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    Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'​

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    Anxiety surges as Donald Trump may be indicted soon: Why 2024 is 'the final battle' and 'the big one'

    Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the 2024 election.
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    WASHINGTON – It looks like American politics is entering a new age of anxiety, triggered by an unprecedented legal development: The potential indictment of a former president and current presidential candidate.

    Donald Trump's many legal problems – and calls for protests by his followers – have generated new fears of political violence and anxiety about the unknowable impact all this will have on the already-tense 2024 presidential election

    I’ll reframe this is a more accurate way, Are Presidents above the law? This new age was spurred into existence when home grown dummies elected a corrupt, mentally ill, anti-democratic, would be dictator as President and don’t bother to hold him responsible for his crimes, don’t want to because in the ensuing mayhem and destruction, they think they will be better off. The man is actually advocating violence (not the first time). And btw, screw democracy too. If this feeling spreads, we are In deep shirt.

    This goes beyond one treasonous Peice of work and out to all his minions. This is on you or should we be sympathetic to the idea of they can’t help being selfish suckers to the Nation’s detriment? Donald Trump is the single largest individual threat to our democracy and it‘s all going to boil down to will the majority of the GOP return to his embrace and start slinging his excrement to support him?
     
    Biden will be dead and gone and Trump will still be blaming him...

    www.cnn.com

    Trump acknowledges ‘inflation is back’ but blames Biden | CNN Business

    President Donald Trump, in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that aired Tuesday night, acknowledged that inflation is on the rise again – bucking his campaign promise to lower prices immediately upon taking office. But he said the Biden administration’s runaway spending is to blame.
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    “I am your retribution.”

    When Donald Trump made this solemn promise to his supporters at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) two years ago, millions of Americans felt comfortable looking the other way.

    After all, opinion polls suggested that Trump was a spent force in the wake of the January 6 insurrection, disappointing midterm elections and a lacklustre start to his US presidential election campaign. He was the closing act of a CPAC that critics dismissed as a fringe freak show with obscure speakers addressing a half-empty ballroom.


    It won’t feel like that this time. CPAC 2025 kicks off at the National Harbor in Maryland on Wednesday with Trump set to return in triumph after regaining the White House and with Republican allies in control of Congress. The conference will be a vivid demonstration of how his “Make America great again” (Maga) movement has gone from the margins to the mainstream.

    “CPAC always been the the ideological north star for the conservative grassroots movement,” said Tara Setmayer, a former Republican communications director on Capitol Hill who used to regularly attend the conference.

    “Unless you weren’t paying attention, CPAC was the roadmap for what Maga becoming mainstream would look like and what they wanted to accomplish.”……

    www.theguardian.com

    ‘The deification of Trump will be complete’ at CPAC 2025

    The conservative conference, dismissed as ‘an extremist freak show’, has been revived under the president’s hand
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     
    GrandAdmiral said:
    Biden will be dead and gone and Trump will still be blaming him...

    www.cnn.com

    Trump acknowledges ‘inflation is back’ but blames Biden | CNN Business

    President Donald Trump, in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that aired Tuesday night, acknowledged that inflation is on the rise again – bucking his campaign promise to lower prices immediately upon taking office. But he said the Biden administration’s runaway spending is to blame.
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    This will be their new talking point. Saw a GOP congressman brought it up a couple days ago. So the memo is out.
     
    GrandAdmiral said:
    Biden will be dead and gone and Trump will still be blaming him...

    www.cnn.com

    Trump acknowledges ‘inflation is back’ but blames Biden | CNN Business

    President Donald Trump, in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that aired Tuesday night, acknowledged that inflation is on the rise again – bucking his campaign promise to lower prices immediately upon taking office. But he said the Biden administration’s runaway spending is to blame.
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    This is the playbook from from first term/first campaign

    Identity a problem

    Say only he can solve the problem

    Says he knows the solution

    Says the solution is an easy fix

    And he says he’ll solve the problem day one or in one day

    Narrator: He doesn’t

    Problem either stays the same or gets worse

    Blames Dems, Congress, alignment of the planets anything and everything other than admitting he didn’t know what the hell he was talking about

    People who voted for him mostly to solve this specific problem

    “Oh well, nobody’s perfect”
     
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    Before hoping on AF1 for an efficient 25 minute flight to Miami, His Majesty held court at MAL to discuss his Gulf of Mexico renaming LAW and how that effects the AP's ability to report:

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    Serious mad king energy being put out there:

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    www.theguardian.com

    Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’

    US president made comparison after administration rescinded New York City’s congestion pricing plan
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    I'll add this here, there was also a lot of the usual crazy, and disturbing, stuff in the Musk and Trump Fox interview with Sean Hannity earlier in the week. Transcript on whitehouse.gov here.

    In particular, Musk was saying this:

    "... if the will of the president is not implemented, and the president is representative of the people, that means the will of the people is not being implemented, and that means we don’t live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy. ."​
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    That's classic dictatorship (or mad king) stuff; by conflating the will of the people with the President, and solely the President, everything else is required to fall in line. Anything that doesn't align with the 'will of the president' - employees following the law, courts, congress, senate - becomes redefined as against the will of the people and so undemocratic; by this reasoning, for democracy to exist, everything has to serve as a compliant mechanism of the President, functioning solely in line with his will. Checks and balances go out the window, advice isn't needed, consent is mandatory.

    There's also a bit where Trump and Musk berate the government for paying their bills, on the grounds that when people send in bills, they don't actually expect them to be paid in their entirety, they expect to be short-changed. Short-changing them is then described as 'competence and caring'.
     
    DJ1BigTymer said:
    Before hoping on AF1 for an efficient 25 minute flight to Miami, His Majesty held court at MAL to discuss his Gulf of Mexico renaming LAW and how that effects the AP's ability to report:

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    I was just telling someone, since we are renaming things- next time i take a trip home to Louisiana , i cant wait to take a little fishing trip out on the ol’ Gulf of Mr Blue Sky .
     
    A long-standing tradition of crossing the border to enjoy baseball has come to an end for one couple.

    Peter Mulholland and his wife will not be making their annual trip from Vancouver to Seattle to watch the Toronto Blue Jays play the Mariners this year.

    Citing growing frustrations with U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies and rhetoric, Mulholland pointed to several key issues influencing his decision. Trump’s threats of imposing tariffs on Canadian goods, discussions of annexing Canada as the 51st state, and the president’s characterization of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “dictator” were cited as contributing factors.

    The culmination of these events ultimately led Mulholland to forego the annual baseball pilgrimage.

    “We were starting to get leery,” said the 69-year-old, semi-retired Vancouver resident. “The tariffs he’s trying to do is going to hurt both countries, that’ll become evident eventually, but it’s going to hurt us more.”

    Mulholland is one of a growing number of Canadian who are choosing not to vacation in the U.S. this year.

    McKenzie McMillan, a travel consultant with the Vancouver-based Travel Group, said some of his clients have cancelled trips that were already booked.……

    The association says a 10% reduction in Canadian travel could mean 2 million fewer visits, $2.1 billion in lost spending and 14,000 job losses.

    The top five most visited states by Canadians are Florida, California, Nevada, New York and Texas.…….


    https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/donald-trump-canada-tourists-holidays-b2702638.html
     
    This pisses me off to no end! This just reaffirms a dark truth about this country that many of us have come to believe.

    President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.

    The ouster of Brown, only the second Black general to serve as chairman, is sure to send shock waves through the Pentagon. His 16 months in the job had been consumed with the war in Ukraine and the expanded conflict in the Middle East.

    “I want to thank General Charles ‘CQ’ Brown for his over 40 years of service to our country, including as our current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is a fine gentleman and an outstanding leader, and I wish a great future for him and his family,” Trump posted on social media.

    Trump says he is nominating Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next chairman. Caine is a career F-16 pilot who served on active duty and in the National Guard, and had most recently served as the associate director for military affairs at the CIA, according to his official military biography.
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    Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

    President Donald Trump has abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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    A forkING 3 STAR GUARDSMAN!!!

    How is that even an option? How can a ANG General be Chief of Staff of the Air Force?
    I'm SOOOOOOOOO glad I retired from this service 15 years ago cause I know for damn sure I couldn't put my uniform on to serve this country today!

    Edit: OK, after I caught my breath, I had to strike out those questions because the FOTUS hasn't selected Caine as CoS of the Air Force, he's actually going to be the 1st Guardsman to ever hold the office of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff!

    THAT'S EFFING CRAZY!
     
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    Is Donald Trump a feminist?

    There was a time when anyone asking such a question could reasonably expect to be laughed out of the room.

    Yet, just three weeks into Trump’s second term, the man responsible for stripping women in the US of the right to an abortion was declared a “feminist kween”, “feminist hero” and “feminist icon” by several prominent feminist writers in the UK.

    The occasion for these declarations was Trump’s all-out assault on trans rights. Since taking office, the president has used executive orders to attempt to restrict the ability of trans Americans to travel, work, receive medical care, serve in the military, attend school and participate in women’s sports.

    Though there are thought to be fewer than 10 trans athletes among the more than half a million competing in college sports in the US, it was this sports-related executive order that prompted certain, trans-exclusionary feminists to declare Trump’s feminist bona fides.

    How did we get here? How have we arrived at a place where self-identified feminists ally themselves with a man who has so extravagantly dedicated his personal and political lives to the humiliation, domination and degradation of women and girls?………

    www.theguardian.com

    ‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right

    In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists today
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