Orange stain second term results thread

[Pens1566]

Yeah, no one saw that coming ...

 

[allisolm]

Mexico denies landing to US military deportation flight.

Makes sense. Trump took away their Gulf.

 

[Indus]

Mexico denies landing to US military deportation flight.

https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3lgjg3dn77s2m

This is exactly what Miller wants.. we can't deport them so we have to make them into fertilizer for American farmers.

Shoot em, bury em in the fields and grow crops on them.

Mexico taking em back would have been nicer for these people. Don't underestimate Nazi's.

 

[Muse]

He said you just turn a valve, and water flows all the way from the PNW. 🤣

Trump is the hero of the poorly informed. He makes it OK for his cult members to be feckless. And he knows this. Exulting in this makes it simple for him to make offhand uninformed insults to his detractors.

 

[Muse]

Mexico denies landing to US military deportation flight.

https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3lgjg3dn77s2m

Incredibly dumb move to expect Mexico to allow a plane full of deportees from God knows where to land and deplane. This outcome is actually a perfectly deserving gesture to the Trump administration right now. Uh, no, you're not landing here.

Give Trump the Finger madam president.

 

[Brainonska511]

Looks like Hegseth is about to be confirmed with a tie-breaking VP vote. Good thing Secretary of Defense isn't some important job, and it's no big deal if an abusive alcoholic takes the reigns there...

 

[cytg111]

The admin has ordered federal employees to snitch on their coworkers who are secretly being DEI.

A memo threatens federal workers with punishment for concealing DEI work from Trump's ban

OPM guidance sent to federal agencies included a letter template that called on workers to report any attempts to "disguise" DEI initiatives.

www.businessinsider.com

Pretty soon Trump will offer free lottery tickets for every neighbor you turn in for talking bad about him.

It sure would be a shame if people were to start flooding the email address they’ve set up with spam. Oh, wait! so it begins!

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The New Republic (@newrepublic.com)

The Trump administration’s anti-DEI snitching plan is getting flooded with fake reports after it tried to strong-arm federal workers into ratting out their colleagues. https://newrepublic.com/post/190576/trump-dei-snitch-plan-federal-workers

bsky.app

This is end stage Adolf and how shit collapses. I mean I guess we cant complain but the incompetence *IS* striking.

 

[brycejones]

Looks like Hegseth is about to be confirmed with a tie-breaking VP vote. Good thing Secretary of Defense isn't some important job, and it's no big deal if an abusive alcoholic takes the reigns there...

Joni Ernst voting to confirm a rapist as Sec Def says so much about how fucked up the GOP is.

 

[Brainonska511]

Joni Ernst voting to confirm a rapist as Sec Def says so much about how fucked up the GOP is.

0 principles. They'd sell their own children into slavery if it gave them one extra day of power.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

WTF? What kind of proof of citizenship do homeless people carry? Going after homeless people smells like a purge of “undesirables”?

Yes.

 

[akenbennu]

McConnell picked a weird time to find his spine.

 

[Franz316]

Losing the Pennsylvania and Ohio Senate races is going to have consequences for years to come

 

[pmv]

Looks like Hegseth is about to be confirmed with a tie-breaking VP vote. Good thing Secretary of Defense isn't some important job, and it's no big deal if an abusive alcoholic takes the reigns there...

abusive alcoholic with Crusader slogans as tattoos and a history of things like

When the Democratic senator Elissa Slotkin asked whether he would refuse unconstitutional orders, and whether he would decline to deploy the military against US civilians, Hegseth evaded a direct answer, saying “I reject the premise” of the questions.

In American Crusade, Hegseth writes that he believes the US faces a moment of “irreconcilable differences between the Left and the Right in America leading to perpetual conflict that cannot be resolved through the political process”

“This time in our history calls for an American Crusade,” he writes in the book’s introduction. “Yes, a holy war for the righteous cause of human freedom.”

The central premise of American Crusade is the idea that there exists something called “Americanism”, which he characterizes essentially as rightwing populism, and then there is everything else: feminism, globalism, Marxism, progressivism. In Hegseth’s narrative, “Americanism” must prevail, or “death” will.

“America is under the scourge of leftism. Our situation is bad, very bad. We are in the fight of our lives for the soul of our country,” writes Hegseth. “You must be thinking, ‘Pete, you laid this out in pretty simple terms. Us versus them. America versus the left. Good versus evil. You’re overplaying your hand. It’s not that bad.’ Read on, and think again.”

“Democracy, it’s everywhere, right?” said Hegseth in a May 2024 interview, railing against secular public education and teachers’ apparent obsession with the idea of democracy. “Democracy, democracy, defend the democracy. Do you know what our founders did not want us to be? A democracy.”

Pretty clear sign as to where the US is going.

 

[VRAMdemon]

abusive alcoholic with Crusader slogans as tattoos and a history of things like









Pretty clear sign as to where the US is going.

Yep .... Hegseth is Trumps most dangerous and biggest DEI hire. And ...Sorry Mitch McConnel, too little, too late for you to be no longer expressing total fealty to Trump. I think he may also be a no on Gabbard. History will not be kind to you no matter which side you try to write it.

 

[VRAMdemon]

Trump halts money we give to organizations in developing countries that helps them fight diseases, especially HIV. A program initiated by George W Bush.

Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide

Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.

www.nytimes.com

Also ...

So now we’re going to reconsider any aid we give overseas ... Unless these countries bend at the knee and accept Trumps international extortion demands. Only Israel and Egypt get waivers.

Marco Rubio orders halt to almost all U.S. foreign aid

The directive follows President Donald Trump’s executive order Monday pausing new obligations and disbursements of foreign aid pending review.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[VRAMdemon]

Incredibly dumb move to expect Mexico to allow a plane full of deportees from God knows where to land and deplane. This outcome is actually a perfectly deserving gesture to the Trump administration right now. Uh, no, you're not landing here.

Give Trump the Finger madam president.
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Welp ... Trump rounded up 80 Guatemalans. They went into a cargo type plane on TeeVee. With say 4 million or so to deport, only 50,000 more flights and they are done.

 

[K1052]

Welp ... Trump rounded up 80 Guatemalans. They went into a cargo type plane on TeeVee. With say 4 million or so to deport, only 50,000 more flights and they are done.

Trump's insistence on having the military do these flights is going to be a problem diplomatically. Mexico doesn't turn away chartered airliners returning their citizens but is really unlikely to permit military aircraft to do it. And they are one of the easier nations to work with on this. I don't think like Cuba or Venezuela is gonna be down for an endless parade of C-17s landing on their territory.

 

[Brainonska511]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-administration-purge-executive-orders-deportation-news-updates.html

Illegally trying to purge inspectors general. Bringing the corruption machine into full swing (Hint: you can't just fire them - you actually have to work with Congress to remove them for cause)

Any resident conservatives want to tell us why these actions are all in fact, Good Things™? They never seem to shut up about Bad Things™ when its Democrats.

 

[Brainonska511]

When did Trump show support for this 2025 Project. I remember him stating exactly the opposite.

WATCH: ‘I have nothing to do with Project 2025,’ Trump says

Former President Donald Trump denied any connection to Project 2025, the handbook for a new conservative government written by the Heritage Foundation and several right-wing think tanks, in his Sept. 10 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

www.pbs.org

Any comment as to why the administration is following the Project 2025 playbook, despite the disavowal of Trump?

 

[brycejones]

Trump's insistence on having the military do these flights is going to be a problem diplomatically. Mexico doesn't turn away chartered airliners returning their citizens but is really unlikely to permit military aircraft to do it. And they are one of the easier nations to work with on this. I don't think like Cuba or Venezuela is gonna be down for an endless parade of C-17s landing on their territory.

How does the Cuban diaspora in Florida feel about sending back Cubans?

It would be kind of funny if they were all on the "they have to do it the right way" camp after the vast majority of them used the same path of fleeing on small boats in the first place.

 

[brycejones]

Any comment as to why the administration is following the Project 2025 playbook, despite the disavowal of Trump?

@pcgeek11 in case there is any confusion about how his actions follow and those hired for the administration played a role in creating project 2025.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/trump-executive-orders-list-project-2025-policies

 

[K1052]

How does the Cuban diaspora in Florida feel about sending back Cubans?

It would be kind of funny if they were all on the "they have to do it the right way" camp after the vast majority of them used the same path of fleeing on small boats in the first place.

One aspect of Trump's growth with hispanic voters was they all heavily indulged in their own intra-hispanic cultural revenge fantasies that Trump would only send the ones they disliked back to their home nations. Truly the definition of playing one's self.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Cutting off all foreign aid, except to Israel because gotta keep funding murder of brown people.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

How does the Cuban diaspora in Florida feel about sending back Cubans?

It would be kind of funny if they were all on the "they have to do it the right way" camp after the vast majority of them used the same path of fleeing on small boats in the first place.

It's really funny since these Cubans who get here are such right wingers. Though also tells you Trump never has any intention of having free elections again since otherwise he wouldn't be pissing on Cubans who are an incredibly important voting bloc that is the big reason Florida is safely Republican.

 

[K1052]

Honestly not sure how well or long trying to blame Biden for stuff that Trump is doing will work but what choice do they have. They're not going to easily admit that the Cubans and Venezuelans here on parole and under TPS are going to be shipped out on Trump's order.

https://bsky.app/profile/bcuban.bsky.social/post/3lgl7vhex2k22