Trump's Second Term

Aridas said:
Maybe so. At last check, the existing agreements pointedly try to guard against abuses, either way, which comprises of a major potential hurdle. Driving local producers out of business by flooding the markets with excess production can create security concerns, regardless.



I strongly hesitate to attribute Trump's words and claims to ignorance. He is friggin' stupid, going by the evidence, but the whole Canada thing screams out intentional malice, with stupidity only even potentially in a supporting role there.



Imagine is a fine song and invokes a fine ideal. What Trump is acting towards is a horrible caricature of that, at very best.



As with Trump, I hesitate to attribute Musk's BS to ignorance, especially when he keeps pushing it despite it certainly having been made clear, repeatedly, that it's BS. Intentional malice fits far better than ignorance. That leads to the assessment that rather than simply passively not trusting, he should be active distrusted and his words dismissed with prejudice. It's possible that he can tell truths, of course, but his words should be actively removed from any determination of truth.



Sometimes, they're even correct, of course. In this case, though, we have a very deservedly convicted felon who only avoided a lot more really deserved convictions by being elected and those stumping for him tossing about claims like that, which makes it much harder to categorize as simply a more normal losing party thing.
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With fascists, I'm increasingly finding that the saying should be "Don't attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice".
 
Donald says his people want to call his $5 million immigration cards “the Trump card”

“For years we allowed our country to be raped and pillaged, we’ve been the fat dumb foolish country”

Asked about the possibility of a recession, Trump claims the country was “finished” if he wasn’t elected.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1902504689486246358
 
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Andy_Ross said:
Donald says his people want to call his $5 million immigration cards “the Trump card”

“For years we allowed our country to be raped and pillaged, we’ve been the fat dumb foolish country”

Asked about the possibility of a recession, Trump claims the country was “finished” if he wasn’t elected.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1902504689486246358
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Nah, he isn't a malignant narcissist.

But I am open to calling the $5 million immigration card the Fat, Dumb, Foolish Trump card.
 
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Andy_Ross said:
TRUMP: “Putin actually said to me, ‘If you don’t mind, friend, I hate to see you as my enemy.’ He said it very strongly. I had a very good relationship with Putin. I had a very good relationship with President Xi. A very good relationship with Kim Jong Un”

Also taking in trillions of dollars from tariffs.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1902320166483931553
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To put it another way, "We really know how to play you, 'friend'!
 
Andy_Ross said:
Leavitt: “It's incredibly apparent that there is a concerted effort by the far left to judge shop — to pick judges who are clearly acting as partisan activists from the bench in an attempt to derail this president's agenda.”
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I refer you back to stanfr's comment, "I'm frankly surprised Leavitt's head doesn't spontaneously combust from the irony of her statements."
 
The State Department has ended funding for the tracking of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and American officials or contractors might have deleted a database with information on them, according to a letter U.S. lawmakers sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday.
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Donald on Judges again.
How long until Judges are in jail?
It keeps ratcheting

@realDonaldTrump
If a President doesn't have the right to throw murderers, and other criminals, out of our Country because a Radical Left Lunatic Judge wants to assume the role of President, then our Country is in very big trouble, and destined to fail!
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This is scary behaviour: a president who thinks he should have the right to do anything at all without constraint.

He is quite obviously ignoring the fact the judicial and executive branches are separate for as reason.
 
As of the close of the day on March 19, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -312.

19 March 2025
-1: Headline: U.S. suspends some efforts to counter Russian sabotage as Trump moves closer to Putin (CBC)
-1: Headline: Trump freezes $175 million in federal funding to Penn [due to trans athlete 3 years ago] (thedp.com)
-1: Leavitt calls for the Supreme Court to "reign in activist judges" [90]
-1: Leavitt suggests deportations will continue despite court rulings against them [91]
-1: Leavitt, in a case of the pot calling the kettle black, bemoans the Democrats for judge shopping [92]
-1: Marjorie Taylor Green says the Gulf of Mexico is "our gulf" [93]
-1: Headline: GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors (LGTBQ Nation)
-1: US A-G Pam Bondi says judge has no right to ask questions [94]
-1: Trump rails on judges again, ignoring the fact there's a reason the judicial branch is separate from the executive [95]
-1: Trump: “For years we allowed our country to be raped and pillaged, we’ve been the fat dumb foolish country.”
-1: Asked about the possibility of a recession, Trump claims the country was “finished” if he wasn’t elected (via X)
-1: Headline: Trump Administration Ends Tracking of Kidnapped Ukrainian Children in Russia (New York Times)

References

90. Leavitt: "It's incumbent on the Supreme Court to rein in these activist judges. These partisan activists are undermining the judicial branch."

91. Leavitt: "Americans can absolutely expect to see the continuation of the mass deportation campaign ... the judges in this country are acting erroneously."

92. Leavitt: “It's incredibly apparent that there is a concerted effort by the far left to judge shop — to pick judges who are clearly acting as partisan activists from the bench in an attempt to derail this president's agenda.”

93. Marjorie Taylor Green: "President Trump has endorsed my Gulf of America Act to prevent any potential name changes under a future Democrat regime. The American people are footing the bill to protect and secure the Gulf's maritime waterways for commerce to be conducted. Our U.S. armed forces protect the area from any military threats from foreign countries. It's our gulf. The rightful name is the Gulf of America and it's what the entire world should refer to it as."

94. Bondi: "This judge has no right to ask those questions. The judge had no business, no power to do what he did. This judge had no right to do that." (Quote from a video clip and I didn't watch it to determine which judge or what questions.)

95. Trump: "If a President doesn't have the right to throw murderers, and other criminals, out of our Country because a Radical Left Lunatic Judge wants to assume the role of President, then our Country is in very big trouble, and destined to fail!"
 
Blue Mountain said:
Donald on Judges again.
How long until Judges are in jail?
It keeps ratcheting


This is scary behaviour:
a president who thinks he should have the right to do anything at all without constraint.
He is quite obviously ignoring the fact the judicial and executive branches are separate for as reason.
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So far, this has proven to be correct.
 
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