Trump's Second Term

dudalb said:
The chat leak scandal is not going away anytime soon. Bot the Majority and Minority heads of the Senate Intelgience commite want hearings on it.
I note that the intial sort of no big thing response from several Republican congressoinal critters is now being backed away from.
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Perhaps they are now smart enough to realise their only safe way out of the scum-sucking crew they joined is to be fired by the Toddler King. Spending time with family is preferable to spending time with a cell mate.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
I can see a rush of people trying to take advantage of this in the very near future.

"Your Orangeness, we have discovered a new snake oil formula against TDS and need money for research! Since you're such a bigly best leader, we plan to dye it orange and name it Drumpfium! This honour is yours for only $20 million dollars!"

Hope for America's budget's sake Drumpf's that handlers have parental controls enabled on his devices so they can keep track of what he does online and who he talks to.
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I think you may have got this the wrong way around. Trump has licensed his “47” to Boeing. If people want to call something Drumpfium they’ll need to licence it from Trump.
 
Segnosaur said:
The cynic in me is trying to figure out what angle the republicans are playing at.

We know that they have been quite happy to absolve Trump and the rest of his administration when they have been engaged in shenanigans. You would figure they would have followed the pattern and done their best to ignore things.

Do they think this is serious enough that ignoring it will cause too much bad publicity? Are they finally thinking "Trump needs to be controlled somehow" and are doing this to try to set limits? (I doubt very much that they are "investigating" this because they really think there is a problem.)
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I know this will come as a shock to you, but some in the GOP are genuinely concerned about US defense and Intelligence.
I despise what the GOP Has laregely become, but I think demonzing every member of the GOP serves no purpose but to drive them into the arms of Trump, when many, in private probably don't like a lot of what he is doing, which has little to do with classic conservatism.
 
The Hill is reporting that Trump is shifting ground on the Signal scandal; and has begun criticising Mike Waltz for his part.
I think Waltz should get his resume in order; If true, the necessary scapegoate is being prepared.
 
dudalb said:
I know this will come as a shock to you, but some in the GOP are genuinely concerned about US defense and Intelligence.
I despise what the GOP Has laregely become, but I think demonzing every member of the GOP serves no purpose but to drive them into the arms of Trump, when many, in private probably don't like a lot of what he is doing, which has little to do with classic conservatism.
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Yeah, that would sound great if it wasn’t for the many, many instances of the GOP bending over backwards for Trump’s agenda to the obvious detriment of the US and allies, such as Bill Cassidy, a doctor who apparently cares about vaccination, waving RFK Jr through, and Lindsay Graham and Marco Rubio apparently getting on board with Trump’s Putinist agenda.

I’ll believe the GOP can get a spine when I see one and not before.
 
dudalb said:
I know this will come as a shock to you, but some in the GOP are genuinely concerned about US defense and Intelligence.
I despise what the GOP Has laregely become, but I think demonzing every member of the GOP serves no purpose but to drive them into the arms of Trump, when many, in private probably don't like a lot of what he is doing, which has little to do with classic conservatism.
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that would come as a shock to me since they let a bunch of con men with a million ties to russia take the executive branch over because their rich donors told them to

and it’s asking too much to pretend otherwise. they’re the ones who ◊◊◊◊◊◊ this all up. not me.
 
Her arrest and visa revocation came after she voiced support for Palestinians in Gaza in an op-ed she co-authored in her student newspaper. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas”, a justification being denounced as a direct assault on academic freedom and the erosion of free speech and personal liberties.

In addressing her case specifically, Rubio said: “We revoked her visa ... once you’ve lost your visa, you’re no longer legally in the United States … if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don’t want it. We don’t want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country.”

But the visa-revocation campaign is just part of a broader, more aggressive deportation enforcement strategy that extends far beyond protest-related actions.
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I guess the First Amendment is cancelled. Or at least for non-citizens who write op-ed pieces that the government doesn’t like.

There will, no doubt, be plenty of hairsplitters at the ready to point out that well, ackshually, i don’t know if you have ever heard of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr…
 
dudalb said:
I know this will come as a shock to you, but some in the GOP are genuinely concerned about US defense and Intelligence.
I despise what the GOP Has laregely become, but I think demonzing every member of the GOP serves no purpose but to drive them into the arms of Trump, when many, in private probably don't like a lot of what he is doing, which has little to do with classic conservatism.
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If they know it's wrong, but are too chicken-◊◊◊◊ to speak up lest they be made unpersons among the true believers of the Cult of Trump®, then they're a huge part of the problem. I'd even argue that they're worse than the sycophants who worship Trump, because they know what he and his followers and hangers-on are doing wrong, but they aren't saying anything in objection to the ◊◊◊◊-show out of fear of what influence they might lose if they do.
 
dudalb said:
The cynic in me is trying to figure out what angle the republicans are playing at.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, but some in the GOP are genuinely concerned about US defense and Intelligence.
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Trump's first term had plenty of examples where Trump had harmed both the military, and the intelligence community. (Giving secret information to both Russia and Iran, taking money away from military projects to build a useless border wall, etc. Trump himself was compromised by Russia.

Republicans in congress had multiple occasions where they could have removed Trump and ensured he could never threaten national security again (Two impeachments for example), but they chose not to act. How much concern do they really have for national security if they are going to let trump continue in office after all of that?

Not to mention how senate republicans approved some pretty incompetent people for both the military and intelligence positions in his administration.
I despise what the GOP Has laregely become, but I think demonzing every member of the GOP serves no purpose but to drive them into the arms of Trump, when many, in private probably don't like a lot of what he is doing, which has little to do with classic conservatism.
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What is the use of a congress-critter complaining "in private" if, at the the end of the day, they still line up to support Trump?

I am sure they will be quite eager to "speak out" and stand against Trump... the moment they announce their resignation.
 
Professor David Cole (citation above) quoted James Madison: "t does not follow, because aliens are not parties to the Constitution, as citizens are parties to it, that whilst they actually conform to it, they have no right to its protection. Aliens are not more parties to the laws, than they are parties to the Con- stitution; yet it will not be disputed, that as they owe, on one hand, a temporary obedience, they are entitled, in return, to their protection and advantage."
 
3/4 of the American scientists responding to a survey by Nature magazine say that they are considering leaving the USA. The real number is probably somewhat lower because it would be expected (OK, I would expect) that disgruntled scientists would be more likely to respond to the survey (on the other hand, more than 40% of people in the USA who have a Ph.D. in a STEM field are foreign-born).

 
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Anybody who is not to the political left is evil. Got it.
\That seems to be dogma around here, and is another reason why I probably am not long for this site. It has become to oone sides for me.
 
dudalb said:
Anybody who is not to the political left is evil. Got it.
\That seems to be dogma around here, and is another reason why I probably am not long for this site. It has become to oone sides for me.
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I'd say "Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out" but I'm pretty sure you're not going anywhere.
 
dudalb said:
Anybody who is not to the political left is evil. Got it.
\That seems to be dogma around here, and is another reason why I probably am not long for this site. It has become to oone sides for me.
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Well, to nitpick...

I don't think people are saying "people on right are evil". They are saying "Republicans are evil". As The Lincoln Project shows, it is possible for someone to lean right politically but distance themselves from the republican party. The problem is, nobody in the republican party (at least within congress) seems interested in dealing with Trump.

A decade or 2 ago, a person might have been seen as a "principled" republican.... someone who was a member of the GOP but was still seen as a reasonable/rational person. But that all ended in 2016 with Trump (or a little earlier, with Moscow Mitch.)
 
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