Trump's Second Term

LDE1976 said:
I can see Trump's point about wind not being a brilliant source of energy. His advisors have learned that more often than not, it makes igniting a cross more difficult.
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Perhaps the real opposition to wind comes from Stephen Miller because when the blades are in the wrong position the sight of them causes him pain and uncontrollable fear?
 
Blue Mountain said:
When I started this project to document Trump's second term, I was expecting there to be a rush of things for the first two months or so, then it would gradually taper off as the administration settled into running the country.

What I did not expect was the incredible tsunami of lies, fabrications, and outright stupidity coming daily not only from Trump but many other people in his cabinet and the White House. Cataloguing them, and watching the administration playing out a authoritarian handbook, is turning into a depressing experience that's consuming a non-trivial part of my day.
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I am starting to believe Trump has literally gone insane.
 
NM156 said:
My birthday is tomorrow. You know what I want? What I really want? I want someone to go down to DC. I want someone to wake him up from his slumber on Pennsylvania Ave and bring him here. And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey ◊◊◊◊ he is.

Hallelujah! HOLY ◊◊◊◊.

where's the whiskey?
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Returning to this fine rant, I just wanted to mention that I recently ran across a rant by Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde. Aside from the eerie sense that substituting a few nouns here and there would bring it right up to date, I enclose a link to the work of a master:

blowing crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck, etcetera!
 
shemp said:
YOU'RE THE DOMESTIC EXTREMIST, YOU FESTERING, DISEASED, ◊◊◊◊-FILLED REINCARNATION OF JOSEPH GOEBBELS!!!
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Mate, these comparisons to Nazis is getting out of hand. Trump is no Goebbels Goebbels was extremely intelligent and earned an actual PhD. Trump was "The stupidest goddam student I ever had."
 
bruto said:
Returning to this fine rant, I just wanted to mention that I recently ran across a rant by Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde. Aside from the eerie sense that substituting a few nouns here and there would bring it right up to date, I enclose a link to the work of a master:

blowing crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck, etcetera!
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Oh, Ambrose, that is just brilliant!

I keep a copy of the (Revised) Devil's Dictionary by my bed, as one never knows when one will need it.
 
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W.D.Clinger said:
Asked to comment on that cabinet meeting, Charlie Sykes said

Spittle doesn't lick itself.​


Yes, Trump is objectively stupid. But it's not just Trump. Many of his appointees are objectively stupid. A few memorable examples of some utterly stupid things they've said, limited to two from each:

President Donald Trump:
  • “You know, we’ve cut drug prices by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500 per cent.”
  • “We need Greenland. And the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark. Denmark has to have us have Greenland. And, you know, we'll see what happens. But if we don't have Greenland, we can't have great international security.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi:
  • “Since you have been in office, President Trump, your DOJ agencies have seized more than 22 million fentanyl pills, 3,400 kilos of fentanyl since you've been, your last 100 days. Which saved – are you ready for this, media? — 258 million lives.”
  • “You know, you were overwhelmingly elected by the biggest majority.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem:
  • “Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country.”
  • “I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un." (She wrote that in her book with the title No Going Back, but later admitted she would have to go back to correct that lie and several other "errors".)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent:
  • Under oath, Bessent was asked “Who pays tariffs?” His non-answer: “It’s a very complicated question.” As his interrogator had to explain to him: “It’s not complicated.”
  • “Again, the president is probably the most economically sophisticated president we have had in 100 years, maybe ever.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr:
  • “There are no vaccines that are safe and effective.”
  • “I never said that.” (His live television interviewer responded by saying “Play the clip.” The clip was played.)
FBI Director Kash Patel:
  • “I’d shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state.”
  • “These documents, particularly those linked to Epstein and Diddy, could shed light on matters the American people deserve to understand. It’s time to clear the air and reveal who’s been involved in covering up the truth.” (That wouldn't have been such a stupid thing for most people to say, but Patel was and still is trying to cover up the truth about the compulsive liar who appointed him.)
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon:
  • “I heard...there is a school system that's going to start making sure that first-graders or even pre-Ks have A-one teaching, you know, every year starting, you know, that far down in the grades....Now, OK, let's do, see, A-one and how can that be helpful?” (A1 is a steak sauce. She thought she was talking about AI.)
  • “We should hear all sides.” (This was part of her evasion when asked whether schools should be allowed to teach the fact that Joe Biden won the presidential election of 2020.)
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth:
  • “That was in the teleprompter. I read it. I don’t know if I even believe it.” (Hegseth said this right after reading from a Fox News teleprompter that had him admit “state election officials have not reported serious irregularities with the vote that would affect the outcome of the” 2020 presidential election.)
  • “So you’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again, to include the, I don’t know, the hoaxes of ‘Russia, Russia, Russia,’ or the ‘fine people on both sides’ hoax or ‘suckers and losers’ hoax. This is a guy that pedals in garbage. This is what he does.” (Hegseth was insinuating that Jeffrey Goldberg's article about being added to Hegseth's Signal chat was just a hoax. As one of Hegseth's former colleagues responded: “Oh, for God’s sake, the administration has already confirmed the authenticity of the message.”)
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard:
  • “I've had employees come and talk to me and say they were expected to spend half of their day within the intelligence community focused on DEI work.”
  • “No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.” (No, she wasn't talking about 6 January 2021.)
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I hadn't heard that particular McMahon quote before, about "hear[ing] all sides" in regard to Biden's winning the 2020 election. That's textbook creationism- as if hearing all sides of a question is automatically synonymous with giving them equal weight. No ma'am, there's a thing called "evidence" which needs to be brought to bear, and that concept needs to be taught to students before you start just throwing facts or "facts" at them, so they can tell the difference.
 
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WASHINGTON—As they called attention to his alarmingly sallow complexion and rapidly deteriorating brain function, White House officials sought to quell speculation Monday over the bruising on President Donald Trump’s right hand by dismissing it as one of the least concerning parts of his body. “The discoloration on the president’s hand is superficial and no cause for worry—in fact, it is probably one of his healthiest anatomical regions,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, adding that the president’s doctors remain focused on far more urgent health issues, including his grossly bloated midsection, complete lack of bowel control, and hunched-over posture suggestive of a decomposing torso. “Rest assured, his hand is not what’s going to keep him from fulfilling his duties to the American people. Honestly, if all you are seeing is photos, you don’t even know about the stench. That will stick in your nightmares forever. There’s so much gas trapped under the president’s skin that we are praying he doesn’t rupture.” Officials confirmed the hand would be iced to alleviate the bruising, while the rest of his body would be “lightly embalmed.”
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Some guest clown on one of the fake news channels my wife watches -- CNN or MSNBC said something last night to the effect that "People expect the country to go fascist all at once, but it happens over time."
Is he drunk, or just blind? Trump's been President for seven months. We've got troops in the streets. Secret Police thugs disappearing people off the street based on the color of their skin. Corruption on an epic scale. Settled Constitutional Law being overturned by excutive order. Seven months. Seven months. That's a blink of the eye, historically.
 
Blue Mountain said:
When I started this project to document Trump's second term, I was expecting there to be a rush of things for the first two months or so, then it would gradually taper off as the administration settled into running the country.

What I did not expect was the incredible tsunami of lies, fabrications, and outright stupidity coming daily not only from Trump but many other people in his cabinet and the White House. Cataloguing them, and watching the administration playing out a authoritarian handbook, is turning into a depressing experience that's consuming a non-trivial part of my day.
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Personally, I think that my expectation had his first term as more of a guide. The horrors just never stopped. They slowed sometimes, sure, but then they'd ramp up again.

Trebuchet said:
Some guest clown on one of the fake news channels my wife watches -- CNN or MSNBC said something last night to the effect that "People expect the country to go fascist all at once, but it happens over time."
Is he drunk, or just blind? Trump's been President for seven months. We've got troops in the streets. Secret Police thugs disappearing people off the street based on the color of their skin. Corruption on an epic scale. Settled Constitutional Law being overturned by excutive order. Seven months. Seven months. That's a blink of the eye, historically.
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The concept is hardly new or unreasonable. Things build up slowly, then they erupt and move fast when victory is in sight.

The thing about this subject, though, is that it has been building for a while. Quite a long while, really. Trump led a significant acceleration during his first term, but didn't quite manage to get thing to a finish line. That he was not properly held to account paved the way for a second and much more dangerous attempt to move things across the finish line.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
It's funny until it isn't. If Trump starts to sack people reporting accurate economic data and replaces them with cultists reporting glossy lies instead, the markets are not going to buy that ◊◊◊◊. If you literally can't trust economic data the US publishes, the balloon will pop. The money will immediately start to flee elsewhere.
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But that’s okay! After all, all the countries are sending us zillions of dollars! Quadra quintillions! It’s all rolling in!

Rolling! Rolling! Rolling like a (polluted) river!
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Aridas said:
Personally, I think that my expectation had his first term as more of a guide. The horrors just never stopped. They slowed sometimes, sure, but then they'd ramp up again.


The concept is hardly new or unreasonable. Things build up slowly, then they erupt and move fast when victory is in sight.

The thing about this subject, though, is that it has been building for a while. Quite a long while, really. Trump led a significant acceleration during his first term, but didn't quite manage to get thing to a finish line. That he was not properly held to account paved the way for a second and much more dangerous attempt to move things across the finish line.
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I think the difference is the attempted assassination , Trump now believes god has anointed him.
 
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