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Trump's Second Term

Andy_Ross said:
BARTIROMO: So you're willing to break the Constitution and have President Trump have a third term?

REP. ANDY OGLES: I actually have a bill that amends the Constitution and there's a process by which you can do that ... we have a lot of support in the House

https://twitter.com/x/status/1928085682129363441
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Fat chance making that amendment part of the Constitution, but they're welcome to try.
 
Via Aaron Rapur on Bluesky:

Karolyn Leavitt said:
The courts should have no role here. There is a troubling & dangerous trend of unelected judges inserting themselves into the presidential decision making process. America cannot function if President Trump has his sensitive diplomatic or trade negotiations railroaded by activist judges.
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Except the American system of Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches was set up exactly for that purpose!

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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Leavitt: The courts should have no role here. There is a troubling & dangerous trend of unelected judges inserting themselves into the presidential decision making process. America cannot function if President Trump has his sensitive diplomatic or trade negotiations railroaded by activist judges.
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(Her quote appears twice because I want to preserve it in case it disappears from Bluesky, and there's a link to Bluesky because it's the source for what I've posted.)
 
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Blue Mountain said:
Via Aaron Rapur on Bluesky:



Except the American system of Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches was set up exactly for that purpose!

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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Leavitt: The courts should have no role here. There is a troubling & dangerous trend of unelected judges inserting themselves into the presidential decision making process. America cannot function if President Trump has his sensitive diplomatic or trade negotiations railroaded by activist judges.
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(Her quote appears twice because I want to preserve it in case it disappears from Bluesky, and there's a link to Bluesky because it's the source for what I've posted.)
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Guess Trump will just have to declare a dictatorship.
 
Leavitt: "The courts should have no role here. There is a troubling and dangerous trend of unelected judges inserting themselves into the presidential decision making process. America cannot function if President Trump or any other president has their sensitive diplomatic or trade negotiations railroaded by activist judges."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1928139988752887890
 
Looking more authoritarian by the day. Free countries do not tell universities what they should and should not research.

US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said:
Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish.
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
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Leavitt says the U.S. Court of international trade abused it's power to "usurp the authority of President Trump" to stop him from carrying out his mandate.
 
They fled their home countries to report from the safety of the U.S. Now, they fear they're in danger

cbc.ca said:
Radio Free Asia journalists could be deported as Trump targets democracy-promoting programs

An ongoing U.S. retreat from defending liberal democracy has left some allies in danger of being exposed, stranded on a metaphorical battlefield.

Under U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-nosed foreign policy, unapologetically based on profit, not principle, multiple democracy-promotion tools are being dismantled.

This includes Radio Free Asia (RFA), which is being defunded. Created in the aftermath of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, it reports in nine Asian languages, using web sites, social media and short-wave radio to get news to audiences with limited access to uncensored media.

With most of its U.S.-based staff laid off, some RFA employees who report from the safety of Washington. D.C., now risk losing not only their jobs but also their work visas and could face deportation to an uncertain future in their homelands.
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Full story at the CBC
 
Andy_Ross said:
Leavitt on Canada: "The president has certainly expressed to the Canadians how we are essentially subsidizing their national defense... as you know, we'll be traveling to Canada next month for the G7, so I expect that topic of discussion to come up on that trip as well."
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Meanwhile:

Mark Carney during an interview with the CBC said:
Seventy-five cents of every dollar of capital spending for defence goes to the United States. That's not very smart.
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Full story at the CBC
 
MinnesotaBrant said:
I agree with this Asian guy's assessment of DEI. Have seen evidence that goes beyond that but living in America you can't even talk about it I believe. I personally benefit from it however at this stage of my life. One thing he fails to realize is that he is a working class stiff and there is no virtue in that going to the ivy leagues. Mostly they don't want low class anybody regardless of race. They are there but usually not at the top. My daughter might end up in Japan too. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...1&cvid=9291b970ea034a5791088aa5b2811fc1&ei=14
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Most medical schools accept less than 10 percent of applicants, so scoring in the 90th percentile is actually somewhat low for getting accepted into a medical school.
Blue Mountain said:
I have read the article.

To start, Saivikram Madireddy is no intellectual lightweight. According to the piece, he scored in the 90th percentile on the Medical College Admission Test, “with a near-perfect score in each of the three science sections — biology, chemistry and physics, and psychology and sociology.” He's made it though pre-med and medical school, and has conducted research in neurology. His name appears on a paper titled “The Interplay between Neurotransmitters and Calcium Dynamics in Retinal Synapses during Development, Health, and Disease.”

In the article he blames DEI for several things in his education and early career:
  • He applied to 75 medical schools but was accepted only by one of them. I have no idea if this is normal or not.
  • He writes, “Only three other schools even offered to interview me, almost certainly reflecting the unfair standard to which Asians are held thanks to DEI.” (Bolding mine; Madireddy is the son of immigrants from India.) This appears to be speculation.
  • He completed the Step 1 test for US Medical Licensing in 2022. But instead of receiving a numerical score, candidates are told only that they passed or failed. So not even the candidate knows if he hit the top ranks or barely squeaked by, a situation he blames on DEI “activists.”
  • He took the Step 2 test in 2023. He didn't do as well as he would have liked, but feels it put him into an excellent position to get a residency. Yet he received very few responses to the 50-plus positions he applied to. Again, I have no idea if this is normal or not.
  • He passed over two residency offers from the University of Tennessee, where he had studied medicine, as he felt future employers would think he “couldn't succeed without home field advantage.”
  • He writes, “I spoke with numerous students of different races who had scored lower than me but got better residencies. That’s exactly what’s supposed to happen under DEI.”
  • He was offered a residency at the University of Tokyo School of Medicine after presenting a research paper in Germany, for which he won an award, and later presenting a paper (the same one?) in Osaka.
Reading between the lines, he comes across to me as someone with an ego that is perhaps too large compared to his academic achievements. What he blames on diversity, equity, and inclusion could be merely be that he's not as good as he thinks he is.

Curiously, I see DEI as a program that's supposed to be helping him, given that he's a from a visible minority. But it could well be that he's correct. He's a researcher and doctor just starting his career, but medical schools are giving preference to people other than white people and Asians/East Indians.
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A little off-topic, but the article inadvertantly points out a huge problem with the US medical system: there is a shortage of physicians and the shortage is not a result of a lack of qualified people wishing to become physicians. A little Googling found that most medical schools accept only 5-10 percent of applicants, so getting into any particular medical school with an MCAT score in the 90th percentile isn't a guarantee of getting into a top medical school.
 
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