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Trump's Second Term

This thing is small in the larger picture, but still notable.

DOJ Scrubs Jan. 6 Attack From Court Record After Suspending Career Prosecutors

Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post that may have led an armed man to Barack Obama’s home.

The abrupt revision, filed just one day after the original memo, deepens concerns that the Trump-led DOJ is manipulating official court records to rewrite the history of January 6 and punish those who refuse to go along.

The case centers on Taylor Franklin Taranto, a former January 6 defendant pardoned by Trump who was later convicted of weapons and hoax charges after being arrested near the Obamas’ home in 2023 with firearms and ammunition in his van.

Two D.C. prosecutors, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, filed the first sentencing memo on October 28. Within hours, both were placed on administrative leave and locked out of their DOJ accounts.

The next morning, the filing was replaced by a nearly identical version — this time signed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Travis Wolf for Jeanine Pirro, the former Fox News host now serving as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
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Mike! said:
Let's file this under FAFO...

www.buzzfeed.com

A MAGA Mom On SNAP Is Furious After Her Relative Refused To Lend Her Grocery Money

"I sympathize with them if they're struggling, but at the same time what the f—k did you expect."
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People who vote against their interests generally don't realise it. They don't listen, and they even often cheer, when the people they've elected tell them they're going to suffer "for a future greater good".
They've been conditioned to think that bad results won't affect them, and that when they -unjustly- do, it is due to external factors (foreigners, grifters, political opponents, you name it) that the people they've voted for are unable to fight at the moment, but that everything will eventually end fine.

They will therefore view those who criticise and refuse to indulge them as part of those nefarious external factors that prevent the success of their political choices …
 
If SNAP food aid is cut off, small grocery stores also will feel the pain

"For small supermarket grocers, challenges like SNAP reductions can have a significant impact on profitability, which unfortunately can put some stores and lots of jobs in jeopardy," says Scott Moses, an investment banker with Solomon Partners who wrote the book A 'Grocery' Christmas Carol about the rapid and seismic changes in the grocery industry.

He says a prolonged SNAP shutdown could mean more pressure on the already shrinking number of small independent supermarkets, which are being squeezed by grocery giants like Walmart. By itself, Walmart has almost as much market share as all the nation's 26,000 small supermarket grocers combined.

Now, Moses says, Walmart might well gain even more; if there is a cutoff of SNAP benefits, he says the superstore would likely draw in more new customers.

"A significant amount of customers are going to trade down to what they perceive to be lower-priced operators, and net, net, Walmart will likely come out ahead," Moses says.

For the less fortunate stores, however, there is growing concern that any closures could have broad and serious repercussions.

"There's a ripple effect that's going to happen here," says Jerome Bouyer, vice president of retail operations for Save A Lot. For starters, Save A Lot stores tend to be "in places that are already 'food deserts' and have food insecurity. That just makes the problem that much worse."
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Andy_Ross said:
I believe her.

Leavitt: "I think it's frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit...This is a president who has actually lost money for being president."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1984462451677503500
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Make up what passes for your mind, you brainless bimbo (her, not you) : you can't praise him as a business genius and pretend in the same breath he's losing money !
 
Andy_Ross said:
I believe her.

Leavitt: "I think it's frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit...This is a president who has actually lost money for being president."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1984462451677503500
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In fairness, if anyone could lose money by being President it would be the man who lost money owning a casino.
 
Mike! said:
Let's file this under FAFO...

www.buzzfeed.com

A MAGA Mom On SNAP Is Furious After Her Relative Refused To Lend Her Grocery Money

"I sympathize with them if they're struggling, but at the same time what the f—k did you expect."
www.buzzfeed.com www.buzzfeed.com
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Sort of an aside: Thanks for reminding me why I quit Buzzfeed. So they show an image, and then they repeat the text in the image, sentence by sentence, with illustrations to pad out the article length as much as they can. Presumably if I didn't have an adblocker there'd be ads all over the place.

On-topic: I agree with the commenters pointing out the obvious, why on earth would someone vote Republican if they need government assistance to put food on the table? The mind boggles.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
On-topic: I agree with the commenters pointing out the obvious, why on earth would someone vote Republican if they need government assistance to put food on the table? The mind boggles.
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Easy: who do you think is responsible for them being forced to resort to government assistance, hmmm ? And who would give that assistance to them rather than to illegal aliens, LGTB and other ennemies of the country, hmm ? ;)
 
What gets me about the whole thing is that the same President who was sure he had the unilateral power to end birthright citizenship and mail-in voting with the stroke of a pen, and impose tariffs and send troops wherever because of a supposed emergency, is now concerned about the legality of moving around some of those trillions he says we have from the tariffs in the face of a real one. He keeps bragging about us being The RIchest Country On The Face Of The Planet...but we apparently cannot afford to help some of our citizens eat and have affordable healthcare insurance at the same time.
 
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