Trump's Second Term

Andy_Ross said:
Bo Loudon
@BoLoudon
🚨BREAKING: President Trump just announced a MAJOR POLICY allowing Bibles and crosses in federal workplaces.
Recently, I praised President Trump from a Mar-a-Lago stage for publicly praising God.
God bless President Trump.🙏

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952433545449984022
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I'm sure it's a "MAJOR POLICY" to this guy, but is it a major policy change? Has it ever been against Federal rules for religious workers to express their religious preferences in their workplace? This is the memorandum from OPM (Office of Personnel Management) announcing the policy, and even it suggests this is really, at bottom, nothing new, since it's based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I don't think the most staunch advocate for SOCAS has ever suggested that it's against that principle for religious people to take part in government, only that they not obtrude their religion into it in a way that makes its beliefs or strictures incumbent on people who may not share it.

This, however, may be their out for disallowing Korans in the workplace-

"Title VII does not cover all beliefs. For example, social, political, or economic philosophies, and mere personal preferences, are not “religious” beliefs within the meaning of the statute."
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I would not, in light of the present political insanity that seems to have infected the US, put it past TrumpCo to decide that Islam should be defined as just a "social, political, or economic philosophy" and move to exclude its expression on that basis.

So all this really boils down to is that it's the same sort of thing as when Trump crowed about how, thanks to him, people could finally say "Merry Christmas" again when nobody was ever told they couldn't.
 
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Andy_Ross said:
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, the first major action by the former Fox News host as the interim NASA administrator.
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Because improving the lives of lunatics lunies moonies lunarians the moon's residents must be NASA's first priority.

While searching for a politically correct word to describe someone who lives on the moon, I learned many interesting things, of which I here report two.

From the Library of Congress:
In 1835 the New York Sun published 6 articles describing the discovery of various species of creatures inhabiting the moon....

These stories brought considerable attention to the New York Sun....

Richard Locke, the author of the stories that have come to be known as the "moon hoax", insisted that the stories were intended as satire....What he thought would be read as an absurd joke was largely accepted and believed as scientific fact.
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From Wikipedia:
A nuclear fission reactor might fulfill most of a Moon base's power requirements....

In June 2022, NASA and DOE selected three fission power concepts for surface power system deomonstration on the Moon that could be ready to launch by the end of the decade....The focus of the collaboration with industry is to design, fabricate, and test a 40-kilowatt class fission power system by the early 2030s. The concept design phase concluded in early 2024.
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Duffy is soliciting proposals for a 100-kilowatt system, to be launched by 2030.
 
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Andy_Ross said:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
In just 6 months, I cut costs, especially Energy and Taxes, Tremendously. Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren, on CNBC, said costs have gone up. She is just angry that I blew up her terrible Presidential Campaign. Call her out!!!
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trump's public schedule for Monday had one entry: lunch with his vice president. trump appeared to spend the morning watching TV. (Seriously? :() Specifically, Sen. Elizabeth Warren appearing on CNN's Squawk on the Street program. trump became irate over comments Warren was making and he was posting insults and trash talk in real time:

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Ten-thirty on a Monday morning and this is how the president of the United States was spending his time? America no longer has a real president, do we?
 
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Andy_Ross said:
Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon
This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, the first major action by the former Fox News host as the interim NASA administrator.

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turingtest said:
I'm sure it's a "MAJOR POLICY" to this guy, but is it a major policy change? Has it ever been against Federal rules for religious workers to express their religious preferences in their workplace? This is the memorandum from OPM (Office of Personnel Management) announcing the policy, and even it suggests this is really, at bottom, nothing new, since it's based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I don't think the most staunch advocate for SOCAS has ever suggested that it's against that principle for religious people to take part in government, only that they not obtrude their religion into it in a way that makes its beliefs or strictures incumbent on people who may not share it.

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So all this really boils down to is that it's the same sort of thing as when Trump crowed about how, thanks to him, people could finally say "Merry Christmas" again when nobody was ever told they couldn't.
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*Ding, ding ding!*

What have we got for him, Johnny?
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Banning wind energy to protect patriotic eagles.

Secretary Doug Burgum
@SecretaryBurgum
Wind projects are known to kill eagles, and climate extremists in the Biden admin still greenlit scores of these projects.

@Interior is enforcing the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act to ensure that our national bird is not sacrificed for unreliable wind facilities!
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