Trump's Second Term

[jimbob]

I thinkn
I think it speaks volumes about the Trump administration when we can look at an Islamic theocracy that has abused its people for decades and fostered terrorism in lots of other countries, and think "These people are still the more reliable than the Americans".

Well, no less reliable

 

[Mojo]

Trump: "Democrats call this period of time a war. We call it a military operation."

https://twitter.com/x/status/2036126632180642190

That's because you're a liar and they aren't.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms

In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/climate/offshore-wind-gas-trump-total.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

 

[jimbob]

Looks like Hegseth is getting thrown under the bus now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2036125189172244962

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Trump blames Hegseth for the war: "Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up. You said, 'Let's do it.'"

 

[LDE1976]

Looks like Hegseth is getting thrown under the bus now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2036125189172244962

Just don't cremate him, it'd make the Kuwait oil fires look like a tealight.

 

[bruto]

TRUMP: Could I have taken Elvis in a fight?

GRACELAND WORKER: I don't know? You might. I think he would've been respectful enough to let you win

https://twitter.com/x/status/2036158270025466336

I think that's possible, but it might depend on what Elvis believed, as I have heard he had pretty strong opinions regarding racism and inherited privilege.

 

[bruto]

Even garbage has a purpose. It can become fertiliser, it can be reused or recycled or it can be repurposed for other uses.

You cannot say that about Walsh.

Oh, I don't know. It might depend on the grind.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms

In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/climate/offshore-wind-gas-trump-total.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

Result: A foreign company is going to be paid to build petroleum-based infrastructure in the USA PLUS given a $1 billion bonus. Meanwhile, said infrastructure is to process a product that is rapidly rising in price and dwindling in supply, making energy significantly more expensive and vulnerable. PLUS a reliable, cheap electricity supply is being withdrawn from US grids.

Everything Trump touches turns to crap. And everybody else pays for it.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Looks like Hegseth is getting thrown under the bus now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2036125189172244962

Hi Petey! Here's a business clue: NEVER make your boss look bad. Because he's your boss, not your colleague.

Also, you should be tried as a war criminal and dealt with appropriately. But I suspect Donny will find a niche for you somewhere. Probably as dust in one of those urns on the Oval Room fire-place mantle.

 

[Andy_Ross]

As opposed to committing serial adultery?

Everybody knows that the right move is to cheat on your wife in a spectacular fashion captured by the tabloids, pushing her down the stairs, divorce her and when she dies, bury her on your golf course.

Which reminds me, it's spring, time for them to mow her.

 

[Andy_Ross]

US warns EU to pass trade deal or risk losing ‘favourable’ access to LNG

The EU must implement its trade deal with the US without amendments or risk losing “favourable” access to liquefied natural gas shipments from American exporters, Donald Trump’s ambassador to the bloc has warned.

https://www.ft.com/content/6bf153e4-11af-44d5-9d1c-48b5c7ad26ef?syn-25a6b1a6=1

 

[jimbob]

Looks like Hegseth is getting thrown under the bus now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2036125189172244962

I used the South Park throwing Cartman under the bus, because Hegseth is Cartman without his redeeming features.

 

[Trebuchet]

Looks like Hegseth is getting thrown under the bus now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2036125189172244962

No, he's not. That's Trump praising him!

 

[Stacyhs]

I remember when The Simpsons did their version of this with Bart having the powers. It's very, very similar to what Trump would do if he had the powers.

Weird thing is that I actually tutored Billy Mumy when we were in high school.

 

[shemp]

What a surprise!

https://bsky.app/profile/patriottakes.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3mhqv2xllt22s

 

[shemp]

Totally a coincidence.

Volume in stock and oil futures surged minutes before Trump's market-turning post

The timing of the earlier volume spikes — across both equities and crude — caught the attention of traders.

www.cnbc.com

• At around 6:50 a.m. in New York, S&P 500 e-Mini futures trading on the CME recorded a sharp and isolated jump in volume.
• A similar pattern was observed in oil markets.
• Roughly 15 minutes later, at 7:05 a.m., Trump posted a market-moving announcement about Iran on Truth Social.

S&P 500 futures and oil futures flashed an unusual burst of activity early Monday minutes before a market-moving social media post from President Donald Trump.

At around 6:50 a.m. in New York, S&P 500 e-Mini futures trading on the CME recorded a sharp and isolated jump in volume, breaking from an otherwise subdued premarket backdrop. With thin liquidity typical of early trading hours, the sudden burst stood out as one of the largest volume moments of the session up to that point.

A similar pattern was observed in oil markets. West Texas Intermediate May futures also saw a noticeable pickup in trading activity at roughly the same time, with a distinct volume spike interrupting otherwise quiet conditions.


Roughly 15 minutes later, at 7:05 a.m., Trump said on Truth Social that the U.S. and Iran had held talks and that he was halting planned strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure. That announcement prompted an instant rally in risk assets, with S&P 500 futures soaring more than 2.5% before the opening bell. West Texas Intermediate futures dropped nearly 6% following the announcement.

 

[Regnad Kcin]

Remember, the dems were prepared to fund TSA, but it failed along party lines.

If only the Democrats were a little more (i.e. at all whatsoever) interested in and able to inform the populace about that.

Or really, any matter of importance.
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[BillC]

BREAKING: Peter Hegseth soon to be thrown under the bus:

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[Safe-Keeper]

So now it's his fault? Didn't Obama start this way half a century ago when he was a kid in Chicago? Or was it because Iran suddenly were a week away from having a nuke, even though Dump also promised he bombed that program into the stone age? Or, wait, wasn't it to save the Iranian people, since, you know, Dump cares so much about brown people in Islamic countries?

Seriously, how the cult can worship this idiot like a god continues to elude me.

 

[jimbob]

Seriously, how the cult can worship this idiot like a god continues to elude me.

Not joking, if your fourth word was a typo, it would explain it.

Cluster B personality traits.

Group B personality disorders have a consistently dysfunctional pattern of dramatic, overly emotional thinking or unpredictable behavior. They include: