Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Belize]

People like Musk might have such a drive,

Absolutely not, people like Musk only care about enriching themselves and playing kingmaker for the power it makes them fill and the void it fills from lacking any real connections.

Musk has never built anything himself, he has no grand view or strategy or planning capabilities, especially not with something as complex as a country's economy.

[Edge-]

https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/com...nt_to_nsf_pos/

List of words that are apparently "soft banned" as they all fall under the "DEI ban". This can be verified by navigating to the bottom of this document and verifying in Appendix B - https://www.commerce.senate.gov/serv...5-58EEF99750BC

Biases/biased/biased towards is included, which is a core, neutral way of describing many things in science.

"Community diversity" is also banned, for some reason.

"Disability" is apparently banned as well which...is a bit problematic.

"Equity/Equitable/Equality" are also apparently banned.

Female/Females is banned

No mention of "gender" allowed

"hate speech" is similarly apparently verboten

"institutional" has too many syllables and is scary

"political" is uh...erm...well...uh...

"race and ethnicity" and "racial" and "racial diversity" and why would we want to discuss that when we have ONE MASTER RACE or some stupid shit?

"trauma" F in chat for scientists researching traumatic brain injuries and the like, gonna hvae to come up with a whole new lexicon

this is the most retarded shit ever

apparently if your research included the word "female" it was DEI and should be defunded. seriously, republicans are dangerously stupid as a whole

[Breccia]

Female/Females is banned

No mention of "gender" allowed

That's going to be interesting, considering they've already pushed WH directives about your gender being locked at conception. Well, guess we have to throw that out, too.

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Trump says he wants Ukraine's rare earth metals in exchange for further support.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump complained that the U.S. had sent more in military and economic assistance to Ukraine than its European partners, adding, “We’re looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they’re going to secure what we’re giving them with their rare earth and other things.”

Trump suggested that he’s received word from the Ukrainian government that they’d be willing to make a deal to give the U.S. access to the elements critical to the modern high-tech economy.

“I want to have security of rare earth,” Trump added. “We’re putting in hundreds of billions of dollars. They have great rare earth. And I want security of the rare earth, and they’re willing to do it.”

"So that's his plan for ending the war?"

No. That's his price for ending the war. He'll defend against unchecked Russian aggression, but only if he's paid.

[Edge-]

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/g-s1-...ents-january-6

The FBI on Tuesday handed over a list to the Justice Department of bureau employees who worked on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigation — but did not include the individuals' names because of security concerns, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Instead of names, the FBI provided what's known as a unique employee identifiers — in essence an employee ID number, the person said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss personnel matters.

The bureau also submitted each individuals' current title, their title at the time of the relevant investigation, their role in it, the date of the activity and their current office. Information on around 4,000 FBI employees was turned over to the department, the person said.

FBI leadership submitted the information in response to a memo from the Trump Justice Department last week, directing the bureau to identify all current and former FBI personnel who worked on Jan. 6 cases or the prosecution of Hamas leaders last year.

The information is part of an effort to remake the FBI and Department of Justice to serve President Trump's agenda and push out those deemed disloyal. Trump faced off against the Justice Department in a pair of criminal cases over the past couple of years — until those prosecutions were dropped after he won the election.

In the same memo, with the subject line "Terminations," acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered the firing of eight senior FBI officials, leading to panic at the FBI of a possible purge of thousands of agents in retaliation for their work on Capitol riot cases.

Since then, FBI employees were instructed to fill out a survey that would detail their specific role in the investigations.

The knives are out for FBI agents who did their jobs and investigated the cases they were assigned to.

Nobody hates law enforcement like Donald and the Republican party hate law enforcement.

FBI agents filed two separate lawsuits in federal court in Washington, D.C., against the Justice Department, seeking to block it from making public any list of FBI employees or their personal information.

One of the lawsuits was filed by the FBI Agents Association and anonymous agents, which counts the vast majority of the bureau's roughly 15,000 agents as members. The other suit was filed anonymously by a group of nine FBI agents.

Both of the complaints cite concerns about potential retaliation by Jan. 6 defendants against FBI employees who investigated them. Trump pardoned some 1,500 Capitol riot defendants, including individuals convicted of assaulting police.

Because it's highly likely the administration will dox these individuals intentionally to harass them.

[Breccia]

Nobody hates law enforcement like Donald and the Republican party hate law enforcement.

Well, yeah. Trump is a criminal. Of course he hates law enforcement, they tried to make him face consequences for his many crimes.

[Xyonai]

Oh boy I'm sure looking forward to yet another endless middle eastern occupation at the behest of the 'No more forever wars' president.

[Masark]

The planes are now on their way to the extermination camps.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/u...c0d478c2b.html

[uuuhname]

There are a lot of hacks, frauds, charlatans and other cretins out there who comment on ''geopolitics'' and forecasting but this man has been quite solid for the last 25 years. Interesting read and somewhat beyond the ''current events''.
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/amer...conomic-cycle/

LMAO.

I mean, comparing Trump to FDR is acatully genius. where FDR helped create the working class and ushered in a near century of the US being the sole world spanning imperial power. Trump, being the exact opposite in a perfectly symmetrical way; is going to oversee the US's crumbling empire and bring back serfdom!

is that good? eeh the people who clearly pay for this guy to sit on his ass and write this tripe sure think so.

[Edge-]

The planes are now on their way to the extermination camps.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/u...c0d478c2b.html

https://archive.is/KNV0J

archive link

a few bits

In addition, the U.S. flew Indian immigrants back to India on Monday, a second U.S. official said. Both officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details not yet made public.

I've seen a lot of mixed reactions to Donald from the Indian community in my neck of the woods, including fair bit of support. I'll be curious to see how many folks in the community react to this news, since I don't think Donald has singled out Indians for deportation specifically, yet.

There are more than 725,000 immigrants from India living in the U.S. without authorization, the third most of any country after Mexico and El Salvador, according to the Pew Research Center.

That, I didn't know.

There are approximately 300 service members supporting the holding operations at Guantanamo Bay, and the numbers will fluctuate based on the requirements of the Department of Homeland Security, which is the lead federal agency. At least 230 of those service members are U.S. Marines from the 6th Marine Regiment, who began deploying on Friday.

That...sounds like server understaffing for 30,000 prisoners at the concentration camp.

[Belize]

The planes are now on their way to the extermination camps.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/u...c0d478c2b.html

Wonder how many American citizens will get caught up in this. We already know there's been a few and it's been like, 2 weeks.

[postman1782]

Such a disingenuous take when restrictions were happening in many blue counties well into 2021.

Lazy.

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Funny you mention OHSA, because when Biden tried to use it as a backdoor for vaccine mandates is when his ratings really began to tank.

And many here had the audacity to say "You don't HAVE to get the vaccine, you can just lose your job instead."

And you still don't get why Dems are so unpopular.

No there wasn't, we were mostly open by the time Joe Biden took office in 2021, in fact, all of the lockdowns ended by June 12th, 2020.

https://stacker.com/society/states-h...d-down-longest

[Polyxo]

https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/com...nt_to_nsf_pos/

List of words that are apparently "soft banned" as they all fall under the "DEI ban". This can be verified by navigating to the bottom of this document and verifying in Appendix B - https://www.commerce.senate.gov/serv...5-58EEF99750BC

Biases/biased/biased towards is included, which is a core, neutral way of describing many things in science.

"Community diversity" is also banned, for some reason.

"Disability" is apparently banned as well which...is a bit problematic.

"Equity/Equitable/Equality" are also apparently banned.

Female/Females is banned

No mention of "gender" allowed

"hate speech" is similarly apparently verboten

"institutional" has too many syllables and is scary

"political" is uh...erm...well...uh...

"race and ethnicity" and "racial" and "racial diversity" and why would we want to discuss that when we have ONE MASTER RACE or some stupid shit?

"trauma" F in chat for scientists researching traumatic brain injuries and the like, gonna hvae to come up with a whole new lexicon

this is the most retarded shit ever

apparently if your research included the word "female" it was DEI and should be defunded. seriously, republicans are dangerously stupid as a whole

I assume the accepted scientific term in the US is now 'chicks/broads'.

[Edge-]

I assume the accepted scientific term in the US is now 'chicks/broads'.

bitches/hoes in the modern parlance

[Polyxo]

bitches/hoes in the modern parlance

'dames' if you want to be fancy.

[Elder Millennial]

There are a lot of hacks, frauds, charlatans and other cretins out there who comment on ''geopolitics'' and forecasting but this man has been quite solid for the last 25 years. Interesting read and somewhat beyond the ''current events''.
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/amer...conomic-cycle/

Where do I even start with this.

Friedman here is essentially a sort of incarnation of a certain mentality that exists in the upper power echelons of American society, on the beltway, in DC, in the offices of WaPo, CNN, MSNBC, in the offices of Meta, Google, Chase and JP Morgan. This mentality that 1. the institutions will hold and 2. that there is some kind of the method to the madness.

That somewhere in DC, in the RNC, on the SCOTUS etc there's an adult in charge. That there's a plan and an objective, but one that at its fundamental core is driven by good intentions That "it will all work itself out in the end".

To put it mildly, it's wishful thinking. To put it bluntly...it's fucking delusional coping. There's either no plan, or the plan is so fucking abhorrent that they are unable to conceptualize it and chose to live in denial, while at the same time they are gradually, slowly, step by step are falling in line, like the good capitalists that they are.

These people are the Franz von Papens, Flicks, Oetkers and Porsches and the I.G Farbens and Krupps of our era. They will sell us all out, or have already sold us all out because it benefits them on the short term...damn the long term consequences.

And anyway...surely...Hitler ...err...I mean Trump, won't do all the things he says he will do. /s

[Endus]

I assume the accepted scientific term in the US is now 'chicks/broads'.

given the EO that redefine everyone as "women", based on gender at conception, those are the two new acceptable genders in the USA. Everyone's either chick or a broad.

[PhaelixWW]

Everyone's either chick or a broad.

Whoa, whoa... what's with the 120 genders, eh?

There's only one gender, according to Mother Nature!

[xenogear3]

For the extermination camps, why do not send them back to their own countries?

Did they commit crimes?

[gondrin]

https://archive.is/KNV0J

archive link

a few bits



I've seen a lot of mixed reactions to Donald from the Indian community in my neck of the woods, including fair bit of support. I'll be curious to see how many folks in the community react to this news, since I don't think Donald has singled out Indians for deportation specifically, yet.



That, I didn't know.



That...sounds like server understaffing for 30,000 prisoners at the concentration camp.

As far as the Indian workers go, it is the same with workers from China or other people from overseas. It is usually they get a temporary work visa or get a student visa then just basically overstay. It doesn't surprise me one bit this is the case seeing as both Musk in some fashion and Melania are both guilty of this.

[postman1782]

For the extermination camps, why do not send them back to their own countries?

Did they commit crimes?

Most of them? No.