Trump's Second Term

The mural with Dr. Fauci's portrait was removed from NIH. Dr. Fauci was never head of NIAID, and we have always been at war with Eastasia.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
'Every accusation...' as they say. Do you suppose Trump actually reads documents before he mashes his sharpie on them?
Click to expand...
Someone should tell him that in the past kings had a fancy seal and someone official to carry it. He'd love that, provided it were very gaudy and golden.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Trump on his unconstitutional assertion that Biden's pardons are null and void: "What they did was criminal."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1901647323051983100
Click to expand...
And of course when he orders the DOJ to investigate these people and bring charges we will have people telling us 'he can't do that' even when Hunter Biden and Doctor Fauci are sitting in a Federal penitentiary.
 
At the medicinal chemistry blog In the Pipeline Derek Lowe wrote, "No one has ever ripped into scientific funding like this. The Trump team has attacked it as if it were some evil imposed on us by an invading enemy, and the damage is so large and so widespread already that it’s hard to even explain... I could go on and on listing things, but let’s just say that if you were (for some bizarre reason) deliberately and suddenly trying to ruin biomedical research in the US, you would do it just like this."

I have been reading Derek Lowe for a number of years, and I take what he says very seriously.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
It's a bit more insidious than that. He's claiming that (in his opinion) the pardons were autosigned without Biden's understanding or consent. He's saying Biden was so senile his decisions were actually being made by others without authority.

His argument is not that it's invalid because it was autosigned, it's that it was autosigned because it's invalid.

'Every accusation...' as they say. Do you suppose Trump actually reads documents before he mashes his sharpie on them?
Click to expand...
Could he be considering if the next president can revoke earlier pardons, it becomes that much more important for whoever receives a pardon from Trump that they would want to keep Trump, or a Trump lackey, in office?
 
Jack by the hedge said:
It's a bit more insidious than that. He's claiming that (in his opinion) the pardons were autosigned without Biden's understanding or consent. He's saying Biden was so senile his decisions were actually being made by others without authority.

His argument is not that it's invalid because it was autosigned, it's that it was autosigned because it's invalid.
'Every accusation...' as they say. Do you suppose Trump actually reads documents before he mashes his sharpie on them?
Click to expand...
Ah. Yes, you may have that right. But I would be willing to bet that if he were asked for evidence that Biden was so senile that he had to leave decisions like the pardons to others who had no authority to make them, he would proffer the Autopen thing as that evidence. So, a stupid circular argument instead of a more straightforwardly idiotic one.
 
turingtest said:
Ah. Yes, you may have that right. But I would be willing to bet that if he were asked for evidence that Biden was so senile that he had to leave decisions like the pardons to others who had no authority to make them, he would proffer the Autopen thing as that evidence. So, a stupid circular argument instead of a more straightforwardly idiotic one.
Click to expand...
And it is also contradicted by the fact that Biden made public announcements about it.
 
(I shortened it a bit)
robertreich.substack.com

Robert Reich | Substack

Daily newsletter exposing where power lies — and how it's used and abused. Click to read Robert Reich, a Substack publication with millions of subscribers.
robertreich.substack.com robertreich.substack.com
the president does not follow court orders anymore
Friends, I cannot say this any other way: We are in deep ◊◊◊◊. These are truly scary and rough times. Trump appears at the Justice Department and calls for his opponents to be jailed. He “detains” students who have committed no crime but peacefully expressed their negative views about Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies in Gaza. He invokes the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to remove unauthorized immigrants, without evidence or hearing. Sides with Russia, China, and North Korea against Ukraine. Purges career officials and installs political hacks more loyal to him than to the United States. Fires inspectors general. Demotes senior prosecutors.

You have every right to feel depressed and enervated. You have every reason to despair. But wait. It’s possible that future generations will look back on this scourge and see something else — not just what was destroyed but also what was born. Even prior to Trump, our democracy was deeply flawed. The moneyed interests were drowning out everyone else. Inequality was reaching record levels. Corruption — legalized bribery through campaign contributions — was the political norm (Musk is the logical ending point). The bottom 90 percent were getting nowhere because the system was rigged against them. It’s entirely possible that future generations will look back on this awful time and see the seeds of fundamental reform.

Many of you are leading this. In hundreds of thousands of ways, you are beacon lights. You are the beginnings of positive change. Whether it’s your appearances at Republican town halls, or your phone calls that are daily jamming the Capitol and White House switchboards, or your mountains of emails and letters, or your myriad actions protecting the vulnerable in your communities, or your grass-roots activism in Wisconsin and elsewhere: You are the groundswell of America’s new resistance, the green shoots of our future democracy. The backlash to Trump is growing. His disapproval ratings have jumped nearly 10 points since he was sworn in. People are flooding meetings and rallies, demanding an end to Trump and Musk’s reign. Bernie, AOC, and other progressive politicians are drawing huge crowds. These are terrible times — the worst I’ve lived through, and I’ve lived through some bad ones. (Remember 1968? Nixon’s enemies list? Anyone old enough to recall Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts?) But as long as we are alive, as long as we are resolved, as long as we are taking action to stop the worst of this, as long as we are trying to make America and the world even a bit better — have no doubt: We will triumph. What do you think?
Click to expand...

Rule 10 applies to quoted material in the same way as any other content on the forum. Do not partially mask curse words or otherwise seek to evade the autocensor in the public sections.
Replying to this modbox in thread will be off topic  Posted By: Agatha
 
Last edited by a moderator:
alfaniner said:
Yes, and I'm sure The POSOTUS signed each and every one of those January 6 Insurrectionist pardons with his own tiny hand. :cautious:
Click to expand...
As I wrote in another thread, he didn't even name them individually. Pres. Trump had no knowledge of who he was actually pardoning or for what offenses, save for the dozen or so named individuals that were given commutations and not pardons. There was great tumult in the media over why the prison doors didn't immediately spring open. And the answer to that is that the Dept. of Justice had to figure out who exactly the blanket order applied to and draw up a thousand or so certificates of clemency to the actual individuals.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
His argument is not that it's invalid because it was autosigned, it's that it was autosigned because it's invalid.
Click to expand...
Who could ever pin him down to specifics, but he did tweet, "The 'Pardons' that Sleepy Joe Biden gave . . . are hereby declared VOID. . . because of the fact that they were done by Autopen."
 
Donald declaring war on Iran

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
Let nobody be fooled! The hundreds of attacks being made by Houthi, the sinister mobsters and thugs based in Yemen, who are hated by the Yemeni people, all emanate from, and are created by, IRAN. Any further attack or retaliation by the "Houthis" will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there. Iran has played "the innocent victim" of rogue terrorists from which they've lost control, but they haven't lost control. They're dictating every move, giving them the weapons, supplying them with money and highly sophisticated Military equipment, and even, so-called, "Intelligence." Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!
DONALD J. TRUMP,
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Click to expand...
 
Leavitt:

"I'll quote Tom. He said, 'I don't care what the judges think.' But I can assure you that the administration is complying with the court order."

"We are encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport to maybe save themselves from being in one of these fun videos."

"There are actually questions about whether a verbal order carries the same weight as a written order" on court orders and Trump's compliance (or lack thereof) with them
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom