Surviving a second Trump admin*

[GoCubsGo]

Looks like surviving a second *trump administration is going to be hard for John.



Oh, wait.



Opps, nevermind.

[Vrede too]

Looks like surviving a second *trump administration is going to be hard for John.

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/19 ... 6186991066

Oh, wait.

https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1958889412189688021

Opps, nevermind.

Idk whether to hope he's guilty or a victim of lawfare.

[GoCubsGo]

Looks like surviving a second *trump administration is going to be hard for John.

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/19 ... 6186991066

Oh, wait.

https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1958889412189688021

Opps, nevermind.

Idk whether to hope he's guilty or a victim of lawfare.

Same.

But if this wasn't targeted I'd be shocked.

[Vrede too]

Idk whether to hope he's guilty or a victim of lawfare.

Same.

But if this wasn't targeted I'd be shocked.

You're correct, could be both.

[Vrede too]

Lifelong grifter DonOLD finally killed the hopes of Camelot, a sad analysis:

What remains of John F. Kennedy’s legacy of Camelot?

... The promise of sacrifice, service and the power of government to do this type of good work has come undone, replaced by a self-serving transactionalism. Instead of “ask what you can do for your country,” Trump, who recently reported $600 million in revenue for 2024, seems to be asking how best he can profit.

He has explicitly described Kennedy’s promises of American Camelot as corrupt, inefficient and un-American. Much of Kennedy’s work and legacy have been rolled back and erased. Even the symbols of the Kennedy era are changing, with the literal paving over of the White House Rose Garden and Trump’s takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The contrast between that world and this one is stark. The current administration’s “America First” agenda is an inversion of Kennedy’s attempts at international cooperation, most notably with the defunding and dismantling of USAID. The current administration described those programs as “wasteful spending that does not align with the America First agenda,” an agenda that included halting the resettling of refugees in America. Kennedy’s final book, meanwhile, was titled “A Nation of Immigrants.”

Where President Kennedy argued vigorously for the government to expand programs to aid citizens, the current president has advocated for a dismantling of the administrative state and the social safety net, including planning to add rigid work requirements to Medicaid and food assistance programs and stripping health insurance from millions. Where Kennedy saw a dynamic future in science and exploration, the current presidential administration is laser-focused on deregulation, anti-intellectualism, privatization and a retreat from global cooperative economic and foreign policy agreements.

Where John F. Kennedy necessarily evolved on civil rights and racial equality and implored Americans to have the moral fortitude to do the same, Donald Trump believes the struggle for equality can go too far, overturning decades-old civil rights law, banning, censoring and defunding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, and even calling for the sweeping erasure of actual American history.

... The rhetoric of 2025 is confrontational, transactional, divisive and grim. It prioritizes personal gain and the individual over collective betterment. President Trump, seated in a heavily gilded Oval Office, surrounded by gold-plated Trump-branded merchandise and trinkets, brings a blunt clarity to the current moment. His promise is that “American Camelot” is dead.

Makes me want to

[bannination]

[bannination]

My money is on Putin getting full custody.

[GoCubsGo]

No bet.

[GoCubsGo]

Oh good, perfect for what he's doing with the military to the American people.


Trump floats changing Defense Department to Department of War

[Whack9]

Oh good, perfect for what he's doing with the military to the American people.


Trump floats changing Defense Department to Department of War

Deep fried Facebook meme presidency.

[Vrede too]

Oh good, perfect for what he's doing with the military to the American people.

Trump floats changing Defense Department to Department of War

I agree with this, regardless of DonOLD's macho bluster. It more accurately describes what the Pentagon has done since WW2 and is doing.

[GoCubsGo]

Oh good, perfect for what he's doing with the military to the American people.

Trump floats changing Defense Department to Department of War

I agree with this, regardless of DonOLD's macho bluster. It more accurately describes what the Pentagon has done since WW2 and is doing.

Could still be problematic.

[Vrede too]

Could still be problematic.

https://x.com/gtconway3d/status/1960501652412359050

I don't agree with doing it by EO. Get the buy-in from Congress.

[GoCubsGo]

Could still be problematic.

https://x.com/gtconway3d/status/1960501652412359050

I don't agree with doing it by EO. Get the buy-in from Congress.

It's not legal to do it by EO.

[Vrede too]

It's not legal to do it by EO.

2025's oft repeated cry of frustration, sometimes negated by SCOTUS, sometimes by the RepuQ Congress.

[O Really]

"Legal" is beginning to have relatively little meaning and a very flexible definition. On top of a career in law, it breaks my heart. It's good to be old.

[GoCubsGo]

He's gonna have them laying grass next week.