This should be unconscionable and yet it is just an average Tuesday.
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2026
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BIDEN AND harris also wore one, it broke thier minds still.
I take it as a sign that things won't last much longer.
When the thing that's supposed to help keep the government in check is instead running cover for them, the top will start wobbling
People voted for a criminal known for corruption. So it isn't really unexpected or a scandal.
The article for anyone who's curious. 385 accounts closed back in 2021.
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/02/g-s1-136834/capital-one-trump-bank-anti-money-laundering
PS, thanks to the internet, there's a fuckton of independent news media that is covering the CapOne money laundering accounts. If your news diet isn't covering it, it might be time to browse about for sources to add to it.
No it wouldn't. It'd barely register and maybe take up one spot in the 24 hour news cycle, then everyone would forget in two weeks tops. Let's not kid ourselves. Trump isn't special. He's not better at media manipulation than any other retired actor. Our media just doesn't report things that people with money don't want reported, and more importantly, they never report on anything for more than a week.
Gosh, maybe millionaires shouldn't be your presidents. I seem to recall the tan suit being reported for at least 3 days though
I'm on mobile for the moment, but for a good deep dive into this, hunt down the Behind the Bastards two parter on How The Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win
Part one gets into the Jewish owned German newspapers that sided with NSDAP because their owners identified more with ownership class than they did their Jewish working class brethren.
Part two is about the present day news media bending the knee to Trump.
This is a screen cap of the media covering the story though
Now the President has a tan stripe on his pants and people rarely say anything! What progress!
100% "flood the zone".
The worst part is now that the strategy has been completely and utterly validated, they're all gonna do it. This is the new status quo.
The Media has accepted that there is no "busting Trump", they've given up trying to give him scandals.... They know they "don't have him this time", his fanbase will never care.
Man they put out an anti-terrorism thing where they straight up said, "We will find you, and we will kill you." About Americans with a marginalized political identity (Anarchism, in this case), and it straight up wasn't in NYT AT ALL.
it would be 24/7 coverage for weeks.
Back then there was one issue and you could cover it for weeks. Or there wasn't anything serious so you cover tan suits. Now there are so many issues you could cover a new one every day.
This is honestly what blows my mind. Sure, this should be first page matter under any other president. But so would so many other things that it doesn’t mean anything anymore
Bannon's "Flood the zone with shit" strategy is the one thing MAGA has managed to succeed at.
The press should shrink the articles accordingly to their number.
We would basically get a first page of large phrases.
That is intentional. Bannon called it “muzzle velocity”.
that was just the dodge ball for the real reason, which involves a little extra melanin
No one cared about the color of his suit...
They just picked stuff and claimed that was the problem, because it wasn't acceptable to say what their real problem was.
Continuing to not understand that, or "play dumb to point out their hypocrisy" is a waste of time and only helps them.
They were definately angry about color
Yeah...
I thought I made that clear enough
Yes you did, I see now there was no need to clarify. In my defence, I was on strong pain meds at the time of posting that.
gullible broke uneducated maga voters would cut off their own arm if it meant that black people would suffer
New mission: make them think that cutting off their own arms will make black people suffer.
I bet it hurts more when you beat them using your other arm as the club.
No, it's because the human mind wants a hierarchy just like the mind of literally every social animal.
That's why almost every civilization has had to deal with racism, religious persecution, or some other form of caste system.
We fight that by erasing the lines, not reducing and insulting the people on the other side of the line the oligarchs drew.
That's literally what they wanted when they drew the line, and why they drew it about something they didn't care about.
Their happy to let us fight, because they don't care who wins.
If we're gonna win, we need to draw our own singular line where we know we have the numbers to win: fighting wealth inequality.
And that has to be done with zero means testing. If something is a human right, we all get it and not even Bill Gates should have to pay for it.
Racism was invented post american slavery as an excuse to why these people are somehow worth less than the people who owned them.
Prior to that, it was typically stuff like "the Germankc tribes must be erradicated" or the classic poor vs rich dynamic we're circling back to now
Racism was invented post american slavery
Do people legitimately believe that shit now?
I remember when it was an obvious over exaggeration like "birds aren't real"....
Racism was more true to the word when they trumpeted black people as being a different species.
It's literally baked into our DNA...
If we're socialized exclusively around people who share any charecteristic, then we will instinctively distrust people we meet later in life who don't share that characteristic.
Critical thinking can override those prejudices, until we start to age and see the natural effects of aging into our 60s.
That's why the only hominid left standing is homo sapiens and we have less genetic diversity than most endangered species.
That's why we still latch on to surface level differences like coloration, even though the most genetically diverse place on the planet, is filled to the brim with Black people. And there's more generic differation within "ethnic groups" than the averages between them.
The only way out of it, is raising kids in multicultural environments, or at least showing them multiple cultures on TV. Which is why the money behind the extreme right has always prioritized childrens education and media.
They want to raise a generation that sees skin color as "us/them" which is the result of "sperate but equal".
America is a mixing pot, it only works when everyone's in the same pot.
Some media got bought up by right wing figures. Then Trump did the classic authoritarian move to pressure anyone who had criticism by barring from press conferences and mess with access to for example the Pentagon, stack the FCC with a flunky and threaten media. Of course large media act like cowards and salute the new ruler.
God I wish the marksmanship pre election was better
Trumps team didn't want someone with good aim firing a shot.
What are the American People going to do about it? That is your answer.
There's a resistance, but its struggling to organize a large population of sympathizers. The organizers are trying hard while they are still free.
You best hope they succeed, since the ultra-wealthy ownership class is proportionately richer than any other point in history. Enough that they can buy all the elections and control all the governments.
So if we don't effectively fight back, once they've finished gutting the US, they'll come for your society as well.
And we'll see what your people will do about it.
I am in the US. I am seeing that my people are so individualistic they can't organize. Have been taught helplessness to such a degree that we have been robbed so blind that must of us are poor and sick. Thats the tally. We'll see what we can make of it before the land stops producing food.
They're gonna starve to death about it.
MMW millions of Americans are going to die.
Historically low water level in two crucial US reservoirs threatens water and power for millions
Harvest Failure: Climate Change, American Farmers, and the Hunger Growing in the World’s Breadbasket
Probably nothing but I'm hoping enough get up and vote to get control of the house and senate out of the republicans' hands.
You can easily find every single President from at least 1970 onward having worn a tan suit while in office.
The hypocrisy is exhausting.
Yes he's a paedophile gangster but he serves Israel and the Epstein class so he gets a pass.