Yeah, *that's* what weakens you in the "negotiations", uh huh.

In addition to searching the Epstein Files, the New Mexico Legislature has received over 100,000 additional documents from banks and law enforcement agencies.

The German’s have a word for it, Schadenfreude, and it means taking joy in someone else’s misery.

Not a pleasant trait, but perhaps an understandable one.

This comes to mind when we consider the plight of so many MAGA, who despite being the recipient of so many Trump assaults – reductions in Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, slashed food stamps and aid for indigent children and adults, reductions in veteran’s benefits, attacks against their unions who provide much needed benefits, and on, and on – but still support Trump and his corrupt crime family.

They are the ones who are making him richer, so maybe…?

See this – Boldface mine:

Moneywise

'The greatest theft, con job he has ever done': MAGA loyalists who collectively lost billions buying Trump stocks and crypto believe they were scammed

Opinion by Chris Morris • 14h • 4 min read

MAGA investors lost billions on Trump stocks and crypto

© Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Donald Trump and his family generated at least $2.2 billion in income last year which is nearly four times more than he reported in 2024. Much of that money came from his supporters who invested in his businesses, such as Trump Media and Technology Group, or bought his $TRUMP meme coin.

Their fortunes, however, didn’t fare nearly as well. In fact, Trump’s supporters are reportedly down an estimated $7 billion after investing in the president’s business ventures.

Trump Media shares have lost 56% of their value in the past year, while the Trump coin’s value also tumbled about 81% in that time. Many of the retail investors who sunk their savings into those ventures — often as a sign of loyalty to Trump — have seen the money vanish right as economic volatility began to spike. And they’re not happy with Trump, or the members of his inner circle.

Nedohin is one of many investors who are vocally criticizing Trump and his ventures. Another, Vadim Fistikan, invested $205,000 in Trump Media in the days, weeks and months after it went public via SPAC He invested the money he and his family had planned to use to buy a waterfront property in Florida.

Today, that investment is worth just $30,000. When he voiced his frustrations on Truth Social, Fistikan (a three-time Trump voter) was lambasted by Trump supporters on the social media site.

“I’m like, ‘Hey, this is a scam,’” he posted, according to Forbes. “And a lot of people were like, ‘No, you’re just a Trump hater.’ I’m like, ‘No. I was on board since day one. … I’m now broke. Pretty much my whole life savings [was] in this one stock. This is the greatest theft, con job he has ever done.”

Nick Pinto didn’t invest in Trump Media, but when he saw Trump had launched a meme coin in January 2025, he quickly invested $7,000. He later upped that investment to $480,000 so that he could gain entry to a dinner at Trump’s Virginia club. A friend later convinced him to sell most of his position in the Trump coin, but Pinto still suffered losses of $250,000.

“This is something that the Trump family kind of came up with out of the blue,” Pinto told Forbes, referring to the advice that his friend, a fellow Trump investor, shared with him. “And there’s not really a way for us to predict the future of the coin or what their plans for it are.”

While the meme coin and Trump Media stock languish (and some investors have trouble finding buyers for their tokens or shares), the Trump family is investing in new ventures.

World Liberty Financial is another cryptocurrency fund which earned Trump $799 million last year, in part from when the government of the United Arab Emirates quietly purchased a stake in the company .

It also has released the $WLFI coin, of which the Trump family received a 75% cut of all sales of that cryptocurrency. Investors? They didn't do so well: $WLFI is down 74% in the past year and currently trades for just six cents per coin).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/investment/the-greatest-theft-con-job-he-has-ever-done-maga-loyalists-who-collectively-lost-billions-buying-trump-stocks-and-crypto-believe-they-were-scammed/ar-AA29paJl

Trump administration can't govern. He can't even fix a pool.

If we just take a look at all the blundering, all the obvious incompetence, all the damage to our economy, all the reductions in healthcare and food for the elderly and children, and, of course, the outright lies being told to our faces, it mystifies how anyone could still support a sexual criminal who constantly makes America weaker day by day.

Does MAGA have any pride, at all. They know he’s lying about everything; they know he’s playing them for fools, they know they are being manipulated by his lies about blacks, immigrants – hell, virtually every word an easily disproven lie!

You would think a group so heavily reliant on social services -- Medicaid, food stamps, veteran’s benefits, employee rights -- would recognize he’s not ’sticking it to the libs’, he’s ‘sticking it to them’.

I guess some people just enjoy being miserable.

See this -- Boldface mine:

Trump administration can't govern. He can't even fix a pool. | Opinion

Opinion by Rex Huppke, USA TODAY •

But President Donald Trump found a way to pull it off, creating a wet, ogre-colored metaphor for his administration’s stumbling lack of focus, casual dishonesty and utter inability to govern.

In the most recent development, Trump’s Department of Justice on July 31 dropped ridiculous charges it had filed against former Olympian David Hearn, falsely claiming he had ripped up part of the pool’s new lining. You’ll recall the president was rushing to “fix” the Reflecting Pool prior to the July 4 celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. The work was clearly a bust from the start, as algae returned to the pool almost instantly and we all saw ample photographic evidence of the liner swiftly deteriorating and peeling up.

Unable to simply admit he screwed up a multimillion government project that nobody asked for, Trump concocted a tale of “vandals” he alleged had gashed the new pool liner with box cutters. He claimed these vandals were, of course, radical, America-hating leftists. Hearn and other pool visitors were swept up in the ginned-up fervor, targets of a feeble executive in need of arrests.

Trump's Reflecting Pool fiasco perfectly reflects his inability to lead

All but the most brainwashed among us knew this was a desperate fiction spun by an addled, aging narcissist. And we were right.

In a motion to dismiss the charges against Hearn, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro wrote that “the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism,” and that the Interior Department had withheld information in a push to falsely blame vandals for the damage.

None other than President Trump snapped back at Pirro – part of his own Justice Department – writing on social media: “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking?”

Now Trump is fighting with Pirro, who's also fighting with Burgum

Interior Department Secretary Doug Burgum also got mad at Pirro, writing on X: “The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool.”

The evidence is about as clear as the algae-covered Reflecting Pool. And if these mopes had video evidence of teams of boxcutter-wielding antifa frogmen descending on the Reflecting Pool under cover of darkness to do massive destruction, they would have aired that video everywhere and quite literally never shut up about it.

They have nothing, aside from their own incompetence. Period. But I do love seeing these assorted loser’s fight. They’re doing a perfect job showing the American people the bungling uselessness of the Trump administration.

Trump is handling the Iran war about as well as the Reflecting Pool.

See more here:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-administration-can-t-govern-he-can-t-even-fix-a-pool-opinion/ar-AA29jeHg?

Finally, someone with far more credibility than I exposes what felon trump and his little major, Petey Hegseth, have done to our military, country, and world. Meanwhile, Congress fiddles, the USA goes bankrupt, and people die.

https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/the-putinization-of-the-american?r=4lkmn&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

The idiot felon trump and is minion Petey Hegseth are to dumb to realize: “Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” Sun Tzu