Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

[sringwal]

My instinct is that many on Team Trump are waiting for a chance to use protests to declare emergency powers but THAT will blow up into real protests. But who knows.

I would agree.

 

[BlooVooDoo]

Saw a cybertruck on the way to work this morning. It had obviously been through a car wash. One of the wheel covers was warped like an LP left on the dash of car in the summer sun.

 

[LeoBloom]

Das Volk <> "the people" and we know exactly which one of those the fascists always mean.

Good point.

 

[HeelYeah2012]

I still haven't gotten past ChileG counting paper losses in his 401k from a single day as money Trump "cost him"

 

[Healing]

Followed shortly by civil war?!?? I can’t believe how close to edge of insanity we are.

There is no organized and armed body to fight against the US military. This isn't Afghanistan where the culture, language, backwoods paths, caves, and supply trains all favored the Taliban.

 

[Healing]

My instinct is that many on Team Trump are waiting for a chance to use protests to declare emergency powers but THAT will blow up into real protests. But who knows.

ttump et al. are 100% looking for a false flag moment or trumped up "violent left wing mob" to instigate the repression. They're pulling straight from the Mussolini, Hitler, and Putin playbooks.

 

[Ramrouser]

Wow, something at last motivated federal workers out of their houses to come into DC. Progress.

 

[gtyellowjacket]

There is no organized and armed body to fight against the US military. This isn't Afghanistan where the culture, language, backwoods paths, caves, and supply trains all favored the Taliban.

This is always what folks think but revolutions happen. There are 2.9 million Americans under arms. There are 336 million Americans. Certainly some of those civilians support Trump and certainly some of the military don't but if it was just civilians against military, the military would lose handily.

 

[CFordUNC]

Now I see why all of the Trumper’s on this board have such severe cases of Biden Derangement Syndrome lololol. Trump literally cannot shut the fuck up about him. I’m pretty sure at this point Sleepy Joe must be in the spank bank for Dementia Don.

 

[Healing]

This is always what folks think but revolutions happen. There are 2.9 million Americans under arms. There are 336 million Americans. Certainly some of those civilians support Trump and certainly some of the military don't but if it was just civilians against military, the military would lose handily.

Thanks for laying out a completely unrealistic hypothetical.

 

[gtyellowjacket]

Thanks for laying out a completely unrealistic hypothetical.

It's right up there with the US military has no peer and would never lose against a bunch of civilians.

 

[UNCBAdookJD]

There is no organized and armed body to fight against the US military. This isn't Afghanistan where the culture, language, backwoods paths, caves, and supply trains all favored the Taliban.

If a civil war breaks out the U.S. military will fracture. It won’t be ordinary citizens vs the military. It will be the military vs the military. However, even if it also came down to civilians, this country has more guns than people.

 

[Healing]

It's right up there with the US military has no peer and would never lose against a bunch of civilians.

Yeah, hence the qualifier that "a bunch of civilians" had massive advantages in Afghanistan, that they won't here. Also, you claim "if it was just civilians against military, the military would lose handily" is nonsensical; in no scenario is the entire citizenry aligned against the military. The US is effectively the North vs South, once again, except it's dispersed as rural/exburb vs urban.

 

[nycfan]

 

[gtyellowjacket]

Yeah, hence the qualifier that "a bunch of civilians" had massive advantages in Afghanistan, that they won't here. Also, you claim "if it was just civilians against military, the military would lose handily" is nonsensical; in no scenario is the entire citizenry aligned against the military. The US is effectively the North vs South, once again, except it's dispersed as rural/exburb vs urban.

Didn't realize you knew what qualifiers were:

"Certainly some of those civilians support Trump and certainly some of the military don't but if it was just civilians against military, the military would lose handily."

 

[nycfan]

 

[Callatoroy]

I guess Veronica would rather tax dollars go where biden was spending them.

LIST: 'Insane priorities' of USAID spending during Biden Administration

In the past week, there has been a lot of discussion around the USAID and where the billions of dollars in humanitarian aid actually goes.

kutv.com

Tell me zzl, which of these do you feel is a good use of your tax dollars:

Here is the list of USAID expenses:

• $50 million to fund condoms in Gaza
• $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces
• $70,000 for the production of a DEI musical in Ireland
• $47,000 on a transgender opera in Colombia
• $32,000 for a transgender comic in Peru
• $37 million to the World Health Organization
• $16 million in funding for institutional contractors in gender development offices
• $4 million of funding for the Center for Climate-Positive Development
• $12 million in support services to the Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security
• $6 million in non-emergency funding for redundant administrative supports for the Center of Excellence
• $3 million in non-emergency funding to provide evaluation services for planning and learning programs
• $600,000 to fund technical assistance for family planning in Latin America

This would certainly be a trump win right? Can't find the "atta boy trump thread". Guessing you guys didn't add to it while I was out of town.

 

[Healing]

Didn't realize you knew what qualifiers were:

"Certainly some of those civilians support Trump and certainly some of the military don't but if it was just civilians against military, the military would lose handily."

But

But - English Grammar Today - a reference to written and spoken English grammar and usage - Cambridge Dictionary

dictionary.cambridge.org

goodnight and farewell, Good German

 

[nycfan]

 

[Healing]

Fact check: $50 million for condoms in Gaza? Five big reasons to be skeptical Trump’s story is true | CNN Politics

During her first official White House briefing as President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt announced that Trump had prevented a “preposterous waste of taxpayer money.” Trump’s team, she said, used the president’s pause on foreign aid to thwart a plan in which “there was about...

amp.cnn.com

In three previous years under Biden, USAID spent no money on condoms in the entire Middle East: A detailed federal report published last year said USAID did not provide or fund any condoms in the Middle East in the 2021, 2022 and 2023 fiscal years.

The report, noted by The Guardian on Tuesday, said the only Middle East contraceptives provided or funded by USAID during that three-year period went to the country of Jordan in fiscal 2023. This was “a small order of injectables and progestin-only contraceptive pills” totaling about $46,000.

Total worldwide USAID condom spending is far less than $50 million: In the 2023 fiscal year, USAID provided or funded a global total of about $7.1 million worth of male condoms and about $1.1 million worth of female condoms, overwhelmingly to countries in Africa, according to the federal report.

In other words, Leavitt was essentially claiming Tuesday that the Biden administration had decided to provide more than six times the 2023 worldwide value of condoms to a single tiny territory that has about 2.1 million people and that is in a region that usually does not receive condoms from the US.