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Futurism reports “a tranche of psychological studies found something startling about Donald Trump’s most loyal soldiers: they each turn to a grim coping mechanism to make sense of the real estate mogul’s laundry list of lies and documented sexual abuse .” Three separate research papers, published together in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology , each point to the same conclusion, say analysts. Psychologists surveyed 128 U.S. adults in October 2019, who indicated a preference for Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Asked how they justified their support for the GOP candidate given allegations of his sexual misconduct , over half the group said they relied simply on denial and chose to not believe the charge. “Those results were reproduced in a second study, started in December 2019, two days after federal lawmakers voted to impeach the president ,” reports Futurism. “This time, 173 MAGA diehards largely either denied the accusations, or demurred by changing the top...
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News24 | The five hidden struggles of black tax – and how to take your power back

Black tax is often talked about in jokes and hashtags, but for many South Africans it is a quiet, heavy reality that shapes every payday decision. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/nxsGDeZ via sinceretalk
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'The guy’s a criminal': Former Republican explains his suit to keep Trump off his building

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Airline pilot and former Republican George Poncy says he was furious when he discovered Republican Florida Gov. Ron Desantis planned to slap the name “Donald Trump” on his Palm Beach International Airport. “Well, the guy’s a criminal,” said Poncy, speaking to the Miami New Times about Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records. “I don’t know anything that’s named after a criminal. There’s no Lucky Luciano Bridge or Jeffrey Epstein Highway. It’s insane. It is. It’s not much more complicated than that.” The Times reports Poncy filed a lawsuit in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, arguing that Desantis and the state has “unlawfully stripped” the county of its home rule authority by mandating the name change. The name change to the “Donald J. Trump International Airport” arose from a bill in the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature describing Trump as “the most consequential president of our lifetime,” but that’s not the way 83-year-old Poncy sees it. “Nobody ...
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'Desperate' Trump will be even more dangerous after his midterm beating: Conservative

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Conservative commenter William Kristol says things are looking bad for President Donald Trump and his Republican Party in November, but if things go down in November as voting trends suggest it will still leave in charge a desperate and angry president with staff willing to jettison both the law and self-respect to conduct Trump’s agenda. “If you’re going into a midterm when your party has controlled both the White House and Congress, and that party is joined at the hip to a president who’s losing 29 percent to 49 percent among those who care the most and who are the most likely to vote, your prospects are . . . not good,” said Kristol. “So April’s electoral good news from Hungary could well be followed by good news from the United States in November.” “But! An increasingly desperate Trump will still be in charge of the executive branch,” Kristol warned. “He’ll have all the levers of presidential power at his disposal, and he has subordinates seemingly as willing as ever to use the...
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Three nutty moments from Trump’s Turning Point speech

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President Donald Trump delivered the cap to the Turning Point USA event in Phoenix, Arizona, and he had a friendly audience to take his words. This might explain the absence of rolling eyes and questioning looks on a few claims that Trump inflated, played down or made a point not to mention at all due to their controversy. 1. The U.S. will march in and take the Iranian nukes that he claimed were obliterated. Months ago, Trump claimed to have “ obliterated ” Iran’s nuclear capabilities — the lingering existence of which he then later cited as one of the reasons to attack Iran last month and blow-up global fuel prices. But at the Friday TPUSA event, Trump said Iran’s nuclear capabilities are still somehow both “obliterated” yet in need of collection. “You'll be very happy. The USA will get all nuclear dust,” he told the cheering TPUSA crowd. “You know what the nuclear dust is? That was that white powdery substance created by our B-2 bombers, those great B-2 bombers. Late one e...
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Trump aides fret pardons will not be 'enough' after November: report

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Trump advisers are privately telling Zeto editor Asawin Suebseng that they’re worried President Donald Trump’s liberal use of pardons for allies and financial contributors may not be enough to save then when Democrats nab either one or both houses in November. They “tell me they’ve recommended to the president and other top Republicans that they should try to get creative in concocting ways to preempt lawsuits, or state and local prosecutions of Trump’s staff,” wrote Suebseng . “But even in the fevered fantasies of MAGAworld’s legal brain trusts, they know that is a tall order, at best.” Trump is happy to use pardons as presidential tool to free allies convicted of corruption, but staff are nervous that pardons can only go so far because they do not apply to all convictions. “After all, they say, state and local prosecutors still exist – and though mass pardons from Trump could make their jobs harder, some of those progressive prosecutors have openly signaled to the Trump adminis...
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Republicans admit Trump is turning the midterms into a 'funeral'

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Republicans are getting worn down by the expectation of serious losses in November, says former Republican strategist Rick Wilson. “The mood from Republicans that I've talked to in the last few weeks is funereal,” said Wilson, a Lincoln Project co-founder who worked for the George H.W. Bush's campaign. “Behind [House Speaker] Mike Johnson's bluster they're running the on a message strategy. But behind that bluster, their rank-and-file members are desperate for Trump to shut up. They are desperate for him to stop doing insane things. They are desperate for him to stop picking fights with the Pope and invading countries and doing the things that have led them into this economic box canyon that they can't get out of.” Wilson told MS NOW anchor Katy Tur that Republicans are having to go back home to constituents, but they having nothing to tell them about. “They don't have a bill to brag about. They can't go home and say, ‘yeah, by the way, I cut Elon Musk...
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