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Trump's Second Term

turingtest said:
Let's hope. I mistakenly hit "post reply" above before I had finished what I was saying, but...let's just say I'm not as confident in the wisdom of his handlers (or their ability to handle him) as I once was.
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I just read that privatly his handlers think Musk is going to be poolitical disaster for Donnie, but they don't want to bring it up right now.
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Random said:
The hope for the checks and balances system was that everyone would be in it for themselves, and the branches would naturally compete with each other for power and influence using their different political levers in a weird legislative game of rock, paper, scissors. Didn't foresee a situation where a majority of Senators and Congressmen would eagerly give up their power to a President and the Supreme Court would just nod along.
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They didn't anticpate mass bribery, something they were pissed off with GB enough to start a civil war because they felt they weren't getting fair access to?

My guess is they knew the "checks and balances" were useless and were just hoping to be able to use them to their own advantage.
 
Lukraak_Sisser said:
Project 2025 has made quite clear what is going to happen to women's rights in the US. And given the haste with which Trump is implementing key components soon women will lose whatever rights they have gained since the 60's, probably more.
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Ironic, then, that his first steps down this path have been in the opposite direction.
 
One down, too many to count to go.

DOGE Staffer Marko Elez Resigns Over Controversial Posts: Report

A member of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by billionaire Elon Musk, reportedly resigned on Thursday after The Wall Street Journal inquired with the White House about his association with a social media account that promoted racism and eugenics.

Newsweek reached out to DOGE via email for comment.
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Marko Elez, 25, resigned Thursday from DOGE, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told The Wall Street Journal.

"Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool," the account on X, formerly Twitter, connected to Elez posted in July, according to the Journal's review of archived posts.

The X account, @nullllptr, a playoff of a keyword in the C++ programming language, allegedly advocated for the repeal of the Civil Rights Act and also backed a "eugenic immigration policy."

@nullllptr was deleted from X in December. The account previously had the username @marko_elez, and the user described themselves as an employee at SpaceX and Starlink.

Elez's current X account is @marko_elez. It joined the platform in February of 2024 and has no posts at the time of writing.

"Normalize Indian hate," @nullllptr wrote in September, reportedly about a post noting the predominance of people from India in California's Silicon Valley.

The user posted in June, "I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth."
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Garrison said:
The problem is the checks and balances were only an illusion, something that existed only as long as everyone was willing to pretend they could actually be enforced. Trump has shattered the illusion and probably fatally wounded the US political system in the process.
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The main check on the executive branch is the legislature. Trump didn't shatter the illusion, Congress did.
 
theprestige said:
Ironic, then, that his first steps down this path have been in the opposite direction.
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I guess you missed (or ignored) arthollipot's post:

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ETA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

For example (from the above list), 14190 (red numbers on right): https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...ding-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling

Executive Order 14190 of January 29, 2025

Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling​

In short, trump is using parental rights as an excuse to do this.


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Words of wisdom from the unstable genius.

Trump Goes On Stunning Riff About Deadly Air Crash And Golf Balls At Prayer Breakfast Speech

President Donald Trump went off on a stunning riff about the deadly air crash, comparing the collision with the infrequency of golf balls hitting each other.

On Thursday morning, Trump gave what appeared to be almost completely improvised remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast at Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol.

During that speech, Trump went on a lengthy tangent about the air crash in which an American Airlines flight collided with a Black Hawk Army Helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport, killing 67 people.

For nearly four minutes, Trump drifted between points as he continued to speculate about the disaster and compared the crash with golf balls at a driving range:
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The words of the Immaculate Genius follow:

But that event, like the tragedy last week, should remind us all that we have to make the most out of every single day that we have.

Who would think that you’re in space? And two things collide. The odds of that happening are so small, even without proper control.

We should have had the proper control. We should have had better equipment. We don’t, we have obsolete equipment. They were understaffed for whatever reason. I guess the helicopter was high. And we’ll find out exactly what happened.

But the odds, even if you had nothing, if you had nobody, the odds of that happening– extremely small. It’s like, did you ever see, you go to a driving range in golf and you’re hitting balls, hundreds of balls, thousands of hours.

I never see a ball hit another ball? Balls going up all over the place. You never see ’em hit. It was amazing that that could happen.

There was a lot of mistakes made and it should have never happened. But regardless of that, it’s amazing that it happened.

And I think that’s going to be used for good. I think what is going to happen is we’re all going to sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand new, not pieced together, obsolete like it is land based, trying to hook up a land based system to a satellite system.

And the first thing that some experts told me when this happened is you can’t hook up land to satellites and you can’t hook up satellites to land. It doesn’t work. We spent billions and billions of dollars trying to renovate an old broken system instead of just saying cut it loose and let’s spend less money and build a great system done by 2 or 3 companies. Very good companies, specialists. That’s all it is. They used 39 companies.
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And lo, there was much rejoicing. Men who had never cried knelt before him and cried rivers of joy, and said that his words will be collected and put into a new book of the Bible, The Book of Donald.
 
The Führer, Emperor of America, He Who Lit the Sun:
We should have had the proper control. We should have had better equipment. We don’t, we have obsolete equipment.
They were understaffed for whatever reason.
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Yeah, I mean...

Stablest of Geniuses, Yugest of exprts, MAGA maga presduɳt hambrdɼ¡
And the first thing that some experts told me when this happened is you can’t hook up land to satellites and you can’t hook up satellites to land. It doesn’t work.
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What on... Earth is he saying? What does that even mean? I mean, I know he is probably just repeating something he heard and misunderstood from adults, or has his dementia-addled brain really deteriorated far enough that we're just getting total gibberish now?
 
AmyStrange said:
I guess you missed (or ignored) arthollipot's post:

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And here are the rest of the EOs associated with each red number above:


EO 14148: Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions

EO 14153: Unleashing Alaska's Extraordinary Resource Potential

EO 14154: Unleashing American Energy

EO 14162: Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements

EO 14163: Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program

EO 14164: Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety

EO 14165: Securing Our Borders

EO 14170: Reforming the Federal Hiring Process and Restoring Merit to Government Service

EO 14173: Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity

EO 14185: Restoring America's Fighting Force

EO 14191: Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families


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Safe-Keeper said:
Yeah, I mean...


What on... Earth is he saying? What does that even mean? I mean, I know he is probably just repeating something he heard and misunderstood from adults, or has his dementia-addled brain really deteriorated far enough that we're just getting total gibberish now?
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I'm sure it all makes perfect sense to our resident Trumpers. That's the scary part.
 
jt512 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1887510161335386230
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Yeah, that proves nothing, but nice try.

It's all part of the second season of the Trump's Damn Stupid sit-com.

They were all paid actors (hey, if Alex Jones can say it...). They just weren't paid anything (that's typical of the fat clown).

Hey, if I got to stand next to the president (even if he was a poopie pants), I'd do it too.

And if you looked closely, one of the kids is giving him devil horns behind his back... bwahahahaha


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Elon had a poll on Twitter "Would you like @DOGE to audit the IRS?"

It was an overwhelming yes vote.

He says in reply
"VOX POPULI VOX DEI"
 
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