All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

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Supreme Court Rejects, for Now, Trump’s Bid to Fire Government Watchdog
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Sarah Szalavitz‬ ‪@dearsarah.bsky.social‬
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Federal Judge Banishes Musk’s DOGE Aides From Treasury Dept. Systems


‪Po Murray‬ ‪@pomurray.bsky.social‬
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March against russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 22, marking the third anniversary of russia's full-scale war.

Beltway journalists reported Thursday on "confusion" spreading throughout the White House and the Republican caucus following U.S. President Donald Trump's endorsement of a House plan that would slash Medicaid and comments from the administration that suggested Trump will not protect Medicare—but Democratic lawmakers and progressive advocates said the message was crystal clear.

" Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to cut taxes for billionaires like themselves—and pay for it by gutting Medicare and Medicaid," Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party, said in a statement. "They don't care if families have to take on crushing debt to pay for care, as long as it makes them much, much richer."

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is among the Republicans who have expressed "concerns" about the "very deep cuts to Medicaid" included in the House proposal, which Larry Levitt of Kaiser Family Foundation said would "go well beyond eliminating fraud and abuse."
"The Trump administration is committed to protecting Medicare and Medicaid while slashing the waste, fraud, and abuse within those programs—reforms that will increase efficiency and improve care for beneficiaries," White House spokesperson Kush Desai told Politico Wednesday, before sending an updated statement that left out the mention of Medicare.

Voters who supported Trump because they believed his promises to protect Medicaid and Medicare "were had," according to the administration's latest comments, said Helaine Olen of the American Economic Liberties Project.

https://www.rawstory.com/simply-lying-c ... p-promise/

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Trillions may just disapper.

The bitcoin price is hovering at just under $100,000 per bitcoin, up from under $50,000 at the beginning of 2024, as JPMorgan issues a serious Wall Street warning.

Now, as a soverign wealth fund suddenly kicks off the global bitcoin adoption "race," bitcoin-backing U.S. senator Cynthia Lummis has primed the market for a major legislation update—as Michael Saylor pitches his $80 trillion plan for digital economy dominance.
"And so it begins," Lummis posted to X, quoting a post by the account of the U.S. Senate banking committee on which she serves that queued up a “subcommittee hearing on bitcoin and crypto legislation” and committee chair senator Tim Scott’s nominations hearing.
Lummis, a vocal supporter of bitcoin and crypto, has campaigned for the U.S. to create bitcoin reserve similar to its gold reserve and has written a bill that would see the U.S. buy one million bitcoin over five years.

Earlier this month, Donald Trump’s crypto czar David Sacks held his first press conference to announce a bicameral working group tasked with developing crypto regulation focused on stablecoins and market structure and hailing a "golden age" for crypto.

When asked by a reporter about plans for a bitcoin reserve, Sacks said it was something the group will be looking at.

"That is one of the first things we’re going to look at as part of the internal working group in the administration," Sacks said. "We’re still waiting for some cabinet secretaries on the working group to be confirmed. But once that’s in place, one of our first steps will be assessing the feasibility of a bitcoin reserve."

This week, during an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC),
Michael Saylor, the founder of Strategy, a so-called bitcoin treasury company previously known as MicroStrategy that’s bought almost 500,000 bitcoin worth nearly $50 billion, told attendees the U.S. government should buy 20% of the bitcoin supply to secure the country’s dominance of the digital economy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-as ... bombshell/

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In 2010, the House voted 228 to 192, with Lummis in favor, to prohibit federal funding for NPR.[157] She said that House Democrats had a "cocaine-like addiction" to spending.[158] Lummis voted against the Hurricane Sandy relief bill, saying that although victims of Hurricane Sandy deserved the money the federal government should cut its budget to offset the cost of the legislation.[159]

Lummis has campaigned for a regulatory framework for digital assets, a stance she reiterated after the FTX exchange collapsed.

Lummis was among the 31 Senate Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_L ... _positions

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stonekettle

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"Our military will never follow illegal orders to..."
Let me stop you there
This is what you are not getting: They are not illegal orders. Trump orders an invasion of our neighbors? He orders the army to use force on Americans for "national security?" those are LEGAL orders until Congress and/or the Courts say otherwise.
Remember when you were told there was more at stake than the presidency?
We handed Trump unlimited power and total immunity without any limits.

[Sean Hayden]

The limits have only ever been—ever—what people are willing to allow and do. We have every reason to fear the worst, because in this moment so many of us are willing to allow it to happen. You may not want it to be true, you may console yourself with his “unpopularity” relative to other presidents, but 40+% of support is significant, and probably plenty enough.

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Before election: Spirit 1 took off before Trump 1
https://www.threads.net/@jessicacaremoo ... JwaIl3AfIA
audio is fake but yes they took off

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How soon till Trump declares national emergency and shuts down cable channels?

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Trump: "We are also going to Ft Knox. I'm going to go with Elon. Because we want to see if the gold is still there. Wouldn't that be terrible? ... we open the door, we'll say, 'There's nothing here! They stole this too!'"

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BREAKING: Trump is currently giving a rambling, nonsensical speech at CPAC. He’s clearly not well.

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Either Biden or Zelinskyy started the war
https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/po ... jB1S2g2GJw
but we want our money back....as minerals

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Can't trust the man, or his plane -

[Brian Peacock]

So trustworthy... everyone is saying it... the most trustworthy president from the most trustworthy party in probably the last 400 years... no-one has ever been more trustworthy than they are right now... etc etc

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Mark Hamill
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social‬

It's almost impossible to believe he exists.
It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth

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Opinion | The Roberts court’s first Trump II move: A quick sidestep
34 minutes ago
Opinion
By Jason Willick

Proably this

[Brian Peacock]

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

“Brutus” and “Caesar”—what should be in that “Caesar”?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?

Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with ’em,
“Brutus” will start a spirit as soon as “Caesar.”

Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed
That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!

Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
When could they say, till now, that talked of Rome,
That her wide walks encompassed but one man?

Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough
When there is in it but only one man.
O, you and I have heard our fathers say
There was a Brutus once that would have brooked
Th’ eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king.

William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II