All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

[Tero]

nickcaputo_
21 people dead in Missouri and southeastern Kentucky due to tornados.
A National Weather Service office in Jackson, KY no longer had a permanent overnight forecaster as a result of DOGE job cuts by Trump and Elon.
We said this would lead to more loss of life, and it has.

[L'Emmerdeur]

There was never any doubt regarding what takes priority for the dogeshits (wellbeing of inhabitants vs. 'efficiency'). The destruction of the administrative state has always been about helping to concentrate wealth for the already wealthy, not about improving government in any objective sense (including efficiency). There's a gloss of flapdoodle ideology over the reality--not even a veneer as such.

[Brian Peacock]

There was never any doubt regarding what takes priority for the dogeshits (wellbeing of inhabitants vs. 'efficiency'). The destruction of the administrative state has always been about helping to concentrate wealth for the already wealthy, not about improving government in any objective sense (including efficiency). There's a gloss of flapdoodle ideology over the reality--not even a veneer as such.

It strikes me that this has been an ongoing project since around the time of the New Deal. These people, it seems, know how to maintain and prosecute and multi-generational grievance.

[Tero]

What a leader. Not quite eating a shoe, but CEO will eat tariffs. Penguins still not cooperating.

US treasury secretary says Walmart will ‘eat some of the tariffs’ after Trump demand
Scott Bessent claims he received assurance in a personal call with company’s chief executive

“I was on the phone with Doug McMillon, the CEO of Walmart, yesterday. And Walmart is, in fact, going to, as you describe it, eat some of the tariffs, just as they did in ‘18, ‘19, and ‘20,” Bessent said after host Kristen Welker asked if the president was asking American companies to be less profitable.

For too long, he said, the US had been “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far”, and he presented a list of countries and territories that would receive tariffs, ranging from numerous US allies and longtime trade partners to barren, remote islands near Antarctica occupied only by penguins.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... rt-tariffs

[Tero]

"If there has been a common theme in the federal courts’ response to the fallout from President Trump’s aggressive deportation policies, it is that the White House cannot rush headlong into expelling people by sidestepping the fundamental principle of due process.

"In case after case, a legal bottom line is emerging: Immigrants should at least be given the opportunity to challenge their deportations, especially as Trump officials have claimed novel and extraordinary powers to remove them."
"The latest and clearest expression of that view came on Friday evening, when the Supreme Court chided the Trump administration for seeking to provide only a day’s warning to a group of Venezuelan immigrants in Texas it had been trying to deport under the expansive powers of an 18th-century wartime law.

“Notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal,” the justices wrote, “surely does not pass muster.”

Trump and his team are expressing frustration at the court decisions that are challenging their deportation policies and frustrating their target numbers.
“We have millions of people that have come in here illegally, and we can’t have a trial for every single person,” Mr. Trump said this month on CBS News.

"Last week, Stephen Miller, the president’s chief domestic policy adviser, went further, saying that the administration was considering suspending the writ of habeas corpus — one of the Constitution’s most important protections against unlawful detention."

"In its ruling on Friday, the Supreme Court noted that the issue of due process was “particularly weighty” for immigrants confronting deportation because the Trump administration has consistently refused to bring back people who were sent out of the country, even if their removals were in error."

“The justices are well aware that the administration is manipulating the process as much as possible to avoid judicial review, and the court is going to put a stop to it,” said Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia."

https://www.nytimes.com

[Tero]

There is no god. Once again agressive prostate cancer hit the wrong president.

[Sean Hayden]

—just the devil, been obvious for awhile now.

[Brian Peacock]

[Tero]

Trump managing to be an asshole in every category of life. Now sports.

"When President Donald Trump and Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred met at the White House last month, they discussed one of the president’s passion projects — reinstating baseball star Pete Rose to make him eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

"This week, that’s exactly what Manfred did."

That's just the latest example of how President Trump involves himself in sporting activities. He's voices his opinions or attended events involving professional football, pro wrestling and NASCAR as well as lobbying for Pete Rose.

"It’s the latest example of how Trump has long tried to harness sports to flex his power and score political points, one of the most significant tools he has used to capture pop culture in ways that few politicians can rival. But his second term embrace has been different from the rocky relationship of his first, when he used clashes with the NFL and other leagues over racial protests to rile his base. Now, he is enjoying his dominance over those same leagues and using the imagery of his constant association with sports to enter American arenas and living rooms like no other president before."

"In sum, they underscore a more serious point — that it’s not just government, but culture, that Trump is seeking to command."

"But the sports world repeatedly denied Trump the traditional title of sports-fan-in-chief during his first term, with players and teams spurning White House championship visits amid high-profile clashes with the president over race and patriotism. Trump played his part, railing against Colin Kaepernick-inspired racial justice protests on the NFL sidelines, denouncing the league as “soft,” and sparring with NBA stars Stephen Curry and LeBron James."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/1 ... y-00354336

[Svartalf]

well, it is the nature of an arsehole to spew crap wherever it may be.

[Tero]

Vance: “We should be able to move beyond the mistakes that have been made in the past…If Russia is not willing to do that, then we’re eventually just going to say, ‘This is not our war. It’s Joe Biden’s war, it’s Vladimir Putin’s war. It’s not our war.’"

hey Vance, you do not seem to understand the concept of "president." Joe is soon dead, so you can't blame him so he can hear much longer.

[Svartalf]

well, given that the frump was elected a second time, it's obvious that the mistakes have not been gone beyond and left behind. and the US may decide it's not their war, they don't have a treaty with Ukraine, I guess, but if they let Ukraine down, I'd find it utterly normal that the mining deal frump strong armed out of Zelensky be declared null and void.

[Sean Hayden]

Christ, there’s no other way for Putin to take that than as a green light on Ukraine. There’s not even a hint of deterrence. —surreal or stupid?

[Sean Hayden]

If Putin doesn’t stop, we will.

[aufbahrung]

The blind leading the blind on the edge of the precipice of history. If Trump doesn't push us all in the volcano then Putin will. Choose your side/madman. Cos this world is a ticking time and the movie music is increasing with hideous foreboding of things soon to come