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Trump's Second Term

Defending a drug trafficker

Phillip: Why is he pardoning a drug trafficker? Why is he pardoning somebody that his own DOJ just prosecuted? Why is he pardoning somebody who was convicted of $1.7 billion in fraud? Why is he pardoning someone he and his family are in business with?

Fields: If you look at a lot of these cases, what you happen to be telling is half the truth…

Phillip: So the Honduran drug trafficker is half the truth.

Fields: There was a larger geopolitical issue there

Phillip: Like Trump trying to influence the election. You were just trying to say we were defending a drug trafficker. Are you trying to defend a drug trafficker? There’s only one person at this table who has defended a drug trafficker and it ain’t me

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Andy_Ross said:
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."

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This is really stupid.

Station wagons never really went away. They just evolved into minivans, SUVs and crossovers.
And the wood paneling was a sticker. It didn't go away because of regulations, but because tastes changed.
 
Green Berets call Trump out on Afghan refugees.

Members of the U.S. Green Berets Special Forces are pushing back against President Donald Trump's crackdown on Afghan immigrants after the recent shooting in Washington, D.C., with one chastising the move as "reneging on promises made" in a report from NBC News.
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On Nov. 26, an Afghan national opened fire on National Guard members deployed to D.C. by Trump's order, killing one, Sarah Beckstrom, and critically injuring another, Andrew Wolfe. The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was later found to have received CIA paramilitary training in Afghanistan and served in a CIA-backed militia. He first entered the U.S. after the withdrawal of military forces from his home country in 2021. Reports also indicate that he had been suffering from mental health issues in recent months and was struggling financially.


Despite the fact that the suspect's request for asylum was approved by under the Trump administration in 2025, the president has nonetheless responded to the shooting with a crackdown on Afghani immigrants in the U.S., pausing or outright halting asylum proceedings and visa processes.
In response, various Special Forces veterans who worked closely with Afghans during the U.S. militaries extended war in the country told NBC News that the president's new actions are "not fair" and said that many Afghan nationals they are in touch with are "terrified.

“It is definitely not fair to group all Afghans that helped us during our time in Afghanistan in that same basket as this individual,” Benn Hoffman, a Green Beret who served five deployments in Afghanistan, said.


“They’re fearful they’re going to be sent back to a country where we have had documented cases of our guys being killed in retribution attacks," Dave Elliott, another Green Beret and founder of the 1208 Foundation non-profit, said. "These guys didn’t want to leave Afghanistan. They left Afghanistan because the U.S. broke it and handed it back to the Taliban and they had no other choice.”
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Resume said:
You know which religious freedom he's talking about here.
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"You don't like the Goths?"
"No! Not with the persecution we have to put up with!"
"Persecution?"
"Religious persecution. We won't stand for it forever."
"I thought the Goths let everybody worship as they pleased."
"That's just it! We Orthodox are forced to stand around and watch Arians and Monophysites and Nestorians and Jews going about their business unmolested, as if they owned the country. If that isn't persecution, I'd like to know what is!"
(L. Sprague de Camp, Lest Darkness Fall)
 
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