I stumbled across this today. The take-away? It’s not about Trump.
(But I guess many here already know that. The clue is in the thread title - it’s his administration, the string-pullers.)
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If Trump dies tomorrow I’m throwing a keg party at the very least.
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At that rate, we’ll be at 142,000+ posts by the (theoretical?) end of this administration. We could start a betting pool on when we reach the first “Part 14” post.
Edit: what’s an order of magnitude among friends? Thanks @LockeCJ for the correction!
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I’ll take the day after the $92 million Trumpy Birthday Military Parade that destroys the streets in Washington DC.
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I think you mean 140,000+, but agreed otherwise.
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Here’s more about the Alcatraz post made by 
. It’s another distraction / money grab / human rights nightmare:
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D’oh. Yep - the simple calculation (days remaining * 105) came up 142,800, and in trying to generalize it I dropped too many digits. Thanks for the correction!
Note to self: no math before noon!
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I wish Canada would just say fine, no more stuff for you.
I look forward to meeting the new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney. I very much want to work with him, but cannot understand one simple TRUTH — Why is America subsidizing Canada by $200 Billion Dollars a year, in addition to giving them FREE Military Protection, and many other things? We don’t need their Cars, we don’t need their Energy, we don’t need their Lumber, we don’t need ANYTHING they have, other than their friendship, which hopefully we will always maintain. They, on the other hand, need EVERYTHING from us! The Prime Minister will be arriving shortly and that will be, most likely, my only question of consequence.
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Under the federal budget proposal details released so far, including a draft of agencies’ budget plans marked up by Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, known as the passback, there is no funding for Cooperative Institutes. There is also no funding for aircraft recapitalization. A 2022 NOAA plan sought to purchase up to six new aircraft that would be used by Hurricane Hunters.
The passback budget also cut funding for some technology from future satellites, including lightning mappers that are used in hurricane intensity forecasting and to warn airplanes of risks.
Can we please have one target Mar-a-lardo? The poetry writes itself, and the Universe loves poetry!
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probably somehow anti-diplomatic yet one could wish that the Canadian prime-minister would immediately declare “an uncertain delay in meetings with trump until such inaccurate assertions are ‘clarified’” @#$!
Trump Insults Canada Moments Before Sitting Down With New PM
The president posted a message on social media just before meeting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
President Donald Trump launched an astonishing attack on Canada just minutes before welcoming the country’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney to the White House.
The president said America doesn’t need “ANYTHING” from Canada while Canada needs “EVERYTHING from us!”
“I look forward to meeting the new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account before greeting Carney. “I very much want to work with him, but cannot understand one simple TRUTH — Why is America subsidizing Canada by $200 Billion Dollars a year, in addition to giving them FREE Military Protection, and many other things? We don’t need their Cars, we don’t need their Energy, we don’t need their Lumber, we don’t need ANYTHING they have, other than their friendship, which hopefully we will always maintain. They, on the other hand, need EVERYTHING from us! The Prime Minister will be arriving shortly and that will be, most likely, my only question of consequence.
clearly i owe @tcg550 a coke. (wish there was a way to make a bookmark to where i last left off reading rather than the top or the bottom …ah well)
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It’s becoming more and more obvious that things are happening in this administration without Trump ordering them or even being aware of them after the fact…
An order freezing military support would normally be discussed intensively. It requires the coordination of multiple agencies…
None of that coordination happened when Hegseth’s office canceled the scheduled flight
The president was unaware of Hegseth’s order…
Oh, I wouldn’t worry about it, I’m sure we’ll either be too numbed by the repetition of atrocities or too traumatized to post about them by then, assuming we’re even alive!
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Well, orange juice, I suppose.
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I’ll be dancing an Irish jig on my roof; whenever it happens.
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The letter, sent by Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, makes it somewhat difficult to tell exactly what the government wants, because most of the text is a borderline deranged rant written in florid MAGA-ese. You don’t have to go beyond the first paragraph to get a sense that this is less a setting of funding conditions than an airing of grievances:
Instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these “students” come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public?
Does Harvard have to answer these questions to get funding restored? It’s unclear.
What a fucking idiot…
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It strikes me that totally incoherent demands - to which the recipient simply cannot respond - is a hallmark of this administration. It’s true across the board, from things like this to trade negotiations (where they end because the other country realizes negotiation is literally impossible). The combination of the punitive and the performative… it’s the absolute rejection of basic governance and the principles under which this country was founded. You cannot operate a functional government that way, and certainly not one where people have the right to due process/petition for redress of grievances. It’s not just stupid, it’s fundamentally unconstitutional. Hell, it’s anti-constitutional.
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It reminds me of an argument made by Christopher Hitchens.
The older and better name for terrorism is nihilism. The nihilist cannot be placated or satisfied. Like the Party of God, he wants nothing less than the impossible or the unthinkable. This is what distinguishes him from the revolutionary. And this is what he has in common with the rulers of our world, who subject us to lectures about the need to oppose terrorism while they prepare, daily and hourly, for the annihilation of us all. Those who contemplate the thermonuclear extinction of the species “for political ends” have nothing to learn from the nihilist tradition.
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