All Things Trump: the story continues...

[Tero]

Musk will soon have to PAY women to take his sperm. He is not going to be happy unless he has 200 offspring.

[Tero]

Back to Trump: sending kids born here "back"

Trump said his administration’s mass deportation efforts will target people with criminal histories, but indicated it could go beyond deporting criminals — without specifying who the “other people outside of criminals” would be. When asked whether he plans to deport every person who has entered the country illegally, he said, “I think you have to do it.”

“It’s a very tough thing to do,” he said, adding, “you know, you have rules, regulations, laws. They came in illegally.”
Asked about families with mixed immigration status — where parents are in the country illegally but their children are not — Trump said, “I don’t want to be breaking up families, so the only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together, and you have to send them all back.”

Trump also doubled down on his campaign promise to end birthright citizenship, which is protected by the 14th Amendment, and suggested he may attempt to overturn the right through executive action.

“We’re gonna have to get it changed, or maybe I would go back to the people, but we have to end it. We’re the only country that has it,” he said, echoing a false statement he’s made in the past. “If we can, through executive action. I was going to do it through executive action, but then we had to fix Covid first, to be honest with you.”

As CNN has reported, about three dozen countries provide automatic citizenship to people born on their soil.

what next? people who got citizenship through marriage get it repealed? (does not apply to me)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/08/politics ... index.html

Democrats and Cheney to jail

At the same time, Trump singled out lawmakers on a special House committee who had investigated the insurrection, citing Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.

“Cheney was behind it … so was Bennie Thompson and everybody on that committee,” Trump said.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/t ... kes-office

[Sean Hayden]

Musk will soon have to PAY women to take his sperm. He is not going to be happy unless he has 200 offspring.

It's the same question for me over and over: who wakes up believing they're made for these jobs? If you, over your morning coffee, believe you've identified how best to organize a nation's budget, you're probably just insane --okay.

[Tero]

The job of producing 200 offsping? I was not planning on that.

As far as government, we have a million bureaucrats doing their job.

[Sean Hayden]

Is the assumption that capitalism is bolted on, and once removed a healthier more natural state of affairs can be allowed to thrive? Because I suspect being human just ain’t all that conducive to thriving communities, at least not in the sense most people have in mind when they say that sort of thing. But maybe capitalism has just warped ma mind.

Perhaps

I think his thrust isn't so much that capitalism bad (tho that's my take!), but that Society is how we care for each other and ourselves, and Economy is just the material means by which we do that. When Economy doesn't allow us to do the care Society, and therefore us, start to break down. He uses the idea of perfection to examine what it is we really want and need to lead healthier more fulfilling lives.

It sounds interesting. The bias I carry into these sorts of discussions is the belief that there is an enormous disconnect between how we think of ourselves, and how we are, especially in groups. I can accept that we have created systems which work against our best interest. But when you consider our best interest to be some version of a thriving healthy individual, then I would caution that we carry within us enough baggage to ensure that many people never realize this, regardless of how we "choose" to organize societies. That's never an argument in favor of the status quo though; it's just an observation, I think.

[Sean Hayden]

The job of producing 200 offsping? I was not planning on that.

As far as government, we have a million bureaucrats doing their job.

--caught me, just quoted to carry on the discussion of Musk who wants to run the budget. Why does he wake up thinking he's the right guy, or that we need him? Like you said, we have a million for a reason.

[Tero]

https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/br ... -january-6
Kinzinger to Trump: bring it on. We have law.

[Tero]

He can't leave us alone for the "holiday" season. He has to be on the media every other day now to January of 25.
tomwellborn3
11m11 minutes ago
Convicted felon Donald Trump’s "Meet the Press" interview was a litany of lies. He claimed 13,099 murderers were released into the U.S. (false, ICE data was misused), took credit for "saving" Obamacare despite actively trying to dismantle it, and still denies his 2020 loss. Welker pushed back, but his deceit was in full display.
https://www.threads.net/@tomwellborn3/p ... M_4Z8_rzAw

thescotandjoe
14h14 hours ago
Republican nativity scene.(cages)
https://www.threads.net/@thescotandjoe/ ... M35DA6NgDw

[Tero]

Since Trump is going to deport aliens illegally here for 20 years and their US born children, there may be a solution. They need to kill their parents. They are just illegals. Small fine for that.

[Brian Peacock]

Is the assumption that capitalism is bolted on, and once removed a healthier more natural state of affairs can be allowed to thrive? Because I suspect being human just ain’t all that conducive to thriving communities, at least not in the sense most people have in mind when they say that sort of thing. But maybe capitalism has just warped ma mind.

Perhaps

I think his thrust isn't so much that capitalism bad (tho that's my take!), but that Society is how we care for each other and ourselves, and Economy is just the material means by which we do that. When Economy doesn't allow us to do the care Society, and therefore us, start to break down. He uses the idea of perfection to examine what it is we really want and need to lead healthier more fulfilling lives.

It sounds interesting. The bias I carry into these sorts of discussions is the belief that there is an enormous disconnect between how we think of ourselves, and how we are, especially in groups. I can accept that we have created systems which work against our best interest. But when you consider our best interest to be some version of a thriving healthy individual, then I would caution that we carry within us enough baggage to ensure that many people never realize this, regardless of how we "choose" to organize societies. That's never an argument in favor of the status quo though; it's just an observation, I think.

Could we call this a kind of 'spiritual crisis' then - both at a personal level and at the community level?

[Joe]

He can't leave us alone for the "holiday" season. He has to be on the media every other day now to January of 25.

He's just warming up. Wait until he's got the bully pulpit again.

[Tero]

Robert Reich
Trump and Republicans in Congress think they’ve finally come up with a way to eliminate Social Security — one of the most popular and necessary programs in the federal government.

Let me explain.
https://bit.ly/49rzIiD

[rainbow]

Robert Reich
Trump and Republicans in Congress think they’ve finally come up with a way to eliminate Social Security — one of the most popular and necessary programs in the federal government.

Let me explain.
https://bit.ly/49rzIiD

Trump is as likely to do anything as he did last time. All hot air and farts.

[Tero]

elderly golfer is an incoherent mess on Meet the Press

WELKER: “Even kids who are here legally?”

TRUMP: “Well, what you’ve got to do if they want to stay with their father — look, we have to have rules and regulations. You can always find something out like, you know, ‘This doesn’t work. That doesn’t work.’ I’ll tell you what’s going to be horrible, when we take a wonderful young woman who’s with a criminal. And they show the woman, and she could stay by the law, but they show the woman being taken out. Or they want her out and your cameras are focused on her as she’s crying as she’s being taken out of our country. And then the public turns against us. But we have to do our job.”

how lovely. our Sociopath-in-Chief is more concerned about the optics of families being torn apart on TV than, you know, families being torn apart.

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/elderly- ... erent-mess

[macdoc]

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