Trump Redux: The Death of Democracy, or Overblown Hyperbole?

[jimmy jazz]

https://x.com/VanFromNY/status/1886595163398586794?t=qSvZY_VjKyzs8HyxBRF5vQ&s=19

Apparently, Snoop Dogg is "beyond sad" for appearing in this advert against antisemitism.

The tweet has got 150k likes.

The comments are telling.

[Trollheart]

Another interesting story on the history of America trying to buy Greenland...

https://www.history.com/news/greenland-united-states-seward-cold-war?cmpid=email-hist-inside-history-2024-0205-02052025&om_rid=

[Trollheart]

BBC reports on why Trump's "Middle East Rivieria" will never happen.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2pwjgp59do?at_campaign=crm&at_medium=emails&at_campaign_type=owned&at_objective=conversion&at_ptr_name=salesforce&at_ptr_type=media&at_creation=[82980_NEWS_NLB_DEF_WK05_THU_06_FEB]-20250206-[bbcnews_trumpgazaplanwonthappenjeremybowenanalysis_newsmiddleeast]

[Weekender]

What they're going to do to the DOE is the most irritating because they just don't like that the intelligentsia disagrees with them. Education doesn't have a liberal bias though, reality does. Facts don't care about your feelings.

[Trollheart]

Now he's taking sanctions against the ICC. Christ on a bike, is this man so dense and arrogant that he... ah, forget I asked. 

[Trollheart]

And they just keep coming!

President Donald Trump signed more executive actions on Friday, aiming to review and potentially roll back policies that restrict Second Amendment rights and creating a new faith office at the White House.

Gun control: The order directs the attorney general to review and assess any actions taken by the federal government between January 2021 and January 2025 — during the Biden administration — that they view as infringing upon Second Amendment rights.

This includes evaluating regulations, international agreements and actions by agencies such as the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), as well as reports related to gun violence prevention.

After that review, the order states the attorney general should "present a proposed plan of action to the President, through the Domestic Policy Advisor, to protect the Second Amendment rights of all Americans."

Faith office: Another order establishes the White House Faith Office, aimed at strengthening the relationship between the federal government and faith-based entities. The office will be led by a senior adviser and will work closely with other offices in the executive branch, the order said.

"The executive branch is committed to ensuring that all executive departments and agencies (agencies) honor and enforce the Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty and to ending any form of religious discrimination by the Federal Government," the order said.

Aid to South Africa: Trump also signed an executive order to freeze assistance to South Africa over a law which allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic minorities without compensation. It also emphasized that US actions are in response to these human rights violations and the potential national security threats posed by South Africa's foreign policy decisions, including its ties with Iran and its stance on Israel.

According to the order, the US will no longer support South Africa with foreign aid if these policies continue. It also directs the US to assist Afrikaners who are fleeing South Africa due to discrimination, including helping them resettle in the US through refugee programs. Additionally, US agencies are told to stop providing any aid to South Africa unless it's deemed necessary for other reasons.

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-panama-japan-news-02-07-25/index.html?utm_source=cnn_Breaking+News&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=BFHODD2J0FYfMSZiKvRePEN3wfkKoadfj9o9T4pytyiSR5EYyWYqqnMhe%2F9Mx0qW&bt_ts=1738967296063

[Buck_Mulligan]

^^^ Afrikaners as refugees. What about all the Gazans who managed to avid being killed by US supplied munitions?

[Trollheart]

Anyway, aren't Afrikaaners the ones who instigated apartheid? To speak of them as fucking refugees now is surely akin to calling Nazis on the run after the war as being oppressed and marginalised! 

[Buck_Mulligan]

The link is to a website keeping track of all the lawsuits (currently 41) that have been filed against the Trump regime/junta as a result of the Executive Orders and directives.

https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

[Psy-Fi]

Judge to decide fate of Trump's federal buyout offer

More than 65,000 government employees have already accepted the offer.

[Lisnaholic]

The link is to a website keeping track of all the lawsuits (currently 41) that have been filed against the Trump regime/junta as a result of the Executive Orders and directives.

https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Does anyone think that these law suits are going to intimidate or impede Trump+allies? The President is a felon immune from prosecution, ready to pardon anyone who does his bidding. My plan: glance at that tracker in 3 years time to see just how futile all the litigation will have been.
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USAID: one graph and one opinion that suggests this style of "shut down and freeze" governance is gonna cause more trouble than its worth:-

USAID: How much was it costing America before being frozen:

[DJChameleon]

The lawsuits are just temporary and then they will get sent up the ladder to the Supreme Court where the people that he put into the SCOTUS will just do whatever he wants. It's all part of the design.

[Psy-Fi]

Trump says Palestinians wouldn't be allowed back into Gaza under his plan

[Weekender]

The lawsuits are just temporary and then they will get sent up the ladder to the Supreme Court where the people that he put into the SCOTUS will just do whatever he wants. It's all part of the design.

Yeah, at this point only disruptive action on the part of citizens can stop him. These actions come with sacrifice, where as voting for Democrats was basically cost free.

[SGR]

Top Justice Department official orders prosecutors to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday ordered federal prosecutors to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, arguing in a remarkable departure from longstanding norms that the case was interfering with the mayor's ability to aid the president's crackdown on illegal immigration.

In a two-page memo obtained by The Associated Press, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, the second in command at the Justice Department, told prosecutors in New York that they were "directed to dismiss" the bribery charges against Adams immediately.

He said the order was not based on any assessment of the strength of the case, but rather because it had come too close to Adams re-election campaign and distracted from his efforts to assist in the administration's priorities.

"The pending prosecution has unduly restricted Mayor Adams' ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime," Bove wrote.

The intervention and reasoning — that a powerful defendant could be too occupied with official duties to face accountability for alleged crimes — marked an extraordinary deviation from long-standing Justice Department norms, which typically afford independence to federal prosecutors.