All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

[Tero]

Democracy is saved! Trump can't sent troops to polling places.
https://www.rawstory.com/midterm-2677802079/
But he can send ICE to arrest all the 250 000 illegals voting.

[Tero]

Trump is obliterating the 90 million people of Iran again.

[Tero]

Small number of Mexicans are paying DHS fines:
Negrete’s situation is not unique. He is one of more than 100,000 undocumented immigrants who have received fines from DHS from the beginning of the second Trump administration to mid-July – amounting to more than $84 billion, DHS told CNN Monday. DHS has collected more than $1.2 million as of July 16, the agency said.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/01/us/dhs-d ... mmigration

[Tero]

BREAKING: Markwayne Mullin confirms ICE will storm polling places to arrest immigrants allegedly voting, potentially creating fear and sowing chaos as Republicans brace for a midterm shellacking that could be followed by the impeachment of President Trump.

[pErvinalia]

Banana republic.

[Tero]

NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/us/p ... lroom.html

"The courts cannot keep up with President Trump.

"In cases on immigration, spending, mass firings and restructuring agencies, the administration has barreled ahead in the face of slow-moving legal challenges. If Mr. Trump loses when those lawsuits are finally resolved, it may be too late as a practical matter to undo what he has achieved.

"The challenge to Mr. Trump’s enormous White House ballroom project is just the latest example of a mismatch between a judicial system characterized by unhurried deliberation and a presidency built for speed.

“Trump is going to get his ballroom — even if courts conclude it’s illegal,” said Leah Litman, a law professor at the University of Michigan."

"Dissenting from an order in a different case last week, on mail-in voting, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that she detected a pattern: a “Catch-Me-If-You-Can approach to pursuing the president’s policy agenda.”

"Davis Ingle, a White House spokesman, said velocity was a virtue.

“President Trump is moving at lightning speed,” he said, “because we don’t have time to waste in our mission to make America greater than ever before.”

"When the ballroom case was argued before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in June, Judge Patricia A. Millett asked a telling question.

"If the government were to move very quickly to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty, she asked, was it true that “nothing can be done” by the courts?

"Yaakov Roth, a Justice Department lawyer, did not try to duck the question. “I think that’s right, yes,” he said."

"In a decision on Monday that let the project proceed for now, no justice said the project was lawful. The five-member majority, in an unsigned opinion, instead tentatively determined that the challengers had not suffered the sort of direct injury that would allow them to sue.

"Indeed, the majority went out of its way to say that “we do not pass upon the legality of the government’s East Wing project.”

"The general problem, said Professor Litman, a frequent critic of Mr. Trump, is that the Supreme Court, intentionally or not, “keeps missing the forest for the trees,” focusing on technical issues in the face of brazen conduct.

“The court has created a maze of obstacles — and invented obstacles — that have the effect of allowing the executive branch to get away with lawlessness,” she said, “at least for enough time to accomplish what they’re trying to.”

[Brian Peacock]

"Move fast and break things."

[pErvinalia]

Dutch gold reserves are the best gold reserves.

[Tero]

Daily doomscrolling.
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/09/03/the- ... ose-after/

[Sean Hayden]

No thanks. He’s already interfered in an election and pardoned the criminals who helped him, all with overwhelming Republican support. That they’ll interfere again is a given.

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Staying focused on my small world, it’s all I can do atm.

[Tero]

Basically, if congress or red states refuse to swear in new democrats, the DOJ or any other agency can't force congress/Johson to swear innthe Democrats. They can even repeat that in 2028 and refuse any Democrat. The president is a bit separate, counting electors. Likely a new president is sworn in 2029.

[Tero]

Cold symptoms. I will need to waste a Covid test if this thing is not gone by Mon morning. My class I am giving is in person, so it gets complicated. We already moved it a week due to building plumbing failing last Wed.

[pErvinalia]

I blame Trump!

[Tero]

Oops. Wrong thread.

Getting another thermometer, they were hard to find during Covid. Biden failed!

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lesliedalton49
No Ring, No Benefits?
9h
Trump's new childcare proposal. The proposal allows married, stay-at-home mothers and fathers to receive federal childcare cash assistance. Unmarried couples and single parents are ineligible. In addition, single working parents—who currently make up about 80% of the 870,000 families receiving these subsidies—would face a severe funding squeeze and forced to compete for a much smaller pool of remaining funds. The policy is discriminatory.