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rated -spew-fantasy right now. Looks like PCI or Av Pro might have competition for DU's Crazy Prize.Doug Skullery (23) Posts
The Big Beautiful Obituary - Here it is!!
The Big Beautiful Obituary:
Billions of people around the world rejoiced today as Donald J. Trump died after a lengthy period of suffering that he inflicted upon humanity. He departed the world of the living and returned to Hell, from whence he came, enabling the rest of the world to enter into peace.
Trump's corruption, incompetence, and malevolence were legendary. He will be remembered as the worst President of the United States ever, and the only President with thirty-four felony convictions, four criminal indictments and two impeachments. He was deserving of many more indictments, impeachments, and convictions, but the cowardice and treason of the Republican controlled Congress allowed Trump to go unpunished. Trump held the office of President for two hellish, non-consecutive terms, with a four year intermission of relative normalcy and sanity within the era of Trump dystopia. The exhausted civilized world prays that this era of manufactured chaos, instability, and unreality - built entirely on lies and hatred - perishes along with its instigator.
Trump spent most of his two terms golfing, ranting on social media, posting childish memes, vacationing at his gaudy properties at taxpayers' expense, committing war crimes, and vandalizing public architecture. He illegally ordered the physical destruction of much of the White House, the Kennedy Center, and the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. Through stock market manipulation, graft, and extortion disguised as political fundraising, Trump was able to enrich himself by billions of dollars during his presidencies, in violation of custom and the Constitution. Throughout his tyrannical, treasonous misrule, Trump prioritized self-enrichment, self-aggrandizement, fealty to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, the persecution of minorities, and the looting of national treasure.
During his first term, about half a million Americans died needlessly due to Trump's mishandling of the Covid 19 pandemic. Trump also appointed three corrupt, partisan hacks to the Supreme Court who took away reproductive freedom from over a hundred million American women, eliminated voting rights, and expanded presidential power and immunity to absurd proportions. After Trump's suspicious reelection in 2024, with the help of this supreme court, Trump's first act was to pardon the cop-beating terrorists who had helped him stage a coup d'etat in 2020. Trump would later try to create a slush fund to “reimburse” and reward these January 6th insurrectionists.
Trump ran for a second term to avoid prison and succeeded due to massive vote suppression and money from undisclosed donors. In this second term, Trump appointed a Rogues' Gallery of sycophants to dismantle the institutions to which they were appointed. He appointed fascist oligarch Elon Musk to an illegal extra-governmental agency which indiscriminately fired federal employees and abolished organizations mandated by Congress. More than 600,000 people died, two-thirds children, after he shut down USAID. Trump also illegally imposed tariffs and waged war against Iran without consultation with Congress or allies, both of which were economically disastrous for the whole world but benefited him personally through insider trading.
In violation of many court orders, Trump's Justice Department blocked release of the “Epstein Files” which would have proven Trump's participation in sex crimes against children. The Department also engaged in numerous vindictive prosecutions. Trump's signature legislative achievement was what he called “The Big Beautiful Bill”, which gave tax cuts to billionaires, cut healthcare, funded the largest secret police force in history, and created a vast network of concentration camps, among other crimes and travesties. Trump used his secret police forces to occupy and terrorize American cities, culminating in the murder of several American citizens on American streets in broad daylight.
Prior to becoming President, Trump was a failed businessman who pretended to be a successful businessman on television. Trump was a profoundly stupid man who managed to bankrupt casinos and go bankrupt multiple times despite being born a rich, over-privileged “nepo baby”. Trump had a long string of scams and business failures including Trump Airlines, Trump Steaks, Trump University, Trump Vodka, and Trump Water. Throughout his life, Trump's immense ego compelled him to plaster his name on everything he could, regardless of the appropriateness or legality. Trump's scams continued unabated during his presidency, with the introduction of Trump sneakers, Trump watches, Trump coins, and other crap. Trump is survived by a large family of shameless, grifting morons like himself, including his slutty, mail-order wife Melania, and his obnoxious, degenerate children.
Trump was a person who stole from charities, scapegoated innocent people, made fun of the disabled, denigrated legitimate heroes, raped women and children, and murdered non-combatants overseas in wars of choice. He was a pedophile, a rapist, a career criminal, a confidence man, a Russian asset, an extortionist, a money launderer, a serial adulterer, a drug abuser, a pathological liar, a white supremacist, a misogynist, anti-intellectual, homophobic, Islamophobic, and Xenophobic. Donald Trump was a petty, hateful man with no redeeming qualities. He was completely lacking in taste, decency, empathy, virtue, wisdom, and common sense, and was the embodiment of all seven deadly sins. However, Trump possessed a strange, inexplicable charisma, much like Adolph Hitler and Charles Manson, enabling him to become a highly successful cult leader, grifter, and Autocrat.
Donald Trump was an insufferable, sadistic child who was sent to New York Military Academy because he was uncontrollable and no other prep school would admit him. Trump was a poor student who bullied and cheated his way through all his schooling. His own mother called him a monster. He reportedly paid somebody to take his college entrance exams for him. One of his professors at The Wharton School of Business described Trump as the dumbest student he ever had. He graduated near the bottom of his class, and then lied about this ranking the rest of his life. Trump concealed his educational records, his business records, his medical records, his tax returns, and his connections to organized crime.
Trump was mentored by his slumlord Klansman father Frederick Trump Sr., red-baiting attorney Roy Cohn, and hypocritical bible-thumper Norman Vincent Peale, some of the worst human beings who ever lived aside from Donald Trump himself. Roy Cohn taught Trump to accuse all of his political opponents of Communism and to abuse the legal system to rip-off employees and punish critics. This helped turn Trump into the most litigious individual in history. Donald Trump's father Fredrick, a Nazi-collaborator who made a fortune from fraud and corruption of his own, helped Donald avoid military service in Vietnam by bribing a doctor to falsify medical records. Despite his five deferments, Donald Trump imagined himself a great military genius. Trump famously went on to belittle the service of military personnel, calling them “suckers and losers”, and used the military as cannon fodder.
Trump was diagnosed with a psychiatric condition known as “Malignant Narcissism”, the worst possible type of personality disorder combining elements of grandiosity, entitlement, paranoia, sadism, and psychopathy. He also developed severe dementia at the end of his life, which served to worsen his already horrendous personality. In his final year, the dementia caused him to lose all inhibition, and he would swear profusely in public and openly call for genocide against his perceived enemies.
Trump's legacy is the destruction of democracy and the rule of law in the United States of America, and the destruction of America's power and reputation. He ruthlessly exploited every flaw and loophole in our Constitution, leaving America a failed state. His cruel, senseless policies and wars of aggression triggered world-wide economic catastrophe and impoverishment. Trump betrayed America's allies, embraced dictators, and ended the NATO alliance which had kept peace and stability in the world since the end of World War Two. Trump enriched himself and his cronies by billions of dollars while increasing inequality beyond that of the Gilded Age of the previous century. Donald Trump caused untold misery, destruction, and the deaths of millions of people in the United States of America and around the globe. The incalculable harm, the lifetime of egregious non-stop lying, the wanton cruelty and insatiable greed, all qualify Donald J. Trump as the most evil and despicable person who ever God suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Perhaps the saddest and most disturbing fact about Trump's election victories is that he won twice explicitly because of racism, not in spite of it. From his call for the execution of innocent Black men known as the Central Park Five, the Obama birth certificate denial, his call for a southern border wall, referring to Neo-Nazis as “very fine people”, his claim that immigrants were eating dogs and cats, and the vitriol at his Nuremberg-style rallies,Trump never tried to conceal his racism or love of violence. Like some of the worst dictators in history, Donald Trump rose to power bragging about his past crimes and promising to commit more. Americans will have to live with this shame forever.
Trump's body will be disposed of secretly to avoid grave site desecration and to prevent the forces of evil from regrouping around his wretched memory. Family of the deceased requests that large donations to The Trump Organization be sent in lieu of flowers. The joy triggered by his demise is only slightly tempered by the swearing in of soulless, scheming sycophant J.D. Vance as his temporary replacement. World-wide celebrations are expected to continue for weeks despite reported shortages of Champagne, fireworks, and confetti.
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Editor's note: I apologize for reposting, but I keep making changes and updating to keep it current.
It is sadly still preemptive, but one day the happy day will arrive!
https://democraticunderground.com/100221552592
I really enjoy watching a smart guy work, and Jared Kushner is a very smart guy. A volunteer in his nation’s service with a remarkable record of success in both private and public life, he has been relentlessly smeared by liberals. Most recently, the New Yorker did a hit job on him that was embarrassingly amateurish. I remember hearing many years ago that the New Yorker employed fact checkers, but that obviously is no longer true.
Yesterday, Kushner took to his own web site to respond to the New Yorker’s latest smears. It is a job well done; I recommend reading it all, just for fun. Here are a couple of excerpts:QuoteAffinity Partners Fundraise
Claim
Earlier this year, as Kushner engaged in talks with Iran, he was also discreetly raising another five billion dollars for Affinity in the Middle East. After the attacks on Tehran began, suspicions arose that the two endeavors were linked. “My sense is that he thinks he was killing two birds with one stone, he was helping the Arabs defeat the Iranians, and he wanted to be paid for it,” an American with deep ties to Middle Eastern leaders told me.
Note that there is no source for this libel. “An American with deep ties to Middle Eastern leaders” could be just about anyone–i.e., any political enemy of the Trump administration, a group that includes all the people the New Yorker knows.QuoteReality
I have raised no additional funds for Affinity Partners since President Trump was elected to his second term.
Once a certain percentage of a fund’s initial capital has been committed, it is standard practice to consider a potential future vehicle. The instant the actions in Iran began and I was asked to extend my volunteer role, I ended all conversations about additional fundraising.
On March 19, 2026, The New York Times reported that Affinity’s chief legal officer, Ian Brekke, acknowledged “early conversations” while making clear that the firm “does not intend to take in any additional capital while Jared is volunteering for the government.”
I also told The New Yorker during its fact-checking process that no additional capital had been raised. That distinction matters. Preliminary conversations about a possible future fund are not the same thing as raising a fund, yet the article stated that I was “discreetly raising another five billion dollars” while engaged in talks with Iran. That sentence was beyond misleading.
The predictable result was that other publications converted that wording into an asserted fact. The New Republic reported that “Kushner managed to raise $5 billion for his group, Affinity Partners.” Mediaite similarly reported that I had raised $5 billion while negotiating with Iran.
That did not happen. Affinity has raised zero additional capital during this period. Zero.
This is a useful example of why precision matters. A preliminary conversation became “raising” $5 billion, which then became, in subsequent coverage, $5 billion actually “raised.” The latter claim is objectively false.
We contacted both publications to correct the record, but they have declined to do so.QuoteSaudi Internal Politics
Claim
M.B.S. called Kushner to discuss his plans, in a conversation that was secretly recorded. “Kushner told M.B.S. that everyone in the U.S. government except the intelligence agencies was behind him,” a former regional intelligence official told me, explaining that he had seen a transcript of the call.
“It was the green light.” (Kushner’s spokesman denied this.)QuoteReality
This conversation never occurred. There is no transcript. Journalists basing allegations on an anonymous source supposedly having seen a “transcript” of a call should at the very least authenticate that the conversation actually took place. The New Yorker did not provide a transcript, and I unequivocally deny having the conversation described here.
The New Yorker’s hit piece depended on 1) far-fetched, politically-motivated smears by anonymous sources, and 2) the magazine writers’ total ignorance of the financial world–an ignorance that no doubt is shared by the New Yorker’s readers. When a partisan rag like the New Yorker or the New York Times quotes an anonymous source toward a political end, I assume that the anonymous assertion is more likely false than true.
The Second Amendment Foundation has reached a settlement agreement with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office over policies that previously prohibited permit holders from carrying handguns equipped with red dot sights or flashlights and an outright ban on the carry of single action only 1911- and 2011-style pistols.
Under the agreement, the Sheriff’s Office will withdraw its prohibitions on red-dot sights, weapon-mounted lights and semiautomatic single-action 1911 and 2011 platform pistols carried under a county CCW license. The office will update its concealed-carry website within 10 days to reflect the change. SAF was joined in SAF v. Contra Costa County by private citizens Andrew Moore and James Treuel who were represented by John W. Dillon of the Dillon Law Group.
“A sheriff does not get to invent a shorter list of approved handguns and accessories than the Constitution allows,” said SAF Director of Legal Research and Education and attorney of record in the case Kostas Moros. “Even though red-dot sights, weapon lights and 1911 and 2011 pistols are in common use for lawful self-defense, Contra Costa treated them as contraband. This settlement ends that unlawful practice, and we are pleased the County saw the error if its ways and resolved these issues.”
At least he can't run away!
My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.
If this is true, this is actually a time to pray for Talarico. We should, of course, savagely mock his smug, awful campaign advisors, by all means...and while yes, of course, this would be disqualifying for Talarico's aspirations to be a Texas Senator, we must hold empathy for anyone undergoing crisis. Campaigns are brutal, and not everybody is cut out for it. You need very thick skin. As much as I don't want Talarico anywhere near government, I also don't want wish him harm, and no political office is worth having a breakdown. His awful advisors are at fault for this. They pushed him to be something he isn't, and it didn't work.
I'm praying that this isn't true, and he's OK. You want to win these fights on the battlefield of ideas, not the minefield of poor health.
