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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?
     
    U.S. permanent residents and foreign visitors to the U.S. are already being asked if they have applied for a “Trump Card Visa” onimmigration forms, according to Wired.

    This comes as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has begun implementing digital infrastructure for the new $5 million golden visa immigration program after President Donald Trump initially floated the idea in February.

    The visa would allow wealthy people to buy residency in the U.S., but how it would work remains unclear, as federal legislation outlines how many permanent residency cards can be issued annually and who can receive them.

    David Bier, writing for the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute in February, noted that Trump “cannot lawfully sell green cards in excess of Congress’s caps” and that “People will be paying for something Trump cannot provide.”……..

    www.independent.co.uk

    U.S. visitors are already being asked if they have applied for a ‘Trump Card Visa’

    Visa would allow wealthy people to buy residency in U.S., but how it would work remains unclear
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    On the afternoon of 3 May, arts organizations around the US began receiving cryptic emails from a previously unknown government email account. The missives declared that these organizations’ missions were no longer in line with new governmental arts priorities, which included helping to “foster AI competency”, “empower houses of worship” and “make America healthy again”.

    Chad Post, publisher at Open Letter Books, a program of the University of Rochester that specializes in publishing translated literature, got his email just before entering a screening of Thunderbolts*. He put a quick post on Instagram, and when he came out of the movie his phone was full of responses. “I seemed to be the first one to receive this,” he recounted. “But then, all of a sudden, everyone was getting these letters.”

    Post told me that he had been in touch with 45 publishers who had had their NEA grants terminated, and he suspected that all 51 publishers receiving grants for 2025 supporting the publication of books and magazines had now received the letter. Although Open Letter expects to still receive funding for 2025, Post is convinced that no further money will be forthcoming from the National Endowment for the Arts.


    “According to rules of the email, we should get the money, although if you come back in two months and they never sent it, I wouldn’t be shocked,” he said. “The chilling part of that email is that they’re eliminating the NEA entirely. It lists all these insane things that are the new priority, and says our venture is not in line with the new priority, so we can’t ever apply again.”

    The grant termination won’t deal a lethal blow to Open Letter Books, but it will alter the kinds of literature that they are able to publish. Post said that he would have to give preference to books from nations that can offer funding – which tends to favor books from European languages and from wealthier countries.

    This sentiment was echoed by other arts organizations, who see the loss of NEA money as a significant blow, but not a deadly one. Kristi Maiselman, executive director and curator of CulturalDC, which platforms artists that often are not programed at larger institutions, shared that NEA grants account for $65,000 of a roughly $1.1m budget. Thanks to proactive work between her team and the NEA, Maiselman received her grant this year, but does not expect any further such money. “It’s a pretty significant chunk of the budget for us,” she told me. “What has been hard for us this year is that we really do provide a platform for artists to respond to what’s going on in the world.” Continuing to promulgate those kinds of artists would be more difficult in future.……..

    www.theguardian.com

    ‘It’s all very sad’: Trump’s attack on arts funding has a devastating effect

    The president’s steady dismantling of the National Endowment for the Arts has affected organizations across the US with more chaos set to continue
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    Optimus Prime said:
    On the afternoon of 3 May, arts organizations around the US began receiving cryptic emails from a previously unknown government email account. The missives declared that these organizations’ missions were no longer in line with new governmental arts priorities, which included helping to “foster AI competency”, “empower houses of worship” and “make America healthy again”.
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    so everything has to be AI generated church stuff that sells you prayer cures?? kinda lost here. Make America dumb again.
     
    The Trump administration is preparing to welcome the first group of white South Africanrefugees to the United States as early as next week, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

    This move comes despite the administration's restrictions on refugee admissions from other parts of the world, highlighting a divisive approach to immigration policy.

    The assertion that minority white South Africans face discrimination from the Black majority has spread in far-right circles for years and been echoed by Trump's white South African-born ally Elon Musk.

    The average white household in South Africa owns 20 times the wealth of the average Black household, according to the Review of Political Economy, an international academic journal.

    Approximately 50 Afrikaners are expected to arrive at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia, where they will reportedly participate in a press conference before traveling to their final destinations in the US.

    However, the sources cautioned that the arrival, already delayed by a week, could be subject to further changes. As of Thursday afternoon, a charter flight intended for the group had not yet received a landing permit.…..

    www.independent.co.uk

    First white South Africans to arrive in America despite Trump’s refugee freeze

    The assertion that minority white South Africans face discrimination from the Black majority has been echoed by Trump's white South African-born ally Elon Musk
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    Meanwhile Trump just doesn’t know . . . anything it seems.

     
    Trump’s minions are carrying out an intimidation campaign against judges who rule against his illegal and unconstitutional actions. One judge, who happens to be a black woman, has received 7 unsolicited pizza deliveries to her home in the past few months. This is a sign of mental illness, IMO. Trump is stoking crazy people to do crazy things.

    “Some of the pizza deliveries have gone to judges’ relatives. In recent weeks, orders have been placed in the name of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas’s son, Daniel Anderl, who was fatally shot at the family home in New Jersey in 2020 by an attorney who posed as a delivery person.”

    apple.news

    Judges say unsolicited pizza deliveries are meant to intimidate them — The Washington Post

    Judges in several states say they have faced threats and intimidation tactics associated with pizza deliveries.
    apple.news apple.news
     
    So, the Qatar royal family is giving the U.S. government a 13 year old 747-8 ,very nicely outfitted, that will replace two 35 year old 747’s as Air Force One and that’s a problem? Especially given Boeing’s abject failure to meet the contract to replace the 35 year old Air Force Ones. And on the off chance Boeing ever delivers the Qatar gift will become a part of the a presidential library.

    “But first, the 13-year-old plane will be given to the U.S. Air Force, which will cover the costs of updating the plane to meet U.S. military specifications necessary to transport the president, ABC News sources familiar with the anticipated arrangement.”

    www.yahoo.com

    Trump Administration Preparing to Accept Luxury Jet from Qatar’s Royal Family: Report

    The plane, reportedly worth $400 million, has been described as "a flying palace"
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    I don’t see the problem.
     
    President Donald Trump has a miniature statue on display in the Oval Office, depicting the moments immediately after he survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

    The statue, complete with the Secret Serviceagents who bundled the president to the ground, captures the moment Trump raised his fist in the air and shouted, “fight, fight, fight,” after he was struck by shooter Matthew Thomas Crooks’ bullet on July 13 last year.

    The figure was created by sculptor Stan Watts and “symbolizes the divine intervention as well as the man and his message of unity and resilience for which America stands,” according to the Trump Statue Project’s website.……

    www.independent.co.uk

    Trump proudly displays statue of Butler assassination attempt in the Oval Office

    There are plans to create a 9-foot-tall version of the statue in bronze
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    Sendai said:
    So, the Qatar royal family is giving the U.S. government a 13 year old 747-8 ,very nicely outfitted, that will replace two 35 year old 747’s as Air Force One and that’s a problem? Especially given Boeing’s abject failure to meet the contract to replace the 35 year old Air Force Ones. And on the off chance Boeing ever delivers the Qatar gift will become a part of the a presidential library.

    “But first, the 13-year-old plane will be given to the U.S. Air Force, which will cover the costs of updating the plane to meet U.S. military specifications necessary to transport the president, ABC News sources familiar with the anticipated arrangement.”

    www.yahoo.com

    Trump Administration Preparing to Accept Luxury Jet from Qatar’s Royal Family: Report

    The plane, reportedly worth $400 million, has been described as "a flying palace"
    www.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com

    I don’t see the problem.
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    For this to make sense, the plane would continue to be used by the office of the president. It won't. The plan is that the plane is transfered to Trump's presidential library(whatever that means).

    This plane is meant to be a personal gift, and is a bribe.

    There is no savings here. You are still going to need to the other planes.

    The most obvious issue with accepting the gift without tearing out every inch of interior, spying.
     

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