The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Also, I guess "Blood for Oil" is the new theme for this administration.

Also, OUR oil and land?

Also, "Venezuela is completely surrounded?" Have we placed huge military forces along the borders in Colombia, Brazil and Guyana? Because although Venezuela has a large coastline, it's not an island.

... because the strategy worked *sooOOOoo* well for the Bush administration thinking they'd pay for the invasion of Iraq by seizing the oil reserves over there.

It's like the only thing that conservative rethuglican neo-conmen/tea-farty/maggots learn from their mistakes is how fail bigger as they try the same tired thing over and over.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Nothing loony to see here.

They've been sapping and impurifying all of our vital bodily fluids!

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Nothing loony to see here.

Also, I guess "Blood for Oil" is the new theme for this administration.

Also, OUR oil and land?

Also, "Venezuela is completely surrounded?" Have we placed huge military forces along the borders in Colombia, Brazil and Guyana? Because although Venezuela has a large coastline, it's not an island.

Grandpa's gone cray-cray again.

Speaking of, are there any masochists out there who are going to watch his address to the nation tonight?

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Speaking of, are there any masochists out there who are going to watch his address to the nation tonight?

I was, but it turns out I can't work up enough give-a-shit to even know it was on.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

White House adds plaques below Biden and Obama portraits, calling them ‘the worst President in American history’ and ‘divisive’

Making projection official!

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

White House adds plaques below Biden and Obama portraits, calling them ‘the worst President in American history’ and ‘divisive’

Making projection official!

The world watches in disgusted captivity, as Troubled Dummkopf thrashes about in his desperately unapologetic "I know you are, but what am I, I know you are, but what am I, I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I!" deteriorating mental loop.

and fuck no I'm not going to watch that blithering blowhard. I'm baking cookies tonight. (Oatmeal Bourbon-Pecan holiday cookies, MMmmMM!)

 

[Cindy Claveau]

and fuck no I'm not going to watch that blithering blowhard. I'm baking cookies tonight. (Oatmeal Bourbon-Pecan holiday cookies, MMmmMM!)

I managed to brace myself through the entire 2 (?) hours without ever watching his orange pustule face. From skimming my feed this morning, it was exactly what I expected.

Fact-checking Trump’s speech on inflation, wages and a military dividend (PBS)

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Free]

and fuck no I'm not going to watch that blithering blowhard.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I managed to brace myself through the entire 2 (?) hours without ever watching his orange pustule face. From skimming my feed this morning, it was exactly what I expected.

Fact-checking Trump’s speech on inflation, wages and a military dividend (PBS)

"wages outpaced inflation under trump so far"

Funny how that works.... if you deport your lowest paid workers, the average compensation for those that remain would -seem- higher, but without anyone actually getting paid more.

 

[Free]

I saw this ridiculous move coming.

One thing Trump is at least aware of: No one will be naming anything after him *after* he's dead.

 

[Casey Pelous]

*GASP!* She congratulated a Democrat! APOSTASY! HERESY!

 

[detrius]

Nothing loony to see here.

Also, I guess "Blood for Oil" is the new theme for this administration.

Also, OUR oil and land?

Also, "Venezuela is completely surrounded?" Have we placed huge military forces along the borders in Colombia, Brazil and Guyana? Because although Venezuela has a large coastline, it's not an island.

Ah, but what surrounds South America? Oceans! (And the Panama canal)

Checkmate! Geographers!


BTW. if you extend a perimeter far enough, it contracts back into a point once it has straddled the globe. By that logic, the entirety of the USA is surrounded by me personally.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

There are many pictures from previous presidents in the White House hanging at the walls. Manbaby installed plaques with written text below every of them now.


BBC did some fact checks on that matter: the plaques of course are real. Many claims on them are not, like "Trump ended 8 wars." E.G. Ronald Reagan is named a fan of Donald Trump.

Fact-checking White House plaques targeting former US presidents

New plaques have appeared under the portraits of former US presidents at the White House.

www.bbc.com

 

[Noodles]

*GASP!* She congratulated a Democrat! APOSTASY! HERESY!

Plot twost, its being renamed after Trump and RFK, not Trump and JFK.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Official Says 11 States Open to Stopping Residents From Voting at DOJ’s Request

he U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require election officials to remove any alleged ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls.

The agreement — called a memorandum of understanding, or MOU — would hand the federal government a major role in election administration, a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution.

A Justice Department official identified 11 states that have expressed an interest in the agreement during a federal court hearing in December, according to a transcript reviewed by Stateline. Two additional states, Colorado and Wisconsin, have publicly rejected the memorandum of understanding and released copies of the proposal.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump says US needs Greenland after naming special envoy

Denmark warns Washington to respect its sovereignty, while Greenland says it will decide its own future.

www.bbc.co.uk

Trump announced on Sunday that Jeff Landry, the Republican governor of Louisiana, would become the US's special envoy to Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

Gov Landry said in a post on X it was an honour to serve in a "volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the US".

The move has angered Copenhagen, which said it would will call the US ambassador for "an explanation". Greenland's prime minister said the island must "decide our own future" and its "territorial integrity must be respected".

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Can't solve the war in Ukraine? Solve the war in Greenland. Or start the war in Greenland.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Can't solve the war in Ukraine? Solve the war in Greenland. Or start the war in Greenland.

Honestly, this business with Greenland is so weird, even by his standards. It's like he's trying to alienate allies for no clear benefit. I hate conspiracy thinking, but his stances towards Europe come off as entirely malicious as if Russia is just trying to break up Western Alliances.