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

Shiftless2 said:
"Aiding Mexico is one thing but why would Mexico welcome the US military into their country?" S2 #1,221
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Precisely.
Kudos to Madam President Sheinbaum.

To state the obvious, Ukraine's President Zelenskyy may not like President Trump much. BUT !!
Ukraine has little if any chance of preserving its own sovereignty against Russia's global superpower without matériel assistance from the U.S. / NATO / West, air defense an obvious example.
Mexico doesn't seem to be faring well in its bloody war against the cartels.

I don't doubt Mexico might benefit from some form of U.S. assistance. BUT !!

Apparently, true to form, Trump's style was so indulgently ham-handed that the ostensible offer of cooperation / assistance doesn't exit the starting gate.

I'm confident a more diplomatic approach might well have, to the benefit of governments on both sides of the border.
 
Been a busy morning ....

Trump administration demands $1bn from UCLA to restore federal funding​


The Trump administration is seeking a $1bn settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, a White House official said on Friday.

The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the request and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Trump administration has suspended $584m in federal research funding from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy and other agencies, the university’s chancellor, Julio Frenk, said in a message to UCLA staff and students this week.

Last week, the justice department notified the university that an investigation by the department’s civil right division had “concluded that ...

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Trump warns of 'great depression' as court weighs $29 billion tariff rollback​

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Trump Warned Courts Not to Strike Down Tariffs. What Could Happen If They Do.​

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Political Commissars to be in charge of science funding now. See movie "Chernobyl" for consequences.

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Welcome to the Soviet Union

"On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any announcement of funding opportunities be reviewed by the head of the agency or someone they designate, which means a political appointee will have the ultimate say over what areas of science the US funds. Individual grants will also requireclearance from a political appointee and "must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities."

The order also instructs agencies to formalize the ability to cancel previously awarded grants at any time if they're considered to "no longer advance agency priorities." Until a system is in place to enforce the new rules, agencies are forbidden from starting new funding programs.

In short, the new rules would mean that all federal science research would need to be approved by a political appointee who may have no expertise in the relevant areas, and the research can be canceled at any time if the political winds change. It would mark the end of a system that has enabled US scientific leadership for roughly 70 years."

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See also the "deal" that Trump struck with Brown and Columbia

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Trump Agreements With Brown And Columbia Allow Federal Review Of Admissions

Brown and Columbia have struck deals with the Trump administration that allows the government unprecedented access to student applicant data.
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Shiftless2 said:

Stephen Colbert Shreds RFK Jr. on Live TV #1,232​

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When news broke that "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" was being put out of its misery, the collective left had an unhinged, weeks-long meltdown.
Left-wing social media went ballistic. There were hilariously sad protests outside the show's headquarters in New York City. And a series of Democratic Party politicians decided that the cancellation of a disastrously unfunny late-night political show deserved a federal investigation.
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CBS Head Confirms Democrats Were Wrong About Colbert Show Cancellation

Network head disputes Democratic politicians' claims about Trump influence on decision
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I think a little objectivity might help find rational ground between these two agenda-driven extremes.

Colbert himself, on air, explained, it's NOT that he personally was being canceled, and that someone else would take over for him next year.
Instead the show in its entirety is scheduled for cancellation.
'[Commercial] Television in America does not exist to deliver programs to viewers.
It exists to deliver audiences to advertisers.' a top CBS-TV executive
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The Late Show may not have had a huge market share. TBD, will whatever CBS replaces it with have as much or more?
 
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BREAKING: Donald Trump stomps his boot on the world's suffering populations as his administration prepares to incinerate a staggering $9.7 million worth of contraceptives funded by USAID — even though they would prevent disease and save lives.

This is just meaningless cruelty...

"This decision to destroy ready-to-use commodities is appalling and extremely wasteful,” said Marie-Evelyne Petrus-Barry, Africa regional director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).

“These life-saving medical supplies were destined to countries where access to reproductive care is already limited, and in some cases, part of a broader humanitarian response, such as in the [Congo]," she added.

The stockpile of birth control pills, shots, implants, and IUDs were stored in a Belgian warehouse and the American government is now wasting over $160,000 to burn the entire lot at a medical waste disposal facility in France.

The IPPF has estimated that 77% of the supplies are earmarked for Congo, Kenya, Mali, Tanzania, and Zambia. They stated that the supplies are being "needlessly and egregiously” destroyed and ....

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USAID = United States Agency for International Development
Shiftless2 said:
incinerate a staggering $9.7 million worth of contraceptives funded by USAID #1,235
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I'm all for cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.
But these resources are already paid for. What other person other than a member of the Trump administration or the GOP could do this without it being a clear cut case of vandalism / sabotage, malicious insulting destruction?
"...when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal." U.S. President Nixon: source Paradine May '77
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- piffle - Dick
And in this Trump case, even if it is legal, that doesn't render it ethical. #1,235 disgraceful. Trump perpetrates this atrocity in the name of the People of the United States that by democratic process elected Trump as our representative.

This gratuitous insulting destructive waste does not represent me, even if President Trump regrettably does.
 
sear said:
But these resources are already paid for. What other person other than a member of the Trump administration or the GOP could do this without it being a clear cut case of vandalism / sabotage, malicious insulting destruction?
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The MAGA State Department told The Hill that a "preliminary decision" has been made to destroy the "abortifacient" products — a blatant effort to pander to radical anti-abortion Evangelicals. They claimed that no HIV medicine or condoms would be incinerated, but given this administration's profound penchant for lying the statement should be doubted.

In fact, The New York Times has reported that none of the supplies that were registered for storage in the warehouse fit the description provided by the Trump administration. Under U.S. law USAID is unable to purchase abortion-inducing products.
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Shiftless2 said:
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a) UUUUUUUUUGGHHH !
b) I did not know, but should have known.

nutty
If Trump had reason to want to amass support for a third presidential term such groundless pandering might seem to make some sense. AND !
We can't rule out that Trump may attempt by whatever means to circumvent the 22nd Amendment proscription against being elected to the presidency more than twice, though according to Trump he already has, as Trump has claimed to have won the election against Biden.

btw - related?
There was a published report that some Christian fundamentalists wanted to defund NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, because the HST was able to peer millions of light-years into distant outer space, and therefore simultaneously millions of years back in time.
The Christian fundamentalist objection?
Bishop Ussher determined the age of the cosmos from Genesis, 4,004 BC. And therefore scientific data on a million years ago contradicted the Holy Bible, and was therefore blasphemous, a violation of perceived First Amendment limitation.

Never hand an angry drunk child a loaded gun. BUT !

Thanks S2. Nice to know there's something more to it than air pollution.
 
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