Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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Calheel said:
If it becomes a Musk v. Trump battle on social media, I know who I'm putting my money on. Trump isn't losing any popularity contests until he f***s the economy, and that will take some time.
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Could be. But my guess is that Musk doesn’t give a shit about abiding by US laws and could potentially unleash a lot of unsavory Trump and national-level intel.
 
Calheel said:
If it becomes a Musk v. Trump battle on social media, I know who I'm putting my money on. Trump isn't losing any popularity contests until he f***s the economy, and that will take some time.
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“… Trump was asked if he was “bothered” at all by Elon Musk’s public criticism of his A.I. deal, which Trump struck with industry leaders including Sam Altman, the OpenAI chief executive. Trump seemed clued into the lingering hostility (and litigation) between Musk and Altman. “He hates one of the people in the deal,” Trump says. “People in the deal are very, very smart people. But, Elon, one of the people he happens to hate. I have certain hatreds of people, too.” …”

 


“… The memo, signed Thursday night by the acting head of the Homeland Security Department, offers ICE officers a road map on how to use expansive powers that were long reserved only for encounters at the southern border to quickly remove migrants. It also appears to give the officers the ability to expel migrants in two major Biden-era programs that have allowed more than a million people to enter the country temporarily.

Those programs — an app called CBP One that migrants could use to try to schedule appointments to enter the United States, and an initiative that let in certain migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti — were key pillars of the Biden administration’s efforts to discourage illegal entries by allowing certain legal pathways. Immigrant advocates also worried that the memo could apply to Afghan and Ukrainian immigrants brought to the United States under separate programs. …”

So, again, not just violent criminals, but also people who entered in accordance with the rules. But they’re eating the pets, or so I hear.
 
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Immigration agents "raided" a business in Newark on Thursday, according to the city's mayor.

Mayor Ras Baraka said the agents detained multiple people, including United States citizens, a U.S. military veteran and undocumented individuals. According to Baraka, the agents did not produce a warrant.

… It happened at the Ocean Seafood Depot at Adams and Delancey streets.

The owner said about a dozen ICE agents came in unannounced around 11 a.m., asking to see documentation of his employees.

They didn't have a court order or, I mean, I didn't even ask," he said.

He said his manager tried to show his veteran's card, but the agents did not accept it.

"A couple of the guys couldn't show their identification," the owner said. "Twenty-six years in business, I never seen anything like this."

The owner said three people were taken into custody.

Surveillance video shows what appears to be federal immigration agents taking a man into custody outside the fish market. …”
 
nycfan said:


Trump makes it official, picking the guy who was in charge on site the day Trump was a mm from being assassinated. But Curran pretty easily convinced Trump it was Biden’s fault.

Curran has no apparent management experience for a department of this size but he is an experienced secret service officer.
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Head of the Secret Service is one instance where I fully support Trump appointing a completely inept and unqualified indvidual.
 

Trump adminstration shuts down White House Spanish-language page and social media​

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Trump adminstration shuts down White House Spanish-language page and social media

Within hours of President Donald Trump's inauguration, his administration took down the Spanish version of the official White House website. The website now gives users an "Error 404" message and a "Go To Home Page" button that directs them to a page featuring a video montage of Trump in his...
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Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the new administration took down the Spanish-language version of the official White House website.

The site — currently https://www.whitehouse.gov/es/ — now gives users an “Error 404” message. It also included a “Go Home” button that directed viewers to a page featuring a video montage of Trump in his first termand on the campaign trail. The button was later updated to read “Go To Home Page”.

Hispanic advocacy groups and others expressed confusion at the abrupt change and frustration at what some called the administration’s lack of efforts to maintain communication with the Latino community, which helped propel him to the presidency.

The Spanish profile of the White House’ X, @LaCasaBlanca and the government page on reproductive freedom also were disbanded. Meanwhile, the Spanish versions of other government agencies such as the Department of Labor, Justice and Agriculture remained available for users on Tuesday. …”

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A few things —

  • the “Go Home” button is unlikely to be accidental, though it is possible if not plausible
  • Will be interested to see if the Trump Admin gives agricultural workers a wide birth in their deportation zeal
  • I don’t want to be rude, but hard to take seriously the confusion expressed by Hispanic advocacy groups at this turn of events
 
nycfan said:

Trump adminstration shuts down White House Spanish-language page and social media​

www.pbs.org

Trump adminstration shuts down White House Spanish-language page and social media

Within hours of President Donald Trump's inauguration, his administration took down the Spanish version of the official White House website. The website now gives users an "Error 404" message and a "Go To Home Page" button that directs them to a page featuring a video montage of Trump in his...
www.pbs.org www.pbs.org

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Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the new administration took down the Spanish-language version of the official White House website.

The site — currently https://www.whitehouse.gov/es/ — now gives users an “Error 404” message. It also included a “Go Home” button that directed viewers to a page featuring a video montage of Trump in his first termand on the campaign trail. The button was later updated to read “Go To Home Page”.

Hispanic advocacy groups and others expressed confusion at the abrupt change and frustration at what some called the administration’s lack of efforts to maintain communication with the Latino community, which helped propel him to the presidency.

The Spanish profile of the White House’ X, @LaCasaBlanca and the government page on reproductive freedom also were disbanded. Meanwhile, the Spanish versions of other government agencies such as the Department of Labor, Justice and Agriculture remained available for users on Tuesday. …”

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A few things —

  • the “Go Home” button is unlikely to be accidental, though it is possible if not plausible
  • Will be interested to see if the Trump Admin gives agricultural workers a wide birth in their deportation zeal
  • I don’t want to be rude, but hard to take seriously the confusion expressed by Hispanic advocacy groups at this turn of events
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Awkward Season 4 GIF by The Office
 
“Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth testified during his confirmation hearing this month that he wasn’t aware of any nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) in connection with his two divorces. While a review of court documents from Hegseth’s divorce from his second wife, Samantha Hegseth, does not reflect a full NDA, it includes a court-ordered agreement precluding either of them from saying anything publicly that would disparage the other. …”

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Pete Hegseth’s divorce agreement with his second wife includes a non-disparagement clause

Pete and Samantha Hegseth’s 2018 divorce decree prohibits each of them from engaging in “any public discourse ... disparaging the other party.”
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“… Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, a Democratic member of the Armed Services Committee, had asked the Trump Cabinet pick during the Jan. 14 confirmation hearing whether there were NDAs between him and his first wife, Meredith Schwarz, or his second wife, Samantha Hegseth.

“Senator, it is not something I am aware of,” Pete Hegseth responded. Pressed whether he would release either of those women from the NDAs if they exist, Hegseth said, “Senator, that is not my responsibility.”

A July 2018 Minnesota state court divorce decree reveals that Hegseth has agreed to limits on what he and his second wife, Samantha Hegseth, whom he was married to from 2010 to 2017, can say about each other in public. (He has been married to Jennifer Rauchet since 2019.)

That decree, which is publicly available through Minnesota’s online court files, reflects findings of fact and conclusions of law and constitutes a court judgment.

… The agreement further states each “will refrain from engaging themselves in any public discourse, including through either traditional media or social media, disparaging the other party,” and it obligates them to “take reasonable steps to encourage friends and family to refrain from doing so.” …”

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She was free to say nice things, though, so he was not lying, right?

BTW, good job FBI reviewer who missed this public record?
 
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“… When reached for comment about the language of the divorce decree, a lawyer for Pete Hegseth, Tim Parlatore, wrote: “This is not a non-disclosure agreement, it is a limited non-disparagement agreement. These are two legally distinct concepts and there is nothing inappropriate or inaccurate about Mr. Hegseth’s answers to the committee. It takes some significant imagination and intellectual dishonesty for anyone to consider this to bear on the credibility of his testimony.” …”
 
nycfan said:


“… The memo, signed Thursday night by the acting head of the Homeland Security Department, offers ICE officers a road map on how to use expansive powers that were long reserved only for encounters at the southern border to quickly remove migrants. It also appears to give the officers the ability to expel migrants in two major Biden-era programs that have allowed more than a million people to enter the country temporarily.

Those programs — an app called CBP One that migrants could use to try to schedule appointments to enter the United States, and an initiative that let in certain migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti — were key pillars of the Biden administration’s efforts to discourage illegal entries by allowing certain legal pathways. Immigrant advocates also worried that the memo could apply to Afghan and Ukrainian immigrants brought to the United States under separate programs. …”

So, again, not just violent criminals, but also people who entered in accordance with the rules. But they’re eating the pets, or so I hear.
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Springfield may be about to see what an invasion REALLY looks like. And have its economy gutted at the same time.
 
nycfan said:
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My vague sense is that the EO tracks the two-person dissent from Wong Kim Ark, which basically settled the birthright citizenship question back in 1898. So MAGA is now literally reaching back to failed arguments from the 19th century to take constitutional rights away.
 
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