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Trump's Second Term

jimbob said:
Note he calls Landry, the governor of Louisiana and not the envoy to Greenland



Of course the USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort are still berthed in Alabama. I understand that their home base is San Diego and it takes 5 days to prepare for deployment from there, so not exactly "on its way"

I guess those in Military Sealift Command are hoping he'll forget about it before they have to actually do something for an imaginary crisis.
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Playmobil, let the stories begin
 
Is this is what triggered the “hospital ship” episode.
He got angry because nice Danes rescued an American crew member and took him to a hospital?

A sick crew member from a US submarine was evacuated today by the Danish warship HDMS Vædderen off Greenland.
This underlines Denmark’s dedication to assist any seafarer in distress regardless of his nation’s intent (Arctic Command)

https://twitter.com/x/status/2025332222530551986
 
Norman Alexander said:
Seems to be the "Epstein files distraction fairy tale" they are running with now.
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Incidentally...

"DOJ Deleted Record Revealing That Maxwell Holds Potential Blackmail Over Trump"

Roger Sollenberger, a former Daily Beast reporter, has been going where the MSM fear to tread. He’s found evidence that three interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13-15 years old are still being hidden by the DOJ.

DOJ Deleted Record Revealing That Maxwell Holds Potential Blackmail Over Trump
The DOJ removed a document from Epstein files database that referenced four interviews, but Sollenberger found a copy via the Wayback Machine. When he reported this on his Substack, the DOJ put the document back.

But they have not released the interviews, and there has been no explanation of why the document was removed and put back.
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Also,

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell are fighting the requested release of 90,000 pages related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell, saying a law used to force the public release of millions of documents is unconstitutional.
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Not shocking at all, BECAUSE it's Republicans doing it.

Elsewhere,

Judge Rules ICE Masks Are "An Assault On Constitutional Order"

“Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice to what is happening. Across the interior of the United States, agents of the federal government—masked, anonymous, armed with military weapons, operating from unmarked vehicles, acting without warrants of any kind—are seizing persons for civil immigration violations and imprisoning them without any semblance of due process. The systematic character of this practice and its deliberate elimination of every structural feature that distinguishes constitutional authority from raw force place it beyond the reach of ordinary legal description. It is an assault on the constitutional order. It is what the Fourth Amendment was written to prevent. It is what the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment forbids.”
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There's quite a bit more, really. For example -

While other cases have criticized masking ICE agents, this is the first case I am aware of where the judge’s reasoning was rooted almost entirely in the repugnance of police anonymity in a democratic society. In the words of Judge Goodwin, “The deepest objection to anonymous government force is not procedural. It runs to the very nature of legitimate government itself.”
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“When the state reaches out and takes hold of a human being and deprives him of his liberty, that act must present itself as the people’s act. Not eventually. Not upon later inquiry. At the moment it occurs. The person seized is not merely a subject of government power. His liberty is being constrained by an authority that, in a republic, derives from his own consent and the consent of those like him. For that authority to be legitimate, it must be visible as authority at the moment it is asserted . . . When masked, unidentifiable agents emerge from an unmarked vehicle and take hold of a person on an American highway, the seizure does not announce itself as the people’s authority. It announces only power.”
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An excellent point and only one among a number of them.

Also, among the Trump's legal losses this week

Nope, you can’t deport college students for being pro-Palestinian​

It’s almost unbelievable that the administration’s efforts to deport two pro-Palestinian students, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, simply for being pro-Palestinian have dragged on for a year.

But now, not one but two courts have given a rousing nope to the government’s assertion that our national security is threatened by university students peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.
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Nope, you can’t bust into churches to arrest immigrants​

On Trump’s first day in office last year, he immediately rescinded decades of guidance that barred ICE from immigration enforcement at sensitive locations like churches, hospitals, and schools.

The administration has leaned on its usual insistence that ICE goons have to be able to invade churches, guns blazing, or the worst of the worst win, but plaintiffs in this case—5,000 religious congregations nationwide—took a different tack. Rather than trying to meet that argument head-on, a difficult feat when the Supreme Court just keeps ruling that Trump can do whatever he wants, the religious groups here sued, in part, under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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While that is complete ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊, the RFRA claim here absolutely wasn’t. If people are afraid they will be violently abducted and arrested at their church, they will probably stop going to church. It’s tough to find a starker example of being prohibited from freely exercising your religion than a government policy that makes it inherently dangerous for you to go to your worship house of choice.

U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV, a George W. Bush appointee, dropped 62 pages agreeing with this and enjoining the administration from invading churches. However, since the Supreme Court suddenly decided earlier this year that nationwide injunctions are illegal, Saylor couldn’t just do a blanket injunction. Instead, it applies only to the congregations that were plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
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Nope, you can’t keep detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia even though you really want to​

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, who has displayed the patience of a saint in dealing with the administration’s ceaseless efforts to detain and deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, pretty much just told the administration to get bent.

Fam, is it good when a federal judge has to tell the federal government that it “cannot alter substantive rights or rewrite history”?
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Nope, you can’t successfully indict people if you can’t actually identify a law they broke​

You’ll no doubt recall that earlier this month, we all got to enjoy seeing U.S. Attorney for the District of Washington, D.C. Jeanine Pirro get absolutely stuffed, yet again, in her attempts to get grand juries to bring indictments. The grand jury she convened to try to indict the six Democratic lawmakers who told military personnel that they are required to refuse illegal orders not only no-billed her, they no-billed her so hard that we later learned not a single grand juror voted to indict.
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Nope, you can’t stop schools from teaching woke DEI​

Last year on Valentine’s Day, Trump’s Department of Education wrote a love letter to literally every school in the country, telling them all that if they continued to hang out with diversity, equity, and inclusion, the administration would have no choice but to break up with them and strip them of federal funding.

The administration tried to pretend this was some sort of legitimate legal guidance, rather than just a clump of First Amendment violations on government letterhead, but was nearly immediately enjoined from enforcing it after the National Education Association sued. The NEA pointed out that telling schools not to teach DEI is impossibly vague, destroys academic freedom, and dictates what educators can teach—all of which are no-nos, legally speaking.

It was all the way back last April when a lower court told the administration lol, lmao even, and blocked them from enforcing the thing. The administration fought it for months, but then finally said earlier this week that it was ending the directive. A district court then issued a final ruling that bars the government not only from enforcing the directive but also from reviving it. Permanently. Nationwide.
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Also, looks like we have some numbers on The Cost of Operation Metro Surge. Really short version? It's extremely costly in a bunch of ways. Convert that to a per deportation number and it's all the more insane.
 
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Andy_Ross said:
Is this is what triggered the “hospital ship” episode.
He got angry because nice Danes rescued an American crew member and took him to a hospital?

A sick crew member from a US submarine was evacuated today by the Danish warship HDMS Vædderen off Greenland.
This underlines Denmark’s dedication to assist any seafarer in distress regardless of his nation’s intent (Arctic Command)

https://twitter.com/x/status/2025332222530551986
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According to the doctrine promoted by Hegseth, such as was applied against Venezuelan ships, it shows an appalling lack of "warrior spirit" …
 
Andy_Ross said:
Is this is what triggered the “hospital ship” episode.
He got angry because nice Danes rescued an American crew member and took him to a hospital?

A sick crew member from a US submarine was evacuated today by the Danish warship HDMS Vædderen off Greenland.
This underlines Denmark’s dedication to assist any seafarer in distress regardless of his nation’s intent (Arctic Command)

https://twitter.com/x/status/2025332222530551986
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Called it! :D
Norman Alexander said:
Greenland has a similar health picture to Denmark, with high vaccination rates and socialised health care. That US Navy boat is going there so the sailors on it can be treated in Greenland's hospitals, not the other way round.
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Norman Alexander said:
I'm sure this has been done to death already, but this is what his architects are designing.
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But normal ball pools tend to be full of wee* and if you're unlucky, poo* because half the people in them get overexited and are not fully continent, so completely different† from Trump's ballroom.

*The correct term given the childishness of those in the ballpool

†This might be a typo
 
I took a look at the comments on Fox News' story about the USN hospital ship supposedly heading to Greenland. Normally, these comment sections are full of the Trump-fluffing dribble you would expect, but I found it interesting that commenters were almost universally opposed to this action (paraphrasing):
  • "What happened to America First?"
  • "Why are we doing this? They've no medical emergency ongoing."
  • "They already have socialized healthcare"
  • "How can we afford to do this but not care for our own sick?"
  • "Just a political stunt."
  • "Fund the Veterans Administration."
  • "Stop using our tax dollars for nonsense."
And many similar.

It seems very unlikely this will actually happen, given that the two ships are currently in maintenance and not ready to sail. I wonder how Trump is going to downplay this one later on.
 
jimbob said:
Note he calls Landry, the governor of Louisiana and not the envoy to Greenland
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Isn't Landry the envoy to Greenland at the same time as being governor of Louisiana (which is apparently not very time-consuming)?

The only statement I have heard from him is how similar Americans and Greenlanders are, and how he is looking forward to introduce the Greenlanders to Cajun cuisine!
 
BillC said:
I took a look at the comments on Fox News' story about the USN hospital ship supposedly heading to Greenland. Normally, these comment sections are full of the Trump-fluffing dribble you would expect, but I found it interesting that commenters were almost universally opposed to this action (paraphrasing):
  • "What happened to America First?"
  • "Why are we doing this? They've no medical emergency ongoing."
  • "They already have socialized healthcare"
  • "How can we afford to do this but not care for our own sick?"
  • "Just a political stunt."
  • "Fund the Veterans Administration."
  • "Stop using our tax dollars for nonsense."
And many similar.

It seems very unlikely this will actually happen, given that the two ships are currently in maintenance and not ready to sail. I wonder how Trump is going to downplay this one later on.
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You know propaganda is dumb when you can't even fool the trumpkins.
 
steenkh said:
Isn't Landry the envoy to Greenland at the same time as being governor of Louisiana (which is apparently not very time-consuming)?

The only statement I have heard from him is how similar Americans and Greenlanders are, and how he is looking forward to introduce the Greenlanders to Cajun cuisine!
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Presumably his governorship is unimportant in this situation
 
BillC said:
I took a look at the comments on Fox News' story about the USN hospital ship supposedly heading to Greenland. Normally, these comment sections are full of the Trump-fluffing dribble you would expect, but I found it interesting that commenters were almost universally opposed to this action (paraphrasing):
  • "What happened to America First?"
  • "Why are we doing this? They've no medical emergency ongoing."
  • "They already have socialized healthcare"
  • "How can we afford to do this but not care for our own sick?"
  • "Just a political stunt."
  • "Fund the Veterans Administration."
  • "Stop using our tax dollars for nonsense."
And many similar.

It seems very unlikely this will actually happen, given that the two ships are currently in maintenance and not ready to sail. I wonder how Trump is going to downplay this one later on.
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He can just blame it on Biden.
 
France24 reports a gunman entered Mala lardo , but was shot dead presumably before he could use the Golden Throne and the classified files TP.
 
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