The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Noodles]

But, ABC Fake News doesn't run Jimmy Kimmel's show. I think that's ABC's Fake Entertainment division.

If its fake.news, what is he worried about?

Surely the people of the US are smart enoigh to figure out the truth.

Fuck, I made myself sad....

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Can't be an illegal campaign contribution since he isn't running for office.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The following statue popped up today at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It was removed very quickly for unknown reasons.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A Gramscian take on Trump's US.

Notes on the 'Balance of Forces'

Civil Society as a Battlefield

www.unpopularfront.news

(I think it's free to read).

It's amazing (and unnerving) how relevant today are the writings -- necessarily rather opaque, since he wrote them in one of Mussolini's prisons -- of this Italian Marxist theorist.

 

[Free]

Well done, Leon!

Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE

Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.

The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.

Those who accept must report for duty on October 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers — to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination or were allowed to expire.

Musk and DOGE saved Americans so much money! What a genius!

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Michigan Democrat introduces articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.

Good, even if the chances of success are limited. Do it for the record.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

This whole tylenol thing reeks of mafia thugs busting up a bodega because the owner refused to pay for 'protection'.

 

[Free]

What is the drunken bastard up to now?

Hegseth calls military leaders to meet next week in sudden order

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will meet with top military leaders next week, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday, following a report that the rare gathering will include hundreds of generals and admirals.

“The Secretary of War will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week,” chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement to The Hill, offering no additional details.

The Washington Post first reported that Hegseth earlier this week ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice and without a stated reason. The meeting is expected to take place on Tuesday at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va., according to the Post.

More than a dozen people familiar with the matter told the outlet that the directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide — all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, their Navy equivalent and their top enlisted advisers — roughly 800 generals or admirals.

 

[Khamon]

What is the drunken bastard up to now?

Hegseth calls military leaders to meet next week in sudden order

Possibilities include 1) firing a good number of them and telling the few remaining that they have to tow the extra weight; 2) prepping to recall the bulk of our troops for deployment as a federal police force; 3) stripping and examining each individual to ensure cis gender; 4) conducting training to stake colonial claims on all occupied territory; and 5) implanting explosive tracking devices to ensure loyalty.

edit: next Tuesday is September 30th, 2025 and 9+30+2+0+25 == 66

one more really quick edit: they should all wear t-shirts that say "Nice Try but Release the Epstein Files"

 

[Lexxi]

Well done, Leon!

Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE


Musk and DOGE saved Americans so much money! What a genius!

Don't worry, they'll be 'fired' again shortly.

White House threatens sharp cuts in US workforce in shutdown standoff

"Programs that did not benefit from an infusion of mandatory appropriations will bear the brunt of a shutdown," the OMB said in the memo, which the White House provided to the media.

The memo told agencies to submit their proposed reduction-in-force plans to the OMB and to issue notices to employees if they are ultimately shut down.

The memo revealed shutdown planning that the Trump administration has kept quiet about until now. It was also in part a negotiating tactic, with six references in a short document to how Democrats voted against the Republican stopgap funding bill last week.
The federal government is on the brink of its 15th partial shutdown since 1981 because lawmakers have failed to agree on a plan for discretionary funding for the new fiscal year, or about one-quarter of the $7 trillion budget.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

So yeah.... Comey got under Trump's skin and is paying the price for it.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/25/james-comey-indicted-trump-administration

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

What is the drunken bastard up to now?

Hegseth calls military leaders to meet next week in sudden order

I'm 90% convinced that it will be about an offensively stupid "new name" for something that absolutely doesn't need it.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

https://x.com/reshetz/status/1971656647908250061

I'm sure this is a great use of their time and resources. ...probably has the hidden agenda of making them do things just to do them to show he's in charge.

 

[Casey Pelous]

https://x.com/reshetz/status/1971656647908250061

I'm sure this is a great use of their time and resources. ...probably has the hidden agenda of making them do things just to do them to show he's in charge.

Said agenda is not very well hidden.

I'm 90% convinced that it will be about an offensively stupid "new name" for something that absolutely doesn't need it.

"OFFICERS -- I don't like that. Sounds like SOMETHING IS OFF. From NOW ON you will be ONNICERS. AMERICA WILL BE THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WITH ONNICERS. ALL THE OTHERS ARE OFF. NO GOOD. Thank you for your attention to this matter." *attempts salute, walks toward exit, turns around and walks toward actual exit. Exits.*

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Said agenda is not very well hidden.



"OFFICERS -- I don't like that. Sounds like SOMETHING IS OFF. From NOW ON you will be ONNICERS. AMERICA WILL BE THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WITH ONNICERS. ALL THE OTHERS ARE OFF. NO GOOD. Thank you for your attention to this matter." *attempts salute, walks toward exit, turns around and walks toward actual exit. Exits.*

'"Loo ten ant" is a stupid French word! From now on commissioned onnicer ranks will start with assistant deputy, deputy then captain, to reflect out great department of war's emerging role as "special law enforcement and messaging compliance"'

 

[Free]

Hey, everyone...thought I would make a brief note about...well, I just learned that...

ELON MUSK IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES!

(So are Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon.)

Musk, Thiel, Bannon Named In Newly Released Epstein Itinerary

Elon Musk previously broke with President Donald Trump in calling for the Epstein files to be released earlier this year.

www.forbes.com

• The documents released Friday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee include emails to Epstein of his itinerary that included a tentative trip [for Musk!] to Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Dec. 6, 2014, with an annotation that reads “is this still happening?”
• Other entries show plans for breakfast with Bannon on Feb. 16, 2019, lunch with Thiel on Nov. 27, 2017, and a tentative breakfast party with Bill Gates on Dec. 5, 2014.
• The entries indicate Epstein was in contact with Musk, Thiel, Bannon and Gates after he pleaded guilty to state charges of soliciting prostitution in Florida in 2008.

Also, Prince Andrew’s name also appears in a manifest for a flight in May 2000. But not surprise there.

So we have indirect evidence Musk was heading to Epstein's island at some point in December of 2014. What will it take to get proof of him going there?

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Hey, everyone...thought I would make a brief note about...well, I just learned that...

ELON MUSK IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES!

(So are Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon.)

Musk, Thiel, Bannon Named In Newly Released Epstein Itinerary

Elon Musk previously broke with President Donald Trump in calling for the Epstein files to be released earlier this year.

www.forbes.com

Also, Prince Andrew’s name also appears in a manifest for a flight in May 2000. But not surprise there.

So we have indirect evidence Musk was heading to Epstein's island at some point in December of 2014. What will it take to get proof of him going there?

YEP. There are pictures of him with them so this isn't a huge shock. I won't celebrate that much till we get evidence he did illegal things with them.... which wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Free]

YEP. There are pictures of him with them so this isn't a huge shock.

Pictures of him ON THE ISLAND?

 

[Free]

Just keep playing your games, MAGA management. It'll only help us in the end.

The GOP Effort to Hide the Epstein Files Just Hit a Disgusting New Low

Republicans are attempting to delay swearing in a recently-elected Democratic member of Congress so she can’t become the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

newrepublic.com

Recently-elected Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva could deliver the tie-breaking vote to release the government’s files on alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. That is, if House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t delay her swearing in—and it looks like he’s planning to.

Grijalva, who won 68 percent of the vote in a special election for Arizona’s 7th congressional district earlier this week, is set to tip the scales for Democrats and their few Republican allies hoping to force the government’s hand on the long-awaited release of documents on Epstein. But when exactly she’ll be sworn-in isn’t set, and it’s cause for concern.

Grijalva could be sworn in when Congress is back in session on October 7, but if Johnson waits for Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to deliver the official vote certification she will have to wait until at least October 14, and be sidelined during the vote.

“I think that maybe it has to do with the fact that I am the 218th signer to push for a vote on the release of the Epstein files,” Grijalva told KGUN 9, adding that she planned to head to Washington next week to caucus with Democrats.

“I am going, even though I have no official capacity there yet, it is very clear I won this election by nearly 40 points,” Grijalva said. She also pointed out that when Representative James Walkinshaw of Virginia won a special election just a few weeks ago, he was sworn in without having to wait for certification.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Pictures of him ON THE ISLAND?

no, I mean the pictures of them together at parties. I don't know where they are.... so I was saying the fact he made plans to go to the island isn't shocking