#fogell

[mannytoodope]

Seth: What is the world? What's up with that?

Fogell: It's a vest, Seth. I'm trying to look older.

Seth: You look like Pinocchio.

Evan: It's just a vest.

[pianokantzart]

"He's afraid of everything. He's a little awkward, every so often he gets a little aggressive... he's very complicated."

Hearing Matthew Fogel describe Luigi like that, plus some of the expressions in the concept art, has me hoping that at some point (in a very reasonable set of situations) Luigi's going to snap Charlie Kelley style.

[mikyapixie]

24 years ago today Justice League premiered on Cartoon Network!!!

A TRUE TIME HONORED CLASSIC!!!🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

[girlactionfigure]

[sw1tchbackli]

Marc Fogel, a teacher from Pennsylvania speaks to the media at the White House following his release from a Russian prison and returning to the United States 🇺🇸. He’s beeen held there since 2021.

“I’m not a hero. President Trump is the hero”

President Trump once again made good on his promises to Marc Fogel and the American people.

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[pierppasolini]

By the Law (1926) // dir. Lev Kuleshov

[brummelliana]

i wrote the lenghty anonymous ask about me and friends experience playing CBML and jesus christ this still fucking haunts me.

What's wrong with seeing a beautiful woman in ecstasy?

[mediademon]

Cat Person (2023) dir. Susanna Fogel

[chantssecrets]

Seymour Fogel, Three Street Musicians, 1933, Litho crayon and pencil.

[addictivecontradiction]

Booksmart, 2019

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lauren Gambino at The Guardian:

Donald Trump on Tuesday declared that his administration was “just getting started”, boasting in a marathon address to Congress that his efforts to slash the size of the federal workforce, reorient US foreign policy and escalate a risky trade war marked the beginning of the “most thrilling days in the history of our country” as Democratic lawmakers protested with placards that read “lies” and “false”.

“America is back,” Trump declared, opening his primetime speech to a joint session of Congress, the first of his second term and the longest in American history. Republicans broke into a boisterous chant of “USA”. Throughout the address, which lasted about one hour and 40 minutes, a jocular Trump touted his administration’s “swift and unrelenting action” and praised the work of his billionaire adviser Elon Musk, who has led his administration’s efforts to dramatically downsize the federal government through his so-called “department of government efficiency”. “Thank you, Elon,” Trump said, gesturing to Musk, who was seated in the house gallery overlooking the chamber where Democrats waved paddles that read “Musk steals”. Trump seized the high-profile moment to defend his administration’s action during the first weeks of his return to power, including, according to his tally, nearly 100 executive orders and more than 400 executive actions. “The people elected me to do the job, and I am doing it,” he said, making no mention of the legal challenges that have stalled many of his actions and deepening fears that his trade war will plunge the country into economic turmoil.

Trump also expanded on his “America first” foreign policy vision, just days after a dramatic Oval Office meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, spiraled out of control as Trump and JD Vance berated him over a perceived lack of respect. During his remarks, Trump recited from a letter Zelenskyy had shared earlier in the day, indicating that he was ready to return to the negotiating table to end Russia’s three-year war. The US had simultaneously received “strong signals” from Russia that Moscow was “ready for peace”, Trump said. “Wouldn’t that be beautiful?” Elsewhere, Trump envisioned the US expanding. He declared that his administration was in the process of “reclaiming the Panama canal” and repeated his threat to take control of Greenland: “One way or the other, we’re going to get it.” With performative flair, Trump offered a sampling of initiatives he said Musk’s team had identified as wasteful, among them the creation of an Arab Sesame Street, “making mice transgender” and promoting LGBTQ+ rights in Lesotho, the African country he said “nobody has ever heard of”. “This is real,” he exclaimed, drawing laughs from half of the chamber. Trump claimed that Musk’s cost-cutting efforts had identified “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud”. But his estimate vastly overstated the savings Doge says it has generated, a figure which itself is based on accounting that multiple reports have found is riddled with errors and distortions. Early in the night, as Trump bragged about the size of his electoral college and popular vote victory – “a map that reads almost completely red for Republican” – Democrats heckled and booed, prompting the House speaker, Mike Johnson, to bang his gavel and demand decorum. “You don’t have a mandate,” shouted the Texas representative, Al Green. When the congressman, who last month filed articles of impeachment against Trump, refused to be seated, the speaker ordered him removed from the chamber. Trump claimed a mandate for “bold and profound change”, though at 1.5 points his winning margin in the popular vote was historically narrow and three points less than Joe Biden’s four years earlier.

[...] Past presidents have used the first major speech as an opportunity to reach across party lines and offer areas of common ground. Trump did the opposite. He taunted his political foes, blaming his predecessor for the price of eggs and claiming his victory ushered in a wave of tech investments that wouldn’t have happened if Kamala Harris had won the election. At one point he called Joe Biden the “worst president in American history”, drawing applause from Republicans.

“Why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America,” Trump chided stone-faced Democrats. At least a handful of Democrats walked out of the speech early. Trump celebrated his clampdown on the US immigration and asylum system and called on the Republican-led Congress to deliver additional federal funding to expand his border crackdown and extend his first-term tax cuts. Some Democrats held signs that said “Save Medicaid” to highlight the social safety net programs that could be at risk under a Republican budget blueprint to deliver Trump’s sprawling agenda. The president also ticked through many of his controversial actions, from renaming the Gulf of Mexico to making English the country’s official language, and banning trans women from women’s sports. “Our counatry will be woke no longer,” he declared. The speech was riddled with falsehoods and misleading claims, including a riff about millions of centenarians aged “110 to 119” receiving social security benefits. “We have a healthier country than I thought, Bobby,” he quipped, referencing Robert F Kennedy Jr, his recently installed secretary of health and human services, who leads the vaccine-skeptical “Make America healthy again” movement. The 15 guests who joined Melania Trump, the first lady, to watch the address included the widow and daughter of Corey Comperatore, the firefighter who was killed at the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Trump survived an assassination attempt, as well as Marc Fogel, the American teacher Trump helped free from a Russian prison last month. Other guests were intended to highlight the administration’s policies, including family members of Americans killed by men in the US without legal status, and anti-trans advocates. There were poignant moments. Trump paused his remarks to sign an executive order renaming a wildlife refuge near Houston for an animal-loving 12-year-old girl who prosecutors say was killed by two Venezuelan men in the country illegally. Turning to another guest, 13-year-old Devarjaye “DJ��� Daniel, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2018, Trump directed his Secret Service director to make him an honorary US Secret Service agent. The House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, had encouraged his members to attend the address in order to demonstrate a “strong, determined and dignified Democratic presence in the chamber”. Many did attend, bringing fired federal workers and Americans who rely on social safety net programs threatened by Republicans’ budget proposal.

Last night’s SOTU-esque joint address from fascist felon Donald Trump was more of the same for him: the greatest hits of lies, distortions, calumny, and bigotry that wouldn’t be out of place at one of his campaign rallies.

See Also:

HuffPost: Five Takeaways From Trump’s Joint Speech To Congress

Daily Kos: Here are the worst moments from the worst speech from the worst president

Vox: Trump’s (very long) speech to Congress, explained in 500 words

[mikyapixie]

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[saywhat-politics]

Accused Russian money launderer Alexander Vinnik is being released from US custody in exchange for Marc Fogel, a Trump administration source told CNN Wednesday.

Vinnik is accused of running a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange that allegedly did business with drug dealers and identity thieves. Vinnik was arrested in 2017 in Greece and subsequently extradited to France, where he was sentenced to five years in prison in 2020 for money laundering. He was extradited from France to the United States in 2022.

According to the source, Vinnik has to forfeit money seized by the US government as part of the exchange.

The release of Fogel in exchange for Vinnik comes as President Donald Trump has renewed his focus on trying to quickly end the war in Ukraine. On Tuesday, he suggested that the release of Fogel was a “good faith” gesture by the Russians. On Wednesday, Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about war and said negotiations to end it will begin “immediately.”

Fogel’s release was followed by the release of another American, this time from Belarus, on Wednesday. Trump had teased the release of another American on Tuesday.

The American, who was not named out of a request for privacy, was part of a group of three political prisoners who were freed Wednesday. The other two included Andrey Kuznechyk, who worked for the US-backed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Alena Maushuk, according to the administration.

The American was detained in September 2024 and is the second American released from Belarus under the Trump administration. Anastassia Nuhfer had been detained in December 2024 and was released in January.

[bergiesims]

Steve Fogel

Regardless of where you encounter Steve Fogel, you can be guaranteed to have a good laugh. Will he be able to achieve his dream and become a legend of comedy?

Tray Files (including Packs Used and CC List) are below the break.

You guyssss - Steve is adorable! I am having a blast with him as I play test his house and mess around with the Comedian career. Pit of Judgment is the name of his first ever comedy special (the jokes are very corny and Bergie is for it), so I took some screenshots of him testing out his new material in San Myshuno!

Tray Files: SimFileShare | Google Drive

CC Creator Shout-Out: @aharris00britney @madameriasims4 @nords-sims @nucrests @luumia @okruee

[magamiaa]

Get these terrorists out of our country once and for all !

Our president is a clean bill of health 💪

GOOD 👍

Since Trump has taken office 26 American hostages have been brought home !

Biden didn't care or even try

Trump did !

Thank you President Trump 🇺🇸