Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Mayhem]

Its no different than putting Venezuela under sanctions. I hate Trump but this is not why. Instead of using the financial system to enforce those sanctions he is using tariffs. Dunno abt the effectiveness of that method tho

As to why Trump wants to sanction Venezuela, the GOP doesnt like Venezuela and Trump hates Venezuela for many diff reasons.

Thanks for not answering my question in so many words.

[Endus]

https://x.com/DRBoguslaw/status/1904933137328570859

Masked gaspacho keep arresting students at school.

Why aren't law enforcement showing their faces? Why are they taking people to unmarked vehicles?

This continues to be very Nazi shit from this Republican administration and those working in federal law enforcement "just following orders".

Law enforcement should be allowed to wear masks in precisely three situatiuons;

1> Responding to a situation with fire/smoke or other air contamination the mask is effective against,
2> Pandemic situations, or
3> They're literally undercover so normal rules on this can't apply.

Even in cases #1 and #2, they should immediately identify themselves with name and badge number on request.

Putting on a mask or refusing to provide their name and badge number (or comparable info) should be grounds for summary dismissal with cause for unethical conduct. It should be considered an implicit confession of guilty intent if they're accused of overstepping any bounds or committing any unlawful or criminal acts. Literally, just "Oh, you put on a mask before doing that thing and we have video/pictures of you with your face obscured or refusing to give your name and badge number? We'll take that as a confession, then, thanks".

There is no other circumstance where you'd need or want to mask up that I can think of, not legitimately. If it's just because you don't want to be filmed and posted to the Internet, pigs can squeal but no one should care about it. It's not that fucking hard to be a decent person, and if you're operating well within your ethical guidelines and granted authority, publicity shouldn't be a threat. You should welcome it for covering your ass. Since you don't, we know you're doing criminal shit, and roasting you for bacon is the only valid response.

[DarkTZeratul]

this continues to be the only thing keeping me sane through this administration: even if they brought in more competent/dangerous folks, most of them are complete fucking morons who are too stupid to accomplish their actual goals

As one person I saw put it: Just because the clown car is going very very fast doesn't mean it isn't still full of clowns.

[Milchshake]

Es wird schlimmer ...
<it gets worse>

Der Spiegel reporting that Trump's cabinet are way more careless than first thought.

Private Daten und Passwörter hochrangiger US-Sicherheitspolitiker stehen im Netz
Donald Trumps wichtigste Sicherheitsberater diskutierten einen Militärschlag per Signal-Chat. SPIEGEL-Recherchen zeigen nun: Das Problem ist noch größer. Handynummern einiger Teilnehmer finden sich im Internet.




Wir sind jetz sauber bei OPSEC
<We are currently clean on OPSEC>

[Edge-]

Es wird schlimmer ...
<it gets worse>

Der Spiegel reporting that Trump's cabinet are way more careless than first thought.

Private Daten und Passwörter hochrangiger US-Sicherheitspolitiker stehen im Netz
Donald Trumps wichtigste Sicherheitsberater diskutierten einen Militärschlag per Signal-Chat. SPIEGEL-Recherchen zeigen nun: Das Problem ist noch größer. Handynummern einiger Teilnehmer finden sich im Internet.




Wir sind jetz sauber bei OPSEC
<We are currently clean on OPSEC>

i'm just waiting to find out who isn't compromised in this adminsitration because it seems everyone is compromised because they're fucking retarded

[postman1782]

She was a hero protesting a fraudulent election that was murdered in cold blood.

I'm sure if she was setting Tesla vehicles on fire like the real terrorists you would change your mind about her.

Nope, should have shot her ass again, and everyone behind her.

[Rasulis]

Even before the cut, there was already a shortage of mental health professionals at the VA. Article from Stars and Stripes below.

Medical staff shortages impeding VA mental health care, advocates tell lawmakers

After the cut, some veterans lost access to their counselors.

"I've seen people die," deWolff said. "I have known people who have committed suicide. I suffer from PTSD. And the counselor that I had? She's no longer available to me."

[Edge-]

Even before the cut, there was already a shortage of mental health professionals at the VA. Article from Stars and Stripes below.

Medical staff shortages impeding VA mental health care, advocates tell lawmakers

After the cut, some veterans lost access to their counselors.

"I've seen people die," deWolff said. "I have known people who have committed suicide. I suffer from PTSD. And the counselor that I had? She's no longer available to me."

another glaring reminder of how Republicans only care about the military/veterans when they can be used as a political prop and will otherwise leave them out to hang in the breeze

[Jastall]

MAGA stooges being such competence black holes that they can't even set up a group chat properly is just about the least surprising news item coming out of this administration.

Imagine a whole political movement bellyaching about DEI hires all day long then pulling and/or defending this shit.

[Edge-]

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...tigate-signal/

The White House has asked Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to help investigate how a journalist was included on a Signal chat with national security officials.

“The National Security Council, the White House Counsel’s Office, and also yes, Elon Musk’s team,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters when asked who was leading an investigation into the Signal mishap.

“Elon Musk has offered to put his technical experts on this to figure out how this number was inadvertently added to the chat, again to take responsibility and ensure this can never happen again,” she added.

For some reason Elon is now investigating this incompetence and I can't help but feel like this is purely a move to continually give him more and more access to every aspect of the government to feed any and all data into his shitty AI system.

National security adviser Mike Waltz, who apparently added The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg into the chat, told Fox News on Tuesday night that he spoke with Musk and said his “best technical minds” are looking into how Goldberg’s number got into his phone.

Mike Waltz added the number to his personal device. Which he was using to discuss classified materials through a civilian app.

I just saved the government millions of dollars and weeks of investigation. Please put me in charge of DOGE.

The White House has insisted that no classified information was shared in the chat, which also included Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice President Vance, among others. The Atlantic shared more text from the chat earlier on Wednesday, which Goldberg said he didn’t include originally due to national security concerns.

It was classified. Operational information is always classified.

These people deserve a gallows.

[Xath]

so a bunch of people on survivors benefits who are lawfully receiving social security funds are about to get fucked by the group of idiots who have cost the US $500B in tax receipts in two months.

That is accurate and with how fucked the website and call response times are who knows how long it will take to fix.

[Rasulis]

Imagine finally getting relief from overwhelming medical debt, only to have it put on hold. That’s exactly what’s happening right now. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) had finalized a rule under the Biden administration that would have prevented medical debt from appearing on your credit report. This rule, set to take effect in March, was expected to wipe out $49 billion in debt for at least 15 million Americans.

But now, President Trump has hit the brakes. He signed an executive order pausing all pending rulemaking activity for 60 days, including the CFPB’s medical debt rule. Adding to the uncertainty, he also fired Rohit Chopra, the head of the CFPB. With these moves, consumer advocates are concerned that efforts to reduce the burden of medical debt could be overturned completely.

If you’re among the millions struggling with medical debt, you’re not alone. The health policy organization KFF estimates that up to 100 million Americans carry some form of medical debt, with over 40 million owing around $88 billion. For nearly half of them, this debt negatively impacts their credit scores, making it harder to secure loans, rent homes, or even qualify for certain jobs.

Before leaving office, the Biden administration made a last-minute push to ease the burden, issuing new guidelines in January to stop improper medical debt collections and help consumers challenge unfair medical bills. But with the new administration in place, that progress is in jeopardy.

The rule isn’t dead yet, but it’s under serious threat. Republican lawmakers argue that the CFPB lacks the legal authority to prevent lenders from using medical debt data in credit decisions. They claim this change could undermine credit report accuracy. Meanwhile, credit industry groups are gearing up for legal challenges, arguing that implementing the rule would impose “unrecoverable compliance costs” on their businesses.

So far, Trump hasn’t officially rescinded the rule, but given his history of cutting regulations, many expect that move is coming. His recent decision to remove Chopra—a strong advocate for consumer protections—signals that he may take further action to roll back financial regulations.

I guess the suffering is the point.

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President Trump signs executive order imposing 25% tariffs on foreign-made autos

The big three stocks cratered in the after-hours trading. I am glad that we don't have to worry about buying cars for several years.

[Logwyn]

another glaring reminder of how Republicans only care about the military/veterans when they can be used as a political prop and will otherwise leave them out to hang in the breeze

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2025...-annotated-dg/

Or if the millitary can get their rocks off like middle schoolers playing war games.

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Imagine finally getting relief from overwhelming medical debt, only to have it put on hold. That’s exactly what’s happening right now. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) had finalized a rule under the Biden administration that would have prevented medical debt from appearing on your credit report. This rule, set to take effect in March, was expected to wipe out $49 billion in debt for at least 15 million Americans.

But now, President Trump has hit the brakes. He signed an executive order pausing all pending rulemaking activity for 60 days, including the CFPB’s medical debt rule. Adding to the uncertainty, he also fired Rohit Chopra, the head of the CFPB. With these moves, consumer advocates are concerned that efforts to reduce the burden of medical debt could be overturned completely.

If you’re among the millions struggling with medical debt, you’re not alone. The health policy organization KFF estimates that up to 100 million Americans carry some form of medical debt, with over 40 million owing around $88 billion. For nearly half of them, this debt negatively impacts their credit scores, making it harder to secure loans, rent homes, or even qualify for certain jobs.

Before leaving office, the Biden administration made a last-minute push to ease the burden, issuing new guidelines in January to stop improper medical debt collections and help consumers challenge unfair medical bills. But with the new administration in place, that progress is in jeopardy.

The rule isn’t dead yet, but it’s under serious threat. Republican lawmakers argue that the CFPB lacks the legal authority to prevent lenders from using medical debt data in credit decisions. They claim this change could undermine credit report accuracy. Meanwhile, credit industry groups are gearing up for legal challenges, arguing that implementing the rule would impose “unrecoverable compliance costs” on their businesses.

So far, Trump hasn’t officially rescinded the rule, but given his history of cutting regulations, many expect that move is coming. His recent decision to remove Chopra—a strong advocate for consumer protections—signals that he may take further action to roll back financial regulations.

I guess the suffering is the point.

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President Trump signs executive order imposing 25% tariffs on foreign-made autos

The big three stocks cratered in the after-hours trading. I am glad that we don't have to worry about buying cars for several years.

I was starting to look for a new car. Will be cheaper to just fix the old one at this point. I'm talking like new tranmission will be cheaper than another car.

[Edge-]

https://archive.ph/G68KW

A Venmo account under the name “Michael Waltz,” carrying a profile photo of the national security adviser and connected to accounts bearing the names of people closely associated with him, was left open to the public until Wednesday afternoon. A WIRED analysis shows that the account revealed the names of hundreds of Waltz’s personal and professional associates, including journalists, military officers, lobbyists, and others—information a foreign intelligence service or other actors could exploit for any number of ends, experts say.

Among the accounts linked to “Michael Waltz” are ones that appear to belong to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, and Walker Barrett, a staffer on the United States National Security Council. Both were fellow participants in a now-infamous Signal group chat called “Houthi PC small group.”

The White House declined to comment after being presented with WIRED’s findings, but the accounts appearing to belong to Waltz and Wiles went fully private following WIRED’s inquiry.

Another stunning security failure by members of this administration.

A WIRED review of public data exposed on Venmo accounts associated with senior administration officials suggests that the Signal group chat was not an isolated mistake, but part of a broader pattern of what national security experts describe as reckless behavior by some of the most powerful people in the US government.

So...exactly what the Mueller report said.

The Venmo account under Waltz’s name includes a 328-person friend list. Among them are accounts sharing the names of people closely associated with Waltz, such as Barrett, formerly Waltz’s deputy chief of staff when Waltz was a member of the House of Representatives, and Micah Thomas Ketchel, former chief of staff to Waltz and currently a senior adviser to Waltz and President Donald Trump.

Other accounts carry the names of a wide range of media figures, from on-air personalities like Bret Baier and Brian Kilmeade of Fox News and Brianna Keilar and Kristen Holmes of CNN to a cable news producer, a prominent national security reporter, local news anchors, documentarians, and noted conspiracy theorist Ivan Raiklin, who calls himself the “the secretary of retribution” and once created a deep state target list. (Fox News declined to comment; CNN did not respond to a request for comment.)

Yeah, homeboy is just a fucking idiot. With security clearance, somehow.

[Draco-Onis]

I sure am glad they got rid of all those "DEI" hires so we can have cartoonish levels of incompetence by these buffoons.

[Edge-]

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comm...nuuk_ahead_of/

it seems that the administration tried to find someone in Greenland to host the Vance's on their PR trip

nobody wanted to host them.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/greenl...a-vance-visit/

and businesses are rescinding their invitations to the second lady as well

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...d-vance-trump/

so now instead of a glamorous visit with PR stunts and stupidity (like the time the Trump boys went to Greenland and paid homeless people to pretend to be fans), it seems they'll just be visiting a US military base instead.

Just a reminder: Not only are these people incompetent, but everyone fucking hates their guts.

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Donald is the self-proclaimed "fertilization president".

What goodies are in the bag for women? Who is paying for these goodies?

What goodies will make them more fertile?

He doesn't realize the room is laughing at him being a weirdo clown.

Anyways, who would like to volunteer their daughter to be the first woman fertilized by Donald? We know conservative women are volunteering to be baby factories for Elon's kids because they want a paycheck and all. And we know that Vice President Jay Dee Hamel would very much like to know when your highschool daughters period is.

It's totally not weird. You're weird for saying it's weird. Why are you so uncomfortable with an 80 year old man who cheated on multiple wives talking about making women fertile?

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https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025...ump-supporter/

In case anyone wants to read about 71-year old Susan Kegeles, the woman who grabbed that loser right winger who tried to taze folks by the hair and dragged him a way like a manchild, she was interviewed by the Berkeley Scanner recently.

Kegeles, a retired UCSF professor, said she never intended to get physical with the much younger man who pulled out a stun gun and jabbed it in her direction Saturday.

But, when he did, Kegeles sprang into action, using speed and strength that literally dropped the jaws of many of her fellow demonstrators.

"He was trying to hurt me," she said. "Since he didn't hurt me the first time, I thought he might try again."

"I wasn't having it," she continued. "I just decided to pull him down off his bike."

once again, the "master race" gets manhandled by someone old enough to be his grandmother.

don't worry though, right wingers are upset that the very public humiliation of one of their own in a very un-alpha male way -

On Tuesday, tips began coming in to The Scanner that Kegeles had been arrested.

Berkeley police say that isn't the case — although they did forward their reports about Saturday's demonstration to the DA's office for review.

One of the email tips, which came from an individual linked to Lynwood, California, in Los Angeles County, where Ricardo Ruiz — the counterprotester — is from, included Kegeles' largely unlisted phone number.

Kegeles said she found it unsettling to learn that strangers are sharing her private information online along with fake reports of her arrest.

"Nothing of the kind happened," she said. "I have not been charged with anything."

womp womp

Police arrested Ruiz on Saturday on suspicion of exhibiting a weapon at the protest. They released him with a citation.

It wasn't his only time in custody in recent weeks.

In mid-February, Ruiz was arrested in Berkeley after pepper-spraying someone during a demonstration at BART plaza, police said. At the time, the DA's office declined to press charges.

He was also arrested on suspicion of domestic violence in Bellflower, California, in 2023, according to online records.

oh look, he's got a pretty long criminal history so he fits in with the modern Republican party perfectly.

[Breccia]

JD Vance going to join his wife on the trip to Greenland.
The locals are not happy about this blatant interference. But are relieved because they have changed plans to just fuck off to the US military base.

If I was part of a "we just leaked war plans to a journalist" story, I'd flee the country, too.

[Teriz]

https://x.com/DRBoguslaw/status/1904933137328570859

Masked gaspacho keep arresting students at school.

Why aren't law enforcement showing their faces? Why are they taking people to unmarked vehicles?

This continues to be very Nazi shit from this Republican administration and those working in federal law enforcement "just following orders".

"We tried to tell y'all"
-Ancient African American Proverb

Sick thing is that he said he was going to do this, and people voted for him anyway, even people who were going to be targeted by stuff like this. It's just so utterly frustrating!

We're what? About 2 months into this? I'm very concerned we're going to be at this time next year.

[Edge-]

Sick thing is that he said he was going to do this, and people voted for him anyway, even people who were going to be targeted by stuff like this. It's just so utterly frustrating!

We're what? About 2 months into this? I'm very concerned we're going to be at this time next year.

i'm just waiting for folks to start using their second amendment rights when the feds roll up in unmarked cars with masks and end up looking like a bunch of kidnappers and shit

because eventually enough feds are gonna fuck around and someone will find out

i don't want that to happen, but i see no other alternative given the trajectory

[Captain N]

i'm just waiting for folks to start using their second amendment rights when the feds roll up in unmarked cars with masks and end up looking like a bunch of kidnappers and shit

because eventually enough feds are gonna fuck around and someone will find out

i don't want that to happen, but i see no other alternative given the trajectory

Oh I'm sure you're going to get the same response to the person being arrested and pulling the trigger that they had for Rittenhouse's victims. They'll dig up some nonsense about how ICE knew they were a dangerous criminal and were just doing their jobs. That officer being shot was just proof of how violent a criminal that person they were just trying to take into custody was.

I have started calling this the "TehDang Defense"