All Things Trump: the story continues...

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Unelected bureucrats tossed aside to have...unelected billionaires run the daily tasks of evil government.

"Ever seen a bigger piece of pork?" the richest man in the world wrote on X to his over 207 million followers.

Johnson continued, "They said, 'This is not directed to you, Mr. Speaker, but we don't like the spending.' I said, guess what fellas, I don't either."
Musk, in his series of Wednesday grievances against the legislation, quote-tweeted a post that read, "Johnson should be ashamed of himself. This is indefensible." He added, "This bill is terrible."
Ramaswamy also rejected the bill, writing on X Wednesday, "If Congress wants to get serious about government efficiency, they should VOTE NO."

The package was reviled by some conservatives, but many lawmakers in both parties saw it as a golden opportunity to secure long sought-after legislative priorities.

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/18/elon-m ... -bill-doge

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Trump wants the government to shut down. He wants economic chaos right before Christmas. What he REALLY wants is for Joe Biden to end in failure, or at least the public perception of such, so he can claim he inherited a democratic disaster and "fixed" it.
This is the concept of his plan.

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Ice practicing for Trump era:

After his wife and children, including newborn twins, were suddenly deported to Mexico by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a Texas man is fighting to get his family back.

Federico Arellano Jr, a US citizen, saw his wife, Christina Salazar, and their four children be taken into custody on 11 December, just three months after Salazar had given birth to their twins in Houston.

Salazar, 23, and her children were put on a plane at Houston’s George Bush airport bound for Reynosa, Mexico – a place where they had no contacts and no way of getting money, according to the family’s lawyers.
Salazar was born in Mexico. She and her two older children were awaiting immigration hearings. Arellano Jr told local Houston news outlet KHOU the family had missed an immigration hearing on 9 October, when Salazar had been recovering from the emergency cesarean section she had had to deliver the twins.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... eportation

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Elon is too busy. But technically he could be speaker of the house. Only he does not know parliamentary procedure.
https://www.threads.net/@slsyckes/post/ ... OFc1GoCWnw

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Yet another President Musk story
https://themindshield.com/trumps-team-i ... in-charge/

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Millions of Americans wishing for a Christmas miracle: Trump dies.
https://www.threads.net/@tomwellborn3/p ... 3AUcFGdIWQ
Claire McCaskill nails it: convicted felon Donald Trump looked small and weak as his own party floundered on a budget vote, all while Elon Musk stole the spotlight. The so-called GOP unity is a mirage, with chaos and humiliation ruling the day as Musk overshadows Trump’s fragile ego.

After that barb, she added, "He not only had to follow Musk's lead, he then couldn't deliver votes at a time when he's trying to convince everyone there's a massive mandate for him and everybody wants to be his friend. Then, whoops, the brakes got put on."

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I like it, but I don’t think I’m the intended audience. Is it healthy to consume propaganda intended for the other side? I bet someone has studied it…

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Although Trump’s plans for any travel bans remain unclear, the president-elect has threatened to invoke a travel ban as he did via executive order during his first term, which affected those from predominantly Muslim countries: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

This included students and faculty of higher education institutions. More than 40,000 people were refused visas as a result of the ban, according to the US state department.
Cornell University told its students that a travel ban involving the 13 nations Trump previously targeted “is likely to go into effect soon after inauguration”, and that new countries could be added to the list, particularly China and India.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... iversities

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It was funny till the nazi card.

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I just think it is important to point out how completely unprecedented it is that a President-Elect who is more than a month away from inauguration (and his “First Buddy” which sounds like a position requiring one wear a goofy sailor’s hat) has essentially plenary control over what legislation Congress considers, much less passes. The ineffectuality of a ‘lame duck’ president is frequently a given (unless their designated successor who intends to carry on the same policies is the victor) but having an uninaugurated President-Elect and his as-yet unappointed advisor and leader of an executive office that doesn’t even yet exist and is named after a meme cryptocurrency as a ‘joke’ is not only absurdist performance art but bears some striking similarities to how a certain mustachioed autocrat led a certain Central European country into a violent fascist regime that sparked a war that spanned three continents and resulted in somewhere on the order of 80 million deaths.

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I asked Mirosoft AI (Copilot) a broad question. Why do Trump voters hate the US government?
The answer was not full of the enthusiasm every nonpolitical question had:

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Link 3 was this:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads ... nd-expect/

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There was some progress. It sort of looks like Musk got kicked in the balls. Depends on the Senate.

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Low energy Trump recruits Trump Jr:
Donald Trump Jr. calls for MAGA followers to make Republicans ‘feel the pain’ until they fall in line
On the first day of the far-right AmericaFest in Phoenix, extreme Republicans — including Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump’s eldest son — were busy bashing fellow conservatives.

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Fatso without orange make up