The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Veritable Quandry]

Looks like Fallout 5 will be out sooner than expected..

 

[Casey Pelous]

I've been saying for years that we need to get back on the nuclear power bus. I never considered the possibility that insane, crooked clowns would drive the bus.

My bad.

 

[Free]

Ah, yes. The geniuses among Trump's executive staff. I guess we should be impressed he knows how to google.

New head of Social Security, hired from Wall Street, tells staff he had to Google the job when he was offered it

Newly sworn-in Social Security chief Frank Bisignano, who previously was a Wall Street executive, told staffers he had to Google the SSA job when it was offered to him.

abcnews.go.com

The newly sworn-in head of the Social Security Administration told agency staff this week that when he was first offered the job in the Trump administration, he wasn't familiar with the position and had to look it up online.

Frank Bisignano, a former Wall Street executive, said during a town hall with Social Security managers from around the country on Wednesday that he wasn't seeking a position in the Trump administration when he received a call about leading the SSA.

"So, I get a phone call and it's about Social Security. And I'm really, I'm really not, I swear I'm not looking for a job," Bisignano said, according to an audio recording of the meeting obtained by ABC News. "And I'm like, 'Well, what am I going to do?' So, I'm Googling Social Security. You know, one of my great skills, I'm one of the great Googlers on the East Coast."

"I'm like, 'What the heck's the commissioner of Social Security?'" said Bisignano, who now oversees one of the largest federal agencies that's responsible for distributing retirement, disability, and survivor benefits to more than 70 million Americans.

"Put that as the headline for the Post: 'Great Googler in Chief. Chief in Googler' or whatever," said Bisignano, who throughout the meeting repeatedly bemoaned media leaks from within the agency.

Not even caring how fucking stupid he looks. A true Trump hire.

 

[Sid]

Not even caring how fucking stupid he looks. A true Trump hire.

Hey, I know the word beer in 78 languages, so I obviously can google.
I'm the great Googler from overseas with huge knowledge and strategic important information, like how best to cheat with golf.

Mmm, I better buy me a suit and a long tie, just in case I get a phone call this weekend from the grey genius.
Not that I'm looking for a job to wreck the USA even further, but I could use the money.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Hey, I know the word beer in 78 languages, so I obviously can google.
I'm the great Googler from overseas with huge knowledge and strategic important information, like how best to cheat with golf.

Mmm, I better buy me a suit and a long tie, just in case I get a phone call this weekend from the grey genius.
Not that I'm looking for a job to wreck the USA even further, but I could use the money.

 

[Free]

Hey, I know the word beer in 78 languages, so I obviously can google.

Well, I guess...we know what you spend your day looking up.

 

[Sid]

Well, I guess...we know what you spend your day looking up.

Well, I was planning my upcoming vacation and one has to know the basic vocabulary of the country one is going to, no?
I mean, important things first.

 

[detrius]

Well, I was planning my upcoming vacation and one has to know the basic vocabulary of the country one is going to, no?
I mean, important things first.

Are you going somewhere in Germany?

In that case, you only need to know one word for beer. Isn't it the same word in Dutch?

 

[Noodles]

Well, I was planning my upcoming vacation and one has to know the basic vocabulary of the country one is going to, no?
I mean, important things first.

Now I imagine you coming off the plane and just being like, "Donde cerveza," "Où bière," "ビールです", and then sitting in a bar the whole trip.

Like you just know "beer" and maybe "where".

 

[Noodles]

Are you going somewhere in Germany?

In that case, you only need to know one word for beer. Isn't it the same word in Dutch?

Different accent. Don't want the local to think you are a foreigner.

 

[Sid]

Different accent. Don't want the local to think you are a foreigner.

Bier is one of the words that are exactly the same in both languages.
But when I'm in Germany and want a beer I order a weizen Bier.
I'm going to Austria this year. Same procedure.

Austria has lovely mountain views.

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

Guys is this real?

 

[Casey Pelous]

Guys is this real?

I presume so --- it's pretty much right out of the Project 2025 playbook. I did see another source verifying at least the part where courts cannot spend taxpayer money to enforce court orders against Der Furrier.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Guys is this real?

I think it probably refers to this

A Terrible Idea

Dean Chemerinsky discusses the reconciliation bill’s provision that would restrict federal courts’ authority to hold government officials in contempt for violating court orders

www.justsecurity.org

The graphic probably overstates the case, in that -- if the article is correct -- judges will easily be able to circumvent it in subsequent cases when they issue injunctions, but it would seem to render all previous injunctions against the US government moot.

While I don't know anything about US jurisprudence, I'm surprised that US civil procedure and rules of legal interpretation would allow it to render all existing injunctions against the government unenforceable without a specific clause in the bill to make it clear that was the intention, but that's what the article suggests would happen.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I thought trump and putin were besties for life

Trump says Putin ‘has gone absolutely crazy’ after major Russian attacks on Ukraine | CNN

(Incognito mode often needed to read cnn articles)

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I thought trump and putin were besties for life

Trump says Putin ‘has gone absolutely crazy’ after major Russian attacks on Ukraine | CNN

(Incognito mode often needed to read cnn articles)

This goes to show Trump is dumber than we gave him credit. He maybe actually thought he had the magic touch to reason with Putin.

 

[Noodles]

I thought trump and putin were besties for life

Trump says Putin ‘has gone absolutely crazy’ after major Russian attacks on Ukraine | CNN

(Incognito mode often needed to read cnn articles)

Maybe his handlers at Project 2025 are mad that they are not getting his full attention. See also Musk.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Guys is this real?

Looks like a dead link to me.

 

[Free]

Looks like a dead link to me.

Click on it. You get this:

https://i.gyazo.com/96c8ee0bf9a9e73b615adf248a0def82.png

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Click on it. You get this:

https://i.gyazo.com/96c8ee0bf9a9e73b615adf248a0def82.png

Weird. Nothing happens when I tap on it. But if I tap-hold, then select "open in new tab," the image showed.

Your link worked.