All Things Trump: the story continues...

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https://keithedwards.substack.com/p/war-of-the-worlds
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that Trump is not going to be able to deport 11 million people, end birthright citizenship, or magically return prices to their pre-pandemic levels.1 All of these are unworkable with his historically small congressional majorities, and he knows it.
The bad news is because he knows it, he now needs a new shiny object to wave in front of his base’s faces. Enter neo-imperial expansionism. Launching a “short, victorious war” to shore up your legitimacy is an oldie but a goodie that every autocrat in history will recognize. After all, the only way to distract from an internal problem you can’t solve is to create an external one you can. Call Canada a state? The base will love it! Claim Greenland for its resources? Why not! Take back Jimmy Carter’s Panama Canal deal?

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Fruit will be rotting in fields and trees:
The Border Patrol conducted unannounced raids throughout Bakersfield on Tuesday, descending on businesses where day laborers and field workers gather. Agents in unmarked SUVs rounded up people in vans outside a Home Depot and gas station that serves a breakfast popular with field workers.

This appears to be the first large-scale Border Patrol raid in California since the election of Donald Trump, coming just a day after Congress certified the election on January 6, in the final days of Joe Biden’s presidency.
https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/ ... ion-sweep/

Trump: Elon, what do you know about those fancy fruit picking robots?
Elon: It's not rocket science
Trump: And make the robots run on gas, the CO2 is good for the plants.

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Only qa week to the coronation. Musk and Ramaswamy teams on their way to Trump cabinet heads or the Biden ones still there. To interrogate and fire every Democrat in the management posts. Then the scientific experts. For being too sciency.

Trump will be harassing every Democrat governor from day 1.

[rainbow]

*Breaking News*

"World shocked to discover that Trump is a Liar, Cheat and Fraud"

[Brian Peacock]

POINH!

[Tyrannical]

I wonder if Trump will set his sights on Australia, it's like the Canada of ... is it south east Asia or Oceania?
Bet they'd make a fine US State or two

[pErvinalia]

Be good for projecting Pacific power against China.

[Tero]

Elsewhere, guy talked to Trump voter:

Me: No, that’s just complete fabrication
Them: What do you mean?
Me: It’s like that time Trump said the immigrants are eating the cats and dogs - it’s just an outright lie
Them: What was that? Why were they eating cats and dogs?
Me: They weren’t. It was a lie. He just made it up.
Them: So what was happening to the cats and dogs?
Me: Nothing out of the ordinary. I think a cat went missing, as cats sometimes do, and people just made up a whole story about it that wasn’t true.
Them: But, why didn’t the police look into it?
Me: Look into what? There was nothing to look into. The whole story was made up.
Them: Why did he say they were eating cats and dogs?
Me: Because he’s a liar and a moron and he lied to gain the support of people who hate or distrust immigrants.
Them: So what were the immigrants doing?
Me: Existing. Nothing out of the ordinary. He lied, or repeated a lie, because it was convenient to his narrative, and because it would get him support from people who believe he’s going to fix a problem that he says exists.

[pErvinalia]

[Tero]

The indictment charged Trump with conspiring to obstruct the election certification, defraud the US of accurate election results and deprive US voters of their voting rights.

Smith’s office determined that charges may have been justified against some co-conspirators accused of helping Trump carry out the plan, but the report said prosecutors reached no final conclusions. Several of Trump’s former lawyers had previously been identified as co-conspirators referenced in the indictment.

Trump and his legal team have characterised the report as a “political hit job” aimed at disrupting the presidential transition and waged a protracted legal battle to prevent its release.

Smith, who left the justice department last week, directly addresses accusations from Trump and his allies that the investigation was politically motivated. He asserts that his team operated solely on the basis of facts and law.

Smith writes: “My office had one north star: to follow the facts and law wherever they led. Nothing more and nothing less. To all who know me well, the claim from Mr Trump that my decisions as a prosecutor were influenced or directed by the Biden administration or other political actors is, in a word, laughable.”

Smith acknowledges the justice department’s policy prohibiting the prosecution of a sitting president, a factor that ultimately led to the dropping of charges against Trump after his 2024 victory. The report also references a supreme court ruling expanding presidential immunity, which complicated the case.

But Smith wrote in a letter to Garland attached to the report: “While we were not able to bring the cases we charged to trial, I believe the fact that our team stood up for the rule of law matters. I believe the example our team set for others to fight for justice without regard for the personal costs matters.”

A second section of the report details Smith’s case accusing Trump of illegally retaining sensitive national security documents after leaving the White House in 2021. The justice department has committed not to make that portion public while legal proceedings continue against two Trump associates charged in the case.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... jack-smith
Two Trump co-conspirators will need to go to court before Trump can pardon them.

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Canada is stealing our water. And it flows "downhill" to California.
https://www.threads.net/@jojo.fromjerz/ ... HkSOU4m82A
Sept 27, 2024
Trump suggested to a news conference at his Los Angeles golf club in California's coastal city of Rancho Palos Verdes that the dry state's neighbour in the north can turn a "large faucet" to bring more water into California to help the state solve its problems. You have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north with the snow caps in Canada and all pouring down and they have essentially a very large faucet,"...

Comments:
raesheanix
12h12 hours ago
Okay. I'll be honest. I control the big tap in Canada. Yep. It's me.
I'll give the US all the water they want, but Trump has to negotiate with me. No entourage. No secret service. Just me and him in an in person meeting. Those are my conditions.

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Trump dude has nazi tattoos. Or some Christian crusader shit.
https://www.threads.net/@nastynatasha__ ... IOVkvlhxrA

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They forgot cat ladies. it would be 10% or less.

There is a sharp gender divide on how Trump is viewed — 53% of men have a positive view of him, while just 35% of women do.

Trump was viewed best by white evangelical Christians (69%), white men without college degrees (65%) and those who live in rural areas (57%).

Those with the least positive feelings toward the incoming president include white women with college degrees (29%), women who live in small cities or suburban areas (34%) and people who live in big cities (36%).

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-52 ... vorability

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Melania is a movie?
https://www.threads.net/@inda.pendent/p ... whu2PqeRRw

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Trump solves Gaza crisis
https://www.threads.net/@barbaraj.sobel ... whu2PqeRRw