Today in Trump

[Kirkland Laing]

The other thing we're guaranteed is that five minutes after he takes office his entire administraton will become a chaotic, shambolic, seething mass of criminality and corruption.

[Master]

I was hoping Kirkland was exaggerating about Trump and MAGA but it is all true. USA is living in a facism world. They have taken over.

[TitoFan]

It's almost impossible to exaggerate about Trump at this point. His wrecking of the U.S. democratic way of life simply cannot be overstated.

I sympathize with those affected by Trump who have never supported him.

But I have ZERO sympathy for those former Trump supporters suddenly waking up and realizing what the rest of the world knew even before Trump was first elected back in 2016.

I've loathed Trump since his days with Celebrity Apprentice. With age and experience, one learns to analyze personalities and make intelligent opinions as to how someone would fare in important positions, such as POTUS.

Once again...

[Master]

This image would not be out of place in World War 2 concentration camp run by the Nazi.

Sick that this is now normal.

[TitoFan]

Admittedly that is a very impacting image in a bad way.

But I feel it must also be mentioned that the initiatives of the El Salvador government, in particular, President Nayib Bukele, have worked wonders in a country previously ravaged by gang warfare. Having never lived in such an environment, I can only imagine how it must feel like to live in fear of getting murdered any time you go out into the street. News of gangs taking over whole towns were commonplace back then. The United States would periodically round up gang members who had made their way to the States, and deport them back to El Salvador, where they would continue the endless cycle. It's like garbage. Nobody wants it in THEIR landfill.

While it's true that prisoners should not be denied their basic civil rights in prison... it's also true that only a harsh, no-nonsense approach will work to eliminate the cancer of gang warfare. I saw a documentary on this prison once (Terrorism Confinement Center). Although I'm sure they swept the floors and made everything pretty for the TV cameras before they arrived... enough was said and explained during the documentary that at least I was satisfied that we're not dealing with some kind of 3rd world dungeon.

While some people criticize Bukele and his approach, I for one think other countries with similar problems could copy their example to improve life for their citizens.

[Master]

Fascist state do this.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen studying at Tufts University, was taken into federal custody Tuesday, the university said, in the latest apparent example of the Trump administration targeting students with pro-Palestinian views.

Ozturk is the holder of a valid student visa, Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk’s lawyer, said in a statement, and was detained Tuesday by agents with the Department of Homeland Security.

"Rumeysa Ozturk is a Turkish national who was maintaining valid F-1 status as a PhD student at Tufts University," Khanbabai said in the statement. "Rumeysa was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast on the evening of March 25th when she was detained near her home in Somerville, MA by DHS agents. We are unaware of her whereabouts and have not been able to contact her."

As of Tuesday evening, Ozturk was listed on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement website as being held at the South Louisiana Processing Center in Basile.

Last year, Ozturk co-authored an op-ed in the Tufts Daily, the university’s newspaper, criticizing Tufts for its failure to “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide.”

Canary Mission, a group that monitors people it says promote antisemitism on college campuses, posted a picture of Ozturk on its website, saying she "engaged in anti-Israel activism in March 2024."

In January, President Trump signed an executive order to “combat anti-Semitism.” Since then the administration has targeted several students for deportation.

In an email to students on Tuesday, Tufts said that administrators were told that Ozturk’s visa had been terminated and were trying “to confirm whether that information is true.”

"The university had no pre-knowledge of this incident and did not share any information with federal authorities prior to the event, and the location where this took place is not affiliated with Tufts University," the school wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tu...d=BingNewsSerp

[Master]

Musk is disgustingly buying votes. He is giving away $1m cheques ahead of Wisconsin's Supreme Court election.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7v3jj5xy9o

[Kirkland Laing]

Elon is handing out million dollar cheques for votes in an offseason judge election in Wisconsin which is straight up illegal but a district judge has blocked the Wisconsin AG from prosecuting him. It's basically banana republic judicial system in America now. Oh, and you can hand out million dollar cheques to buy votes but people handing out bottles of water to voters waiting hours in line in the heat in heavily black districts in the south have been sent to prison for interfering in elections.

See also Trump issuing pardons for people who have paid him millions in contributions, a guy represented by his Attorney General's brother, the fact his AG is still owrking as a lobbyist although unregistered as ethics laws don't apply to her, Trump firing prosecutors who were prosecuting people paying him money:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/t...j-independence

also this:

https://bsky.app/profile/sethcotlar..../3llploeism22j



oh oh also this:

https://x.com/CREWcrew/status/1905347871349899385



nineteen foreign countries paying Trump money directly. That's nineteen now. Just wait a year.

If this shit was going on under a Democratic president the GOP would be melting down over the airwaves daily. You can imagine what they'd be saying. And that's how you get to voters these days. The GOP turn small change bullshit into the end of America anytime a Democrat is in office. If the Democrats can't do anything with the daily corruption going on now they fucking deserve to lose. Here's how fucked the Democrats are and I agree with all of the stuff in this article:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...arris-00230631



Trump also talking about how he won't defy a judicial ruling. Well of course he's saying that now. Just so he can point to it when he does start defying them and say see I never wanted to defy a judge but the evile radical deep state lefty judges made me do it. We're going to find out it takes wrecking the economy, the judicial system and the entire democratic system just to save America from the evil deep state lefties.

See what happens with the tariffs. Maybe he's bullshitting and it turns out to be a damp squib and the markets go nuts. Maybe he's literally betting on that. No way to tell anymore because the markets are turning into smoke and mirrors due to all the corruption. I am not retiring, fuck these guys.

[TitoFan]

Hey let's look at the bright side.

There's only 1,369 days, 1 hour, and 47 minutes left until the next Election Day.

I posted this back in February.

But WAIT.....


https://apnews.com/article/trump-thi...68b17fe89b7578

"Trump says he’s considering ways to serve a third term as president"



If we think we're gonna rid ourselves of Trump... we got another thing coming.

About the only thing we got going for us is Trump's age. But who's to know if he's going to fund some ultra-secret youth serum technology so he can stick around for a couple more terms.

[Primo Carnera]

Hey let's look at the bright side.

There's only 1,369 days, 1 hour, and 47 minutes left until the next Election Day.

I posted this back in February.

But WAIT.....


https://apnews.com/article/trump-thi...68b17fe89b7578

"Trump says he’s considering ways to serve a third term as president"



If we think we're gonna rid ourselves of Trump... we got another thing coming.

About the only thing we got going for us is Trump's age. But who's to know if he's going to fund some ultra-secret youth serum technology so he can stick around for a couple more terms.

The only thing I would say is I would rather Trump than either of them ass wipes Vance or Musk.

[Master]

Hey let's look at the bright side.

There's only 1,369 days, 1 hour, and 47 minutes left until the next Election Day.

I posted this back in February.

But WAIT.....


https://apnews.com/article/trump-thi...68b17fe89b7578

"Trump says he’s considering ways to serve a third term as president"



If we think we're gonna rid ourselves of Trump... we got another thing coming.

About the only thing we got going for us is Trump's age. But who's to know if he's going to fund some ultra-secret youth serum technology so he can stick around for a couple more terms.

The only thing I would say is I would rather Trump than either of them ass wipes Vance or Musk.

That is not much choice. Musk is South African but they may change the rules to allow him to run.

[TitoFan]

The juicy part is about 30 seconds in...






While the Democratic party is full of whiners and "do-nothing" handwringers when it comes to Trump... the GOP is chockfull of flip-floppers who apparently undergo massive lobotomies and check their "cojones" in at the door without a second thought of how they might be perceived by intelligent voters.

Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, and of course Vance are but a few of these spineless flip-floppers who have had their anti-Trump comments thrown in their face... and of course they shamelessly proceed to "explain" those away.

U.S. politics is a great big steaming pile of SHIT.

[Kirkland Laing]

[TitoFan]

The following should be blared through giant loudspeakers in all U.S. cities, especially in those in States that voted for Trump.


I...

told...

you...

so!!!!!!

[Kirkland Laing]

Watching Asian markets open like it's 2009.



Maybe Trump does an Erdogan*. He can fire all his nutcase economic advisors and blame the whole thing on them. These idiots are currently briefing everybody that the tariffs are just a negotiation ploy to actually bring tariffs down. As long as they stick with that nobody is going to reshore a single job, so Americans are going to miss out on those high paying sock factory gigs anyway. And of course with full employment at the minute they'd have to import millions of new immigrants for the jobs anyway. It's a load of incoherent, contradictory rubbish and Trump can elegantly reverse out of it before the tariffs start next week. He must be thinking about it. He'll be getting lots of phone calls I'm sure. Bring Cohn and Mnuchin back. The markets take off again. Just stay in Florida and play golf. Better than the alternative.

*Nobody asked me about Erdogan. If he sticks with the tariffs everybody will know the story. It's only the most consequential shit that's happened to people since 2009 and nobody seems to care. Another exhibit.