Thread: President Trump - 2nd Term

How the fuck does sacking all the National Park Service and US Forestry Service staff serve any useful purpose whatsoever?

Or is the orange turd looking at privatising them or drilling for oil?

Originally Posted by Shutree

There was nothing straight about alleging that in Scotland it is an offence to pray silently in your own home. I don't think Vance is stupid enough to believe that, or that his team are stupid enough to let him believe that. So it was a straight out lie.

Indeed. Or perhaps fact finding doesn't seem to be important to the new American regime.



JD Vance abortion buffer zone comments branded '''dangerous''' by MSP - BBC News


The American Vice-President JD Vance has been accused of "spreading misinformation" about buffer zones at abortion clinics in Scotland.

In a speech at the Munich Security Conference Vance claimed people who live within safe access zones had been sent letters by the Scottish government warning them about praying within their homes.

The Safe Access Zones Act came into force last September and prevents protestors gathering within 200m (656ft) of clinics that perform abortions.

A Scottish government spokesperson said no letters had been sent out saying people couldn't pray in their homes, and only "intentional or reckless behaviour" was covered by the act.

Green MSP Gillian Mackay, who drew up the law, said Vance's claims were "nonsense" and added that private prayer at home had never been impacted.

She said: "This is shocking and shameless misinformation from VP Vance, who is either very badly informed about what my Act has done or he is knowingly misrepresenting it.

"He is one of the most powerful people in the world but he is peddling total nonsense and dangerous scaremongering."

Letters sent out to people living within safe access zones stressed that residents should not do anything that could be seen or heard from the zone, such as displaying posters or banners, or protesting in their garden.

Mackay told BBC Scotland News: "Both the religious right and JD Vance would like to spread some of the misinformation about what is in those letters.

"There is no mention of silent prayer - it's about using your home to influence people going to seek an abortion."

The Scottish government said Vance was "incorrect" with his comments, which were previously spread by Christian influencers, external on TikTok last year.

A spokesperson said: "Private prayer at home is not prohibited within safe access zones and no letter has ever suggested it was.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

How the fuck does sacking all the National Park Service and US Forestry Service staff serve any useful purpose?

He’s probably pissed off at them, because they’re not “raking the forest”, like Finland.

What could possibly go wrong.

The descent into abject stupidity continues.

The US nuclear safety watchdog, which sacked hundreds of workers under orders from Donald Trump's administration, is now trying to contact employees to rehire them.

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has been attempting to notify some employees who had been let go that they are now due to be reinstated.

But according to Sky News' US partner NBC News, officials are struggling to find them because they do not have their new contact information.

In an email sent to employees at the NNSA on Friday, officials wrote: "The termination letters for some NNSA probationary employees are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel."

The individuals had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.

Some 325 essential nuclear security workers at the NNSA, which manages the US nuclear weapons stockpile, were let go, according to the Reuters news agency.

The NNSA is part of the Department of Energy (DOE) which has laid off between 1,200 to 2,000 people among a staff of around 14,000.

The termination notices included the subject line: "Notification of Termination During Probationary/Trial Period."

The letter said: "DOE finds that your further employment would not be in the public interest. For this reason, you are being removed from your position with DOE and the federal civil service effective today."

The department laid off workers' access to government-issued laptops and phones just after midnight Eastern Time (5am UK time) on Friday.

That left some unable to receive the notifications and they did not know they had been fired.

Mass firings were carried out on Thursday and Friday across several federal departments, affecting thousands of probationary workers who had been on the job for less than two years.

The president has acted with unprecedented speed to cut large portions of the government, laying off staff and ending contracts.

But that speed has resulted in complications, including firing people agencies actually want to keep.

"It's been chaotic for the staff," one source at NNSA told Reuters. "We just want to focus on national security stuff and this has distracted us from our work."

In Washington state, at least a dozen workers at the Hanford nuclear site - a 1940s site for plutonium and uranium production for atomic bombs - were laid off, according to local Democratic Senator Patty Murray.

She said some were safety engineers who clean up and monitor the site.

"These reckless firings will slow down critical cleanup work and make workers less safe - trying to run Hanford with a skeleton crew is a recipe for disaster that could have irreversible impacts," she added.

The losses at the NNSA occur at a time when nuclear power plants have been at risk in Russia's war on Ukraine.

Trump administration trying to un-fire nuclear safety workers | US News | Sky News

This shit show of an administration, has this guy’s prints all over it.

Originally Posted by Shutree

There was nothing straight about alleging that in Scotland it is an offence to pray silently in your own home.

Well OK, but...

Originally Posted by Neverna

Letters sent out to people living within safe access zones stressed that residents should not do anything that could be seen or heard from the zone

It does seem to possibly prohibit engaging in a visible act of prayer within your home with the curtains open unless the actual letter is worded more clearly.

I lean conservative on some political issues but on abortion I lean left and I am very much pro-choice

However writing letters to residents telling them not to do anything within their own property that can be seen or heard beyond its boundaries seems like gratuitous over-reach.

It also panders to this unhealthy left-wing idea that humans are fragile and need to be wrapped in cotton wool.

If somebody wants an abortion badly enough I am sure they can cope with walking past a poster in somebody's window or the sight of someone praying in their garden or in their house with their curtains open or some other religious symbology.

If people want to put posters in their window of their own house on a political issue like abortion then they should be allowed to, I would say, even though I disagree with the political position in this case.

Will Trump and Kim make sweet music again like in 2018?

- YouTube

Originally Posted by Loopy

I lean conservative

I would’ve never guessed.

After becoming the first sitting president to attend a super-bowl final Trump made a low pass at the Daytona 500



Then took The Beast on a couple of laps as a secret service pace car



They should get Kennedy's old convertible Beast back for these parade style events

Parades are not what they used to be when leaders could feel the wind in their hair

Originally Posted by Loopy

..a super-bowl final…

WTF, is a “super-bowl final“?

I enjoy this guy‘s podcasts, And would be interested to hear what the British contingent think of him.

All the effort Kyiv had expended in wooing the White House, combining flattery with bribery and a share of Ukraine’s mineral wealth, imploded in minutes when Volodymyr Zelenskyy broke the fundamental rule of the new global reality: he told the truth about Donald Trump.

All America’s allies, the great majority of Republican leaders who have bowed to him, and a good number of his own cabinet, know full well that Trump is trapped in a disinformation bubble, but Zelenskyy said it out loud at a press conference on Wednesday.

In this new world where the foreign policy of the most powerful country on Earth has been rapidly reorganised around the fragile ego of a sullen and resentful old man, you might as well launch missiles at America’s eastern seaboard as utter a few words of rebuke.

Zelenskyy was aware of this. On Tuesday, he had complained that his country was being excluded from talks about its fate between the US and Russia in Riyadh. They were “about Ukraine but without Ukraine”, he said.

It was a fair point. What happened in Riyadh was an upending of western policy towards Ukraine, but none of that matters any more. This is year zero as far as Trump, Elon Musk and their supporters are concerned. The Ukrainian president’s gripe triggered a meltdown in Mar-a-Lago, where Trump told stunned reporters that Ukraine had started the war, and that Zelenskyy had a 4% approval rating.

It is hardly surprising Zelenskyy lost his cool. Part of the reason he has a 57% confidence rating in the latest poll (13% above Trump’s own current standing) is because he has led his country through years of war with his heart vividly on his sleeve. Having been subjected to eight years of Russian aggression, followed by an entirely unprovoked full-on invasion which has killed tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens, and then to be told on the world stage that: “You should have never started it”, would be too much for most people.

When slighted and sprayed with Trumpian falsehoods, other world leaders, with much less at stake, have resorted to a “smile-and-wave” default strategy, deflecting direct questions and changing the subject to some aspect of relations with Washington that is still functioning normally.

Zelenskyy did not do this on Wednesday. Instead, he said out loud the bit that European leaders keep quiet. Trump, he observed, is “trapped in this disinformation bubble”. He was stating the obvious, but not even Zelenskyy could have known how fetid the air inside Trump’s bubble has become. Now we know.

Trump’s tirade on his own app, Truth Social, is a distillation of the greatest hits of Russian disinformation from the past three years. He said Zelenskyy was “A Dictator without Elections” (something Trump has never said about Putin) who had hoodwinked the Biden administration into a $350bn war of choice, which only “TRUMP” could fix. The president’s repeated references to himself in the third person and all caps erased any lingering doubts about the single unifying compulsion now driving Trump foreign policy.

The child who guilelessly points out the emperor has no clothes is the hero of the folk tale, but the emperor in Hans Christian Andersen’s story did not have a vast nuclear arsenal and the world’s mightiest army. Telling the truth is cathartic, but getting into a personal spat with Trump amid the dizzying euphoria of his restoration to the Oval Office risks serious damage to your country.

That begs the question: what will work with Trump now? He admires autocrats and is eager to please them, but that is not really an option for the world’s remaining democracies. The hope in western European capitals, based on patchy evidence from the first Trump term, is that if they can make discreet common cause with the calmer heads around Trump he can be gently steered away from his more extreme whims.

In that regard, they have some faith in Marco Rubio and Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff. They may be able to talk the president out of his stated plan to own and ethnically cleanse Gaza, if only because it would be so disastrous for the US. But from the evidence of Trump’s rants, the poison about Ukraine has seeped deeper into the president’s nervous system.

Zelenskyy’s best option might be to persevere with the offer of an American share in Ukraine’s rare earths. Trump’s first offer was to take half of the spoils with no security guarantees in return. But the absurd opening offer is likely to be just part of his “art of the deal” brinkmanship. Further negotiations may distract him, like a dog with a bone, from his profound pro-Putin impulses.

It is a long shot. It is also an act of faith to believe this Trump episode in American history will eventually pass. But we are not even one month into his chaotic second term. For a country like Ukraine, facing an existential threat, it is going to be a very long four years.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...th-about-trump

This Trump fuckos dangerous. You guys need another Lee Harvey oswald

This whole billionaires club shit vs Ukraine was so predictable.

What a hideous prostitute the USA is becoming.

And bsnub told us just a few days ago that the main problem was that the EU +UK did not spend enough.

No.

The clear and present existential danger to the world is Donald J Trump.

Roll Up! Roll Up!

Originally Posted by cyrille

The clear and present existential danger to the world is Donald J Trump.

more like the electorate that voted the moron in chief in

Originally Posted by cyrille

Donald J Trump

That’s King Donald, to us peons.

Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling him ‘King’

Donald Trump is receiving widespread backlash after he likened himself to a “king” on social media following his administration’s decision to rescind New York City’s congestion pricing program.On Wednesday, following a letter issued by his transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, to the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, that ended the transportation department’s agreement with New York over a new congestion pricing program for Manhattan, Trump wrote on Truth Social:
“CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!”The White House then proceeded to shareTrump’s quote on social media, accompanied with a computer-generated image of Trump grinning on a fake Time magazine cover while donning a golden crown, behind him the skyline of New York City.
Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’ | Donald Trump | The Guardian

King Donald the --.--. --- --.--. ---

I don't think there is morse for turd

I doubt anybody predicted what's happening now. What a turnaround for the U.S..


That said, I'm no fan of Trump but I'm actually quite enjoying the show. This Trump presidency is certainly more entertaining than Biden's.

Originally Posted by cyrille

And bsnub told us just a few days ago that the main problem was that the EU +UK did not spend enough.

You fucking idiot, that is not what I said. It would have put Europe in a safer place, but the fact is that the orange moron is just a pawn at this point, the reality is that the architects of project 2025 are in control.

Originally Posted by cyrille

And bsnub told us just a few days ago that the main problem was that the EU +UK did not spend enough.

I think that's correct. Europe and the UK have been caught with their pants down. If Europe could defend Europe from Russia, then Europe would be fine. Trump is a moron. The US isn't going to do well out of all the argy-bargy Trump is causing.

The New York Times reported this week that big and small donors to the Democrats are giving way less than they were before. Americans are fxcked off with the Democrats. Foundations that support liberal causes have been laying off staff.

Originally Posted by Looper

Trump made a low pass at the Daytona 500

Not low enough. Another 2,000 feet would have been good.