Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London. Olen Suomi Soy Barcelona. I am Ukraine.
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
Trump’s executive order that attempted to revoke Birthright Citizenship was halted for now. A temporary injunction has stopped it from taking effect.
Still the racists can be glad that Trump rescinded a bunch of executive orders banning the Federal Government from dealing with businesses that discriminate on grounds of race or sexual orientation. Including one signed by Lyndon B Johnson in 1965.
Trump has also ended an investigation of a massive Chinese hack of US Telecoms companies in a blow against US Cybersecurity.
Third Term Constitutional Amendment Introduced in Congress
I posted this over at the The Second Amendment, but it belongs in this thread too. Republican representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee has introduced a resolution to add an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow Trump to serve a third term:
Re: Third Term Constitutional Amendment Introduced in Congress
They changed the language to exclude Obama.
It limits those who have previously served consecutive terms.
That blocks Obama v3, but allows Trump v3.
The amendment that has no chance of ratification:″No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms,”
-->“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.” - Francis Bacon
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
“A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.” – Albert Camus
"...the pious hope that by combining numerous little turds of variously tainted data, one can obtain a valuable result; but in fact, the outcome is merely a larger than average pile of shit." - Barash, David 1995...
"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf, J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord Of the Rings
"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." 1 Corinthians 15:26King James Version (KJV)
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds soon I discovered that this rock thing was true Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet All of a sudden i found myself in love with the world And so there was only one thing I could do Was ding a ding dang my dang along ling long - Jesus Built my Hotrod Ministry Live every week like it's Shark Week! - Tracey Jordan Just a monkey in a long line of kings. - Matthew Good If "elitist" just means "not the dumbest motherfucker in the room", I'll be an elitist! - Get Your War On *not an actual doctor
Just barely settled in and Trump is again poised to get Americans killed by failing to respond to a disease: Bird Flu. Now he has blocked the CDC from telling hospitals how to deal with human cases of bird flu, or even that they need to test for it:
The Fundamental Universal Truth: Everything that Trump touches dies.
BTW, since bird flu has jumped to cows and through their raw milk to pet cats and to humans, note that RFK Jr, Trump's nominee to run Health and Human Services, is dead set on promoting raw milk (as well as eliminating vaccines) and is recruiting a producer of raw milk (who has been hit with many lawsuits for food poisoning caused by his product being infected with, among other pathogens, bird flu) to be an advisor.
Re: Trump's Second Failure to Respond to an Epidemic
A week ago I thought I had reached peak hatred of President Asshole, who had reached peak asshole.
I was wrong on both counts.
I wonder what his secret service detail/proctologists thinks of being called to protect him. I dream of seeing a mass resignation of all the White House support staff.
Trump has rescinded the security details for Anthony Fauci (former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectrious Diseases), Mike Pompeo (former Secretary of State), Brian Hook (his aide) and John Bolton (former National Security Adviser). The only thing they have in common is that Trump resents their lack of fealty.
Fauci has hired his own security detail at his own expense, and I expect others will do the same. In answer to a reporter's question concerning Fauci and Bolton, Trump stated that he felt no responsibility should any harm come to them.
Threats to Fauci are based on accusations that he conspired with the Chinese to produce the covid virus, and that actions he supported to fight the disease unnecessarily hurt the country. Trump has encouraged such beliefs.
Threats to Pompeo, Bolton and others come from Iran for positions and actions they took while working in the first Trump administration. A man was arrested in 2022 in an alleged murder plot against Bolton.
The Biden administration advised the incoming Trump administration of continuing threats to these men. In describing his rationale, Trump said that no one should expect government protection in perpetuity. Past practice has been that protection is a function of threat assessments made by the intelligence community. Trump appears to be ignoring these assessments.
In a move reminiscent of Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre, last night Trump fired at least a dozen inspectors general. The news comes from people granted anonymity to share unauthorized information, not from the Trump White House, which some here have asserted would be the most transparent administration in our history.
Inspectors general are responsible for detecting and ridding the government of waste, fraud and abuse. No list of affected inspectors general has been released, but it is thought to include those from:
State Department
Agriculture Department
Department of the Interior
Transportation Department
Housing and Urban Development
Department of Education
Department of Labor
Defense Department
Those thought unaffected are from:
Department of Justice
Office of Personnel Management
FCC
Export-Import Bank
Department of Homeland Security
A 2022 law requires 30-day notification of Congress before removals of inspectors general. We're about to find out if we have a lapdog Congress.
although Mitch McConnell's vote "No" against Hegseth, making it 3 Repubs who voted "No" with Murkowski and Collins was enough for Vance to have to make a tie-breaking vote to confirm him 51-50.
"I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside." Death to #TzarVladimirtheCondemned! "Enjoy every sandwich!"-Warren Zevon on his last DaveLetterman show
Moderator David Greene opening statement includes:
quote:You can't judge a presidency based on the first few days...
The hell you can't. President ***** has already done 4 or more years of bad in "the first few days."
Although massively unconstitutional, the one thing I can philosophically get behind the elimination of birthright citizenship. While it may have made sense at the time it was constructed, it now seems silly to me to have citizenship based on which side of a line you were born on (What if the mother was lying on the border line at the birth time?)
Moose
Contact Adminnemooseus if you would like to have autocensorship set up, for any of your use of nongratuitous profanity in regards to President *****. My personal choices (so far):
President *****, President *******, President ********
oh i hasn't noticed that, Mitch dug around inside his shell and briefly found a spine?
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds soon I discovered that this rock thing was true Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet All of a sudden i found myself in love with the world And so there was only one thing I could do Was ding a ding dang my dang along ling long - Jesus Built my Hotrod Ministry Live every week like it's Shark Week! - Tracey Jordan Just a monkey in a long line of kings. - Matthew Good If "elitist" just means "not the dumbest motherfucker in the room", I'll be an elitist! - Get Your War On *not an actual doctor
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