The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Govi]

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Ultimately, this sort of thing is very bad juju... It's the sort of thing that went on in Weimar Germany. Still, I totally agree with the sentiment.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Street art in Oaxaca, from The Nerd Reich (free to read, and worth a free subscription).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Alexander Clarkson (@aphclarkson.bsky.social)

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

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[Cristiano]

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Alexander Clarkson (@aphclarkson.bsky.social)

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

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On top of that Merz also worked for Blackrock over a longer time. So he is by no means somebody who hates America.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social)

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

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[GoblinCampFollower]

What's so absurd is that most of his supporters thought they were voting for the ultimate strongman and that makes them feel tough. It doesn't occur to them that submission to someone like Trump is anything but. ...and that Trump can only act tough when he knows someone can't really fight back.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Democrat governor of Illinois JB Pritzker warning before Trump.

Quote: "We don't have kings in America, and I don't intend to bend the knee to one. [...] If you think I'm overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon consider this: it took the Nazis 1 month, 2 weeks, 8 hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. And all I'm saying is that when the five-alarm fire starts to burn every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control."

Republicans were pissed about his speech. He held it during the Illinois state budget session.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker warns against authoritarianism in address

“We don’t have kings in America, and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one,” Pritzker said in his state of the state address. “If we don’t want to repeat hi...

www.youtube.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Texas measles outbreak hits ‘under-vaccinated’ area of Gaines County

Texas has recorded 90 cases of the disease, while Robert F Kennedy JR, a vaccine sceptic, has been confirmed as health secretary

www.thetimes.com

Evernote Link

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Meanwhile, botched peen is doubling down on his Dr. Evil schtick. He about one drug fueled tirade away from moving into a secret island volcano lair.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Free]

Excellent.



Maglink

 

[Cristiano]

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Excellent.



Maglink

Don't even need to put on the glasses!

 

[Free]

Don't even need to put on the glasses!

 

[Isabeau]

We need more of this from Canadian and European leaders. Not just confrontation like this, but naming things for what they are, and using more direct words as in threatening war, dictator, thief.

NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com)

The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

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[Isabeau]

Wow!



”The US Army Chorus sang and performed the Epilogue Finale from Les Miserables at the White House Governors Ball hosted by Donald and Melania Trump on February 22, 2025.

Lyrics:
Do you hear the people sing?
Lost in the valley of the night
It is the music of a people who are climbing to the light
For the wretched of the earth
There is a flame that never dies
Even the darkest nights will end and the sun will rise

They will live again in freedom in the garden of the lord
They will walk behind the ploughshare
They will put away the sword
The chain will be broken and all men will have their reward!

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that they bring when tomorrow comes!
One Day More!”

 

[Erich Templar]

And I'll bet it went clean over his head.

 

[Free]