Raskin: This is a Ganster state. This is not a legitimate government

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-05-31T00:35:03.963Z

[Easterncedar]

1. Exactly right

[ananda]

2. And how to plunder and pillage other places too.

That's their only MO.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

3. They're Commies and criminals. Ironically, they won over people by using "commie" against Democrats.

Now they are the Commies and should be called that.

[EmmaLee E]

10. I don't get your drift

Explain your def of "commie"

[yellow dahlia]

4. And they're really good at it...unfortunately. n/t

[kerry-is-my-prez]

5. They use psychological principles. They must have psychologists and psychiatrists working for them.

Propagandizing people is a very involved process - one must know the details of how to do it. When I was a psych major at University of Michigan, we had textbook used Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America” as an example of propaganda. There are textbooks and books that still use that as an example of it.

[yellow dahlia]

6. Indeed.We are watching lots of psychological manipulations and psy-ops at play.

So much of it on RWmedia - scary.

[Irish_Dem]

7. What will be the Trump Crime Syndicate's total haul at the end of four years?

[sop]

13. MSNBC is reporting Trump's net worth has doubled to $5.4 billion since he ran for re-election.

They claim much of that increased wealth is coming from the the Middle East, including the recent deal with an Emirates company to purchase $2 billion of a Trump organization digital coin. Trump's only been in office four months, he's only begun to profit from the presidency.

[Irish_Dem]

14. This is the money we know about.

Double or triple that amount to get to the real number.

Trump wants to be the richest man in the world.
And a trillionaire.

He still will be miserable.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. it is a crime syndicate and we needed an Elliot Ness. Merrick the Meek just enabled it. The Don had/has his cult.

[Karasu]

11. Dude could've been "Merrick the Great" if he'd just slain this beast back in 2021 when he had the fucking chance.

But nope.

[moondust]

9. Agree.

Twilight Zone material.

[sop]

12. Raskin is absolutely correct.

[Ponietz]

15. Democrats had a chance to do something about it in 2021 and blew it -- that's why our favorability rating is at 29%