The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Essence Lumin]

Embattled Voice of America to use newsfeed from hard-right network | The Guardian

Now to be powered by One America News.

 

[Noodles]

Embattled Voice of America to use newsfeed from hard-right network | The Guardian

Now to be powered by One America News.

"VoA was founded during the second world war to combat Nazi propaganda, and became a pro-democracy voice heard by millions around the world."

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump demands wartime sacrifices. Good luck with that.

His trade war is like World War 2, only much dumber and entirely self-inflicted.

www.publicnotice.co

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Trump demands wartime sacrifices. Good luck with that.

His trade war is like World War 2, only much dumber and entirely self-inflicted.

www.publicnotice.co

The level of double think must be studied. Biden dealt with economic problems caused by COVID, but this was bad and entirely Biden's fault. Trump created an economic problem out of thin air, but is a "Necessary sacrifice."

The most charitable thing I can say about it is that maybe he thinks this will bring back some OLD American made manufacturing. HUGE tariffs might do that but it would take forever and come at a really terrible price. I absolutely think hostile foreign powers are encouraging him to do this to destroy our economy.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Trade wars are not the only reason rural voters are having regrets. They got the most benefit from agricultural support programs as farmers and as subsidies to food banks and schools. They sold crops that ended up as international aid that was slashed. They rely on support programs that are becoming uncertain including infrastructure and energy spending that was targeted at rural communities, and FEMA has just increased the threshold for disaster recovery significantly. Rural clinics rely on Federal spending through healthcare programs to stay open, especially in Western states where there are hours to drive to the nearest provider. And now these people who feel that they have already been passed by are being told that they may not be able to afford as much as they had last year even as income starts to slip. They voted for "change" and revenge when in fact it was Democratic policies that brought significant investment to their communities and supported educational programs that gave young people more career options. There is a reason that Republicans in rural districts claimed credit for spending they voted against. Those programs were a lifeline for small towns.

 

[Noodles]

Well, those rural voters wanted all the "Lazy Government freeloaders" to be punished, they got what they voted for.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Trade wars are not the only reason ...

Living wages = freeloading. Labor, no matter how hard working, is "lazy". The only kind of "merit" oligarchs seem to understand is capitalism. If you can't use your wealth to make money for you, you're nothing more than overpaid peasants, mooching off your betters.

The US has a history of equating fair labor with communism and has fought it just as savagely.

The fact that blue collar Republicans are consistently to fucking stupid to realize it, and continue to vote for their own exploitation... Makes me sick. Their whole tribal denial schtick is going turn violent when their need to blame Dems instead of themselves hits critical mass.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Introducing the White House FIFA Task Force!

 

[Casey Pelous]

Introducing the White House FIFA Task Force!

I'd bet a dollar that somewhere in FIFA there's a conversation along the lines of, "Do you think it's too late to pull out? I mean, like, really, really too late?"

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

ICE Barbie Fires FEMA Boss Just One Day After He Stood Up to Trump

I hope every single Trump supporter gets hit with some kind of natural disaster, and then they'll be crying, "Where's FEMA?" kind of like Sarah Fuckabee is.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Trump says he is naming Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as DC federal prosecutor | AP News

Trump says he is naming Fox News host and former judge Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor in DC

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is naming Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital after abandoning his first pick for the job.

Pirro, who joined Fox News in 2006, cohosts the network’s show “The Five” on weekday evenings. She was elected as a judge in New York’s Westchester County Court in 1990 before serving three terms as the county’s elected district attorney.

Trump tapped Pirro to at least temporarily lead the nation’s largest U.S. Attorney’s office after pulling his nomination of conservative activist Ed Martin Jr. for the position earlier Thursday. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he was naming Pirro as the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., but didn’t indicate whether he would nominate her for the Senate-confirmed position on a more permanent basis.

He's merely prolonging his string of idiotic picks, this time with the screaming meemee Jeanine.

 

[Isabeau]

We really should have a leopard eating face thread. Although, maybe that's just the flip side of "owning the Libs"

Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social)

Congratulations on owning yourself

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[Katheryne Helendale]

Trump says he is naming Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as DC federal prosecutor | AP News





He's merely prolonging his string of idiotic picks, this time with the screaming meemee Jeanine.

I'm think that the only real prerequisite for getting picked for a position in Trump's administration is that you had to have been on Fox News.

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

I talked to a Federal worker today (not hubman) who works in a call center for one of the big agencies. She said DOGE people are always there... if you get caught not on the phone - fired. If you get up and go to the bathroom and it's not your break - fired. They also get hourly emails they have to respond to detailing what they did during the last hour.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I talked to a Federal worker today (not hubman) who works in a call center for one of the big agencies. She said DOGE people are always there... if you get caught not on the phone - fired. If you get up and go to the bathroom and it's not your break - fired. They also get hourly emails they have to respond to detailing what they did during the last hour.

Yeah, fuck that shit! I'd be looking for a new job right away. I'd let them fire me for not being on the phone because I was responding to their stupid email, then I'd file a wrongful termination lawsuit, naming DOGE as a defendant.

 

[Noodles]

I talked to a Federal worker today (not hubman) who works in a call center for one of the big agencies. She said DOGE people are always there... if you get caught not on the phone - fired. If you get up and go to the bathroom and it's not your break - fired. They also get hourly emails they have to respond to detailing what they did during the last hour.

How much pay waste is going to these chucklefucks policing if people take 5 minutes to go pee VS just paying people to go to the bathroom occasionally?

 

[Free]

Remember that time when President Trump v1 used a sharpie to mark up a NOAA map of Hurricane Dorian's path, and everyone mocked him? Consequences, people.

NOAA says it will discontinue its billion-dollar disaster database

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday it will archive its database of billion-dollar climate disasters, as the Trump administration cuts resource at the agency.

www.scrippsnews.com

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday it will archive its database of billion-dollar climate disasters, as the Trump administration reduces the resources available to the agency.

The database has measured the direct costs of major weather disasters in the U.S. since 1980. It collects information from federal and state agencies and insurance companies to estimate the dollar impacts of individual events such as hurricanes or wildfires. As the data accumulates, it also provides insight into historical weather and climate trends, and future-looking disaster risk mapping for the whole U.S.

But NOAA said Thursday the tool "will be retired, with no updates beyond calendar year 2024." The changes were made in "alignment with evolving priorities, statutory mandates, and staffing changes."

 

[Free]

We have found the "political refugees" that Trump is willing to let into the United States.

U.S. plans to receive and aid White South Africans granted refugee status as soon as next week, document shows

The Trump administration is planning to soon receive the first group of White South Africans it says deserve a safe haven in the U.S. because of alleged racial discrimination in post-Apartheid South Africa, government documents obtained by CBS News show.

The initial arrival of the South African nationals who have been granted refugee status could happen as early as next week, according to the documents, which describe the effort as a "stated priority" for the Trump administration. Officials have planned a Monday press event at Dulles International Airport in Virginia to welcome the group, the documents show, although sources familiar with the effort told CBS News the timing of the plan could change.

In February, President Trump issued an executive order directing officials to use the U.S. refugee program to resettle Afrikaners, an ethnic group in South Africa made up of descendants of European colonists, mostly from the Netherlands.

 

[Free]

Also, the top "looks like a Nazi" member of Trump's administration goes there.

White House ‘actively looking’ at suspending habeas corpus in immigration crackdown

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Friday that President Trump and his team are “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus as part of the administration’s immigration crackdown.

“Well, the Constitution is clear — and that of course is the supreme law of the land — that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion,” Miller told reporters at the White House.

“So, it’s an option we’re actively looking at. Look, a lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not.”

Anyone wish to bet on how soon "the courts" are considered instigators in this "invasion?"

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

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