Trump's Second Term

[TragicMonkey]

Looks like Trump produced the smoking gun he used to shoot himself in the foot.

He'll claim the bullet wound is a "speed hole" and makes him go faster!

 

[LiteBright]

This is a good article that provides some background to issues around private firefighting aircraft versus government firefighting aircraft in the US.

A U.S. Senator Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One

Before entering politics, Tim Sheehy ran an aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace. In the Senate, he has sought to cut regulations and expand the government’s use of private aircraft on wildfires, while still owning stock in the company.

www.propublica.org

Note that this is about the Tim Sheehy who is complaining about Canadian firefighting aircraft above.

It is a bit shocking although not surprising that you have a guy who owns a company that competes directly with government services, attain a seat in government and then dedicate his efforts to dismantling that competition. Just another shameless grifter lining his pockets and this one is doing it off the suffering of others.

At this point I'm wondering if trump will invoke Nato article 5 over the smoke invasion just so he can complain when France doesn't immediately nuke us.

 

[sackett]

He'll claim the bullet wound is a "speed hole" and makes him go faster!

Or announce that it's one of his stigmata.

What am I saying? Donnie Trumpolini using a $10 word like that?
I needs me coffee.

 

[Regnad Kcin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2078238240994214112

Nope.

That seatbelt looks exhausted.

 

[Andy_Ross]

This is a good article that provides some background to issues around private firefighting aircraft versus government firefighting aircraft in the US.

A U.S. Senator Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One

Before entering politics, Tim Sheehy ran an aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace. In the Senate, he has sought to cut regulations and expand the government’s use of private aircraft on wildfires, while still owning stock in the company.

www.propublica.org

Note that this is about the Tim Sheehy who is complaining about Canadian firefighting aircraft above.

From last year

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Second Term" or "Second Trimester"?

 

[Mike!]

Two more servicemen reported killed, and another missing in Jordan.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Two more servicemen reported killed, and another missing in Jordan.

To absent friends.

 

[Resume]

From last year

I've experienced a PIO; it was sort of fun.

Sort of.

 

[Resume]

And yet we see them act like showoff cowboys quite regularly.

Not showing off but, yeah.

 

[Andy_Ross]

There are always crashes at Oshkosh.

 

[PitPat]

A full fact check list of claims in Trump's diatribe and a few examples. Pretty much just what you already know or assume.

• Trump said the documents he released show that China had acquired “220 million U.S. voter files” starting in the 2020 election cycle, and that this had been kept “secret” by U.S. intelligence officials. But state voter files are mostly publicly available, and an April 2020 intelligence assessment said Chinese officials were analyzing state voter rolls.

• The president said released documents revealed that U.S. election infrastructure is “vulnerable,” “easily compromised” and “people within our government knew that.” But one of the documents Trump cited said the election systems, for several reasons, “would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to alter the election outcome.”
• Trump said the U.S. election system was “dangerously” exposed to “foreign interference.” It has been publicly known for years that other countries have tried to influence elections. Trump focused on China; it was a “minority view” in an intelligence assessment that China had acted to undermine Trump’s reelection in 2020.
• The president’s speech may have suggested to some listeners that a foreign country changed votes in a U.S. election, but Trump never explicitly claimed that. An adviser to the president said after the speech: “The Intelligence Community has zero evidence that someone, that a foreign power flipped a vote in 2020, ’22 or ’24.”
• Trump claimed that a Department of Homeland Security investigation “identified approximately 278,000 noncitizens who are registered to vote in federal elections.” DHS hasn’t explained its methodology, and experts warn the figure is likely highly inaccurate. Past DHS-derived lists have proven unreliable.
• He cited an alleged instance of fraud from 2020 involving fake voter-registration applications in Michigan. Authorities say no one actually voted improperly as a result of the alleged scam, which stemmed from employees of a voter-registration company trying to defraud their employer and was not a deliberate effort to alter votes.
• The president exaggerated the time it took California to count its votes in its June election and falsely suggested that the long timeline indicates something nefarious occurred.
• Trump said that Congress needed to pass the SAVE America Act, describing its voter ID requirements as “simple.” That’s a matter of opinion. The bill’s ID rules would be stricter than those in most of the 36 states that already have a form of voter ID.

FactChecking Trump’s Election Security Speech​

https://www.factcheck.org/2026/07/factchecking-trumps-election-security-speech/

 

[shemp]

A full fact check list of claims in Trump's diatribe and a few examples. Pretty much just what you already know or assume.

FactChecking Trump’s Election Security Speech​

https://www.factcheck.org/2026/07/factchecking-trumps-election-security-speech/

Yeah, but they're gonna try to steal the election anyway and use this as justification. Facts mean nothing to them and their moron followers.

 

[PitPat]

They're definitely setting the stage for something big. It makes me quite anxious.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Obama!

John F Kennedy Jr
@John_F_kJr
THE OBAMA FILES ARE WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT.

His lawyers didn’t show up to negotiate.

They showed up to BEG.

Here’s what Bondi’s team found inside the Tehran servers under Obama’s codename — RENEGADE:

— 14 wire transfers to a Swiss account linked to Hezbollah between 2014-2016. Total: $1.7 billion. The same $1.7 billion he told Congress was “frozen Iranian assets.”

— A signed directive authorizing the CIA to stand down during the Benghazi attack. Not typed. HANDWRITTEN.

— Communications with Epstein’s handler, dated March 2015, discussing “the island arrangement” and “the Chicago package.”

— A backchannel to Tehran through Valerie Jarrett, active from 2012 to 2024. Yes. 2024. Two years AFTER he left office.

He didn’t just betray America.

He was running a shadow government from his basement in D.C. while pretending to be retired.

His lawyers are now offering FULL COOPERATION in exchange for immunity.

Trump said no.

No deals. No mercy. No escape.

The man who divided America for 8 years is about to face the America he tried to destroy.

And she’s awake.

FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING

link

 

[PitPat]

Obama!

John F Kennedy Jr
@John_F_kJr
THE OBAMA FILES ARE WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT.

His lawyers didn’t show up to negotiate.

They showed up to BEG.

Here’s what Bondi’s team found inside the Tehran servers under Obama’s codename — RENEGADE:

— 14 wire transfers to a Swiss account linked to Hezbollah between 2014-2016. Total: $1.7 billion. The same $1.7 billion he told Congress was “frozen Iranian assets.”

— A signed directive authorizing the CIA to stand down during the Benghazi attack. Not typed. HANDWRITTEN.

— Communications with Epstein’s handler, dated March 2015, discussing “the island arrangement” and “the Chicago package.”

— A backchannel to Tehran through Valerie Jarrett, active from 2012 to 2024. Yes. 2024. Two years AFTER he left office.

He didn’t just betray America.

He was running a shadow government from his basement in D.C. while pretending to be retired.

His lawyers are now offering FULL COOPERATION in exchange for immunity.

Trump said no.

No deals. No mercy. No escape.

The man who divided America for 8 years is about to face the America he tried to destroy.

And she’s awake.

FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING

link

I was going to ask what this was about but quickly realized I'd stay smarter if I didn't know.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Secretary Marco Rubio
@SecRubio

Today, I convened leaders from around the world for a ministerial meeting on the resurgence of political terrorism—driven by a rising tide of violent left-wing extremism. Together, we must rebuild our counterterrorism architecture to defeat the new wave of this old evil

link

Marco, you sitting alone in your office having a wank to TACO's visage does not a meeting make

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

They ignore the multitude of violent actions performed by right-wing groups and focus on the one or two violent actions performed by single persons who happen to have targeted Republicans. They are setting a narrative to cancel elections and arrest dissenters of The Regime.

Of course all these actions, in the last what five years?, that they focus on have been done by reich wingers that think the regime hasn't gone far enough.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

I swear it seems that Trump is never so happy and upbeat in his posting as when he crows about taking something away from people who may need it, or giving something to people who don't.

He's happiest when he ◊◊◊◊◊ over his own voters.

 

[PitPat]

He's happiest when he ◊◊◊◊◊ over his own voters.

I sometimes wonder if he has the capacity of a happy feeling. I've always kinda placed it on a scale of "less angry and vindictive".