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3 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

That's the entire point. 

Yeah, no shit. Anyone in urban areas that voted for Trump are going to have their faces feasted upon when homelessness and petty crime sky rockets when the people theses organizations served are abandoned.

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15 minutes ago, royiv said:

120 people were laid off from Catholic Charities in Houston yesterday due to federal funding being withheld. Houston has a very large refugee population so this will absolutely be felt in the community.

 

7 minutes ago, royiv said:

Yeah, no shit. Anyone in urban areas that voted for Trump are going to have their faces feasted upon when homelessness and petty crime sky rockets when the people theses organizations served are abandoned.

Damn, those Christian charities must be really essential to keeping society glued together. Kind of a weird position for this board to take given the historical levels of bullshit spewed here and the semi-regular calls to tax churches. 

The Catholic church has an enormous budget, hundreds of billions. Over 60MM members. They should pass another tray next Sunday to fund the roles that are being laid off. 

 

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2 minutes ago, royiv said:

Fuck off and never reply to one of my posts again. You’re a piece of shit that needs to go away.

Whine more. 

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1 minute ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

This board would be a better place if everyone put Anna on ignore.

Unfortunately, the ignore feature sucks.

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nsiap ...

Critic’s Notebook: In This Trump Presidency, the Domination Will Be Televised
From the Super Bowl to a self-produced version of “Cops,” the second Trump administration is using imagery to project an air of authority and invincibility.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/arts/television/donald-trump-tv-ice.html

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By James Poniewozik
Feb. 13, 2025
There was a Caesar-at-the-Colosseum air to President Donald J. Trump’s appearance at this year’s Super Bowl, the first by a sitting president.

The leader of the state took his place in the grand arena — which figuratively included more than 127 million TV viewers — to preside over his people’s biggest event of gladiatorial combat. Fox cameras captured him saluting during the anthem, amid shots of service members and a military flyover, part of the increasingly martial pageant of the pregame ceremony.

He even had Super Bowl ads, of a sort: Spots for Fox News during the game repeatedly featured a photo of Mr. Trump raising a fist after the assassination attempt against him last summer.

Seeking the media spotlight is nothing new for Mr. Trump. But in his second term, there is already a pronounced trend in how he and his allies are using imagery with an almost imperial aesthetic to project an air of ubiquity, authority and invincibility.

On TV news and social media, his immigration-enforcement raids are being packaged like mini reality-TV shows — complete with perp walks and even guest stars — to flood viewers with images of relentless action. His signing ceremonies are playlets of theatrical conquest. Even in his inaugural portrait, where he smiled in 2017, he now scowls.

The Trump 2.0 penchant for dominance theater was evident from the inauguration, at the arena show where Mr. Trump basked in the cheers of a MAGA crowd as he signed executive orders at a makeshift presidential desk. The manner of the signing said just as much about Mr. Trump’s vision of leadership as the text of the orders did: the sole decider lifting his pen and ruling by decree.

All this stage-crafted vigor may have paid off for Mr. Trump in his early polling. Despite disagreements over specific actions and proposals, a majority of respondents to a recent CBS News poll described him as “tough,” “energetic” and “effective” — the natural offshoot of media images designed to convey that the maximum leader is everywhere, doing everything.

Maybe the most intense TV effort of the new administration, however, has been one that has not starred Mr. Trump at all: The P.R. program of embedding cameras with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies on immigration-enforcement raids. The busts and ride-alongs have involved local and national news reporters, as well as the former talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw.

“Clearly there was interest in having cameras present,” said CBS News’s Major Garrett after accompanying a raid in New York City. “Some call that performative law enforcement, others call it a way of spreading the message, creating deterrence.”

The videos have turned the administration’s signature initiative into a season of “Cops,” with all the propagandistic framing that implies. As on “Cops,” the targets are objects, not subjects. What we know of them is what law enforcement wants us to know about them. Whatever the arrestees say to the observers’ questions is presented as evidence against them, as is whatever they don’t say.

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Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, center, participated in ICE raids televised by CBS News. “Clearly there was interest in having cameras present,” Major Garrett, right, said in the report. Credit...CBS
The resulting, visceral message, on government social-media feeds and nightly news, is of a tireless, muscular government springing into pursuit and getting a job done. On a local news station in North Carolina, an embed report on the pursuit of a man identified as a Honduran national captures a chase through the woods, a walk in front of the camera as the man is apprehended, a close shot of his shackled ankles as he is walked into an elevator at an I.C.E. field office.

There is plenty that the videos don’t tell us. The administration has given little information, for instance, about how many of the thousands of people captured in the raids were actually among the intended targets.

But the videos speak a visual language that decades of police procedurals and action shows, from “Dragnet” through today, have taught a TV audience to read. They depict agents — whose point-of-view we share — showing force and cleaning up the streets. In a debate between nuanced reporting and potent images, the pictures win every time.

Still, even a slick production has its limits. The immigration-raid videos and government handout images have been in heavy rotation on Fox News, and on Feb. 6 the channel aired a report on a raid in Colorado that failed to arrest any of the gang members it was said to target. “There’s no sugarcoating it; this operation fell short of what they were going for,” said the embedded Fox reporter, Bill Melugin.

The segment ended up turning into a platform for Mr. Trump’s “border czar,” Thomas Homan, to accuse leakers of tipping off the raid’s targets and threaten consequences. Interviewing Mr. Homan, the Fox anchor Harris Faulkner was aghast at footage of protesters using megaphones to inform arrest targets, in Spanish, of their rights. “If they’re shouting and helping these people get away with bullhorns, how is that legal?” she asked.

Not all coverage has been so accommodating, and the administration has noticed this as well. Also on Feb. 6, Mr. Trump’s Federal Communications Commission chair, Brendan Carr, speaking on “Fox & Friends,” said the F.C.C. was investigating a San Francisco radio station for its live coverage of an immigration enforcement action, which Mr. Carr said had undermined the operation.

With this warning, there was again subtext along with the text, this time aimed at the press: A relentless, formidable Trump administration was watching, was listening and would not be stopped. The show — through punitive force if necessary — would go on.

 

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Posted
20 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

This argument has a lot of merit.  It would make sense if Putin had something on tfg.  But in this timeline, it makes more sense if tfg is just acting like a dick in general because he's generally just a dick.  

He’s worse. He’s a sociopath. 

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4 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Why in the actual fuck do we have Pete Hegseth of all fucking people publicly speaking to foreign dignitaries on sensitive Foreign Policy matters, and JD fucking Vance talking about war with got damn Russia?

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2 minutes ago, wood said:

Why in the actual fuck do we have Pete Hegseth of all fucking people publicly speaking to foreign dignitaries on sensitive Foreign Policy matters, and JD fucking Vance talking about war with got damn Russia?

Don’t forget Elon publicly speaking to foreign leaders.

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Posted
19 hours ago, South Austin said:

It was stupid to ever let them vote.

And choose their sexual partners. Used to be we could just smack them on the head with a club and drag them back to our cave. 

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36 minutes ago, royiv said:

Fuck off more. You’re a certified piece of shit that needs to go away.

Sorry for pointing out the delusional nature of quite common anti-christian/organized religion rhetoric on this board.  

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14 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

https://apnews.com/article/ap-white-house-gulf-name-dispute-3f43c519a4b4f4661dd0831421943ef7

 

DotARd not letting AP reporters into press briefings because they are still calling it the Gulf of Mexico. 

Seriously, all reporters should just boycott all doTArd press briefings. He would starve without the attention. Its not like they say anything that's not a lie anyway. 

 

 

Everyone interacting with Trump should start calling it El Golfo de America.

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Posted
2 hours ago, mchookem said:

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2 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

All probationary staff are being let go and all of the seasonal staff are gone.  The parks are going to be absolutely trashed without supervision.   

On the plus side, Yellowstone Bison gorings will be up 1000% year over year.

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I also like how he mentions the church's huge budgets and yet they don't use it to actually help people, need tax dollars for that, huh? The church's funds are probably not availble since they're having to pay off all those kids they diddled while continuing to claim that they are relevant to guiding peoples' moral compass.  

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19 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

Good lord. Emil Bove looks like a Bond villain, with the name to match.  (oh, and homeboy is only 42 years old. he looks 10-15 years older)

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Bond villain you say? Kronsteen's long lost child?

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1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

  

 

Damn, those Christian charities must be really essential to keeping society glued together. Kind of a weird position for this board to take given the historical levels of bullshit spewed here and the semi-regular calls to tax churches. 

The Catholic church has an enormous budget, hundreds of billions. Over 60MM members. They should pass another tray next Sunday to fund the roles that are being laid off. 

 


Holy fucking shit.  Poor people starving but at least Anastasis gets to score some political points. 

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23 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Captain of that carrier ship will probably get a medal or promotion. 

21 hours ago, Leeroy Jenkins said:

He is actually a good dude.  I know him but I haven't seen him in years.  He is a classmate of mine.  

Yeah it's gonna suck for the captains of both ships, no matter who was predominantly at fault. In the maritime world, a collision is generally going to be laid at the feet of both of them, because in open water the general thinking is that there were always things both of them could have done to avoid the collision.

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1 minute ago, Gil Bang said:

 

I hope this is true as it seems like a really bad strategy to put them all in a room together and have them exert peer pressure on each other to not sign. The better strategy would be to work on them individually and see if you can get one to crack by offering them some sort of incentive, similar to how Bove got something out of Adams in the first place.

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2 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:


Holy fucking shit.  Poor people starving but at least Anastasis gets to score some political points. 

yeah. pretty lame. he's like #97...

 

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26 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Holy fucking shit.  Poor people starving but at least Anastasis gets to score some political points. 

Sorry for pointing out the absurdity. I expect to never have to read anything again here about federal government subsidizing religious organizations and charities. If you are really worried about poor people starving, I will match your donation up to $1k to MLF today. 

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WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK with the DOJ and this suing Starbucks for not having enough white men on the payroll…
 
Republicans are celebrating this shit. I’ve never in my life been more apathetic and pessimistic about the future my son will inherit in this country.
Decades happen in a week? We’re going backwards a century in three weeks basically.

Meh. Starbucks is burnt bean garbage.
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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The lawyers are the first to show the most courage.  Thank you SDNY Assistant Attorney General.

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"If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion.  But it was never going to be me."

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59 minutes ago, 'stache said:

I also like how he mentions the church's huge budgets and yet they don't use it to actually help people, need tax dollars for that, huh? The church's funds are probably not availble since they're having to pay off all those kids they diddled while continuing to claim that they are relevant to guiding peoples' moral compass.  

You're kind of making his point, y'know.  There are a lot of church organizations that do a lot of good in the social services area, and yeah, they take federal and state funding made available to them like secular agencies.

Catholic Charities is the best of the RCC.  That doesn't insulate the RCC from criticism, nor should it expose Catholic Charites to more.  Afaik, in Dallas at least, they are the number one resource for charitable immigrant services.

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