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Trump's Second Term

Explorer said:
After 3 year's of America's proxy war against Russian aggression in Ukraine, is the new POTUS after his deeds and words yesterday, essentially, a proxy defector?
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He is, as he has always been, an easily manipulated useful idiot (in the Russian sense, as well as to other manipulators).

For some reason, his voters are unable to comprehend this fact. But they are always able to convince themselves that his utterly stupid decisions are actually the best possible outcomes. Or they are simply liars.
 
Putin is the Most Christian King - anything vaguely LGBTQ+ is illegal.
If only Trump could arrest them like Putin does, the US could be as successful as Russia.
 
The Don said:
IMO the big issue is that a majority of the US electorate (those who voted for him and those who couldn't be bothered to turn out), every single GOP Senator and Congressperson and a tiny minority of Democratic Senators and Congresspeople are perfectly fine with this.

As long as they get their bread and circuses, they'll be happy.
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Another big issue is that Dump, even while dismantling the American government and all power, he still enjoys as high an approval rating as he does. It's holding steady when it should have been plummeting.
 
Regarding ongoing Russian aggression, I think some of you are assuming Russia is a rational actor. Throughout the war we have seen many places where the people making the decisions (esp Putin) are being fed industrial quantities of BS.
Anyway back to ChrisO_Wiki
Russia is reported to have offered lucrative oil and gas concessions as a sweetener to get the Trump negotiating team to agree a favourable deal over Ukraine in Riyadh.
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ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social)

1/ Russia is reported to have offered lucrative oil and gas concessions as a sweetener to get the Trump negotiating team to agree a favourable deal over Ukraine in Riyadh. ⬇️
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Kindergarten age kids are being taught to throw grenades, and elements of trench warfare:
if the programme continues (and there is no indication that it will not), it should ensure that from the late 2020s and through the 2030s, the Russian army will get a steady stream of fanatical recruits, enabling Putin to generate the manpower needed for new wars.
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ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social)

1/ Russian kindergarteners are being taught to throw grenades, navigate trenches, weave camouflage nets, and go through obstacle courses, as part of an increasingly intensive programme to train the next generation of Russians for war. ⬇️
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Aridas said:
Rather like the Bush era sabotage of the USPS. Speaking of the USPS, though...

US postmaster to step down months after reporting billions in losses
Louis DeJoy, who has headed US Postal Service since 2020, warned in November of potential ‘end of this organization’

**** you, DeJoy.
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some day, someone will explain to me how biden was completely powerless to do anything about dejoy and he was just allowed to destroy the usps, but trump can fire half the government in a week
 
Norman Alexander said:
But how will Amazon packages get delivered??!
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Around my way they apparently employ illiterate ninjas who sneak into my back garden undetected while I'm home cleverly avoiding the "Parcel Box By Back Door" sign, WiFi camera and doorbell then fade back into the night leaving my parcels in the rain next to the big waterproof plastic box with "Parcel Box" on it in florescent letter. Perhaps you could get ex-Special Forces to do that once Musk's replaced them with Terminators?
 
Ziggurat said:
He doesn't have unchecked power. He has done nothing to expand the power of the executive branch. What he has done is consolidate power within the executive branch, but that was always supposed to be the case. The executive branch wasn't supposed to be ruled by a class of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats.

Indeed. Which is why I'm fine with the President being in actual control of the executive branch.

Yes. Nothing he's doing now suggests he won't.
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When he suggests a third term, that counts as a suggestion.
 
The Don said:
IMO the big issue is that a majority of the US electorate (those who voted for him and those who couldn't be bothered to turn out), every single GOP Senator and Congressperson and a tiny minority of Democratic Senators and Congresspeople are perfectly fine with this.

As long as they get their bread and circuses, they'll be happy.
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It's this type of totally partisan fact free hyperbole that keeps the lefties out of power! At least one republican senator has said she has some concern about one of Trump's EOs!
 
Blue Mountain said:
0: Executive Order: Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies
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Probably should be a -1. Arbitrarily seizing power over purposefully independent agencies is not actually a good thing.

Elsewhere -

DOJ Prosecution Chief Resigns After Being Ordered to Seize a Bank Account Without Probable Cause

Law and Order!

USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them.

More move fast and break stuff!

Musk sabotages FOIA Requests -- by spitefully Firing the Staff who Process FOIA Requests at OPM

Transparency in government? Government waste!
 
TragicMonkey said:
Now, now, let's settle this empirically. RFK should drink gallon after gallon of this glypostate stuff until some firm medical evidence emerges. Then we'll know! There's just so much advanced science done with autopsies these days, it's amazing! #DiscoverTheTruth #Empiricism #KennedysDrinkStuff #JCPenneySale #RFKAroundFindOut
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Let's study the effects on Musk of being thrown from an airplane at 10 000 feet with a malfunctioning parachute.
Dump will be the control group. He'll get no parachute.
 
Blue Mountain said:
39: RFK Jr: “Some of the possible factors we will investigate were formerly taboo or insufficiently scrutinized: a childhood vaccine schedule, electromagnetic radiation, glyphosate, other pesticides, ultra-processed foods, artificial food additives, SSRIs and other psychiatric drugs, PFAs, PFOAs, microplastics—nothing is going to be off limits.”
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Here are two more for RFK Jr: Covid-19 and lackluster vaccination levels against it. The WHO wrote, "The latest edition of the World Health Statistics released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic reversed the trend of steady gain in life expectancy at birth and healthy life expectancy at birth (HALE). The pandemic wiped out nearly a decade of progress in improving life expectancy within just two years. Between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy dropped by 1.8 years to 71.4 years (back to the level of 2012). Similarly, global healthy life expectancy dropped by 1.5 years to 61.9 years in 2021 (back to the level of 2012)."

"US losses during the pandemic were more severe than in peer countries and disproportionately involved young and middle-aged adults, especially adults of this age in racialized populations." link
 
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This is the kind of person Donald wants to make a treaty with

Lavrov: “We don’t agree to stop attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure because we never attacked it.

Zelensky must be constrained so he doesn’t attack us.”
 
The Don said:
Why isn't there a whimper of contradiction (much less screams of outrage) over this from the GOP, senior military figures, the Democratic Party, anyone ?
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Are we 100% sure this isn't faked? It's not that I don't believe it's possible, but such an admission is so blatant I want to be sure.
 
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