The Trump Presidency, Season 2

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I hear he's a finalist for the NFL Peace Prize.

Is that the other Lombard(i) Trophy?

 

[Free]

He won't be happy until he's unraveled every American Good Thing® out there. So of course he's destroying what our first REAL He-Man Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt, championed over a hundred and twenty years ago. I guess Trump hates the accomplishments of any president who won a Nobel Peace Prize.

 

[Noodles]

Welp, now that Operation Epstein Fury has wrapped up, and everybody won, I guess there will be big controversy over whether Tsar Dumkovski gets the Medal of Honor for bravely watching some of it on TV or the Nobel Peace Prize for heroically agreeing to the .... oh, 10-minute or so cease-fire.

Gawd, what an embarrassing time to be a USAnian.

Hopefully Fifa has another one laying around.

 

[Free]

ALERT: THIS IS NOT FROM THE ONION.

White House calls new ballroom a national security necessity that's 'vital' to the Trump family's safety

The White House is urging a federal appeals court to allow construction on President Donald Trump's $400 million ballroom to continue, arguing it will help provide protection both for the president's family and the country as a whole.

The White House is urging a federal appeals court to allow construction on President Donald Trump's $400 million ballroom to continue, arguing it will help provide protection both for the president's family and the country as a whole.

That giant hole left by removing the entire East Wing might lead to a drafty White House, and we don't want the President catching a cold.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Getting my political analysis from a menswear guy lately.

derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social)

The ballroom is obvs an expression of Trump's vainglory. But importantly, it serves as a way to flatter donors in our new Gilded Age. Relationship btw this company and gov, as staged through the ballroom, offers a telling glimpse into how this space will be used to trade access & influence in future

bsky.app

 

[Casey Pelous]

He won't be happy until he's unraveled every American Good Thing® out there. So of course he's destroying what our first REAL He-Man Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt, championed over a hundred and twenty years ago. I guess Trump hates the accomplishments of any president who won a Nobel Peace Prize.

This is blitheringly dumb on lots of levels, but it is even idiotic on the "pure greed capitalism" level. (But, then, he is a colossal failure as a business person.)

I know the Parks Service's image is all Smoky Bear and Save the Butterflies, which they certainly do, but their big job -- as well as BLM's -- is managing and selling the living crap out of the forests and other resources on Forest Service land. They put a lot of money into the Treasury — a LOT of money.

 

[Cristiano]

I keep seeing liberals finger wagging about mocking Bryon Noem and lecturing about kink shaming. Fuck that. Sorry, but busty crooked nipples Noem does not deserve grace. His wife is a fucking monster and I’m certain that he subscribe to her politics as well. They both deserve to be exposed and shamed for being awful people. It’s about the hypocrisy and acting like they are somehow morally superior. I don’t give a fuck what he does in private on principle, but that doesn’t mean he gets a pass. It’s not even about the giant balloon tits. It’s about being fucking sick of these people. I’m glad he was exposed.

 

[Noodles]

Getting my political analysis from a menswear guy lately.

derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social)

The ballroom is obvs an expression of Trump's vainglory. But importantly, it serves as a way to flatter donors in our new Gilded Age. Relationship btw this company and gov, as staged through the ballroom, offers a telling glimpse into how this space will be used to trade access & influence in future

bsky.app

I guess the Mara Lago Toilet was not glamorous enough.

 

[Noodles]

I know the Parks Service's image is all Smoky Bear and Save the Butterflies, which they certainly do, but their big job -- as well as BLM's -- is managing and selling the living crap out of the forests and other resources on Forest Service land. They put a lot of money into the Treasury — a LOT of money.

Yes yes but that is money that could go to the coffers of some corporation after we just raze all the trees and strip mine the area. Are we going to let a few butterflies get in the way of money?????

/s

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Alliance We're Giving Away - NATO and me

I spent my career defending it.

denverriggleman.substack.com

I'm not here to tell you Trump is a Russian agent. I don't know that. What I know is the documented record. What I know is the pattern. What I know is that you don't need to prove the hardest version of this story to arrive at a devastating conclusion.

You just need to ask: has there been a single moment where Trump's personal financial Interests, his ideological allies, and his foreign policy choices diverged from what Moscow would want?

I'm still looking for it.

 

[Cristiano]

On the subject of Bryon Noem:


His bimbofication kink was a national security risk.

 

[Erich Templar]

DOJ Wants to Scrap Watergate-Era Rule That Makes Presidential Records Public

 

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Craig R. Brittain (@craigbrittain.com)

The FAA is now recruiting gamers to be air traffic controllers. Flight boarding options will now include the normal gate, the express gate, and the GamerGate.

bsky.app

They do sit for hours on end staring at a video screen, fussing over the smallest of tasks. I wonder how they'll take to the loss of reset and save options, though.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

On the subject of Bryon Noem:


His bimbofication kink was a national security risk.

This line of argument puzzles me somewhat. What are people worried Kristi Norm might have been blackmailed into doing, or not doing, to harm the US and its citizens and residents that she was, or was not, already doing? Seems difficult to imagine how she could have done much more damage.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

This line of argument puzzles me somewhat. What are people worried Kristi Norm might have been blackmailed into doing, or not doing, to harm the US and its citizens and residents that she was, or was not, already doing? Seems difficult to imagine how she could have done much more damage.

You make a valid point. ...but I think there was still a lot of room to blackmail her very specific things, such as showing favoritism to an individual, or leaking private conversations with other high officials. I agree her official actions were horrible, but there are always more damaging things that could be done in such a high position.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Craig R. Brittain (@craigbrittain.com)

The FAA is now recruiting gamers to be air traffic controllers. Flight boarding options will now include the normal gate, the express gate, and the GamerGate.

bsky.app

They do sit for hours on end staring at a video screen, fussing over the smallest of tasks.

Time to make my avatar pretty/build my affinity with Preston Garvy/etc

 

[Free]

This line of argument puzzles me somewhat. What are people worried Kristi Norm might have been blackmailed into doing, or not doing, to harm the US and its citizens and residents that she was, or was not, already doing? Seems difficult to imagine how she could have done much more damage.

I don't think the "experts" care all that much about potential harm to U.S. citizens. They're probably more focused on how they might have been able to get her to turn over high level or classified information, that sort of thing. Blackmail is a common tool used by intelligence agencies as a method of coercion.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Just imagine if WSJ and other right wing media outlets gave democrats 10% of the charity they give Republicans...

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)

Here we fixed this for you, @wsj.com We see you trying to help JD pretend he doesn’t have to wear this war when he runs for president. Nope.

bsky.app

 

[Noodles]

Craig R. Brittain (@craigbrittain.com)

The FAA is now recruiting gamers to be air traffic controllers. Flight boarding options will now include the normal gate, the express gate, and the GamerGate.

bsky.app

They do sit for hours on end staring at a video screen, fussing over the smallest of tasks. I wonder how they'll take to the loss of reset and save options, though.

Until they start trying to min max the flights and now planes are coming in to land 10 feet apart as fast as possible.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

You make a valid point. ...but I think there was still a lot of room to blackmail her very specific things, such as showing favoritism to an individual, or leaking private conversations with other high officials. I agree her official actions were horrible, but there are always more damaging things that could be done in such a high position.

I don't think the "experts" care all that much about potential harm to U.S. citizens. They're probably more focused on how they might have been able to get her to turn over high level or classified information, that sort of thing. Blackmail is a common tool used by intelligence agencies as a method of coercion.

I dunno. I guess, but the whole administration seems so shameless, corrupt, venal and incompetent that blackmail just doesn't seem a particularly efficient or reliable way of achieving anything.