The United States is now facing the greatest threat to our free way of life in our history. Even the US Civil War was not the danger that is Donald Trump. In the Civil War, the South wanted to separate from the rest of the Union. Today, Trump does not want to separate from the US, he seeks to destroy the fundamental functions and purpose of the US. He seeks to destroy the Constitution, replacing the Judiciary and Legislative Branches with puppets of the Executive. Plainly stated, Trump seeks to establish himself as a dictator . . . and as of May 2025, he may succeed.
Pam Bondi in February: The Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now to review.
Pam Bondi today: There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted." pic.twitter.com/ClD7a7C8GT
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) July 7, 2025
A New York Times investigation based on internal Trump Organization documents suggests that Donald Trump was a lot shorter on cash before he returned to the White House than commonly understood. It illuminates once more how Trump has exaggerated his supposed business acumen — and what may be motivating his dogged pursuit of new business ventures as president.
The Times reports that last year Trump’s office building in lower Manhattan “generated too little cash to cover its mortgage,” many of his golf courses had too few customers to cover costs, and the money that used to come in from his work in television had “dried up.”
Long before entering politics, Trump had a well-established track record of failed businesses and financial mismanagement. But it’s possible that his first term in office made things worse. The Times reported that a 2021 appraisal of Trump’s highest revenue resort, the Trump National Doral, found that he had spent $379 million renovating it — but that it was worth only $297 million. The appraisal, conducted by the firm Newmark, found that while “Doral, like several of Mr. Trump’s properties, was known to benefit from people looking to buy proximity to a president during Mr. Trump’s first term, his managers believed even more potential customers stayed away because of him.”
Regardless of the cause, the Times’ investigation found that Trump had little cash on hand in recent years given the size of his business empire — and then came the tremendous costs of legal fees during both his trials and hundreds of millions from penalties from civil lawsuits.
The data shows us that as Trump entered office the second time, he was desperate for cash, which might explain at least some the tenacity with which he has hung onto his shares of Truth Social. It also likely explains why he and his family have pursued so many new ventures and licensing deals for the Trump Organization, ranging from watches to cryptocurrency to a mobile phone service. With the power of the presidency once again linked to the Trump name, the president and his family have fresh sources of money coming in to help his longtime businesses and expand his fortune. Trump’s most recently launched businesses have increased his fortune by billions.
To be clear, Trump wasn’t on the brink of becoming a pauper if he didn’t start finding new ways to generate cash — he could’ve sold parts of his business off to become more liquid. But as far as the story of Trump is concerned, the new information highlights the gap between his incessant boasts about being a brilliant businessman and the less glamorous reality of how his businesses were functioning. And it sheds light on the urgency with which Trump launched new ventures which have generated appalling financial conflicts of interest that are even worse in his second term than his first. All in all, it’s less “art of the deal” and more “art of the steal and the flim-flam.”
Source: The Hill
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Saturday she plans to introduce a bill aimed at tackling “weather modification.”
“I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity. It will be a felony offense,” she wrote in a Saturday post on X.
“I have been researching weather modification and working with the legislative counsel for months writing this bill,” Greene added.
The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been stripped down so much it can barely respond to emergencies, yet it’s funding detention centers such as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades.
The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, responsible for some of the areas hardest hit by Friday’s flooding, is missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster, and meteorologist.
The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, is missing a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer who are supposed to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate.
The office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package offered by Musk’s DOGE to reduce the number of federal employees.
At both offices, the vacancy rate is roughly double what it was when Trump returned to the White House in January.
It’s the same across much of the federal government. Callers can’t get through to Social Security offices. Hazardous waste sites and drinking water facilities aren’t being inspected. National Park services have been scaled back. There aren’t enough air-traffic controllers to safely guide takeoffs and landings at the nation’s major airports.
Trump’s newly-enacted Big Ugly Bill will take funds out of Medicaid and food stamps. For what? To finance another giant tax cut for the rich, along with 10,000 more ICE agents and a gulag of detention camps.
Ex-weather bosses sent haunting letter warning Trump cuts could lead to deaths weeks before flood
The five former directors wrote the letter in May. “The proposed budget for fiscal year 2026, just released by the White House, cuts the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) by close to 30%” they wrote.
“While details aren’t yet available if earlier indications hold true, this budget would essentially eliminate NOAA’s research functions for weather, slash funding for next-generation satellite procurement, wrote the letter in May observations,” it added. “Even if the National Weather Service remains level funded, given the interconnectedness of all of the parts of NOAA, weather forecasting will also have impacts. We cannot let this happen.”
“NOAA’s satellites provide vital information about the formation and pathways of storms. NOAA research on severe storms has paved the way for tools we now use every day, such as Doppler radar and storm modeling advancements,” it continued. “NOAA Corps pilots fly into hurricanes to bring us real-time information on these increasingly severe storms. And data from ocean buoys adds breadth and depth to our understanding of the interaction between the atmosphere and the sea.”
“These proposed cuts come just days after approximately 300 National Weather Service (NWS)employees left the public service to which they had devoted their lives and careers,” continued the statement. “That’s on top of the approximately 250 NWS employees who were fired due to their probationary status in new, often higher-level positions, or took the initial buyout offered by the Trump Administration in early February.”
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Then, there’s this:
___Texas officials appeared to blame the Weather Service for issuing forecasts on Wednesday that underestimated how much rain was coming. But former Weather Service officials said the forecasts were as good as could be expected, given the enormous levels of rainfall and the storm’s unusually abrupt escalation.
The staffing shortages suggested a separate problem, those former officials said — the loss of experienced people who would typically have helped communicate with local authorities in the hours after flash flood warnings were issued overnight.
The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, which is responsible for some of the areas hit hardest by Friday’s flooding, was missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster and meteorologist in charge, according to Tom Fahy, the legislative director for the National Weather Service Employees Organization, the union that represents Weather Service workers.
The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, also had significant vacancies, including a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer, Mr. Fahy said. Staff members in those positions are meant to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate.
That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees, according to a person with knowledge of his departure.
read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html?smid=url-share
According to a White House insider who is deeply involved in talks with U.S. trading partners, Donald Trump’s tariff threats are not to be taken seriously because they are just a “theatrical show” being put on by the attention-obsessed president. According to a report from Politico, as Trump’s 90-day window on getting trade deals done before onerous tariffs are put in place looms, there is no real urgency at the White House which has negotiators and even some White House staff taking a dim view of the proceedings.
Politico’s Daniel Desrochers and Megan Messerly are reporting, “Foreign officials, trade experts, lawmakers and even some White House allies have expressed a nihilistic view of the July deadline, questioning whether a deal with the Trump administration means anything at all given the president’s penchant for using tariffs as leverage to get his way.”
After noting Trump himself was wavering this past week when he told reporters, “We could extend it, we could make it shorter. I’d like to make it shorter,” one insider offered a candid assessment about what is really going on.
“Trump knows the most interesting part of his presidency is the tariff conversation,” they admitted. “I find it hard to believe he’s going to surrender it that easily. It’s all fake. There’s no deadline. It’s a self-imposed landmark in this theatrical show, and that’s where we are.”
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-2672734163/
It was not until reporters pressed for numbers, towards the end of the press conference, that officials began to share the valuable information sought out by the public.
Commenters watching the live feed expressed frustration at the lack of information in the first 25 minutes of the event.
“Quit talking about yourselves relentlessly,” one commenter said.
“Most useless conference!!!” another commenter said.
“Get to the point that matters to us the people of texas,” another said.
Much of the statements from Abbott, Noem, Cornyn and Roy focused on praising their own efforts, thanking Trump and the White House and encouraging people to pray.
“Prayer matters,” Abbott said. Prayers “could have been the reason why water stopped rising”. (COMMENT: Yes, and monkeys could fly out of your ass, but it’s not likely, you worthless piece of shit.)
Later during the press conference, in response to questions from the press, the local sheriff confirmed the number of dead had risen to 32, including 18 adults and 14 children.
What kind of person pushes a weather conspiracy theory while some families mourn the loss of loved ones, and others still await news they fear in their souls will tear them apart? The answer is a monster. An evil, unempathetic, inhumane shit. A vile, indecent bastard.
Such is Kandiss Taylor. A MAGA candidate for US Representative from Georgia. This flint-hearted shrike heard the news of the floods in Texas and took to Twitter. Not to offer compassion and condolences. Not even to offer the usual anodyne “thoughts and prayers.” But instead, to offer a barbulous screed so insensitive that even Trump would be loath to defend it.
Her tweet?
“Fake weather, Fake hurricanes. Fake flooding. Fake. Fake. Fake.”
Even Musk’s algorithms couldn’t let this vile insensitivity pass unremarked. Her untimely and unscientific assertion was soon challenged by “Community Notes.”
So far her tweet has 248 “likes” — who the fuck are these people? However, as she has also received 1,800 replies she is getting kicked in the ass with the “ratio.” I scrolled through the responses looking for those similar-minded to the petulant pestilence. If there were any callous enough to explain their agreement, they were few. I couldn’t find any in the first 100 or so replies.
Kandiass’s best political strategy would have been to delete the post — without comment, if she’s a chicken. Even zealots have to know there’s a line. However, this self-congratulatory ‘good Christian’ decided to soldier on by reposting her effluence with an invitation to go to her Substack page.
CLICK HERE to see her sad attempt at justifying the unjustifiable. Note: I understand completely those who won’t click because they don’t want her to get the traffic. For them, I can say that it is as you would expect — an anti-science screed wrapped around an attack on liberals.
Here’s a sample:
Now, I’m watching in nonstop prayer what’s happening in Texas. And let me tell you, the patterns, the timing, the scale raises serious questions. I made a post about fake weather, not even referencing Texas directly, and the liberal Democrats lost their ever-loving minds.
“Not even referencing Texas directly”? Oh, c’mon, Taylor. The headlines talk of multiple deaths and many missing due to a flood in Texas. You tweet “Fake flooding”. How the feck are we not supposed to connect those two dots?
Kandiass then goes full projection:
“These people [science advocates] are so brainwashed they sound like programmed zombies. They twist and pervert every word, not because they’re right, but because they can’t handle the truth.
Stone-hearted and dumb as a rock.
In 2022, Taylor ran for governor of Georgia. It did not go well. She received 3.4% of the GOP primary vote. Unchastened by her lack of love from the hometown fans, she is now running for a Georgia US House seat in 2026. I don’t think her callous climate analysis will help her.
The AP reported her ambition in February:
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia Republican who ran a fringe campaign for governor under the slogan “Jesus, Guns and Babies” says she’s running for Congress in 2026.
Kandiss Taylor of Baxley announced during an appearance Tuesday on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast that she will seek the GOP nomination in southeast Georgia’s 1st Congressional District.
“I’m ready to go to D.C. and blow some things up,” Taylor said, declaring that Republicans and Democrats alike will support her because “I represent Jesus.”
We have yet to hear Jesus’s response.
Stone-hearted, dumb as a rock, and deluded — the prefect Republican.
According to a White House insider who is deeply involved in talks with U.S. trading partners, Donald Trump’s tariff threats are not to be taken seriously because they are just a “theatrical show” being put on by the attention-obsessed president. According to a report from Politico, as Trump’s 90-day window on getting trade deals done before onerous tariffs are put in place looms, there is no real urgency at the White House which has negotiators and even some White House staff taking a dim view of the proceedings.
Politico’s Daniel Desrochers and Megan Messerly are reporting, “Foreign officials, trade experts, lawmakers and even some White House allies have expressed a nihilistic view of the July deadline, questioning whether a deal with the Trump administration means anything at all given the president’s penchant for using tariffs as leverage to get his way.”
After noting Trump himself was wavering this past week when he told reporters, “We could extend it, we could make it shorter. I’d like to make it shorter,” one insider offered a candid assessment about what is really going on.
“Trump knows the most interesting part of his presidency is the tariff conversation,” they admitted. “I find it hard to believe he’s going to surrender it that easily. It’s all fake. There’s no deadline. It’s a self-imposed landmark in this theatrical show, and that’s where we are.”
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-2672734163/