Trump's Second Term
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Aridas
Crazy Little Green Dragon
At last check, he effectively already is that, minor technicalities aside.
bruto
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That slavery issue really offends. I am firmly of the opinion that those who wish to minimize the evil of slavery are those who, in some degree, would welcome it back. It's no surprise that an apologist like Tucker Carlson is taking the baby step past it to supporting outright genocide. To trivialize the evil of slavery is to trivialize not only the suffering of its victims and the systemic poisoning of the body politic, but the sacrifices made by those who ended it, and the true hope and progress of a society that did so. Yes, indeed, let us tout the progress, hype the hope, keep the banner flying. We slew a dragon, not a skunk.
Alas, since I am nobody my endless disdain will affect them little, and they must simply live with themselves, but this is one of those times I sort of wish there really were a Hell so they would burn in it.
Alas, since I am nobody my endless disdain will affect them little, and they must simply live with themselves, but this is one of those times I sort of wish there really were a Hell so they would burn in it.
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Andy_Ross
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Despite what Biden did to rural hospitals!
JD rewriting history again.
Vance: What we did is put a lot of resources… to make it possible for our rural hospitals to stay open despite what the Biden administration did to them for four years… Whether you’re in a big city or a small town, we’re going to fight for your access to healthcare…
JD rewriting history again.
Vance: What we did is put a lot of resources… to make it possible for our rural hospitals to stay open despite what the Biden administration did to them for four years… Whether you’re in a big city or a small town, we’re going to fight for your access to healthcare…
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Andy_Ross
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Grass again.. and sprinklers as well.
Trump: One of the things we are going to be redoing as your parks. I know more about grass than any human being anywhere in the world. We are going to be regrassing your parks, new sprinklers systems. It will look like Trump national golf club.
Grass has a life. You know that? Grass has a life. We have a life, and grass as a life. The grass here died about 40 years ago
Trump: One of the things we are going to be redoing as your parks. I know more about grass than any human being anywhere in the world. We are going to be regrassing your parks, new sprinklers systems. It will look like Trump national golf club.
Grass has a life. You know that? Grass has a life. We have a life, and grass as a life. The grass here died about 40 years ago
Andy_Ross
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Back to fossil fuel, Wind destroys everything.
Trump: all They are not fired by wind, by the way, because wind doesn't work. It destroys everything. It looks horrible. It's a very expensive form of energy. We are not doing wind. We are going back to fossil fuel. We can’t be foolish
Trump: all They are not fired by wind, by the way, because wind doesn't work. It destroys everything. It looks horrible. It's a very expensive form of energy. We are not doing wind. We are going back to fossil fuel. We can’t be foolish
So oil derricks are beautiful?
What a stupid ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ idiot. He's bound and determined to turn the U.S. into a backwater.
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This lawfare was obviously going to be tossed out.
New York appeals court throws out $527 million penalty in Trump civil fraud case
New York appeals court throws out $527 million penalty in Trump civil fraud case
Skeptic Ginger
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Scapegoat the immigrants who are not responsible for unaffordable medical care when the real culprit is cutting Medicaid to finance tax cuts for billionaires.
AmyStrange
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That reminds me of that scene in the movie, My Cousin Vinnie, "Are you telling me that the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove?!"
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Blue Mountain
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As of the close of the day on August 20, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -1117.
20 August 2025
-1: Trump gloats about the “big win” in gerrymandering Texas to gain 5 congressional seats [512]
-1: Trump claims he solved the war between “Aberbaijan” and “Albania” (Try “Azerbaijan and Armenia”)
-1: Trump posts a lie about California governor Gavin Newsom being down in the polls [513]
-1: JD Vance: “As we’ve kicked illegal aliens out of our country, you actually see housing costs start to level off.”
-1: Stephen Miller says people protesting in Washington, D.C. are “elderly stupid white hippies” [514]
-1: Miller goes on to say the protesters are communists who have no roots in Washington [515]
-1: Tulsi Gabbard announces plans to cut intelligence staff by half (BBC)
-1: Headline: ICC ‘deplores’ new US sanctions on judges and prosecutors (BBC)
-1: Lee Zeldin (EPA head) says he wants to free Americans from diesel exhaust fumes by removing regulation on gas [516]
512. Trump: “Big WIN for the Great State of Texas!!! Everything Passed, on our way to FIVE more Congressional seats and saving your Rights, your Freedoms, and your Country, itself. Texas never lets us down. Florida, Indiana, and others are looking to do the same thing. More seats equals less Crime, a great Economy, and a STRONG SECOND AMENDMENT. It means Happiness and Peace. But Republicans, there is one thing even better - STOP MAIL-IN VOTING, a total fraud that has no bounds. Also, go to PAPER BALLOTS before it is too late At one tenth the cost, faster, and more reliable. If we do these TWO things, we will pick up 100 more seats, and the CROOKED game of politics is over. God Bless America!!!”
513. Trump: “Gavin Newscum is way down in the polls. He is viewed as the man who is destroying the once Great State of California. I will save California!!! President DJT”
513. Stephen Miller: “All these demonstrators that you’ve seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they’re not part of the city and never have been ... we’re gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re all over 90 years old.”
514. Miller: “The voices you hear out there, those crazy communists, they have no roots, no connections to this city. They have no families they’re raising in the city. They have no one they’re sending to school in the city, no jobs in this city, no connections to the community at all.”
515. Zeldin: “Our proposal isn’t just a rescission of the endangerment finding, but also all of the regulations that followed ... we’re heeding the American public that wants relief from diesel fuel exhaust systems. They want their gas cans to be able to pour more freely.”
19 August 2025
-1: Trump again declares Ukraine was the aggressor in the Russia-Ukraine war [506]
-1: Trump says the lack of progress on the Russia-Ukraine war is Zelenskyy’s inflexibility [507]
-1: Trump refers to Obama “giving” Crimea to Russia as a “bad real estate deal.” [508]
-1: Trump tells a tall tale about newfound safety in Washington, D.C. [509]
-1: Trump reiterates his claim that the Smithsonian is “woke” due to its depiction of slavery [510]
-1: The USA apparently sets its sights on Venezuela [511]
506. Trump: “It’s not a war that should’ve been started. You don’t do that. You don’t take on a nation that’s 10 times your size ... they took probably a lot of money too.”
507. Trump: “I’ve solved 7 wars. We ended 7 wars. I thought this would be one of the easier ones, and this has turned out to be the toughest one ... I hope President Putin is gonna be good ... President Zelenskyy has to show some flexibility also.”
508. Trump: “The war really started over NATO and Crimea. They wanted Crimea back. That was given, not a shot fired, by President Obama in perhaps the worst real estate deal I’ve ever seen ... they gave away a big percentage of their oceanfront property.”
509. Trump: “We have a thing going on right now in DC. We went from the most unsafe place anywhere to a place that now—Democrats are calling me up, and they’re saying, sir, I want to thank you. My wife and I went out to dinner last night for the first time in four years.”
510. Trump: “The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of “WOKE.” The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future. We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my attorneys to go through the Museums, and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universities where tremendous progress has been made. This Country cannot be WOKE, because WOKE IS BROKE. We have the “HOTTEST” Country in the World, and we want people to talk about it, including in our Museums.”
511. Reporter: “I wanted to ask about 3 warships being sent to Venezuela and the 4000 marines… Is there a possibility of boots on the ground there?”
Leavitt: “The president is prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country and to bring those responsible to justice. The Maduro regime is not the legitimate government—it is a Narco terror cartel.”
18 August 2025
+1: Trump correctly notes people will criticize him no matter what he achieves [497]
-1: Trump says he will get rid of mail-in ballots and highly inaccurate voting machines [498]
-1: Trump says Obama gifted Crimea to Russia [499]
-1: In the same post as above, Trump say Ukraine must never join NATO [499]
-1: In which Trump reveals his ignorance about World War II [500]
-1: Trumps says Putin wants the Russia-Ukraine war to end (Many commentators believe otherwise) [501]
-1: Trump, sitting next to Zelenskyy: “This is Joe Biden’s war”
-1: Trump says that by ending mail-in voting, Democrats won’t get elected [502]
-1: Trump seems to forget Barron is his son, too [503]
-1: Trump claims he had to give his license plate number in order to vote [504]
-1: Trump apparently forgets the President of Finland was in the Oval Office [505]
497. Trump to Zelenskyy: “I said that if in the settlement you got Moscow, St. Petersburg, and thousands of miles of around them, they would say I made a bad deal.”
498. Trump: “I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly “Inaccurate,” Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES”
499. Trump: “President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight, remember how it started. No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE. Some things never change!!!”
500. Reporter: “Mr. President, someone mentioned that President Putin told you that WWII wouldn’t have happened if you were President back then. Do you agree with that?”
Trump: “Absolutely. Would never have happened. Can you imagine, no WWII? Everything would be great! Just think about it!”
Reporter: “Would you have send thousands of our troops to their death on D-Day?”
Trump: “No, probably not. What a terrible thing to do. Very unfortunate.”
501. Trump: “Look, the war is going to end. When it ends, I can’t tell you. But the war is going to end ... Putin wants it to end.”
502. Trump: “If you [end] mail in voting, you’re not gonna have many Democrats get elected. That’s bigger than anything having to do with redistricting. And the Republicans have to get smart.”
503. Trump on Melania’s letter to Putin: “She has a wonderful son that she loves probably more than anybody including me. But she loves her son ... it was a beautiful letter. It was very well received by him [Putin].”
504. Trump: “When you go to a voting booth, and you do it the right way, and you go to a state that runs it properly, you go in -- they even asked me, they asked me for my license plate. I said, ‘I don’t know if I have it.’ They said, ‘Sir, you have to have it.’ I was very impressed actually.”
505. Trump: “President Stubb of Finland. He’s uh, somebody that, where are we here? Huh?”
Stubb: “I’m right here.”
Trump: “Oh.”
20 August 2025
-1: Trump gloats about the “big win” in gerrymandering Texas to gain 5 congressional seats [512]
-1: Trump claims he solved the war between “Aberbaijan” and “Albania” (Try “Azerbaijan and Armenia”)
-1: Trump posts a lie about California governor Gavin Newsom being down in the polls [513]
-1: JD Vance: “As we’ve kicked illegal aliens out of our country, you actually see housing costs start to level off.”
-1: Stephen Miller says people protesting in Washington, D.C. are “elderly stupid white hippies” [514]
-1: Miller goes on to say the protesters are communists who have no roots in Washington [515]
-1: Tulsi Gabbard announces plans to cut intelligence staff by half (BBC)
-1: Headline: ICC ‘deplores’ new US sanctions on judges and prosecutors (BBC)
-1: Lee Zeldin (EPA head) says he wants to free Americans from diesel exhaust fumes by removing regulation on gas [516]
512. Trump: “Big WIN for the Great State of Texas!!! Everything Passed, on our way to FIVE more Congressional seats and saving your Rights, your Freedoms, and your Country, itself. Texas never lets us down. Florida, Indiana, and others are looking to do the same thing. More seats equals less Crime, a great Economy, and a STRONG SECOND AMENDMENT. It means Happiness and Peace. But Republicans, there is one thing even better - STOP MAIL-IN VOTING, a total fraud that has no bounds. Also, go to PAPER BALLOTS before it is too late At one tenth the cost, faster, and more reliable. If we do these TWO things, we will pick up 100 more seats, and the CROOKED game of politics is over. God Bless America!!!”
513. Trump: “Gavin Newscum is way down in the polls. He is viewed as the man who is destroying the once Great State of California. I will save California!!! President DJT”
513. Stephen Miller: “All these demonstrators that you’ve seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they’re not part of the city and never have been ... we’re gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re all over 90 years old.”
514. Miller: “The voices you hear out there, those crazy communists, they have no roots, no connections to this city. They have no families they’re raising in the city. They have no one they’re sending to school in the city, no jobs in this city, no connections to the community at all.”
515. Zeldin: “Our proposal isn’t just a rescission of the endangerment finding, but also all of the regulations that followed ... we’re heeding the American public that wants relief from diesel fuel exhaust systems. They want their gas cans to be able to pour more freely.”
19 August 2025
-1: Trump again declares Ukraine was the aggressor in the Russia-Ukraine war [506]
-1: Trump says the lack of progress on the Russia-Ukraine war is Zelenskyy’s inflexibility [507]
-1: Trump refers to Obama “giving” Crimea to Russia as a “bad real estate deal.” [508]
-1: Trump tells a tall tale about newfound safety in Washington, D.C. [509]
-1: Trump reiterates his claim that the Smithsonian is “woke” due to its depiction of slavery [510]
-1: The USA apparently sets its sights on Venezuela [511]
506. Trump: “It’s not a war that should’ve been started. You don’t do that. You don’t take on a nation that’s 10 times your size ... they took probably a lot of money too.”
507. Trump: “I’ve solved 7 wars. We ended 7 wars. I thought this would be one of the easier ones, and this has turned out to be the toughest one ... I hope President Putin is gonna be good ... President Zelenskyy has to show some flexibility also.”
508. Trump: “The war really started over NATO and Crimea. They wanted Crimea back. That was given, not a shot fired, by President Obama in perhaps the worst real estate deal I’ve ever seen ... they gave away a big percentage of their oceanfront property.”
509. Trump: “We have a thing going on right now in DC. We went from the most unsafe place anywhere to a place that now—Democrats are calling me up, and they’re saying, sir, I want to thank you. My wife and I went out to dinner last night for the first time in four years.”
510. Trump: “The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of “WOKE.” The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future. We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my attorneys to go through the Museums, and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universities where tremendous progress has been made. This Country cannot be WOKE, because WOKE IS BROKE. We have the “HOTTEST” Country in the World, and we want people to talk about it, including in our Museums.”
511. Reporter: “I wanted to ask about 3 warships being sent to Venezuela and the 4000 marines… Is there a possibility of boots on the ground there?”
Leavitt: “The president is prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country and to bring those responsible to justice. The Maduro regime is not the legitimate government—it is a Narco terror cartel.”
18 August 2025
+1: Trump correctly notes people will criticize him no matter what he achieves [497]
-1: Trump says he will get rid of mail-in ballots and highly inaccurate voting machines [498]
-1: Trump says Obama gifted Crimea to Russia [499]
-1: In the same post as above, Trump say Ukraine must never join NATO [499]
-1: In which Trump reveals his ignorance about World War II [500]
-1: Trumps says Putin wants the Russia-Ukraine war to end (Many commentators believe otherwise) [501]
-1: Trump, sitting next to Zelenskyy: “This is Joe Biden’s war”
-1: Trump says that by ending mail-in voting, Democrats won’t get elected [502]
-1: Trump seems to forget Barron is his son, too [503]
-1: Trump claims he had to give his license plate number in order to vote [504]
-1: Trump apparently forgets the President of Finland was in the Oval Office [505]
497. Trump to Zelenskyy: “I said that if in the settlement you got Moscow, St. Petersburg, and thousands of miles of around them, they would say I made a bad deal.”
498. Trump: “I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly “Inaccurate,” Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES”
499. Trump: “President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight, remember how it started. No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE. Some things never change!!!”
500. Reporter: “Mr. President, someone mentioned that President Putin told you that WWII wouldn’t have happened if you were President back then. Do you agree with that?”
Trump: “Absolutely. Would never have happened. Can you imagine, no WWII? Everything would be great! Just think about it!”
Reporter: “Would you have send thousands of our troops to their death on D-Day?”
Trump: “No, probably not. What a terrible thing to do. Very unfortunate.”
501. Trump: “Look, the war is going to end. When it ends, I can’t tell you. But the war is going to end ... Putin wants it to end.”
502. Trump: “If you [end] mail in voting, you’re not gonna have many Democrats get elected. That’s bigger than anything having to do with redistricting. And the Republicans have to get smart.”
503. Trump on Melania’s letter to Putin: “She has a wonderful son that she loves probably more than anybody including me. But she loves her son ... it was a beautiful letter. It was very well received by him [Putin].”
504. Trump: “When you go to a voting booth, and you do it the right way, and you go to a state that runs it properly, you go in -- they even asked me, they asked me for my license plate. I said, ‘I don’t know if I have it.’ They said, ‘Sir, you have to have it.’ I was very impressed actually.”
505. Trump: “President Stubb of Finland. He’s uh, somebody that, where are we here? Huh?”
Stubb: “I’m right here.”
Trump: “Oh.”
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Armitage72
Philosopher
Oil derricks didn't "spoil the view" at one of his golf courses and he didn't lose a lawsuit to get rid of oil derricks.
It's about a petty spiteful grudge, not aesthetics.
Skeptic Ginger
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And having gotten it in his head that he had a rational reason for being so anti-wind turbine it will never come out of his head again.
bruto
Penultimate Amazing
Who knew grass was alive? Wowzee Mister Wizard! I can't wait for the sod to be rolled out in the Green Mountain National Park.
bruto
Penultimate Amazing
I wonder who is doing the calling. I mean, I'm sure Mister Fairandbalanced would love to hear from some of us. Anyone got his number?
welshdean
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Just a suggestion, spoiler tags wouldn't go amiss. It's a long scroll.
