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Trump's Second Term

Well I had no idea what groceries were before today. Another masterly sound bite by the great man.




Seriously, I see signs of senility which is only going to get worse.
To be fair he's never bought groceries himself, he's never shopped in a supermarket, never had to buy milk nor eggs. It's a revelation to him (and therefore the entire world) that people buy groceries themselves, he couldn't be more out of touch with any average USA citizen.
 
I wonder, why is this even a question for legislation? I would have left it for the sports organisations to work out.
Through Title IX and federal funding, the government essentially is a sports organization. The new rules only apply to sports organizations the government is involved in. And even there, JayUtah is wrong.
 
Introducing a new theme. A priority for Trump must be to appoint more members of the supreme court. The oldest is Clarence Thomas (R) age 76, followed by Samuel Alito (R) 74, Sonia Sotomayor (D) 70, John Roberts (R - swing) 70. My guess is there will be encouragement on Thomas and Alito to retire within this term so they can be replaced by ideologically sound lawyers. Sotomayer can probably sit out this term and potentially the next before she has to consider retiring. Roberts may need to retire in the next presidential term, but probably doesn't need to retire this term unless health problems arise.
 
As of the close of the day on Friday 7 February, my positive/negative score on the current administration stands at -82.

7 February 2025

+1: Executive Order: Addressing Egregious Actions of The Republic of South Africa
0: Executive Order: Establishment of The White House Faith Office (0 for "Too soon to tell")
-1: Executive Order: Protecting Second Amendment Rights (-1 due to my bias in favour of gun control)
-1: US Dept Transportation orders states to kill implementation of National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program
-1: Trump moves to fire chair of the Federal Elections Commission without following due process
-1: Trump says if DOGE didn't collect private data on Americans, someone else would! [17]
-1: Trump stops former President Joe Biden's daily intelligence briefings (-1 for petty vindictiveness)
-1: Trump says he is firing members of the board of trustees for the Kennedy Center and naming himself chairman

Footnotes

17. REPORTER: "So to be clear, you’re fine with DOGE collecting Americans’ private financial data?"
TRUMP: "Look, if DOGE didn’t do it, somebody else would. That’s the way it works, folks."
Can we have +2 for Trump refusing to deport Harry and Meghan? Certainly this one statement has swung the UK behind him! (I appreciate this isn't an executive order so doesn't really count.) It is nice to know that occasionally Trump does someone good.

Trump on deporting Harry (over allegation he may have lied on visa application regarding drug use);
“I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”
 
The contitution does not have much in the category of cabinets, but it has a Treasury.

Google AI
So moneys from the department of external revenue if never paid into the treasury could be spent as trump wants? Could he issue US presidential bonds? Could he take out a mortgage on Canada? Gazan development bonds to be repaid once Gaza is 'Hong-Kongified / Las Vegased'.
 
The Pentagon just announced that it would double the number of news organizations removed from physical offices to make room for MAGA propaganda media outlets.

OUT: The New York Times, Politico, NPR, The Washington Post, CNN, NBC, The Hill, The War Zone

IN: Breitbart, The New York Post, The Washington Examiner, OAN, Newsmax, HuffPost, The Free Press, The Daily Caller

 
Elon says

Teachers in California spend their time indoctrinating kids in DEI racism & sexism & communism, instead of teaching them the skills that help them succeed in life.

This needs to STOP!

I thought he was all for scrapping the Education Department and giving control to the states?

He can't have it both ways.
 
Elon says of Judge Engelmayer

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

A corrupt judge protecting corruption.

He needs to be impeached NOW!


Elon also says (quoting himself)

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

The reason the radical Dems don’t want an audit of social security fraud is because they’re the ones getting it …

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Elon Musk
@elonmusk

Just learned that the social security database is not de-duplicated, meaning you can have the same SSN many times over, which further enables MASSIVE FRAUD!!

Your tax dollars are being stolen
 
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Impeach the Judges!!

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

It’s time

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Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree

Can we have a serious conversation about starting to impeach some of these judges.
 
The Pentagon just announced that it would double the number of news organizations removed from physical offices to make room for MAGA propaganda media outlets.

OUT: The New York Times, Politico, NPR, The Washington Post, CNN, NBC, The Hill, The War Zone

IN: Breitbart, The New York Post, The Washington Examiner, OAN, Newsmax, HuffPost, The Free Press, The Daily Caller

And just like that, no more bad news!

People shouldn't think about it that way.

It is not that bad news can only be discovered at a press conference, it is probably more likely that major press pulls its punches because it doesn't want its press credentials revoked.

Now, however, they have nothing to lose. They may as well report things as they want.

Also, not surprised that the so-called "Free Press" got a place at the table.

Bari Weiss is pretty much just a stenographer for billionaires and the worst kind of Trumpian people right now. Recently she had some gushing round table with a bunch of alternative medicine and anti-vaxx freaks like the Means person and the Food Babe.
 
Restricting access of the actual reporters to the White House of Pentagon or any other official government source is going to be very damaging for the nationalist-right-wing Press, since most of their content is complaining about the content of the center-, center-right outlets.
 

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