Trump's Second Term

Japanese PhD student forced to leave U.S. because another person caught too many fish at a church outing

Rejoice, America! The dog-killing DHS head Kristi Noem has finally nabbed that most dangerous of criminals: a Japanese Mormon computer science nerd who was near someone who was extra good at catching fish one afternoon.

Brigham Young University Ph.D. candidate Suguru Onda – husband, father of five, and apparent public enemy #1 – just got his student visa yanked because he organized a church fishing trip back in 2019 where someone caught too many fish. Not him, mind you – he didn't catch any fish at all. But as the "face" of this nefarious religious gathering, he got cited. A citation that prosecutors took one look at and immediately dismissed.

But our brave Department of Homeland Security chief, undeterred by such trivialities as "dismissed charges" or "basic logic," will deport this obvious menace to society. Never mind that Onda's a year away from his doctorate in computer science. Never mind that he his attorney, Adam Crayk, says he has never posted about politics.
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An immigration attorney, Crayk said that traditionally international students were in jeopardy of having the visas revoked when they are connected with aggravated felonies, crimes involving "moral turpitude" and offenses related to, say, drugs, guns, protective order violations and certain domestic violence offenses.

"Something that's much more significant than keeping an extra fish," Crayk added.
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Meanwhile, Onda and his family are packing up six years of their American life, supported by their Mormon congregation who – unlike our government – can apparently distinguish between actual threats and fish-adjacent misunderstandings.

So sleep well tonight, knowing our crack security apparatus is protecting you from computational scientists who know people with fishing rods.
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It's all about the cruelty.
 
Now Trump is threatening to fire the head of the Federal Reserve, which would create even more economic chaos.
Man, you think the way he is wrecking the economy, more GOPers would push back, Nut nothing is more iimportant to the GOP congress critters hen saving their phony baloney jobs.
 
dudalb said:
Now Trump is threatening to fire the head of the Federal Reserve, which would create even more economic chaos.
Man, you think the way he is wrecking the economy, more GOPers would push back, Nut nothing is more iimportant to the GOP congress critters hen saving their phony baloney jobs.
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Perhaps the 'plan' is to cause as much chaos as possible, then blame it on his enemies so he can declare marital law, that or he's just a clueless cretin?
 
As of the close of the day on April 18, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -497.

18 April 2025
-1: Trump signals he may give up on attempts to end the Russia-Ukraine war, after saying he could do so “on day 1” [156]
-1: Headline: Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America’s labor watchdog (The Register)
-1: Headline: Uncle Sam kills funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program (The Register) [157]
-1: Headline: White House pushes COVID lab leak theory with new website (Axios)

References:

156. Trump: “If for some reason one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we're just gonna say, 'you're foolish, you're fools, you're horrible people,' and we're just gonna take a pass.”

157. CVE is “Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures.” a centralized database of known bugs in software products like Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, Adobe products, etc. It’s run by MITRE but to now was funded by the US government.


17 April 2025
-1: Trump blasts Jerome Powell over his tariffs comment [153]
-1: Headline: IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status (CNN)
-1: Trump makes an incoherent comment about people leaving jail, or something ... [154]
-1: Trump puts out yet another bunch of lies about eggs and tariffs [155]
-1: Headline: US judge finds probable cause to hold Trump officials in contempt over alien act deportations (Guardian)
-1: Executive Order: Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness (-1—see next entry on this list)
0: Headline: Trump opens national marine monument to commercial fishing [The Hill]

References:

153. Trump: “Jerome Powell of the Fed, who is always TOO LATE AND WRONG, yesterday issued a report which was another, and typical, complete ‘mess!’ Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!”

154. Trump: “People that were in jail for horrible -- you know, they release jails from all over the world and release them. Not just South America. The Congo in Africa. Many many people come from the Congo. I don't know what that is, but they came from the Congo.”

155: Trump: “Oil prices are down [true], groceries (even eggs!) are down [false], and the USA is getting RICH ON TARIFFS [false]. Too Late [a reference to Powell] should have lowered Interest Rates, like the ECB, long ago, but he should certainly lower them now.”


16 April 2025
0: Executive Order: Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts
-1: Steve Bannon says people are looking for ways to give Trump a third term as president [150]
-1: Headline: Trump signs healthcare order that includes a win for pharma companies (The Guardian)
-1: Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Chairman, says high tariffs will cause inflation and slowed growth [151]
-1: Counterterrorism Czar Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process could be viewed as a terrorist [152]

References:

150. Steve Bannon: “We're working on 5 or 6 different alternatives for how Trump could run again and be president…I continue to say that on the afternoon of January 20th, 2029, Donald Trump is going to be president for his third term.”

151. Powell: “The level of tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated, and the same is likely to be true of the economic effects which will include higher inflation and slower growth.”

152. Via Bluesky: Deputy Assistant to the President and “Counterterrorism Czar” Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as “aiding and abetting a terrorist” and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
 
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Resume said:
WTF is this?

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
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Dear AG Martin:

Go ◊◊◊◊ your face.

Sincerely,

Me.
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Perhaps the articles published to ensure "viewpoint diversity" should have "DEI" added to their urls and titles.
 
The purge continues

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Following my Day One Executive Order, the Office of Personnel Management will be issuing new Civil Service Regulations for career government employees. Moving forward, career government employees, working on policy matters, will be classified as “Schedule Policy/Career,” and will be held to the highest standards of conduct and performance. If these government workers refuse to advance the policy interests of the President, or are engaging in corrupt behavior, they should no longer have a job. This is common sense, and will allow the federal government to finally be “run like a business.” We must root out corruption and implement accountability in our Federal Workforce
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Trump: "You can have all the eggs you want. We have too many eggs. In fact, if anything the prices are getting too low."
 
US halts construction of giant wind farm off New York coast

The Trump administration has halted construction of a vast wind farm off the coast of New York, which was designed to provide enough electricity to power 500,000 homes.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the Biden administration had "rushed through" the approval of the Empire Wind 1 project "without sufficient analysis".
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www.bbc.co.uk

US halts construction of vast wind farm off New York coast - BBC News

The pause is a major blow to the US's wind energy industry which has been targeted by President Trump.
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On a side note, I honestly don't get what the fascists have against wind power. Sure, they kill (comparatively few) birds, but it's not as if they care about nature, and wind farms can bring in a profit just like coal. Is it just virtue signalling to pander (to use their words) to their cult?
 
Andy_Ross said:
The purge continues
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Following my Day One Executive Order, the Office of Personnel Management will be issuing new Civil Service Regulations for career government employees. Moving forward, career government employees, working on policy matters, will be classified as “Schedule Policy/Career,” and will be held to the highest standards of conduct and performance. If these government workers refuse to advance the policy interests of the President, or are engaging in corrupt behavior, they should no longer have a job. This is common sense, and will allow the federal government to finally be “run like a business.” We must root out corruption and implement accountability in our Federal Workforce
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I guess no career government employees will ever claim to be "working on policy matters", then... ;)
 
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