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The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

The 45th President of
The United States of America
Donald John Trump



Will President Trump have all his Cabinet picks settled, & ready for work on Day 1 ?

How many hours will it take President Trump to undo all of Former President Obama's Unconstitutional Executive Actions & Orders, effectively eliminating 98% of all Obama's dubious accomplishments?

With Majorities in both the House & Senate, how will the new Trump Administration tackle the disemboweling of Obamacare?

          ☀  What provisions might they keep, if anything?
          ☀  How will they migrate in the replacement provisions ..... & over what time schedules?


Who will President Trump nominate to replace Antonin Scalia?      When?

When will President Trump start building the "Wall", & who will pay for it? 

          ☀  Will he actually force Mexico to pay for it?
          ☀  How?

Will President Trump give his AG an unfettered pathway to pursue the prosecution of "Crooked/Lyin' Hillary"?

  • Last Edit: 2017-01-17, 23:23:48 by SmileyFaze
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Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #325 –
Quote from: OakdaleFTL – on
And -of course- you don't suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome!? :)
The definition of TDS: Whatever Trump does is right, no matter the facts, laws, truth, common sense etc. You fit the definition.

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Regarding the "birthright-citizenship" clause of the 14th Amendment, it's long been contentious...
So you hate the constitution as per your convenience, because you have no principles. This is far from the first (or last) time I am catching you on this.

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Don't you remember news stories about "Birth Tourism"?
I know that Russian oligarchs (and not only oligarchs) have been happily practising birth tourism to USA. But this does not make the constitution contentious. The constitution is what it is.

An EO overturning the constitution should be far more obviously contentious. But of course the EO is fine with you because Trump is the sacred god-king of USA and therefore law and order and due process and constitution and common sense don't matter.

As a minimum, it is beyond dispute that Trump's "We are the only country in the world that does this..." is a direct lie. But you have TDS, so of course you cannot ever admit to truth.

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As with including the question of citizenship on the Decennial Census, it's unsettled.
Census does not affect the contents or interpretation of the constitution or constitutional rights, such as voting rights. The census and constitution are not at the same level, so it is not an "as with" kind of thing. Then again, you have no principle and no clue about anything, so this explains why you can only ever utter meaningless blather and, whenever convenient, outright lies.

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Quote from: ersi – on
Prior unconstitutionalities by Trump, such as his collusion with Russia,
Good Lord! You're back to that>! :)
You don't think Trump's collusion with Russia is a "contentious" point worth looking into? Of course, in the actual world, it is a fact well settled and confirmed with investigations, such as the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election and the Mueller report. But you hate being informed and you hate when anybody else is informed.

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Don't forget: the Hunter Biden "Laptop from Hell" was Russian disinformation, according to The Big Guy, Joe, and — likely so, according to 51 "Intelligence Experts" who signed a letter pushed by Anthony Blinken, then a senior Biden Campaign official!
I'm not forgetting anything. You do.

I remember that you were all in for impeaching Joe Biden based on the Durham report and also based on Hunter's adventures. Whatever became of those? Oh, those impeachment attempts were another collusion with Russia! I remember, and I will keep reminding you.

Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #326 –
Quote from: ersi – on
The definition of TDS: Whatever Trump does is right, no matter the facts, laws, truth, common sense etc. You fit the definition.
It's an old Marxist trick: When a terminology hinders your argument, change the meaning of the terminology! (Who'll notice? :) )


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So you hate the constitution as per your convenience, because you have no principles. This is far from the first (or last) time I am catching you on this.
No, sir! But I certainly do hate some of the Supreme Court decisions that the Democrats have enshrined as Supra-Constitutional! (E.g., Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, Korematsu v. United States and Roe v. Wade, to name a few.
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The constitution is what it is.
I wish Gorsuch felt that way, both about the constitution and the laws passed by congress!
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An EO overturning the constitution should be far more obviously contentious.
A precedent can and sometime should be overturned, no?

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Census does not affect the contents or interpretation of the constitution or constitutional rights, such as voting rights.
I take it you've skipped all the Democrat blather about "suppression of the vote"? :) If you wouldn't call it "suppression," wouldn't you at least consider it anti-democratic to water down the voting public with non-citizen residents by enhancing the fewer citizens' representation?
The Census is required by the constitution, and used to apportion representation in the House (as well as money! from the Federal Government!).

Yes, I'm aware that I use the term "Democracy" with various meanings: The history of the US as a republic requires it.

Your understanding of tjhe US Constitution and its form of government is deficient, ersi.  Ignorance is remedial, though![2] But TDS in its most virulent form seems both chronic and untreatable.
Please don't emigrate here:
We have enough Never-Trumpers already! :)
1 I'd add Bostock, because Gorsuch mistook the SCOTUS for a Common Law court! A rookie mistake (or Democrat derogation of the Constitution)).
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2 Unfortunately, stupidity isn't.↵
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Reply #327 –
Trump shut down all budgeted government services to the people, such as Medicaid (reimbursements for medical costs), child support, grants and loans for education (that the public school system and universities depend on) etc. It may or may not include social security and pensions, not sure, because if there is any point in this decision, then confusion is the point.

Trump may have done it accidentally, but a feature of his accidents is that when the accident becomes public, he doubles down on it. These were budgeted funds already allocated by the Congress, so Trump cannot do it according to the constitution and all laws that regulate the relationship of the legislative and executive branches, but the order went into immediate effect because this time his minions do not care about law and order and due process whatsoever. They now unthinkingly follow Trump's orders, only that.

Not so with courts, yet.
Quote from: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5111837-trump-federal-aid-freeze-blocked/
U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan said she was granting a “brief administrative stay” that preserves federal disbursements at least until Monday at 5 p.m. EST after a group of nonprofit and public health organizations filed a lawsuit.

The judge will hold another hearing Monday on whether to grant a longer pause.
However, we know that courts are fighting an uphill battle trying to uphold the law and basic functions and operations of the country, since SCOTUS already granted absolute impunity to the president. The judiciary branch as a whole is not yet on Trump's leash, but SCOTUS is.

The birthright EO is not "part of a discussion". It is an unconstitutional overreach striking down a section of the constitution. Also the freeze or pause on congressionally allocated spending is unconstitutional overreach, for now rescinded but who knows for how long when confusion is the point.

OakdaleFTL's federal dole is done. If his lowly state of California does not bail him out, then :rip:

Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #328 –
Quote from: ersi – on
Trump shut down all budgeted government services to the people [...]
How can one talk to someone who's "sources" are so uninformed? (Although I don't think these are proper words): Your gullibility is yuge!

Stay tuned (...the static you hear is but the mainstay of your own thought processes... :) ) and you might learn something.[1]
1 But by the time you do, you'll likely have tired of "conversation"! I appreciate the feeling: I've all-but given up talking to the likes of you! :)
You, however, really, really hate being wrong! So you'll go mum for the obvious reasons.↵
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Reply #329 –
Quote from: OakdaleFTL – on
How can one talk to someone who's "sources" are so uninformed? (Although I don't think these are proper words): Your gullibility is yuge!
The sources are Trump and his press secretary. Yes, they are very uninformed, but they won't fool me. They thought they were doing something, a thing, but the fact is that they had no idea what they were doing.

Of course it is very difficult to talk about the madness of a madman with a mad propaganda cultist like yourself, but unfortunately the madman is the president and the madness is his administration, so we have to watch out for the reverberations.

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Reply #330 –
The deadline for Trump's first official (insofar as there can be anything official with Trump) actual foreign policy decision is February 1, 2025, i.e. right now. All stock market indicators are going down, except oil.

Markets (and the world) on edge as Trump’s tariff deadline approaches
Quote from: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/markets-and-the-world-on-edge-as-trumps-tariff-deadline-approaches-201455496.html
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday afternoon said the plan for 25% duties on Canada and Mexico and 10% rates on China remain in effect, and "those tariffs will be for public consumption in about 24 hours tomorrow."
Last time when Trump was president, I remember how the first-world countries got together and quasi-isolated Trump. I hope they get their act together this time too. And get their act together about Putin also, this is long overdue.

Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #331 –
We're better prepared this time around. And Europe has never lost a trade war with the US.

Everyone will suffer, but red state (and probably blue state) Americans will suffer more than anyone else, except probably Canada and Mexico. They will learn from that. More so than after Trump 1.0, countries will favour trade deals that exclude the USA for security reasons.

Canada to talk with Mexico, UK, EU to counter US tariffs



Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #332 –
I agree insofar as only trade war is concerned. Last time Trump slapped very few tariffs (steel, affecting car industry; anything else?) so it was easily manageable. This time there may be more tariffs, and the hardest point to manage would be access to gas and oil.

Which leads to the next point, supporting Ukraine. Under Trump 1.0 there was no Ukraine war. Until maybe the middle of last year, the largest contributor to Ukraine's front materiel was Russia via their losses. Then USA became the largest, but under the circumstances where the Congress was working against Biden the EU finally became the first. This did not happen by ramping up the EU support, but by diminishing American support. The EU has not been fulfilling its role dutifully here. All the ammunition and other provisions that Ukraine is lacking is directly the fault of the EU. Can we keep Nato functional without USA? We must, but can we?

The EU can handle tariffs, but I do not see that the EU can handle the Greenland/Denmark debacle and Ukraine war while at the same time securing its gas and oil supplies without falling victim to Putin or Trump or both. The Middle East option means trading with even worse kind of dictators. Any direction you look at, the diplomatic integrity is lost. Of course, it can be realistically noted that the EU had no diplomatic integrity to begin with.

From the point of view of EU's diplomatic integrity, the EU would be expected to slap America with sanctions in response to Trump's plans for Canada, Greenland and Panama. And from the point of view of American diplomatic integrity, Trump would not be the president, definitely not for the second time.

Re: The Inauguration, & U.S. President Donald Trump's First 100 Days in Office

Reply #333 –
Quote from: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/01/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-00201953
The combination of a 25 percent tariff on Mexico and Canada and a 10 percent tariff on China goods could cause U.S. economic output to decline by 1.5 percent in 2025 and 2.1 percent in 2026 as higher prices dampen consumer spending and business investment, said Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon, a division of the accounting firm Ernst & Young.
Economic decline a few percent would be a mild consequence. Historically tariffs mean trade war, often preceding actual hot war. This means that Trump does not see immediate neighbours as allies. Those who are not allies are enemies, and relationship with enemies is closer to war than to peace.

Quote from: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/01/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-00201953
Immediate congressional reaction was split along party lines, with Republicans praising the move as a sign of Trump’s resolve to secure America’s borders and pressure the three countries to address U.S. concerns about unfair trade practices.
What possible concerns about unfair trade practices can USA have when Trump in his first term abolished NAFTA and negotiated new agreements, citing that NAFTA was unfair and that he was the art-of-the-deal man to fix it, and Biden did not change the new agreements? Republicans love to swim in their lawless and factless brainwash propaganda nonsense and mindlessly praise Trump's scummy fascism without any reservation.

The EU can handle tariffs, but it cannot handle a hot war. The EU has handled atrociously every hot conflict close by, every conflict that in geopolitical terms was absolutely their duty to handle. Sometimes the EU tried and failed so badly that it made things worse. Now the EU has Trump helping to make things quickly far worse.

Edit: Trump's big plan is to take USA back to the good old 1800's but he may very well succeed to take us all back to 1400's

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Reply #334 –
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What possible concerns about unfair trade practices can USA have when Trump in his first term abolished NAFTA and negotiated new agreements, citing that NAFTA was unfair and that he was the art-of-the-deal man to fix it, and Biden did not change the new agreements? Republicans love to swim in their lawless and factless brainwash propaganda nonsense and mindlessly praise Trump's scummy fascism without any reservation.
Looks like ersi's using that on-the-cheap Chinese chat-bot — such silly conglomerations of adjectives! (Is Chinese that way, as a rule? :) ) But not to worry: By the time he catches up, everyone else will have come to understand Trump... :)
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Reply #335 –
Quote from: OakdaleFTL – on
Looks like ersi's using that on-the-cheap Chinese chat-bot — such silly conglomerations of adjectives! (Is Chinese that way, as a rule? :) )
Are you trying to figure out how Chinese works or are you just being racist? Yup, you are just being racist. You think that I should somehow feel associated with Far East, but instead I feel pity that your monocellular brain cannot fathom the world outside the porch of your trailer house geographically, linguistically, economically and whatever else it might be.

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But not to worry: By the time he catches up, everyone else will have come to understand Trump... :)
The only one who does not understand Trump is yourself. Everybody else understands him for the anticonstitutional criminal Führer wannabe that he is. You were wrong about everything during his first term and also wrong about everything during Biden's term.

Most crucially, you were wrong about EVERYTHING with regard to your pet topic: Law. You thought Trump did things legally, constitutionally, so as to not be worth impeachment and prosecution, and Biden did something illegally. However, Trump is the Twice-Impeached One (and was worth more) plus he is now the First Convict in Office.

You did not even know the date until which presidents stay in office. You have not caught up how clueless you are about American political system, the law, about how economy works, etc. Your inadequacy is bottomless, yet you never question yourself.

Trump has already managed to commit impeachable offences again, faster than last time. The revocation of birthright was the first and cancelling budgeted funds was the second. Releasing terrorists and making airplanes fall out of the sky sounds serious enough, but is probably a mere "official act" of neglect. Firing Trump-voting women who just found out they were hired under DEI programmes, deportation of family members of Hispanics who stupidly thought that Trump would not touch *legal* immigrants, letting Musk (an actual illegal immigrant and billionaire robber baron) run amok against government agencies (including their internal secrets and probably state secrets), and ever-increasing price of eggs has already turned everybody at the grassroots level against him, except the cultists. I wish legitimacy mattered more than popularity, but this is America we are talking about.

There are no more sanity checks for you. But keep posting. From the clinical perspective it is fascinating whenever your Q delusions and bigotry come to light.

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Reply #336 –
Quote from: ersi – on
Trump has already managed to commit impeachable offences again,
:) Seems you forget what "impeachment" is, every other time you use it! But, boy-o, the Democrat side of the House simply doesn't have the votes... (I think there's a big surprise coming in the mid-terms. But we'll see.) For the benefit of those who read your posts (believing you know of what you speak): Impeachment is a tool of politics.
It is somewhat equivalent to an indictment. And, failure to convict in the ensuing Senate trial is the equivalent a not guilty verdict. Ho hum.
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Reply #337 –
Actually, I had to teach you about impeachment back in 2019. Unfortunately you did not learn anything. You are more behind now than ever.

And I see that the impeachment went smoother than I expected back then. What if law and due process happens to score an actual win this time? Nah, much less chance for it now than back then.

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Reply #338 –
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What if law and due process happens to score an actual win this time?
Then Joe Biden and most of his relatives, a good many Democrat legislators, much of the Biden Department of Justice and FBI (and perhaps CIA and other alphabet-agencies) might receive prison sentences!

Lucky for them, the current administration has more important goals.

You've heard the old advice, live and learn? Well, ersi, just watch... :)
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Reply #339 –
Quote from: OakdaleFTL – on
Then Joe Biden and most of his relatives, a good many Democrat legislators, much of the Biden Department of Justice and FBI (and perhaps CIA and other alphabet-agencies) might receive prison sentences!
Do it. Go ahead. What is stopping you? Oh, it's the justice system that is not working...

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Lucky for them, the current administration has more important goals.
Goals such as demolishing the laws and institutional framework of the country? This is a purely destructive goal. The most positive thing to say about it is that clearly Musk is enjoying it. But this is not how it is supposed to be in a functioning country. Musk is supposed to pay taxes, but instead he appropriates government documents, data and assets to enrich himself.

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You've heard the old advice, live and learn? Well, ersi, just watch... :)
Why don't you do according to your own advice? Some years ago you seemed almost up there at the level of maybe a 15-year old, but now you are at the level of a max 9-year-old. Why don't you learn anything as years go by?

Project 2025, i.e. making Trump the despot, was bad enough idea, but this is so much worse that even the Project 2025 people, such as Russell Vought, did not foresee and cannot prevent. Your constitution is null and void. You are living in a free-wheeling dictatorship. You are of course blind to it, because for another two weeks or so this is slightly more veiled than the far more obvious election theft riot+coup attempt four years ago that you also failed to see.

Trump thinks he is performing a successful coup, but actually it is Musk reaping all the benefits of Trump being a submissive idiot. Trump gave Musk the keys to wreak havoc in the coffers and archives of all government agencies, and he (Trump) has no control over what is happening. In a few weeks it will already be a done coup. Next step for Musk is to pull the rug from under Trump, if Trump gets into his head that he has any power over him.

It has been interesting to guess which one would trump the other, Musk or Trump. Congratz, Musk.

Different from you, I know history. Very similar events occurred when Hitler took power. Hitler's muscle was SA, which he got rid of once the power grab was complete. But no executive order will get rid of Musk, not anymore. It is now in Musk's power to flush down the entire administration of USA either simply by deleting all government records and technical functions[1] or by giving them over to Putin, Xi, Jong-un or ayatollahs. It will be fun to read in the history books later: A president who was elected on the ticket of getting rid of illegal immigrants granted all the power to an illegal immigrant and thus USA was finished by a self-inflicted hack job. Foreign spies did not need to lift a finger to get absolutely all the information and accesses.

Heh, something for the Musk thread: Musk's deadline to get to Mars was end of last year. He could not do it. So instead he is now making Earth into Mars.
1 This could happen by accident, since Musk's assistants are noob techies.↵

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Reply #340 –
I do sometimes wonder what type is your drug of choice, ersi. But rather than thinking you were born this way, I think your Soviet "education"  warped your mind — you're easy prey to Putin propaganda.
But -failing that- any kind of propaganda is an acceptable substitute.

Considering your laziness and incuriousity, it's not surprising that the MSM's narrative is what you'd go with. (When I say MSM, I mean the most egregious Talking Heads...) But you of all people should not denigrate auditing systems known to have outrageous fraud![1]
1 Well, actually, being a bureaucrat at heart you only respect power — so if an audit would diminish yours (I mean, of course, your cognoscenti) it is of course anti-somethingorother! And hence illegitimate!
The power has shifted, my friend. The grift has been exposed, and will be stopped...↵
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Musk’s DOGE Teen Minion Was Once Fired for Leaking Company Secrets
Quote from: https://newrepublic.com/post/191325/elon-musk-doge-teen-coristine-fired-leaking-company-secrets
Edward Coristine is getting a stunning level of access to the federal government as one of Elon Musk’s DOGE cronies. He was previously fired for posting company secrets on Discord.

Edward Coristine was fired from cybersecurity firm Path Network in 2022 for “leaking internal information to the competitors.” Now Coristine has access to the most sensitive internal information there is, the federal government’s, and he has no confirmed clearance that legitimizes that access.
The above is old by now. Meanwhile Musk had a kind of press session at the Oval Office where he said that DOGE was very transparent, when asked what DOGE is and what it does. In other words, Musk lied. But Musk really wanted to make his words appear true after the fact, so he set up the website doge.gov to display something. The result:

Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
Quote from: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112
“DOGE just posted secret NOFORN info on their website about [intelligence community] headcount, so currently people are scrambling to check if their info has been accessed,” said one Defense Intelligence Agency employee, who requested anonymity to avoid retaliation from senior leaders.
DOGE is being so transparent that their website is leaking and anybody can edit it.

USA has been doged. They trusted the Twitter dude with everything, even though he cannot be trusted even with a website.

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Reply #342 –
I forget, who did Ariana sell the HuffPo to? :)

Your "news" sources get shadier and shadier, ersi. And your complaints get more and more bizarre.
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Reply #343 –
The source is doge.gov !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can go right now and check it. But of course you won't because Q did not tell you to do it so you won't ever cross-check anything ever. For you, a fact is only what Q says.

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Reply #344 –
Quote from: ersi – on
The source is doge.gov !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The source of...what? :)

You've become -typographically- Howie reincarnated! (Or did you suffer a stroke...?)
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Josh Blackman has an interesting post...
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Reply #345 –
Hundreds Protest JD Vance During Family Ski Trip
Quote from: https://www.newsweek.com/hundreds-protest-jd-vance-during-family-ski-trip-2038280
Hundreds of protesters in Vermont rallied against Vice President JD Vance on Saturday who's in the state for a family ski trip following his and President Donald Trump's tense White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the previous day.

According to NPR's local station, Vermont Public, in a post on X, a video shows protesters holding up signs, with Judy Daly of Indivisible Mad River Valley, a grassroots organization committed to saving democracy, showing her support for Ukraine.

"This is a group of people who has always been supportive of standing with Ukraine. However, I think yesterday's performance at the White House has probably galvanized even more people to come out today," she said, per Vermont Public.
The article also rehashes the meeting and corrects some of Trump's lies about numbers. But it's America. Nobody can fix it (even though Trump says he can while he demolishes it).

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Reply #346 –
You do (meaning you don't understand that NPR is much like the BBC? :) They're okay — for their comedy shows. But their "news" concerning current affairs or politics are rehashes of DNC press releases. ( https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c2ljkny0j00o )

BTW: Vermont keeps sending Bernie Sanders back to the Senate; and now, of course, they have another spring-chicken at his side: Peter Francis Welch (appointed to Bernie's seat in the House of Representatives when Bernie ascended to the Senate). It's the Democrat way! :)
Just like Hillary was nominated over Sanders and Biden lost out to Harris...
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In the news: Trump NatSec Adviser Accidentally Added The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg to a Group Chat About Secret War Plans[1]

Not in the news: Was he added before or after Putin and Lavrov?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYw8cSA_ocQ
1 Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, a magazine that Trump administration definitely would not want to obtain an inside look into attacks against Houthis or policies regarding Palestine. Was the administration thinking of a different Jeffrey Goldberg or did they make a typo? Who knows...↵

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Reply #348 –
Team Trump is leaking like a sieve from the standpoint of security and intelligence. Nobody should share any sensitive information with them.
Quote from: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/hegseth-waltz-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7
DER SPIEGEL reporters were able to find mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to the top officials.

To do so, the reporters used commercial people search engines along with hacked customer data that has been published on the web. Those affected by the leaks include National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use, with some of them linked to profiles on social media platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn. They were used to create Dropbox accounts and profiles in apps that track running data. There are also WhatsApp profiles for the respective phone numbers and even Signal accounts in some cases.
 

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Reply #349 –
Usually, when faced with evil, it is preferable that evil is stupid as well.

However, in this case the stupidity and incompetence of the Trump administration isn't helping, as the US is by now a Russian vassal state. That shifts responsibility toward the centre of power, and the Kremlin is combining evil, stupidity and brutality.