Trump 2.0

Kristoffer said:
My views on the transgender issue as you call it, exchemist, is that JK Rowling is a myopic cunt.
One of my step kids is trans and I will back him over a guy in the latter part of life.
Exactly like I will back the rights of gay people and anyone not hurting other people.
This might be the first time where I feel inclined to tell you to
shut up and grow up.
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Yeah, different thread. Respectfully
 
Oh, wow.
Okay, so the Trump administration has an issue with certain words, like transgender, and are doing their best to rewrite history and records without such words.

Welcome to the new order!
A list of something like 26,000 photos and websites that are on file with the US DoD has been compiled and earmarked for deletion.

For example, a certain image or two of Paul Tibbets (brigadier general of USAF at time of death in 2007) have been earmarked for deletion from the Pentagon files.
"But why?" you may ask.
Because of a certain aircraft he flew, is the answer. One of the most famous aircraft in American, neigh world, history, as it happens. Yes, that's right: Enola Gay.

It seems that Trump administration have done a search of records for words they don't like, and are looking to delete them from the databases. This includes mention of the aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb.
Because they searched for the word "gay" - amongst others.
It also means that photos of a certain Maj. A. C. Gay have been earmarked for deletion. Apparently his name doesn't fit with the new world order!

Seriously. This is the New America. Your tax dollars at work!
:rolleyes:
Making America G.... Again.
 
In other news:
US (interim) attorney general for DC Ed Martin has apparently issued an ultimatum to Georgetown Law School threatening them that none of their alumni will ever be considered for positions by his office unless the school stops it's teaching and promotion of DEI, and ceases all its DEI efforts.
Despite it not being illegal, per the First Amendment.
Overreach by Trump's DoJ, to be sure, trying not just to prosecute those that break the law but anyone who disagrees with Trump's / MAGA's wider agenda.

Apparently it's just a continuation of Martin's inability to distinguish between his duty as (interim) AG and his desire to suck up to Trump. Fortunately his target this time was a law school. And they not only know the law but can educate others in it. Including, it seems, errant (interim) AG's.


www.washingtonian.com

Georgetown University’s Law School Dean Just Had to Remind Ed Martin About the First Amendment - Washingtonian

Shortly after Martin's office threatened to blackball graduates of Georgetown Law, US senators pushed the DC Bar for an investigation.
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Sarkus said:
In other news:
US (interim) attorney general for DC Ed Martin has apparently issued an ultimatum to Georgetown Law School threatening them that none of their alumni will ever be considered for positions by his office unless the school stops it's teaching and promotion of DEI, and ceases all its DEI efforts.
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Amy Coney Barrett has now been labeled a "DEI hire" by conservatives because she disagreed with something Trump did.

Mike Cernovich: “She is evil, chosen solely because she checked identity politics boxes. Another DEI hire. It always ends badly."

Fox News host Mark Levin said she “deceived people into thinking she was a reliable constitutionalist. The power has gone to her head. It happens with frightening regularity the last half-century.”

Laura Loomer: “Amy Coney Barrett was a DEI appointee.”

Jack Posobiec said she was a “DEI judge”.

Mike Davis: "She’s a rattled law professor with her head up her ass."

What woke liberal loser appointed her, anyway?
 
billvon said:
What woke liberal loser appointed her, anyway?
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Trump was conned. Four years ago he sincerely believed in all that DEI nonsense and wrongly assumed that they were policies enacted in good faith. He tried to appoint a transgender Mexican amputee furry, but he couldn't find one.
 
parmalee said:
Trump was conned. Four years ago he sincerely believed in all that DEI nonsense and wrongly assumed that they were policies enacted in good faith. He tried to appoint a transgender Mexican amputee furry, but he couldn't find one.
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No doubt. Fortunately, he now knows how inferior women, blacks and gays are.
 
billvon said:
No doubt. Fortunately, he now knows how inferior women, blacks and gays are.
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What is crazy about all of this, the sackings, stopping funding for science research, Tariffs, Ukraine Policy is all happening right away.
Call me naive but I simply cannot remember these things happening like this in the UK or US before.
Labour stopped the flights to Rwanda for immigrants immediately, pretty much as soon as they got in office but that is it.
Perhaps only the headliners get a spotlight.
If the government want to change a law they usually debate it in parliament and get the lawyers on it. It still has to be signed off by Lords IIRC.
Changes in fiscal policy is via the budget.
Laws changed overnight during COVID but we were in a state of emergency.
So if there is a big thing, say making an enemy of Canada, the UK and Ukraine via, words, televised meetings, Tariffs and funding, do you normally run it by the party first? Debate it? Vote on it? Congress? Get all the lawyers on it? Bill then law?
Is all this as unusual as it looks from here in Sunny Manchester UK?
I know this a roundabout way of asking, "how does your law work and is he breaking it?"
 
Now we have a sham investigation and then malicious and unconstitutional freeze on funds already allocated for Green projects:

apnews.com

EPA froze 'green bank' funds worth billions, climate group suit says

A nonprofit that was awarded nearly $7 billion by the Biden administration to finance clean energy and climate-friendly projects has sued the Environmental Protection Agency, accusing it of improperly freezing its account.
apnews.com apnews.com

The thugs seem to be transitioning from barbarism to nihilism. Let's just start destroying the prospects for renewable energy - something a vast majority of Americans support. I hope there is a Hell, and that these assholes get to spend eons having their intestines wound out of their bellies onto a garden hose caddy. Something Hieronymus Boschian, with coal plant stack emissions pumped into their lungs as they try to breathe.
Pinball1970 said:
Is all this as unusual as it looks from here in Sunny Manchester UK?
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Yes. This should all be going through both courts and Congress, as set out in our Constitution. The executive order option is being grossly misused and abused. It is a dark age, with the executive branch of government being taken over by traitors and criminals.
 
Pinball1970 said:
What is crazy about all of this, the sackings, stopping funding for science research, Tariffs, Ukraine Policy is all happening right away.
Call me naive but I simply cannot remember these things happening like this in the UK or US before.
Labour stopped the flights to Rwanda for immigrants immediately, pretty much as soon as they got in office but that is it.
Perhaps only the headliners get a spotlight.
If the government want to change a law they usually debate it in parliament and get the lawyers on it. It still has to be signed off by Lords IIRC.
Changes in fiscal policy is via the budget.
Laws changed overnight during COVID but we were in a state of emergency.
So if there is a big thing, say making an enemy of Canada, the UK and Ukraine via, words, televised meetings, Tariffs and funding, do you normally run it by the party first? Debate it? Vote on it? Congress? Get all the lawyers on it? Bill then law?
Is all this as unusual as it looks from here in Sunny Manchester UK?
I know this a roundabout way of asking, "how does your law work and is he breaking it?"
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I honestly believe they want to burn it all down. And they've had a few years to plan it out. So they are throwing everything in the wood chipper before the courts have time to process their paperwork. We have yet to see what happens when he doesn't obey the court's rulings. I'm not optimistic.
 
So, with markets responding negatively, with recession being feared, with many lower-wealtg Americans fearing for their future, what does Trump do? He tells everyone that Musk is suffering, and goes out and buys a Tesla in support.
Seriously. He went out and bought a Tesla because the world's richest man has been having a bad few days on the stock market, Tesla Inc especially.

He's trashing your (and everyone else's) economy and he's showing sympathy for Musk??? He's putting a wrecking ball through Medicaid, through Social Security, through people's lives, and he's giving economic support to the world's richest man???


1411 days to go.
 
Something I missed from a week or so ago:
Trump has instructed the US Cybercommand and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to no longer follow or even report on Russian threats, despite them previously being their main focus. Instead he has pivoted the resource to focus on China.

There is surely only so many ways that Trump can tell the world he's a Russian asset without, you know, actually telling us that he's a Russian asset.

And then there's this: https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/...-cybersecurity-efforts-including-for-election

"The Trump administration has halted funding for two cybersecurity efforts, including one for elections."

To me this raises the spectre that Trump is paving the way for Russia to gain full access to the voting systems at future elections. Did he not, after all, tell an audience of Christians that they "wouldn't need to vote again", that it'll "all be fixed" (or words to those effects)?
It is just another piece in Trump's assault on election integrity and voter's rights.
 
Sarkus said:
So, with markets responding negatively, with recession being feared, with many lower-wealtg Americans fearing for their future, what does Trump do? He tells everyone that Musk is suffering, and goes out and buys a Tesla in support.
Seriously. He went out and bought a Tesla because the world's richest man has been having a bad few days on the stock market, Tesla Inc especially.

He's trashing your (and everyone else's) economy and he's showing sympathy for Musk??? He's putting a wrecking ball through Medicaid, through Social Security, through people's lives, and he's giving economic support to the world's richest man???


1411 days to go.
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If you are lucky................:confused:

After Trump it will be Vance. And then the fat will be in the fire.
 
Sarkus said:
Something I missed from a week or so ago:
Trump has instructed the US Cybercommand and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to no longer follow or even report on Russian threats, despite them previously being their main focus. Instead he has pivoted the resource to focus on China.

There is surely only so many ways that Trump can tell the world he's a Russian asset without, you know, actually telling us that he's a Russian asset.

And then there's this: https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/...-cybersecurity-efforts-including-for-election

"The Trump administration has halted funding for two cybersecurity efforts, including one for elections."

To me this raises the spectre that Trump is paving the way for Russia to gain full access to the voting systems at future elections. Did he not, after all, tell an audience of Christians that they "wouldn't need to vote again", that it'll "all be fixed" (or words to those effects)?
It is just another piece in Trump's assault on election integrity and voter's rights.
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Yup, spot-on. That is what they have done and that is what he said.

Did you also note the language he used when he got furious in the Oval Orifice, about what he and Putin had "gone through together" at the time of the investigation over Russian influence? He spoke (in his characteristic language of whining victimhood) as if they were bosom buddies who corresponded regularly. The implication was that Trump was ringing Putin up to tell him how the investigation was going!
 
NASA cuts.

From another site:

"As a start, the Chief Scientist and her office have been eliminated. Additionally, the NASA Office of Technology, Strategy and Policy has been eliminated. As expected, the DEI program has been shut down. These actions account for 23 employees. Nine hundred employees have taken the "deferred resignation" program. About 1000 probationary employees will probably be fired. All this will result in about a 10% reduction in staff."
 
Here's a deleted scene from On Golden Pond in which Henry Fonda's dementia inexplicably infects Katherine Hepburn, as well. Hepburn rambles about french fries and pomme frites and when Fonda interjects with some idiocy about plastic straws, Hepburn jokes that he hates sea turtles, forgetting that she once rescued a sea turtle on camera and pretended to care about such things:

No disrespect to the actual Hepburn or Fonda intended.
 
Shocking news: UK sales of Tesla have actually gone up over the past month. :(
 
At leas
parmalee said:
Here's a deleted scene from On Golden Pond in which Henry Fonda's dementia inexplicably infects Katherine Hepburn, as well. Hepburn rambles about french fries and pomme frites and when Fonda interjects with some idiocy about plastic straws, Hepburn jokes that he hates sea turtles, forgetting that she once rescued a sea turtle on camera and pretended to care about such things:

No disrespect to the actual Hepburn or Fonda intended.
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It's actually a good discussion.
 
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