Anyone citing the Heritage Foundation to justify what Trump is doing to the US as rational needs to rethink their values or they themselves have joined the far-right wing cult (probably through listening to imbeciles like Charlie Kirk or Joe Rogan).

If there is a singular reason why any of what is happening in the US right now is happening, it is the Heritage Foundation, which has led the way when it comes to religious nutjob policies that would take the modern free world back to white male supremacy, intolerance, anti-science, anti-vaccine, and anti-women dark times.  Their founder recently died and I can't express how many people I saw online relish the thought of him roasting his nuts in Hell for eternity, for the decades of backwards-thinking policies that he and his organization helped to get enacted anytime the Republicans had control of the country. 

Good riddance - these are people who hate Sesame Street because it promotes things like compassion, supports black and gay characters, and educates young people on critical thinking. The Heritage Foundation is the Christian equivalent of the Taliban, people really don't understand just how much of the Republican party is now dominated by extremists (who want America to be turned into some kind of nightmarish theocracy -- while competing or merged with Peter Thiel's dream of a techno-dictatorship: a surveillance state that implements a social credit system to punish anyone breaking social norms).





And yes, they'd love for Canada to go full right-wing at the federal level too, so they can implement the same type of policies here through the Reform Party Conservatives.







 

Is he correct in doing this, too? Or is it an attempt to whitewash history and erasing parts of his own story he doesn't like? Trying to erase the past is the action of dictators and despots. Surely that's not who you admire.  

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum

1. That's a poorly written piece. Three reads and I still can't make sense of what and where exactly is the problem, particularly in trying to contradistinguish among the three indicted Presidents.

2. Anonymous source. There's nothing more to say. Except perhaps avoid the Washington comPost.

Courtesy of The Atlantic:



The part that really says it all: Germans are being accused of being humans rights abusers for outlawing NAZI propaganda. That's the redefinition of "human rights" by Trump's people, they consider silencing Nazi propaganda to be a violation of a person's rights.

What more needs to be said?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-state-department-human-rights-report/683852/



 

Oh look, his anus is flapping again... (the video was also shown on last night's CTV National)



Not sure if he's trying to goad us into doing something stupid or if he genuinely believes the crap that comes out of his mouth.

 

TomTV wrote:

Not sure if he's trying to goad us into doing something stupid or if he genuinely believes the crap that comes out of his mouth.

It's more the latter but "both" could be just as likely.

And perhaps to the surprise of no one, we have another "SignalGate" level screw up during the Alaska meeting between Putin and his favorite Russian asset, Donald J Trump:

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind

Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit

Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees.

At around 9 a.m. on Friday, three guests at Hotel Captain Cook, a four-star hotel located 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage where leaders from the U.S. and Russia convened, found the documents left behind in one of the hotel's public printers.

(etc)The first page in the printed packet disclosed the sequence of meetings for August 15, including the specific names of the rooms inside the base in Anchorage where they would take place. It also revealed that Trump intended to give Putin a ceremonial present."POTUS to President Putin," the document states, "American Bald Eagle Desk Statue."Pages 2 through 5 listed the names and phone numbers of three U.S. staff members as well as the names of 13 U.S. and Russian state leaders. The list provided phonetic pronouncers for all the Russian men expected at the summit, including "Mr. President POO-tihn."

...the Trump staff didn't know how to pronounce Putin's name?

Jon Michaels, a professor of law at UCLA who lectures about national security, said that the documents found in the printer of the Alaskan hotel reveal a lapse in professional judgement in preparation for a high-stakes meeting."It strikes me as further evidence of the sloppiness and the incompetence of the administration," said Michaels. "You just don't leave things in printers. It's that simple."The printed papers are the latest example of a series of security breaches by officials of the Trump administration. Earlier this week, members of a law enforcement group chat that included members of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) added a random person to a conversation about an ongoing search for a convicted attempted murderer. In March, U.S. national security leaders accidentally included a journalist in a group chat about impending military strikes in Yemen.

Both Trump and Putin were lucky there weren't any agents who wanted to make any assassination attempts on hand the other day. Of course, you'd have to believe that Putin would actually come himself to this conference instead of sending one of his many body doubles. Yes, he uses body doubles... as a few people pointed out last night, he sent his "socially friendly" double to this meeting, which is the one he sends out to meet and greet Russian citizens in person and in this case, to  US soil. There was always the risk that America would actually carry out the International Criminal Court 2023 warrant for Putin's arrest the moment he landed in Alaska.

Putin is easily one of the most cunning of world leaders (to lead Russia for as long as he has, you would have to be since there are many who would be happy to kill him and take his place). He was never going to actually come himself if there were any risks to his life and freedom. Instead, the double that arrived is considered his most expendable, which tells you that the outcome of the negotiations was always going to be absolutely nothing other than him trying to help Trump distract from the Epstein files being suppressed and give Trump a possible minor win.

There have been rumors for a few years that Putin is either a) dead, due to some serious health issues, or b) locked away in his bunker, safe. If he was dead, the FSB would still use  his doubles to carry on the regime since to acknowledge that he is gone would create a power vacuum followed by a lot of death and chaos as factions try to seize power. It's about the same as the Emperor falling down a reactor shaft-level disaster for Russia.

The real Putin is also known to be very paranoid of germs and would never shake hands with anyone (it also keeps him from being poisoned via some form of small needle prick or contact poison, which he himself has done to assassinate his own rivals at home). It's noted that being former KGB and utterly ruthless, he has no sense of humor and is cold, stark and sterile. The Putin we saw yesterday was jovial and engaged in horseplay for the news media (again, this is his "socially friendly" double).

It sounds like a bizarre conspiracy theory, but you have to know Russia really well to understand the level of paranoia that exists under that regime. People who fail Putin or go against him, are often tossed out windows to their deaths. It is always reported as a suicide, but everyone knows what really happened.





 
 

Last edited by TomTV (August 16, 2025 1:10 pm)

Something went very wrong for Trump and his people at their meeting with Putin's double:





The most likely reason: Trump and his staffers were shown the Epstein footage of Trump having sex with underage girls on the island, and Trump was told in no uncertain terms to force Ukraine to capitulate to Russia or the footage would be shown to the entire world.  If Mossad has the footage, the Russians would too.  Either way, Trump learned that he doesn't have the cards.

We'll see in the days to come, based on how Trump's administration deals with Ukraine in the aftermath of these odd talks. If the US stops sending support to  Zelenskyyy completely, then it was the Epstein video. It's the one thing that MAGA supporters have held steadfast against their cult leader no matter what distractions the president has tried to devise and would cost him what's left of his base if they saw him as the child rapist everyone else knows he is.


 

The demands from Russia seem to be the same as they've been for a while:

https://x.com/BohuslavskaKate/status/1956779730637893748

We’ve got some press leaks following yesterday’s Trump-Putin summit, and everything’s unfolding exactly as expected.

-Putin asked Trump to recognize Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia as part of Russia.

-He also wants to grant the Russian language “official” status.

And to guarantee “security for Russian Orthodox churches.”

But the real kicker?

-“Trump has dropped his demand for an immediate cease-fire and believes a rapid peace treaty can be negotiated, so long as Mr. Zelensky agrees to cede the rest of the Donbas region to Russia, even those areas not occupied by Russian troops.”

In return, Putin reportedly offered a ceasefire along current front lines and a written promise not to attack Ukraine or Europe again. That’s all per the New York Times.

This is Putin’s usual wishlist, and it’s a non-starter. Ceding territory violates Ukraine’s constitution. And let’s be clear: he’s not just asking for land, he’s asking for the most fortified part of Ukraine. Cities like Kramatorsk are real fortresses. Handing them over would be handing Russia a launchpad for something much worse.

As for that “written promise”?  That's laughable. We’ve had a dozen of those. They’ve never stopped Russia.

Axios reports that the American side believes Putin may be open to negotiations over Sumy and Kharkiv. But Russia occupies very little in those regions. They’re offering scraps in exchange for a feast.

Important to remember when reading about suggested land swaps: these aren’t just land swaps. They’re people swaps. Lives. Futures. That’s what Trump is bargaining with.

According to Clash Reports, Zelenskyy has already rejected the idea of ceding Donbas-Which was expected.

Bottom line: it’s the same old Russian demands. In fact, they are so old that it feels like Trump hasnt pushed at all, just listened. They are unrealistic as ever. But I don’t think Trump grasps just how far-fetched they are. Ukraine will say no. And when that happens, Trump may lash out again, blaming Ukraine for Russia’s war.

Some have speculated that if Putin does have photos or video of Trump having sex with 12- and 13-year olds, would Putin be able to demand Alaska be returned to Russia?  Just what would the orange cheeto president be willing to give to Russia in order to save his own neck from global humiliation?  And could Putin be just bluffing? If he loses Trump by exposing him, he likely loses his sway over the current White House administration.

He has no hold over JD Vance if he were to take over as president, but Peter Thiel does.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/08/14/russians-want-alaska-back-trump-putin/85667237007/


 

Last edited by TomTV (August 17, 2025 1:30 am)

Once again, those who scream loudly about "FAKE NEWS", are shown to be the actual purveyors of fake news. You'd think, by now, they'd have learned the lesson that 'everything tRump touches dies' (nod to Rick Wilson)