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

Such federal employees are sworn to uphold the Constitution.

In practical terms the insurance for this is the integrity of the group, as tested one individual at a time.
Thus it too is not enforceable in this Trump era.
Trump has made it clear that the Constitution prevents him from doing the things he wants to do and his toadies in Congress aren't going to even pretend to stop him.
 
"Trump has made it clear that the Constitution prevents him from doing the things he wants to do and his toadies in Congress aren't going to even pretend to stop him." S2 #321
Congress may be able to censure. But it's inconsequential. And with Trump's record, censure more likely a badge of pride than shame.
Impeachment the more substantive power of the legislature, a non-starter as S2 #321 acknowledges.

Plan A (Article 2): fail
Plan B (Article 1): fail
Plan C (Article 3): fail. Example:

Trump admin defies judge’s order to block Tren de Aragua deportation flights to El Salvador: ‘Headed to the Supreme Court’​

Chris Nesi / March 16, 2025, 6:19 p.m. ET
The Trump administration ignored a temporary court order to halt deportation flights of accused Venezuelan gang members — and is vowing to take it up with the highest court in the land.
“This is headed to the Supreme Court. And we’re going to win,” a senior White House official told Axios.

Seems like a fairly confident assertion by the white house. What do they know that we don't? "The fix" is already in?
 
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It's over

View attachment 1245 "... our Constitutional Republic is over?"
Surely there's cause for alarm.
But in previous cases alarming message content has been mistaken for alarmist panic, emotional embellishment.
That in turn can diminish the impact of urgent response more objective descriptions elicit.

To identify Trump as an unprecedented threat, that means in a quarter millennium of U.S. history, a crisis of this nature & severity has never before occurred here.

Rhetoric sufficiently extreme to accurately describe the multiple violations of Constitutional law bears characteristics commonly associated with exaggeration.
Thus care must be taken to exclude the appearance of panic, exaggeration.

The second Trump administration is literally a "Constitutional crisis". President Trump's administration has ignored a judicial order.


Associated Press

Roberts rejects Trump's call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans​

CHRIS MEGERIAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MARK SHERMAN / Tue, March 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary display of conflict between the executive and judiciary branches, Chief Justice John Roberts rejected calls for impeaching judges shortly after President Donald Trump demanded the removal of one who ruled against his deportation plans.
The rebuke from the Supreme Court's leader demonstrated how controversy over recent flights of Venezuelan immigrants has inflamed tensions over the judiciary's role, with a legal case challenging Trump's actions now threatening to spiral into a clash of constitutional powers.

Perhaps C.J. Roberts [R] has a little less Jello in his spine than M.L. Thune [R].

So !
This is where we are today.

If there's no other way, either current members of our judiciary, academe, or any other viable U.S. brain-trust, can acknowledge the controversy, and invite the expert legal community to congeal on this issue.
How much more of a crisis do they need? Or do they plan to squat passively by, and watch the republic tumble into the abyss?
If their oath doesn't compel them to act, common human decency does. Trump is a human-rights atrocity.
"The only crime that I've committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it." Trump 23/04/09 on FOX Easter Sunday
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Volodymyr Vlad Kunko

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An anguished question from a Trump supporter:

‘Why do Liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’

Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en masse:

That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought ~ "Fine."

That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, "Okay."

That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, "No problem."

That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, "Not an issue."

That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn't care, you exclaimed, "He sure knows me."

That when you heard him relating a story of an elderly guest of his country club, an 80-year old man, who fell off a stage and hit his head, to Trump replied: “‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away. I couldn’t – you know, he was right in front of me, and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him. He was bleeding all over the place. And I felt
terrible, because it was a beautiful white marble floor, and now it had changed color. Became very red.” You said, "That's cool!"

That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw.

That when you heard him brag that he doesn't read books, you said, "Well, who has time?"

That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn't commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, "That makes sense."

That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, "Yes!"

That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man's coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, "What a great guy!"

That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, "Thumbs up!"

That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, "That's the way I want my President to be."

That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they're supposed to be regulating and you have said, "What a genius!"

That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, "That's smart!"

That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, "That makes sense."

That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, "falling in love" with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, "That's statesmanship!"

That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas – he explains that they’re just “animals” – and you say, “Well, OK then.”

That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise.

What you don't get, Trump supporters, is that our succumbing to frustration and shaking our heads, thinking of you as stupid, may very well be wrong and unhelpful, but it's also ... hear me ... charitable.

Because if you're NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.
 
"The very definition of a Freudian slip ...." S2 #333
Craig Ferguson calls it a "Freudian penis".
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we," U.S. President Bush ~Aug. 5, 2004
 
Posted by a Canadian FB friend

Truer words were never spoken!!

May be an image of 3 people and the Oval Office



Occupy Democrats

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BREAKING: Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus humiliates MAGA Secretary of State Marco Rubio for his reckless remarks — says that he "needs to be sent back to school" before really tearing in.

America has become the laughingstock of the world under Donald Trump...

"Well, I think Marco Rubio probably needs to be sent back to school because when you say that someone doesn’t have a right to have a country, that’s an act of war," Angus told MeidasTouch.

He was referring to Rubio's support of Trump's idiotic demand that Canada become America's "51st state." Supposedly, the disastrous tariffs are an effort to coerce Canada into surrendering its sovereignty but there is simply no scenario in which they'll agree to do that.

"When you rip up arbitrarily trade agreements, and threaten, and say you're going to break a country, that’s an act of war," said Angus. "And Canadians have responded in kind."

"The boycott that Canada has launched against the United States is punishing," he continued. "We were told in January a 10% drop in Canadian travel to the United States would cost 140,000 jobs. We’re seeing at least a 40% drop now..."

"...and we’re hearing these nightmare stories of ICE detention centers, of people who are traveling across the border to fix their visa or that, that have been strip-searched, chained, and kept in deplorable conditions," he went on.

"Is Donald Trump really trying to destroy the tourism industry in the United States?" asked Angus. "And then like three days before St. Patrick's Day picks a fight with the Irish of all people? You're going to pick a fight with the Irish on the eve of St. Patrick's day, throwing 200% tariffs and then 200% tariffs on France?"

"I mean that's the last bottle of bourbon that'll be sold in a generation in Europe so what we're really picking up here is not just the rising level of resistance in Canada — and I've been on a tour through the industrial heartland of Canada and the resistance is so much stronger than I could have even dreamed — but we're picking up now the rest of the world is watching Canada and following our strategy..." he said.

"...which is just disengage and to disengage economically," he continued. "So the United States has become a much weaker force on the stage of the world. If people aren't buying products, if people aren't traveling, if people aren't willing to buy anything American right now that's hurting so many American businesses who are basically collateral damage in Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance's idiotic campaign to please the MAGA voters."

"Its hurting us to some degree but it's right now, we think the impact on the average American business that has always had good relations with people in their markets, they're getting punched in the face right now because of what Donald Trump's doing."

Angus is absolutely right. America gains nothing from these destructive trade wars. All Trump is accomplishing is the immiseration of his own people. Meanwhile, our adversaries are starting to look like far more stable trading partners to our former allies.

Soon, America will stand alone.
 
From a Canadian

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Occupy Democrats

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BREAKING: Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus nukes "gangster" Donald Trump with a blistering takedown, reveals how MAGA accidentally helped Canadian liberals, and warns against traveling to America.

Not only that, but Angus revealed that an endorsement from Trump leads to "political death" in Canada.

This is a rhetorical bloodbath...

"Over the last three months our nation has faced an unprecedented threat from our nearest neighbor, a threat to our borders, a threat to our sovereignty, a threat to our very right to exist as an independent democratic nation," said Angus.

"Donald Trump thought we were going to be an easy mark, that we'd be a pushover. Oh, how wrong he was," continued Angus. "And now Canada's standing up to him has made Canada the front line in the defense against the MAGA ideology."

"So no wonder Donald Trump and MAGA are feeling pretty angry at Canada. But what concerns me is the targeting of Canadian citizens who are crossing the border to work or to visit," said Angus. "We have seen too many stories of citizens being pulled out of airport lines and being fingerprinted and deported as though they were criminals..."
"...citizens being kidnapped, to illegal detention by ICE. And it's not just Canadians, we see the attack on backpackers, students, doctors, professors," he went on.

"I'm here today to say to Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call our government to stand up for our Canadian citizens who are being denied their rights by arbitrary detention in the United States today, that Canada must stand up for our citizens and for the rule of law," said Angus.

"Because what we're seeing — for example with cops pulling over the folk duo Cassie and Maggie to harass them for being Canadian — is not the actions of a democratic nation," he continued. "People whose phones are being seized and searched for any kind of incriminating evidence that they're somehow progressive or woke, that's not the actions of a democratic nation."

"That is the creep of totalitarianism. That is the creep of fascism," Angus said bluntly. "And we need to call that out."

The MP also touted his pride in being Canadian despite the onslaught of abuse from MAGA world—

"And I am super proud to call myself Canadian at this time but it is vital that our leaders join this fight with us, that our leaders call out the arbitrary detentions and the denial of rights of citizens," he said.

"Not just Canadian citizens but all citizens," he continued. "Because we know if he can get away with this there's no reason that a Canadian or a German or someone from the UK isn't going to be picked up and deported to some El Salvadoran concentration camp because that is what is happening in the United States with the complete abdication of the rule of law."

"Canada is a country of the rule of law. Canada is a country of democracy," said Angus. "Canada must stand firm a this time. I urge people not to travel to the United States but to keep the boycott, to keep strong, because Canada will never kiss that gangster's ring."

"We are true. We are north. We are strong. We are free. We will not bend and we will not give an inch," he added.

Angus also touched on how Trump's total alienation of the Canadian people has caused backlash against Canada's own right-wing politicians.

"What do you think of Donald Trump's comments about Pierre Poilievre?" asked a reporter. "Poilievre certainly sees his comments as an endorsement."

The comments in question were made by Trump during an interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham. He said: "I think it’s easier to deal actually with a Liberal, and maybe they’re going to win, but I don’t really care. It doesn’t matter to me at all."

MP Angus laughed in response to the reporters' question, and then dug in—

"Oh poor Pierre," he said. "Pierre Poilievre has been endorsed by every MAGA right-wing voice that supports Donald Trump. But what Donald Trump is realizing is that getting an endorsement from Donald Trump is political death in Canada."

"So now he's trying to say he doesn't support Pierre Poilievre. Nobody's buying that," said Angus. "Pierre Poilievre is MAGA. Pierre Poilievre is supporting the same kind of extremist policies that Donald Trump is and Donald Trump is trying to do Pierre a favor by saying 'Oh actually I don't like Pierre Poilievre.' Nobody's buying it."

Sorry MAGA, Canada will never be our 51st state. Trump's trade war and mass deportations will succeed at exactly one thing: making the entire world hate us.
 
"America has become the laughingstock of the world under Donald Trump..." #335
“In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve” French diplomat and historian Alexis de Tocqueville
The voters may, perhaps Al.
Many millions of my closest friends are hideously embarrassed.
 
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While the cameras chased shiny objects, the Trump administration moved to enter homes without warrants, torch DEI at law firms, recall Cybertrucks again, hand out cash to voters (again), and fold USAID into a blockchain-powered austerity husk.

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Britain and Germany have issued new warnings to their citizens about travelling to the U.S. in the wake of some visitors’ horrifying experiences when entering the country, following Mango Mussolini’s crackdown.

Britain recently revised its advice for citizens heading to the U.S., including a warning that anyone found breaking the country’s entry rules could face arrest or detention and that laws are “strictly” enforced, Reuters reported.

Germany, too, updated its travel advisory to the U.S. on Wednesday to emphasise that a visa or entry waiver does not guarantee entry into the country, after several Germans were recently detained at the border.

The updated British advice for travellers to America warns: “You should comply with all entry, visa, and other conditions of entry. The authorities in the U.S. set and enforce entry rules strictly. You may be liable to arrest or detention if you break the rules.

”Rebecca Burke, a 28-year-old graphic artist from Britain, was held for 19 days in a U.S. facility when she tried to enter the country, even though she believed she had followed the correct procedure.

She was finally put on a plane home in chains on Tuesday, “like Hannibal Lecter,” said her angry father.

Media coverage of such stories, warnings from countries outside the U.S., the Orange Overripe Pumpkin’s tariffs, and his inflammatory rhetoric denigrating other nations are harming American tourism, say industry experts.

The Cheddar Caesar said in a Fox News interview on Wednesday that the European Union was created to “screw” the U.S. and that the EU has “raped and pillaged” America.

The resulting decline in tourism to the U.S. from all other nations is expected to fall by at least 5 per cent, costing America some $64 billion in 2025, according to a report late last month by investment advisory group Tourism Economics.

A growing boycott of the U.S. by Canadian travellers, in response to the Butternut Blowhard’s tariffs and the acrimonious relationship between the Cheeto-in-Chief and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, will likely cost the American tourist industry some $2.1 billion this year, according to the World Travel and Tourism Industry Association.

Tourism from Canada is expected to decline by 15 per cent, according to Tourism Economics.Last month, Trudeau urged Canadians to reconsider visiting the U.S. and to travel locally instead.

Flight Centre, Canada’s largest travel agency, told Forbes early last month that it had already seen a “surge of customers” cancelling U.S. vacations and rebooking elsewhere.---

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...rmany-britain-travel-warning-us-b2719167.html

Shift's comment - read elsewhere that a 10% drop in Canadian tourists is means something like 140,000 US jobs eliminated.
 
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