The Trump Presidency, Season 2

Casey Pelous · Jan 21, 2025

Feels like we're approaching the FO part of FA&FO really quickly.

Puretone · Jan 21, 2025

Noodles said:
I was going to say, I kind of liked that recent movie where Mel Gibson was the angry Santa Clause, but it was 5 years ago.

On a more serious note, Maverick is one of my guilty pleasure movies.

David Harbour's Violent Night is a far better movie imo.

Bartholomew Gallacher · Jan 21, 2025

Even the pastor of Trump's inauguration now has his own meme coin, $Lorenzo!

Kamilah Hauptmann · Jan 21, 2025

Where’s that

reaction?

Jopsy Pendragon · Jan 21, 2025

Bartholomew Gallacher said:
Elon Musk, Nazi lover. He did this today at the MAGA crowd.

I try to avoid r/Popular on reddit, I end up doom-scrolling for hours if I open it. But I was curious, so I dove in.

I swear I scrolled past at least 50 different elon seig-heil images/animated-gifs each on a different subreddit.

I can't help but wonder... was this unplanned? The Felon will be *pissed* at Elon for upstaging him. Or, more likely, this was *deliberate* so that Elon would dominate the news cycle and overshadow the content of the Felon's mad dash flurry of executive orders.

Monica Dream · Jan 21, 2025

Jopsy Pendragon said:
Or, more likely, this was *deliberate* so that Elon would dominate the news cycle and overshadow the content of the Felon's mad dash flurry of executive orders.

Interesting, I hadn't considered that possiblity. Kinda short-sighted because upstaging fuckhead's big day would be an unforgivable sin, at least in the eyes of President Fulldiaper. You'd think Xitterfuck would know that -maybe he has kompromat on Dolt 45 we don't know about so he feels like he can get away with it?

At least that goes some ways to explaining why Busk thought that would be a good idea.

Free · Jan 21, 2025

Let's prepare.

Free · Jan 21, 2025

*sigh*

Trump orders U.S. to withdraw from World Health Organization

The move to exit the WHO is historic and controversial. The U.S. has long been the most generous provider of humanitarian assistance.

www.statnews.com

Jopsy Pendragon · Jan 21, 2025

Monica Dream said:
Interesting, I hadn't considered that possiblity. Kinda short-sighted because upstaging fuckhead's big day would be an unforgivable sin, at least in the eyes of President Fulldiaper. You'd think Xitterfuck would know that -maybe he has kompromat on Dolt 45 we don't know about so he feels like he can get away with it?

At least that goes some ways to explaining why Busk thought that would be a good idea.

The other theory was that he was still high on Ketamine or something. (there's videos of him rolling his eyes like a cat having a catnip overdose)

Innula Zenovka · Jan 21, 2025

Looking critically at Trump’s flurry of Executive Orders: why we should watch what is done, and not to be distracted by what is said

21st January 2025 Around Westminster, the most useful guides to the nature of modern politics may not be the journalists and commentators, still less the ‘think tanks’ with their portentous names a…

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GoblinCampFollower · Jan 21, 2025

Cristiano said:

Birthright citizenship is in the constitution. He can't change that with an executive order. ....not that, that will stop him from trying.

Noodles · Jan 21, 2025

Puretone said:
David Harbour's Violent Night is a far better movie imo.

Yeah it is.

Jopsy Pendragon · Jan 21, 2025

Innula Zenovka said:
Looking critically at Trump’s flurry of Executive Orders: why we should watch what is done, and not to be distracted by what is said

21st January 2025 Around Westminster, the most useful guides to the nature of modern politics may not be the journalists and commentators, still less the ‘think tanks’ with their portentous names a…

davidallengreen.com

They are the least binding of government directives... the president doesn't make laws after all. But without judicial/congressional pushback they can be binding until the next president undoes them, which is bad enough.

Innula Zenovka · Jan 21, 2025

The Trump Memecoin’s ‘Money-Grab’ Economics

When he launched his own cryptocurrency, Donald Trump produced unimaginable wealth from thin air. But it will come at a cost to someone.

www.wired.com

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Some crypto boosters have celebrated the Trump family’s foray into memecoins, applauding the new president’s ability to transmute his fame into crypto wealth. But others have pointed to the thorny ethical issues at play; for Trump to enrich himself, someone else must pay.

“Memecoins is absolutely a PvP [Player vs Player] game,” said Azeem Khan, cofounder of the Morph blockchain and venture partner at crypto VC firm Foresight Ventures, in an interview with WIRED late last year. “For someone to win, someone has to lose.”

In this case, Trump’s own supporters stand to potentially bear the cost. “It’s blatantly unethical,” alleges Christopher Bendiksen, a researcher at crypto asset management firm CoinShares. “Knowing that a bunch of [supporters] will lose money—and that money ends up in your pocket. Especially when you are holding the presidency of the United States.”