Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

[DougDaBroadcasta]

As I posted in another thread, it's coming:

 

[nycfan]

 

[OGtruthhurts]

Damn so 8 balls are gonna cost more?

 

[farce©]

Colombia isn’t opposed to repatriation flights. They are opposed to the deportees being cuffed and shackled in military cargo planes.

 

[OGtruthhurts]

I fucking hate all the fake bullshit both parties have endorsed in this country

 

[korgguy1971]

Fun fact: Judge Aileen Cannon is Colombian.

 

[Geisterfahrer]

Honestly, doesn't this shit just drive these countries into the awaiting arms of China? Trump really hates America, doesn't he?

Yes and no. Nobody from Colombia is trying to get into China.

 

[Carolina Fever]

I fucking hate all the fake bullshit both parties have endorsed in this country

I hate the bosiding when one party is definitely worse when it comes to treating all Americans, not just the straight white Christians.

 

[Carolina Fever]

Man our country is BACK! It is no longer a laughing stock.

Wrong. Everyone else except maybe Russia and North Korea are laughing at us and appaled at what is happening to our country. The only people the country is back for are straight white Christian fascists.

 

[nycfan]

“… The conflict began on Wednesday, when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops put out a statement criticizing new executive ordersrelated to immigration.

“Several of the executive orders signed by President Trump this week are specifically intended to eviscerate humanitarian protections enshrined in federal law and undermine due process, subjecting vulnerable families and children to grave danger,” wrote Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, chairman of the conference’s Committee on Migration. …”



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Vance went on to say that Catholic leaders may be more upset about losing the federal money that goes to religious organizations that help immigrants and refugees than about the Trump administration’s executive orders.

“I think that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or are they actually worried about their bottom line?,” the vice president said in the CBS News interview, which aired on Sunday.

Later on Sunday, Catholic leaders released a statement on the church’s resettlement work, explaining that it spends more on its refugee program than it receives from the federal government.

“Faithful to the teaching of Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church has a long history of serving refugees. In 1980, the bishops of the United States began partnering with the federal government to carry out this service when Congress created the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). Every person resettled through USRAP is vetted and approved for the program by the federal government while outside of the United States. In our agreements with the government, the USCCB receives funds to do this work; however, these funds are not sufficient to cover the entire cost of these programs. Nonetheless, this remains a work of mercy and ministry of the Church," the statement said. …”

 

[StrangePackage]

I fucking hate all the fake bullshit both parties have endorsed in this country

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[rodoheel]

I'm not knowledgeable about the amount of drugs coming in from Canada. He obviously has some reason for it so what is the story of fentanyl coming through canada and why does trump think canada isn't doing anything to stop it?

He has the same sorts of reasons that he did for saying people are eating cats and dogs in Springfield: someone said it on the TV shows he watches.

 

[donbosco]

@nycfan -- Thanks for 'tagging' me on this. I missed all of this somehow (school work mainly). That "essay" by Petro reads like something that José Martí might write -- it is the kind of thing that would have wide appeal across the region with the working and middle class, intellectuals, and the educated but definitely not, as Judah Grunstein (not a person that I am familiar with) suggests, with the traditional ruling class as well as many in what might amount to a rising business class bent on becoming ruling class. Of course, Petro, being of the Left (like Lula and Lewandoski) isn't a favorite of that crowd anyway. Back to Martí -- being one of the region's heroes, a poetic revolutionary man of the people -- the allusions to Gaitan, Bolivar, and slavery and slavers that Petro makes are classic anti-imperialism (US Brand). I've not seen anything written like that since the late 19th/early 20th century authors from the region.

 

[nycfan]

 

[donbosco]

Eliminating birthright citizenship aims to take away what is attracting immigrants to the US, but it's really not addressing. MAGA likes this because they want to punish the immigrant (and not affect the white man). Thing is the real magnet is jobs. The enforcement on the persons hiring illegals is lax as heck, but that's an inconvenient action for the MAGA crowd.

CR speaks my mind here.

 

[UNCatTech]

Tim Scott must really like the taste of trump's ass. The man has always acted like such a little bitch when it comes to trump. I still recall trump saying how horrible a campaign Scott ran. Tim just smiled because he thought trump was going to give him a cabinet position.

 

[nycfan]

“…
Less than a year later, in June 2019, Kennedy Jr. received an invitation to visit Samoa from Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, who had expressed that he’d previously lost a grandchild “under similar circumstances,” which many understood to mean due to complications relating to vaccines. Edwin Tamasese, a local vaccine skeptic, had told Malielegaoi about Children’s Health Defense, and urged him to invite Kennedy Jr. to speak with him.

Kennedy Jr. knew all about the deaths in Samoa, and Children’s Health Defense had been using it to make misinformation materials and escalate its calls for “vaccine safety science,” despite the fact that the deadly error in the case had been a human one.

It was then that Kennedy Jr. pitched his cruel experiment: to use the drop in vaccination rates as an opportunity to see if vaccines actually work (spoiler alert: They do).

He brought with him Dr. Michael Craven, the Children’s Health Defense’s new chief information officer, who could set up an information system to track the effects of vaccines, or lack thereof.

Ultimately, his pitch wasn’t convincing. “I was not interested in his ideas—he was not a medical doctor,” Malielegaoi told NBC News. “Our medical experts are more credible to me.”

But Kennedy Jr. wasn’t far from done trying to intervene. Months later, when a measles outbreak started to spread through Samoa, Kennedy wrote to Malielegaoi suggesting that there was another reason for the spate of deaths. By the end of the year dozens of children were dead.

That’s when Kennedy reached out to Tamasese, the vaccine skeptic. Tamasese said that Kennedy helped assemble a team of doctors who advised him on the real cure, a vitamin C treatment, to save the kids of Samoa from the spread of measles. Meanwhile, one of the doctors on Kennedy’s team asked Tamasese to secure a vial of the measles vaccine and send it to the U.S. for testing.

Eventually, Samoa instituted a vaccine mandate, and the Covid-19 pandemic diverted Kennedy’s efforts in Samoa. Kennedy continues to claim that the measles were not responsible for the deaths of 82 children. “Nobody died in Samoa from measles,” Kennedy said in August. “They were dying from a bad vaccine.” …”