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Trump's Second Term

JayUtah said:
They're just now figuring out that the American Episcopal church is LGBTQ+ friendly? I love how shrill calls for "religious liberty" suddenly go quiet when the spectrum of religious belief is laid bare to them.

Also, I saw some commentary that seemed to assume that "National" Cathedral was some sort of arm of the U.S. government and that the composition of the clergy is somehow within that control. Wow.
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Wait until they get their "religious liberty". The fight between the fundagelical and catholic far right over who's the one religion will be the mother of all handbags.
 
Trump plans to place 10,000 troops on the Mexico border, 1,500 US troops will be initially stationed within days.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Trump has imposed a communications blackout across America's federal health agencies, including the CDC, FDA, HHS, and NIH.

They have been instructed to halt all external communications, such as publishing scientific reports, updating websites, and issuing health advisories.

The directive was issued suddenly and without prior notice.
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Seems bad.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: "It was supposed to be a unifying and bipartisan church service ... everybody there was shocked and mortified by the disturbing comments from this bishop who chose to weaponize the pulpit ... she spewed lies ... she should apologize to President Trump for the lies that she told. It's despicable."

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1882162590295404919
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Why do republican women all look like deformed Barbie dolls?
 
Andy_Ross said:
Trump plans to place 10,000 troops on the Mexico border, 1,500 US troops will be initially stationed within days.
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Will they still be unable to actually do anything or will he change the law to allow them to operate against civilians on US soil?
 
Safe-Keeper said:
Possibly? I was in the process of typing a post that basically said "no ◊◊◊◊ them they chose this", but now that we increasingly look at them as a cult, I don't know, what do sect members do when their cult turns on them? Do they get disillusioned or do they double down to regain the good favour of their Leader? Maybe reaching out to them with a gentle 'see, they don't really care about you, come to the light side' works better than ridicule and Schadenfreude? That requires a level of patience and compassion I don't have with them right now, but maybe further down the road.

I'd still love for Twitter to change their username, though.
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They generally get stabbed, shot or force fed flavoraid.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
Does he not realise that accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt?
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Technically no. It does not vacate the original conviction. It really just ends the sentence they are currently serving. There's still debate over whether a pardoned felon is still subject to penalties like being excluded from certain jobs or owning firearms.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
Will they still be unable to actually do anything or will he change the law to allow them to operate against civilians on US soil?
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The point isn't to do anything but to create political theatre and be seen to be doing something big and incisive.

The absolute worst thing that could happen to the GOP is for illegal immigration to be "solved"*. Not only will the result be a shortage of labour but also one of the key areas where Republicans create fear will evaporate whereas creating a ****-ton of noise and doing absolutely nothing useful will reinforce their message.

* - illegal immigration will never be solved, the key is whether the vast majority of people believe it's not a big deal. At that point it is solved for political purposes.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Looks like he's going after FEMA now

"FEMA is gonna be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I'd rather see the states takes care of their own problems."

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I thought the whole reason for FEMA was for it to swing into action when the problem was too big for a single state to deal with.

A lot of MAGA supporters will be in for a big, unpleasant, surprise the first time the South East gets hit by a big hurricane.
 
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