The Trump Presidency, Season 2

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

 

[Noodles]

They act more like a pack of dogs. An alpha spots a squirrel and suddenly they're all enraged at it.

Half the time there's nothing there for them to bark at, just one of them got the whole community howling and barking their heads off like an existential crisis has descended upon them.

And just as quickly, *poof* they forget, and moments later are barking about something completely different.

"GAYS GAYS GAYS!! 'BAMA CARE 'BAMA CARE! DEBT DEBT DEBT! BENGAZHI BENGAZHI BENGAZHI! MUSLIMS MUSLIMS MUSLIMS! MASKS MASKS MASKS!! DRAG QUEENS DRAG QUEENS! TRANS TRANS TRANS! PEDOS PEDOS PEDOS! DEI DEI DEI! INFLATION INFLATION!! EGGS EGGS EGGS! WOOF WOOF FUCKING WOOF!" All they care about is that they're all barking at the same thing together, doesn't matter what.

The outrage is just a "scary" and "evil" wicked witch in a far away land that a big smoke and mirrors head tells people to fear to keep everyone from seeing the real villain hiding behind the curtain (rich assholes).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Kelly (@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social)

A second German tourist is being held in a detention centre after having her Visa revoked by the U.S. It’s the same detention centre holding Jessica Brösche, the German tattoo artist who spent 8 days in solitary. She’s been held for 6 weeks. The U.S. is not a safe place to travel anymore...

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It's apparently the man who is being detained, not his fiancée.

Long story short -- they're both German nationals. She lives in Las Vegas. He lives in Germany. He was visiting her, and they both visited Mexico together. When they attempted to return, ICE pulled them over for an interview in English.

ICE asked him where he lives, His English isn't too good and he thought they were asking where he was staying in the US, so he replied "Las Vegas." Despite his fiancée immediately correcting him and trying to explain, they took him into custody, where he remains.

The Guardian (@theguardian.com)

British tourist detained by US authorities for 10 days over visa issue https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/10/british-tourist-detained-us-authorities-10-days-visa-issue?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

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A British tourist on a four-month backpacking trip around North America has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the US for 10 days after trying to enter the country via the Canadian border.

Rebecca Burke, 28, a graphic artist from Monmouthshire, was trying to cross into the state of Washington when she was refused entry.


She was planning to stay with a host family where she would carry out domestic chores in exchange for accommodation and was told she should have applied for a working visa, instead of a tourist visa.

She had previously been staying with a host family in Portland, Oregon, under a similar arrangement after spending some time sightseeing in New York City, where she first arrived from the UK at the start of the year.

“She’s basically living with a family, doing a little bit of housework, taking the dog for a walk, whatever it is. She’s been a part of a family,” her father, Paul Burke, a consultant in the steel industry, said.

Canadian authorities told her to go back to the US and fill in new paperwork before returning to cross into Canada.

However, when she tried to re-enter the US she was handcuffed and put in a cell before being taken to Tacoma Northwest detention facility in Washington state.

“She’s been there for over 10 days now,” Paul Burke said. “We haven’t got any clear timeline for her release. I really can’t understand why someone, a tourist, would be incarcerated and locked up.”

His daughter wants to leave the country and fly back to the UK, he said, but he feared the immigration crackdown in the US meant there could be a long delay before her case was dealt with.

“She’s in this orange prison outfit,” he said. “She just feels so isolated and desperate, you can imagine, she’s saying, ‘I want to come home’.”

She is safe, he said, but living “in horrendous conditions” and had not had access to legal representation. He was taking comfort from the fact that the other women at the facility, many of whom have been incarcerated for months or even years while fighting deportation, had “all been really nice to Becky,” Burke said.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

More than fentanyl: Eggs now the most smuggled item from Canada to US - BusinessToday

Since October, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recorded 3,768 seizures of bird and poultry-related products at all US borders, compared to 352 fentanyl seizures in the same period

www.businesstoday.in

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The official orange's list of "sucess stories" so far...

 

[Beebo Brink]

Trump Demands MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace Be ‘Forced to Resign’

 

[Cristiano]

In today's happy news:

 

[Free]

I need to purchase a package of tiny violins from Amazon. How much will that improve Bezo's bottom line?

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Also wondering what most HOAs would have to say about it.

Backyard chickens are illegal within city limits where I live, though there is a petition circulating to legalize them. But, yeah, HOAs would have a complete cow.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Backyard chickens are illegal within city limits where I live, though there is a petition circulating to legalize them. But, yeah, HOAs would have a complete cow.

Two acres property required here among other things which is in multi millionaire territory for this town.

 

[Noodles]

Trump Demands MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace Be ‘Forced to Resign’

"Who watches this?" - Trump

Well, CLEARLY YOU DO.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

#TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social)

Trump makes flurry of posts as global markets fall amid fears of US recession https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/trump-truth-social-economy-stock-market?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

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[Casey Pelous]

Another flurry of canceled security clearances and, thus, terminated careers. It is a pretty basic rule -- as Shakespeare probably said, "He who half-killeth the King suffers a painful end."*

I do hope that somewhere Merrick Garland is at least thinking, "Gee. Maybe we should have moved a bit more expeditiously."

* Coryeroldanus 3.4.18-29

 

[Free]

Trump Says It's "Illegal" to Boycott Tesla

President Donald Trump said that "Radical Left Lunatics" are "illegally" boycotting Tesla, despite boycotts being a legal form of protest.

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Simply choosing to buy something other than a Tesla is sort of like boycotting Tesla. Apparently preference doesn't come into any of this, as far as Trump is concerned. Capitalism is getting so hard to practice...

 

[Casey Pelous]

Boycotting Tesla: Bad.
Boycotting Anheuser-Busch: Heroically saving 'murica from radical left lunatics.

See? Simple!

 

[Noodles]

Boycotting Tesla: Bad.
Boycotting Anheuser-Busch: Heroically saving 'murica from radical left lunatics.

See? Simple!

It's even better.

> Boycotting Tesla because the company owner is a Nazi actively destroying society: Bad

> Boycotting Anheuser-Busch because one random trans influencer no one even knew existed got a special beer can: Heroically saving 'murica from radical left lunatics.

Also, nevermind the huge financial barrier to entry for any EV, vs just buying a case of beer. I mean, it's one beer, how much could it cost? $50,000? $100,000?

 

[Essence Lumin]

Boycotting Tesla: Bad.
Boycotting Anheuser-Busch: Heroically saving 'murica from radical left lunatics.

See? Simple!

Anheuser-Busch's political contributions have been large sums to the republican party so it's all the more ridiculous.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Furious Trump declares state of emergency and doubles tariffs on Canada in ballistic 338-word rant

The US stock market promptly fell following the social media post.
Trump also vowed further tariffs on Canada on April 2.

After a brutal stock market selloff because of his tariff threats, the President faces pressure on Tuesday to show he has a legitimate plan to grow the economy instead of perhaps pushing it into a recession.

Trump was set to deliver an afternoon address to the Business Roundtable, a trade association of CEOs that during the 2024 campaign he wooed with the promise of lower corporate tax rates for domestic manufacturers. But his plans for tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, steel, aluminum — with more to possibly come on Europe, Brazil, South Korea, pharmaceutical drugs, copper, lumber and computer chips — would amount to a massive tax hike.
...

The stock market’s vote of no confidence over the past two weeks puts the president in a bind between his enthusiasm for taxing imports and his brand as a politician who understands business based on his own experiences in real estate, media and marketing.

Who'd a thunk there'd be pushback by those dumb other countries? It's almost like they caught on to our super-secret plan. They're supposed to just let us grab 'em by the tariffs!