Nice little summary here from Robert Reich that I'm just posting for the record:

Trump is the most corrupt president in American history. Since being in office for a second time, he’s so far increased his wealth by an estimated $4 billion, and his sons’ and daughters’ wealth by billions more. Some examples:

• Trump and his family have created multiple crypto businesses — World Liberty Financial and the $TRUMP meme coin — that have received favorable deregulatory treatment and reportedly generated at least $2.3 billion in income for Trump and his family since he won the presidency.

• Six days after a company backed by Eric and Donald Jr. took a 20 percent stake in an American mining group, the group’s parent company received $1.6 billion in federal financing. That’s because the president of Kazakhstan granted the company the right to mine the world’s largest known undeveloped deposit of tungsten, an element used in semiconductors, lightbulbs, and warheads.
• In late 2025, Don Jr.’s firm 1789 Capital acquired an equity stake in critical minerals company Vulcan Elements. Shortly after, the White House and the Pentagon awarded Vulcan a $620 million federal loanwithout competitive procurement or independent technical review.
• After Eric and Don Jr. backed the drone manufacturer Powerus, the U.S. Air Force awarded the company a lucrative contract.
• Eric and Don Jr. have conducted numerous undisclosed meetings with foreign government officials (including representatives from Hungary, the UK, Vietnam, and Qatar) while simultaneously negotiating global real estate deals for the Trump Organization.
• Don Jr. serves as a strategic advisor or investor in prediction market firms Kalshi and Polymarket, which have received favorable, deregulatory treatment from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
• Don Jr. is on the board of prescription drug platform BlinkRX, which will benefit from the administration’s promotion of direct-to-patient medicine sales.
• Presumably, someone has made a fortune trading stocks and bonds on the basis of insider knowledge of decisions that Trump would announce — about tariffs, his war in Iran, and other news that moved stock and bond markets. The trades occurred just before the announcements.
• In May, Trump disclosed that his trust was actively trading individual stocks, an unprecedented practice for a sitting U.S. president in the modern era.
• Trump has pardoned some of the most brazen financial criminals in American history, and one can only wonder what he received in return. They include Philip Esformes, convicted in what Trump’s own Department of Justice described as the “largest health care fraud scheme ever charged”; Joseph Schwartz, convicted for a $38 million fraud scheme; and reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, convicted for multimillion-dollar bank fraud. He’s granted clemency to Lawrence Duran after a $205 million fraud conviction. He commuted Jason Galanis’s sentence and pardoned Devon Archer, both tied to tens of millions in fraud.

 islander wrote:

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 kurtster wrote:

That's your president, hiding behind the curtain pulling levers to fool the people, right?

 rgio wrote:

Pfft. Roofs are for losers

 steeler wrote:

I read a piece on the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that basically said it was an intractable problem because both sides thought they lost if the other got anything they wanted.

 Steely_D wrote:
Took a negotiation class in school and the primary directive was never to treat it as a zero-sum game: A negotiation is most successful when both parties “win.” 

 islander wrote:

Had to have this talk with a good, otherwise rational, friend the other day because his dating scheme wasn't working. "I don't think your conversations should be arguments as much as they could be negotiations. No one has to "win" but it sounds like that's your approach. Why would someone go out with you again if that's how discussions go?"

You can't help but see that this bully alpha culture, resulting in "incels" etc., is being encouraged and perpetuated by the podcast bros, and trump and his administration. Shameful and, ultimately, a dead end. Most clear-headed folks have figured out by now that the incessant bluster and boast and bullying is just a really annoying noise that translates into "I'm clueless about things that matter." 

But some folks are just stuck in the "haw haw, trump really owned your ass" or "that Biden sure was old" while they put $7 dollar a gallon diesel in their tank.

 Isabeau wrote:
In fairness... they spent and hour in the RAIN.  

It was raining so hard that they were having trouble talking over the downpour onto the metal roof.

 Isabeau wrote:

I am so tired of these people. They think everything is a contest. They believe zero sum theory - if you have something, it's a thing they don't have (and they deserve). Every interaction has a winner and loser. You can't even say 'good morning' to these people without them getting a snide power trip over 'you reached out to me for a greeting'. 'We owned the woke liberal mob', wtf? this isn't how rational adults behave.

 Isabeau wrote:
He had a peculiar way of distancing himself from previous wars, only using the pronoun "you" instead of "we" - as if he were a non-American observer:
Well I wouldn’t say — well, you really haven’t — again, you were in Vietnam for 19 years. You were in Iraq for many years. You were in Korea for many, many years. You were in all — I won’t even talk about World War II, because that was the big one. And we don’t want to ever have that. But you were in all these different wars for many years with thousands and thousands of people killed.

Granted, he managed to keep from being drafted so he was never "there", but he's still an American president.  Also, Kristen Welker wasn't even born when the Vietnam War ended and the Korean War lasted a little more than three years, far from "many, many years".

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Saw that last night on an interview with a supervisor. “So, you’re worried about fraud, but you say that if we take our time to make sure the count is right…that’s fraud? Makes no sense.”

 Steely_D wrote:

So I don't know what is taking so long in California but here in Wyoming, our nitwit SecState and lower level Freedom Caucus robots are pushing for hand counting ballots, no mail-in, vote in person on election day (only)... all things that slow down the count BUT they're going to also throw a fit when the count takes a long time? That sounds like (and IS) a recipe for a rigged election. "Hey we're still counting but it's Trump in a landslide. What a shocker!"

 Red_Dragon wrote:

 Steely_D wrote:

"I've spent an hour in the 'ring' with you."  What a puss.   Pleasantly surprised by Kristen Walker's persistence! 

Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don’t

 Steely_D wrote:

Yeah, I don't think Donnie would throw a hissy fit at Bret Baier. Unfortunately, Bret's a company man who'd never confront Drumpf. 

He got quite the welcome at Madison Square Garden this evening. 

Very Stable Genius