The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

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Source: https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/government-destruction-ssa-doge
 
Shiftless2 said:
Joking aside
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Oh what a magnificent fantasy !
You know the yogurt's deep when awakening from a nightmare only then to realize reality is even more alarming still. This lunatic is trying to wreck NATO !
Commenting on NATO President Trump said: "I said it was obsolete. It's no longer obsolete." April, 2017
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Today's damage report is brutal ...

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Trump’s reckless firings and mass layoffs are gutting key agencies—from FEMA to Social Security—while his military purge faces backlash. Contact your senators and urge them to reject his nominations, just as past defense secretaries advised. #GovBriefToday

#ResistLinks1 - https://federalnewsnetwork.com/work...es-to-terminate-federal-probationary-workers/

2 - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/trump-noaa-cuts-climate

3 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/26/elon-musk-ebola-prevention-usaid-doge/

4 - https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-russia-war-live-explosions-032353345.html

5 - https://www.reuters.com/world/ameri...anada-tariffs-take-effect-march-4-2025-02-27/

6 - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/climate/fema-trump-resignations-firings.html

7 - https://apnews.com/article/social-security-layoffs-doge-musk-trump-93efbed33957af5ec8ac37744d0592de

8 - https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out...ill-removed-military-pentagon-says-rcna194023

9 - https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...-must-testify-in-union-lawsuit-against-admin/

10 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/27/trump-fbi-epa-grant-investigation/

Fighting Back: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fi...-trumps-military-firings-reckless-2025-02-28/
 
This just popped up on another board - don't know anything about the site

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Shiftless2 said:

What The F*** Just Happened Today?​

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"That depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is." President Clinton 98/09/21

"Sean Spicer our press secretary gave alternative facts to that.

But the point remains - -." Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway NBC MTP17/01/22

"Wait a minute. "Alternative facts"? ...
Look: alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods." Moderator Chuck Todd NBC MTP

"No! It isn't truth. Truth isn't truth." Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, personal attorney to President Trump serving as administration spokesperson on NBC MTP 18/08/19

"Just remember, what you're seeing & what you're reading is not what's happening." President Trump

“Everyday we make good in our motto: 'Promises made, promises kept.'
We've kept more promises than we've even made.” U.S. President Trump19/05/20 per CBS LATE SHOW Stephen Colbert
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Unfortunately I expect that he's already copied all the information he wants" S2 #228
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In terms of security it would be an error to assume otherwise.

And while there may well be some ill-gotten confidential information gain by the Trump administration evil-doers (if you'll pardon the Bushism) there may well be more they'll want over the course of the next four years, that they haven't collected.

Context:
What did Trump do with all the classified information found in Trump's illegal possession @Mar a lago ?

Letitia, you go girl !
 
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Share with your people – today’s upheavals shook the system: from explosive White House confrontations with a world leaders and sweeping policy reversals to legal battles and grassroots protests, the landscape is shifting fast. #resist #GovBriefToday

LINKS

1 - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-rare-earth-minerals-trump-zelenskyy/

2 - https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dem...ps-confrontation-zelenskyy/story?id=119305519

3 - https://kvia.com/news/border/2025/0...litary-action-to-mexican-leaders-reports-say/

4 - https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/g-s1-51490/federal-workers-new-email-accomplishments

5 - https://www.axios.com/2025/02/28/rfk-kills-public-comment-health-policy

6 - https://apnews.com/article/trump-declare-english-official-language-5b24f6ac1172803f615cea69e13f8724

7 - https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/feb/28/irs-rejected-request-for-addresses-of-people-belie/

8 - https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5169380-national-democrats-sue-trump-executive-order/

9 - https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...rom-iowa-civil-rights-act-sf-418/80576830007/

10 - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...p-appointed-us-attorney-washington-rcna194278

11 - https://www.wvtm13.com/article/trump-hud-fair-housing-grants-cut/63983580

12 - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/education-department-buyout-email.html

FIGHTING BACK: https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/california-joshua-tree-flag-protests-20194550.php

ARCHIVE: https://govbrief.today
 
sear said:
"President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico would cost the typical U.S. household over $1,200 a year." Peterson Institute for International Economics / reported PBSNH 25/03/01
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Not just that but how many jobs are at stake here - last time I looked there were some 12 million jobs that are directly dependent on trade with Canada and Mexico and that's not counting those jobs that are "dependent on those jobs" - the trucking firms auditors, the diner that's next to the shipping terminal, the grocery store where those workers and their families shop, the bar down the road where workers go for a beer after work, the service station that the workers use, .....
 

January inflation gives Fed more reason to hold on interest rate cuts​

Consumers must wait for more relief on borrowing costs
By Nora Colomer Sponsored by Credible - which is majority owned by Fox Corporation.

Egg prices soared by more than 15% in January.

Annual inflation increased to 3% in January, rising above expectations and giving the Federal Reserve further reason to slow down interest rate cuts.

Inflation increased 0.5% monthly, slightly exceeding expectations and above the previous month's increase of 0.4%, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, rose by 0.4% in January, coming in at the same level as December's increase. This brought the year-over-year rate to 3.3%.

Shelter costs rose 0.4% and were the most significant contributor to the monthly increase in January, accounting for nearly 30% of the monthly increase in all items. Gas was up 1.8% over the month. Food prices continued to rise, increasing 0.4% last month. The food at home index rose 0.5%, driven primarily by the soaring costs of eggs, which increased 15.2% in January.
"The unexpected acceleration in inflation marks the third consecutive monthly uptick in the consumer price index and extends a reflationary trend since two consecutive flat months for the index in May and June 2024," Jim Baird, Plante Moran Financial Advisors' chief investment officer, said in a statement. "Against a backdrop of solid demand, inflation has accelerated. It's a reality that may spook consumers who remember the Covid-19 era price spike all too well.
"It will also make President Trump's proposed import tariffs a tougher sell than was the case during his first term, when both inflation and interest rates were exceptionally low," Baird continued.

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January inflation gives Fed more reason to hold on interest rate cuts

In January, consumers grappled with higher prices, with shelter costs leading the way, but egg inflation rose to the highest level since 2015.
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In this last line it appears FOX is trying to leverage the bad news it endorses, for higher $profits.

Shiftless2 said:
Not just that but how many jobs are at stake here - last time I looked there were some 12 million jobs that are directly dependent on trade with Canada and Mexico and that's not counting those jobs that are "dependent on those jobs" - the trucking firms auditors, the diner that's next to the shipping terminal, the grocery store where those workers and their families shop, the bar down the road where workers go for a beer after work, the service station that the workers use, ..... #236
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Some Trump fans may consider Musk's approach ham-handed.
I suspect destructive malice is a more plausible explanation.

There have been opportunities to avoid this 2nd term Trumpism, each successfully evaded.

There's a little glimmer on the horizon that the judiciary may help a little. Not clear if they'll be able to save the republic.
 

Ann Kennerly​

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By David Frum for The Atlantic:

“At least the Oval Office meeting held by President Donald Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was held in front of the cameras.

False friendliness in public by Trump and Vance, followed by behind-the-scenes treachery, would have been much more dangerous to the Ukrainian cause.
Instead, Trump and Vance have revealed to Americans and to America’s allies their alignment with Russia, and their animosity toward Ukraine in general and its president in particular. The truth is ugly, but it’s necessary to face it.

Today’s meeting gave the lie to any claim that this administration’s policy is driven by any strategic effort to advance the interests of the United States, however misguided. Trump and Vance displayed in the Oval Office a highly personal hatred. There was no effort here to make a case for American interests. Vance complained that Zelensky had traveled to Pennsylvania to thank U.S. ammunition workers, because, Vance charged, the appearance amounted to campaigning for the Democratic presidential ticket. “Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me,” Trump angrily explained. “He went through a phony witch hunt where they used him and Russia, Russia, Russia.”

Both the president and vice president showed the U.S.-led alliance system something it needed urgently to know: The national-security system of the West is led by two men who cannot be trusted to defend America’s allies—and who deeply sympathize with the world’s most aggressive dictator.

Through the Cold War period, Americans were haunted by the fear that a person with clandestine loyalties to a hostile foreign power might somehow rise to high office. In the late 1940s, the Alger Hiss case convulsed the country. Hiss’s accusers charged—and it later proved true—that Hiss had betrayed U.S. secrets to Soviet spymasters in the 1930s, when Hiss served as a junior official in the Department of Agriculture. The secrets were not very important; they included designs for a new fire extinguisher for U.S. naval ships. But Hiss himself was a rising star. The possibility that a person with such secrets in his past might someday go on to head the Department of State or Central Intelligence Agency once tormented Americans.

But what if the loyalties were not clandestine, not secret? What if a leader just plain blurted out on national television that he despises our allies, rejects treaties, and regards a foreign adversary as a personal friend? What if he did it again and again? Human beings get used to anything. But this?

It’s not hard to imagine a president of Estonia or Moldova in that Oval Office chair, being berated by Trump and Vance. Or a president of Taiwan. Or, for that matter, the leaders of core U.S. partners such as Germany and Japan, which entrusted their nations’ security to the faith and patriotism of past American leaders, only to be confronted by the faithless men who hold the highest offices today.

We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States. “America First” always meant America alone, a predatory America whose role in the world is no longer based on democratic belief. America voted at the United Nations earlier this week against Ukraine, siding with Russia and China against almost all of its fellow democracies. Is this who Americans want to be? For this is what America is being turned into.

The Trump administration’s elimination of PEPFAR, the American program to combat HIV infection in Africa, symbolizes the path ahead. President George W. Bush created the program because it would do immense good at low cost, and thereby demonstrate to the world the moral basis of American power. His successors continued it, and Congresses of both parties funded it, because they saw that the program advanced both U.S. values and U.S. interests. Trump and Vance don’t want the United States to be that kind of country anymore.

American allies urgently need a Plan B for collective security in a world where the U.S. administration prefers Vladimir Putin to Zelensky.

The American people need to reckon with the mess Trump and Vance are making of this country’s once-good name—and the services they are performing for dictators and aggressors. There may not be a deep cause here. Trump likes and admires bad people because he is himself a bad person. When Vance executed his personal pivot from Never Trump to Always Trump, he needed a way to prove that he had truly crossed over to the dark side beyond any possibility of reversion or redemption; perhaps his support for Russia allowed him to do that. But however shallow their motives, the consequences are profound.

In his first term, Trump sometimes seemed a rogue actor within his own administration. The president expressed strange and disquieting opinions, but his Cabinet secretaries were mostly normal and responsible people. The oddball appointees on the White House staff were contained by the many more-or-less normal appointees. This time, Trump is building a national-security system to follow his lead. He has intimidated or persuaded his caucus in the House to accept—and his caucus in the Senate not to oppose—his pro-authoritarian agenda.

The good and great America that once inspired global admiration—that good and great America still lives. But it no longer commands a consensus above party. The pro-Trump party exposed its face to the world in the Oval Office today. Nobody who saw that face will ever forget the grotesque sight.”
 
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Multiple vaccine projects have been paused by the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy paused a multimillion-dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine, an advisory committee said Wednesday.

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In an email to NBC, Norman Baylor, a former director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccine Research and Review, said, “I’m quite shocked. As you know, the VRBPAC is critical for making the decision on strain selection for the next influenza vaccine season.” Last week, an upcoming CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was also postponed. These moves send a disturbing message that Kennedy’s anti-vaccine views are starting to influence health policy. On Wednesday, the secretary already had an alarming, nonchalant response to the first American measles death in a decade. Now it seems American public health efforts could experience a serious setback as long as President Trump and Kennedy are in government.

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Sources:RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments
https://newrepublic.com/post/192059/rfk-jr-vaccines-flu-covid-hhs?utm_source=newsletter

FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...g-select-flu-strains-seasons-shots-rcna193931

Weekly US Influenza Surveillance Report: Key Updates for Week 7, ending February 15, 2025
https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance/2025-week-07.html

A CDC vaccine committee meeting, the first of Kennedy's tenure at HHS, gets postponed
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...ttee-meeting-kennedy-postponed-hhs-rcna191659

RFK’s Anti-Vaccine Zealotry Is an Existential Threat to Public Schools
https://newrepublic.com/article/188497/rfk-anti-vaccine-public-education

A Texas child who was not vaccinated has died of measles, a first for the US in a decade
https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-west-texas-death-rfk-41adc66641e4a56ce2b2677480031ab9
 
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