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[Huntn]

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

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.

www.yahoo.com

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?

 

[MT15]

This is a pretty good analysis of what might have gone wrong from a former Blackhawk pilot. Unfortunately she is obviously a product of DEI and as such her knowledge and experience are worthless.

 

[fooferdoggie]

so trump was responsible for the very DEI program he is blaming on the crash this is just epic.

 

[Optimus Prime]

………The day after Trump’s inauguration he not only fired the members of the aviation security advisory committee, created in 1989 after the terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 that exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland, but also eliminated the committee entirely. It had recently proposed new regulations for airline safety.

The morning after the crash, Trump warmed to his blaming exercise, expanding his targets as he went on. He began by blaming the policy to hire disabled people as air traffic controllers, saying they suffered, among other disabilities, from “severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism”. The policy, in fact, was in effect during his previous administration.

Then he blamed “the FAA’s diversity and inclusion hiring plan”, which he falsely claimed was responsible for the hiring of disabled people. They have been hired under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, a signature achievement of President George HW Bush.

Trump jumped to attack the former transport secretary Pete Buttigieg as “a disaster”, throwing in an obscenity. “He’s just got a good line of bullshirt,” said Trump, “and he’s run it right into the ground with his diversity. So I had to say that it’s terrible.”

Trump next turned to the “great replacement theory” as his overarching explanation. Somehow, he claimed, the presence of non-white people was the reason for the crash. “It’s a group within the FAA, another story, determined that the workforce was too white, that they had concerted efforts to get the administration to change that and to change it immediately. This was in the Obama administration just prior to my getting there.”

But, he went on, “we took care of African Americans, Hispanic Americans,” and, he said, “it’s one of the reasons I won.” But he asserted again that white people were being pushed out – “too white”. By contrast, “we want the people that are competent”. As he spoke, three of his cabinet nominees – Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F Kennedy Jr and Kash Patel – were being questioned in confirmation hearings about their glaring incompetence. And then Trump blamed Biden.


A reporter asked: “On DEI and the claim that you’ve made, are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the result of diversity hiring? And what evidence have you seen to support these claims?” Trump replied: “It just could have been.”

He blamed Biden again. Asked, “how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash?” Trump snipped: “Because I have common sense, OK? And, unfortunately, a lot of people don’t.”

Buttigieg fired back at once: “Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew air traffic control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch. President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA.”

He added: “One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the president to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.”………

The tragic air collision revealed Trump’s rancid, irredeemable character once again | Sidney Blumenthal

Trump’s pretense as king has quickly devolved into his strutting insult routine. He will always exploit tragedy to display his self-regard

www.theguardian.com

 

[coldseat]

The STUPID continues:

This is what "Real" Americans voted for.

All it takes is a few seconds to destroy anything good. And this is happening all over the government. All we'll have left after this purge is a vile, hateful federal government that hates its own citizens and persecutes them.

 

[zztop]

Donald Trump’s data purge has begun

Researchers have been archiving government websites for months.

www.theverge.com

Key resources for environmental data and public health have already been taken down from federal websites, and more could soon vanish as the Trump administration works to scrap anything that has to do with climate change, racial equity, or gender identity.

 

[Dragon]

Donald Trump’s data purge has begun

Researchers have been archiving government websites for months.

www.theverge.com

Key resources for environmental data and public health have already been taken down from federal websites, and more could soon vanish as the Trump administration works to scrap anything that has to do with climate change, racial equity, or gender identity.

I wonder when they’ll start banning books—not just in schools, but everywhere.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Good start, but I wish the universe would take more active actions.

 

[MT15]

This is fascinating.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

This is fascinating.

Men suck...

 

[MT15]

Finally, some clarity about Trump’s idiotic preening about water from northern CA. Turns out he actually ordered the release of water from a couple of reservoirs in N CA and the Army Corps of Engineers obliged. They normally keep water levels higher this time of year because they use the water later to irrigate fields and such, and the rivers which the reservoirs drain into do not flow into southern CA, and after they initiated the flow they had to hurriedly slow it down because the area threatened to flood. But Trump got to claim he fixed everything by turning on the “faucet”. My god how could he be more stupid than this?

Trump opened the ‘valve’ on California water. It will probably be wasted. — The Washington Post

Experts said water released into California’s Central Valley would not reach Los Angeles.

apple.news

 

[Optimus Prime]

Donald Trump didn’t need to wait for the black box flight recorder. He knew what caused the mid-air collision of a passenger plane and army helicopter that killed 67 people. Or he thought he did.

“They actually came out with a directive – ‘too white’,” the US president told reporters on Thursday, seeking to blame former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for including Black and Latino people in the federal workforce. “We want the people that are competent.”

That it took Trump less than a day to exploit a tragic plane crash for his crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs should come as no surprise.

The 78-year-old president is on a mission to win the “culture wars”, acting with speed and ferocity to bring his rightwing agenda into every corner of American life. It is a form of shock therapy that aims to rewire society itself……….

Dante King, a DEI expert, speaker and author, said: “Donald Trump has a platform. He has prioritised heterosexual, able-bodied, cisgender white men and he is concerned with disenfranchising anyone who does not live up to or behaves based on the ideology, the ideals, the cultural customs and practices of white men.”

The left embraced movements such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. “Cancel culture” and transgender rights became new battlegrounds. An entire rightwing ecosystem thrived on not what they are for but what they are against. Terms such as wokeness, CRT and DEI were vilified to become rallying cries for rightwing mobilisation, portraying Democrats as out of touch with everyday concerns.

Randall Woodfin, a Democrat who is the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, said: “Unfortunately a small group of people have decided to weaponise the words diversity, equity and inclusion. They’ve been made to be bad but the truth is diversity, equity and inclusion at minimum are neutral terms and at best are part of the American values as a country.”…………

Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’

President’s ‘culture war’ crusade targets DEI and LGBTQ+ rights in bid to spread rightwing agenda, experts say

www.theguardian.com

 

[coldseat]

Donald Trump didn’t need to wait for the black box flight recorder. He knew what caused the mid-air collision of a passenger plane and army helicopter that killed 67 people. Or he thought he did.

“They actually came out with a directive – ‘too white’,” the US president told reporters on Thursday, seeking to blame former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for including Black and Latino people in the federal workforce. “We want the people that are competent.”

That it took Trump less than a day to exploit a tragic plane crash for his crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs should come as no surprise.

The 78-year-old president is on a mission to win the “culture wars”, acting with speed and ferocity to bring his rightwing agenda into every corner of American life. It is a form of shock therapy that aims to rewire society itself……….

Dante King, a DEI expert, speaker and author, said: “Donald Trump has a platform. He has prioritised heterosexual, able-bodied, cisgender white men and he is concerned with disenfranchising anyone who does not live up to or behaves based on the ideology, the ideals, the cultural customs and practices of white men.”

The left embraced movements such as Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. “Cancel culture” and transgender rights became new battlegrounds. An entire rightwing ecosystem thrived on not what they are for but what they are against. Terms such as wokeness, CRT and DEI were vilified to become rallying cries for rightwing mobilisation, portraying Democrats as out of touch with everyday concerns.

Randall Woodfin, a Democrat who is the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, said: “Unfortunately a small group of people have decided to weaponise the words diversity, equity and inclusion. They’ve been made to be bad but the truth is diversity, equity and inclusion at minimum are neutral terms and at best are part of the American values as a country.”…………

Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’

President’s ‘culture war’ crusade targets DEI and LGBTQ+ rights in bid to spread rightwing agenda, experts say

www.theguardian.com

If only people were able to see this coming a mile a way. Oh wait, that was obvious to anybody paying attention.

Here's to the media and all the people who aren't MAGA that joined the "war on woke" and "anti-everything" crusades. You really did America proud by supporting these vile peoples hate. Oh I know, "you don't agree with all of this". Yeah, keep telling yourself that. You ushered this era in by allowing your prejudices to control your emotional reactions.

 

[Bayouboy]

As much as I detest Trump and all of what he is doing, the American people did this. Not Trump. The American people brought this upon us.

 

[barbar]

I am not sure if you guys are all watching, but please follow alt national parks on all socials. They have created a coalition of federal employees across all branches who are committed to disclosure of what's going on. Many are risking their jobs and livelihoods to make this information public.

There is a hostile takeover of the entire government happening under our noses. Musk(basically acting president with complete impunity) has sent in teams to take over many government systems. Many of these systems contain sensitive info and control trillions of dollars in payments every year. Employees are being locked out. Beds have been installed and Musk teams are now on site 24/7. Personal belongings are also being seized and searched. Thousands of federal employees are under threat of being fired if they don't immediately resign. Anyone who doesn't comply with this illegal search and seizure operation is immediately fired. Musk has no security clearance. He was not elected. His department(DOGE) doesn't really even officially exist....yet he is suddenly extremely powerful and has access to everything.

For example what is being reported(not from alt national parks although they have confirmed from their sources):

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February 2, 2025 (Sunday)

Billionaire Elon Musk’s team yesterday took control of the Treasury’s payment system, thus essentially gaining access to the checkbook with which the United States handles about $6 trillion annually and to all the financial information of Americans and American businesses with it. Apparently, it did not stop there.

Today Ellen Knickmeyer of the Associated Press reported that yesterday two top security officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) tried to stop people associated with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing classified information they did not have security clearance to see. The Trump administration put the officials on leave, and the DOGE team gained access to the information.

Vittoria Elliott of Wired has identified those associated with Musk’s takeover as six “engineers who are barely out of—and in at least one case, purportedly still in—college.” They are connected either to Musk or to his long-time associate Peter Thiel, who backed J.D. Vance’s Senate run eighteen months before he became Trump’s vice presidential running mate. Their names are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran, and they have little to no experience in government.

Public policy expert Dan Moynihan told reporter Elliott that the fact these people “are not really public officials” makes it hard for Congress to intervene. “So this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world,” he said. Law professor Nick Bednar noted that “it is very unlikely” that the engineers “have the expertise to understand either the law or the administration needs that surround these agencies.” "

Another doozy: To find the leakers they are making hundreds of versions of documents with invisible water marks in them. They can track who leaked something by which water mark it hides.. they are keeping track of which version was sent to which person. This is a tactic Musk has also used at his own companies. Employees are encouraged now to re-type anything themselves if they are gonna pass it on to protect themselves.

Its a coup.

 

[bird]

In no particular order…

The next steps

Internal passports: you will be required to carry your “papers” at all time
Internal travel between states will be regulated
Private prison systems will explode
Public defender offices will be cut/eliminated
Lawsuits regarding civil rights will be dismissed/ignored
Habeas corpus will slowly disappear

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[Optimus Prime]

FYI - here is the transcript of her direct plea to Trump:
"Let me make one final plea, Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you and, as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families, some who fear for their lives. The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings; who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants; who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals. They…may not be citizens or have the proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, gurudwaras and temples. I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. And that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were all once strangers in this land. May God grant us the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being, to speak the truth to one another in love and walk humbly with each other and our God for the good of all people. Good of all people in this nation and the world. Amen”

Have you ever heard anything angrier and more hateful than this?
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Former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson called the Episcopal Church an "angry, hateful organization" that is "non-Christian" in an interview last week responding to a female bishop who rebuked President Donald Trump during an inauguration service.

During an interview with British journalist and TV host Piers Morgan shared on Wednesday, Carlson, a 55-year-old longtime Episcopalian, lambasted Washington Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde and the Episcopal Church as an organization.

Budde delivered a controversial inauguration service sermon with President Donald Trump in attendance on Jan. 21.

"This is not a Christian organization at all," Carlson said. "This is a very angry, hateful organization run by dreadfully unhappy middle-aged lesbians, which is exactly what it is. So only by showing that in public can it ever be forced to reform."

Budde, who is married to her husband Paul and has two kids, garnered national headlines for her sermon at Washington National Cathedral. She directly addressed Trump, who was seated in the front row alongside his wife, first lady Melania Trump...............

Tucker Carlson says Episcopal Church is 'not Christian at all' after Mariann Budde sermon: 'Pagan'​

 

[SaintRob]

Trump planning to attend Super Bowl in New Orleans​

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/04/trump-super-bowl-new-orleans

This is going to be great for traffic!! First sitting president ever to attend the Super Bowl. "Look at me!!!!"