Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Poopymonster]

That broken-ass leg is the least of that Eagle's problems. That's what happens when you fuck with the Cobra chickens and Prison Deer.




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Mokey's Paw this

"You can have another Air Force 1...but you have to use it everytime you illegally deport people...and you fly with them."

Air Force One?
You mean Air Force Trump.

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Oh god I hope so. It would be nice if we actually acknowledged what college sports functions as.

College: A sport franchise with a tertiary interest in education.

[Odinfrost]

Trump, in the ongoing effort to prove he's a hypocrite, orders yet another new Air Force One.

It's a used plan from Qatar. It is a Boeing, but as the plane already exists, Boeing will get nothing from this contract. Instead, Americans just pay more money so Trump can have two planes.

What could you *possibly* use a second presidential plane for? Isn't the president going back and forth in the same plane? Or like, is it so he can go somewhere, go back and immediately hop into the other one to go elsewhere instead of... you know... just flying the first plane to the final destination to begin with?

[Poopymonster]

What could you *possibly* use a second presidential plane for? Isn't the president going back and forth in the same plane? Or like, is it so he can go somewhere, go back and immediately hop into the other one to go elsewhere instead of... you know... just flying the first plane to the final destination to begin with?

To take with him when if he leaves office.
Taxpayer funded. Republicunts will wipe off their chin and sign off on it.

[Iphie]

What could you *possibly* use a second presidential plane for? Isn't the president going back and forth in the same plane? Or like, is it so he can go somewhere, go back and immediately hop into the other one to go elsewhere instead of... you know... just flying the first plane to the final destination to begin with?

I dunno, maintenance? regardless of manpower it still takes time. . But isn't Airforce One technically just a designation indicating that the president is on board?

[Tech614]

Trump, in the ongoing effort to prove he's a hypocrite, orders yet another new Air Force One.

It's a used plan from Qatar. It is a Boeing, but as the plane already exists, Boeing will get nothing from this contract. Instead, Americans just pay more money so Trump can have two planes.

We should make him a brand new plane with tax power money and hopefully boeing puts as much quality control into it as a the 737 MAX.

[Mayhem]

And that's fine, but Breccia bates him on almost every single fucking post in this thread, and it's getting bloody tiresome now.

Na, far from tiresome, it's one of the best infotainments on this site.

[Gorsameth]

To take with him when if he leaves office.
Taxpayer funded. Republicunts will wipe off their chin and sign off on it.

That where my mind went yes.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

To take with him when if he leaves office.
Taxpayer funded. Republicunts will wipe off their chin and sign off on it.

Wipe off their chin? And waste that glorious load? They'll swallow it all and then open their mouths wide and stick out their tongues to show Daddy what a good job they did.

[ringpriest]

And that's fine, but Breccia bates him on almost every single fucking post in this thread, and it's getting bloody tiresome now. Breccia posts some great stuff, informative and often amusing, as well as worrying, but bating tehdang so damned often is just fucking annoying when it leads to nothing.

Worst still is accusing him of things that he never said, just because Breccia doesn't like tehdang's political opinion - I'm not saying I agree with tehdang, if anything I pretty much agree with Breccia on most things, I'm just sick and tired of the constant crap that he's accusing tehdang of.

Posters who are unrelenting propagandists and lie constantly are a challenge to any forum where they're present. (There always seems to be one on any remotely popular forum that discusses current events.) Engaging with them is a mistake, because their presence is an exercise in bad faith. But if they're left unchallenged, casual readers (who near-certainly outnumber regular posters by a significant ratio) may mistake their posts for something other than deceptive narrative-pushing. By regularly calling out a stream of lies and bad-faith posts, Breccia - who consistently posts links to actual news coverage with insightful commentary - also makes casual readers aware of what else they're reading on the forum. It's a valuable public service.

By the way, apparently Trump offered up this gem quite recently: "Does a president need to uphold the Constitution? Trump says 'I don't know'"

The response came after a series of questions regarding the right to due process for people living in the United States and the Fifth Amendment. During this exchange, Trump said he wants to deport millions of undocumented immigrants — who he called "some of the worst people on Earth."

"I was elected to get them the hell out of here and the courts are holding me from doing it," Trump said.

Immigration enforcement was one of the top issues ahead of the 2024 presidential elections. It has been a strong issue for Trump, but recent polls show that Americans are disapproving of his handling of immigration.

Welker then pressed Trump on whether he, as president, needs to abide by the Constitution and the rights it provides to people in the U.S.

"I don't know," Trump said. "I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said. What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said. They have a different interpretation."

This is not a new take for him. He used it during his trial proceedings before he was returned to office: "I got a lawyer to tell me doing it was legal". It's an act.

[PfeffermintShake]

White House making Trump into the Wierdest-Sith-Lord-you-know is a thing.
Darth Wierdo

• Red Light Saber
• Bulging veins shows he is corrupted from using the forbidden Sith Magic of Darth Smalluspenis
• The generative-AI American flags... Even though less than a quarter is shown, it's clear neither has 50 stars. The one on the left has too much spacing for that, the one on the right is missing a star in the lower corner. Guessing the Whole West Coast has left the Empire at this point.

Guy that entered the AI prompts for this watches Andor, and still thinks the Empire are the good guys.

[Poopymonster]

This is not a new take for him. He used it during his trial proceedings before he was returned to office: "I got a lawyer to tell me doing it was legal". It's an act.

Very important phrasing.
Of course his lawyers are telling him it's legal.
I'm (theoretically) paying you to tell me it's legal.
I will fire you if you tell me something I want to do is illegal.

"My lawyers, very expensive lawyers, some of the best, told me my actions, which I was voted into office to do, are legal. Perfectly legal. The best legal. Technically legal. Legal."

[Breccia]

What could you *possibly* use a second presidential plane for?

I mean, the first one could break down or crash? It is Boeing...

[Edge-]

Guy that entered the AI prompts for this watches Andor, and still thinks the Empire are the good guys.

isn't it odd they have to constantly use AI art of him instead of pictures of his fat, slobby, saggy face and body that actually exists in meatspace?

[Breccia]

Red Light Saber

I see Trump has given up on literally everything except immigration. "Democrats want to bring in murderers" is ridiculous hyperbole and false, and yet, it's the closest thing Trump has to a valid message. Everything he has done is a failure, but with immigration at least, he can still push the message "your enemies don't want me to do this". Unlike, say, the economy. "Democrats want the stock market to go up, but I stopped it!" is a message even Trump knows Trump can't sell.

I would call out @tehdang to explain why the person he supports and voted for at least three times is using the White House position to do nothing but troll with hate messages and AI pics. But since he's already a known supporter of dictators, terrorists, and literally worships Trump, "my guy trolls" is pretty far down on the list of deplorable actions. He doesn't have to answer this one.

[Doomcookie]

No, my problem is with you

So, why do you hate it when he brings up what the other poster supports?

[Elder Millennial]

White House making Trump into the Wierdest-Sith-Lord-you-know is a thing.

Please God. End it all. I can't anymore.

[Tech614]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9l3399wvno

Trump claims he doesn't want to run for a 3rd term.

Meanwhile the company he owns is selling Trump 2028 hats.

[Xath]

To take with him when if he leaves office.
Taxpayer funded. Republicunts will wipe off their chin and sign off on it.

I will be completely honest if all it takes for him to peacefully leave office is an air force one fuck it give him one today

[Breccia]

Trump claims he doesn't want to run for a 3rd term.

Meanwhile the company he owns is selling Trump 2028 hats.

These two are not the contradiction they'd be for a sane, normal person. For one, Trump lies all the time about everything. For two, once you post a picture of yourself holding a red lightsaber and high on Dark Side yelling "FROM MY POINT OF VIEW HELPING SICK PEOPLE IS EVIL!" something like Trump 2028 is just standard-issue lying, trolling, and grift. Not defending it. But not surprised, either.

By contrast, this is a big deal:

Trump says he's unsure whether people in the US are entitled to due process

Trump made his comments during an interview conducted on Friday that was set to air on Sunday on NBC’s "Meet the Press with Kristen Welker." Welker asked Trump whether he agreed with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said last month that "of course" all people in the U.S. are entitled to due process, which generally requires the government to provide notice and a hearing before taking certain adverse legal actions.

"I don't know. I'm not, I’m not a lawyer. I don't know," Trump said, adding that such a requirement would mean "we'd have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials."

Trump added that his lawyers "are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said."

"How obvious is it, when he's already ignoring court rulings?"

Again, Trump lies all the time about everything.

But you don't have to be a lawyer to say "due process is in the Constitution". And you don't refuse due process because it's inconvenient. The Constitution does not say, for example, "everyone gets a lawyer, unless it's like really hard u gaiz". Imagine if Biden had said "I know you're allowed to own guns, but it would be like 2 or 3 million background checks, so we'll just refuse them all, I dunno, I'm not a lawyer".

Anyone supporting Trump, who continues to make statements like this, is a traitor the Constitution and the United States.

[Rasulis]

Back to the job report.

At the USDA, 3,877 staff signed contracts in the agency's first Deferred Resignation Program in February and 11,305 signed contracts in the second round in April, for a total of 15,182 resignations, according to the readout of the Friday morning briefing.

The numbers could rise over the next month because employees over 40 were given more time to decide whether to leave, and some who opted to leave have not yet signed contracts, said the readout.

More than 260,000 people across the federal civilian workforce have been fired, taken early retirement, earmarked for termination or accepted buyouts since the start of Trump's second term in office. That represents about one tenth of the federal civilian workforce.

Those leaving include 674 county employees of the Farm Service Agency who directly serve farmers in offices across the country, and 2,408 staff of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, which provides technical assistance to farmers and manages working land conservation programs.

Also leaving are 555 employees of the Food Safety Inspection Service, which ensures the safety of the U.S. meat, poultry and egg supply.

Some of the 1,377 staff departures from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will affect the agency's response to bird flu.

These people won't show up as unemployed until October because they will continue getting paid until September. Assuming they don't find other jobs before that. The scientists likely won't have too much problem. The real cost here is the loss of knowledge, institutional, scientific, and on existing research which have been terminated abruptly.