President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread

[Michael_ Gee]

I will admit that if the briefing Musk will attend is one also given to Trump, he ain't gonna learn shirt. It'll be five or six slides of pictures of airplanes and a few maps with scrawls over them.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I never thought the leopards would eat my face, but even as they did I still support the eating of the faces

I think that might be a new winner in the "Had sex, don't care" meme contest.

 

[Starman]

Sleepy Chuck rouses from his slumber to notice something serious might be going on:

"Democracy is at risk": Schumer says "lawless" Trump has created constitutional crisis | Salon.com

Award-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, science, food and entertainment.

www.salon.com

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

How is this going to work out well for the MAGAGOP?

The Trump administration has threatened to shut down the Social SecurityAdministration (SSA) over a court ruling that blocks Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the personal data of millions of Americans.

President Donald Trump's interim Social Security chief, Lee Dudek—who has been working closely with DOGE—warned that the SSA could be forced to cease operations if Musk's team continues to be denied access to the information.

"My anti-fraud team would be DOGE affiliates. My IT staff would be DOGE affiliates," Dudek said in remarks published by Bloomberg. "As it stands, I will follow [the judge's order] exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems."

He said that he planned to request an immediate clarification from the judge.

"Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency," he added.

The Daily Beast has contacted the SSA for comment.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, issued a temporary restraining order on Thursday accusing DOGE of conducting a "fishing expedition" at the SSA and said it had not "identified or articulated even a single reason" it needed access to the private data of millions of Americans.

Trump Admin Threatens to Shut Down Social Security Over DOGE Ruling

About 70 million Americans rely on the government’s retirement benefits as their major source of income.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[sgreenwell]

How is this going to work out well for the MAGAGOP?

Trump Admin Threatens to Shut Down Social Security Over DOGE Ruling

About 70 million Americans rely on the government’s retirement benefits as their major source of income.

www.thedailybeast.com

Why do they give a shirt? "They" being Trump and Musk. If they want to shutdown something, then they're going to try to do it, because they're petulant children about all of this. It's not like they care if it harms people or makes things more difficult for Republicans down the road. That's a "them" problem.

 

[Starman]

The cruelty is the point. They see SS recipients as useless eaters.

 

[qtlaw]

Remember when the GOP's railed against the "elite"? Is there anyone more elite than musk, the richest man in the world? The hypocrisy reigns.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Remember when the GOP's railed against the "elite"? Is there anyone more elite than musk, the richest man in the world? The hypocrisy reigns.

Look nobody speaks for the working man in middle America like two guys who got their business careers started with millions in family money and haven't personally been to a grocery store in many years.

 

[garrow]

Look nobody speaks for the working man in middle America like two guys who got their business careers started with millions in family money and haven't personally been to a grocery store in many years.

And hoovered up vast amounts of tax dollars.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

And hoovered up vast amounts of tax dollars.

And live in subsidized housing.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Thank goodness none of those woke trees will be planted!

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/g-s1-55090/trump-dei-trees-removal-climate-change

 

[Inky_Wretch]

If the woman drowns, then she wasn't a witch. If she survives, she is a witch and we must kill her! If people complain about not getting a check they earned and rely on, they must be fraudsters!