The Official Trump is Doing Awesome Thread

[Yonivore]

Treasury.

Are you just acting stupid or is this just you?
His job at Treasury is the same as at USAID. Audit the books and find out where our tax dollars are going. Should be interesting.

And, how is DOGE having my information any different than the unelected bureaucrats at Treasury?

I'm really not sure what you're bitching about, Chump.

What's the conspiracy theory? [Isn't that what you usually ask?]

[Spurs Homer]

No, no. The voters are getting exactly what they voted for...

He didn't hide his objectives and he won the majority of the popular vote and the Electoral Collge.

Are you suggesting Trump didn't legitimately win the 2024 election?

No.

The voters were radicalized and presented with an alternate reality. Fox and right wing propagandists had a choice after the attempted coup.

1) they could have done the honorable thing and denounced the traitor and tell their base that trump is a traitor who betrayed his country and that the GOP would have to find a new leader because Democracy was the most important thing…

or

2) they could invent an alternate reality and sanewash the traitor and begin promoting conspiracies and lies about his treason. Change the insurrection to just “a few tourists” walking thru the capitol while law enforcement happily ushered them in like it was a night at the opera and these were just polite opera fans. They could demonize (more) the left, gays, blacks,biden, gays, and “invent” new outrages and crisis’ 24/7 to make it seem as though Trump the traitor was a sane acceptable alternative.

Of course we know what they did and the voters were inundated with lies and propaganda and trump was sanewashed and made to seem like just a regular candidate. Millions upon millions were flooded with “weaponization” of the justice system and all trumps crimes were defended and minimized, etc…

I wont even get into the “true the vote” illegal purging of millions of black voters from voter rolls in all the swing states because the criminals/fascists know it would take years to uncover their election fraud which they have been perfecting for years…

So, yes…

49 percent voters voted for the traitor rapist convicted felon but

the

48 percent of the rest of us are not complicit in this destruction of democracy by these fascist criminals you support.

[ChumpDumper]

His job at Treasury is the same as at USAID. Audit the books and find out where our tax dollars are going. Should be interesting.

And, how is DOGE having my information any different than the unelected bureaucrats at Treasury?

I'm really not sure what you're bitching about, Chump.

What's the conspiracy theory? [Isn't that what you usually ask?]I've already stated it twice.

Why do you want Elon to have all your information?

And all the information of all his competitors -- business and personal?

And all the information of anyone he doesn't like personally.

Please explain how this is a good thing.

[Spurs Homer]

His job at Treasury is the same as at USAID. Audit the books and find out where our tax dollars are going. Should be interesting.

And, how is DOGE having my information any different than the unelected bureaucrats at Treasury?

I'm really not sure what you're bitching about, Chump.

What's the conspiracy theory? [Isn't that what you usually ask?]

Elon Musk is an unelected bureaucrat.

[Yonivore]

No.
You could have stopped there.

[Yonivore]

Elon Musk is an unelected bureaucrat.
So are the people he's auditing. Are you suggesting only elected officials can go into a government agency and question how they're spending your tax dollars?

[Yonivore]

I've already stated it twice.

Why do you want Elon to have all your information?

And all the information of all his competitors -- business and personal?

And all the information of anyone he doesn't like personally.

Please explain how this is a good thing.
What's your conspiracy theory, Chump. What's Elon going to do with my information?

[ChumpDumper]

What's your conspiracy theory, Chump. What's Elon going to do with my information?I've already stated it twice.

To you directly at least once.

If you're completely ignorant about his plans for X, I am not surprised.

Why do you want Elon to have all your information?

And all the information of all his competitors -- business and personal?

And all the information of anyone he doesn't like personally?

Please explain how this is a good thing.

[Spurs Homer]

So are the people he's auditing. Are you suggesting only elected officials can go into a government agency and question how they're spending your tax dollars?


Stop being dishonest. Musk is plainly there to loot the treasury and steal information and enrich trump illegally.

They dont give a fuck about fixing anything and only a complete idiot would fall for the “we want to eliminate waste” garbage after trump spent 4 years looting the govt, allowing his family and businesses to enrich themselves at taxpayer and foreign govts expense.

Only an idiot would believe a convicted felon fraudster is somehow going to “responsibly” clean up the govt.


hahahahahahahaha!

[ChumpDumper]

Also, explain Elon's war on weather.

What do your blogs say about it?

[ElNono]

No, no. The voters are getting exactly what they voted for...

Completely agree. People get conned all the time, and when it happens once, you could say it's not their fault. But when it happens twice, it's on them, tbh...

People voted for stupid, they'll have to deal with stupid for 4 more years. The hope obviously is that it's only 4 more years, which unfortunately is not a given, given the conman here.

[Yonivore]

Completely agree. People get conned all the time, and when it happens once, you could say it's not their fault. But when it happens twice, it's on them, tbh...

People voted for stupid, they'll have to deal with stupid for 4 more years. The hope obviously is that it's only 4 more years, which unfortunately is not a given, given the conman here.
And yet, after all that's happened since January 20th, I can't find anyone who regrets voting for Donald Trump on November 5th.

Like I said in another post, it's like Christmas every morning I wake up and see which Leftist heads have exploded this time.

[ChumpDumper]

And yet, after all that's happened since January 20th, I can't find anyone who regrets voting for Donald Trump on November 5th.What's his plan to lower inflation btw?

[ElNono]

And yet, after all that's happened since January 20th, I can't find anyone who regrets voting for Donald Trump on November 5th.

Like I said in another post, it's like Christmas every morning I wake up and see which Leftist heads have exploded this time.

I can't find any leftist head that has exploded either. Nobody is surprised this is a clown show.

I mean, it's been literally two weeks. We'll see where things are at by the midterms. You know, if we're still allowed to vote.

[Yonivore]

What's his plan to lower inflation btw?
What would be your plan to fight inflation, Chump?

[ChumpDumper]

What would be your plan to fight inflation, Chump?I'm not president.

Your hero Trump is.

What is Trump's plan to lower inflation?

[Yonivore]

What's his plan to lower inflation btw?
President Donald Trump has outlined several strategies to combat inflation during his second term:

Energy Production: Trump emphasizes increasing domestic energy production by reducing regulations and expediting approvals for oil infrastructure projects. He believes that enhancing oil drilling efforts will lower energy costs, thereby reducing transportation and production expenses, which can help control inflation.

Deregulation: The administration plans to eliminate regulations that are perceived to hinder domestic production. By reducing bureaucratic hurdles, the goal is to lower operational costs for businesses, potentially leading to decreased consumer prices.

Trade Policy and Tariffs: Trump has imposed significant tariffs, including 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% on Chinese goods. While intended to encourage domestic manufacturing and address trade imbalances, these tariffs have raised concerns about potential price increases for imported goods, which could contribute to inflation.

Tax Cuts: Proposals include reducing corporate tax rates from 21% to 15% to incentivize businesses to maintain operations within the U.S. The administration believes that such tax cuts can boost domestic production and employment, contributing to economic growth and helping to mitigate inflationary pressures.

[Yonivore]

I'm not president.

Your hero Trump is.

What is Trump's plan to lower inflation?
Answered. And thank God you're not President.

[ChumpDumper]

President Donald Trump has outlined several strategies to combat inflation during his second term:

Energy Production: Trump emphasizes increasing domestic energy production by reducing regulations and expediting approvals for oil infrastructure projects. He believes that enhancing oil drilling efforts will lower energy costs, thereby reducing transportation and production expenses, which can help control inflation.

Deregulation: The administration plans to eliminate regulations that are perceived to hinder domestic production. By reducing bureaucratic hurdles, the goal is to lower operational costs for businesses, potentially leading to decreased consumer prices.

Trade Policy and Tariffs: Trump has imposed significant tariffs, including 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% on Chinese goods. While intended to encourage domestic manufacturing and address trade imbalances, these tariffs have raised concerns about potential price increases for imported goods, which could contribute to inflation.

Tax Cuts: Proposals include reducing corporate tax rates from 21% to 15% to incentivize businesses to maintain operations within the U.S. The administration believes that such tax cuts can boost domestic production and employment, contributing to economic growth and helping to mitigate inflationary pressures.

:lol how do tariffs lower prices?

Tell us all how that works.

[Yonivore]

:lol how do tariffs lower prices?

Tell us all how that works.
Hey, you asked what his plan was. He has one.

I think the idea is tariffs will encourage domestic manufacturing...which would relieve inflation. Maybe not immediately but, when combined with the other three strategies, it's a pretty solid plan.

[ChumpDumper]

Hey, you asked what his plan was. He has one.

I think the idea is tariffs will encourage domestic manufacturing...which would relieve inflation. Maybe not immediately but, when combined with the other three strategies, it's a pretty solid plan.Did it work last time?

[velik_m]

Colombia's president orders national oil company to cancel US venture over environmental concerns

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday ordered the state-run oil company Ecopetrol to cancel a joint venture with a U.S.-owned company that was expected to produce around 90,000 barrels of oil per day, citing environmental concerns.

In a nationally televised speech, Petro said he opposed the recent extension of a deal between Ecopetrol and Occidental Petroleum, or Oxy, because it involved extracting oil through fracking, a controversial technique used to extract oil and gas from shale rock that has been criticized by environmental groups.
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“I want that operation to be sold, and for the money to be invested in clean energies,” Petro said in a meeting with his Cabinet that was livestreamed on social media. “We are against fracking, because fracking is the death of nature, and the death of humanity.”

Ecopetrol had announced on Monday it would renew its operations with Oxy in the Permian basin, an oil producing region that spans Texas and New Mexico, to develop 91 oil wells, investing over $880 million.
...


https://financialpost.com/pmn/colombias-president-orders-national-oil-company-to-cancel-us-venture-over-environmental-concerns

[DarrinS]

Dastardly deeds. :lmao

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[Trill Clinton]

Wow our president really is bitchmade. Pretty easy to see who calls the shots in this vid. Trump looking like Mr. Belvedere.

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[Blake]

President Donald Trump has outlined several strategies to combat inflation during his second term:

Energy Production: Trump emphasizes increasing domestic energy production by reducing regulations and expediting approvals for oil infrastructure projects. He believes that enhancing oil drilling efforts will lower energy costs, thereby reducing transportation and production expenses, which can help control inflation.

Deregulation: The administration plans to eliminate regulations that are perceived to hinder domestic production. By reducing bureaucratic hurdles, the goal is to lower operational costs for businesses, potentially leading to decreased consumer prices.

Trade Policy and Tariffs: Trump has imposed significant tariffs, including 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% on Chinese goods. While intended to encourage domestic manufacturing and address trade imbalances, these tariffs have raised concerns about potential price increases for imported goods, which could contribute to inflation.

Tax Cuts: Proposals include reducing corporate tax rates from 21% to 15% to incentivize businesses to maintain operations within the U.S. The administration believes that such tax cuts can boost domestic production and employment, contributing to economic growth and helping to mitigate inflationary pressures.

Rofl did you even read the 3rd paragraph you posted?

His plan to fight inflation is to implement a tariff plan that could contribute to more inflation?

You guys are all retarded.

[TSA]

Rofl did you even read the 3rd paragraph you posted?

His plan to fight inflation is to implement a tariff plan that could contribute to more inflation?

You guys are all retarded.

https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1887147443051016682

[Blake]

Dastardly deeds. :lmao

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DeLiciOus LiB teArs

[ChumpDumper]

https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1887147443051016682

So what did Trump do to cause this?

Please be specific.

[SnakeBoy]

lol

[ChumpDumper]

lol

According to that site, their inflation figure was 1.78% last September.

Was that right too?

[SnakeBoy]

Bernie Sanders, Josh Hawley team up on Trump pledge to slash credit card rates to 10%
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/bernie-sanders-josh-hawley-team-up-on-trump-pledge-to-slash-credit-card-rates-to-10/ar-AA1ypMbS?ocid=BingNewsSerp

[SnakeBoy]

According to that site, their inflation figure was 1.78% last September.

Was that right too?

Sure, what's your point?

[SnakeBoy]

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[SnakeBoy]

https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/113/948/560/841/882/186/original/574b44da34b9417d.jpg

[Blake]

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Lol "full investigation"

[Thread]

So what did Trump do to cause this?

Please be specific.

...Christ categorically refused to set him free in that Pennsylvania berry patch Summer last.

[Thread]

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Mazel, mazel, good things!!!

[ducks]

Trump vows Homeland Security will prevent transgender athletes from entering the country for 2028 LA Olympics

[ChumpDumper]

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Coming to what?

[ducks]

So what did Trump do to cause this?

Please be specific.

He took the oath !

[ChumpDumper]

Trump vows Homeland Security will prevent transgender athletes from entering the country for 2028 LA Olympics

:rollin

[ducks]

Abolishing the department of education is not going to harm education one bit. It will improve education and here’s how.

Up until 1978 America scored in the top three best education countries in the world

In 1979 the Department of education was created

Since 1979 America has declined educationally year over year

American now sits at 38 out of 44 countries for education.

The Dept of Education is a crap org that has FAILED at their mandate severely!

If they were in the private sector, they would’ve been fired by 1982 at the latest.

No private company would ever put up with that level of failure

[SnakeBoy]

Zero sniffs given

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[Blake]

He took the oath !

He's a felon

[Blake]

Zero sniffs given

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DELicIouS tArd TeaRs

[Blake]

Trump on Tommy Tuberville:

"A great coach. You know, his quarterback was named Mahomes. He was a great college coach," Trump said. "And I said, 'How good was he?' He continued, 'You don't wanna know how good. He made me into a great coach.' He's a pretty good quarterback, right? Yeah, he was very good. And he's a good guy, too."

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-mistakenly-says-republican-tommy-tuberville-coached-patrick-mahomes-2026921

Lolsmh Trump and his tard crew. I bet he still thinks Kansas City is in Kansas.

[SnakeBoy]

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[ducks]

He's a felon

What was his sentence ?

[ducks]

He's a felon

USA voted for him !!!
He won all swing states and the popular vote
He has a mandate !

[ducks]

He's a felon

USA voted for him !!!
He won all swing states and the popular vote
He has a mandate !

[Blake]

USA voted for him !!!
He won all swing states and the popular vote
He has a mandate !

Yeah half of America is retarded. Almost all of Texas is too.

[Blake]

What was his sentence ?

Unconditional discharge and the charge remains on his record. He's a felon. You voted for a sleazy criminal. You're a moron.

[GAustex]

Bs charges
DA is now under investigation
Them chickens coming home to roost for Brag

[GAustex]

The Protector of women and girls

[Thread]

USA voted for him !!!
He won all swing states and the popular vote
He has a mandate !

That's it & that's all.

[Winehole23]

https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/parliamentaryauthority/civilwar/overview/rump-dissolved/

[Yonivore]

So what did Trump do to cause this?

Please be specific.
Why did it happen? Please be specific.

[ChumpDumper]

Why did it happen? Please be specific.I don't know why it went down to 1.7% last September either.

Do you?

Be specific.

[Yonivore]

I don't know why it went down to 1.7% last September either.

Do you?

Be specific.
I don't know, that's why I asked you to explain it. Do you know?

[ChumpDumper]

I don't know, that's why I asked you to explain it. Do you know?Never said I did.

Sorry.

[Spurs Homer]

For most of my adult life...I used to say this to people when having a conversation about politics/life/america....

"People LOVE to be lied to. They cannot stand the truth. They are begging to be lied to 24/7."

Many people disagreed and I wish it was not true either - but it was and is true.

This CULT has proven this to everyone on the planet.

49 percent racists/magats/cultists/fascists and liars - brain-dead and brainwashed 100 percent.

51 percent of some mixture left...some anti-racist/anti-fascist normal patriots...some percentage just not paying attention...some percentage still cannot vote and are receiving lies/brainwashing on their electronic devices which they are addicted to...


US of Amerikkka.

[SnakeBoy]

This is the way libs

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[ChumpDumper]

snacks would rather see pregnant Trumptard women die. This is his way.

[SnakeBoy]

Google is the latest US tech firm to roll back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

According to an internal memo obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Google has told employees that it would no longer set targets to recruit more people from historically underrepresented groups.

[ChumpDumper]

Google is the latest US tech firm to roll back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

According to an internal memo obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Google has told employees that it would no longer set targets to recruit more people from historically underrepresented groups.

What's the harm in recruiting from historically underrepresented groups, in your opinion?

[Yonivore]

This is the way libs

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I hope they all follow suit.

[ChumpDumper]

I hope they all follow suit.

You also hope pregnant Trumptard women die.

[Winehole23]

(I've alluded to it elsewhere, my current dictator calque for Trump is Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell)

[Winehole23]

(Cromwell was so popular, they dug him up 12 years after he died, decapitated him, and displayed his head in public)

[Winehole23]

Our own stupid religious war

[Blake]

Trump on Tommy Tuberville:

"A great coach. You know, his quarterback was named Mahomes. He was a great college coach," Trump said. "And I said, 'How good was he?' He continued, 'You don't wanna know how good. He made me into a great coach.' He's a pretty good quarterback, right? Yeah, he was very good. And he's a good guy, too."

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-mistakenly-says-republican-tommy-tuberville-coached-patrick-mahomes-2026921

Lolsmh Trump and his tard crew. I bet he still thinks Kansas City is in Kansas.

Tommy: As a coach, you start recruiting and working with players years before they get to college. Patrick Mahomes was one of the best players I ever had the opportunity to recruit and get to know," Tuberville said...

..... Patrick: "He did not recruit me at the time. I don't remember if I ever got to meet him or not," Mahomes told the Philadelphia Enquirer.

Tuberville did coach the Red Raiders but left the program to coach at Cincinnati a full five months before Mahomes committed to Texas Tech....."
https://athlonsports.com/college/texas-tech-red-raiders/texas-tech-red-raiders-football-patrick-mahomes-super-bowl-tommy-tuberville-recruiting-comments

:lol the plan is just to lie your ass off and not care because you know your trumptard base will believe you.

[ChumpDumper]

:lol those lies

[SnakeBoy]

What's the harm in recruiting from historically underrepresented groups, in your opinion?

There is no harm in recruiting from any group. That isn't the issue.

[SnakeBoy]

Elon Musk is an unelected bureaucrat.

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[ChumpDumper]

There is no harm in recruiting from any group. That isn't the issue.

what's the issue?

State your opinion so everyone can see what you are actually saying for yourself.

[Spurs Homer]

Trump fascist admin record in COURT so far (18-19 days in?) - 0-7 -

If this was a coach in any sport - he would be fired already!

#1 - Birthright Citizenship - L
#2- Federal funding freeze - L -
#3 - Trannies in prison w/magats - er males - L -
#4 - DOGE kunts accessing payment system ie - looting our treasury - L -
#5 - Firing and Bribing of Federal workers (they will never get paid their promised illegit severance) - L -
#6 - DEI hiring becomes a criminal violation - L
#7 - Trannies out of military (trump has a hard on for trannies) - L

Winning!

[Winehole23]

Trump fascist admin record in COURT so far (18-19 days in?) - 0-7 -

If this was a coach in any sport - he would be fired already!

#1 - Birthright Citizenship - L
#2- Federal funding freeze - L -
#3 - Trannies in prison w/magats - er males - L -
#4 - DOGE kunts accessing payment system ie - looting our treasury - L -
#5 - Firing and Bribing of Federal workers (they will never get paid their promised illegit severance) - L -
#6 - DEI hiring becomes a criminal violation - L
#7 - Trannies out of military (trump has a hard on for trannies) - L

Winning!the main suspense here is whether Trumplandia will comply

finger in the air, I'm guessing no

[Winehole23]

El0n/Trump have already blocked some federal transfers while under a court order to stop

[Spurs Homer]

the main suspense here is whether Trumplandia will comply

finger in the air, I'm guessing no

The world we now live in ^

Just imagine any Dem (especially the BLACK prez) proposing or even mentioning any of those - god forbid actually trying to implement any of that Fascism? Imagine Soros getting access into our treasury with a team of drugged up interns?

Would be GOP talking heads on fire 24/7....

[Winehole23]

More nest feathering by Trump

Trump is a LIV participant, brokering LIV's deal with the PGA at the White House is another broken norm.

Self dealing is tolerated now.


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[Winehole23]

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[velik_m]

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us

[SnakeBoy]

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[SnakeBoy]

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[Blake]

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How's the healthcare plan coming along. Is the tax break on tips supposed to cover that?

[DarrinS]

:lmao


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVNbDxtHDVY

[SnakeBoy]

https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExaWg5ZW00YmRxN3Z2MmE3YjZ6OTNwb29 4dnFtZm5nYTE5NG96amV4MCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfY nlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/aq6Thivv9V9lu/giphy.gif

[SnakeBoy]

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[SnakeBoy]

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Man on FIRE

[SnakeBoy]

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We need to help these refugees

[Blake]

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Man on FIRE

https://media.tenor.com/kAkh2wEGHn4AAAAM/the-best-is-yet-to-come-donald-john-trump.gif

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVNbDxtHDVY

What would he use it for, Darrin?

[ChumpDumper]

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We need to help these refugees

Why?

[ChumpDumper]

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Man on FIRE

:lol triggered

[ducks]

More taxes on the rich
https://x.com/legitbrittFLA/status/1887940742678528356

[ducks]

Why?

To trigger the not common sense people

[ChumpDumper]

More taxes on the rich
https://x.com/legitbrittFLA/status/1887940742678528356

How about Elon?

Or Trump?

[DarrinS]

What would he use it for, Darrin?

Probably unnecessary. Biden doesn't remember anything. Its weird that you guys were cool with dead potus.

[Winehole23]

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Man on FIREZdanovism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhdanov_Doctrine), tbh

[Winehole23]

Probably unnecessary. Biden doesn't remember anything. Its weird that you guys were cool with dead potus.It's weird that y'all are cool with an evil crook like Trump

[DarrinS]

It's weird that y'all are cool with an evil crook like Trump

:cry

[Winehole23]

it is weird

[SnakeBoy]

It's weird that y'all are cool with an evil crook like Trump

Most investigated POTUS in history and you came up empty

[Blake]

It's weird that y'all are cool with an evil crook like Trump

"hE nOt cRooK iT wUz kangaroo cOurT aNd sTuFf

[Blake]

Most investigated POTUS in history and you came up empty

He was convicted. You're okay with it. He's right it's so fucking weird how the majority of Americans are okay with it.

[Winehole23]

Most investigated POTUS in history and you came up emptyI didn't come up empty

Trump is a straight crook

It still counts if you don't get caught, maybe even more.

[ChumpDumper]

Probably unnecessary. Biden doesn't remember anything. Its weird that you guys were cool with dead potus.

Better than your piece of shit.

[Winehole23]

the Trumpian firehose of chaos and bullshit is already getting old


See-sawing tariff threats, a jittery stock market and turmoil on Capitol Hill are suddenly causing Americans on both sides of the fence to feel “considerably more pessimistic about the economy” than they were when Donald Trump moved into the White House, The Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/americans-jittery-over-inflation-university-of-michigan-survey-suggests-1476cf39) noted Friday.

Consumer sentiment dropped close to 5 percent in the University of Michigan’s preliminary February survey (https://getfea.com/end-use/university-of-michigan-releases-preliminary-results-of-its-consumer-sentiment-index-for-february#:~:text=On%20Friday%2C%20the%20University %20of,(76.9%20in%20February%202024).) to its lowest reading since July 2024 when Trump was raging about the U.S. economy.

“The decrease was pervasive, with Republicans, Independents, and Democrats all posting sentiment declines from January, along with consumers across age and wealth groups,” Joanne Hsu, who supervises the survey, said in a statement (https://getfea.com/end-use/university-of-michigan-releases-preliminary-results-of-its-consumer-sentiment-index-for-february#:~:text=On%20Friday%2C%20the%20University %20of,(76.9%20in%20February%202024).).


At the same time consumers’ expectations of inflation in 2025 jumped from 3.3 percent in January to 4.3 percent. That’s the second month in a row of increased expectation of inflation, and the highest in more than a year.

“It’s very rare to see a full percentage point jump in inflation expectations,” Hsu noted, who pointed out that it’s only the fifth time in 14 years with such a large one-month increase.

[Winehole23]

"fire, aim, ready"


Donald Trump pauses tariffs on low-cost parcels in US-China trade reprieveRepeal of ‘de minimis’ exemption had sparked turmoil at US customs and postal service as shipments piled up
https://archive.is/Dczzo#selection-1733.0-1737.107

[ducks]

President Donald J. Trump hits all-time high approval rating for a CBS poll at +6

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1888597337242534096

[ducks]

In a huge victory for MAGA, 70% of Americans say Trump is following through on his promises

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1888597992573141210

[Winehole23]

this is literally what judges are for -- to check the power of the other two branches


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:xjmm5p4z25uzdieisuplduwz/bafkreibpaiteoytli5n5byujmh6bjbqkwodourz3nauywjxxt s3bpetjai@jpeg

[Spurs Homer]

:cheer:cheer


https://youtu.be/_A02tjjFfd8?si=1N26sLNueXmvuUyq

[GAustex]

:cheer:cheer


https://youtu.be/_A02tjjFfd8?si=1N26sLNueXmvuUyq

lol Lincoln Project

Child molesters

[Winehole23]

just call em all pedos, the qanon thing

[Winehole23]

everyone thinks Chris Rufo is a genius for doing the same bit

[Winehole23]

someone else's opportunity now

power isn't all bullets and bombs

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s6yushuqlhjfhnzxw4ydkxxr/bafkreiborraqxigbsouzjngpb2lmwtjy6glqot3gndc4rmf2z ohfzebhri@jpeg

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ukxzn7tys6q2zjchojy67evg/bafkreiacg32gv4jiqseyejesppysw7ineap3mgfsl5scf2yjd 2dsexaf74@jpeg

[Winehole23]

the number one cause of death for pregnant women in the USA is homicide, mainly by boyfriends and husbands



https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:odni6vxm6u2hydonytgjhvfn/bafkreibu57k5lywrgotuedfmfingrpbavpbnx2xjm55daetos 5avo3bxuy@jpeg

[Blake]

In a huge victory for MAGA, 70% of Americans say Trump is following through on his promises

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1888597992573141210

What exactly is better in your life today than a year ago? List the ways. Go.

[Blake]

lol Lincoln Project

Child molesters

Does the Trump family still use Epstein's jet?

[GAustex]

In real time
You are losing
It is crumbling all about you
And you are powerless to stop it
Your only chance is to take it to the streets
Burn something

[ChumpDumper]

In real time
You are losing
It is crumbling all about you
And you are powerless to stop it
Your only chance is to take it to the streets
Burn something

You're brain damaged

[Winehole23]

we could be in for a Brexit-like outcome where US people end up collectively poorer and the US is less powerful and less respected than before

there's no guarantee only libtards will be hurt, in fact it's practically impossible

[Winehole23]

It looks perversely self-wounding as a nation to vandalize the professional civil service and research institutions willy nilly.

Large institutions -- learning, medicine, teaching, science, a variegated professional civil service -- are literally being torn down and millions of people downstream are getting sacked by Trump/El0n

Those people are the government. If we dismiss them all contemptuously, we lose their ability and knowledge probably forever.

We also miss the good they have done and do for us collectively. Their public service.

[Blake]

In real time
You are losing
It is crumbling all about you
And you are powerless to stop it
Your only chance is to take it to the streets
Burn something

At least make it rhyme

[Winehole23]

Trump impinging on congressional powers this way also tends to crater out the nonprofit world that has now fallen under Trump's anti-dei, whole of government, censorship of naughty words program

[GAustex]

At least make it rhyme
Ha ha imagine bongos when your re-read it

Also remember this
How does he keep winning
Despite how hard you tried
You are failing spectacularly

[Winehole23]

the people who say government does only evil are ontologically and practically wrong: government is good

wrecking it will cause untold collective misery

[Winehole23]

in passing, El0n's technofascist coup in progress seems somewhat at odds with the 50 year project of the far-right to have a far-right SCOTUS and judicial supremacy

[Winehole23]

this is dynamite


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreigogul53ykq6gwvmbwpsdnstiwtmy7nqguhpauhh55h2 utrhlwcnm@jpeghttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-09/trump-suggests-musk-found-irregularities-in-us-treasuries

[SnakeBoy]

1888595548988379594

[Winehole23]

are Trump's brains starting to leak out of his ears?

[Winehole23]

*defense sector lobbying intensifies*


"I'm gonna tell Elon very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. He's gonna find the same thing. Then I'm gonna go to the military. Let's check the military. We're gonna find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse."

[Winehole23]

his basic idea about debt, like musk's, is that repaying it is optional, and that if you're a big enough debtor you can just threaten your creditor with default and they'll accept a writedown. he's done this his entire life. he does not understand that his creditor is "every bank."

[Winehole23]

Trump doesn't understand that having a trade deficit with Canada is a good thing, it means we're a much bigger country with a lot more to spend


"I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada, and I'm not gonna let that happen."

[Winehole23]

The largest employment sector in ME, MA, RI, CT, PA, MD, DE, MN, ND, SD, AZ, UT, ID, WA, and AK are hospitals and med centers.

In VT, NY, NC, MI, IA, NE, NM, CA, and HI: public universities.

[Winehole23]

Trump left the halftime show early so he could ban the penny.

It isn't the worst idea in the world, but Trump can't ban the penny -- that power belongs to Congress.

[GAustex]

President motorcade goofs up traffic
Pretty thoughtful to clear before the game lets out.

Not surprising you would find an issue with this since you are a

[ChumpDumper]

President motorcade goofs up traffic
Pretty thoughtful to clear before the game lets out.

Not surprising you would find an issue with this since you are a

Are you typing via a straw in your mouth?

[Winehole23]

President motorcade goofs up traffic
Pretty thoughtful to clear before the game lets out.

Not surprising you would find an issue with this since you are aI don't have an issue with it, nobody has to stay for the whole movie.

Seems like you're the one straining to find fault.

[Winehole23]

it's Trump's ignorance of stuff like this that grates


Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5:The Congress shall have Power: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;.

[Winehole23]

I swear we never had a president who worried less about the law and the details than Trump

[ChumpDumper]

He's just doing what he's told.

[Thread]

I swear we never had a president who worried less about the law and the details than Trump

He learned that tact from you fellows during his first tern. He figured you didn't bother to obey the law, why should he. I'd run those fuckin' (courts) out of their fuckin' minds, Winester.

You know; let's see who blinks first & then last.

[Winehole23]

LOWER WAGES AND LOWER ECONOMIC GROWTH WILL BEAT INFLATION

(but where will the new labor supply come from?)

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gw2fsndvtekbzu7tacvrgnyt/bafkreih3i3coj5drfd4wdxbj4mvpfzovynmvbau54h66vagns yiq4hf5fu@jpeg

[Blake]

LOWER WAGES AND LOWER ECONOMIC GROWTH WILL BEAT INFLATION

(but where will the new labor supply come from?)

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gw2fsndvtekbzu7tacvrgnyt/bafkreih3i3coj5drfd4wdxbj4mvpfzovynmvbau54h66vagns yiq4hf5fu@jpeg

Maybe he'll raise federal minimum wage to $8 an hour

[ChumpDumper]

LOWER WAGES AND LOWER ECONOMIC GROWTH WILL BEAT INFLATION

(but where will the new labor supply come from?)

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gw2fsndvtekbzu7tacvrgnyt/bafkreih3i3coj5drfd4wdxbj4mvpfzovynmvbau54h66vagns yiq4hf5fu@jpeg

Kicking people off disability and taking away their ramps.

[Blake]

Kicking people off disability and taking away their ramps.

But how will our governor get around

[ChumpDumper]

But how will our governor get aroundUndocumented workers will carry him about on a palanquin.

[SnakeBoy]

1889080167387046388

[ChumpDumper]

1889080167387046388

Is this, in your opinion, an important thing to do?

[Spurs Homer]

FAFO


https://youtu.be/u49-8NDGdrc?si=tB4lSqBP9skfE-sv

[SnakeBoy]

lol Rick Wilson

[Winehole23]

While Trump and his henchmen deconstruct the administrative state, his lawyers are embracing the logic of dictatorship. The core argument emerging in their legal filings and executive orders — one without support anywhere in the Constitution or the law — is that simply by being elected, Trump has the power to do whatever he wants.https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-article-2-dictator-logic

[Winehole23]

Similarly, the administration’s argument that Trump’s sweeping changes to border enforcement are constitutional is based only on the assertion that if Trump thinks existing immigration laws are ineffective, he has the authority to basically make new ones on his own. This level of overreach is truly wild, and if Republicans in Congress were not fully in thrall to Trump’s dictatorial dreams, it would be a five-alarm fire in both the House and the Senate.

[Blake]

1889080167387046388

Waste of government time.

How's the health care plan coming?

[Yonivore]

I didn't come up empty

Trump is a straight crook

It still counts if you don't get caught, maybe even more.
What has he not been caught doing? What do you suspect he's doing?

The real crook, as many of us have known for years and some of us are just finding out, are the NGOs that have been sucking on the USAID teat for decades. NGOs like the Clinton Foundation who raped and pillaged the 98% of the funds they were given (by US taxpayers) to help Haiti. People like George Soros.

[Yonivore]

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-article-2-dictator-logic
Acting as the Executive and deciding what happens in the Executive Branch is covered in Article II, Section 2 of the U. S. Constitution. As far as I can tell, President Trump hasn't taken any Presidential Actions that aren't under his purview as the elected head of the Executive Branch.

[Thread]

Acting as the Executive and deciding what happens in the Executive Branch is covered in Article II, Section 2 of the U. S. Constitution. As far as I can tell, President Trump hasn't taken any Presidential Actions that aren't under his purview as the elected head of the Executive Branch.

Which is why if I were him I'd disavow any court that rules against him in these matters and would call for Marines to be brought to the White House in the event action would even be contemplated for him.

We may as well have this out now in broad daylight & plain view so everybody understands precisely what is happening.

[Blake]

Acting as the Executive and deciding what happens in the Executive Branch is covered in Article II, Section 2 of the U. S. Constitution. As far as I can tell, President Trump hasn't taken any Presidential Actions that aren't under his purview as the elected head of the Executive Branch.

Lol "as far as I can tell".

We know: you have a friend of a friend that's a lawyer that thinks these judges halting the actions are the ones that are wrong

[Blake]

What has he not been caught doing? What do you suspect he's doing?

The real crook, as many of us have known for years and some of us are just finding out, are the NGOs that have been sucking on the USAID teat for decades. NGOs like the Clinton Foundation who raped and pillaged the 98% of the funds they were given (by US taxpayers) to help Haiti. People like George Soros.

Trump University always comes to mind for starters

[Winehole23]

What has he not been caught doing? What do you suspect he's doing?
have been sucking on the USAID teat for decades. NGOs like the Clinton Foundation who raped and pillaged the 98% of the funds they were given (by US taxpayers) to help Haiti. People like George Soros.have a real audit and lay the evidence before Congress to fix it

there's no legal basis for the president to dissolve agencies by decree

[Winehole23]

Acting as the Executive and deciding what happens in the Executive Branch is covered in Article II, Section 2 of the U. S. Constitution. As far as I can tell, President Trump hasn't taken any Presidential Actions that aren't under his purview as the elected head of the Executive Branch.apparently a number of federal judges don't see it that way

[Winehole23]

What has he not been caught doing? What do you suspect he's doing?

The real crook, as many of us have known for years and some of us are just finding out, are the NGOs that have been sucking on the USAID teat for decades. NGOs like the Clinton Foundation who raped and pillaged the 98% of the funds they were given (by US taxpayers) to help Haiti. People like George Soros.Rape and business fraud should be enough.

Once upon a time merely being under investigation or indictment was disqualifying.

[Winehole23]

y'all's relationship with the law is totally contumelious and cynical, it only applies to your enemies and is a manifest injustice otherwise

[Thread]

y'all's relationship with the law is totally contumelious and cynical, it only applies to your enemies and is a manifest injustice otherwise

You have this comin' for PA. & FL., Winester.

Your regrets are your own.
I've no sympathy for you.

[Winehole23]

this is redlining

the net effect of the whole of government anti-DEI push is resegregation


The US DOT says it's planning to prioritize areas with high marriage & high birth rates for funding.Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this would disproportionately fund:

—Communities with a higher white resident share
—Low-density areas
—High-income areas
—Car-dependent areashttps://www.urban.org/urban-wire/dots-plan-distribute-funding-birth-and-marriage-rates-would-leave-communities-most-need

[Winehole23]

Trump doing a solid for the voucher lobby by getting rid of education statistics



https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b4vp3zfxy65hicjc4qijdp7m/bafkreiak6wh5axxkyzrmaki6nln5x4wronrfddedr6qbwmmrw 6dxb6kkdi@jpeg

[Spurs Homer]

Welp, at least canada/canadiens are still SANE and responding with way more balls than pussy democrat “leaders”…
fascinating conversation and message to the orange hitler;


https://youtu.be/JH1A6NsqIJ0?si=ZGox4oY4HLJG2c8I

[Yonivore]

have a real audit and lay the evidence before Congress to fix it
That's what he's trying to do.


there's no legal basis for the president to dissolve agencies by decree
Which agency did he dissolve?

[TSA]

apparently a number of federal judges don't see it that way

https://x.com/josh_hammer/status/1889324099219955985

Vance hit back at the judges for trying to restrict the president in his own sphere and overriding his decisions as to how best to carry out the law (the execute in the “executive branch”). As the Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule put it an X post, reshared by Vance, “judicial interference with legitimate acts of state, especially the internal functioning of a co-equal branch, is a violation of the separation of powers”.

But the judges’ actions raise another vexing constitutional question: can a lower court with narrow local jurisdiction render so-called nationwide injunctions that purport to bind every American citizen? By seemingly refusing to comply, the Trump administration is effectively answering: no. In doing so, according to The New York Times, the Trumpians have triggered an unprecedented “constitutional crisis”. In recent years, as legal progressives have sought to limit presidential power when it’s held by the other side, it’s become a sort of truism that a lower court in Hawaii or, say, New Hampshire can put a stop to a federal policy covering the whole nation.

In fact, the argument isn’t obvious at all, and there is good reason to believe that America’s Founding Fathers would have been baffled by such gross assertions of judicial hegemony.

Start with the constitutional text. The first clause of Article III of the Constitution reads: “The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” Read that carefully once more. This so-called vesting clause has at least two notable elements.

First, the only court that shall be established is the US Supreme Court. All other lower courts exist solely at the discretion of Congress, as they have since the Judiciary Act of 1789 — one of the first statutes the First Congress passed. But something created by statute can be taken away by statute. The Federalist’s Sean Davis might have appeared to be trolling when he noted on X that “Congress would be well within its right to just eliminate” any lower courts. In fact, Davis was restating a basic fact about America’s constitutional structure. That precarious state of the lower courts should already tell us something about their authority to neuter executive-branch policy for the whole country.

Second, and more relevant, is what the “judicial Power” means as it is used in Article III of the Constitution. As the University of Chicago Law School professor Will Baude argued in a highly influential 2008 law-review article, “the judicial power is the power to issue binding judgments and to settle legal disputes within the court’s jurisdiction”.

The deepest question raised by this is the following: what is a federal court’s legitimate jurisdiction when it comes to issuing injunctions — a form of “equitable remedy” in legalese, meaning the court tells one party to perform some act (rather than award damages). In this case, for example, it’s courts ordering the executive branch that it has to automatically grant US citizenship to children born to unlawful migrants.

The answer is simple: when it comes to this kind of remedy, only the named parties to a particular lawsuit are bound by the judgment. So to follow our example: a lower court can only order the federal government to treat as an automatic citizen a specific infant born on US soil to an illegal mother from Honduras. Call him Baby Doe. But a lower court lacks the authority to force the executive branch to grant automatic citizenship to Baby Doe and all other similarly situated children nationwide.

As then-Stanford law professor Jonathan Mitchell argued in a 2018 law-review article, an “injunction is nothing more than a judicially imposed non-enforcement policy” that “forbids the named defendants to enforce the statute” — or executive order — “while the court’s order remains in place.” There is no broader “writ of erasure” that permits a lower court to simply “strike down” a statute or an executive order.

Nationwide injunctions applying to all people across a vast continental nation have no basis in the Anglo-American legal tradition. Rather, the proper scope of a federal court’s power to issue such remedies is restricted to “the defendant’s conduct only with respect to the plaintiff”, as Samuel L. Bray, the Notre Dame legal scholar, argued in a 2017 law-review article

Sceptics of nationwide injunctions aren’t limited to the legal academy. They include Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court. As Thomas explained in his 2018 concurring opinion in the landmark Trump v. Hawaii case, historically, “American courts of equity did not provide relief beyond the parties to the case”, because “for most of our history, courts understood judicial power as fundamentally the power to render judgments in individual cases”. Presciently, Thomas concluded his opinion by warning: “If federal courts continue to issue them, this Court is dutybound to adjudicate their authority to do so”.

That day has not yet come, but it might soon enough, as the clash between the second Trump administration and legal progressives reaches a crescendo.

https://unherd.com/2025/02/anti-trump-judges-sparked-a-legal-crisis/

[ChumpDumper]

That's what he's trying to do.Let's see the documents.

Complete transparency.

[ChumpDumper]

https://x.com/josh_hammer/status/1889324099219955985

Vance hit back at the judges for trying to restrict the president in his own sphere and overriding his decisions as to how best to carry out the law (the execute in the “executive branch”). As the Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule put it an X post, reshared by Vance, “judicial interference with legitimate acts of state, especially the internal functioning of a co-equal branch, is a violation of the separation of powers”.

But the judges’ actions raise another vexing constitutional question: can a lower court with narrow local jurisdiction render so-called nationwide injunctions that purport to bind every American citizen? By seemingly refusing to comply, the Trump administration is effectively answering: no. In doing so, according to The New York Times, the Trumpians have triggered an unprecedented “constitutional crisis”. In recent years, as legal progressives have sought to limit presidential power when it’s held by the other side, it’s become a sort of truism that a lower court in Hawaii or, say, New Hampshire can put a stop to a federal policy covering the whole nation.

In fact, the argument isn’t obvious at all, and there is good reason to believe that America’s Founding Fathers would have been baffled by such gross assertions of judicial hegemony.

Start with the constitutional text. The first clause of Article III of the Constitution reads: “The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” Read that carefully once more. This so-called vesting clause has at least two notable elements.

First, the only court that shall be established is the US Supreme Court. All other lower courts exist solely at the discretion of Congress, as they have since the Judiciary Act of 1789 — one of the first statutes the First Congress passed. But something created by statute can be taken away by statute. The Federalist’s Sean Davis might have appeared to be trolling when he noted on X that “Congress would be well within its right to just eliminate” any lower courts. In fact, Davis was restating a basic fact about America’s constitutional structure. That precarious state of the lower courts should already tell us something about their authority to neuter executive-branch policy for the whole country.

Second, and more relevant, is what the “judicial Power” means as it is used in Article III of the Constitution. As the University of Chicago Law School professor Will Baude argued in a highly influential 2008 law-review article, “the judicial power is the power to issue binding judgments and to settle legal disputes within the court’s jurisdiction”.

The deepest question raised by this is the following: what is a federal court’s legitimate jurisdiction when it comes to issuing injunctions — a form of “equitable remedy” in legalese, meaning the court tells one party to perform some act (rather than award damages). In this case, for example, it’s courts ordering the executive branch that it has to automatically grant US citizenship to children born to unlawful migrants.

The answer is simple: when it comes to this kind of remedy, only the named parties to a particular lawsuit are bound by the judgment. So to follow our example: a lower court can only order the federal government to treat as an automatic citizen a specific infant born on US soil to an illegal mother from Honduras. Call him Baby Doe. But a lower court lacks the authority to force the executive branch to grant automatic citizenship to Baby Doe and all other similarly situated children nationwide.

As then-Stanford law professor Jonathan Mitchell argued in a 2018 law-review article, an “injunction is nothing more than a judicially imposed non-enforcement policy” that “forbids the named defendants to enforce the statute” — or executive order — “while the court’s order remains in place.” There is no broader “writ of erasure” that permits a lower court to simply “strike down” a statute or an executive order.

Nationwide injunctions applying to all people across a vast continental nation have no basis in the Anglo-American legal tradition. Rather, the proper scope of a federal court’s power to issue such remedies is restricted to “the defendant’s conduct only with respect to the plaintiff”, as Samuel L. Bray, the Notre Dame legal scholar, argued in a 2017 law-review article

Sceptics of nationwide injunctions aren’t limited to the legal academy. They include Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court. As Thomas explained in his 2018 concurring opinion in the landmark Trump v. Hawaii case, historically, “American courts of equity did not provide relief beyond the parties to the case”, because “for most of our history, courts understood judicial power as fundamentally the power to render judgments in individual cases”. Presciently, Thomas concluded his opinion by warning: “If federal courts continue to issue them, this Court is dutybound to adjudicate their authority to do so”.

That day has not yet come, but it might soon enough, as the clash between the second Trump administration and legal progressives reaches a crescendo.

https://unherd.com/2025/02/anti-trump-judges-sparked-a-legal-crisis/So the only federal court is the Supreme Court?
lol

[Yonivore]

apparently a number of federal judges don't see it that way
It's possibly theses judges are either unfamiliar with, or are ignoring, several laws pertaining to budgetary matters, exclusive to the Congress and Executive; and, having nothing to do with the Judiciary.

In addition to the Impoundment Act of 1974, the following may apply:

The Anti-Deficiency Act.
The Federal Managers Financial Integrity Act.

Both of which basically state, the Executive is allowed to pause spending if, it is found (in the Anti-Deficiency Act) spending is in excess of that appropriated or (in the Federal Managers Financial Integrity Act) fraud, waste, and abuse are found. In both cases, such pauses in spending must be temporary and in accordance with the Impoundment Act of 1974. Since I couldn't find time frames (other than temporary) in either of those acts, I'm assuming [granted, I'm not a lawyer] the timeframes in the Impoundment Act apply. Prove me wrong.

I still maintain these activist judges are the ones committing the coup.

[ChumpDumper]

Show me the special letter.

[TSA]

https://x.com/josh_hammer/status/1889324099219955985

Vance hit back at the judges for trying to restrict the president in his own sphere and overriding his decisions as to how best to carry out the law (the execute in the “executive branch”). As the Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule put it an X post, reshared by Vance, “judicial interference with legitimate acts of state, especially the internal functioning of a co-equal branch, is a violation of the separation of powers”.

But the judges’ actions raise another vexing constitutional question: can a lower court with narrow local jurisdiction render so-called nationwide injunctions that purport to bind every American citizen? By seemingly refusing to comply, the Trump administration is effectively answering: no. In doing so, according to The New York Times, the Trumpians have triggered an unprecedented “constitutional crisis”. In recent years, as legal progressives have sought to limit presidential power when it’s held by the other side, it’s become a sort of truism that a lower court in Hawaii or, say, New Hampshire can put a stop to a federal policy covering the whole nation.

In fact, the argument isn’t obvious at all, and there is good reason to believe that America’s Founding Fathers would have been baffled by such gross assertions of judicial hegemony.

Start with the constitutional text. The first clause of Article III of the Constitution reads: “The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” Read that carefully once more. This so-called vesting clause has at least two notable elements.

First, the only court that shall be established is the US Supreme Court. All other lower courts exist solely at the discretion of Congress, as they have since the Judiciary Act of 1789 — one of the first statutes the First Congress passed. But something created by statute can be taken away by statute. The Federalist’s Sean Davis might have appeared to be trolling when he noted on X that “Congress would be well within its right to just eliminate” any lower courts. In fact, Davis was restating a basic fact about America’s constitutional structure. That precarious state of the lower courts should already tell us something about their authority to neuter executive-branch policy for the whole country.

Second, and more relevant, is what the “judicial Power” means as it is used in Article III of the Constitution. As the University of Chicago Law School professor Will Baude argued in a highly influential 2008 law-review article, “the judicial power is the power to issue binding judgments and to settle legal disputes within the court’s jurisdiction”.

The deepest question raised by this is the following: what is a federal court’s legitimate jurisdiction when it comes to issuing injunctions — a form of “equitable remedy” in legalese, meaning the court tells one party to perform some act (rather than award damages). In this case, for example, it’s courts ordering the executive branch that it has to automatically grant US citizenship to children born to unlawful migrants.

The answer is simple: when it comes to this kind of remedy, only the named parties to a particular lawsuit are bound by the judgment. So to follow our example: a lower court can only order the federal government to treat as an automatic citizen a specific infant born on US soil to an illegal mother from Honduras. Call him Baby Doe. But a lower court lacks the authority to force the executive branch to grant automatic citizenship to Baby Doe and all other similarly situated children nationwide.

As then-Stanford law professor Jonathan Mitchell argued in a 2018 law-review article, an “injunction is nothing more than a judicially imposed non-enforcement policy” that “forbids the named defendants to enforce the statute” — or executive order — “while the court’s order remains in place.” There is no broader “writ of erasure” that permits a lower court to simply “strike down” a statute or an executive order.

Nationwide injunctions applying to all people across a vast continental nation have no basis in the Anglo-American legal tradition. Rather, the proper scope of a federal court’s power to issue such remedies is restricted to “the defendant’s conduct only with respect to the plaintiff”, as Samuel L. Bray, the Notre Dame legal scholar, argued in a 2017 law-review article

Sceptics of nationwide injunctions aren’t limited to the legal academy. They include Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court. As Thomas explained in his 2018 concurring opinion in the landmark Trump v. Hawaii case, historically, “American courts of equity did not provide relief beyond the parties to the case”, because “for most of our history, courts understood judicial power as fundamentally the power to render judgments in individual cases”. Presciently, Thomas concluded his opinion by warning: “If federal courts continue to issue them, this Court is dutybound to adjudicate their authority to do so”.

That day has not yet come, but it might soon enough, as the clash between the second Trump administration and legal progressives reaches a crescendo.

https://unherd.com/2025/02/anti-trump-judges-sparked-a-legal-crisis/

https://x.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1889302622290448627

[Yonivore]

Show me the special letter.
It doesn't have to be public. Ask your elected representative if they received it.

[ChumpDumper]

It doesn't have to be public. Ask your elected representative if they received it.What is your excuse for Trump's hiding it from the public?

[ChumpDumper]

https://x.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1889302622290448627

:tu

[Yonivore]

What is your excuse for Trump's hiding it from the public?
So, here's the relevant question you should be asking:

Was the notice transmitted, as required by the ICA? I suspect, if it wasn't, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, et. al. would have already said so. They haven't.

Do I care what it says? No. Do I care if it was properly transmitted as required in the ICA? Yes. (I think my second question is already answered absent any objection for the Democrat in Congress.)

I think they're just trying to run out the 45-day clock so spending can be reinstated.

[ChumpDumper]

So, here's the relevant question you should be asking:

Was the notice transmitted, as required by the ICA? I suspect, if it wasn't, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, et. al. would have already said so. They haven't.

Do I care what it says? No. Do I care if it was properly transmitted as required in the ICA? Yes. (I think my second question is already answered absent any objection for the Democrat in Congress.)

I think they're just trying to run out the 45-day clock so spending can be reinstated.It's supposed to be in the Federal Registry right now, according to the text of the act you linked.

Is it there? I haven't found it yet.

[Yonivore]

It's supposed to be in the Federal Registry right now, according to the text of the act you linked.

Is it there? I haven't found it yet.
Cite the portion of the ICA requiring publication of the notice in the Federal Register.

I can't find the words "Publish," "Federal Register," or "Register" anywhere in the Act.

[ChumpDumper]

Cite the portion of the ICA requiring publication of the notice in the Federal Register.

I can't find the words "Publish," "Federal Register," or "Register" anywhere in the Act.

Holy shit -- you didn't even read your own link?

:rollin:rollin:rollin

(d) Printing in Federal Register
Any special message transmitted under section 683 or 684 of this title, and any supplementary message transmitted under subsection (c), shall be printed in the first issue of the Federal Register published after such transmittal.

I can't read it for you.

[ChumpDumper]

Then he is required to report what he's doing:

(e) Cumulative reports of proposed rescissions, reservations, and deferrals of budget authority
(1) The President shall submit a report to the House of Representatives and the Senate, not later than the 10th day of each month during a fiscal year, listing all budget authority for that fiscal year with respect to which, as of the first day of such month—

(A) he has transmitted a special message under section 683 of this title with respect to a proposed rescission or a reservation; and

(B) he has transmitted a special message under section 684 of this title proposing a deferral.


Such report shall also contain, with respect to each such proposed rescission or deferral, or each such reservation, the information required to be submitted in the special message with respect thereto under section 683 or 684 of this title.

(2) Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall be printed in the first issue of the Federal Register published after its submission.

(Pub. L. 93–344, title X, §1014, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 335.)

[Yonivore]

Holy shit -- you didn't even read your own link?

:rollin:rollin:rollin

(d) Printing in Federal Register
Any special message transmitted under section 683 or 684 of this title, and any supplementary message transmitted under subsection (c), shall be printed in the first issue of the Federal Register published after such transmittal.

I can't read it for you.
My bad, my browser was still on the Anti-Deficiency Act. I've corrected my error in another thread. ICA does not require the notice to be published...only those items produced pursuant to section 683 and 684.

You're right, you shouldn't have to read it for me.

[ChumpDumper]

My bad, my browser was still on the Anti-Deficiency Act. I've corrected my error in another thread. ICA does not require the notice to be published...only those items produced pursuant to section 683 and 684.685 says and messages sent under 683 and 684 are required to be printed in the Federal Registry.

So where are they?

Your claim is he sent those messages.

There are manty pages in the registry so I could definitely be missing them.

[Yonivore]

Then he is required to report what he's doing:

(e) Cumulative reports of proposed rescissions, reservations, and deferrals of budget authority
(1) The President shall submit a report to the House of Representatives and the Senate, not later than the 10th day of each month during a fiscal year, listing all budget authority for that fiscal year with respect to which, as of the first day of such month—

(A) he has transmitted a special message under section 683 of this title with respect to a proposed rescission or a reservation; and

(B) he has transmitted a special message under section 684 of this title proposing a deferral.


Such report shall also contain, with respect to each such proposed rescission or deferral, or each such reservation, the information required to be submitted in the special message with respect thereto under section 683 or 684 of this title.

(2) Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall be printed in the first issue of the Federal Register published after its submission.

(Pub. L. 93–344, title X, §1014, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 335.)
Do we know if any cumulative reports, reservations, or deferrals have been formally proposed? The may be separate and apart from his special notice, pursuant to section 685 and have their own timeline. Do you know?

[ChumpDumper]

Do we know if any cumulative reports, reservations, or deferrals have been formally proposed? The may be separate and apart from his special notice, pursuant to section 685 and have their own timeline. Do you know?So he's not using this act all all?

Which law is he executing then?

Pick a lane.

[Yonivore]

685 says and messages sent under 683 and 684 are required to be printed in the Federal Registry.

So where are they?

Your claim is he sent those messages.

There are manty pages in the registry so I could definitely be missing them.
Ask the GAO, it's their responsibility to both publish any notices received and to publish any violations of notices that were supposed to be received and weren't.

I'm satisfied if President Trump has violated the ICA of 1974, it would have already been pointed by a legal mind sharper than yours, Chump.

[ChumpDumper]

Ask the GAO, it's their responsibility to both publish any notices received and to publish any violations of notices that were supposed to be received and weren't.

I'm satisfied if President Trump has violated the ICA of 1974, it would have already been pointed by a legal mind sharper than yours, Chump.Why are you satisfied?

Did Trump say he sent the message?

Where is it?

So now the GAO is breaking the law?

[Yonivore]

Why are you satisfied?

Did Trump say he sent the message?

Where is it?

So now the GAO is breaking the law?
I'm satisfied for two reasons.

1) If he was in violation of the ICA, I'm damn sure I would have heard about it from someone other than a gnat buzzing around the Spurstalk Political Forum, and;
2) I am happy with the actions President Trump is taking to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse in the Executive Branch.

[ChumpDumper]

I'm satisfied for two reasons.

1) If he was in violation of the ICA, I'm damn sure I would have heard about it from someone other than a gnat buzzing around the Spurstalk Political Forum, and;
2) I am happy with the actions President Trump is taking to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse in the Executive Branch.You brought up the possibility he isn't even using the ICA.

If Trump sent the message and it should now be public anyway, what's stopping anyone -- Trump, any member of Congress, anyone in the GAO -- from just putting it up online?

PS "2) I'm satisfied because I'm happy" is fantastically circular.

[Yonivore]

You brought up the possibility he isn't even using the ICA.

If Trump sent the message and it should now be public anyway, what's stopping anyone -- Trump, any member of Congress, anyone in the GAO -- from just putting it up online?

PS "2) I'm satisfied because I'm happy" is fantastically circular.
You've lost track of the conversation - as usual.

Back on ignore.

[ChumpDumper]

You've lost track of the conversation - as usual.Nope.

It's not my job to understand the law you linked for you.

You're upset because the law you touted and tried to wave in my face isn't actually being followed at all and now you're going to pretend this conversation didn't happen.:lol

I'd be much more comfortable with all this if Trump was actually working within the provisions of the law you have been trying to cite and have failed to understand.

He isn't.

I would respect you more if you just accepted you were wrong and fell back to the Nixonian "if the president does it, it's legal" gambit.

[Spurs Homer]

Trump cultists will cheer for lawlessness and dictatorship no matter what...

trying to reason and ask them to show their legal/rightful grounds for their support of any trump crime is just futile...

"if trump team does it - its all ok - ill trust dear leader! - fuck the constitution if dear leader says to fuck the constitution!"

in a nutshell...

[SnakeBoy]

1889379862680576405

[Blake]

1889379862680576405

blockage of Ukraine funds coming next

[SnakeBoy]

blockage of Ukraine funds coming next

That would be nice

[Yonivore]

First defensive volley fired in the attempted Judicial coup!

MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF EMERGENCY MOTION TO DISSOLVE,
CLARIFY, OR MODIFY EX PARTE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609.12.0.pdf)

It begins by giving the Judge a lesson in Constitutional Law he shouldn't need.


At approximately 1:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 8, 2025, this Court issued an ex parte Temporary Restraining Order that purported to limit access to a vast swath of Treasury systems to only “civil servants,” while prohibiting “all political appointees” from doing the same. On its face, the Order could be read to cover all political leadership within Treasury—including even Secretary Bessent. This is a remarkable intrusion on the Executive Branch that is in direct conflict with Article II of the Constitution, and the unitary structure it provides. There is not and cannot be a basis for distinguishing between “civil servants” and “political appointees.” Basic democratic accountability requires that every executive agency’s work be supervised by politically accountable leadership, who ultimately answer to the President. A federal court, consistent with the separation of powers, cannot insulate any portion of that work from the specter of political accountability. No court can issue an injunction that directly severs the clear line of supervision Article II requires. Because the Order on its face draws an impermissible and anti-constitutional distinction, it should be dissolved immediately.

[ChumpDumper]

:lol that's not what separation of powers means

[Yonivore]

And, they're going to try and impeach the judge.

BREAKING: Rep. Eli Crane Drafts ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT Against Obama Appointee Judge Paul Engelmayer (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-rep-eli-crane-drafts-articles-impeachment-against/)

[ChumpDumper]

And, they're going to try and impeach the judge.

BREAKING: Rep. Eli Crane Drafts ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT Against Obama Appointee Judge Paul Engelmayer (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-rep-eli-crane-drafts-articles-impeachment-against/)

:lmao

[Yonivore]

Partial win.

Court Partially Modifies Ex Parte Treasury TRO – Only Senior Officials Restored To Access (https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/02/court-partially-modifies-ex-parte-treasury-tro-only-senior-officials-restored-to-access/)

[Blake]

That would be nice

More delicious lib tears!

[Thread]

And, they're going to try and impeach the judge.

BREAKING: Rep. Eli Crane Drafts ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT Against Obama Appointee Judge Paul Engelmayer (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-rep-eli-crane-drafts-articles-impeachment-against/)

Outstanding!!!

[Winehole23]

El0n/Trump are screwing businesses

If they continue to fuck up transfer payments it will get wild


WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development is stiffing American businesses on hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid bills for work that has already been done, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The administration’s abrupt freeze on foreign aid also is forcing mass layoffs by U.S. suppliers and contractors for USAID, including 750 furloughs at one company, Washington-based Chemonics International, the lawsuit says.

“One cannot overstate the impact of that unlawful course of conduct: on businesses large and small forced to shut down their programs and let employees go; on hungry children across the globe who will go without; on populations around the world facing deadly disease; and on our constitutional order,” the U.S. businesses and organizations said.https://apnews.com/article/usaid-american-companies-layoffs-lawsuit-8c116d877c179169fbce2d3348fcd997

[Thread]

El0n/Trump are screwing businesses

If they continue to fuck up transfer payments it will get wild

https://apnews.com/article/usaid-american-companies-layoffs-lawsuit-8c116d877c179169fbce2d3348fcd997

Whatever it takes.

[Yonivore]

What do you know, a Yale Law Professor disagrees with Chump.

Yale Law Prof Backs Vance’s Claim: DOGE-Blocking Judge Violated Constitution (https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/yale-law-prof-backs-vances-claim-doge-blocking-judge-violated-constitution)

[ChumpDumper]

What do you know, a Yale Law Professor disagrees with Chump.

Yale Law Prof Backs Vance’s Claim: DOGE-Blocking Judge Violated Constitution (https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/yale-law-prof-backs-vances-claim-doge-blocking-judge-violated-constitution)

Is the matter being discussed commanding military operations or exercising prosecutorial discretion?

Because that's all this guy was talking about.

And really, I'll just post the decision from Marbury v. Madison if you like.

[Winehole23]

Whatever it takes.If white people get scared about their money, y'all are in for a world of hurt

[Winehole23]

hell, we all are

[Winehole23]

what a petty bitch


Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“

[Blake]

what a petty bitch

Eh he would have found some other reason to ban them

[Winehole23]

will be more interesting to see if AP sucks up to Trump

it won't cost them anything but self-respect

it probably won't cost them many readers, everybody rips off the AP wire

[Yonivore]

what a petty bitch
The Left and the media (but I repeat myself) have spent the past 8+ years trying to destroy the man; he's got no fucks left to give and he's got plenty of people to help him with the weighty and frivolous alike.

Google's on board.

https://i.postimg.cc/K88C7wMr/Screenshot-2025-02-11-183145.png

[Winehole23]

The Left and the media (but I repeat myself) have spent the past 8+ years trying to destroy the manboo hoo

Trump earned every bit

[Yonivore]

boo hoo

Trump earned every bit
While I disagree, we'll see who comes out on top.

[ChumpDumper]

The Left and the media (but I repeat myself) have spent the past 8+ years trying to destroy the man; he's got no fucks left to give and he's got plenty of people to help him with the weighty and frivolous alike.

Google's on board.

https://i.postimg.cc/K88C7wMr/Screenshot-2025-02-11-183145.png

It'll be just as easy to change it back.

Unlike the other stuff he's fucking up.

[Yonivore]

AOC is a MAGA supporter now? Who knew?

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1889337281518969102

[Thread]

The Left and the media (but I repeat myself) have spent the past 8+ years trying to destroy the man; he's got no fucks left to give and he's got plenty of people to help him with the weighty and frivolous alike.

Google's on board.

https://i.postimg.cc/K88C7wMr/Screenshot-2025-02-11-183145.png

Yep!!!

[Thread]

AOC is a MAGA supporter now? Who knew?

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1889337281518969102

WOOT!!!

[Winehole23]

hitting new lows


https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2024/index/usa

[Winehole23]

hey, we still have a functioning BLS!

maybe Trumplandia needs to dial up the harassment and death threats

there's a nonzero chance Trump will sack Powell if he doesn't obey


The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in
January, after rising 0.4 percent in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last
12 months, the all items index increased 3.0 percent before seasonal adjustment.

The index for shelter rose 0.4 percent in January, accounting for nearly 30 percent of the monthly all items
increase. The energy index rose 1.1 percent over the month, as the gasoline index increased 1.8 percent. The
index for food also increased in January, rising 0.4 percent as the index for food at home rose 0.5 percent and
the index for food away from home increased 0.2 percent.

The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.4 percent in January. Indexes that increased over the month
include motor vehicle insurance, recreation, used cars and trucks, medical care, communication, and airline fares.
The indexes for apparel, personal care, and household furnishings and operations were among the few major indexes
that decreased in January.https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:tktyhvgeo3nqluw4wpdjzqgo/bafkreigdnlc66qoymmzhpixohybgngfrgudhi3ixmmp3bplwu a2gjhqwqe@jpeg

[Winehole23]

fact checking and opposition are treason?

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/bafkreidgo7blq75qkycaggtswmqlafsebqotjpe3qol54t773 4wu73uqky@jpeg

[Winehole23]

the guy quoted a source critical of Trump

for which, obviously, he should lose his job


VOA first broadcasted in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda during World War II and its charter ensuring its editorial independence from any government official was signed into law by President Gerald Ford in 1976. In 1994, Congress went further and passed a law to create an explicit “firewall” between the VOA and the partisan politics of Washington, D.C..

“An essential guarantee of the journalistic credibility of Voice of America content is the ‘firewall’ enshrined in the 1994 U.S. International Broadcasting Act. The firewall prohibits interference by any U.S. government official in the objective, independent reporting of news, thereby safeguarding the ability of our journalists to develop content that reflects the highest professional standards of journalism, free of political interference,” notes the VOA’s website, adding (https://www.insidevoa.com/p/5831.html):


USAGM reforms contained in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017 maintained the longstanding statutory firewall language protecting the professional independence of VOA and all other USAGM journalists. The firewall ensures that VOA can make the final decisions on what stories to cover, and how they are covered.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-envoy-accuses-voa-reporter-of-treasonous-behavior-for-reporting-a-quote-critical-of-the-president/

[Spurs Homer]

but but - HER EMAILS!

[Winehole23]

if Trump only hurt libtards that's one thing, but that's not how power works


Farmers: “He was supposed to hurt other people, not us (https://bsky.app/profile/sundaedivine.bsky.social/post/3lhxvfv3bys2c).”

[Blake]

if Trump only hurt libtards that's one thing, but that's not how power works

That's what they voted for.

[Thread]

That's what they voted for.

Precisely!!!

[Winehole23]

"Like on tractors that can handle anything from hurricanes to lightning to anything. They use magnets. It's a new theory -- magnets. They're gonna lift the planes up. And it doesn't work."

[ducks]

AOC is a MAGA supporter now? Who knew?

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1889337281518969102

[Winehole23]

Like on tractors that can handle anything from hurricanes to lightning to anything. They use magnets. It's a new theory -- magnets. They're gonna lift the planes up. And it doesn't work.ok, I think I know what he was talking about


Tuesday, while visiting sailors and Marines aboard amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD-1), Trump faulted EMALS for causing delays and cost overruns on the first-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78).

“We’re spending all that money on electric, and nobody knows what it’s going to be like in bad conditions,” Trump said in his speech. “I’m going to just put out an order, we’re going to use steam.”
https://news.usni.org/2019/05/28/experts-navy-would-spend-billions-to-answer-trumps-call-to-return-carriers-to-steam-catapults

[Winehole23]

Trump didn't know what he was talking about then, either


However, installing steam catapults on a Ford-class hull is not so simple. Ford-class hulls were designed to accommodate an entire power system that doesn’t rely on steam pipped throughout the ship. Instead, the power generated from the nuclear reactors drive turbines that power a shipwide electrical grid. Space on the ships is allocated differently because there’s no need for all the steam piping found on Nimitz-class ships.

“The Navy would have to spend several billion dollars to redesign the ship,” Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, told USNI News on Tuesday.

[SnakeBoy]

AOC is a MAGA supporter now? Who knew?

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1889337281518969102

crickets

[Winehole23]

cricketsone US Rep who said this on TV < the VP of the USA

[Thread]

one US Rep who said this on TV < the VP of the USA

FINALLY Winester shows up.

Winester

[Yonivore]

:lmao

https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1889474651039977629

[Blake]

:lmao

https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1889474651039977629

You dipshits are cheering for a criminal. But America has been getting dumber for some time now.

[Winehole23]

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:svely2dqtzux55abqec6de2v/bafkreib2hj7ppcvdqrpz3xcr767lynrtei2dqesjpt3h3a76d 5e4ooscju@jpeg

https://www.youtube.com/@americanmedicalassociation/videos

[Winehole23]

El0n/Trump are holding the USG upside down and shaking the money out of its pockets so rich people can get another tax cut

somehow, this is the Republican vision of doing good for the public

[Winehole23]

stiffing contractors like Trump's scammy companies do


One plaintiff, DAI Global, LLC, alleged that USAID has “failed to make payment on over $120 million in invoices for work” it had “already completed, some of which are now past due.” Another plaintiff, Chemonics, said it had “roughly $103.6 million in outstanding invoices issued to USAID for work performed in 2024, most of which were submitted prior to the stop-work orders.”https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-gutting-of-usaid-moves-on-to-killing-live-contracts

[Winehole23]

Most likely this means the US will contract out its attack on cartels in Mexico, but it's possible Rs want to legalize Trumpy paramilitaries for the home front. After all, aren't folks who resist Trump's immigration policy in an organized way arguably "cartel-linked"?


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreiblockugn6rr3fwqclxwig6ofriwczxiohdtihkrl73t echuoyx3m@jpeg

[Winehole23]

Trump's attack on women's sports has begun

(Sports and fair treatment for women is DEI or something)


The U.S. Department of Education has officially rescinded a nine-page fact sheet on Title IX guidance that was released last month under the outgoing presidential administration, a move that was anticipated by many within college sports (https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6068325/2025/01/16/department-of-education-title-ix-nil-memo/).


The memo, which was issued on Jan. 16, stated that name, image and likeness (NIL) payments to college athletes must be proportionate between a school’s male and female athletes to comply with Title IX, a federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools that receive federal money. That instruction could have had a significant impact on future revenue sharing between colleges and athletes under the pending House settlement, which has a final approval hearing on April 7.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6131665/2025/02/12/title-ix-nil-college-sports-department-of-education/

[Winehole23]

cutting utility assistance for poor people in Alabama during the winter

Trump is like a turbo-Scrooge


But hundreds of Alabama residents are receiving a $100 surcharge on their energy bills as a direct result of Trump's actions in the White House. About 250 customers of Huntsville Utilities, the public utility company in Huntsville, Alabama, received a letter informing them that their account "has been debited $100." The surcharge occurred because one of Trump's executive orders froze a grant that assists low-income residents with their energy bills.

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:s teep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0980db 0-2366-456e-bba0-08a5fab585f9_1026x1184.png





(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0980db 0-2366-456e-bba0-08a5fab585f9_1026x1184.png)
In an email, Mike Presley of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs confirmed that the letter from Huntsville Utilities was genuine and the $100 increase was the direct result of Trump's executive order.

Alabama received a "$1 million allocation for the LIHEAP program from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) for fiscal year 2025," Presley wrote. "Under the IIJA, eligible households that receive heating assistance from the regular [Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program] LIHEAP program funds also receive a supplemental award of $100 from these IIJA funds to help with home heating costs until the IIJA funds are depleted." But, according to Presley, "[t]his supplemental funding is currently paused due to President Trump’s executive order titled Unleashing American Energy."
https://popular.info/p/trump-executive-order-leads-to-100

[Winehole23]

centralized political vetting for "all new hires"



https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3le7dvxqc2rhvyswiida2cgf/bafkreiatgruuem6t42xt4pb5qst7pufwde6wttwtit5yhgtsn 2cxogyew4@jpeghttps://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/12/musk-trump-federal-layoffs/

[TSA]

Trump's attack on women's sports has begun

(Sports and fair treatment for women is DEI or something)

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6131665/2025/02/12/title-ix-nil-college-sports-department-of-education/


Possibly the least surprising move ever. Not only was this last-second guidance completely at odds with the incoming administration's overall guiding principles, it was also at odds with the DOE's own historical interpretation of Title IX.

Schools have NEVER distributed revenue evenly between men's and women's sports (your school's football coach probably earns as much as every woman's sport coach combined, your school's shiny new football-only training facility costs 8 figures, etc), but the accepted interpretation that as long as the opportunity to play (i.e., scholarships) was equivalent, that's all that mattered. Everybody followed this, universities banked on this, and the DOE never even hinted that this would be changing. Then four days before Inauguration Day, the DOE suddenly drops brand new guidance from the sky completely upending that.

This was never going to hold up; the only question was when the official announcement undoing that surprise guidance would end up coming.

[Winehole23]

just keep licking that propaganda spoon

[Winehole23]

..