Mamdani’s city-owned grocery stores vs. Trump’s fed-owned gas stations

 

+ Mamdani’s city-owned grocery stores: commie plot!

Trump’s fed-owned gas stations: populist genius!

+ Trump made $2 billion on his crypto swindle and more than a million of his investors lost $3.8 billion…Even PT Barnum didn’t dream of this many suckers. Of course, many of them were probably sycophants or billionaires seeking to curry favor with the Krypto King and had a few million to burn…

+ To put Trump’s crypto haul in perspective, his $2 billion in income for 2025 amounts to the combined average annual salaries of around 29,750 of his MAGA followers (and the rest of us, haters and ridiculers, alike), roughly the population of McMinnville, Oregon or College Park, Maryland.

+ The Wall Street Journal on Trump’s crypto-scam:

“The president raked in cash by issuing new assets—World Liberty tokens and memecoins. But those who bought them at high prices had to suffer as their value went belly up, part of a wider crash in crypto. Political followers and crypto true believers who bought into the Trump brand were left holding the bag. A crypto summer for the president was a crypto winter for them.

“Roughly two-thirds of investors in Trump’s memecoin are currently in the red, according to crypto data provider Nansen, which tracks 1.48 million crypto wallets that bought the token since its January 2025 launch. Many fans spent a few thousand dollars on Trump coins while the biggest spenders shelled out millions for the token. Nansen’s analysis of 26,663 wallets shows that 85% of World Liberty’s $WLFI token buyers in the secondary market are underwater.

+ Unusual for us, SOP for Trump…

+ Trump, admitting the obvious: “Almost anything my kids do–if they buy a truck–they have inside information.” Trump told the NYT that he learned from his first term that “nobody cared” about how much $$ he made while serving as president or whether he used inside info to make it. The emoluments clause is another expired section of the Constitution.

+ Trump fantasizing about a threesome…with, uhm, his sons:

I see my two beautiful sons sitting there. I think I’m going to give one to myself, one to them, and we’ll have a threesome. I’ll pick out one of the two and give them the Congressional Medal of Honor for something, for their genius at hunting and I’ll get one for taking on ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ or something.

+ This is the third or fourth time Trump (who received five draft deferments to avoid military service during the Vietnam War) has mused about awarding himself the Medal of Honor.  He says he’s joking. But if you have to say you’re joking, you probably aren’t.

+ There have been Trumps living in the US since 1895. Yet, through WW I, WW II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, Iraq and now, Iran, none of them has ever served in the military.

+ Orson Welles, “Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/10/roaming-charges-131/