The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Cristiano]

Thomas Massie gave a powerful speech in Congress about how corrupt the Justice Dept is, regarding Epstein and also the attempts by Bayer to buy immunity for liability from the damage Roundup has caused.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Reuters Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives -- US coming after EU and UK data protection regimes.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

After pressuring TikTok to sell their US operations to Trump supporters.

 

[Sid]

I think this is called "bottoming out."

Also,

Polling USA (@usapolling.bsky.social)

"Donald Trump is honest and trustworthy" Disagree: 70% Agree: 29% Ipsos / Feb 17, 2026

bsky.app

I'm not sure it can go much lower without dipping into the brain dead voting ranks.

Amazing that still that many people approve.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Amazing that still that many people approve.

The percentage of Americans who approve of Trump's record in office is pretty much the same as the percentage who believe "God created humans in their present form at some time within the last 10,000 years or so" (and probably mostly the same people, too).

O sancta simplicitas!

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Trump support is not based on logic or ideology. It is tribal. That is why the MAGA movement is based on creating distinctions to otherize their opponents and their criteria are flexible.

However we are seeing cracks around the Epstien files. The person recently killed trying to get into Mar a Largo was apparently obsessed with them, as it has been a foundation of the Qanon movement and the releases are not what they expected, even in their heavily redacted form.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump administration meets with UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson

Robinson, 43, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was hosted by Joe Rittenhouse, a senior adviser at the state department.

Rittenhouse wrote on X: “Honoured to have free speech warrior @TRobinsonNewEra at Department of State today.

“The world and the West is a better place when we fight for freedom of speech and no one has been on the front lines more than Tommy. Good to see you my friend!”

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump administration meets with UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson

Trump's embrace of thug Tommy Robinson exposes the biggest lie he's told America

It's becoming impossible to deny that the US President is engaged in a disturbing project deeply grounded in white supremacy

inews.co.uk

Perhaps most staggering of all is the fact that one of Robinson’s spells in jail was for entering the USA on a false passport – something that would typically get you barred from entering America for life.

Robinson is exactly the kind of foreign criminal Trump is talking about when he accuses other countries of “sending their worst” and threatening America. His very presence in the USA exposes the lie at the heart of Trump’s immigration policy. It has nothing to do with the law, and everything to do with racism. They are barely even trying to hide it any more.

The welcome of a far-right influencer like Robinson by the State Department – the part of government responsible for maintaining diplomatic relations with allied nations – would be disturbing even if it were an isolated incident. But it is far more than that. It is an explicit strategic goal of the Trump administration to support and boost the far right across Europe. Trump’s officials have promised to put money and the USA’s soft power into doing that.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Free]

US designates Iran as ‘state sponsor of wrongful detention’

This is rich.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Rose Karuna]

It's International Morse Code Day!!! Yay!

 

[Free]

Trump FCC's equal-time crackdown doesn't apply equally—or at all—to talk radio

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's unequal enforcement of the equal-time rule.

arstechnica.com

No, of course it doesn't. Why should it? Liberal voices are few and far between on talk radio.

 

[Noodles]

It's International Morse Code Day!!! Yay!

I got a fun conversation with ChatGPT translating this. Truncated a bit because its wordy.

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read left to right, grouping by the natural spacing/clusters in the design, the pattern comes out to:
·· – · – – – – · · ·
Breaking that into Morse letters:
·· = I
– = T
· = E
– – – – = (no standard letter)
· · · = S

I think you missed some its dot dot dash dot dot dot dash dash dot dash dot dash dot dash dash dot dash dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dash dash dot

Let’s slice it cleanly into proper Morse letters.
Breaking it into valid Morse characters:

..- ... -- .- .- .-- .- ... --- .--.


That spells:
USMAAWASOP
Which… is not an English word.

This is whan I noticed the black at the bottom was the same. So I started feeding it letter by letter.

F U C K

Yep… the necklace is spelling “FUCK” so far.
Do you want to keep decoding the rest bead by bead?

No, from the necklace. We know how far it goes for FUCK. What makes logical sense with the rest?

Looking at the rest of the Morse stream you gave earlier:
dot dot dash dot dot dot dash dash dot dash dot dash dot dash dash dot dash dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dash dash dot
We can try grouping them into plausible English letters after “FUCK.”
One logical split (trying to form words) could be:
···· = H
·· = I
–·–· = C
–·· = D
…but that might be too literal.
Another simpler approach: the “FUCK” part suggests this is a common expletive phrase in Morse jewelry. A lot of these necklaces finish with “FUCK OFF” or “FUCK YOU”.
So the rest of the beads probably encode:
O = ---
F = ··–·
F = ··–·
Or, if “FUCK YOU”:
Y = – · – –
O = ---
U = ··–
So the full likely message, following “FUCK,” is either:
FUCK OFF → ··–· ··– –·–· –·– --- ··–· ··–·
or
FUCK YOU → ··–· ··– –·–· –·– – ·– –– --- ··–

(Which looks off)

So back to indivual entries one at a time

So now the necklace reads:
FUCK T R U M …
Looks like it’s spelling “FUCK TRUM…” — probably “FUCK TRUMP.”
Do you want to decode the final letters to confirm?

Dot dash dash dot

Dot dash dash dot
In Morse code:
· – – ·
That translates to:
Q
So the necklace now reads:
FUCK TRUMQ
Hmm… a Q at the end is interesting. If the designer was encoding “FUCK TRUMP”, this might be a slight Morse spacing error or a stylistic choice in the bead grouping.

What would P be?

In Morse code:
P = · – – ·
Wait… that’s exactly the same as the cluster you just gave (· – – ·)!
So that “Q” we read before is actually P, not Q. That fixes it perfectly.
Your necklace is spelling:
FUCK TRUMP
The bead cluster matches exactly once we correct for that.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

 

[Rose Karuna]

I got a fun conversation with ChatGPT translating this. Truncated a bit because its wordy.

---------

I think you missed some its dot dot dash dot dot dot dash dash dot dash dot dash dot dash dash dot dash dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dash dash dot

This is whan I noticed the black at the bottom was the same. So I started feeding it letter by letter.

F U C K

No, from the necklace. We know how far it goes for FUCK. What makes logical sense with the rest?

(Which looks off)

So back to indivual entries one at a time

Dot dash dash dot

What would P be?

Yes, it's the way the dots and dashes are laid out, I had a similar problem but once I got the T and the U I assumed.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Yes, it's the way the dots and dashes are laid out, I had a similar problem but once I got the T and the U I assumed.

Needs little spacer beads between the characters. Black ones for clarity or silver ones for subtlety.

 

[Free]

Let's just agree that composing something in Morse code is not a particularly smart design idea for a necklace.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Let's just agree that composing something in Morse code is not a particularly smart design idea for a necklace.

70 117 99 107 32 84 114 117 109 112 seems a little dry, though ....

How about 4675636b205472756d70?

1000110 1110101 1100011 1101011 100000 1010100 1110010 1110101 1101101 1110000 might have some possibilities ...

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Of course. Baby Bush did the same exact thing. Trump takes corruption to a whole new level. These people were selected for it.

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate

ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

www.propublica.org