people. Visas kill people.

John Robert's avatar

What i want to know is what has happened with the market recently with "WORLD LIBERTY FINANCIAL USD" and "OFFICIAL TRUMP USD" and "TRUMP MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY" (all searchable on Yahoo Finance).

TomD's avatar

Well, for one thing, WLF's stablecoin, USD1, is sitting on a $2 billion pile of cash which MGX, the UAE's sovereign technology fund, used to pay for a stake in Binance.* It's cash that makes stablecoins stable. There was absolutely no business rationale to use tiny USD1 for the transaction. At just 4%, $2 billion earns $80 million annually, until and unless the stablecoins are redeemed.

*Associated with Changpeng Zhao, the guy Trump pardoned.

Clay Banes's avatar

Excellent reporting, Will. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Bill Wines's avatar

Is Joe Rittenhouse any relation to Kyle? Wouldn't surprise me at all.

Judith Hofeditz's avatar

Will Sommer you have incredible fortitude and an amazing constitution to be able to stomach this crap, but I do appreciate your reporting it, making us take our medicine because we need to have the receipts for getting rid of the garbage when we can.

David White's avatar

I am walking to my violin closet. The unfortunate MAGA media stars have been taken in by someone less scrupulous than they. Cue the violins, the free market of ideas are for amateurs.

Andy Reed's avatar

Maybe now that this Russian agent is back in the US, another indictment can be instituted -- though not before 2029, unfortunately, since the injustice department is under Bondi's control. Then again, in January 2027, the House can reinstitute HUAC -- Roy Cohen's and Joe McCarthy's old outfit -- and begin investigating all these agents, spies, seditionists, propagandists, and tools of Putin for their anti-American activities. And THEY can bring charges against them, since the traitors at DOJ will not.

And the Statute of Lmimitations won't expire for her current sedition -- or even the 2024 stuff -- until a real president is back in office.

Cheryl Kelly's avatar

Pool seems to have disappeared, but that Johnson creep is all over the place. He doesn't seem to hurting too much, unfortunately.

Carol S.'s avatar

Somebody on the Thom Hartmann show talked about the Russian cooptation of the GOP. Something I hadn't heard before is that the husband of Susie Wiles is connected with a Russian oligarch.

The people who ostentatiously wear the label of "patriot" and claim to be defending "Americanism" have been serving the purposes of a hostile foreign power that aims to destroy the very foundations of America -- just as they claim to be standing up for "Christian values" while they embrace moral cynicism and hypocrisy.

Andy Reed's avatar

I saw a great cartoon posted today (can't remember where). It showed a sort of Ozzie & Harriet family with a husband who resembled trump, and the caption:

"The same people who claim Obama is a Muslim claim Trump is a Christian."

John C Young's avatar

Meanwhilz... Trump is fulminating over MSM's continued rights to public airwaves; posturing to decide outcome of Warner Bros' deal(s) and tangentially, CNN's fate; again assailing Colbert's perch and, far as I know, still suing both NYT and WSJ over their editorial practices.

So... the darkly ironic juxtaposition with the Chen matter is... Well, of course.

Carol S.'s avatar

Trump apologists still claim that he's a free-speech hero who's saving us from leftist woke censorship.

Gina Stanley's avatar

The think tank sector needs to spend more time thinking. Wasn't one of them the source of Project 2025?

Judith Hofeditz's avatar

That would be the Heritage Foundation, which is in the process of tanking as we speak with many of their staff jumping ship to join Mike Pence’s new org.

Andy Reed's avatar

I think they need to spend more time tanking.