President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread

[tapintoamerica]

The entire DoE has been told to take a day off tomorrow because the building will be closed "due to security concerns." We'll see what happens Thursday.

Edit:

Department of Education lays off nearly 50% of its workforce

I'm no genius and I oppose Trump and his klan and their contempt of education. But it looks to me that these executions represent a 37.5% cut, which isn't all that close to a 50% cut.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Screw 'em. Let those poor kids eat cardboard or something.

Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks

Very pro-life of him.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Teacher shortage? So?

US judge temporarily halts Trump plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training


https://apnews.com/article/trump-de...her-training-d9f84633d57f4010e1c03fcdaf003db2

 

[playthrough]

Screw 'em. Let those poor kids eat cardboard or something.

Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks

We're not going to help feed the hungry at home or abroad. What a disgrace of a nation.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Screw 'em. Let those poor kids eat cardboard or something.

Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks

Donnie and the Muskovites are making Lou Reed more prescient every day. And Lou was never wrong about this to begin with.

 

[Starman]

Lest we forget: Olympics in LA in 2028. A potential display of excrement not seen since 1936.

A boycott opportunity not seen since 1992

 

[garrow]

 

[BTExpress]

Limp deck. What a surprise.

 

[WriteThinking]

Five grains of truth, in an opinion piece from The Hill.

MSN

Taken together, these four facts highlight a fifth — that Trump is becoming less and less distinguishable from Putin. The Kremlin's boss is an active genocidaire, an imperialist, a warmonger and a longstanding fascist dictator. Trump still has some way to go in each of these respects, but his goals are clear and the progress he's made in just a few weeks bodes ill for the future of American democracy and international order. After all, his actions speak louder than his words.

It is small wonder that Trump and his team have swallowed Putin's narrative, hook, line and sinker. Hence his allegations that Ukraine is the perpetrator of war and genocide, that Zelensky is illegitimate and that the "Kyiv regime" is fascist. In contrast, he frames Russia as the victim of evil Ukrainian designs and Putin is a democrat par excellence. Small wonder as well that Trump's worshipful MAGA base and its spokesman Tucker Carlson have also swallowed the Russian narrative.

Putin's propaganda of war, imperialism, genocide and dictatorship has long roots in imperial and Soviet Russian political culture. Trump's aspirations figure far less prominently in the American mind. Few Americans want genocide, empire, war and dictatorship, especially today.

Unfortunately, Russian political culture and its unsavory dimensions will change only if Russia suffers a mashive defeat and the Russian people come to their senses. With Trump propping up Putin, such an outcome looks unlikely.

The good news is that Trump's project will, sooner or later, come into conflict with American values and meet an ignominious end — though not before having wreaked enormous damage on the U.S. and the world.

 

[Starman]

"What are your academic credentials, bench? Oh yeah, went to college on a D2 softball scholarship."

It's time for people in the actual professional mediasphere to take some shots at this dumb c***t. Quit taking lectures from a sorority girl dipship.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Former Alabama FEMA worker donates plasma for money after DOGE fired her: 'I'm worried for people'


https://www.al.com/politics/2025/03...hey-illegally-terminated-these-employees.html

 

[Starman]

Now the leopards are draining their lifeblood.

Of course it doesn't appear the former FEMA worker was particularly a MAGGOT herself, but still.