President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread

All I'm saying is, it's little wonder a majority didn't vote for this mindset.

 

Note to self: Play it twice daily to keep sanity on life support ...

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Why is there little wonder about it, again, assuming they're not horrible people just like Trump?

 

You know what? I don't see Musk doing anything for the public. Nothing. Except making life worse, and then bragging, laughing and lecturing about it.

Cuban actually has some smarts and humanity, and uses them, for good much of the time. His development of Cost Plus Drugs has taken on Big Pharma in a way Trump and Musk never would -- certainly not for anyone else's benefit -- and his knowledge of those issues alone makes him better Presidential material than Trump (or Musk).

And I'm pretty sure that if Cuban had been elected President, instead of Trump, this country would not be in tumult. Nor would it be the divided, immoral embarrassment to the world that it is right now.

 

Democracy dies in darkness!

Washington Post Cancels Ad From Groups Calling for Trump to Fire Musk

 

All about Democrats' struggle right now.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/16/politics/democrats-strategy-powerless-trump/index.html

For top Democrats in and out of elected office, every day is an existential tug-of-war between worrying about sounding like shrill paranoiacs and worrying that they are not saying or doing nearly enough. They don’t know what the next three-and-a-half years are supposed to be when they already hit “Constitutional crisis” in the first three-and-a-half weeks.

“The reason people feel angry about what’s happening is not because we’re not doing everything in our power,” argued Rep. Sean Casten, a Democrat from Illinois. “It’s because they’re wondering, when in God’s name did it become partisan to defend the Constitution? Why is it partisan to say that it’s bad to give Nazi salutes? Why is it partisan to say the Reconstruction amendments that provide equal protection for all are not worth defending anymore?”

 

Cut the Post some slack … they were so shocked that anyone wanted to place a print ad these days, they didn’t know how to react.

 

I think Dems should focus on minimizing the damage the Administration can do, via the Senate and the House, use every procedural trick in the book to avoid putting some of these Trump plans in ink - Im certain there are those in the Senate who will not resist too much because they too know this administration is a disaster in the making.
But at this point trying to "convince America" that Trump is bad for America has been a futile waste of time, they've had 10 years to make the case and its doubtful one more declaration will turn the tide.

 

Musk has set up more than 30 DOGE accounts for government agencies like @DOGE_DOD. So he's not even running info through the official government channels any longer.

 

Justin Trudeau shows so much more class and professionalism than Trump ever would, in a message specifically to the U.S. contingent at the closing ceremony of Prince Harry's Invictus Games in Canada.

MSN

During his speech, he addressed Team U.S., telling the crowd: "If you’ll permit me, a quick word to the American team — our neighbors, our allies, our friends. I’m reminded of that old joke: I went to a fight last night, and a hockey game broke out," he said in an apparent reference to the USA vs. Canada NHL 4 Nations Face-Off on Feb. 15, which the U.S. won.

"I know, my American friends, you’ve been reminded this past week that your Canadian friends and every other competitor in this place is just as proud to fight for their flags as you are to fight for yours — the stars and stripes," he said.

"We all stand proudly together. We all believe in a future where we have values and a friendship that endures the test of time," he continued. "We have stood together for generations and Canada and Canadians will never stop fighting for the friendship that unites our two countries through tough times and through the best times in the world. Americans are our friends, always. And we are yours."

Trudeau’s speech came at a pivotal moment, as tensions between the U.S. and Canada have been on the rise — and his own political future hangs in the balance. On Jan. 6, he announced plans to resign as prime minister once a successor is chosen, following a steep decline in popularity fueled by economic struggles like inflation and a housing crisis.

Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election has heightened anxieties, particularly after he floated the idea of Canada becoming America’s "51st state" and threatened steep tariffs on Canadian goods.

 

Hence why I said objective instead of subjective.

Complaining about federal money going towards DEI initiatives instead of Bibles for schools and vice versa is subjective.

Complaining about money earmarked for DEI initiatives going for a commissioners’ yacht expenses or money for Bibles going towards Rev. BillyBob’s strip club tab is objective.

 

Just from a Newsroom vs. Advertising view, it's one thing to accept the ad to run inside and a whole 'nother can of worms to wrap it outside the entire paper. Even though, since it apparently was only for a targeted group of political players, it woulda been a lot of fun.

But I don't like the idea of running ad wraps around the front page anyway, and once you allow it for political battles, where does it stop after that? If you allow this wrap, how could you deny similar attack wraps from the Fuck Your Feelings crowd? ... And Musk/Trump, too, for that matter. Elmo could run one every day for a month, and that's not even pocket change for him.



The ad includes a link and QR code for FireMusk.org at the bottom of the page. It was approved by the Post, all set to be delivered to subscribers at the Capitol, Pentagon, and the White House.

“We submitted the artwork back on Tuesday of last week. I’m assuming it went through a legal department or other kind of review. They said, ‘You can have something inside the paper but you can’t do the wrap.’ We said thanks, no thanks because we had a lot of questions,” Common Cause President Virginia Kase Solomón said to The Hill on Sunday.