President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread

[Starman]

Four top deputies to Eric Adams have resigned, New York mayor says


https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/politics/eric-adams-deputies-resign/index.html

 

[hondo]

Trump voters are motivated by disdain, yes.

I am not an apologist for Trump, either.

Disdain of their own paranoid making.

 

[garrow]

We are in an hourly constitutional crisis...and the Atlantic is publishing this rubbish. What happened to them?

How Progressives Broke the Government

 

[Justin_Rice]

I know many people who are not evil, did not march with torches nor screamed bigoted slurs, nor stormed the Capitol, nor tried to kill members of Congress, who voted for Donald Trump.
Your last sentence is a gross generalization.

Question: How overtly terrible does the Trump regime have to be, before "supporting Donald Trump" makes you a bad person?

Like, for example, if we were throwing people into an oversea prison so we could avoid granting them due process … is that bad enough? Or does it need to be worse?

 

[Smallpotatoes]

I know many people who are not evil, did not march with torches nor screamed bigoted slurs, nor stormed the Capitol, nor tried to kill members of Congress, who voted for Donald Trump.
Your last sentence is a gross generalization.

How do they rationalize the last two things? Because I fail to see how storming the Capitol and trying to kill members of Congress should not have crossed the line for everyone.

Is their deniability of what happened and what they were trying to do really plausible?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

We are in an hourly constitutional crisis...and the Atlantic is publishing this rubbish. What happened to them?

How Progressives Broke the Government

"How did the Left let this happen?" in this week's issue of The Atlantic.

 

[garrow]

Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Bye bye Social Security.

https://thehill.com/opinion/5148448-elon-musk-targeting-social-security/

 

[HanSenSE]

Bye bye Social Security.

https://thehill.com/opinion/5148448-elon-musk-targeting-social-security/

Lost me on 150 year olds. He's becoming Trump's sock puppet and vice versa.

 

[garrow]

FDIC Fires Probationary Employees Amid Continued Agency Cull

 

[Inky_Wretch]

So the US-Russia meeting about the war in Ukraine has been expanded to include discussions about normalizing relations. This is the start of a US-Russian alliance.

 

[DanOregon]

I keep imagining Little Marco being invited over to Mar-A-Lago to accept the SoS gig and then they usher him into another room where they tell him the real "power behind the throne" of the Trump administration and its ultimate goal. And of course, if he doesn't cooperate completely they will kill his entire family first. Similar to the plot of The Firm.