Trump's Second Term

[JayUtah]

How on earth can something like that possibly be legal?!

It isn't. But no one with standing is likely to complain.

The first bullet point is explicitly aimed at Mark F. Pomerantz, who left the firm to work on the State of New York case against trump.

It's pure personal revenge. Donald Trump wants to publicly shame the lawyers who made him a felon. Thereafter it's intimidation; he wants to scare away any lawyers from coming after him no matter how many laws he breaks.

 

[dudalb]

Which could be problematic. Trump's lawyers at this point have been the bottom of the barrel. Judges have been infuriated with their lack of preparation and their arguments.

Given Trump's history of trying to stiff his lawyers out of their fees, no wonder good Lawyers don;t want him as a client.

 

[dudalb]

Yeah. Who needs consistency in education anyway? Why should Mississippi be held to the same standard as Massachusetts? They want creationism? Let them have creationism. States' Rights. Yeah.

Sherkeu was ridiculous, but on the other hand good luck convicing Americns to give up the federal system and go to a system with an all powerful central government and everything else reduces to an adminstirive convience.
In the US State and local Governments have always ran the public schools, I don't see that changing.

 

[Tero]

Trump's ICE will keep disappearing people. And busting into homes without warrants.

Venezuelan migrant deported from U.S. to El Salvador has no criminal record, documents show

In February, at a routine ICE check-in in Texas, Franco José Caraballo Tiapa was unexpectedly detained, and on Saturday, his wife lost contact with him.

www.cbsnews.com

Caraballo's attorney fears that U.S. courts have lost jurisdiction. Salvadoran officials said they won't share any more information about the deportees.

 

[TellyKNeasuss]

He wanted one if the two most historical American documents moved to his office where few would actually be able to see it from the Rotunda of the National Archives where many can see it. It belongs to the American people, not to him.

I suspect this was a revenge power play against the National Archives considering his history with the NA over the documents case.

I suspect this was a case of _____ being _____. Anything that he wants belongs to him, because it is his country.

 

[a_unique_person]

The Onion just says something about Trump that is true.

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole​

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole

WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means of the relatively obscure “no one will stop me” loophole. “My critics say a constitutional...

theonion.com

 

[Blue Mountain]

Question: was he actually promoting anti-Semitism and pro-Hamas propaganda? If so, yes have his Green Card or visa revoked. But they should have Due Process and be able to contest this in court before deportation. I assume the Green Card rules allow for this, but its possible they dont.

If the rules allow the Secr of State to simply determine a person is a threat and needs to be kicked out, then they need to change the law to allow for appeals.

What part of the First Amendment do you not understand?

 

[Blue Mountain]

As of the close of the day on March 20, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -322.

20 March 2025
-2: Executive Order: Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities (-2 for wide condemnation)
-1: Executive Order 14239: Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness (-1 for use of "common sense")
-1: Executive memo: Removing Discrimination and Discriminatory Equity Ideology From the Foreign Service
-1: Headline: U.S. seeks to deport pro-Palestinian Georgetown University student (CBC) (-1 for no evidence)
-1: Headline: Grad student who fled U.S. says claims about her alleged support of Hamas are 'absurd' (CBC)
-1: Headline: USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks (Politico)
-1: Headline: US to Pull Out of Task Force Probing Russian Aggression in Ukraine (Newsweek)
-1: Trump rescinds Executive Order 14237 "Addressing risks from Paul Weiss" after shaking down the firm for $40 million

 

[The Don]

Interesting pretzel logic from the Trump administration regarding the Venezuelans renditioned to El Salvador.

The fact that so many of them had no criminal record is an indication of how dangerous they really are. The lack of any evidence against them clearly shows that they must be criminal masterminds and terrorists.

It's the same logic which states that the Trump administration members' (including the President) long list of criminal convictions shows how honest they are whilst the lack of a similar long list on the other side of the aisle shows that they are crooked.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

In this one instance I think Trump may have been on to something. They really should have let him have the original, and made the Oval Office airtight and filled with argon. Trump would then have the original document while enjoying the preserving benefits of an argon atmosphere himself!

I'm reminded of a Private Eye cartoon back when it was being reported that Michael Jackson slept in a hyperbaric chamber. He's asleep in the tank and a Neverland tour guide is standing with his foot over the air hose asking a group of children "So, do you want to see Michael dance?"

 

[Tero]

Harriet hageman town hall in Wyoming. 880 billion is in the list of things to cut, using "energy and budget committee." Sorry for the bad sound.

Craig R. Brittain (@brittainforsenate) on Threads

Voter: "I heard you voted to cut $800 billion from Medicare and Medicaid, is that true?" Rep. Harriet Hagerman: "There has been no $800 billion cut to anything." Another audience member at the Wyoming Town Hall then explains that it did happen and she voted for it.

www.threads.net

She then contines to babble about "able bodied adults" in Medicaid

 

[Tero]

Why is Trump polling at over 45% approval? I did some math. Those of us following politics know that there are terrible things happening at the federal level. BUT, most of the federal stuff is invisible to those that turn off "terrible news" and just barely see Fox News or MSNBC at times. They do not really know. And the eggs are now at 5.99 a dozen. So who is affected? Let us say all federal workers are worried. Let us say that all of them are married or at least not alone. That give us 4-5 million that are very worried. Well, it is barely 1% of the population. A good 10% of us very worried. But a good number of Democrats never answer phone calls from unknown numbers. Those are just grannies in rural Nebraska or Iowa that answer the phone. They have nothing better to do. Or it could be the pharmacy telling them the price of insulin went up, do you still want it?

So the people directly affected are not polled. They are just over 1% of the population.

 

[Andy_Ross]

SAVE AMERICA!

X Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Judge James Boasberg is doing everything in his power to usurp the Power of the Presidency. He is a local, unknown Judge, a Grandstander, looking for publicity, and it cannot be for any other reason, because his "Rulings" are so ridiculous, and inept. SAVE AMERICA!

 

[kookbreaker]

Harriet hageman town hall in Wyoming. 880 billion is in the list of things to cut, using "energy and budget committee." Sorry for the bad sound.

Craig R. Brittain (@brittainforsenate) on Threads

Voter: "I heard you voted to cut $800 billion from Medicare and Medicaid, is that true?" Rep. Harriet Hagerman: "There has been no $800 billion cut to anything." Another audience member at the Wyoming Town Hall then explains that it did happen and she voted for it.

www.threads.net

She then contines to babble about "able bodied adults" in Medicaid

Doesn't matter, those criticizing her are just paid Democrats.

 

[Andy_Ross]

So it's true then.
How can Pentagon official be "leaking information" if it's not true? Please explain that Elon!

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

The New York Times is pure propaganda.
Also, I look forward to the prosecutions of those at the Pentagon who are leaking maliciously false information to NYT.
They will be found.

Quote
Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
The Fake News is at it again, this time the Failing New York Times. They said, incorrectly, that Elon Musk is going to the Pentagon tomorrow to be briefed on any potential "war with China.” How ridiculous?” China will not even be mentioned or discussed. How disgraceful it is that the discredited media can make up such lies. Anyway, the story is completely untrue!!!

 

[Andy_Ross]

Donald threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!

 

[The Don]

Donald threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador

Sounds on brand.

The courts will rule against it and he'll do it anyway.

 

[shemp]

Donald threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!

Won't be long before conditions in U.S. prisons are the same as in El Salvador.

 

[Andy_Ross]

BARTIROMO: Are you expecting agricultural products to be more expensive as a result of tariffs?

BROOKE ROLLINS: When they voted in November 2024, they knew that's what they were voting for ... there may be an interim period. But real change takes disruption.

 

[shemp]

Just 30 minutes after opening, the Dow Jones is down -386.13 (-0.92%) today. We'll see what happens as the day progresses.