Trump47 First Week & Beyond Catch-All

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finesse said:
This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.
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I prefer Milosz to Eliot on this one:

On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.

On the day the world ends
Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas,
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.

And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels’ trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.

Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet
Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
There will be no other end of the world,
There will be no other end of the world.

Warsaw, 1944
 
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Trump fires TSA Administrator (who Trump originally appointed).

“The head of the Transportation Security Administration said he was pushed out of President Trump’s new administration.

TSA Administrator David Pekoske told staff late Monday morning that he had been advised by Trump’s transition team that “my time as your Administrator will end at noon ET today,” the time of Trump’s swearing in, according to a farewell message viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

CNN earlier reported on the staff message and Pekoske’s departure.

Trump named Pekoske, a former vice commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, as TSA administrator in 2017.

President Biden re-upped him to a second five-year term in 2022. Pekoske said last year that he hoped to stay in the job.

It was not immediately clear who would replace him. The Trump transition team didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.”

 

Panama’s President Says Canal Will Remain Under Panamanian Ownership​


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Santiago Pérez
Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino--a center-right politician who wants to work with the U.S. on migration and security issues--rejected President Trump’s threats to take back the Panama Canal as an affront to Panama’s sovereignty.

“The Canal is and will remain Panamanian and its management will continue to be under Panama’s control with respect to its permanent neutrality,” Mulino said Monday.

The U.S. handover of the canal to Panama agreed in 1997 wasn’t a gift, but the result of a long struggle for sovereignty, he said.

“For 25 years, without interruption, we have managed and expanded it responsibly to serve the world and its trade, including the U.S.”

Mulino said that his government is open to talk to the Trump administration to clarify concerns, “without undermining our right, total sovereignty and ownership of our Canal."
 
finesse said:
You keep a-swervin' in my lane
And it's causing' lots of danger
I'm a-honkin' on my horn
I'm a-shootin' you the finger
I keep a-switchin' on my bright lights
But you're just too dim to know
When your swervin' on life's highway
You're runnin' someone off the road
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upvote for R E Keen song
 
So let's see -- Day One of Trump. He issued several illegal executive orders. He again alienated the world by talking about imperialism, and threatened to take the Panama Canal. His bff did the Nazi salute twice. He screwed up the border, again.

It's actually somewhat impressive how much Trump can break in a day.
 
The return to work order is nothing more than a way to fire half of the federal workers without giving them a severance right? That’s what it feels like
 
WaynetheDrain said:
Venezuelan and Cuban Trump supporters don't give a shit about anyone still left behind in their previous countries. They only care that they got a free pass.
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True, except that may not prevent Trump 2.0 from going after Venezuelans already living here as well. I don't think these people are safe by any means.
 
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