Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Edge-]

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/tru...ss-1236412707/

Trump Lawyers Claim ‘60 Minutes’ Harris Interview Caused Him ‘Mental Anguish,’ Argue That the ‘First Amendment Is No Shield to News Distortion’ in Motion to Deny Paramount Bid to Dismiss Lawsuit

Bunker-bitch got his fee fee's big hurt over some words.

What a little bitch.

[btlcryct]

Isn't he the king of news distortion? He must be mad someone is stealing his gig, in his mind.

[Casterbridge]

Glad to see RFK is finally citing actual Peer Reviewed Medical Journals now...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/america-h...161434758.html

[Edge-]

Glad to see RFK is finally citing actual Peer Reviewed Medical Journals now...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/america-h...161434758.html

calling it now: they used some dodgy AI to generate at least part, if not most of, this report.

hence the fictional citations

just like those times lawyers and not-lawyers tried their hand at having AI language models doing official legal documents for them only to realize oops they lie and make up a lot of legal cases and also don't know any law and also, importantly, are not licensed to practice law (or medicine)

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https://www.npr.org/2025/05/29/nx-s1...ional-students

A federal judge said that she would issue a preliminary injunction that would allow Harvard to continue enrolling international students — halting, at least for now, the Trump administration's efforts to ban the practice.

On Thursday, lawyers from Harvard and the Trump administration were in court in Boston over the administration's attempt to revoke the school's ability to enroll students and scholars on international visas.

The move comes after the same judge, Allison D. Burroughs, granted a temporary restraining order last Friday.

"To me it represents some kind of temporary relief," says Ella Ricketts, a first-year international student at Harvard. She's set to start an internship soon, and had been worried that without a block, she wouldn't be able to. She says she's hesitant to mark this as a victory. "Obviously I remain optimistic and hopeful, but this is very much just one step in a much, much larger process."

Donald's attempt to bar international students from Harvard is currently on hold.

Is Donald the most losingest president in US history? I think so, both in volume and proportion.

[NED funded]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...s/83923027007/

More courts are blocking the US tariffs. The argument being presented is actually really cool. Basically, even if the current GOP decides to fully commit create a king, they legally cant. Congress cant simply delegate all of its powers.

[Tech614]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...s/83923027007/

More courts are blocking the US tariffs. The argument being presented is actually really cool. Basically, even if the current GOP decides to fully commit create a king, they legally cant. Congress cant simply delegate all of its powers.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/bloc...rt-appeal.html

Appeals court already put a pause on the tariff block.

I'm not sure what way SCOTUS will go on this either tbh.

[Edge-]

lmao the chaos is neverending

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[NED funded]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/bloc...rt-appeal.html

Appeals court already put a pause on the tariff block.

I'm not sure what way SCOTUS will go on this either tbh.

Thats fine. They probably should put the ruling on a pause until they rule cuz in the balance of interests the government is being harmed by the ruling. So until there is a ruling on the appeal, and prob even by the supreme court it should be on pause.

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The upshot: NEPA has transformed from a modest procedural requirement into a blunt and haphazard tool employed by project opponents (who may not always be entirely motivated by concern for the environment) to try to stop or at least slow down new infrastructure and construction projects. Some project opponents have invoked NEPA and sought to enlist the courts in blocking or delaying even those projects that otherwise comply with all relevant substantive environmental laws. Indeed, certain project opponents have relied on NEPA to fight even clean-energy projects—from wind farms to hydroelectric dams, from solar farms to geothermal wells...

A 1970 legislative acorn has grown over the years into a
judicial oak that has hindered infrastructure development “under the guise” of just a little more process. Id., at 558. A course correction of sorts is appropriate to bring judicial review under NEPA back in line with the statutory text and common sense.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/23-975

Its a good day for America. NEPA is being officially gutted by the supreme court.

[Tech614]

lmao the chaos is neverending

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Are you tired of winning?

[Cthulhu 2020]

Let me know if you wish to engage with the contents of my post.

Never answers and questions posed by anyone in good faith, never engages with the contents of people's arguments, just tone polices and whines.

Demands others engage with HIS posts in good faith.

Dude blocked me a long time ago because I proved the twitter files were a giant pile of BS and wouldn't let him move on and continue to pretend they were real as the basis for all of his arguments about conservative "persecution".



It's been years at this point and this guy is doing the same thing he's always done. It's quite obvious he's here to stir shit and elicit emotional reactions until he can get a response from someone that he can weaponize. That's classically called trolling. He's been trolling on this forum for a decade, and never posts anything of substance ever. IDC if it's "against the rules" to call someone a troll. This forum is objectively a worse space for his presence and it's so insanely obvious what he's doing and has done for his entire time here. He skirts the line of plausible deniability and plays civility politics, i.e. "If I can say horrible things in a civil way, I win vs someone expressing good things in a non-civil manner"

Where's the perma ban man? Does MMOC need the ad revenue that bad to keep the lights on? He violates the spirit of forum rules every single day.

"If you think he's broken any rules report him." I have dozens of times, others have as well. Nothing happens. It's the same shit every single day. And if he does catch a ban he's back 3 days later. These kinds of posters having a safe space here are why I have my ad block at the highest levels on this website.

[Endus]

Never answers and questions posed by anyone in good faith, never engages with the contents of people's arguments, just tone polices and whines.

Demands others engage with HIS posts in good faith.

What tehdang means by "good faith" is "obsequiously supportive of what he has to say or at least gullibly curious and eager for him to feed them more slop without criticism or analysis". Any pushback at all is labelled "bad faith", no matter how valid the criticism may be.

[gondrin]

Trump is taking his tariff fight to the SCOTUS, because of course his pissed. And Levitt is saying the courts should have no role in this.

https://nypost.com/2025/05/29/busine...eeping-ruling/

Why can't I stop picturing a 3 year old running to his mother yelling MOOOMMMMMYYY! every time someone tries to actually uphold the Constitution and the division of powers?

My favorite part of the article is this:

But major Wall Street banks on Thursday pointed out that Trump might be able to keep many of his tariffs in place by taking advantage of specific trade laws.

The court’s Wednesday decision, for example, does not pause duties on steel, aluminum and auto imports, since these were enacted under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, which allows the president to impose tariffs if excessive foreign imports pose a national security risk.

“The tariff levels that we had yesterday are probably going to be the tariff levels that we have tomorrow, because there are so many different authorities the administration can reach into to put it back together,” Michael Zezas, Morgan Stanley’s global head of fixed income and thematic research, told Bloomberg TV on Thursday.

Trump’s power to “raise and escalate — it might be a little bit slower moving, but it is still there,” he added.
Alec Phillips, chief US political economist at Goldman Sachs, wrote in a note to clients that the ruling “represents a setback for the administration’s tariff plans and increases uncertainty but might not change the final outcome for most major US trading partners.”

The Trump administration signaled it’s unlikely to pursue alternative methods to levy tariffs while the court case plays out.

“There are different approaches that would take a couple of months,” Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, told Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” Thursday.

“But we’re not planning to pursue those right now because we’re very, very confident that this really is incorrect.”

The thing is, and as it has been pointed out since the start of this administration, that if Trump and his team decided to follow the rules set in place, he would get pretty much everything he would want. He just decided to not to and make everything about this far harder than it should be.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/bloc...rt-appeal.html

Appeals court already put a pause on the tariff block.

I'm not sure what way SCOTUS will go on this either tbh.

Depends. If they go by what the original Constitution says, they will basically overturn the appeals court ruling and state that Trump cannot unilaterally apply tariffs broadly without first going to Congress.

However, and it has shown in pretty much recently, that SCOTUS picks and chooses what parts of the Constitution to uphold and what it decides everything should mean.

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lmao the chaos is neverending

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Remember, in the end, there will still always be the TACO.

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Hegseth has decided that there doesn't need to be any testing of weapons and other such stuff that gets into the hands of soldiers. Because everything works right the first time and nothing bad has ever happened due to lack of testing. Right?

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...f3e877c7&ei=33

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s top Democrat is blasting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his decision this week to appoint a new director of the Pentagon’s operational test enterprise and rapidly cut its staff by more than half.

Hegseth said his directed reorganization, which would reduce the staff, budget and resources at the Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), supports the Defense Department’s “America First” strategy, according to a Tuesday memo.

But Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said Thursday the move is “reckless and damaging” to military accountability and oversight.

“For decades, DOT&E has played a vital, legally mandated role in safeguarding the integrity of major defense programs and ensuring military systems are effective before they are put into warfighters’ hands,” Reed said in a statement.

He said Hegseth has given no logical reasoning for this action, and he is worried the move “appears retaliatory, driven by Mr. Hegseth’s opposition to some of DOT&E’s recent, legally required oversight decisions.”

The Pentagon chief’s change up of the DOT&E will see its staff of 94 personnel — including 82 civilians and 12 service members — axed back in seven days to just 30 civilians, 15 military personnel and one senior leader, the newly appointed acting Director Carroll Quade.

Quade, who was up until now the Navy’s deputy for test and evaluation, takes over from Raymond O’Toole, who has served as acting director of the office since January and twice as an acting deputy director since January 2021.

Hegseth also ordered all contractor personnel support to end within seven days of the memo’s release.

The Pentagon chief justified the cuts by claiming an internal review “identified redundant, non-essential, non-statutory functions within ODOT&E that do not support operational agility or resource efficiency, affecting our ability to rapidly and effectively deploy the best systems to the warfighter.”

He estimated the changes will save more than $300 million annually.

The Defense Department’s test and evaluation office is in charge of validating weapons and platforms across the U.S. military, setting policies, providing oversight and publishing annual testing updates on such major weapons programs as the F-35 fighter jet, the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon and the Columbia-class submarine.

But cutting the office back to a skeleton crew with limited contractor backing may prevent it from providing adequate oversight for critical military programs, “risking operational readiness and taxpayer dollars,” Reed said.

“This kind of politically motivated interference undermines independent oversight and leaves warfighters and the public more vulnerable to untested, potentially flawed systems,” he added.

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i mean, the defense secretary did one time almost dismember a drummer because he doesn't know how to throw axes



so it does kinda check out that he'd want other weapons he doesn't understand how to use safely, or if they're even safe, to get in the hands of the US military

[btlcryct]

Now they're literally making shit up to try and justify what they're doing.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/polit...eatening-trump

[Captain N]

Now they're literally making shit up to try and justify what they're doing.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/polit...eatening-trump

That fake letter was more coherent than a Truth Social tweet too.

[btlcryct]

Not to mention, and I don't mean to stereotype, but looking at it more, that doesn't look like a man's handwriting. I could be wrong, but it looks like a woman wrote it.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

i mean, the defense secretary did one time almost dismember a drummer because he doesn't know how to throw axes



so it does kinda check out that he'd want other weapons he doesn't understand how to use safely, or if they're even safe, to get in the hands of the US military

Okay, so Hegseth sucks at throwing axes...but that's a fucking awful setup for an axe-throwing booth. Like maybe build up a bit more of a wall or a net around the target so that if someone does lose control of a axe...there isn't a risk of it dismembering anyone? Or maybe place it somewhere where there won't be people standing on the other side of it? Maybe a bit of both? I'm not an expert of axe-throwing safety...but those seem like reasonable precauations to take.

[Poopymonster]

Okay, so Hegseth sucks at throwing axes...but that's a fucking awful setup for an axe-throwing booth. Like maybe build up a bit more of a wall or a net around the target so that if someone does lose control of a axe...there isn't a risk of it dismembering anyone? Or maybe place it somewhere where there won't be people standing on the other side of it? Maybe a bit of both? I'm not an expert of axe-throwing safety...but those seem like reasonable precauations to take.

It's unsafe as hell.
If only there would have been some agency, with a Director who would have been in charge of this Operation. To Test and Evaluate to make sure it's safe for people. With the normal full staff and contractors acting in support roles.

[Breccia]

Now they're literally making shit up to try and justify what they're doing.

Kristi Noem said a migrant threatened to kill Trump

Shame the hypothetical migrant didn't threaten to kill Pence. Trump would have pardoned him.

[Poopymonster]

A migrant threatened to kill Trump

That's a strange way to say his wife doesn't like him.