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Trump's Second Term

More "mistakes."

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were not the suspects the agents were looking for.

The agents had a search warrant for the home, but the suspects listed on the warrant do not live in the house.

The woman who actually lives in the house had just moved to Oklahoma City from Maryland with her family about two weeks earlier.
The woman, who News 4 will refer to as “Marisa”, and her three daughters came to Oklahoma looking for a slower, more affordable pace of life.

They rented a house in a seemingly safe northwest Oklahoma City neighborhood.

Her husband stayed back in Maryland a couple of extra weeks, planning to join them this weekend.

“I was like, ‘okay, Oklahoma’s my home now,’” Marisa said.

But any comfort they had disappeared Thursday morning when about 20 men, armed with guns, busted through the door.
Marisa said the men identified themselves as federal agents with the U.S. Marshals, ICE, and the FBI.

On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service denied having agents present during the raid, telling News 4 they were “aware of the operation before it happened,” but did not assist in any capacity.

“I keep asking them, ‘who are you? What are you doing here? What’s happening,’” she said. “And they said, ‘we have a warrant for the house, a search warrant.’”
She said they ordered her and her daughters outside into the rain before they could even put on clothes.

“They wanted me to change in front of all of them, in between all of them,” she said. “My husband has not even seen my daughter in her undergarments—her own dad, because it’s respectful. You have her out there, a minor, in her underwear.”

Marisa said the names on the search warrant were not hers or anyone in her family. She recognized them as names listed on mail still arriving at the house—likely former residents.
“We just moved here from Maryland,” she said. “We’re citizens. That’s what I kept saying. We’re citizens.”

She said the agents didn’t care.

“They were very dismissive, very rough, very careless,” she said. “I kept pleading. I kept telling them we weren’t criminals. They were treating us like criminals. We were here by ourselves. We didn’t do anything.”

Marisa said the agents tore apart every square inch of the house and what few belongings they had, seizing their phones, laptops and their life savings in cash as “evidence.” “I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here,” she said. “I have to feed my children. I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”
Before they left, Marisa said one of the agents made a comment.

“One of them said, ‘I know it was a little rough this morning,’” she said. “It was so denigrating. That you do all of this to a family, to women, your fellow citizens. And it was a little rough? You literally traumatized me and my daughters for life. We’re going to have to go get help or get over this somehow.”

Now, Marisa said they have, quite literally, nothing.
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Every single mother ◊◊◊◊◊◊ involved with this needs to be fired, then prosecuted.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Trump: "Your shower heads, your toilets, the whole thing -- it's a disaster. We now have it so you can have as much water as you want, because it's not an environmental problem."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1917356283960676570
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I have modern toilets and shower heads. Because they've been designed to be more efficient, they work better than the standards this stupid ◊◊◊◊ wants to re-implement.
 
Armitage72 said:
In just the board game industry, I think four or five companies have already shut down since the tariffs were implemented.
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Safe-Keeper said:
This thread is looking to be a somber read.
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Yes. I am, expecting to pay a lot more for GMT and other wargames.
Garrison said:
So the timeframe for anyone agreeing to that? Somewhere between hell freezing over and the heat death of the universe?
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SO we Americans should just give up and assume the position?
 
MORAN: In our country even bad guys get due process right?

TRUMP: Well they get a process where we have to get them out
 
Andy_Ross said:
MORAN: 145% tariffs on China--

TRUMP: Yeah. That's good. They deserve it

MORAN: It'll raise prices on everything from electronics to clothing to building houses

TRUMP: China probably will eat those tariffs

https://twitter.com/x/status/1917372047342084146
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You know that after we've spent months yelling at the trumpkins that it's the consumers who pay for the tariffs, when they eventually realize they're going to sit there going "How were we supposed to know?!"
 
Safe-Keeper said:
You know that after we've spent months yelling at the trumpkins that it's the consumers who pay for the tariffs, when they eventually realize they're going to sit there going "How were we supposed to know?!"
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Maybe it would work out best for everyone if we just put a big barrel full of poison, marked "Poison", in front of these people and told them "don't drink this, it's poison." Have wheelbarrows ready for all the corpses.
 
Among other 100th day stuff...

Here’s what Musk got in Trump’s first 100 days

Spoiler - It's a lot. Even before getting to the theft of sensitive government data.

Watch Jon Stewart demolish Trump's dreadful first 100 days

He does it decently. To poke at part of it -

Stewart dove into Trump’s record: broken campaign promises, dangerous economic instability at home and abroad, constitutional rights trampled by his immigration policies, and tanking approval ratings. But Trump personally and financially seems to be thriving.


From his shady fraud-infused meme coin, to various other millions of dollars he’s bilked out of the billionaire class, Trump has done very well for himself—including billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Amazon paying over $40 million for the rights to a Melania Trump documentary.


“No offense. I'm sure she's a very interesting person, but PBS made the entirety of the Ken Burns ‘Civil War’ series for $3.5 million. ‘Shoah’ was $3 million,” Stewart explained. “The entirety of the ‘Planet Earth’ series, 11 episodes, was less than that. $25 million. And I know Melania is a mysterious and private woman, but I guarantee you don't have to wait outside her house for weeks at a time, hoping to catch a rare nocturnal feeding on a striped South American toad.”
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Nonfiction Views: The state of book banning on Day 100, plus the week's notable new nonfiction

Yeah, Republican efforts are still in progress to make things ever worse, though it doesn't get as much attention because of the more immediately existential threats.
 
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Resume said:
Harvard caved.
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Hardly "caving". A notional letterhead rename to appease the brutes - simple, cheap and fast. As far as can be seen, nothing changes in practical terms. And this change may never even complete. It could take years! to design and change all the signage! ;) They've probably got a crack "tiger" team on it right now...

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Oh, I don't know how Harvard University could possibly outwit the brilliant mind of Donald Trump. Why, that would be like Doctor Who outsmarting Michael Scott!
 
And of course Amazon caved on displaying what their prices would have been without the new tariffs as soon as The Cheeto-In-Chief complained (maybe someone else already noted this.)
 
esquel said:
And of course Amazon caved on displaying what their prices would have been without the new tariffs as soon as The Cheeto-In-Chief complained (maybe someone else already noted this.)
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I'm imagining the Amazon management saying "OK, fine, Mister Customer. We won't show you why our prices have shot up over 100%. You can try to guess instead. But you still get to pay them anyway!"
 
Andy_Ross said:
MORAN: In our country even bad guys get due process right?

TRUMP: Well they get a process where we have to get them out
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I watched a couple minutes of the so-called interview. Another pathetic, incompetent responder going up against Los Angeles-size wildfires with a couple thimbles full of cooking oil.
 
As of the close of the day on April 29, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -572.

28 April 2025
0: Executive Order: Addressing Certain Tariffs on Imported Articles
-1: Trump: We got no water shortage, no siree! [182]
-1: Trump yet again displays his ignorance of how tariffs work [183]
-1: Pete Hegseth kills the Women, Peace & Security program at the Department of Defense—that was introduced by Trump! [184]
-1: Senior advisor Stephen Miller touts tariffs as beneficial to the auto industry (most economists disagree) [185]
-1: White House official May Mailman touts a Trump rule that would constrain the Endangered Species Act [186]
-1: Howard Lutnick espouses a rosy future where people work in factories [for peanuts, thanks to no unions] [187]
-1: Headline: UPS to cut 20,000 jobs on reduced Amazon deliveries, as US tariffs weigh (Reuters)

References

182. Trump: “Your shower heads, your toilets, the whole thing—it’s a disaster. We now have it so you can have as much water as you want, because it’s not an environmental problem.”

183. Moran: 145% tariffs on China—
Trump: Yeah. That’s good. They deserve it.
Moran: It’ll raise prices on everything from electronics to clothing to building houses.
Trump: China probably will eat those tariffs.

184. Hegseth: “This morning, I proudly ENDED the “Women, Peace & Security” (WPS) program inside the DeptofDefense. WPS is yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative that overburdens our commanders and troops - distracting from our core task: WAR-FIGHTING. WPS is a UNITED NATIONS program pushed by feminists and left-wing activists. Politicians fawn over it; troops HATE it.”

185. Stephen Miller: “His tariff plan is the only reason why the automobile industry has a bright future in this country. If not for his 25% tariffs on automobiles, we were gonna be years away from the compete destruction of the American automobile industry.”

186. White House official May Mailman touts a Trump rule that would constrain the Endangered Species Act “so that you can actually build things without wondering what’s going to happen to the caterpillars.”

187. Lutnick: “It’s time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas.”


28 April 2025
0: Executive Order: Strengthening Probationary Periods in the Federal Service
0: Executive Order: Unleashing America’s Offshore Critical Minerals and Resources
0: Executive Order: Enforcing Commonsense Rules of the Road for America’s Truck Drivers
-1: Headline: Donald Trump Demands Investigations Into Negative Approval Rating Polls (Newsweek)
-1: Trump continues his attacks on the American media (179)
-1: Trump suggests without evidence that people disrupting Republican town halls are paid by the Democrats [180]
-1: Bondi on Judge Hannah Dugan: “This is a criminal judge sitting on a criminal bench.”
-1: Executive Order: Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens
-1: Executive Order: Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens
-2: On election day in Canada, Trump again says Canada should be 51st state and repeats subsidies lie [181]
-2: Headline: Judge Rips Government For Lack of Any Evidence IN First Due Process Case under Alien Enemies Act (Daily Kos)

References

179. Trump: “We don’t have a Free and Fair “Press” in this Country anymore. We have a Press that writes BAD STORIES, and CHEATS, BIG, ON POLLS. IT IS COMPROMISED AND CORRUPT. SAD!”

180. Trump: The Radical Left Democrats are paying a fortune to have people infiltrate the Town Halls of Republican Congressmen/women and Senators. These Great Patriot Politicians should not treat them nicely. Have them immediately ejected from the room - They are disruptors and troublemakers. You must allow your audience to know what you are up against, or else they will think they are Republicans, and that there is dissension in the Party. There is not, there is only LOVE and UNITY. Republicans are happy with what is taking place in our Country. We all love America!”

181. “Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!”
 
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