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

sear · Monday at 9:52 AM

Shiftless2 said:
"Haven't seen the "kill switch" claim. Just rumors that the versions sold to non-Americans will have substandard software and it won't be upgraded" S2 #1,420

My brand new car is now 9 years old. I'd be delighted to buy a new one to replace it, BUT !
the limited dribble of information I've gotten indicates any new car with a shark-fin antenna is hackable.
Meaning, malefactors outside the automobile can take control, the risks limited to / extended by the sociopathy of the engineers of that particular model car.

So my next new car may be a '68 Mustang.

And that S2, is illustrative metaphor for what these deranged control freaks have accomplished.
By attempting to gain inappropriate control, they forfeit connection.

Therefore, sadly, premised on my unreserved commitment to the survival of Western democracy, I'm with Europe on this.
For the foreseeable future the U.S. simply cannot be accurately regarded as a reliable military alliance partner. NOT when it, Trump's U.S., threatens ostensible allies with punishing tariffs, & precisely the same savagery Putin / Russia currently inflicts on Ukraine. "Russia First"

Shiftless2 · Monday at 12:30 PM

Good morning! The American Dream is starting to look like one of those boarded-up strip malls where the only thing still open is the payday lender. New data show long-term unemployment at its highest level since the pandemic: nearly two million people out of work for six months or more, their savings gone, their benefits exhausted, their résumés going stale in real time. One in four unemployed workers has now slipped into that limbo, a place economists describe as “low-hire, low-fire.” Translation: nobody’s expanding, nobody’s moving, and if you’re the unlucky one who lost your job, you may as well be throwing your résumé into the ocean.

The human cost is brutal. IT veterans with hundreds of unanswered applications, paralegals six months behind on rent, college grads sending out résumés like confetti only to hear the same polite “not at this time.” And all the while, Trump insists the economy is “very strong,” that groceries are down, energy is down, everything is down except, of course, housing, which is somehow Jerome Powell’s fault. He says this while millions of Americans are watching their prospects evaporate like a mirage in the desert. It’s the kind of gaslighting that would make even a realtor blush.

Meanwhile, on the international stage ...

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Shiftless2 · Monday at 1:03 PM

This makes sense if you realize it was the worm speaking

Hear it for yourself

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Shiftless2 · 2025-09-16T07:17:22-0400

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Shiftless2 · 2025-09-16T07:20:21-0400

Laura Loomer and death threats ....

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Shiftless2 · 2025-09-16T07:53:27-0400

I thought they didn't like "cancel culture" .....

Shiftless2 · 2025-09-16T08:04:22-0400

Erasing history that they don't like ....

BREAKING: Donald Trump's white nationalist agenda kicks into hyper-drive as his administration orders the removal of signs and exhibits about slavery from multiple national parks — including the world famous photo of a slave with a scarred back.

They're erasing American history right in front of our eyes...

“This represents an enormous increase in federal power and control over the things we learn. Brought to you by the team that says education should be state and local," said Jonathan Zimmerman, an expert on the history of education at the University of Pennsylvania.

According to The Washington Post, four people "familiar with the matter" have confirmed the removal. They revealed that the scheme is part of Trump's executive order directing the the Interior Department to remove all traces of any "corrosive ideology" that casts an unflattering light on historic Americans. In practice, that means whitewashing this nation's blood-soaked racist history to make ....

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Shiftless2 · 2025-09-16T12:56:00-0400

BREAKING: A horrifying six-month investigation from NBC News discovers that a "large swath" of the U.S. population does not have the "basic, ground-level immunity necessary" to stop the spread of previously defeated viruses.

The anti-vaxxers are about to unleash a plague on us all...

“As childhood vaccination rates fall, we’ll see more diseases like measles. And we’ll see more children die — tragically — from diseases that are essentially entirely preventable," said Dr. Sean O’Leary, an infectious diseases expert at the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The NBC investigation, which was conducted in collaboration with Stanford University scientists, discovered that ....

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