Jaber Borran

Tag: Trump

  • Put Your Money Were Your Mouth Is

    Over a year ago, when I used to vent a lot about Elon Musk’s heavy involvement in the Trump administration, shutting down many government oversight agencies that had active investigations against him or his companies (estimated at around 70% of all the affected agencies), a good friend of mine made a comment that I should…

  • Reflecting on the Reflecting Pool

    U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro moved to dismiss a felony vandalism indictment against the former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn. Her office stated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool damage was due to a botched contractor installation, not vandalism. This is after so much fanfare and headline-grabbing statements in press conferences by Pirro assuring that there was…

  • Not Just a Right, But Also a Responsibility

    To those friends of mine who did not listen to their wiser friends and voted for a lunatic communist Marxist in 2024: I kept telling you that voting is not just a right, but also a responsibility, but you laughed at me and told me things like: “what else? now I am responsible for what…

  • Senate Confirmation Hearings

    I’m tired of seeing the Democratic senators asking, during their confirmation hearings, Trump’s sycophantic nominees for cabinet positions or federal judgeships or other important positions of power, that “who won the 2020 presidential election,” only to hear the rehearsed response that Biden was certified as the president in January 2021, or more recently, even outright…

  • Hope

    Three things that keep me hopeful about the future of the country, and humanity in general: Long live the King!

  • Shameless Crimes and Coverups, then Name Callings and Deflections

    A large portion of this post is extracted from a recent Talking Feds Substack newsletter. Last Friday, DOJ shipped to the House Judiciary Committee some documents about the Mar-a-Lago prosecution against Donald Trump led by Special Counsel Jack Smith. These are documents that the AG Pam Bondi must have thought would be damning to Jack…

  • Prizes

    When I was at grade school age, there were no private schools in my town, probably not even in the entire country where I grew up. Back then, you didn’t need to have rich parents to be able to go to decent public schools, and even kids from middle class families could find their way…

  • The Gold Card

    The Trump “Gold Card,” a new, fast-track U.S. residency program is finally launched. It allows wealthy foreigners to “gift” $1 million (or $2 million for corporations) to the government for expedited permanent residency and a path to citizenship. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stated the program aims to attract “top of the best” immigrants who significantly…

  • Quiet Piggy

    Earlier this year, when I shared, in a group chat among former classmates, links to news articles about a couple of our president’s own Truth Social posts, one ending with “Long Live the King,” and the other one envisioning the future of Gaza as a casino town with tall buildings and flashy “Trump Hotel” or…

  • A Shameful Stunt

    What a shameful stunt! Now that the pressure has built up and Trump knows he will be losing the House vote on Tuesday, he is suddenly all for releasing the files. Because, you know, he has nothing to hide. Only, so far he has been calling it a hoax (although he and most of his…