Thread: President Trump - 2nd Term

Germany votes for historic boost to defence spending

German lawmakers have voted to allow a huge increase in defence and infrastructure spending - a seismic shift for the country that could reshape European defence.

A two-thirds majority of Bundestag parliamentarians, required for the change, approved the vote on Tuesday.

The law will exempt spending on defence and security from Germany's strict debt rules, and create a €500bn ($547bn; £420bn) infrastructure fund.

Germany votes for historic boost to defence and infrastructure spending

I suspect this is a result of Trump's stance on Ukraine

If it were accompanied by a compulsory 5 years military service for all male arrivals from the middle east it would be a good start on rebuilding Europe's emasculated defences.

Trump is doubling down on his Judge-jousting. Calling for an impeachment of the judge.


Top US Supreme Court justice rebukes Trump's call to impeach judge

The chief justice of the US Supreme Court has released a rare statement in response to President Donald Trump's call to impeach a judge who ruled against his administration over migrant deportations.

"For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision," Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement.

He added that the "normal appellate review process exists for that purpose".

Trump earlier referred to US District Judge James Boasberg as a "troublemaker and agitator" after he ordered the administration to halt deportations of accused gang members to El Salvador.

Top US Supreme Court justice rebukes Trump'''s call to impeach judge


I think judges need to wield their judicial power judiciously, and blocking the largely popular move to expel the gang members just does not feel like a very useful application of power

They would be better to keep their powder dry for stuff that is less popular with the public

Originally Posted by loopy

I think judges need to give trump carte blanche to do whatever in the hell he wants to do

….ftfy….

Looper, you’re on the wrong horse……….. you just know it.

Originally Posted by Looper

I think judges need to wield their judicial power judiciously, and blocking the largely popular move to expel the gang members just does not feel like a very useful application of power

They would be better to keep their powder dry for stuff that is less popular with the public

Judges are not there to make popular decisions. They are there to make legal ones.

You should focus more on orange turd's obliteration of legal rights rather than listening to the racist dog whistling.

The Supreme Court will be squirming at Trump's antics. I think their days as Trump's rubber stamp will be drawing to a close. The clash between the Supreme Court and Trump is going to get really ugly. Som nam na.

Originally Posted by Looper

I think judges need to wield their judicial power judiciously, and blocking the largely popular move to expel the gang members just does not feel like a very useful application of power

They would be better to keep their powder dry for stuff that is less popular with the public

You really are a fucking twat. After reading this shit, there is no doubt that you have your head all the way up that fat orange moron's ass. The "powder dry" comment is pure repubtard talking point. It is clear where you are getting your "information".

And let's not forget him getting SCOTUS to agree to vague presidential "immunity" - something everyone was warned about repeatedly in the run up to the election, and the fuckwits didn't listen.

He wants to be able to break the law with impunity.

Originally Posted by 39TG

The Supreme Court will be squirming at Trump's antics. I think their days as Trump's rubber stamp will be drawing to a close. The clash between the Supreme Court and Trump is going to get really ugly. Som nam na.

SCOTUS has fucked itself. Their pride and arrogance have led to this situation. They read the constitutional clause about people who had engaged in insurrection could not hold office, and twisted the plain meaning into a pretzel to allow him to stand.. At least once Trump was found by a court to be guilty of insurrection. They then read the constitution and said it gave Trump pretty much complete immunity to - well, everything. Lastly they deliberately delayed his cases beyond any reason to give him a way out.

Trump now thinks the judiciary is his pet lap dog, and he can ignore it when he wants. SCOTUS has no "enforcement" power - so if Trump ignores what they say - the last check on his power will be gone (and effectively so will SCOTUS).

Som nom nah Roberts, Alito and Clarence - you created him, and he is going to destroy you. Fucking stupid hypocrites.

Originally Posted by david44

first U.S. president in history to be impeached twice.

Can we go for a hat-trick?

Is that Joe (sic) Chitty?

More dog whistling.

US President Donald Trump revoked security clearances from his previously defeated Democratic election rivals, Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, as well as a number of other former officials and critics.
Trump said in February he was revoking security clearance for his predecessor Joe Biden. His order confirmed that decision, adding that he was also revoking the security clearance of "any other member" of the Biden family.

Of course the crooked crime family can all see what they want.

The very definition of ineptitude.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans - The Atlantic

So basically "Fuck you, judge" then.

Top Justice Department officials told a federal judge on Monday that the Trump administration is invoking the state secrets privilege to avoid giving him information about deportation flights from earlier this month that are at the center of a legal dispute over whether the government flouted his judicial commands.
“The Court has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before it,” Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top DOJ officials wrote in a filing to US District Judge James Boasberg. “Further intrusions on the Executive Branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the Court lacks competence to address.”
“The information sought by the Court is subject to the state secrets privilege because disclosure would pose reasonable danger to national security and foreign affairs,” the officials wrote in the 10-page filing.

Trump administration invoking state secrets privilege over deportation flight information sought by federal judge | CNN Politics

If that's American Intelligence at work , heaven forfend the ddim take over.

Starmer too timid but had the houthis shot a UK refueller the what.

Re the war in Ukraine, what I fail to understand is that, having drained Russia of almost all of its conventional weapons, why is the USA deciding to back down.

Surely, the US can call a halt to the war on Ukraine terms and still have access to all the rare earth minerals it would like.

Russia is a spent force, it cannot defeat a NATO alliance and any attempt to do so would lead to some kind of revolution. So why give in to their terms now? It makes no sense whatsoever.

Originally Posted by Troy

It makes no sense whatsoever

Nothing the POS Trump does makes sense. The tariffs, the selling out of the Ukraine and his support to Israel will come back to bite him and his devotees. Wait and watch.

Trump doesn't care about Putin, he does care about the Chinkies, sorting Ukr gets him a mineral deal and no requirement tto divert mil assistance there and then he can focus on the Asia Pacific region, or so he thinks.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Trump doesn't care about Putin, he does care about the Chinkies, sorting Ukr gets him a mineral deal and no requirement tto divert mil assistance there and then he can focus on the Asia Pacific region, or so he thinks.

Exactly that.

Trump doesn't see Russia as a threat to the USA. He sees China as a threat to the USA. Europe might see Russia as a threat, but that's Europe's problem not America's, in Trump's view.

Originally Posted by Troy

Re the war in Ukraine, what I fail to understand is that, having drained Russia of almost all of its conventional weapons, why is the USA deciding to back down.

Surely, the US can call a halt to the war on Ukraine terms and still have access to all the rare earth minerals it would like.

Russia is a spent force, it cannot defeat a NATO alliance and any attempt to do so would lead to some kind of revolution. So why give in to their terms now? It makes no sense whatsoever.

Originally Posted by Troy

Re the war in Ukraine, what I fail to understand is that, having drained Russia of almost all of its conventional weapons, why is the USA deciding to back down.

Surely, the US can call a halt to the war on Ukraine terms and still have access to all the rare earth minerals it would like.

Russia is a spent force, it cannot defeat a NATO alliance and any attempt to do so would lead to some kind of revolution. So why give in to their terms now? It makes no sense whatsoever.

Trump doesn't care about Ukraine and he hates Zelenskyy because of the Hunter Biden fiasco. The main point for Trump is that he doesn't want to pay for the defense of Europe. As the Signal chat revealed, the Trump administration is sick of a free-loading Europe. I understand that view. With Trump, the $ are very important.