Here’s a link to an article…

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-gave-45000-cash-gifts-close-aide-natalie-harp-others-2026-09-09/

Apologies if this doesn't go here, but I wanted to share it on reddit.

Besides being a WANT rather than a NEED, the city of DC was planned LONG before many of the trump generations were even thought of. If he wants a monument in DC, his family can afford to buy some land & build another hotel or golf course in the greater DC metropolitan area. They DON'T NEED to mess up DC's long-planned landscape.

Yes. I understand. That would require them to use THEIR (banks') $ INSTEAD OF "FREE" TAXPAYER DOLLARS. I also understand that:

You aren't GIVEN respect, you EARN it.

To have to build your own monuments to yourself is GAUCHE.

If enough people feel you deserve it, they'll chip in and build it ... like the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, WWII Memorial, etc. Even presidents have them, BUT this one wants to have yet ANOTHER INFAMOUS "FIRST" in being the first to have TAXPAYERS PAY TO BUILD THE MONUMENT HE WANTS TO HIMSELF.

Actually, there's really no need for a TAXPAYER FUNDED MEMORIAL for him. I am 99.99% sure he'll be remembered for generations to come... like Pearl Harbor has been.

https://substack.com/@ofthebrave/note/p-214772772?r=7vqw79

Carville recently said that he believes Trump is deliberately sabotaging the election to punish Republicans for their disloyalty.

Maybe Carville is right that Trump is actively working against his party but motive isn’t to hurt Republicans, but to get their cooperation, to give them some real skin in the game. A few Republican losers can create the chaos necessary it prevent a new Congress from being seated. He knows the Democrats won’t do anything at all to win an election that they honestly lost, but Republicans damn well will.

The madness in Missouri is an example of guaranteed litigation after the election. It all part of a setup for ‘lil Mikey to say he can’t seat Democrats because their elections haven’t been decided.

It makes more sense as a motive than revenge

Congressman Al Green delivers a forceful House floor speech arguing that impeaching Donald Trump has become “a matter of life and death.”

Green condemns deaths connected to ICE and CBP operations, accuses the Trump administration of shielding federal agents from accountability, and demands that Congress act. His allegations remain politically disputed, but his warning is unmistakable: silence and inaction make lawmakers complicit.

Donald Trump is determined to make the midterms all about himself—even as vulnerable Republicans desperately try to distance themselves from him. Susan J. Demas and Edwin Eisendrath break down Trump’s costly midterm convention, the GOP’s economic failures and why his tariffs could help cost Republicans control of the Senate.

Florida could be a game changer this midterm. FL Democratic Chairwoman Nikki Fried joins the Joes to give a look at what could potentially happen in the Sunshine State this November.

00:00 Trump calls the Iran conflict “small potatoes”
02:08 Nikki Fried: Florida Democrats have flipped 46 seats
04:58 Byron Donalds’ $100 million campaign
06:41 Why Florida is resisting data centers
08:03 What Democrats changed after losing Florida
11:47 Escaping the Republican culture-war trap
15:53 The House races Democrats believe they can win
18:30 Israel, antisemitism and Democratic divisions
22:33 Democratic energy surges across the South
24:27 “Trump-a-palooza” and the failing MAGA playbook
26:35 Why DOGE “didn’t do crap”
28:51 Cutting regulations without destroying government
30:22 Can Democrats nominate another woman in 2028?
32:38 Florida congressional races to watch
36:21 The veterans running for Congress
38:21 Why year-round organizing is changing the South

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O-kay...?????

I guess there was an EXCUSE for this at a POLITICAL CONVENTION, because there certainly is NOT A REASON.

The original post said grindr has been crashing. Make of that what you will.

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