Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Edge-]

I think people need to start talking about the 25th more, not that I think it will happen just to piss him off!

wait let me put my maga hat on for a second -

"WAS THAT A HIPAA VIOLATION?!"

[Mazza]

Honestly thinking they might already planning to use the 25th but waiting till after the midterms.

That way he cant torpedo those voting for it and to make sure that JD Vance gets another 2 terms afterwards.

If their majorities survive past the midterms they can spend the next 2 years trying to retcon their support while leaving all the damage Trump did that they wanted intact.

And if they lose the majority in either of them, they will spend the next 2 years blaming the democrats for all the problems claiming they are blocking all the good stuff.

Here is to hoping the Democrats get veto proof majorities in both houses, like 5+ seats past that point so they can’t make excuses about getting stuff done. Then watch them either put up or shut up.

Disregarding a veto proof majority in the house (I guess it could happen since all the seats are up for election)... one for the senate is a REALLY tall order. Current polling puts democrats and republicans at 49 each with two tossups. The current divide on senate seats is 53 Republican (R) an 47 - with the 2 independents - Democrat (D). Off those 53 R seats 22 are up for election, while 13 of the D seats are.

So lets say that for the sake of argument all D seats are defended, then off those 22 R seats only two can be successfully defended for a blue veto proof senate majority. I mean, technically that is possible but I am not holding my breath on that one.

[Belize]

wait let me put my maga hat on for a second -

"WAS THAT A HIPAA VIOLATION?!"

MAGA doesn't know what HIPAA is, let's be real

[Edge-]

MAGA doesn't know what HIPAA is, let's be real

sure they do - it's when you ask someone if they're vaccinated for covid or not. don't you remember?

[DarkTZeratul]

sure they do - it's when you ask someone if they're vaccinated for covid or not. don't you remember?

No no, that's HIPPA. They were definitely consistent on that point. :P

[Edge-]

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...ule-rcna263697

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday blocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent overhaul of the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule — a major blow to his vaccine agenda.

The ruling stems from a lawsuit the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and other medical groups brought against the Department of Health and Human Services, arguing that Kennedy’s changes to vaccine recommendations and to an influential vaccine advisory committee violated federal law.

In January, Kennedy and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, reducing the number of recommended diseases to be vaccinated against from 18 to 11. The change dropped recommendations that all babies should be protected against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, RSV, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis.

In response, more than 200 groups, including the American Medical Association, the March of Dimes and the Autism Science Foundation, announced they would disregard the changes and follow the AAP’s immunization schedule, instead.

The judge also put on hold the new members Kennedy has appointed to the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee since June. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices helps shape U.S. vaccine policy, including recommendations that influence the childhood vaccine schedule and which shots insurance must cover.

The panel was scheduled to meet Wednesday and Thursday. According to the AAP’s attorney, Richard Hughes, the judge’s decision essentially stops the meeting from happening.

An HHS official confirmed that the meeting had been postponed.

Their response is predictable -

In a statement, Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for HHS, said the agency “looks forward to this judge’s decision being overturned just like his other attempts to keep the Trump administration from governing.”

Fuck all these people. Truly garbage human beings.

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https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsro...d-library-fund

that is a good question

now that the trump foundation library fund is dissolved because filing mandatory paperwork is hard, whatever happened to the roughly $65 Million that corporations paid "settlements" into it with? did it disappear?

[gondrin]

wait let me put my maga hat on for a second -

"WAS THAT A HIPAA VIOLATION?!"

If you are going to do it, do it right.

According to MAGA, it is HIPPA, not HIPAA(which is the real thing).

[Kaleredar]

If you are going to do it, do it right.

According to MAGA, it is HIPPA, not HIPAA(which is the real thing).

“Of course it’s hippa, it has to do with the doctor’s hippapotamus oath! Dummy!”

[Flarelaine]

i've said elsewhere - but i'm reminded of the iraqi chemical weapons production facilities on rail in the desert that totally existed but we couldn't see via satellite

it's possible this is true - but this administration has so far been more untrustworthy than trustworthy

Frederick Forsyth offers a reasonable scenario for that in The Fist of God (written well before Dubya's invasion) where Saddam actually has a nuclear facility under the desert but satellite analysts fail to notice because the entrance appears to be an unguarded vehicle repair / scrap yard.

It looks unguarded because the fence is dozens of miles away in every direction.

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I think Hegseth's comment are going to blow up in his face. I bet this will be big news this weekend. I hope the last non-bought out media the US has left goes hard on this or America is going full Hungary.
Speaking of, how's the polls looking over there mr mod? I know it gets confusing to whom I'm referring to when I reference that fat fucker ruining everything, but this time I meant Orban.

Some people are optimistic, more are apprehensive. We don't know how far the fat fucker or his master in the Kremlin is willing to go.

They actually pulled a literal false flag stunt last Sunday. We had one of our national holidays in remembrance of a revolution crushed by the Russians (yes, it's a theme) and fatso used that occasion to try to convince people to be afraid of Ukraine. Meanwhile, a bunch of dudes showed up at the opposition march with a giant Ukrainian flag, incidentally in arm's reach of gov't media filming. Before the story could get off the ground, the flag guys were identified as having been photographed a few hours earlier hanging anti-Ukrainian banners from a balcony. Does not matter in the gov't media bubble, of course.

[prwraith]

I think Trump is about the only president who could make supporting Israel so deeply and incredibly unpopular that even kids on tiktok are cheering for any video where bombs fall on Israel, it is genuinely such a wild time to be alive.

[Gabriel]

I think Trump is about the only president who could make supporting Israel so deeply and incredibly unpopular that even kids on tiktok are cheering for any video where bombs fall on Israel, it is genuinely such a wild time to be alive.

Lets not give the orange retard all the credit here. Israel did that to themselves.

[En Sabah Nur]

I think people need to start talking about the 25th more, not that I think it will happen just to piss him off!

If he can happily just blurt out a secret like that in a room full of people and cameras, what do you suppose the chances are that he's just telling anyone anything when the cameras aren't rolling?

[Nymrohd]

we have a decaying democracy because too many americans either refuse to be engaged or are too busy scraping by to be engaged, and as a result people elect a lot of bad people

The reality is, you cannot have a democracy when people are poor. A democracy is pretty much dependent on an extensive middle class that feels financially safe and can thus vote thinking about more than their wallet.

[Kaleredar]

The reality is, you cannot have a democracy when people are poor. A democracy is pretty much dependent on an extensive middle class that feels financially safe and can thus vote thinking about more than their wallet.

I’d argue that’s not necessarily the case, you just need to have a populace educated enough to know a conman liar when they see one.

[Nymrohd]

I’d argue that’s not necessarily the case, you just need to have a populace educated enough to know a conman liar when they see one.

Educated people can get desperate too when they are working two jobs and still living day to day.

[Kaleredar]

Educated people can get desperate too when they are working two jobs and still living day to day.

Not educated simply in the notion that they went to school, but educated in the notion that they know a conman liar promising them the world isn’t going to deliver it to them.

There seem to be a decent number of people in the US finding that out about Trump. Perhaps if they were smarter, they wouldn’t have fallen for it… twice, now.

[alach]

It shouldn't take a high school diploma to watch that lunk ramble and dance to realize something ain't right.
It really is one of life's biggest mystery how he has such a large and loyal group of followers as a rude billionaire and D-list celebrity.

And right on cue a perfect video pops up.



This is what I mean. A complete and utter mystery how any adult could listen to this nonsense and think this man should be leading our country. I know, I know, 10 years of this, but seriously, the X-Files had more closure than we will have figuring out why trump still has 40 fucking 1 % support.
Oh and he is meeting the Irish Prime Minister now? How do the Irish feel about that? Happy St. Patricks day, ya'll

And I really don't think its Gabriel's #2 option. I believe in the good in people. It just can't be possible to have that many dickheads walking around.

Trumps having a Twitter tantrum. Metaphorically taking his ball and going home because NATO isn't sending ships to assist in his war. Someone refresh me, didn't they pass a law under Biden, trump can't just pull out of NATO, cause I think we are about to see that in play real soon.
Someone needs a diaper change.

One more update.
I love the sports reporter when asked about the Iranian team asking to move from US to Mexico for their games.
"Well, uh, it's an unusual request, but we haven't really had a situation where one country attacks the other a couple months before a world sporting event."

[Gabriel]

Not educated simply in the notion that they went to school, but educated in the notion that they know a conman liar promising them the world isn’t going to deliver it to them.

There seem to be a decent number of people in the US finding that out about Trump. Perhaps if they were smarter, they wouldn’t have fallen for it… twice, now.

I don't know which option is more horrifying...

That there is a significant enough portion of the population that are legit RETARDED enough to fall for Donald, kidfucking Trump's lies.

Or that there is a significant enough portion of the population that are EVIL enough to actually support what Donald, kidfucking Trump objectively stands for.

[Edge-]

It shouldn't take a high school diploma to watch that lunk ramble and dance to realize something ain't right.
It really is one of life's biggest mystery how he has such a large and loyal group of followers as a rude billionaire and D-list celebrity.

remember the beliefs of must of his cult - they're very much primed to believe what they're told and not actually look for evidence

[Kaleredar]

I don't know which option is more horrifying...

That there is a significant enough portion of the population that are legit RETARDED enough to fall for Donald, kidfucking Trump's lies.

Or that there is a significant enough portion of the population that are EVIL enough to actually support what Donald, kidfucking Trump objectively stands for.

Dumb but misled people can be educated.

Willfully evil people are a lot more difficult to make “less evil.”