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The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America
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Good morning! Donald Trump spent the weekend exactly as you’d expect from a fading strongman: hobbling around his golf course on the taxpayer dime, dragging his right leg like a marionette with a snapped string, and rage-posting on Truth Social about his “record approval ratings” in the 70s. His hands are mottled with fresh bruises, his ankles ballooned, his gait reduced to a zig-zag shuffle that makes sobriety tests look like endurance sports. If this were Joe Biden, CNN would have a Chyron counting down the seconds until the 25th Amendment. Instead, the mainstream politely looks away while the man with the nuclear codes visibly decomposes.
Heather Cox Richardson put it plainly: the collapse isn’t just physical, it’s cognitive. The man who once bullied his way through interviews with brute-force bluster now drifts off mid-sentence, slurring fragments of half-remembered grievances as if volume alone can stand in for coherence. Weakness masquerading as strength is still weakness, but Trump’s weakness is now paired with the unchecked machinery of state power. That’s what makes it dangerous. The more his body betrays him, the harder he clings to spectacle, gilding his palace with a 90,000-square-foot State Ballroom expansion and enough gold trim to make Versailles blush. The Oval Office, once iconic in its restraint, is now smothered in gilded molding and theatrical flourishes that make it look less like the seat of a republic and more like a casino lobby in Macau. The American Institute of Architects has already weighed in with horror, warning that the changes erase historic continuity and turn the People’s House into a stage set for one man’s ego. The Oval Office has become a prop, a set piece for a despot who can’t stand upright, a mirror of the man himself, gaudy, unstable, and rotting from within.
While Trump’s body crumbles, his vice president doubles down on smarm. JD “Just Dance” Vance spent Sunday beclowning himself on NBC, lecturing the country that wars “always end with negotiation,” even World War II, apparently forgetting the part where Hitler shot himself in a bunker rather than sit down for cocktails with FDR. When pressed about Russia bombing an American-owned factory in Ukraine, Vance mustered all the outrage of a man finding the wrong milk in his latte: “I don’t like it.” That was it. He saves his real fury for Zelensky not saying “thank you” enough. Then came the Freudian slip: “We are in the early stages of an investigation into John Bolton.” We. Not DOJ, not FBI, we. In case it wasn’t obvious, investigations now run directly out of the Trump White House, where ....
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Heather Cox Richardson put it plainly: the collapse isn’t just physical, it’s cognitive. The man who once bullied his way through interviews with brute-force bluster now drifts off mid-sentence, slurring fragments of half-remembered grievances as if volume alone can stand in for coherence. Weakness masquerading as strength is still weakness, but Trump’s weakness is now paired with the unchecked machinery of state power. That’s what makes it dangerous. The more his body betrays him, the harder he clings to spectacle, gilding his palace with a 90,000-square-foot State Ballroom expansion and enough gold trim to make Versailles blush. The Oval Office, once iconic in its restraint, is now smothered in gilded molding and theatrical flourishes that make it look less like the seat of a republic and more like a casino lobby in Macau. The American Institute of Architects has already weighed in with horror, warning that the changes erase historic continuity and turn the People’s House into a stage set for one man’s ego. The Oval Office has become a prop, a set piece for a despot who can’t stand upright, a mirror of the man himself, gaudy, unstable, and rotting from within.
While Trump’s body crumbles, his vice president doubles down on smarm. JD “Just Dance” Vance spent Sunday beclowning himself on NBC, lecturing the country that wars “always end with negotiation,” even World War II, apparently forgetting the part where Hitler shot himself in a bunker rather than sit down for cocktails with FDR. When pressed about Russia bombing an American-owned factory in Ukraine, Vance mustered all the outrage of a man finding the wrong milk in his latte: “I don’t like it.” That was it. He saves his real fury for Zelensky not saying “thank you” enough. Then came the Freudian slip: “We are in the early stages of an investigation into John Bolton.” We. Not DOJ, not FBI, we. In case it wasn’t obvious, investigations now run directly out of the Trump White House, where ....
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If a college sophomore submitted this as satire for political partisanship professor sear might give it a B+. - but -
I'm not sure there's even a pseudonym attached to it for attribute.
Part of the puzzle is, whether #1,323 is factually accurate or not, it's out of step in kind or degree with most of the other news conduits.
The obvious risk is "crying wolf". If 100% true then sounding the alarm might seem appropriate, though reality is more complicated than that. Disclosing such information to some of the most ruthless and dangerous enemies on Earth isn't as clever as it may seem. A nice, orderly transfer of power behind the scenes could save humanity in such an adversity.
Bottom line, what does it accomplish? It's not likely to convert any MAGAs. It's bias confirmation for Democrats, but they have more important things to do than thirteen rousing choruses of - Oh ain't it awful -
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Dumb-ass Trump voters across the country are finding out that their loyalty to Trump means absolutely nothing to him. His disastrous budget has defunded infrastructure projects all over the country,...
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Following LA and DC, Trump wants to send the National Guard to other US cities. Here’s how he can do it
President Donald Trump is hoping to replicate his law enforcement efforts in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, in cities across the country, with the administration making moves to once again use the US military for its anti-crime agenda.
Trump is afforded certain presidential powers that he could use to deploy the National Guard and federal law enforcement agencies in US cities to crack down on crime — though such a move would be unprecedented and, some experts and local leaders argue, illegal. He’s already facing a legal challenge in California following the June deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles after he claimed protests were blocking his federal immigration agenda.
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Nothing says "Made in America" like shutting down in America
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The last dude epitomises why Trump got elected. Dumber than gravel driveway rocks. #tariffs.
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So here’s the story, folks: a woman in Belgrade, Montana—Eustolia Cassareal—gets hauled off by Homeland Security on federal charges for “harboring undocumented immigrants.”
That’s the big crime. Not corruption in high office, not corporations poisoning rivers, not billionaires hiding money offshore. No—apparently the menace to society is a woman giving people a roof over their heads.
Now, let’s cut through the propaganda. This wasn’t some lone sheriff busting a meth lab in a barn. This was Homeland Security Investigations, DEA, ATF—like the whole alphabet soup rolled into sleepy Belgrade, Montana, to flex their muscles. Why? Because it’s easier to pad the arrest stats going after brown folks and anyone who helps them, instead of tackling actual crime ....
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So here’s the story, folks: a woman in Belgrade, Montana—Eustolia Cassareal—gets hauled off by Homeland Security on federal charges for “harboring undocumented immigrants.”
That’s the big crime. Not corruption in high office, not corporations poisoning rivers, not billionaires hiding money offshore. No—apparently the menace to society is a woman giving people a roof over their heads.
Now, let’s cut through the propaganda. This wasn’t some lone sheriff busting a meth lab in a barn. This was Homeland Security Investigations, DEA, ATF—like the whole alphabet soup rolled into sleepy Belgrade, Montana, to flex their muscles. Why? Because it’s easier to pad the arrest stats going after brown folks and anyone who helps them, instead of tackling actual crime ....
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Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J. Trump suggested that Americans want a dictator. In a meeting in the Cabinet Room that lasted more than three hours, during which he listened to the fulsome praise of his cabinet officers and kept his hands below the table, seemingly to hide the bad bruising on his right hand, Trump said:
“The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, ‘You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.’”
With Trump underwater on all his key issues and his job approval rating dismal, the administration appears to be trying to create support for Trump by insisting that the U.S. is mired in crime and he alone can solve the problem. The administration’s solution is not to fund violence prevention programs and local law enforcement—two methods proven to work—but instead to use the power of the government to terrorize communities.
There is a frantic feel to that effort, as if they feel they must convince Americans to fear crime more than they fear rising grocery prices or having to take their children past police checkpoints on their way to school.
Last night, speaking with personality Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, widely believed to be the person behind the draconian immigration raids in the country, seemed to be angry that Washingtonians weren’t sufficiently grateful for Trump’s takeover of the streets. But Miller indicated that the administration is really focused on ....
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Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J. Trump suggested that Americans want a dictator. In a meeting in the Cabinet Room that lasted more than three hours, during which he listened to the fulsome praise of his cabinet officers and kept his hands below the table, seemingly to hide the bad bruising on his right hand, Trump said:
“The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, ‘You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.’”
With Trump underwater on all his key issues and his job approval rating dismal, the administration appears to be trying to create support for Trump by insisting that the U.S. is mired in crime and he alone can solve the problem. The administration’s solution is not to fund violence prevention programs and local law enforcement—two methods proven to work—but instead to use the power of the government to terrorize communities.
There is a frantic feel to that effort, as if they feel they must convince Americans to fear crime more than they fear rising grocery prices or having to take their children past police checkpoints on their way to school.
Last night, speaking with personality Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, widely believed to be the person behind the draconian immigration raids in the country, seemed to be angry that Washingtonians weren’t sufficiently grateful for Trump’s takeover of the streets. But Miller indicated that the administration is really focused on ....
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Good morning! We start with the GOP’s latest attempt at “oversight,” which is a little like putting arsonists in charge of the fire brigade. James Comer, that loyal bagman for the Trump regime, finally issued a subpoena to Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. Not out of principle, of course, Democrats forced his hand. The target is the notorious “birthday book,” the one containing Donald Trump’s alleged bawdy love note to Epstein for his fiftieth. You can practically hear the sweat dripping from Mar-a-Lago’s gold-leafed walls. Epstein’s estate says it will comply, but only with redactions to protect victims. Somehow I doubt the redactions will extend to protecting Trump’s pride.
Meanwhile, in transcripts dug up from Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with Trump’s DOJ fixer Todd Blanche, a bombshell detonated that no one in corporate media seems eager to touch. Pages 318 through 320, where Maxwell blurts out that “some of you in your cabinet” were part of Epstein’s circle. That’s not ambiguous. That’s Ghislaine Maxwell putting Trump’s cabinet on the flight log. Blanche’s response? Slam on the brakes and change the subject to Bill Clinton. The cover-up is performed in broad daylight, then spun as normal governance.
And when they’re not protecting predators, they’re punishing victims. Trump’s DOJ is deliberately withholding funds from the Victims of Crime Act, money that pays for rape crisis centers, shelters, hotlines, and relocation services for child sex trafficking survivors. The stated reason? States that don’t comply with ICE’s deportation machine don’t get the funds. In other words, Trump is holding therapy sessions for abused children hostage until governors agree to help him disappear immigrants into detention camps. Basically, it’s state-sponsored sadism in service of authoritarian control.
Florida has turned traffic stops into deportation checkpoints, where state troopers double as ICE scouts. One wrong turn signal and suddenly you’re in handcuffs, funneled into .....
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Meanwhile, in transcripts dug up from Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with Trump’s DOJ fixer Todd Blanche, a bombshell detonated that no one in corporate media seems eager to touch. Pages 318 through 320, where Maxwell blurts out that “some of you in your cabinet” were part of Epstein’s circle. That’s not ambiguous. That’s Ghislaine Maxwell putting Trump’s cabinet on the flight log. Blanche’s response? Slam on the brakes and change the subject to Bill Clinton. The cover-up is performed in broad daylight, then spun as normal governance.
And when they’re not protecting predators, they’re punishing victims. Trump’s DOJ is deliberately withholding funds from the Victims of Crime Act, money that pays for rape crisis centers, shelters, hotlines, and relocation services for child sex trafficking survivors. The stated reason? States that don’t comply with ICE’s deportation machine don’t get the funds. In other words, Trump is holding therapy sessions for abused children hostage until governors agree to help him disappear immigrants into detention camps. Basically, it’s state-sponsored sadism in service of authoritarian control.
Florida has turned traffic stops into deportation checkpoints, where state troopers double as ICE scouts. One wrong turn signal and suddenly you’re in handcuffs, funneled into .....
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Federal Judge Slams The ‘Lawlessness’ Of Trump’s D.C. Takeover
Sixth Amendment? Never heard of her.
Federal Judge Slams The 'Lawlessness' Of Trump's D.C. Takeover - Above the Law
Sixth Amendment? Never heard of her.
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A Democrat appointed judge perhaps?
- sickening -
Bad enough the exec. has taken to hyper-partisanship.
It's been over half a year. Has there been even one Republican-appointed law judge that's been willing to rule based on fidelity to law, rather than fealty to the orange eminence?
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Trump, not merely an insurrectionist, a naughty ninny.
Economists warned Trump of this before the election.
That's encouraging Mr. President.
You're most of a year into your second term. When will this superlative mastery you claim begin to appear in your governing style?
Democrats consider it partisan if a report favors one party over the other.
Republicans consider it partisan if a report reflects any bias other than their own.
The following might otherwise be dismissed on partisan basis, except that it's from al Jazeera.
Republicans consider it partisan if a report reflects any bias other than their own.
The following might otherwise be dismissed on partisan basis, except that it's from al Jazeera.
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apologies, dates for the following quotations were not disclosed, though in Rusher's case obviously pre-dating either Trump administration.
If your contemptuous condemnation is ideological, then it quite likely applies to President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump [R] more than any other U.S. president ever to serve in that role.
If instead Mr. Rusher your condemnation is partisan, then welcome to the new GOP. Replace the word you chose, "Liberal" with "Trump / MAGA Republican" and you upbraid succinctly.
If you enjoy irony Mr. Rusher, Republicans have ideologically and pragmatically ceded political conservatism to the Democrats.
apologies, dates for the following quotations were not disclosed, though in Rusher's case obviously pre-dating either Trump administration.
Well Bill? You make lambasting liberals look easier than shooting pickles from a barrel.
If your contemptuous condemnation is ideological, then it quite likely applies to President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump [R] more than any other U.S. president ever to serve in that role.
If instead Mr. Rusher your condemnation is partisan, then welcome to the new GOP. Replace the word you chose, "Liberal" with "Trump / MAGA Republican" and you upbraid succinctly.
If you enjoy irony Mr. Rusher, Republicans have ideologically and pragmatically ceded political conservatism to the Democrats.
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BREAKING: In a major humiliation for Trump, CDC Chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis resigns with a scathing letter, saying "enough is enough" with Trump and RFK Jr, whom he accuses of "threatening the lives" of the American people.
And it gets worse.
In his resignation letter, Dr. Daskalakis says he stepped down because he refuses to stay silent as Trump’s HHS under RFK Jr. tears down science, distorts data, and endangers our children, pregnant people, and marginalized folks.
Dr. Daskalakis didn’t mince words. “I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health,” he wrote, calling Trump’s CDC "a political weapon, not a scientific institution."
"Having to retrofit analyses and policy actions to match inadequately thought-out announcements in poorly scripted videos or page long X posts should not be how organizations responsible for the health of people should function," he continued.
And he didn't stop there. Dr. Daskalakis accused RFK Jr.’s HHS of “radical non transparency and unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end,” warning this could ....
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They can't say that they weren't warned but they still voted for him
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No, this isn't 'hogwash' ... maybe you'll believe it when we have less food (very soon) and only the people with more money will have access to what amounts exist. @magaretpatzer.
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