Trump's Second Term

[Norman Alexander]

What the heck would Trump know about ballroom dancing? Does he think his "Locomotion" moves are suave?

 

[The Great Zaganza]

He's more of a Traditional YMCA guy

 

[Andy_Ross]

You're missing a "doesn't" there after the that. Even up to the 50s it was very common to call association football soccer in England.

Not in my neck of the woods. As a kid in the 60s and early 70s we would call it 'footie' occasionally.

Similarly we never said 'rugger' for rugby.

 

[LDE1976]

In keeping with the size of his balls, this ballroom should be the size of a small broom closet.

That's still too mushroom.




It works better in spoken form.

 

[Tero]

DOGE database
j_harding77
Rationale is govt efficiency.Reality end game is going after undocumented immigrants.Insiders say DOGE wants to build a master database combining SSA, IRS, DHS, and voting records.Get ready for more intrusive surveillance and profiling. So much for civil liberties and privacy.Palantir’s piece is integrating IRS (SS numbers, tax + employment records. They would cross ref w above data sets.

 

[malbui]

Not in my neck of the woods. As a kid in the 60s and early 70s we would call it 'footie' occasionally.

Similarly we never said 'rugger' for rugby.

In my younger days "rugger" was a massive shibboleth and a clear marker of someone who was going to get a proper raking at the first ruck.

 

[Aridas]

...

US Supreme Court grants DOGE access to sensitive Social Security data
The ruling was one of two victories that the US’s highest court handed the Trump administration in cases about data privacy.

On Friday, the six-member conservative majority overturned a lower court’s ruling that limited the kinds of data that Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could access through the Social Security Administration (SSA).

In a separate case, the majority also decided that DOGE was not required to turn over records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a government transparency law.

One could probably delve deeper into the larger picture here - the ongoing long-term efforts by the GOP to turn the US into an unaccountable Police State where they expect, with good cause, that they'll be entirely fine with abusing the system, while Democrats won't, but meh, .

 

[Norman Alexander]

...

US Supreme Court grants DOGE access to sensitive Social Security data
The ruling was one of two victories that the US’s highest court handed the Trump administration in cases about data privacy.





One could probably delve deeper into the larger picture here - the ongoing long-term efforts by the GOP to turn the US into an unaccountable Police State where they expect, with good cause, that they'll be entirely fine with abusing the system, while Democrats won't, but meh, .

Given Musk is still sweet with the DOGE team, how soon before all the Social Security data for the Supreme Court justices, all the members of Congress and the Senate, and all the Trump admin staff plus Donny himself and their families all get published on Xitter?

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Trump met with Frederick Merz,the German Chancellor, and when D-Day was mentioned said "That was a bad day for you" and laughed...

FFS.

 

[Hercules56]

Kilmar Abrego Garcia Returned to U.S. After Indictment on Human Smuggling Charges



It appears the only "human smuggling" Garcia did was transport people from one construction site to another....

Wrong. Read the indictment.

 

[Armitage72]

I head this on a local radio station today.

Meanwhile, at the White House:
(PA system) "Attention White House staff. The President just watched Guardians of the Galaxy and has appointed a raccoon to head the Department of Defense. His office is the garbage dumpster next to the loading dock."

 

[P.J. Denyer]

I head this on a local radio station today.

Meanwhile, at the White House:
(PA system) "Attention White House staff. The President just watched Guardians of the Galaxy and has appointed a raccoon to head the Department of Defense. His office is the garbage dumpster next to the loading dock."

FX: The entire military breaths a sigh of relief at this unexpected improvement.

 

[zooterkin]

I don't know anyone that calls it Soccer, apart from twats.

It was in regular use in the UK when I was young. I've still got the "Know the Game" book of Soccer. Not sure when the idea that it was an American term took hold.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

So where is the raccoon's office?

(I didn't like the oval office refurb either but "garbage dumpster" is a bit harsh.)

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Trump met with Frederick Merz,the German Chancellor, and when D-Day was mentioned said "That was a bad day for you" and laughed...

FFS.

Since every accusation is a confession, Dump was possibly referring to how it was a bad day for the Nazis, ie. Dump's own side.

'Hitler slept in on D-Day, I would never have been sleeping, I never sleep, I'm awake and alert for 24/7 for America, not like Sleepy Joe, I would've made a perfect phone call and sent all the tanks to the beaches immediately, the ghost of Hitler comes to me in dreams with tears in his eyes, saying...'

 

[jimbob]

White House tries to water down sanctions against Russia

cross posted from the Ukraine war thread.

Trump trying to completely hamstring sanctions against Russia

 

[Andy_Ross]

Not just the USNS Harvey Milk that is going to be renamed, other sips named after prominent civil rights leaders that served in the armed forces are also on the Navy's renaming "recommended list."

Among them are the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez and USNS Medgar Evers.

Medgar Evers participated in the Normandy landings, his unit was part of the 'Red Ball Express'

Hegseth is going to take the name of a man that went ashore in Normandy's name off a ship but post's crap like this

Navy set to rename USNS Harvey Milk, mulls new names for other ships named for civil rights leaders

U.S. Navy is renaming a ship named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk and considering new names for others named for prominent Americans.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Trump met with Frederick Merz,the German Chancellor, and when D-Day was mentioned said "That was a bad day for you" and laughed...

FFS.

Trump doesn't get it. The dictator was madly popular with a significant chunk of the population. His kneejerk nationalism and fantasy economic policies delighted the mob. They were all for his plans to take over neighbouring countries. So why would later generations be glad he was utterly defeated?

Maybe he just didn't build enough giant gold statues of himself to remind everyone how bigly great he was. Not a mistake to repeat.

 

[Reformed Offlian]

FX: The entire military breaths a sigh of relief at this unexpected improvement.

I thought it was "FX: Adopts listening pose." Or is this the wrong thread?

 

[shemp]

Not just the USNS Harvey Milk that is going to be renamed, other sips named after prominent civil rights leaders that served in the armed forces are also on the Navy's renaming "recommended list."

Among them are the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez and USNS Medgar Evers.

Medgar Evers participated in the Normandy landings, his unit was part of the 'Red Ball Express'

Hegseth is going to take the name of a man that went ashore in Normandy's name off a ship but post's crap like this

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Navy set to rename USNS Harvey Milk, mulls new names for other ships named for civil rights leaders

U.S. Navy is renaming a ship named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk and considering new names for others named for prominent Americans.

www.cbsnews.com

In the picture, he's the guy who's falling down drunk.