Trump's Second Term

Andy_Ross said:
Kash Patel: "I'd like to announce on your show -- if you got nothing to hide, and you were DOJ and FBI before, you're welcome to come talk to the FBI at any time. And if you don't want to come talk to us, we're gonna find you, and we're gonna put you in an investigative position and posture that will make you feel very uncomfortable -- kinda like you did when you weaponized the government."
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Questioning someone when they're in an uncomfortable position. Why does that sound so familiar?

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Andy_Ross said:
His lawn?

Kellyanne: This is that guy with swagger. He's right there. He's having a blast. He's doing in the rose garden what he does in mar-a-lago. What he has done in the rose garden is the ultimate get off my lawn to the left.

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I wonder if Fox News is reporting facts with the "left is losing voters and money" news. I doubt it, but sometimes the bad news they report is factual.
 
www.thedailybeast.com

Trump’s Jaw-Dropping Ignorance Exposed During Putin Meet: Author

The president’s comments left his lieutenants “basically helpless,” Trump’s biographer says.
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“Trump, not to be outdone, as this is relayed to me, goes into his own history lesson, and this is a history of the Cold War,” he said. “And as this is described to me, in Trump’s history of the Cold War, it would appear that the U.S. and USSR are on the same side.”

In a statement to the Daily Beast, White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung called into question Wolff’s credibility.

“Michael Wolff is a lying sack of s--t and has been proven to be a fraud,” Cheung said. “He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”
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In a sorta new, but not completely new direction... I feel like asking a question. At various points in history "conservatives" have made alliances with fascists to seize power. When this has happened, how often have the fascists ended up on top and betrayed the "conservatives?" Unfortunately, this Presidency makes that question all too relevant.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
He's "a legend" in that he's only very distantly connected to reality.
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His skills are legendary, his work ethic unmatched, his attention to detail routinely unacknowledged. No one underestimates his intelligence. Many scoffed when he said he could get Mexico to pay for the wall, or would end the war in Ukraine on his first day in office, but have any of those scoffers apologized for doubting him? They have not. His sense of fair play is so well developed that, when he enters a golf tournament, he skips the first round to give his competitors a head start. And still he wins!
 
theprestige said:
You'd be amazed how productive I can be, in a clean, well-lighted, quiet, and air-conditioned space, regardless of the decor. You shouldn't be amazed at this, because it's basic adulting, but here we are.
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I am in awe of your ability to get work done in a clean, well-lighted, quiet, and air-conditioned space after painters have placed drop cloths over all of the furniture and have asked you, very politely, to get the ◊◊◊◊ out of the room so they can do their job.
 
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Federal Agents Are the New Proud Boys

It used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street.
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I'm only quoting the first three paragraphs, please click the link to read the rest.

The beatdown in broad daylight in Washington, D.C., on Saturday was caught on video. Two masked men in tactical vests grappled with a delivery worker. One tased him, and he fell to the ground. A third man piled on, and then a fourth, a fifth, and a sixth, all in similar vests with faces covered. Pinning the worker face down on the pavement, agents tased him again and punched him repeatedly in the head. “Get the ◊◊◊◊ out of this city!” a bystander’s voice yelled out at the masked men. “Why are you guys here?”
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The masked men’s vests only identified them as “police,” as is often the case with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and later, their arrest—in the upscale Logan Circle neighborhood—was confirmed by the Department of Homeland Security. It was part of the escalation in the federal law enforcement occupation ordered by Trump, with multiple agencies patrolling neighborhoods, stopping residents at checkpoints, and making arrests. Throughout, these federal agents have met opposition from countless bystanders and witnesses, who record them, jeer at them, and demand they leave their city.
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In that sense, nothing about the assault on Saturday stood out so much as it captured all these dynamics in the span of three minutes. It laid bare too how this takeover of an American city—the nation’s capital, no less—has been brewing in the far-right imagination for a long time. “You guys are ruining the country,” said one of the bystanders to the masked agents, and one of them responded, “Liberals already ruined it.” Once, it was far-right groups who flooded cities in the summertime, in masks and tactical vests, looking for a fight; now, those groups have no need to be in the streets, with ICE and other federal agents carrying out their mission for them. As one Proud Boy organizer said at a Portland, Oregon, rally in 2018, “For all the illegals trying to jump over our border, we should be smashing their heads into the concrete.”
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South Dakota State losing $66 million in federal research funding on cattle, bison and soil health

State officials studying ranching practice hope to get ag research funding back, despite concerns of a ‘climate slush fund’​

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South Dakota State University is working to get back about $66 million in federal funding it lost when the Trump administration canceled a grant program it said was a “climate slush fund.”

The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded South Dakota’s largest university $86 million in 2023 to research the impact of bison and cattle ranchers’ land management practices on soil health, and to open markets for farmers and ranchers using those practices. It was the largest research grant in South Dakota higher education history.

The grant came from the Partners for Climate-Smart Commodities program. Since 2022 during the Biden administration, the USDA had awarded 141 projects across the country a total of $3 billion. In April, the Trump administration terminated the grants and renamed the program Advancing Markets for Producers, saying “select projects may continue if it is demonstrated that a significant amount of the federal funds awarded will go to farmers.”

Brooke Rollins, head of the USDA, said at the time that the Biden-era version of the program “was largely built to advance the green new scam,” a reference to policies undertaken by Biden to address climate change.
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Brooke Rollins, head of the USDA, said at the time that the Biden-era version of the program “was largely built to advance the green new scam,” a reference to policies undertaken by Biden to address climate change.
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STFU, you stupid mother ◊◊◊◊◊◊.
 
shemp said:
newrepublic.com

Federal Agents Are the New Proud Boys

It used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street.
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I'm only quoting the first three paragraphs, please click the link to read the rest.
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I've seen videos of people actually resisting and assaulting LEOs after a violent felony who were treated with far more respect and dignity that this.
 
Resume said:
I've seen videos of people actually resisting and assaulting LEOs after a violent felony who were treated with far more respect and dignity that this.
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Mass murderers and people who shoot up churches have been arrested peacefully and with dignity, for that matter. Clearly, the crime of peacefully serving the public for likely low pay is so much worse than that.
 
WTF is this nonsense?

Subpoenas made public this week show the government is demanding doctors turn over a wide range of sensitive, identifiable data about its trans patients — everything from social security numbers to Zoom records, notes, addresses, "everything written or recorded."
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Oh wait, it's about trans minors, so it's okay.
 
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