President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread

[Neutral Corner]

Lutnick is out there telling people to buy Tesla stock. Meanwhile...

 

[Slacker]

 

[kickoff-time]

Thanks to DEI purges, the new NBA scoring leader is John Havlicek (sorry Dirk Nowitzki was a German import), and the new NFL rushing leader is John Riggins. God Bless America.

 

[DanOregon]

Says the leading fratboy f****ot on Faux Fascist Noise. Limp deck incel baby cat

Somebody needs to grab Jesse The Pink Petunia and point out that his manly man god emperor:

1) Wears as much makeup as RuPaul, including face pancake powder, rouge on his cheeks and eyeliner

2) lisps like a steamy version of Harvey Fierstein, constantly flipping his limp wrists during public appearances

3) continually whines and whimpers about "nasty women" being mean to him

4) wears body compressing girdles around his bulbous pendulous medicine ball gut, and support shirts to hold down his bouncing boobs the size of volleyballs

5) has his hair done up so he looks exactly like his mommy

Yep, this is your mucho macho god emperor alpha male.

Eats pizza with a fork!

 

[garrow]

Mashive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual ashault and suicide prevention

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/19/politics/pentagon-website-purge/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=blueskyCNN&utm_content=2025-03-19T21:19:03

 

[Justin_Rice]

There are still other rights that you and I get that they do not. For example, undocumented immigrants facing deportation proceedings do not have a right to a government-appointed attorney and must find their own legal representation.

So no, they do not get "equal treatment."

Ohhhh you were so close. Maybe they make Russian-language constitutions for you to study.

The right to a court-appointed attorney (and lack thereof in Immigration Courts) is because the Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to an Attorney in criminal (not Civil) cases.

The important takeaways are:

1. If you ended up in Immigration Courts, you too would not be provided an attorney.

2. Being an illegal immigrant is a Civil (and not a criminal) offense.

 

[Justin_Rice]

Maybe not, but the point remains that they should get a hearing and whatever due process they *are* entitled to instead of simply being put in irons and thrown on a plane.

Suddenly it's 2003 again with alleged small-government "Conservatives" arguing the President has the power to throw people into overseas prisons with absolutely no oversight.

 

[outofplace]

He doesn't have the authority to do this, but that only matters if Congress stands up to him, which they won't do.

 

[Justin_Rice]

He doesn't have the authority to do this, but that only matters if Congress stands up to him, which they won't do.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-726/pdf/COMPS-726.pdf

The law which established the DoEd has an awful lot of "The President shall" and very little "The President will if they feel like it."

 

[Inky_Wretch]

So why was DOGE so hot and bothered to go after the US Institute of Peace? It requested $55 million for FY25. That represents .000078 of the discretionary budget for FY25.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

So why was DOGE so hot and bothered to go after the US Institute of Peace? It requested $55 million for FY25. That represents .000078 of the discretionary budget for FY25.

It's in the title of the organization. "Peace" is a woke marxist hippie word.

 

[WriteThinking]

What a guy. What a guy. What a POS.

Trump's Appetite for Revenge Is Insatiable

No one can say they didn't know.

During his first official campaign rally for the 2024 Republican nomination, held in Waco, Texas, Donald Trump vowed retribution against those he perceives as his enemies...

Sixty days into Trump's second term, we have begun to see what that looks like.

The president fired the archivist of the United States because he was enraged at the National Archives for notifying the Justice Department of his alleged mishandling of clashified documents after he left office following his first term. (The archivist he fired hadn't even been working for the agency at the time, but that didn't matter.) He also fired two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission, a traditionally independent regulatory agency, in violation of Supreme Court precedent and quite likely the language of the statute that created it. (Both members plan to sue to reverse the firings.)

Trump stripped security details from people he had appointed to high office in his first administration and subsequently fell out with, including General Mark Milley, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, the former diplomat Brian Hook, and the infectious-disease expert Anthony Fauci. The National Institutes of Health, where Fauci worked for 45 years, is being gutted by the Trump administration. The environment there has become "suffocatingly toxic," as my colleague Katherine J. Wu reported.

Trump has sued networks and newspapers for millions of dollars. His Federal Communications Commission is investigating several outlets. And he has called CNN and MSNBC "corrupt" and "illegal"—not because they have broken any laws, but simply because they have been critical of him...