Progressive Eruptions

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Only convicted felons, pedophiles, and sex offenders need apply to any cabinet or government position

Trump's choice for FBI director Kash Patel: "We're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We're going to come after you."

"Kash Patel Has Plan to Remake the F.B.I. Into a Tool of Trump

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I. has called for firing the agency’s top officials, shutting down its Washington headquarters and prosecuting journalists."

(NOTE: This is what dictators/authoritarians do as soon as they're in power.)

Trump's choice for Ambassador to France:

Mr. Kushner, 70, pleaded guilty in 2004 to 16 counts of tax evasion, a single count of retaliating against a federal witness and one of lying to the Federal Election Commission in a case that became a lasting source of embarrassment for the family. As part of the plea, Mr. Kushner admitted to hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, a witness in a federal campaign finance investigation, and sending a videotape of the encounter to his sister.

"Kushner further admitted at his plea hearing that he devised a scheme to retaliate against a cooperating witness - his sister - and her husband by having a prostitute seduce the husband and covertly filming them having sex.

Kushner admitted that he paid a private investigator $25,000 to arrange for the seduction and videotaping of the cooperating witness' husband. Kushner admitted to personally recruiting the prostitute and instructing that the videotape be mailed to the cooperating witnesses.

Chris Christie told @MargaretHoover that Charles Kushner's criminal case was "one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes" he had handled.

Trump just nominated Kushner to be the US Ambassador to France.
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— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) December 2, 2024

Trump's choice for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth:

Heather Cox Richardson:

"Under his direction, Veterans for Freedom ran up huge debt for what appears to have been inappropriate expenses; the group’s donors squeezed Hegseth out of his job and then shuttered the organization. He moved to Concerned Veterans for America. A whistleblower for Concerned Veterans for America reported that Hegseth was repeatedly so drunk at events that he had to be carried out, and that he once tried to join dancers on stage at a strip club to which he brought his work team. Their report said that Hegseth and other members of his team divided the female staffers in the organization into “party girls” and “not party girls” and sexually pursued them, leading to allegations of sexual assault.

Another complaint said that at a bar in the early hours of May 29, 2015, Hegseth began to chant drunkenly: “Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!”

An email from one of the whistleblowers to Hegseth’s successor at Concerned Veterans for America said that “[a]mong the staff, the disgust for Pete was pretty high.”

The letter detailed Hegseth’s “history of alcohol abuse” and said he had “treated the organization funds like they were a personal expense account—for partying, drinking, and using CVA events as little more than opportunities to ‘hook up’ with women on the road.”

By 2016, Hegseth was out at Concerned Veterans for America but had joined the Fox News Channel as a contributor. It was during this period that he appeared in October 2017 as a speaker at the California Federation of Republican Women’s convention, where he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman."

Monday, December 2, 2024

What did this "Dictator on Day One" mean by this?

It is THE most anti-American rhetoric I've ever heard from an incoming POTUS in all my years.

Who will determine who the "enemy within" is?

Remember it was his armed thugs who attacked the U.S. Capitol and beat the crap out of LEOs, vandalized the Capitol, smeared feces all over the Capitol, and shouted "HANG MIKE PENCE!"

Yet "Dictator on Day One" call the radical left "lunatics."

Trump is a dangerous, lawless criminal.

President Biden pardons his son, Hunter.

Bravo, Mr. President!

"No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong," Biden said in a statement on Sunday.

"There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they've tried to break me – and there's no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough."

Hunter Biden said in a statement on Sunday:

"I have admitted and taken responsibility for my mistakes during the darkest days of my addiction – mistakes that have been exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me and my family for political sport. Despite all of this, I have maintained my sobriety for more than five years because of my deep faith and the unwavering love and support of my family and friends."

"In the throes of addiction, I squandered many opportunities and advantages. In recovery we can be given the opportunity to make amends where possible and rebuild our lives if we never take for granted the mercy that we have been afforded. I will never take the clemency I have been given today for granted and will devote the life I have rebuilt to helping those who are still sick and suffering."