Peter

Charakter kann man halt nicht kaufen. Und an allem, was man nicht kaufen kann, fehlt es Leuten wie Kubicki.

PEACE DOVE TERROR

With the midterms approaching, the divergence between what Trump thinks is good for Trump and what is good for the Republican Party has never been wider—and few seem willing to confront him, @JonLemire and @michaelscherer report: theatln.tc/NR2UariL 🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Samuel Corum / Sipa / Bloomberg / Getty.

NARCISSIST DEFEAT

Da gibt es auch nichts zu bewundern. Den Mann kann man nur verachten.

ZITAT DES TAGES ⬇️

Wenn ihr euch fragt, wo das ganze Geld bleibt: Es ist nicht weg. Es konzentriert sich nur immer stärker ganz oben. „Der Anstieg vergangenes Jahr von über 1.000 neuen Superreichen war zuvor über einen Zeitraum von fünf Jahren passiert – zwischen 2019 und 2024 waren ebenfalls ca. 1.000 Menschen zur Gruppe hinzugekommen.“

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

Mein Cartoon heute in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Kubicki (390 Stimmen) hat leider gegen Strack-Zimmermann (259 Stimmen) gewonnen. Die FDP hat ihre eigene Bedeutungslosigkeit gewählt. Herzlichen Glückwunsch und auf Nimmerwiedersehen! 🙋‍♀️

Angela Merkel fehlte oft der Wille zu langfristigen Reformen – heute fordert sie genau diese ein. Glaubwürdig wirkt das kaum. Strategische Versäumnisse ihrer Kanzlerschaft holen Deutschland nun ein. Hier der ganze Artikel aus «Der andere Blick»:

My @Telegraph Sunday #cartoon

Donald Trump is trading stocks in companies his government affects through policy decisions. He’s holding the stocks while pulling the levers that determine their value. It’s corruption, plain and simple.

Recht hat er.

Peter Thiel ist schon ein schöner Fall. Jahrelang an genau dem Klima mitbauen, das die USA heute vergiftet. Trump. Vance. Tech-Oligarchen. Anti-Staat. Weniger Regulierung. Mehr private Macht. Demokratie bitte nur, solange sie nicht stört. Und dann merkt man plötzlich: Ach, Chaos ist ja gar nicht so gemütlich, wenn man selbst darin wohnen soll. Also schaut man nach Argentinien. Dort macht Milei gerade das, wovon solche Leute träumen: Staat schwächen, Markt heiligsprechen, soziale Sicherheiten zusammenstreichen und alles als große Freiheit verkaufen. Für normale Menschen heißt das Unsicherheit. Für Milliardäre heißt das: Versuchslabor. Erst die Abrissbirne beklatschen. Dann erschrecken, wenn das Haus wackelt. Und am Ende mit dem Privatjet weiterziehen. So sieht Tech-Libertarismus aus, wenn er nicht auf einer Bühne erklärt wird, sondern im echten Leben landet.

BREAKING: NOT SO FAST! Federal judge reopens Trump’s IRS case and demands to know if her court was defrauded. Judge Kathleen Williams has had enough. In a brief but devastating order Friday, the federal judge in Miami reopened Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS — a case Trump had voluntarily dismissed last week specifically to avoid her scrutiny — and ordered Trump's lawyers to explain by June 12th why she shouldn't find that the entire scheme was a fraud perpetrated against her court. The judge's language was pointed and precise. She said she wanted to investigate "grievous allegations" that the deal to resolve the case was "premised on deception." She asserted that she was "empowered to investigate serious misconduct" and demanded answers to two devastating questions: was "the court the victim of a fraud," and did Trump collude with his own government to settle the case specifically "to avoid judicial scrutiny"? The answer to both questions, based on everything that has already been reported, appears to be yes. Judge Williams had been circling this case for weeks before Trump pulled it. She had openly questioned how Trump could sue an agency he controls, with government lawyers who answer to him, producing a settlement negotiated with officials he appointed. She ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually adversaries or secretly colluding. Trump dismissed the case the day before those briefs were due. Then, after she closed it, the Justice Department released not one but two extraordinary agreements — a $1.776 billion fund to compensate Trump's allies, and a separate one-page document permanently barring the IRS from ever auditing Trump, his family, or his businesses. Agreements that had apparently been negotiated while the case was supposedly active before her court. Judge Williams cited the New York Times report revealing that the IRS had prepared a 25-page memo outlining strong defenses against Trump's suit — defenses the Justice Department never raised in court, never filed, never mentioned. Her order came directly in response to the filing by 35 former federal judges — appointed by presidents of both parties — who called the scheme a fraud and urged her to reopen the case. She listened. "We stand ready to work with the court as it investigates this matter," said Norman Eisen, who represented the former judges. Trump tried to flip the table before she could see the cards. She just put them back on the table. If you can’t wait to see the Justice Department try to explain itself, please like and share this post everywhere.

Dürfte als schwachsinnigster Spruch der Woche selbst auf dem FDP-Parteitag an diesem Wochenende nicht mehr zu toppen sein.

Trump’s day so far: • A federal judge temporarily blocked his plan to create a $1.8 billion slush fund for January 6 rioters • A federal judge ordered Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center and halted plans to close the venue for two years. • A federal judge reopened Trump’s $10 billion IRS lawsuit and ordered an investigation into “grievous allegations” that a rushed settlement was “premised on deception.” Multiple musicians have pulled out of Trump’s Freedom 250 concert And it’s not even 7 p.m. yet. So much winning. Hide the ketchup!!!

An dem Fall Scheuer sieht man, wie wichtig ein Untersuchungsausschuss auch für @jensspahn und seine Deals wäre. Aber @cducsubt und @spdbt schützen ihn.