Surviving a second Trump admin*

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https://x.com/TheDailyShow/status/2034697055273189880

Last woman full quote:


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7DWX-dvn1sE

Fuckin' leopards!

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Never see anyone double down on crap positions and decisions more than this idiot.

What's in those damn Epstein files?

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What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on?

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Useless idiot.

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Useless idiot.

https://x.com/davidaxelrod/status/2039312340840333629

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Key Ally Instantly Slaps Down Trump’s Demand for Help

France
Non Donny, you broke it, you bought it.


China?

More:

'Not NATO's war': Berlin rejects US call to protect Strait of Hormuz

... "This war has nothing to do with NATO. It is not NATO's war," government spokesman Stefan Kornelius said in Berlin, as many of Washington's Western allies suggest that the US and Israel have no one but themselves to blame for the turmoil on global oil markets triggered by their war on Iran.

Trump, who has repeatedly asked allied nations to support a military mission in the Strait of Hormuz, on Sunday ramped up his rhetoric towards NATO, suggesting that the alliance might face a "very bad future" if allies don't help ensure safe passage for commercial shipping through the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman.

Does it defy belief to wonder if DonOLD crafted this situation in order to withdraw from NATO while blaming others? Is he capable of being this sinister and Machiavellian?



Countries Reject Trump’s Strait Demand, Saying ‘We Did Not Start War’

Luxembourg - No

... British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said Monday the United Kingdom was working with allies on a plan to reopen the strait but would not be drawn into a wider war. Starmer also said there was the possibility of using mine-hunting drones that the U.K. has in the region, but the country is unlikely to dispatch a warship.

Opps.

... Ahead of a meeting of European Union foreign ministers, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Brussels was weighing two types of naval missions to help reopen the strait.

She said that Brussels EU could expand its Aspides naval mission to protect shipping in the Red Sea up into the Persian Gulf or form a "coalition of the willing" with countries contributing military capacity.

Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Rome backs reinforcing EU naval missions in the Red Sea but: "I don’t think these missions can be expanded to include the Strait of Hormuz, especially since they are anti-piracy and defensive missions."



Catherine King, a member ⁠of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's Cabinet, said that for Canberra, sending ships to ‌assist ⁠in reopening the Strait of Hormuz was "not something that we've been asked or that we're contributing to."

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi also said Tokyo did not currently plan to dispatch naval vessels to escort ships in the Middle East but added that "we are continuing to examine what Japan can do independently and what can be done within the legal framework."

The Shrubbery did far better than that and Obama joined a coalition, including local support, to attack Libya and depose Gaddafi.

Oh wait, Putin IS capable of being this sinister and Machiavellian. Maybe Dementia Don is just following Putin's orders.

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President for the people.

He went on to further suggest states can raise their taxes to pay for it.

And let's not forget the soon to be forgotten campaign promises to not touch Medicaid and Medicare.

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Ok, so now the DOJ is part of the judiciary and gets to decide what's unconstitutional?

Make it make sense.


Justice Department says Trump can keep his presidential records



Donald Trump does not need to turn over his presidential records to the National Archives, the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel concluded in an opinion this week.

Rejecting a decades-old law enacted after the Watergate scandal to ensure the preservation of presidential records, Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser stated that the Presidential Records Act was unconstitutional and "untethered from any valid and identifiable legislative purpose."

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Ok, so now the DOJ is part of the judiciary and gets to decide what's unconstitutional?

Make it make sense.


Justice Department says Trump can keep his presidential records

To be fair, the AG has long been considered the arbiter of constitutionality until the courts specifically overrule her/him. Often, it rests on how broadly 'specifically' is defined.

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To be fair, the AG has long been considered the arbiter of constitutionality until the courts specifically overrule her/him. Often, it rests on how broadly 'specifically' is defined.

Not sure if I'd call prosecutorial decisions arbiters of the constitution but I guess it's what we've got, but this is different.

Preemptively declaring an existing law unconstitutional that's never been tested in court?

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To be fair, the AG has long been considered the arbiter of constitutionality until the courts specifically overrule her/him. Often, it rests on how broadly 'specifically' is defined.

Not sure if I'd call prosecutorial decisions arbiters of the constitution but I guess it's what we've got, but this is different.

Preemptively declaring an existing law unconstitutional that's never been tested in court?

Seems to me that Dem AGs have taken similar actions. One example is that nobody abides by the War Powers Act. O Really?

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I think the issue is one of terminology. Some assistant AG can declare anything he wants, and act on it, but that doesn't make it true until the Supreme Court has ruled. What he's actually issued is an opinion, which will of course be challenged in court.

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JFC.

He hates Americans.

I submit to the Congress President Trump’s Budget for 2027.
When President Trump took ofce, the Nation was facing a fnancial catastrophe under the failed leadership
of the Biden Administration. Under the fscal status quo, the defcit was exploding and Federal spending
was being wasted on futile, inefective programs.

Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following:

$510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research
$82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated)
$61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated)
$240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated)
$659 million - Community building grants
$47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated)
$449 million - Economic development grants for communities
$1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA)
$993 million - Scientific research and technology standards
$150 million - Support for American exports and trade
$2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs
$8.5 billion - Funding for public schools
$1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated)
$2.7 billion - College access and higher education support
$15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects
$1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.1 billion - Scientific research funding
$386 million - Environmental cleanup programs
$150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research
$4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated)
$768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance
$819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children
$775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated)
$5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention
$5 billion - Medical research (NIH)
$129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research
$356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response
$1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants
$707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure
$52 million - Airport and transportation security
$40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats
$53 million - Funding for homeland security operations
$3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated)
$1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated)
$393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness
$529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated)
$489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities
$50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated)
$60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws
$58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated)
$45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety
$20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated)
$1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated)
$395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated)
$234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs
$101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws
$46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad
$2 billion - International humanitarian aid
$1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated)
$4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs
$2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships
$642 million - International economic and treasury programs
$315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad
$486 million - Grants for public transit projects
$4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
$372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities
$145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure
$204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities
$1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement
$100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated)
$1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection
$2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds
$90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated)
$3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research
$297 million - NASA technology innovation programs
$1.1 billion - International Space Station operations
$143 million - STEM education programs
$309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs
$170 million - Small Business Administration operations
$158 million - Loans for small businesses

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Maybe "America First" really means first to implode.

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The looting of the United States.

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Feel free to rape and pillage.

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I just can't....

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I just can't....

https://x.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/20 ... 8793613545

Coal ash may be twice as radioactive as some nuclear waste but it is NOT "TWICE as radioactive as *nuclear fuel*". The Trump/EPA plan is bad enough without exaggerating.

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I just can't....

https://x.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/20 ... 8793613545

Coal ash may be twice as radioactive as some nuclear waste but it is NOT "TWICE as radioactive as *nuclear fuel*". The Trump/EPA plan is bad enough without exaggerating.

Didn't catch that.

https://wlos.com/news/local/trump-epa-c ... -dan-river.