The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Cristiano]

 

[Casey Pelous]

Funny enough, this is one of the areas that I looked up in Google Maps to find examples of bullshit infrastructure, like these two homes that are 1.7 kilometers apart:

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

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Or this shitty road layout:

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

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I may be misunderstanding, but I think the reference was to a district in Minnesota. Those places you're showing are in Missouri.

Geographically, Missouri is what is known, technically, as "pretty much a butthole."

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Trump has had his lawyers present some pretty dodgy legal arguments. He didn't even wait for the first hearing this time.

 

[Ryanna Enfield]

Look out for the less shitty, but still a total shit sandwich, option to be rammed through shortly. Maybe partial federal funding. We have seen this show from Trump before. He is incapable of change.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

They'll just bus their newly unhoused out to blue states and leave them there. Wouldn't be the first time.

Helluva good way for those states to lose House seats and electoral votes though.

 

[detrius]

I may be misunderstanding, but I think the reference was to a district in Minnesota. Those places you're showing are in Missouri.

Geographically, Missouri is what is known, technically, as "pretty much a butthole."

My bad - I switched my bookmarks for St. Louis and St. Paul.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Guardian (@theguardian.com)

Trump has refused to pay £290,000 in legal fees after case dismissed in UK, court told https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/trump-has-refused-to-pay-290000-in-legal-fees-after-case-dismissed-in-uk-court-told?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

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[Kamilah Hauptmann]

@clatch.bsky.social

Send the fucking bailiffs to his golf course and start taking shit.

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[Jopsy Pendragon]

Helluva good way for those states to lose House seats and electoral votes though.

@clatch.bsky.social

Send the fucking bailiffs to his golf course and start taking shit.

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Heck, eminent domain his golf course. Auction it off and keep the change.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Heck, eminent domain his golf course. Auction it off and keep the change.

Seize it as a public asset.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Unfortunately, his golf courses and other UK properties are owned by The Trump Organisation, a corporate body, and the debt is owed by him personally. This makes collecting it somewhat complex.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Lay claim to the Trump Org itself.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Guardian (@theguardian.com)

Trump orders opening of migrant detention center at Guantánamo Bay https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/trump-guantanamo-detention-center?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

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Trump signaled earlier on Wednesday that he intended to issue an order instructing the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to open a center in order to “detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people”.

“Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust the countries [of origin] to hold them because we don’t want them coming back,” he said. “So we’re going to send them out to Guantánamo. This will double our capacity immediately.”

If I properly understand this, he intends to intern detainees indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay, pretty much beyond the reach of US federal courts and habeas corpus.

To quote Lord Steyn's 2003 F H Mann Memorial Lecture, Guantanamo Bay: The legal black hole, in which he eviscerated the then US government's detaining "irregular combatants" there,

Having invoked a historical perspective, I must acknowledge that, despite the Magna Carta, in harsher times England resorted to the expedient of sending prisoners beyond the reach of the rule of law. One of the charges made against Edward Hyde, the First Earl of Clarendon, in his impeachment in 1667 was that he had attempted to preclude habeas corpus by sending persons to "remote islands, garrisons, and other places, thereby to prevent them from the benefit of the law", that is by sending persons to places where the writ of habeas corpus would not be available. In 1679 this loophole was blocked by section 11 of the Habeas Corpus Amendment Act 1679. For more than three centuries such stratagems to evade habeas corpus have been unlawful in England.

 

[Soen Eber]

Funny enough, this is one of the areas that I looked up in Google Maps to find examples of bullshit infrastructure, like these two homes that are 1.7 kilometers apart:

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

maps.app.goo.gl

Or this shitty road layout:

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

maps.app.goo.gl

Both examples make sense in "American Suburbs" logic. The owners of those homes don't want strangers driving around who have no business in their neighborhoods. It's one of those irregular verbs: "I want quiet and safe streets", "You don't want a lot of traffic or casual visitors near your home", "He is scared sh*tless of minorities and drug dealers and the poor getting within 3 miles of his wife and kids or his evangelical church."

 

[Casey Pelous]

Seize it as a public asset.

Quick accounting question; don't assets have positive net worth?

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Quick accounting question; don't assets have positive net worth?

Can seize the asset but leave him with the debt to shady Russian mobsters... lol.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

5 out of 5 stars for this -descriptive- screed on The Mango Moron... exceptional!

British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read - London Daily

[...] Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. [...]

 

[Free]

Excellent plan. Just so hugely excellent. I can't see any problems with it.

Trump says he will send migrants to Guantanamo Bay

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will order his administration to prepare Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. military base in Cuba where terrorism suspects have been held for decades, to detain migrants.

Trump, at a ceremony to sign an immigration detention bill into law, said he would also sign an executive order Wednesday instructing his Defense and Homeland Security departments to ready Guantanamo’s “migrant facility.”

Trump said there are thousands of beds in Guantanamo to “detain the worst criminal illegal aliens.”

“We don’t want them coming back,” Trump said. “So we’re going to send them out to Guantanamo.”

And once they're sent there... ? Oh, this is truly the best plan ever, Mr. President. 8 out of 5 stars.

 

[Noodles]

Unfortunately, his golf courses and other UK properties are owned by The Trump Organisation, a corporate body, and the debt is owed by him personally. This makes collecting it somewhat complex.

This sort of crap annoys me so much with these rich assholes. It's all "licences and backward deals" so everything is obfuscated from any sort of real reprocussions.

 

[Isabeau]

Heartening to read all the comments and support in this r/fednews thread if you need a little pick-me-up

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/Z8RU9Fe5Wm

Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social)

Incredible things continue to happen on the federal worker subreddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1icqyh1/to_my_fellow_feds_especially_veterans_were_at_war/

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