Surviving a second Trump admin

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Sort of goes in the face of why he was elected.

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Voting with Russia and against our allies?

Guess numbnuts is talking about doing business with Russia too. Lifting the sanctions won't be long.

Putin wins, Ukraine, Europe and the world lose.

Why does trump hate America?

What does Putin have on him?

In a dramatic shift in transatlantic relations under President Donald Trump, the United States split with its European allies by refusing to blame Russia for its invasion of Ukraine in votes on three U.N. resolutions Monday seeking an end to the three-year war.

BTW,
The countries that voted against the resolution.

Russia

North Korea

Belarus

The United Fucking States

We should all be proud.

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BTW,
The countries that voted against the resolution.

Russia

North Korea

Belarus

The United Fucking States

We should all be proud.

It's now clear that MAGA voters were useful idiots for Putin. Reagan is rolling over in his grave.

“My guess is that they just want to burn it all down.

“I don’t see any rationality in what they’re doing other than that it is a performative attack on the government and it is an attempt to destroy what they perceive to be as the enemy, which is the very government that they are charged with administering. And that’s the only way to explain almost everything this administration has done."

Trump essentially "wants to have revenge on the United States of America” and doesn’t actually care “about what anything does."
-- George Conway

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It's now clear that MAGA voters were useful idiots for Putin. Reagan is rolling over in his grave.

Subsequently found, great minds . . .

The Party Of Reagan Becomes The Party Of Putin
Four decades after Ronald Reagan confronted the Soviets' "evil empire," Donald Trump has essentially switched sides.

On the wall overlooking the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is a portrait of the 40th president, Ronald Reagan. If it could move, it would likely turn its back in shame at the words and actions this week by the 47th president.

“Absolutely obscene,” said Tom Nichols, a self-described Reaganite and former Naval War College professor, about Donald Trump’s capitulation to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. “He ought to take that picture down.”

Ouch.

Reagan labeled the Soviet Union “the evil empire” for its human rights abuses and expansionist foreign policy. Trump regularly praises Putin as a “strong” leader.

Reagan pushed for freedom for Eastern Europe from Soviet hegemony. Trump victim-blames Ukraine, saying the former Soviet republic brought Putin’s invasion on itself.

Reagan in 1987 stood in Berlin, at the Brandenburg Gate between East and West and, in a speech that marked the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union, demanded of its final leader: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”

Trump in 2025, when pressed on whether Putin was mainly responsible for the destruction in Ukraine, answered: “I get tired of listening to that, I’ll tell you what.”

... Of course, as appalling as Trump’s siding with a murderous dictator is, it should not come as a surprise.

Trump’s fascination with autocrats generally and Putin in particular has been well documented for more than a decade. In 2013, he posted on social media that his hosting of a beauty pageant in Russia might win him Putin’s approval.

Pucker up. Blatant corruption:

That was followed by years of attempts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow — an effort that continued straight through his first run for president in 2016, it came out later. Trump asked for Russian help to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton that year, and then knowingly used the hacked and stolen emails that Russian spies released during the final month of the presidential campaign.

MAGAts detest democracy.

... Trump’s personal antagonism toward Zelenskyy, perhaps stemming from that episode, seems to have continued unabated. Three years ago, when Putin first invaded, Trump called it “genius” and “savvy.”...

“Putin is a thug and an experienced intelligence agent and he knows how to manipulate Trump,” Nichols said.

Be that as it may, Trump seems to have the party formerly of Reagan fully behind him as he abandons Ukraine. At the Conservative Political Action Conference this week — the annual gathering where, in 1974, Reagan gave the keynote speech — House speaker Mike Johnson was asked whether Congress would approve any more U.S. aid to Ukraine, as lawmakers had done under former President Joe Biden.

“There is no appetite for that. What do you think?” Johnson said with a laugh, encouraging the crowd to boo in response. “Uh, no.”

GQP = Party of Putin

“I guess I’m no longer surprised. It’s not so much a party’s ideological transformation as it is the abandonment of good character and values of any kind as an attribute of statesmanship,” said Mark Salter, a longtime senior aide to former U.S. Sen. John McCain, who famously said in his 2008 presidential run that when he looked into Putin’s eyes, all he could see were the letters “K-G-B.”

“The GOP is no longer the party of Reagan because so few of its office holders possess a sense of honor that Reagan would recognize as such. It’s a moral rot causing the ideological decay,” Salter added.

The next logical step could well be for Trump to start sending U.S. military assistance to Russia instead, using his same stated rationale of ending the war quickly.

If that sounds outlandishly, over-the-top impossible, so did much of what Americans saw over the past week — right up until it happened.

Younger RepuQs can perhaps be excused in their ignorance, but I can't fathom how older RepuQs like SoupySales stomach this betrayal of the country and their own Party of Reagan.

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Younger RepuQs can perhaps be excused in their ignorance, but I can't fathom how older RepuQs like SoupySales stomach this betrayal of the country and their own Party of Reagan.

Explain Jim Jones and you're on the right track.

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Damn, y’all are beyond old.

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Damn, y’all are beyond old.

People as young as 55 were adults during the Reagan presidency, and even younger Americans remember the Cold War. Math and History much? Oh, that's right, Clemson.

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Yeah, 36 years ago. Old fart.

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Yeah, 36 years ago. Old fart.

I would have guessed 12. Fwiw, we know we're old. Damn, you're stupid, even for a 12 year old.

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By your calculations, there will be spot at the top of this anonymous board for you soon.

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By your calculations, there will be spot at the top of this anonymous board for you soon.

Gibberish

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Damn, y’all are beyond old.

I'd guess you're covered in death spots (those purple skin discolorations old fuckers get whrn they whack up against something) and that most of them are on your head. God speed. Keep up the good work.

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Banni has set a goal for y’all at the top of the board.

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Banni has set a goal for y’all at the top of the board.

I would wish for your precipitous death, too, but I like having around an example of how stupid and immature MAGAts and Clemson fans are. Thank you. Don't play in traffic, boy.

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Art in Nazi Germany and Socialist realism in the Soviet Union are apparently models for the DonOLD approach to ideologically controlled art in the US.

Kennedy Center Cancels Acclaimed Kids Musical Over 'Sparkly Boys,' Creators Hint
“We didn’t ask for this joy bomb of a show to be a part of the resistance, but here we are,” the creators of "Finn" wrote after the tour was axed.

... “At its heart it has a universal message of love and acceptance,” they continued. “The fact that that extends to sparkly boys seems to be controversial.”

Actors Equity Association also expressed its outrage. “It is disturbing to see the new leadership of this institution move so swiftly to suppress viewpoints they do not agree with,” the union said in a statement on Instagram. “And it is beyond appalling that the art they find so dangerous is a joyful children’s musical encouraging young people to be true to themselves and follow their dreams.”...

No tolerance for individuality and tolerance in our new authoritarian nation. MAGA is about grooming children to be RW haters.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7zEY-muYJY

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LOL

Before the election it was SHUT IT DOWN!

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We might be in trouble.



Oh waitasec...nine hours later.

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We might be in trouble.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail ... qqhsu@jpeg

Oh waitasec...nine hours later.

https://x.com/dbongino/status/1895908963113451937

It was already March 2 in Russia.

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We might be in trouble.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail ... qqhsu@jpeg

Oh waitasec...nine hours later.

https://x.com/dbongino/status/1895908963113451937

It was already March 2 in Russia.

Ah, so sorry ꓘomrade.

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Uh ohs

https://newrepublic.com/post/191619/tru ... cted-power

Donald Trump is arguing to the Supreme Court that they have already given him “unrestricted power” to fire people.

The White House’s acting solicitor general, Sarah M. Harris, cited the Supreme Court’s July decision giving the president near-total immunity in an appeal Sunday asking the high court to overturn a lower court order blocking Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Office of Special Counsel, Hampton Dellinger. The office is an independent agency whose mission is to safeguard whistleblowers in the government and to enforce some ethics laws.

In July, the Supreme Court ruled that “the President’s management of the executive branch requires him to have unrestricted power to remove them [agency heads] in their most important duties,” Harris said in her filing, arguing that the lower court’s order was “an unprecedented assault on the separation of powers that warrant[ed] immediate relief.”

“This court should not allow lower courts to seize executive power by dictating to the president how long he must continue employing an agency head against his will,” the filing states.

Head of federal watchdog agency fired by Trump should remain on the job, judge rules

... The ruling from US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson is a win for the head of the Office of Special Counsel, Hampton Dellinger, who sued the Trump administration over his firing in a case that has already gone to the Supreme Court once before. The latest decision removes some of the technical legal issues that complicated earlier appeals by the Department of Justice.

“The special counsel’s job is to look into and expose unethical or unlawful practices directed at federal civil servants, and to help ensure that whistleblowers who disclose fraud, waste, and abuse on the part of government agencies can do so without suffering reprisals,” Jackson wrote. “It would be ironic, to say the least, and inimical to the ends furthered by the statute if the Special Counsel himself could be chilled in his work by fear of arbitrary or partisan removal.”

Ruling otherwise, she said, would offer the president “a constitutional license to bully officials in the executive branch into doing his will.”...