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heelinhell said:
nycfan may have posted news already, but WTF ???

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Pam Bondi Locks Bar Association Out Of Vetting Trump’s Judicial Nominees

America's main legal organization “no longer functions as a fair arbiter of nominees’ qualifications,” said Trump's attorney general.
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I found it so unsurprising it didn’t occur to me to post it, TBH. The W. Administration also disclaimed ABA vetting of their judicial nominees claiming the ABA was too liberal.

In any event, look at who Trump just nominated to run the Office of Special Counsel and the nomination of Bove (who at least has reasonable legal qualifications even if quite a leap to nominated him to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals) and his attack yesterday on Leo Leonard and the Federalist Society vetting of Trump appointees in his first term. Clearly he isn’t taking ABA or other advice on his nominees anyway.
 
Put this in the Tariffs thread but it TOTALLY deserves wider viewing.

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I deleted my snark about “civil unrest” because there were some significant protests about wages and jobs, so the civil unrest description is not completely unwarranted considering what it takes to get people to protest in China.
 
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BlooVooDoo said:
A bruised ego can be life threatening for narcissists.
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Narcissists present a false self that Trump displays to the public...arrogance, grandiosity, self importance, belittlement of others

The projection of the false self is intended to mask and protect the true self which is vulnerable, afraid, feeling inferior to others

Your post about a "bruised ego" is on target. In the psych biz we call it sustaining a narcissistic injury. This occurs when protection of the false self has been pierced and the narcissist experiences the pain of his true self frailties
 
nycfan said:
Dude. Have you ever heard of Project Paperclip? German (many former Nazi) immigrants developed the rockets used for the moon shot (and for weapons).

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I mean, we did give all those German scientists citizenship. So he's not exactly lying - he's just omitting an awful lot of context.
 


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In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power.

Mr. Trump has not publicly talked about the effort since. But behind the scenes, officials have quietly put technological building blocks into place to enable his plan. In particular, they have turned to one company: Palantir, the data analysis and technology firm.

The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work across the federal government in recent months. The company has received more than $113 million in federal government spending since Mr. Trump took office, according to public records, including additional funds from existing contracts as well as new contracts with the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon. (This does not include a $795 million contract that the Department of Defense awarded the company last week, which has not been spent.)

Representatives of Palantir are also speaking to at least two other agencies — the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service — about buying its technology, according to six government officials and Palantir employees with knowledge of the discussions.…”
 
nycfan said:

Trump Administration Publishes List of Sanctuary Cities and Counties to Target​

Administration has threatened to pull funding from jurisdictions that don’t cooperate with immigration enforcement​


🎁—>https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/tru...39?st=wBScb2&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

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I’m absolutely shocked Yates County, NY is on the list. Our summer cottage is located there and that is big time Trump country.

Also surprised Mecklenburg, NC is not on there.
 
Icky Mettle said:
I’m absolutely shocked Yates County, NY is on the list. Our summer cottage is located there and that is big time Trump country.

Also surprised Mecklenburg, NC is not on there.
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Aren’t there lots of Mennonites in the area? Especially in/around Penn Yan?

Mennonites generally support sanctuary.
 
Icky Mettle said:
I’m absolutely shocked Yates County, NY is on the list. Our summer cottage is located there and that is big time Trump country.

Also surprised Mecklenburg, NC is not on there.
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I was surprised about Mecklenburg but the initial NC list seems focused on college towns (+Chatham as part of the Durham/Orange communist bloc I guess). They reserve right to expand the list over time.
 
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