trump’s promises

[twocoach]

Is Trump calling for repeat criminal offenders who are US citizens to be removed from the country? Is that what he is talking about here? Please don't let that be what he is referring to.

[TDub]

good grief.

[zsn]

Is Trump calling for repeat criminal offenders who are US citizens to be removed from the country? Is that what he is talking about here? Please don't let that be what he is referring to.

Does “repeat criminal offenders” mean those with more than or less than 34 felony convictions?

Asking for a friend

[jfish26]

Is Trump calling for repeat criminal offenders who are US citizens to be removed from the country? Is that what he is talking about here? Please don't let that be what he is referring to.

Does “repeat criminal offenders” mean those with more than or less than 34 felony convictions?

Asking for a friend

lol no silly, he means the “thugs” etc.

[twocoach]

Is Trump calling for repeat criminal offenders who are US citizens to be removed from the country? Is that what he is talking about here? Please don't let that be what he is referring to.

Does “repeat criminal offenders” mean those with more than or less than 34 felony convictions?

Asking for a friend

lol no silly, he means the “thugs” etc.

"Those" people, not "these" people. Everyone knows that pronouns are important to MAGA.

[pdub]

Does “repeat criminal offenders” mean those with more than or less than 34 felony convictions?

Asking for a friend

lol no silly, he means the “thugs” etc.

"Those" people, not "these" people. Everyone knows that pronouns are important to MAGA.

In a distant ( but maybe not too distant ) US dystopia, this goes through, and the criminal acts become smaller things like not displaying your gold star.

[jfish26]

Does “repeat criminal offenders” mean those with more than or less than 34 felony convictions?

Asking for a friend

lol no silly, he means the “thugs” etc.

"Those" people, not "these" people. Everyone knows that pronouns are important to MAGA.

In MAGAland,

tragedy = me getting a hangnail
comedy = you getting hit by a bus and dying
crime = you prosecuting me on the basis of a grand jury indictment
justice = me freeing 2000 domestic terrorists

[jfish26]

lol no silly, he means the “thugs” etc.

"Those" people, not "these" people. Everyone knows that pronouns are important to MAGA.

In a distant ( but maybe not too distant ) US dystopia, this goes through, and the criminal acts become smaller things like not displaying your gold star.

I believe you mean your Trump Freedom Star.

Which costs $299.99.

Per month.

Payable to Trump.

[twocoach]

"Those" people, not "these" people. Everyone knows that pronouns are important to MAGA.

In a distant ( but maybe not too distant ) US dystopia, this goes through, and the criminal acts become smaller things like not displaying your gold star.

I believe you mean your Trump Freedom Star.

Which costs $299.99.

Per month.

Payable to Trump.

Now you're on the right track.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

lol no silly, he means the “thugs” etc.

"Those" people, not "these" people. Everyone knows that pronouns are important to MAGA.

In a distant ( but maybe not too distant ) US dystopia, this goes through, and the criminal acts become smaller things like not displaying your gold star.

https://www.google.com/search?client=sa ... =744&dpr=2

[Shirley]

Did Trump already end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, like he promised, and I missed it?

[jfish26]

Did Trump already end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, like he promised, and I missed it?

It sure seems like what Trump meant by "end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours" was actually "attack the Constitution with such grubby ferocity that nobody cares about Ukraine anymore."

[twocoach]

"Those" people, not "these" people. Everyone knows that pronouns are important to MAGA.

In a distant ( but maybe not too distant ) US dystopia, this goes through, and the criminal acts become smaller things like not displaying your gold star.

https://www.google.com/search?client=sa ... =744&dpr=2

MAGA takes the opposite approach:

https://secure.winred.com/trump-nationa ... gI82vD_BwE

[KUTradition]

In a distant ( but maybe not too distant ) US dystopia, this goes through, and the criminal acts become smaller things like not displaying your gold star.

https://www.google.com/search?client=sa ... =744&dpr=2

MAGA takes the opposite approach:

https://secure.winred.com/trump-nationa ... gI82vD_BwE

Paid for by Trump National Committee JFC, Inc., P.O. Box 509, Arlington, VA 22216.

[japhy]

I think we can all agree that this country really needs to get it's collective shit together; no better way to get the family in ship shape than to put an abusive parent at the helm.

Republican lawmakers are grappling with the fallout from President Trump’s first week in office, which has brought a dizzying array of changes to Washington and has already spawned major controversies.

Trump’s firing of 17 inspectors general, his sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 protesters and a stop order on most foreign assistance has left Republican senators scrambling to keep up.

That’s to say nothing of Trump’s threats to impound congressionally appropriated funds, his terminating of personal protective details for former national security officials and skipping background checks for short-term security clearances.

“Look, there’s going to be a lot of disruption. We know that,” said Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who cited the president’s decision last week to fire Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan.

Mom is busy making excuses.

A Republican senator who requested anonymity said Trump is pursuing a “shock and awe” approach by taking so many executive actions during his first week in office.

“Our majorities are very small here so he knows that most of what he gets done is going to be by executive order,” the lawmaker said.

The latest bombshell to drop Monday afternoon was news that the Department of Justice had fired officials involved in prosecuting Trump on charges of trying to overturn the 2024 election and mishandling classified documents. The Justice Department also suspended several environmental lawyers.

It came only a day after Trump rattled Colombia, a close ally in South America, by threatening to slap it with a 25 percent tariff for turning away U.S. military planes set to deport a group of Colombian migrants.

Many of the decisions have caught Republican lawmakers by surprise, such as the freezing of funding for key infrastructure projects across the country.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), the chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, expressed “concern” over the fate of key infrastructure projects that Congress funded during the Biden administration.

“We’re following that very closely. I’ve talked to Sean Duffy a couple of times,” she said, referring to former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), Trump’s nominee to head the Transportation Department.

“We’re concerned about road and bridge projects and formula funding. Want to make the case to the president that they need to move forward. As it is right now, it’s not moving forward.”

Sullivan said Duffy has been asked about the future of infrastructure funding by GOP senators.

“It’s a definite important issue,” he said. “We’re all looking at it.”

One GOP senator said the executive order to freeze infrastructure funding “was not drafted precisely enough.”

The kids are sitting quietly watching, is dad drunk again? Why is he taking off his belt? No one speaks until they figure out what mood the bully is in tonight.

Republican senators were stunned by the dismissal of 17 inspectors general late Friday night, despite statutory requirement that Congress be notified 30 days in advance of such an action.

“You have to take each one of the actions separately. For me, I’ve asked for more information on the support or the legal ramifications of actually firing the individuals,” said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.).

Rounds said GOP lawmakers need to “work our way through them.”

“I think the president wanted to hit the ground running and I think he really has a concern about a bureaucracy that could be in his way,” he said.

Rounds said he’s personally used inspector general reports in the past and found them helpful.

“I personally have used a number of their reports in the past and so I don’t know why he chose those particular ones. I’d like to learn more why he chose those,” he said of the terminated government watchdogs.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) over the weekend said she had difficulty understanding why Trump would fire a big group of inspectors general since those are the officials in charge of rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government, which Trump says is one of his priorities.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he wanted “further explanation from President Trump” about the decision to dismiss the government watchdogs.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Monday “there’s some question” about the interpretation of the law requiring the administration to notify lawmakers in advance of decisions to fire inspectors general.

“I’m looking forward [to] a reason. I think Sen. Grassley was the one who pointed out that there is a notice requirement and would like to know what the rationale was,” he said.

GOP lawmakers were also scrambling to grasp the impact of Trump’s orders to freeze most foreign assistance and parts of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, two of former President Biden’s biggest legislative accomplishments, which happened to steer a lot of money to Republican-leaning states.

“I think it’s appropriate for the administration to review all of this stuff. They said they were going to. The mechanics they’re using to do it is up to them,” said. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

This is just a good healthy dysfunctional family dynamic at work. Dad is the disrupter and bringer of chaos and the rest of the family cleans up the mess, and makes excuses, and gets a beating if they cross him, even inadvertently.

And sometimes the beating is just to show he can beat anyone, at anytime, without consequence.

It was time to bring back the concept of the abusive parent as a role model/leader. It got a lot of bad publicity for awhile, but it is what America needs right now.

Hail Victory!

[KUTradition]

fuck all those complicit bastards

[jfish26]

[jfish26]

[KUTradition]

kids and seniors

sigh…

[jfish26]

kids and seniors

sigh…

The net-net of all of this is that we're all operating without a net, other than the ones we can afford ourselves.

And that is not because we can't afford a net. It's because we don't want to.