The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America
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Trump suggests putting Sen Cruz on Supreme Court
February 27, 2026President Donald Trump on Friday said he is "thinking about" putting Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on the Supreme Court, joking about the senator's approval with Democrats.
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President Donald Trump on Friday said he is "thinking about" putting Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on the Supreme Court, joking about the senator's approval with Democrats.
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There's a vid of her actual speech there as well if you'd rather listen.
BUT !
The overall presentation seemed near comedically staged.
a) There was a live if tiny audience, a conspicuously papered house.
b) They'd have seemed alarmingly zombie-like if without reaction. BUT !
perhaps due to time constraints etc., the entire presentation including audience reaction seemed quite scripted, choreographed.
That's an issue of style, not substance.
On substance (if any) President Trump's SOU seemed unimpressive.
Bottom line, this close to election, the U.S. seems alarmingly adrift. Republican acquiescence fuels the Trump juggernaut.
Goldilocks, we need you ... *
The U.S. and Israel are reportedly pummeling Iran.
One of the risks of too severely weakening Iran is leaving Iran vulnerable to its neighbors.
And Iran is located in a dangerous neighborhood.
Trump / Netanyahu may not be s a v v y enough to accommodate this consequence.
Perhaps those under President Trump's command are.
In public statement Trump suggests he (Trump) is naïve enough to believe
“Operation Epic Fury” will create an Iran which will adopt a new, U.S. friendly regime.
Wouldn't that be lovely.
* Strike Iran hard enough to displace the bad guy regime there,
without simply preparing Iran to be taken over by a replacement regime that's as bad or worse.
The U.S. and Israel are reportedly pummeling Iran.
One of the risks of too severely weakening Iran is leaving Iran vulnerable to its neighbors.
And Iran is located in a dangerous neighborhood.
Trump / Netanyahu may not be s a v v y enough to accommodate this consequence.
Perhaps those under President Trump's command are.
In public statement Trump suggests he (Trump) is naïve enough to believe
“Operation Epic Fury” will create an Iran which will adopt a new, U.S. friendly regime.
Wouldn't that be lovely.
* Strike Iran hard enough to displace the bad guy regime there,
without simply preparing Iran to be taken over by a replacement regime that's as bad or worse.
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Much as I dislike Charlie Kirk his message here is spot on
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Something very weird is going on in Greenland.
Trump announced Saturday that he is sending a US Hospital Ship to Greenland, "to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It’s on the way!!!"
Wait - what??? Greenland has not requested a hospital ship. Denmark has not requested a hospital ship. Greenland is not experiencing any medical crisis, and has fine facilities of its own.
In fact, Greenland and Denmark just rescued an AMERICAN having an emergency medical crisis - and THAT may be what this weirdness is all about.
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BREAKING
His name was Geraldo Lunas Campos. When the county medical examiner finally performed an autopsy, the conclusion was devastatingly clear: his death was ruled a homicide.
But here is the detail that should make your blood run cold.
When another man recently died at that exact same ICE facility, the Department of Homeland Security didn't call the local medical examiner. Instead, they moved his body to a nearby U.S. Army base.
And that Army base is now flat-out refusing to release the results of the autopsy.
This was revealed today by Senator Dick Durbin in a horrifying congressional hearing about the explosion of deaths in ICE custody under the Trump administration.
Eight people have already died in ICE custody in just the first two months of this year alone. Many of them died from easily treatable illnesses.
911 logs show ICE facilities are completely overwhelmed, ignoring basic human rights.
But moving a body to a military installation to dodge a local homicide investigation? That isn't just negligence. That is a coordinated, state-sponsored cover-up.
They are operating mass detention facilities with zero accountability. They are treating human beings like they are disposable. And when their guards cross the line, they use the full weight of the federal military apparatus to hide the evidence.
We are watching human rights abuses happen on American soil, funded by our tax dollars. We must demand the autopsy report.
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I do not get how the US and Israel can attack Iran without being prosecuted for the crimes?
Not only does it violate US and Israeli law, but international law and the UN charter?
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BREAKINGA man was choked to death by ICE guards, and DHS hid his body at a military base to block the autopsy.
His name was Geraldo Lunas Campos. When the county medical examiner finally performed an autopsy, the conclusion was devastatingly clear: his death was ruled a homicide.
But here is the detail that should make your blood run cold.
When another man recently died at that exact same ICE facility, the Department of Homeland Security didn't call the local medical examiner. Instead, they moved his body to a nearby U.S. Army base.
And that Army base is now flat-out refusing to release the results of the autopsy.
This was revealed today by Senator Dick Durbin in a horrifying congressional hearing about the explosion of deaths in ICE custody under the Trump administration.
Eight people have already died in ICE custody in just the first two months of this year alone. Many of them died from easily treatable illnesses.
911 logs show ICE facilities are completely overwhelmed, ignoring basic human rights.
But moving a body to a military installation to dodge a local homicide investigation? That isn't just negligence. That is a coordinated, state-sponsored cover-up.
They are operating mass detention facilities with zero accountability. They are treating human beings like they are disposable. And when their guards cross the line, they use the full weight of the federal military apparatus to hide the evidence.
We are watching human rights abuses happen on American soil, funded by our tax dollars. We must demand the autopsy report.
SOURCE with comments
Statistically I suppose there are always going to be some deaths, but ICE seems exceptionally violent and abusive to me.
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Using this logic every country in the world would be justified in attacking the US - after all, they have a serious arsenal of weapons
One of the biggest lies floating around right now is this idea that Iran posed no threat. And suddenly everyone’s a foreign affairs expert.
That’s simply not true.
You can have strong feelings about this conflict. But pretending Iran was harmless before this is detached from reality.
Iran has one of the largest ballistic missile arsenals in the Middle East. Not theory. Not speculation. Fact.
It has thousands of drones. It's demonstrated the ability to launch coordinated missile and drone strikes across the region. It's targeted U.S. assets and regional bases in previous escalations.
That’s documented.
In this round of fighting, missiles and drones were fired across the Gulf. Airspace shut down. Bases went on high alert. Interceptors were launched. Civilian areas were put at risk.
That’s not “no threat.”
Was Iran about to invade North America? Of course not. That’s not the standard.
The standard is whether it had the capability and willingness to strike allied assets, destabilize the region, and endanger Western personnel.
It did.
Enriched uranium. A highly developed ballistic missile program. Expanding drone capacity. Active proxy networks across multiple countries.
That isn’t harmless. It never was.
And here’s another reality people don’t want to acknowledge. Canada is a NATO ally. The United States is our closest defence partner. Israel is an ally.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has already made it clear that Canada is not militarily involved.
But alliances matter. Security partnerships matter. Strategic alignment matters.
Recognizing that Iran posed a real regional threat is not cheerleading war. It’s acknowledging facts.
We don’t need to exaggerate the threat.
But we don’t get to pretend it didn’t exist either.
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One of the biggest lies floating around right now is this idea that Iran posed no threat. And suddenly everyone’s a foreign affairs expert.
That’s simply not true.
You can have strong feelings about this conflict. But pretending Iran was harmless before this is detached from reality.
Iran has one of the largest ballistic missile arsenals in the Middle East. Not theory. Not speculation. Fact.
It has thousands of drones. It's demonstrated the ability to launch coordinated missile and drone strikes across the region. It's targeted U.S. assets and regional bases in previous escalations.
That’s documented.
In this round of fighting, missiles and drones were fired across the Gulf. Airspace shut down. Bases went on high alert. Interceptors were launched. Civilian areas were put at risk.
That’s not “no threat.”
Was Iran about to invade North America? Of course not. That’s not the standard.
The standard is whether it had the capability and willingness to strike allied assets, destabilize the region, and endanger Western personnel.
It did.
Enriched uranium. A highly developed ballistic missile program. Expanding drone capacity. Active proxy networks across multiple countries.
That isn’t harmless. It never was.
And here’s another reality people don’t want to acknowledge. Canada is a NATO ally. The United States is our closest defence partner. Israel is an ally.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has already made it clear that Canada is not militarily involved.
But alliances matter. Security partnerships matter. Strategic alignment matters.
Recognizing that Iran posed a real regional threat is not cheerleading war. It’s acknowledging facts.
We don’t need to exaggerate the threat.
But we don’t get to pretend it didn’t exist either.
SOURCE
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It's not just the fact that he died in this case but rather the way they've circled the wagons so nobody can see the autopsy results.
The reason I disagree is that the more nukes out there, the safer everyone actually is.
That is because of MAD.
Nukes can only be used if the other person does not have the nuclear deterrent.
So then the world would be safer with a nuclear Iran than without it.
And that is proven by these illegal current attacks on Iran, that is murdering hundreds, if not thousands, of innocents.
The reality of Iran not being a threat is obvious from the fact it only makes defensive weapons.
Sure it has a huge missile arsenal, but very short range.
It can not hit the US with anything.
The actually "bad guys" are NATO.
NATO is actually the Allies from WWI, who actually are the historic colonial imperialists, with the worst history of abusing the whole rest of the world.
Originally the bad guy colonial imperialists were England, France, and Spain.
But the US replaced Spain after the Spanish American war.
And let us not forget the Allies were the bad guys in WWI.
If you look at the weapons of NATO, they are not defensive.
They are long range missiles, aircraft carriers, submarines, long range bombers, amphibious assault craft, etc.
Realistically Iran was never the problem, but NATO has always been the real problem.
And this attack on Iran is obvious proof.
There were no charges, no trials, no attempt to hear both sides in the court of public opinion even.
It was the act of extreme dictatorship, without regard for law, ethics, justice, or human rights.
It is proof once again, that we are the bad guy.
Chisel it in marble, and I'll help you prop it up against a utility pole in D.C.
Please note:
The 14th Amendment does not require a conviction. Simply having "engaged" is all the Constitution requires.
It was absolute folly to allow Trump's name onto ballots during the Republican presidential candidate primaries preparatory to the 2024 presidential election.
And it compounded that folly to allow this Republican nominee to appear on the ballots of 2024's November election.
The U.S. elected to the presidency a candidate that had previously disqualified himself.
Who among about 8 Billion Earthlings sincerely believes that circumventing this basic rational law can be perpetrated without consequence?
Bush v. Gore killed thousands.
How many more will die, before Trump leaves office, if ever?
Good point in that Trump claims there was election fraud in 2020 without any evidence, but there not only was lots of evidence of election fraud in 2000, but the invasion of Iraq was also totally criminal.