Watching Ike address the nation when I was a little kid turned me into a political junky for life. And visiting his library and museum twice only reinforced that. Especially since do you know what Ike had? Nothing short of the free world to save or lose. And the one thing I bought and still have at Ike's museum is the D-Day note he threw away. There was no guarantee the D Day invasion would succeed. In fact the odds were against it. So Ike wrote a little note in case if failed. Where he said they had failed to gain the foothold they needed and responsibility for that failure was his alone. You know what they used to call taking personal responsibility.But D-Day succeed so he didn't need that note so he threw it away. But an aide retrieved it and saved it because there was a true leader and future president. And I treasure that.

Eisenhower was one of our greatest presidents ever because he brought the horrors of war back with him and governed to prevent that from happening again.

But where would Eisenhower be today in the Republican party? Surely more reviled and attacked worse than Liz Cheney.

 

Letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, by Dwight Eisenhower, November 8, 1954

Dear Ed:

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas.4 Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

As ever

 

Tell y9u what since they are now publicly available why don't you just go to Trump's tax returns and post the ones where he is making money. I'll wait.

I saw an ex prosecutor explain this perfectly. Suppose you are trying to prosecute a mob boss that never gives direct orders or puts anything in writing. You have witnesses to his crimes they are either loyal enough to lie or the ones that aren't are criminals themselves making anything they say suspect. The investigation is hard, complex, and risky. And then you get a call from an informant saying the boss is right then at the airport transferring stolen jewelry onto a plane. You swoop in and catch him in the act. Then you don't have to prove conspiracy to murder or racketeering. Just the stolen jewelry is enough to put him away. And stolen classified material is just as good as stolen jewelry in Trump's case.

 

Well, fuck, about time, eh? 37 failed investigations, over 7 years, and finally, FINALLY they might get their perp walk.

How embarrassing is that?

 

Haven't you heard? The IRS was not doing its job.

 

You should call Trump's lawyers and tell them to use the "they haven't caught me yet" defense.

 

Yep it's up there with donnie and his lackeys 60+ failed court cases to get the 2020 election turned over.

And a lot of the judges presiding over those cases were appointed by donnie himself, now ain't that a hoot.

 

It reminds of a Mafia guy running for election. My opponent says I am a man of no convictions. So what? 82 arrested no convictions. That's a god thing.

 

Or like the prosecutor running for reelection; 37 investigations and we couldn't even get the grand jury to indict him for lying.
Reelect me; you'll never have to worry about being indicted for anything.

 

Farron Cousins says it spot on....



What staggers me about American politics is that everyone knows that there's plenty of corruption going on but the media barely ever pulls them up on it and the voters don't vote them out.

 

We get the government we deserve.
Just like the Aussies, eh?

 

Trump NFT Mania Gets a Very Short Term as Sales Nearly Vanish

Andrew Hayward
Mon, January 9, 2023 at 2:13 PM MST


It’s been less than a month since Donald Trump’s official NFT trading cards launched to a mostly perplexed response, even from his supporters, and the ensuing hype was sizable but short-lived. Now the NFT trading card project has slumped to new lows as trading demand continues to vanish.

Secondary market trading volume for the Trump Digital Trading Cards project hit a new daily low of just over $21,000 on Sunday, per data from CryptoSlam. The largest single-day tally for the project so far in 2023 is just shy of $33,000 on January 5.


Sunday’s tally marks a more than 99% decrease in daily volume from the peak day on December 17, when more than $3.5 million worth of the NFTs were traded soon after the original primary sale. There were more than 2,000 unique buyers on that date last month, and over 3,300 unique buyers on December 16 as prices started climbing.

Trump NFTs Crater With Daily Sales Down 98% From Peak

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But on Sunday, when sales volume hit a new daily low, CryptoSlam reported just 28 unique buyers across 98 total transactions. Likewise, prices have fallen sharply since the peak. The floor price, or cost of the cheapest-listed NFT on a marketplace, has dropped from a high of about 0.84 ETH ($995) on December 17 to just 0.16 ETH ($215) today.

That’s still more than double the original $99 mint price, representing a potential profit for users who purchased one of the digital cards during the primary sale. However, holders who purchased on the secondary market at or near the peak of the hype may find diminishing resale demand for the disgraced former president’s digital collectibles.

The NFT collection spans 45,000 digital cards showing the one-time leader in fantastical cosplay, dressed up as an astronaut, cowboy, or superhero. The collectibles were minted on Polygon, an Ethereum sidechain, and offered initial buyers a chance to win perks like dinner or a meet-and-greet opportunity with Trump.

The project sold out 44,000 of the NFTs within 24 hours, generating more than $4 million from the primary sale, with the other 1,000 collectibles held back by the creators. Since then, the Trump NFTs have yielded more than $10 million worth of secondary market trades, with the Utah-based company behind the collection taking a 10% cut from any sales on marketplaces that enforce resale royalties.

Donald Trump Says He Launched NFTs for the 'Sort of Cute' Art

The NFTs were widely mocked across social media and on late-night television shows, including on “Saturday Night Live,” and quickly surged in value and trading activity.

But as the latest sales data shows, the initial spike has rapidly given way to apathy among traders who might have bought in “for the lulz” just a few short weeks back. Even Crypto Twitter is barely paying attention to them anymore, moving on to Solana’s dog-themed BONK token and other so-called “degen” plays.

To be fair, it’s very common for a prominent NFT collection to surge in value and trading demand just after its launch, and then see that momentum fall off a cliff. That happened with Art Gobblers, for example—a controversial Ethereum project that debuted in late October and quickly surged. On Sunday, it racked up less sales volume than Trump’s project, per CryptoSlam, with just over $16,000 worth across five transactions.

It’s much rarer for an NFT project to sustain hype over a long period of time or peak long after the initial mint, as we’ve seen with the industry-leading Bored Ape Yacht Club, for example. So far, Trump’s NFT collection doesn’t appear to be bucking the trend: it’s only the 96th best-selling project over the last 24 hours, according to CryptoSlam’s ranking.



https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-nft-mania-gets-very-211320979.html