Trump / Musk (other than DOGE) Omnibus Thread

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Mulberry Heel said:
Well, it makes sense, because as this board proves, internet trolling constitutes a great deal of Trumpism.
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Is there anything to it OTHER than trolling? Troll the libs. Troll the gays. Troll the trans people. Troll our allies. Troll the educated. Troll government workers. There’s certainly nothing productive they’re trying to do.
 
Most of the Trumpers in these red states won't care, at least initially, and they'll probably celebrate the cuts. Why? Because most of these institutions are likely located in thriving college towns and large blue-voting areas in these red states that are prospering while their rural counties are dying out, economically and demographically. So watching, say, big cuts at UK or Ole Miss or Nebraska won't bother these people unless their favorite college sports teams take a hit, which is unlikely. Seeing all of those upper-middle-class urbanites and college town professional class types suffer will bring them great joy. And by the time they're adversely affected by these or other cuts down the line it will be too late.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
When the shit from all of this starts to hit the fan and there finally is a public uprising - and there will be at some point - then Musk will make a very convenient fall guy and scapegoat for Trump and the authors of Project 2025. He's famous and prominent enough so that everyone knows who he is, and so now he's doing much of their dirty work for them, and later they can blame everything on him while still trying to keep most of his "reforms" in place.
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Absolutely. Musk will be Trump’s fall guy.

I have said it many times on this board. Musk has placed himself in a far more precarious situation than he realizes.

The real question is whether Musk will be Rohm’d.
 
Callatoroy said:
He is a deeply vindictive person. However,

"But Trump’s decision to restrict Biden’s access to intelligence briefings comes exactly four years after Biden made the same move against Trump, citing his “erratic behavior” before and after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol."

I mean you gotta call it both ways
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As usual it's not what he did rather how he did it. The man is just such a vial piece of shit.

All things considered, why would Biden need to maintain access?
 
Callatoroy said:
no, biden left them in his unsecured garage. plus biden is mentally compromised. So you will justify why it was ok for biden to do it but not trump based on your partisanship. The bottom line is he did it because he could and out of spite. trump did the same thing. This is just the beginning of what trump is going to do to exact retribution. you reap what you sew.
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I do believe there was more justification when Biden did it. This is just trump being his normal center of the universe self.
 
Every move Trump has made so far is a revenge act. All fed funding cuts have strategically targeted on “liberal” institutions/agencies. Haven’t heard anything about farm subsidies where farmers are PAID to NOT grow a crop- to do nothing. It’s all very clear it’s vendictive revenge politics.
 
And again, unlawful. There is no circumstance under which the President can prevent the NY AG from having access to federal buildings. This will, again, be overturned in short order.

NY needs to pass a bounty law authorizing anyone to sue any person who takes away security clearances. $100M per violation.
 
I don't know where to put this, but a Pub appointee on the DC district court just held that labor unions lack standing to advocate for the rights of their members not to be targeted by DOGE.

It must be the first time in history that a judge found that a labor union lacks standing to represent its members. Literally, labor unions have statutory responsibilities to represent their members' interests in court. It is impossible for the union not to have standing.

I'm not sure if this is malice or simply dementia. Needless to say, it's comically stupid and I'm hoping the DC Circuit reverses in short order. This jackass cites a case that specifically states it does not apply to motions at the pleading stage as the basis for throwing out a motion at the pleading stage. It's a fundamental lack of understanding of standing and shocking for a DDC judge.

Fortunately, a couple of other GOP appointees to the district courts have taken a dim view of Trump's nonsense.

This is the opinion, btw:

 


“President Trump has spoken to Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the phone to try to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war, he told The Post in an exclusive interview aboard Air Force One Friday.

“I’d better not say,” said Trump when asked how many times the two leaders have spoken.

But he believes Putin “does care” about the killing on the battlefield.

“He wants to see people stop dying,” said Trump.

“All those dead people. Young, young, beautiful people. They’re like your kids, two million of them – and for no reason.”

… Trump has said he wants to strike a $500 million deal with Zelensky to access rare-earth minerals and gas in Ukraine in exchange for security guarantees in any potential peace settlement.…”
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Interesting that the NYPost has an interview with Trump about Ukraine that is all about Trump and Putin talking and Trump’s claims that Putin cares about the deaths of Ukrainians, but apparently has to dig back to prior statements by Trump to come up with a mention of Ukraine and its interests.
 
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