President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread

[Brooklyn Bridge]

If the woman drowns, then she wasn't a witch. If she survives, she is a witch and we must kill her!

Tell me, what do you do with witches?
- Burn them!
- And what do you burn, apart from witches?
- More witches! - Wood!
- So why do witches burn?
- 'Cause they're made of wood? - Good!
- How do we tell if she is made of wood? - Build a bridge out of her.
- But can you not also make bridges out of stone?
- Oh, yeah.
- Does wood sink in water?
- No, it floats. - Throw her into the pond!
- What also floats in water?
- Bread. - Apples.
- Very small rocks. - Cider! Great gravy.
- Cherries. Mud. - Churches.
- Lead. - A duck!
- Exactly.
- So, logically--
- If she weighs the same as a duck...
- she's made of wood.
- And therefore?
- A witch!

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Get ready to start putting the letter u in neighbourhood, colour and listening to the BBC.

Donald Trump suggests US could join British Commonwealth

"I Love King Charles," the president said in a Truth Social post.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Della9250]

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Breaking News: The Trump administration fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security. The move guts the office responsible for oversight of President Trump's immigration crackdown.

 

[HanSenSE]

Get ready to start putting the letter u in neighbourhood, colour and listening to the BBC.

Donald Trump suggests US could join British Commonwealth

"I Love King Charles," the president said in a Truth Social post.

www.newsweek.com

Commonwealth good, but NATO bad?

 

[garrow]

Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador had signed paperwork to go home

Families and activists say deportees signed documents to return to Venezuela but were sent to Salvadoran jail instead

www.ft.com

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

And we know what he thinks of empathy.

 

[Neutral Corner]

 

[WriteThinking]

Social Security is definitely in trouble if Trump/DOGE have their way. Just by its very nature and the process of its accrual of funding, it probably has the least waste, fraud or abuse to be found in any agency. But dammit, DOGE is going to find it, anyway! And wreck our lives. Why should they care? This Presidential administration needs to be removed from office. It's that simple, and that serious.

MSN

Elon Musk's government efficiency team, DOGE, is taking aim at Social Security, claiming fraud while pushing controversial changes that could make it harder for seniors to access benefits. Critics, including Mark Cuban, say the changes are part of a "backdoor" effort to cut payments and gut the agency...

Musk and the DOGE team have accused the agency of being engaged in widespread fraud, most notably claiming that tens of millions of dead people are erroneously receiving payments.

To curb some of this claimed identity fraud, the agency is enforcing stronger identity-proofing procedures: a proposal that would force millions to file social security claims in person.

The change has been criticized by some, including billionaire Mark Cuban, who called the move a "back door way to cut payments."

Former SSA officials and experts have echoed Cuban's comments and raised concerns about the impact DOGE's initiatives could have on social security payments....

According to the SSA's inspector general, only 0.3% of claims are attributable to fraud. Social Security's payment accuracy rate is over 99% and the agency has several safeguards in place against improper payments, according to the progressive think-tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Tiffany Flick, a former chief of staff at the U.S. Social Security Administration, has also said DOGE's takeover of SSA appeared to be "based on the general myth of supposed widespread fraud."

Oh, but there must be fraud involved, according to Trump/Musk. There just must be, even the "dead recipients" thing has been thoroughly refuted and debunked.

This administration is literally LOOKING to make trouble and problems where there aren't any. Such sheer stupidity, and I don't see how/why this train wreck cannot be stopped, by whatever means necessary.

 

[WriteThinking]

Donald Trump simply does not care. Why should he?

MSN

The National Weather Service is suspending more weather balloon observations following major staff cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by the Trump administration via Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

The forecasting practice helps scientists gather critical data on temperature, wind speed, humidity, and other factors used to help predict severe storms and continuously difficult-to-forecast tornadoes.

The move has drawn some strong reactions on social media.

"Weather balloon launches are vital for forecasting. They are like a detailed snapshot of what the atmosphere is doing and getting that data back in real-time. Taking away data means less accurate forecasts," wrote Dakota News Now meteorologist Tyler Roney. "This is a mess."

"Let's remove weather balloon launches right before severe weather season, great idea! (said no one ever)," wrote YouTuber and forecaster Max Velocity.

Oh, Donald Trump did more than say it!

 

[Starman]

Get ready to start putting the letter u in neighbourhood, colour and listening to the BBC.

Donald Trump suggests US could join British Commonwealth

"I Love King Charles," the president said in a Truth Social post.

www.newsweek.com

We've never had IRA-associated terrorism in the U.S.

Yet.

 

[garrow]

"There is a lot of misery in Trump's America. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The people are in misery. The trees are in misery. The birds are in misery. I don't think they sing, they just screech in pain. Trump is like a curse weighing on the entire landscape. And whoever goes to deep into it has his share of that curse. So we are cursed with what they are doing there. Trump is a person who God, if he exists, has created in anger."
--Werner Herzog