Trump's Second Term

[Mike!]

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Apparently there's little to no evidence Barron ever tried to get into Harvard.

 

[Mojo]

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Sigh. There is practically no evidence Barron even applied to Harvard, let alone was rejected.

Fact Check: Trump's son Barron was rejected by Harvard.

The claim that Barron Trump was rejected by Harvard is demonstrably false. Multiple sources confirm that Barron Trump never even applied to Harvard [1] [2]...

factually.co

Unpacking claim Barron Trump was rejected from Harvard, Columbia, Stanford

Claims about Barron Trump being rejected from various universities spread amid his father's threats to withhold federal funding from the institutions.

www.snopes.com

I dislike it when a site that's supposed to be dedicated to skeptical thinking approves of nonsense without fact-checking it first. That goes for Andy Ross, who posted it, and the five who liked it.

Fair enough. Suitably chastised. It was perhaps a little too good to be true.

 

[Mojo]

But I guess the first picture alone is explanation enough.

 

[turingtest]

TAPPER: You oversaw an investigation into Biden's ties to his son Hunter's questionable business dealings. You seemed to think it was your responsibility to look into this sort of thing then.

MIKE JOHNSON: Important distinction -- the Biden crime family earned that title ... President Trump does everything out in the open.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1926630729481404538

I was curious to know what else he said, in that area indicated by the ellipsis. Here's his fuller answer:

The big important distinction, the Biden crime family, as they were named, earned that title. Why? Because they use shell companies, fake LLCs, a series of what appeared to be money laundering operation. And Hunter Biden, of course, with his difficult past and the corruption in his past, the family on the public dole, or on the president’s dole. You know, the president lied about his involvement in the business dealings, all of that. The evidence just piled up. The difference, of course, is that President Trump does everything out in the open. He’s not trying to hide anything. There’s no shell companies or fake LLCs or fake family businesses. He’s putting it out there so everybody can evaluate for themselves.

Which doesn't actually make his answer any better. "The evidence just piled up" is (deliberately, I'm sure) misleading, since it never "piled up"
into anything that resembled any basis for the GOP to act upon either legally or politically. Now it could be that knowing the identity of the attendees at Trump's dinner would similarly add up to nothing. The thrust of Tapper's question was that you wouldn't know that unless you put the same effort into investigating it as you did into investigating the Bidens- or at least some effort. I mean, gosh- maybe you could just ask "the most transparent president in the most-transparent administration" who was there? Then, yeah- everybody can evaluate for themselves.

So the basic thrust is still the same- the "big important distinction" for Johnson is not between the possible corruptions involved, but between whether it's hidden, which is not kosher, and whether it's blatant, which is apparently ok as long as you turn your face away from it.

 

[Aridas]

So the basic thrust is still the same- the "big important distinction" for Johnson is not between the possible corruptions involved, but between whether it's hidden, which is not kosher, and whether it's blatant, which is apparently ok as long as you turn your face away from it.

“It's not the crime, it's the cover-up” handled with the GOP's usual perversion of principle and applied only when it suits them.

 

[Mike!]

This is making the rounds on FB, what's true and what's false?

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Seems pretty edgy and short on actual info, insight, or sources. Maybe this is just mansplaining, but

The election one seems particularly spurious to me, elections are protected by the Constitution.
Ignoring SCOTUS rulings? He already does that.
Hasn't DOGE & Co. been firing government workers since January?
Judges are already being ignored, then again I'm no lawyer so I'll leave it to others to answer.
I don't know 'protests can be tracked' is even supposed to refer to that isn't already being done. Protests criminalized? Peaceful protesters are already beaten up in the States. I don't know if getting a criminal record in addition is going to make much of a difference there, then again I'm not an expert.
LGBTQ+ rights etc. are already being suppressed.
Not sure what 'VPN tracked' is supposed to mean either. That the government will somehow track you even though you use a VPN? That VPN providers will cooperate with authorities if asked for your Internet browsing logs?
Would be nice if it went into some detail about how votes will be suppressed (more than today?) and how your speech will be 'flagged', too.

'This bill makes it so that the courts can't stop him!'
Yeah, he's already ignoring the courts, so.

 

[Mojo]

The election one seems particularly spurious to me, elections are protected by the Constitution.

Trump wipes his arse with the ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ Constitution.

 

[Resume]

What the ◊◊◊◊ is wrong with this guy?

US president Donald Trump has delivered yet another bizarre speech, which is making headlines this week, after the Republican addressed graduating cadets at the US Military Academy at West Point and decided to talk about irrelevant topics such as golf, Al Capone and “trophy wives”.

The convicted felon, who sported a red MAGA cap for the event on Saturday, also broke from tradition and opted not to stay and shake the hands of every graduate at the ceremony – unlike his predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

Twitter/X users have since criticised Trump's actions, with TikToker and political commentator Harry Sisson condemning the president’s decision as “disgraceful”:

I know I know I know . . . a lot.

 

[Mojo]

What the ◊◊◊◊ is wrong with this guy?

I think, on the whole, it's his total lack of any redeeming features.

 

[Mojo]

Anyway, why should he shake hands with a bunch of losers who couldn't even get out of military service?

 

[P.J. Denyer]

jsbrown44
Just a few idiotic things Trump said to West Point cadets yesterday…“"No one wanted to join the military under Biden". - Donald Trump, addressing the West Point graduating class, all of whom began their training during the Biden administration.”

Yes, but he did give them valuable information about trophy wives (is Melania 'participation'?) and advice on building a house from discarded nails, screws and bolts and offcuts scraps of wood. Still, Biden was old.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

You can't expect him to figure that out, he hasn't had his remedial maths classes.

Is there a class he could take to bring him up to speed for remedial maths?

 

[P.J. Denyer]

So stab someone behind closed doors, that's a crime. Do it on the street and that wouldn't be a crime?

Absolutely, it's like shooting someone on 5th Avenue, totally fine.

 

[Resume]

 

[shemp]

No one who tries to enter the U.S. is safe.

‘I’m not a criminal’: Military wife detained, deported at Honolulu airport

U.S. border officials denied entry for Nicolle Saroukos, who says she was "treated like a criminal."

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Nicolle Saroukos of Sydney, Australia, was looking forward last Sunday to a three-week vacation in Honolulu with her mom.

“That’s where my mother and father had their honeymoon, so it held a very like sentimental place in her heart,” Saroukos, 25, said.

It was Saroukos’ third visit to see her husband, Matt, a U.S. Army lieutenant stationed on Oahu. The newlyweds married last December.

She said she hadn’t had issues before, but this time U.S. border officials at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport flagged her for additional screening.

The official checking their passports “went from completely composed to just yelling at the top of his lungs, telling my mother to go stand at the back of the line and to excuse my language, ‘shut up,’” Saroukos recalled.

“So I automatically started crying because that was my first response,” she said.

Saroukos said they were then taken to a holding room, their bags and phones were searched, and they were asked a slew of questions — everything from her work as a former police officer to whether her tattoos were gang-related to her marriage to an American.

“When I did say that I was married to somebody in the U.S. Army, the officers laughed at me. They thought it was quite comical. I don’t know whether they thought I was telling the truth or not,” she said.

“They kept telling me that I had too many clothes in my suitcase. So because of that, they assumed that I was going to overstay my visa,” she said.

Saroukos was subject to more screening. Her fingerprints and a DNA swab of her mouth were taken.

Meanwhile, her mother was free to go.

Saroukos said her heart sank when officials told her she would be declined entry to the U.S. and deported back to Australia the next day.

All other nations should issue travel warnings to their citizens that it is not safe to travel to the U.S. They are in more danger from DHS than they are from street criminals.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

No one who tries to enter the U.S. is safe.

‘I’m not a criminal’: Military wife detained, deported at Honolulu airport

U.S. border officials denied entry for Nicolle Saroukos, who says she was "treated like a criminal."

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

All other nations should issue travel warnings to their citizens that it is not safe to travel to the U.S. They are in more danger from DHS than they are from street criminals.

No, don't worry, I have it from several people that it's totally okay that they suddenly started screaming at her and threw her in jail overnight because... She had packed too many articles of clothing, which they took to mean she might overstay her VISA.

The cruelty is the point, I guess.

 

[dirtywick]

don't forget the part where they cavity searched her

 

[Aridas]

Seems pretty edgy and short on actual info, insight, or sources. Maybe this is just mansplaining, but

The election one seems particularly spurious to me, elections are protected by the Constitution.
Ignoring SCOTUS rulings? He already does that.
Hasn't DOGE & Co. been firing government workers since January?
Judges are already being ignored, then again I'm no lawyer so I'll leave it to others to answer.
I don't know 'protests can be tracked' is even supposed to refer to that isn't already being done. Protests criminalized? Peaceful protesters are already beaten up in the States. I don't know if getting a criminal record in addition is going to make much of a difference there, then again I'm not an expert.
LGBTQ+ rights etc. are already being suppressed.
Not sure what 'VPN tracked' is supposed to mean either. That the government will somehow track you even though you use a VPN? That VPN providers will cooperate with authorities if asked for your Internet browsing logs?
Would be nice if it went into some detail about how votes will be suppressed (more than today?) and how your speech will be 'flagged', too.

'This bill makes it so that the courts can't stop him!'
Yeah, he's already ignoring the courts, so.

Honestly, I haven't been going over all the alarm bells being rung about the bill, but several of the things listed do seem to match up with claims in question. The Judges can't enforce their own orders one, for example? It's likely referring to an attempted change of rules about the how courts even could enforce rulings. This is notably wider in scope than just as pertains to the Trump Administration directly.

As poked at by Tragic Monkey in post 16,672 -

'Hidden' Provision in Trump's Big Bill Could Disarm US Supreme Court

"No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued," the provision in the bill, which is more than 1,000 pages long, says.

The provision "would make most existing injunctions—in antitrust cases, police reform cases, school desegregation cases, and others—unenforceable," Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, told Newsweek. "It serves no purpose but to weaken the power of the federal courts."

Yeah, checks out plenty well enough to say what was said.

The points you raised likely aren't really wrong, I'd say, and the questions aren't wrong to ask, but the sheer level of attempted sabotage contained in that bill and MAGA's record makes it difficult to actually meaningfully dispute the claims without more specifically seeking out what's referred to and addressing it directly. That's just how traitorous the current GOP is.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Honestly, I haven't been going over all the alarm bells being rung about the bill, but several of the things listed do seem to match up with claims in question. The Judges can't enforce their own orders one, for example? It's likely referring to an attempted change of rules about the how courts even could enforce rulings. This is notably wider in scope than just as pertains to the Trump Administration directly.

As poked at by Tragic Monkey in post 16,672 -

'Hidden' Provision in Trump's Big Bill Could Disarm US Supreme Court



Yeah, checks out plenty well enough to say what was said.

The points you raised likely aren't really wrong, I'd say, and the questions aren't wrong to ask, but the sheer level of attempted sabotage contained in that bill and MAGA's record makes it difficult to actually meaningfully dispute the claims without more specifically seeking out what's referred to and addressing it directly. That's just how traitorous the current GOP is.

Thanks for putting the E in ISF.
Ehm... Okay, maybe we need to rethink that one.