On Trump

[mtrycrafts]

Oh good grief the lies on the side of the maga/pubs/right are ridiculous right now.......

You mean this is something new, just surfaced?

 

[mtrycrafts]

Support for Gaetz and RFK come to mind.

Just those two? You need to start taking that memory pill on TV.

 

[mtrycrafts]

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No, I see a difference in their hair style.

 

[GO-NAD!]

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Milei warns lawmakers he will make reforms 'with or without' them...

Younger Trump??

Hey, lookie here. Another grifting president.

Argentina opposition calls for impeachment of Javier Milei after cryptocurrency collapse

President endorsed $Libra crypto token on Friday before it collapsed, leading some to call it a financial ‘rug pull’

www.theguardian.com

 

[mtrycrafts]

Hey, lookie here. Another grifting president.

Argentina opposition calls for impeachment of Javier Milei after cryptocurrency collapse

President endorsed $Libra crypto token on Friday before it collapsed, leading some to call it a financial ‘rug pull’

www.theguardian.com

What?


Argentina opposition calls for impeachment of Javier Milei after cryptocurrency collapse

Crypto failure? And they, Trump and .. want a huge crypto holding to perhaps replace the gold reserves? Or another reserve?
Really?
Who and how will it be funded? And when it fails like above who will be hung and demand repayment with hard currency? Will they go after the billionaires for the $$$?
Stupidity rampant.

 

[Dude#1279435]

Hey, lookie here. Another grifting president.

Argentina opposition calls for impeachment of Javier Milei after cryptocurrency collapse

President endorsed $Libra crypto token on Friday before it collapsed, leading some to call it a financial ‘rug pull’

www.theguardian.com

I'm pretty sure he's in the Trump bloodline somewhere.

 

[3db]

WTF is that US ahole president think he's doing ignoring Zalenski in the peace talks? So Republicans, what does feel like when your dictator is shoving his head up Putin's ass and selling out your country??? Republicans are like boneless chicken wings, no spine.

 

[Dude#1279435]

I thought this was a good example of pro-Trump, but the over indexing I'd disagree with. Sure they liked his policy, but I think they loved the escalation and vile even more.

https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/199unuw

I think there’s a bit of danger in labeling a reasonably sized group a horde of mindless idiots following a cult leader and not stepping back and thinking about what might cause them to be angry / frustrated or find Trump’s message attractive.

Like the reason there is right wing popularism is because government has failed to address economic conditions in rural and former manufacturing areas.

Democrats claim to be champions of the working class, but their solutions primarily target urban areas and they message heavily towards people of color and immigrants. They’ve divided on racial grievances and implicitly - often explicitly - state that white men are the problem. It’s not a good message for primarily poor and white states.

Trump is pretty clearly exploiting and capitalizing on this, but I think I could just as easily be any other Republican leader channeling it.

You’re over indexing on Trump’s rhetoric more than the core beliefs of the group.

 

[3db]

I thought this was a good example of pro-Trump, but the over indexing I'd disagree with. Sure they liked his policy, but I think they loved the escalation and vile even more.

https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/199unuw

I think there’s a bit of danger in labeling a reasonably sized group a horde of mindless idiots following a cult leader and not stepping back and thinking about what might cause them to be angry / frustrated or find Trump’s message attractive.

Like the reason there is right wing popularism is because government has failed to address economic conditions in rural and former manufacturing areas.

Democrats claim to be champions of the working class, but their solutions primarily target urban areas and they message heavily towards people of color and immigrants. They’ve divided on racial grievances and implicitly - often explicitly - state that white men are the problem. It’s not a good message for primarily poor and white states.

Trump is pretty clearly exploiting and capitalizing on this, but I think I could just as easily be any other Republican leader channeling it.

You’re over indexing on Trump’s rhetoric more than the core beliefs of the group.

When one chooses money over values, then you made the wrong choice. He's a convicted felon, a blatant racist, and a rapist. How one can vote for that shows that the country's morality has gone down the shitter. You can hide behind all the pro Trump BS and rhetoric you want but it doesn't change the fact that Trump is in the presidency to not make the US great again (which really never was an issue) but because he's a wants to look great. Trump will succeed into two things, fracturing the US and as a result increasing hate among you and isolating the US from the rest of the world. I will be there at the end of his rule to say I told you so.

The real big irony in all of this is that Trump doesn't understand why manufacturing has left the US. Blame ALL of that it on corporate greed and shareholder value. Afterall, its big business that decided to offshore but Trump's too much of a simple f?ck to understand that.

 

[mtrycrafts]

I'm pretty sure he's in the Trump bloodline somewhere.

Goes back to 30k years though.

 

[mtrycrafts]

When one chooses money over values, then you made the wrong choice. He's a convicted felon, a blatant racist, and a rapist. How one can vote for that shows that the country's morality has gone down the shitter. You can hide behind all the pro Trump BS and rhetoric you want but it doesn't change the fact that Trump is in the presidency to not make the US great again (which really never was an issue) but because he's a wants to look great. Trump will succeed into two things, fracturing the US and as a result increasing hate among you and isolating the US from the rest of the world. I will be there at the end of his rule to say I told you so.

The real big irony in all of this is that Trump doesn't understand why manufacturing has left the US. Blame ALL of that it on corporate greed and shareholder value. Afterall, its big business that decided to offshore but Trump's too much of a simple f?ck to understand that.

It's about Make Trump wealth.

 

[Mr._Clark]

I'm starting to wonder if anyone knows who is running DOGE. According to the White House, it's not Musk. Musk is not even an employee of DOGE.

>>>Who Runs Elon Musk’s DOGE? Not Musk, the White House Says. . . .

[O]n Monday evening, a White House official stated plainly that “Mr. Musk is not the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator.” The official, Joshua Fisher, made the statement in a declaration to a judge, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan . . .

Mr. Fisher added that Mr. Musk was “an employee in the White House Office” and “not an employee of the U.S. DOGE Service.” . . . A White House spokesperson did not respond to another request for comment on Monday evening in response to Mr. Fisher’s declaration.<<<

Who Runs Elon Musk’s DOGE? Not Musk, the White House Says.

A White House official declared that Mr. Musk was not the administrator of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. So who is?

www.nytimes.com

 

[mtrycrafts]

And more resignations demanded when DOJ is weaponized.

Supervisor in DC federal prosecutors' office told to resign after dispute over investigation

 

[Mr._Clark]

And more resignations demanded when DOJ is weaponized.

Supervisor in DC federal prosecutors' office told to resign after dispute over investigation

Yeah, I saw that.

The sheer ineptitude of the new administration borders on comical at times.

Exhibit A: The Trump administration accidentally listed the wrong person as the acting director of the F.B.I.

>>>Mr. Driscoll’s appointment was an accident. Shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, the White House identified the wrong agent as acting director on its website and never corrected the mistake.<<<

‘Accidental’ F.B.I. Chief Builds a Following as Agency’s Defender

Brian Driscoll was accidentally catapulted into the acting director’s chair on Jan. 20 and has defended the bureau from the potential of mass firings, inspiring memes and satirical clips.

www.nytimes.com

This appears to be a double "doh" because Driscoll has both principles and a spine:

>>>In a defiant email Friday night, James Dennehy, the top agent in the New York field office, warned his staff that the F.B.I. was “in the middle of a battle of our own.” Praising Mr. Driscoll and his deputy, Robert C. Kissane, as “warriors,” Mr. Dennehy asserted they were “fighting for this organization.”

. . . .

Friends and colleagues describe Mr. Driscoll as unflappable. He was a special agent with the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service in San Diego before joining the F.B.I. in 2007. His first assignment was in the New York office, the largest outpost in the bureau, where agents form powerful alliances and deep connections.

In 2011, he passed rigorous tryouts and was selected to the F.B.I.’s Hostage Rescue Team, a highly trained unit formed in the years after the massacre at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Many operators were once in the U.S. military and served in the Joint Special Operations Command.<<<

 

[Dude#1279435]

Goes back to 30k years though.

Recent discovery in the bloodline.

 

[Dude#1279435]

The Gulf of America's-

I tend to view the renaming of things as more a sign of weakness than just being great yourself and the rest will rub off.

 

[highfigh]

Afterall, its big business that decided to offshore but Trump's too much of a simple f?ck to understand that.

You need to remember that people wanted less expensive goods and that with the cost of imports, US manufacturers couldn't always match the prices AND quality? Japan countered tariffs on their electronics by building factories in Mexico, then in the US. They beat us in our own markets and arrogance was another reason for that.

When the IRS makes rules, you can bet that the lawyers & bean counters will look for every way to get around them.

 

[3db]

You need to remember that people wanted less expensive goods and that with the cost of imports, US manufacturers couldn't always match the prices AND quality? Japan countered tariffs on their electronics by building factories in Mexico, then in the US. They beat us in our own markets and arrogance was another reason for that.

When the IRS makes rules, you can bet that the lawyers & bean counters will look for every way to get around them.

Its still greed on the part of big business although what you say has some merit. Neverttheless, it doesn't change the fact that Trump's simplistic f?cktard mind is unable to wrap his head around this and he lashes out at the world as a result.

 

[Trell]

Trump have a new Executive Order about "Accountability" with the following section on interpretation of law. I wonder if that is even legal, but I'm not a lawyer. @Mr._Clark

>>> Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal Employees’ Interpretation of the Law. The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch. The President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees in the conduct of their official duties. No employee of the executive branch acting in their official capacity may advance an interpretation of the law as the position of the United States that contravenes the President or the Attorney General’s opinion on a matter of law, including but not limited to the issuance of regulations, guidance, and positions advanced in litigation, unless authorized to do so by the President or in writing by the Attorney General. <<<

Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: 

www.whitehouse.gov

 

[Mr._Clark]

Trump have a new Executive Order about "Accountability" with the following section on interpretation of law. I wonder if that is even legal, but I'm not a lawyer. @Mr._Clark

>>> Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal Employees’ Interpretation of the Law. The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch. The President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees in the conduct of their official duties. No employee of the executive branch acting in their official capacity may advance an interpretation of the law as the position of the United States that contravenes the President or the Attorney General’s opinion on a matter of law, including but not limited to the issuance of regulations, guidance, and positions advanced in litigation, unless authorized to do so by the President or in writing by the Attorney General. <<<

Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: 

www.whitehouse.gov

I’m not 100% comfortable commenting on this because the issues are well outside my area of expertise. The following is just my initial impression.

I tend to think it’s legal in the sense that it appears to be a condition of continuing employment, and an attorney can resign if the attorney disagrees with the legal position they are being asked to take.

It seems to me that an attorney may need to resign if they have been ordered to take a position that is clearly not reasonable and therefore constitutes an ethical violation. This strikes as a very murky issue, however, and it seems to me that it could conceivably be unethical for an attorney to resign in some cases.

It is ironic that Trump is demanding 100% compliance with orders but he also appears to be going after prosecutors who followed orders and pursued charges against him under the Biden administration.

Restated, as best I can understand Trump’s statements, he’s saying “If you followed orders during the Biden administration I’ll fire you for following orders, but if you don’t follow my orders I’ll fire you!”