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2 hours ago, mchookem said:

reminds me of my niece! 😊

your niece is one of the hottest women on the planet with a perfect body?

i am disappointed at how much you have been holding out on us over the years.

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Trump is halfway to making America a police state

This week’s visit to the Oval Office by Nayib Bukele offered a civics lesson to the world: America’s government pays greater respect to a foreign strongman than its own Supreme Court.

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Around noon on April 14, America ceased to have a law-abiding government. Some would argue that had already happened on January 20, when Donald Trump was inaugurated.

On Monday (Tuesday AEST), however, Trump chose to ignore a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to repatriate an illegally deported man. He even claimed the judges ruled in his favour.

Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, shake hands during a meeting in the Oval Office.  Bloomberg

The US president’s middle finger to the court was echoed by his attorney-general, secretary of state, vice-president and El Salvador’s vigilante president, Nayib Bukele. The latter is playing host to what resembles an embryonic US gulag.

In terms of clarifying moments, Trump’s meeting with Bukele compares with his dressing down of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky in late February. Zelensky was berated for being insufficiently thankful for US military aid and for failing to wear a suit. A tieless Bukele, by contrast, got royal treatment.

Trump’s team nodded when Bukele said he would not consider returning the wrongly deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. All baselessly agreed that Garcia was, in fact, a terrorist.

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The Oval Office drama offered a civics lesson to the world: America’s government pays greater respect to a foreign strongman than its own Supreme Court.

Trump knows how to deliver gripping television. He was also making history. The official position of the world’s oldest constitutional republic is that the courts should have no say in who its executive deports and on what grounds.

‘Homegrown’ deportees

Foreign travellers to the US should beware. They can be detained without recourse. Americans should too. Trump casually told Bukele he may need to build more supermax jails for “homegrown” deportees, which means US citizens.

If Trump deems that you are a gang member, pro-terrorist, or simply anti-national, he claims impunity over your liberty. The fact that one deportee was a hairdresser, not a gang member, and another target was an innocuous op-ed writing student, not a terrorist, is no protection.

Trump’s lawyers are barely even pretending to phone it in. Evidence can be withheld on national security grounds or seemingly invented, as it was on Monday with Garcia. A government lawyer who conceded that Garcia’s deportation was mistaken was placed on administrative leave.

Should the wrong person be deported in shackles, the US can do nothing about it. That would interfere with another country’s sovereignty, they say. This is from the same administration that is demanding other countries’ territory.

El Salvador is as sovereign as Trump chooses it to be. Bukele is Trump’s hemispheric sidekick.

That the White House will not release details about its Bukele prison contract is also informative. Grift and authoritarianism go hand in hand. America’s busiest expos nowadays are those specialising in border security, drones and paramilitary gear.

“Trump has pardoned several fraudsters and embezzlers who have contributed money to his campaign or just spoken well of him.”

El Salvador is now a hotspot of shadowy vigilantism. In that respect, the US-El Salvador relationship is threatening to become two-way. Among those angling for deportation contracts are Erik Prince, the former chief executive of the mercenary group Blackwater.

The portents are also grim for US investors. On Monday, Morgan Stanley’s research arm warned they “should be prepared to be fooled many more times”.

Analysts were referring to Trump’s constantly shifting rationale for tariffs. But their point – “Fool me once, shame on you ... ” – also describes the US rule of law.

Trump has pardoned several fraudsters and embezzlers who have contributed money to his campaign or just spoken well of him. He has also suspended a law that requires an entity’s true owner to be named, and another that penalises US companies for foreign bribery.

Now he is unleashing the investigative dogs on critics. The latest targets include a former federal official, Chris Krebs, for having “falsely ... denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen”.

The media is also in his sights. On Sunday, Trump issued a torrent of threats against CBS for running interviews critical of him. He called on Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to revoke the network’s broadcast licence.

The 60 Minutes interview that angered Trump was with Zelensky. Ukraine’s leader said that “Russian narratives are prevailing in the US”. That was a fair point given Trump’s reversal of culpability for Russia’s Ukraine invasion.

But Zelensky’s observation can be applied more widely.

In Russia, dissent can cost critics their business licences, liberty and even their lives. It seems a matter of time before other less besieged western legal systems hear petitions by US citizens for asylum.

 

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5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Hey, just letting you know that the Endangered Species Act is pretty much over as well:

So, what does that mean?  In short form, it means that yes, while it's still illegal to shoot an ocelot (for example), it will now be 100% legal to pave over every single acre of their habitat, depriving them of prey, shelter, a place to live, all of that stuff.

All habitat protection per the ESA....gone.  Completely.  Do you have your eye on that tract of land where you'd like to pave it over and build a strip mall full of MAGA gear shops, but gosh, it's some of the last remaining critical habitat for an endangered species?  Well, fret no more!  Fire up the bulldozers, and scrape it to the bedrock!

Well well well, might the lack of Chevron deference come into play here?

In the lower courts, for sure.  At SCOTUS hoist on its own petard?

Or maybe major questions/nondelegation?

Watching SCOTUS twist itself in knots should provide some amusement between the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.

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13 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Well well well, might the lack of Chevron deference come into play here?

Oh, the rulemaking notice specifically cited Loper Bright -- it's all about Chevron deference.

The administration has made plain its intent to gut every and all regulations, including ones that most people presume are baseline protections under the law.  They will do so by pushing far beyond even the reach of Loper Bright to do so.  

If you want a world where it's legal to bulldoze....everything....to belch....whatever chemicals you want into the air and water.....basically, to do whatever you want, ESPECIALLY if you're a billionaire....well, you're getting it.

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6 hours ago, Pancho said:

Just straight up lies. If you’re a supporter and you believe this, you’re just confirming you are dumb as fuck 

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I swear to god, he doesn't know how the internet works.  He talks as if he's describing how things are on an old-time radio broadcast where he's free to tell the listeners what's happening and they can't see it or verify anything because they're thousands of miles away.

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11 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

I swear to god, he doesn't know how the internet works.  He talks as if he's describing how things are on an old-time radio broadcast where he's free to tell the listeners what's happening and they can't see it or verify anything because they're thousands of miles away.

But he sure as shit knows how his cult members work. Including all the ones with microphones and tv cameras that will repeat all this as if it were true.

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27 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

I swear to god, he doesn't know how the internet works.  He talks as if he's describing how things are on an old-time radio broadcast where he's free to tell the listeners what's happening and they can't see it or verify anything because they're thousands of miles away.

The people who do their own research definitely don't do their own research 

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On 4/15/2025 at 3:52 PM, C-Man said:

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I quoted this post because posts like this are common and they miss half the picture. Yeah people voted for turnip, and it is fair to point out that they should have known the effect fulfilling those promises would have. Just as it is fair to point out what promises he is breaking.

The other side of the coin is what Kamala’s campaign, Democrats in general, and educated citizens, like those found here, said during the campaign. They, we, said a vote for turnip was a threat to democracy, and we have 100 days of evidence that absolutely supports the rhetoric. Obviously.
 

Lewis Black said on his rant, just after the election, that voters were willing to test our theory. Political dialogue should hammer that Harris was correct, and now our Republic has fallen, unless we take it back. It takes time for people to accept things they don’t want to accept, but the process moves faster the more times reality is experienced.

(Thank God for Lewis Black’s rant shows on YouTube).

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9 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

I quoted this post because posts like this are common and they miss half the picture. Yeah people voted for turnip, and it is fair to point out that they should have known the effect fulfilling those promises would have. Just as it is fair to point out what promises he is breaking.

The other side of the coin is what Kamala’s campaign, Democrats in general, and educated citizens, like those found here, said during the campaign. They, we, said a vote for turnip was a threat to democracy, and we have 100 days of evidence that absolutely supports the rhetoric. Obviously.
 

Lewis Black said on his rant, just after the election, that voters were willing to test our theory. Political dialogue should hammer that Harris was correct, and now our Republic has fallen, unless we take it back. It takes time for people to accept things they don’t want to accept, but the process moves faster the more times reality is experienced.

(Thank God for Lewis Black’s rant shows on YouTube).

Somebody should make a blue hat that reads: "Kamala Was Right About Everything"

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4 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Not sure what it was about the news today specifically, but everything has officially become too much for me.

I feel you.  Sometimes the only thing that keeps me going is the prospect of making it to the Esso Station phase of this dictatorship ... 

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45 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Not sure what it was about the news today specifically, but everything has officially become too much for me.

I have felt alternating depression and rage for the last 3 months, although I think I've sort of blunted my emotional response to it, I guess due to the constant exposure. But one day every few weeks I just feel truly despondent.

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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Did anyone ask him how Elmo and Petey Thiel got rich despite being autistic?

Great, then we get to find out that RFK Jr changes Musk's Depends.

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Trump’s DOJ has sued Maine because their governor has the nerve to talk back to him:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/military-contractors-prison-plan-detained-immigrants-erik-prince-00287208

It is unclear how many transgender students are currently participating in school athletics in Maine. The Maine Principals' Association, MPA, which governs the state's athletics, has said there are just two transgender athletesinvolved in girls' high school sports this year. The DOJ's suit refers to at least three transgender athletes.

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18 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Trump’s DOJ has sued Maine because their governor has the nerve to talk back to him:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/military-contractors-prison-plan-detained-immigrants-erik-prince-00287208

It is unclear how many transgender students are currently participating in school athletics in Maine. The Maine Principals' Association, MPA, which governs the state's athletics, has said there are just two transgender athletesinvolved in girls' high school sports this year. The DOJ's suit refers to at least three transgender athletes.

Wrong link, but here's another one.https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5251388-justice-department-maine-transgender-womens-sports/

On the one hand, it might have been a small stretch for the Biden Administration to hold that Title IX mandates trans athletes participating in other than birth sex sports.

On the other, I think it's a massive stretch that Title IX prevents their participation.

Bondi is a fucking clown.

 

She added that the DOJ would also seek to have athletic titles won by transgender students in Maine revoked and “returned” to the second-place finishers, whom Bondi said were the rightful winners. The department is also considering whether to retroactively pull funding received by Maine “for not complying in the past.” 

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1 hour ago, hookem2010 said:

I have felt alternating depression and rage for the last 3 months, although I think I've sort of blunted my emotional response to it, I guess due to the constant exposure. But one day every few weeks I just feel truly despondent.

this is me. although i've actually gotten pretty good at getting out in the sunshine and nature and appreciating the beauty around me here. literally touch grass i guess 😆

but yeah, i remain very plugged in, informed and aware (something about being a witness to it all??) and every couple of weeks i kind of have to just...eat cake for a day or two. 

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5 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Trump’s Secretary of State talking about (Europeans) lack of due process…. On checks notes… fucking today

 

 

the gaslighting is unreal. its as if they believe the American people are too stupid to even know or understand any of this.

*checks notes*

ah yes, they are right, the American people are that goddamn stupid. sigh.

ya'll homies take her easy. see you on the other side of no nuke good friday

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2 hours ago, Thatguy said:

 

 

Welcome to what it feels like to be black.

That's the whole thing though. I was happily going along as a middle aged white honkey  just hoping to elevate the world to my relative level of comfort and counter injustice. Hell yeah let's gets some diversity. Hell yeah let's include more people in the dream. Let's treat people equally. Nah that's woke

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30 minutes ago, C-Man said:

This is being attributed to Liz Cheney. Not sure if this is her work but it’s pretty good regardless who wrote it.

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Replying back to every fundraising text I get with this 

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After losing to the AP in court, this is how Trump and the Pep Sec’y are responding:

The White House is making changes to which outlets are included in the press pool covering President Trump, and doing away with the spot normally reserved for wire services covering his daily activities.

A source in the West Wing confirmed the changes to The Hill on Tuesday evening and said moving forward, the press pool will be made up of the following group: one print journalist who will serve as the “print pooler” each day, one additional print journalist, a crew from one of the major television networks, a crew from a secondary television network or streaming service, one radio journalist, one “new media” or independent journalist and four photojournalists.

The White House official said eligible outlets will be chosen for the pool on a rotating basis, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will retain day-to-day discretion to determine composition of the pool.

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3 minutes ago, Satchel said:

After losing to the AP in court, this is how Trump and the Pep Sec’y are responding:

 

The White House is making changes to which outlets are included in the press pool covering President Trump, and doing away with the spot normally reserved for wire services covering his daily activities.

A source in the West Wing confirmed the changes to The Hill on Tuesday evening and said moving forward, the press pool will be made up of the following group: one print journalist who will serve as the “print pooler” each day, one additional print journalist, a crew from one of the major television networks, a crew from a secondary television network or streaming service, one radio journalist, one “new media” or independent journalist and four photojournalists.

The White House official said eligible outlets will be chosen for the pool on a rotating basis, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will retain day-to-day discretion to determine composition of the pool.

bunch of pussy ass bitches

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2 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

The authoritarian takeover marches on. 
 

 

Rubio is the ONE guy I didn't expect to go full-on fascist with thos regime, bit he's really taken to it with aplomb.

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43 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Rubio is the ONE guy I didn't expect to go full-on fascist with thos regime, bit he's really taken to it with aplomb.

He's trying to position himself for 2028.  

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46 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Rubio is the ONE guy I didn't expect to go full-on fascist with thos regime, bit he's really taken to it with aplomb.

Yeah. Hope all those Democrats who voted to approve him are proud.

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45 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Rubio is the ONE guy I didn't expect to go full-on fascist with thos regime, bit he's really taken to it with aplomb.

 

1 minute ago, Macanudo said:

He's trying to position himself for 2028.  

The kid who kept sticking his head in the toilet and flushing it during middle school is now "friends" with him -- he doesn't want to ruin that

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1 minute ago, Macanudo said:

He's trying to position himself for 2028.  

I have a feeling all these loyal Republican Cubans will be in for a nasty surprise when it's their turn.

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Rubio's quotes on Trump from 2016 are amazing. Wonderful stuff like "Anyone who capitulates to Donald Trump deserves all the bad things that will be coming their way". 

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7 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Rubio's quotes on Trump from 2016 are amazing. Wonderful stuff like "Anyone who capitulates to Donald Trump deserves all the bad things that will be coming their way". 

And history has proven his past self correct.

It must be amazing to be both vindicated and a victim of your own prediction.

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