Trump's Second Term

[Chris_Halkides]

An Op-Ed at MSNOW stated, "One wonders if Hegseth knows the flu vaccine was developed in the 1940s with assistance from the U.S. Army, whose brass had supported vaccine efforts since World War I, during which the Spanish flu killed almost as many troops as died in combat (45,000 versus 53,402) and sickened over a million more. Hence the U.S. Army had first dibs on the new flu vaccine, mandating it for everyone in 1945 at the tail end of World War II amid fears of the development of biological weapons. The Pentagon temporarily suspended the mandate briefly following the end of the war, only to resume it again in the 1950s as the vaccine became more effective — a mandatory program that continued until this week, given its long-understood contributions to military readiness.

 

[Stacyhs]

This is what I mean about the average Trump cultist being stupid. The idiocy coming out of these Trump supporters' mouths makes me cringe.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Judge dismisses Kash Patel's defamation lawsuit over claim he frequented 'nightclubs'

A Houston federal court judge dismissed a lawsuit by Kash Patel that claimed Frank Figliuzzi defamed the FBI director in a comment on the MS NOW show "Morning Joe."

Figliuzzi, a former FBI official, had said Patel has "been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of the Hoover building," the FBI's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

"Figliuzzi's statement is rhetorical hyperbole that cannot constitute defamation," U.S. District Court Judge George Hanks Jr. wrote in his decision.

The lawsuit is unrelated to the $250 million defamation lawsuit that Patel filed Monday against The Atlantic magazine over an article that alleged he has abused alcohol

Judge dismisses Kash Patel's defamation lawsuit over claim he frequented 'nightclubs'

The lawsuit against Frank Figliuzzi was dismissed a day after FBI Director Kash Patel sued The Atlantic magazine over claims he abused alcohol.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Stacyhs]

8 young women

Trump: "Yesterday, 8 young women were going to be executed. I asked them, call it a favor or call it just a moral request, that they not be executed. And they came back with an answer they won't be executed. It was protesting. 8 beautiful young women. Very young women."

video in link

Now, if they had been ICE protestors.....

 

[Andy_Ross]

FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash
The SPLC allegedly helped fund and facilitate the 2017 Charlottesville rally that resulted in a young woman’s life lost - and then used shell companies to hide it from the public and their donors

 

[Norman Alexander]

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Looks like they are going for it. Somalis?
(NYT)

The Appeals courts will be clogged for decades.

 

[Norman Alexander]

FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash
The SPLC allegedly helped fund and facilitate the 2017 Charlottesville rally that resulted in a young woman’s life lost - and then used shell companies to hide it from the public and their donors

Allegedly! Not proven, just alleged. You know... People saying stuff. Bad stuff. What could even, just technically, be called "smearing". Or "badmouthing," even!

 

[EHocking]

Why's he suing over the Trump crime family pocketing his bribe to them?

Didn’t get his quid pro quo?

 

[Tero]

Guardian had some more:
According to reporting from the Guardian last year, the US government must prove that a person is not of “good moral character” before a judge to justify denaturalization. Last year’s memo listed a broad range of categories of people who should be stripped of their status, including those accused of having a “nexus to terrorism” or individuals accused of being gang and cartel members.

Trump administration pushes DoJ to pursue denaturalization cases – report

Justice department has already identified 384 foreign-born people whose US citizenship it wants to revoke

www.theguardian.com

 

[P.J. Denyer]

#notacult

#notamathematician

 

[turingtest]

Not a cult

List of Bills the Republicans have introduced so far to honor Donald Trump:

Carve Trump’s face into Mount Rushmore
Replace Benjamin Franklin with Trump on $100 bills
Make Trump’s birthday a national holiday
Conduct “Trump Derangement Syndrome” research at the NIH
Give Trump a “Congressional Gold Medal”
Mint a $250 bill featuring Trump’s face
A resolution saying Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize
Rename Washington, DC public transit from WMATA to “WMAGA”
Award a “Donald J. Trump Peace Prize” from the State Department
Honor Trump’s efforts to annex Greenland
Rename the Kennedy Center the "Donald Trump Center for the Performing Arts"
Rename Dulles International Airport to the “Donald J. Trump International Airport”
Erase Trump’s 2019 impeachment Erase Trump’s 2021 impeachment
link

Huh. Is this the same party that was so dead set against taking down statues that celebrated Confederate "heroes" on the ground that you cannot, and should not try to, "erase history"?

 

[DallasDad]

Not a cult

Kudlow: The US will control The Persian Gulf, which probably should be The Arabian Gulf or The Trump Gulf.

link

I can guarantee there won't be someone behind him repeating, "Memento Mori" over and over.

 

[Tero]

2027 is a bit difficult to predict. They may be able to prop up Trump and show him signing things. He will be weak. If he can't do his dictator moves, what else will he do? Just fly to Mar a Lago every weekend? He can't stay there, that would be a quick end. "Not functional." Remove. Republicans would get whatever they can from Vance.

 

[shemp]

FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash
The SPLC allegedly helped fund and facilitate the 2017 Charlottesville rally that resulted in a young woman’s life lost - and then used shell companies to hide it from the public and their donors

For the millionth time, first line of my sig.

 

[shemp]

An Op-Ed at MSNOW stated, "One wonders if Hegseth knows ...

They can stop right there. This piece of ◊◊◊◊ knows nothing.

 

[shemp]

This is what I mean about the average Trump cultist being stupid. The idiocy coming out of these Trump supporters' mouths makes me cringe.

They don't want smart people running the country. They want idiots like themselves.

 

[Dr.Sid]

They don't want smart people running the country. They want idiots like themselves.

That's the defining aspect of idiocracy. The stupid feel oppressed by smart and they now fight back.

 

[shemp]

That's the defining aspect of idiocracy. The stupid feel oppressed by smart and they now fight back.

And they want to destroy everything that makes their lives longer, safer and better.

 

[Aridas]

Guardian had some more:
According to reporting from the Guardian last year, the US government must prove that a person is not of “good moral character” before a judge to justify denaturalization. Last year’s memo listed a broad range of categories of people who should be stripped of their status, including those accused of having a “nexus to terrorism” or individuals accused of being gang and cartel members.

And, naturally, we know that the DoJ is super rigorous about who they accuse of being gang and cartel members. The kind of rigorous where they'll happily and potentially very publicly falsely accuse people when they want to deport them.

They can stop right there. This piece of ◊◊◊◊ knows nothing.

It's worse than that. It just doesn't matter if he knows anything or not. He's an idiot, yes, but the part of that that is more relevant here is that his decisions are being made based on and to satisfy the believers of a particular far right caricature of reality. Knowing nothing is honestly easily correctable and, for normal people, involves relying on the people who do know. Knowing nothing isn't really a sin, it's innocence. Willfully being wrong with an agenda and willingly doing harm are sins, though, and that's where Hegseth and pretty much the Trump Administration as a whole is.

 

[Segnosaur]

FBI Director Kash Patel
@FBIDirectorKash
The SPLC allegedly helped fund and facilitate the 2017 Charlottesville rally that resulted in a young woman’s life lost - and then used shell companies to hide it from the public and their donors

Allegedly! Not proven, just alleged. You know... People saying stuff. Bad stuff. What could even, just technically, be called "smearing". Or "badmouthing," even!

Ok, I'd like someone with a little more legal knowledge to give their opinion (JayUtah?)

But isn't it really a bad idea for a high-ranking person to make such a statement publicly? After all, the defendant might be able to claim that the statements "taint the jury pool" to get the charges dismissed on a technicality.

(although I suspect the Trump administration will lose the case anyways.)