Trump's Second Term

Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way
The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Donald Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report, within 90 days, recommending “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.”
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Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

A joint Department of Defense and Homeland Security report will soon recommend whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act over illegal migration.
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As of the close of the day on March 7, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -254.

7 March 2025
+1: Trump promises sanctions on Russia if they don't stop fighting in Ukraine
0: Executive Order: Establishing the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026
-1: Executive Order: Restoring Public Service Loan Forgiveness (-1 for inclusion of anti-transgender policy)
-1: Headline: Rubio and Trump Officials Clash With Elon Musk in an Explosive Cabinet Meeting (New York Times)
-1: Headline: DOD Will No Longer Prohibit Contractors from Running Segregated Facilities (Talking Points Memo)
-1: Headline: Elon Musk tells Republicans he isn't to blame for mass firings of federal workers (The Guardian)
-1: Headline: US plans to close European consulates and cut state department workforce (The Guardian)
-1: Trump is unaware the US is obliged to protect Japan because their US-written constitution eviscerated their military

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71. TRUMP: "We have an interesting deal with Japan, that we have to protect them, but they don't have to protect us.... who makes these deals?" (The USA did, in 1947, then the security treaty in 1960)
 
You're at the drive up window in your $40 Dark MAGA hat and spotless chrome encrusted $75,000 GMC Sierra 2500 Denali getting a couple of $12 iced coffees and you're mad at gay people and Affirmative Action because eggs cost $4 a dozen and that's why you support Trump's trade war with Canada.
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The venn diagram of people who own trucks, pulling toy haulers, stuffed with side by sides and people who voted for this ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ because of “the economy” is a effing circle.
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dead people on social security:
We're also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program for our seniors, and that our seniors and people that we love rely on. Believe it or not, government databases list 4.7 million Social Security numbers from people aged 100 to 109 years old.

It lists 3.6 million people from ages 110 to 119. I don't know any of them. I know some people that are rather elderly, but not quite that elderly. 3.47 million people from ages 120 to 129. 3.9 million people from ages 130 to 139. 3.5 million people from ages 140 to 149, and money is being paid to many of them, and we're searching right now. In fact, Pam, good luck, good luck. You're going to find it.

But a lot of money is paid out to people, because it just keeps getting paid and paid, and nobody does, and it really hurts Social Security. It hurts our country. 1.3 million people from ages 150 to 159, and over 130,000 people, according to the Social Security databases, are age over 160 years old. We have a healthier country than I thought, Bobby.

Including, to finish, 1,039 people between the ages of 220 and 229; one person between the age of 240 and 249; and one person is listed at 360 years of age, more than 100 years — more than 100 years older than our country. But we're gonna find out where that money's going, and it's not going to be pretty.

By slashing all of the fraud, waste and theft we can find, we will defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, lower car payments and grocery prices, protect our seniors and put more money in the pockets of American families.
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President Trump’s speech to Congress, annotated and fact-checked

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From CNN’s Tami Luhby and Daniel Dale: The vast majority of these people do not have dates of death listed in Social Security’s database. But that doesn’t mean they are actually receiving monthly benefits. Public data from the Social Security Administration shows that about 89,000 people age 99 or over were receiving Social Security benefits in December 2024, not even close to the millions Trump invoked.
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NPR reported, "The Trump administration says it has canceled $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University over what it described as the school's failure to police antisemitism on campus...President Trump has been highly critical of pro-Palestinian protests on campus. Within days of returning to office, Trump signed an executive order calling on the Department of Justice to "investigate and punish anti-Jewish racism in leftist, anti-American colleges and universities.""

NBC reported, "The move comes just days after the administration's Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism notified Columbia that it was going to conduct a "comprehensive review" of the university's federal grants and contracts."

Was there any sort of hearing allowing Columbia to respond to the charges? A few days does not seem like enough time to investigate, let alone adjudicate. Why should the Justice Department only investigate one type of racism and not others? Enquiring minds want to know.
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Cancelling grants and contracts punishes people who had nothing to do with Columbia's policy. It seems like a blunt instrument.
 
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Donald Trump is turning America into a mafia state | Jonathan Freedland

The pattern is inescapable – with just one caveat: organised crime bosses occasionally display more honour, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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This is what I was thinking last week:
Both the substance and the style are pure mafia. Note the obsession with respect, demonstrated in last week’s Oval Office confrontation with Zelenskyy. Between them, JD Vance and Trump accused the Ukrainian leader three times of showing disrespect, sounding less like world leaders than touchy Tommy DeVito, the Joe Pesci character in Goodfellas.
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Chris_Halkides said:
NPR reported, "The Trump administration says it has canceled $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University over what it described as the school's failure to police antisemitism on campus...President Trump has been highly critical of pro-Palestinian protests on campus. Within days of returning to office, Trump signed an executive order calling on the Department of Justice to "investigate and punish anti-Jewish racism in leftist, anti-American colleges and universities.""

NBC reported, "The move comes just days after the administration's Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism notified Columbia that it was going to conduct a "comprehensive review" of the university's federal grants and contracts."

Was there any sort of hearing allowing Columbia to respond to the charges? A few days does not seem like enough time to investigate, let alone adjudicate. Why should the Justice Department only investigate one type of racism and not others? Enquiring minds want to know.
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MAGA freedom of speech. You can only say things we agree with.
 
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dead people on social security:

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Well what a complete surprise, the Republican outrage over ancient/dead people receiving Social Security was based on fundamental misunderstandings and/or outright lies and in fact there is no issue at all.

Just like voter fraud.

Which of course doesn't mean that they won't take steps to exclude the wrong sort of people from exercising their rights.
 
Mojo said:
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Donald Trump is turning America into a mafia state | Jonathan Freedland

The pattern is inescapable – with just one caveat: organised crime bosses occasionally display more honour, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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This is what I was thinking last week:
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The thing is that actual Mafia bosses are actually brave, don't mind getting their hands dirty and have thrived in an environment where only the fittest survive.

OTOH, Trump is cowardly, squeamish and had spent his entire life shielded from the consequences of his actions.
 
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I had wondered this myself. Australia is probably a better fit as a US state than Canada which would be the biggest star and probably shift the house firm to the left.
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As other people have mentioned, that assumes Canadians are allowed to vote, as opposed to being a larger Puerto Rico.
"Well, we said "state", but we actually meant "territory"."
 
Headline from a BBC article:

Is Trump reining in Musk after a cabinet showdown with secretaries?​

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Is Trump reining in Elon Musk after a cabinet showdown with secretaries?

The president intervenes in a cost-cutting row after a reported clash at the White House.
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IMO Bettridge's law of headlines applies and the answer is No.

Trump has no control over Musk because he (Trump) is a lazy coward who shrinks from confrontation (unless he's in a position to bully) and who wants the title and prestige of being President but doesn't want to actually do the job.

Musk will continue to have a free hand unless Trump's handlers decide enough is enough.
 
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In case anyone got overly sidetracked by the Russian spy drama, the following bills HAVE been introduced:1. HR 861 Terminate the Environmental Protection Agency2. HR 610 Vouchers for Public Education3. HR 899 Terminate the Department of Education4. HJR 69 Repeal Rule Protecting Wildlife5. HR 370 Repeal Affordable Care Act6. HR 354 Defund Planned Parenthood7. HR 785 National Right to Work (this one ends unions) 8. HR 83 Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Bill9. HR 147 Criminalizing Abortion (“Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act”)
8. HR 83 Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Bill9. HR 147 Criminalizing Abortion (“Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act”)
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In case anyone got overly sidetracked by the Russian spy drama, the following bills HAVE been introduced: 1. HR 861 Terminate the Environmental Protection Agency 2. HR 610 Vouchers for Public Education 3. HR 899 Terminate the Department of Education 4. HJR 69 Repeal Rule Protecting Wildlife 5...
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President Trump to lead 2026 World Cup task force

President Donald Trump created a task force Friday to prepare for the 2026 World Cup, which will bring the globe's premier soccer tournament to North America at a time when his on-again, off-again tariffs have ratcheted up tensions across the continent.

"I think it's going to make it more exciting," Trump said of playing the World Cup amid sharp rhetoric among leaders of the host nations. "Tension's a good thing."
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I'm sure it will run as smoothly and efficiently as everything else he touches. :rolleyes:
 
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I disagree. He really is that stupid.
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But the argument made by Snopes is not based on how stupid Trump is, if you read the article, it is about which scenario is more likely. At any rate, I would argue that believing mice were actually being made 'transgender' in a large study (one scenario discussed in the article) is far more stupid than hearing about some study involving 'transgenic' mice and confusing it with 'transgender. Actual belief in absurdity is worse than confusion with terminology, IMO.
 
Trump is implementing a good plan to cause maximum damage to the Federal Government with only the power of the White House and Congressional Apathy.

The Republican Plan used to be Two Santas Strategy, spending money and cutting taxes when they are in power and complaining about debt when they are not; now they are the two Sledgehammers, breaking everything when they can, and complaining why Dems don't get anything done with the rubble they left when they can't anymore.
 
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