Trump's Second Term

[Andy_Ross]

No more in-person town halls, NRCC chief tells House Republicans

The chair of the House GOP's campaign arm told Republican lawmakers Tuesday to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President Donald Trump's administration.

Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), the NRCC chair, delivered the message inside a closed-door meeting of House Republicans, according to three people granted anonymity to describe the private remarks.

Trump on Monday dismissed the town hall uproar — much of it trained on the sweeping cutbacks made by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency — as being the work of “paid ‘troublemakers.’” Many other GOP leaders have adopted a similar tack, asserting that the protests Republican lawmakers have encountered have been concocted by Democrats and do not reflect genuine voter anger over the Trump cuts.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/04/congress/gop-town-halls-richard-hudson-00210024

 

[Darat]

Another outright lie - but then again, every accusation is a confession.

Remember his first-ever public appearance at Trump tower to tell the world he was going to run for president? He hired actors for that.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Another possible "big news" item for Trump's speech tonight:
War with Canada. Not a trade war, but a violent war.

Rep. Carlos Gimenez on CNN alludes to military strikes on Canada: "Instead of taking kinetic action, he's taking economic action in order to protect American lives."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1896968970193805634

 

[alfaniner]

This thread moves so fast, sorry if this was already posted. (and, assuming it's real.)
I think this is gonna be bad.

 

[thaiboxerken]

Freedom of speech is only for speech that the Nazis approve of.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Smith on Fox - Trudeau comments: I don't know anybody that watched that saw somebody who is approaching this discussion respectfully. I think we saw this with Zelenskyy in the oval office and you don't think this is a guy coming in in a strong way to negotiate with President Trump.

Aaron Rupar "Trump could announce that he's rounding up everybody who voted for Joe Biden and sending them to Gitmo and the propagandists on Fox would unthinkingly defend it."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1896972793096626536

 

[LDE1976]

Mike Johnson always comes across like Brick Tamland asking whether Trump's opponents got their clothes from the toilet store.

 

[Carrot Flower King]

So I'm sure Vance and Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg and all will be along to tell The Donald that he can't stop protests because it interferes with freedom of speech Which Is Holy.

Any moment now...Just about now...

 

[Pacal]

I can't name a single Canadian bank.

Lets see ... The Laurentian Bank, Bank of Montreal, TD Bank, Commerce, Bank of Nova Scotia.

 

[Tero]

A Threads poster was hopeful about peaceful protests.
Me: Well, not exactly, Brian. In the next year Trump will kill somebody. And get away with it being presidential duties.

 

[thaiboxerken]

Cosplay Kristi is at it again. This is stranger than fiction.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Rep. Dan Meuser claims Martin Luther King Jr is "rolling in his grave" when people say Elon Musk should go back to Africa

 

[thaiboxerken]

Rep. Dan Meuser claims Martin Luther King Jr is "rolling in his grave" when people say Elon Musk should go back to Africa

The Nazis keep trying to claim MLK Jr. as someone that would stand with them, no one believes it, not even them.

 

[Andy_Ross]

More on the purges.

AG Bondi: "There are a lot of people in the FBI and also in the DOJ who despise Donald Trump, despise us, don't want to be there. We will find them. Because you have to believe in transparency, you have to believe in honesty, you have to do the right thing. We're gonna root them out and they will no longer be employed."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1896753241381101649

 

[Andy_Ross]

The Nazis keep trying to claim MLK Jr. as someone that would stand with them, no one believes it, not even them.

It's interesting that he hears "Go back to Africa" and instantly thinks of MLK, Jr.

 

[Garrison]

So has Vance explained where these '20,000 random troops' he was so scathing about are actually supposed to be from? I mean he's insisting now that he didn't mean Britain (though obviously he absolutely meant Britain), so where is this country that hasn't fought a war in 30-40 years? I suppose it might be Germany but I'm pretty sure everyone in Europe was thrilled Germany didn't fight a major war for a few decades.

 

[Garrison]

More on the purges.

AG Bondi: "There are a lot of people in the FBI and also in the DOJ who despise Donald Trump, despise us, don't want to be there. We will find them. Because you have to believe in transparency, you have to believe in honesty, you have to do the right thing. We're gonna root them out and they will no longer be employed."

There are two groups of such people, those who've heard him, and those who've met him.

 

[Resume]

More on the purges.

AG Bondi: "There are a lot of people in the FBI and also in the DOJ who despise Donald Trump, despise us, don't want to be there. We will find them. Because you have to believe in transparency, you have to believe in honesty, you have to do the right thing. We're gonna root them out and they will no longer be employed."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1896753241381101649

They likely despise you as well, Bondi.

 

[Segnosaur]

I can't name a single Canadian bank.

Lets see ... The Laurentian Bank, Bank of Montreal, TD Bank, Commerce, Bank of Nova Scotia.

Also, the royal bank.

It should also be noted that at least some of these banks actually do business in the United States. (Heck, I think the arena in Boston is called TD Garden after TD bank.)

 

[Andy_Ross]

Sen. Schmitt on tariffs: "The truth of the matter of what's going on with Canada is they have been ripping us off for generations and they've gotten away with it."