All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

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That's one cure for AIDS and Birdflu ??

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... lic-health

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Trump leaves ‘instructions’ to have Iran ‘obliterated’ if he is assassinated
Trump said he was "torn" about whether or not to sign the order but decided to move forward because Iran was "too close" to having a nuclear weapon, he said in remarks Tuesday from the White House.

"Trump said he would hold talks with his counterpart in Tehran, but warned he's left 'instructions' that if Iran assassinated him, the US foe 'would be obliterated,'" Sky News first reported.

https://www.rawstory.com/iran-trump-ass ... =superhead

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aaron.rupar
6h6 hours ago
Warnock: "Donald Trump said he was going to allow Mr. Robert Kennedy to 'go wild' on health. 'Go wild.' Of all the things that I can think of that I'd like to see a secretary of health and human services do, 'go wild' is not on the list ... he's unqualified, and I dare say everybody here knows it."
(RFK Jr’s nomination was later advanced on a party line vote)

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Trump doubles down on call for ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

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Raw Story:
Dems threaten government shutdown to stop Trump and Musk

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Trump doubles down on call for ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Gaza is already cleansed, everything is rubble and no one can live there. Condemned Dangerous No Trespassing

[pErvinalia]

Bullshit. You think if the Palestinian people are relocated that it will stay rubble? Of course not.

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Bullshit. You think if the Palestinian people are relocated that it will stay rubble? Of course not.

They have already been relocated, and Trump will block funding to rebuild and move them back

Trump says US will 'take over and own' the Gaza Strip, relocate ALL Palestinians and send troops into war zone 'if necessary' as he outlines extraordinary plan for the Middle East

Then some nice hotels and a shopping district can be built on the west bank, free of the anti-tourist elements.

[macdoc]

some mandate....

[Tero]

Plan for Trump:
1 buy Greenland
2 clear out Gaza
send gazans to Greenland

david.heath.writer
2h2 hours ago
It's remarkable that Donald Trump can blatantly call for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and seem to have no idea how offensive that proposal is.

[pErvinalia]

Bullshit. You think if the Palestinian people are relocated that it will stay rubble? Of course not.

They have already been relocated, and Trump will block funding to rebuild and move them back

Racist cheers on ethnic cleansing. Quelle surprise..

[Tero]

new acronyms
POSOTUS piece of shit of the united states
FOTUS
no idea

Today, 538 is unveiling a new polling average for President Donald Trump's job approval rating. Based on the 11 polls released since his inauguration on Jan. 20, Trump's average approval rating starts off at 50 percent, while 43 percent disapprove of the job he is doing as president. You can find a constantly updated estimate of Trump's approval rating on 538's polls page.
Pardoning the people who unlawfully entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and committed acts of violence is decidedly unpopular, for example, with just 21 percent of adults in favor, according to that AP/NORC poll.
Americans are also mostly not confident, according to the same AP/NORC poll, that Trump will be able to bring down the price of goods and services, such as groceries and health care. This is notable, as it's likely the biggest issue that convinced moderates to vote for him in the 2024 election. And there is only middling support for enacting tariffs on imports, with 29 percent in favor of a tax on all goods entering the U.S.

Finally, Trump goes up against an apparent gravitational force that pulls down on approval ratings as time goes on. Presidents tend to enjoy their best net approval ratings at the start of their terms. Then, as policies are passed that shift the effective ideology of the U.S. government away from the ideology of the average voter, and as the president inevitably marginalizes members of his own constituency by focusing his political capital on other policy domains, voters leave the president's side and his approval rating dips. This has been a consistent pattern for the last 80 years, barring events in foreign wars or attacks on the homeland.

https://abcnews.go.com/538/trump-starts ... =118146633

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"Republican lawmakers spent the past two weeks deferring to President Donald Trump and signaling they are happy to cede power to the White House.

"They fell in line behind his baggage-laden nominee for defense secretary. They barely protested his flip-flop on banning TikTok. They mostly shrugged off his firing of watchdogs without the legally required notifications to Congress and gushed about his freeze on federal funding even as they privately scrambled for clarity.

"Now, their votes on two of Trump’s most controversial Cabinet picks, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., could either send a message that they will not always acquiesce to the president, or cement their fealty in the new administration’s early days."

"Congressional leaders have a long tradition of closely guarding their turf, rebuffing presidents who attempt to dictate legislative strategy or flout their advice. But House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), who owes his position almost entirely to the president, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) have so far not taken that tack. Instead, Thune remained publicly stoic when Trump threatened to bypass his chamber by installing nominees via recess appointments, and Johnson removed a disfavored committee chair from his post — reportedly at Trump’s request."

"Still, voting down one of Trump’s nominees would come with immense political blowback, and no GOP senator has yet said they plan to do so. Trump allies made an example of Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in December after she wavered on supporting defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth, unleashing fury from the GOP base."
"Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky), chair of the House Oversight Committee, also shrugged off concerns that Trump was overstepping his authority with the funding freeze and, just before that, the firing of inspectors general.

“At the end of the day, I think he’s got a mandate,” Comer said. “He’s got support from the overwhelming majority of the people in this conference to get spending under control.” He suggested that Trump is not undermining Congress’s appropriations but instead is just making sure they are not being wasted."

"Trump and his nominee for budget chief, Russell Vought, have said the president should be able to use a technique called impoundment to reduce or eliminate spending regardless of what funding Congress has appropriated. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974, however, says the White House can only delay federal funds under certain conditions — and not just because the president disapproves of how the money is being spent, legal experts told The Washington Post."

But, so far, no Republican Congressman has expressed any concern about the White House's actions!

Washington Post
paywall

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Damn farmers. Not entirely their fault that I start disliking the state. Trump WAS a good con man. But to be fooled twice? The map is a bit odd to look at. Half the population is in the blue counties and one pink one next to the Omaha one. The other pink one up North along the river has a Native American population. They run the reservation as a corporation under somewhat socialist principles.

I was going to give the state about 2 years to survive and move on. But it may be just a year until we have moved on to Minnesota.

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Bureaucrats are like weeds. Musk is the herbicide.

2. Dismantling the ‘deep state’
What, then, could explain Trump’s choices? That autonomy may be the true target. Trump believes a group of federal employees, which he calls the “deep state,” stifled his first-term agenda. Some government workers have admitted as much.

One of Trump’s grievances is how long it takes to make policy: Ideas often have to go through studies, contracting proposals, public comment periods and more before officials implement them. Then they have to survive legal challenges. A determined federal employee who opposes a policy proposal could take advantage of this process to slow things down.

Trump knows that he wants to accomplish many things that the disproportionately liberal federal work force dislikes. He wants to deport millions of unauthorized migrants, roll back policies that fight climate change and impose tariffs. He wants people in power, from the rank and file to cabinet secretaries, who will faithfully execute that vision. So his administration has tried to entice his opponents to leave — by offering payouts, abolishing remote work and threatening layoffs.

But remaking the federal work force is not easy. Laws, regulations and union contracts protect employees. The administration can’t eliminate many programs on its own. Some workers have filed lawsuits to stop the Trump administration’s actions.

Trump is betting that the other branches of government won’t intervene. In his first term, he stocked the Supreme Court with friendly justices. Republicans now control the House and the Senate, and they have stood up for Trump and Musk’s efforts so far.

NYT