Trump/Admin Policies

mickeyrat

gimmesometruth27 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

the psychology of trump's cult (thanks gimme for posting this on facebook)

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AcjFpkSxH/

yeah that is good stuff. i believe it is true. at least in my lived experience.

this landed for me. auther at the bottom of it...

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.

I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.

If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy. If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.

If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.

It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.

Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”

And that’s the part that should chill us.

Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?

Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.

Now the mask is off. Now we know.

And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.

– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

mickeyrat

meidastouch adbook post......

BREAKING: A federal judge just ruled that Kari Lake had no legal authority to run Voice of America’s parent agency — and declared all of her actions “null and void,” including mass layoffs and other directives.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issued the ruling Friday, finding that Lake exercised power at the U.S. Agency for Global Media without lawful authority. The decision wipes out actions taken between July 31 and November 19, 2025, including reduction-in-force notices, administrative leave decisions, and other agency directives.

The court granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs and rejected the government’s cross-motion, concluding that the actions taken under Lake’s authority “shall have no force or effect.”

Judge Lamberth also ordered the government to identify who has actually been serving as acting CEO of USAGM and to provide documentation showing who was delegated authority.

In other words, the court just ruled that the leadership decisions made during that period were not legally valid.

gimmesometruth27

mickeyrat said:

rando adbook post. easily verifiable info...

Rancher fired (Noem), plumbing business guy hired (Mullin).  Let's talk about it.

On DEI. Since we’re talking about “merit” and “the most qualified person should get the job,” let’s talk about it for real. For years we’ve heard the same argument anytime Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion comes up:

“Just hire the most qualified person.”

But the same people making that argument rarely apply it to the people actually running the government. Let’s look at the qualifications of some current leaders in the Trump administration.

Homeland Security - Markwayne Mullin
• ASSOCIATE degree, Construction Technology - Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology
• Owner, Mullin Plumbing
• Rancher and business owner
• Former professional MMA fighter
• U.S. Representative (2013 - 2023)
• U.S. Senator (2023 - present)
• No federal law enforcement leadership experience
• No intelligence community leadership experience
• No national security command experience
• No emergency management agency leadership experience

Defense Secretary - Pete Hegseth
• BA, Princeton University
• MPP, Harvard Kennedy School
• Army National Guard officer
• Fox News host
• No senior military command of a service branch
• No prior experience managing an organization comparable to the Pentagon

Health and Human Services - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• BA, Harvard University
• JD, University of Virginia
• Environmental lawyer and activist
• No medical degree
• No public health degree
• No experience running a hospital system, health department, or national health agency

Education Secretary - Linda McMahon
• BA, East Carolina University
• Former CEO of WWE
• Former Small Business Administration administrator
• No career as teacher, principal, superintendent, or professor
• No professional background running a public education system

Transportation Secretary - Sean Duffy
• BA, St. Mary’s University
• JD, William Mitchell College of Law
• Former county prosecutor
• Former member of Congress
• Former television personality
• No experience running a transit system, airline, rail network, port authority, or state transportation department

Director of National Intelligence - Tulsi Gabbard
• BA, Hawaii Pacific University
• Army Reserve officer
• Former member of Congress
• No prior leadership in a U.S. intelligence agency
• No experience running the intelligence community

Now look at Black and other people who held comparable national leadership roles.

Defense - Lloyd Austin
• BA, U.S. Military Academy at West Point
• MA, Auburn University
• MBA, Webster University
• Four-star general
• Commander of U.S. Central Command

Homeland Security - Alejandro Mayorkas
• BA, UC Berkeley
• JD, Loyola Law School
• U.S. Attorney
• Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
• Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security before becoming Secretary

Homeland Security - Jeh Johnson
• BA, Morehouse College
• JD, Columbia Law School
• General Counsel of the Department of Defense
• National security lawyer with decades of experience

Education - Miguel Cardona
• BS, Central Connecticut State University
• MS, University of Connecticut
• EdD, University of Connecticut
• Teacher
• Principal
• Assistant superintendent
• State education commissioner

Education - John B. King Jr.
• BA, Harvard University
• MA, Columbia Teachers College
• JD, Yale Law School
• EdD, Columbia Teachers College
• Teacher
• School leader
• State education commissioner

Transportation - Anthony Foxx
• BA, Davidson College
• JD, NYU School of Law
• Mayor of Charlotte
• Executive leadership running a major American city before becoming Secretary of Transportation

Attorney General - Loretta Lynch
• BA, Harvard University
• JD, Harvard Law School
• Assistant U.S. Attorney
• U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York

Attorney General - Eric Holder
• BA, Columbia University
• JD, Columbia Law School
• Judge
• U.S. Attorney
• Deputy Attorney General before becoming Attorney General

So let’s be clear.

The loudest critics of “DEI hires” routinely defend appointments that prioritize loyalty, politics, or celebrity over deep subject-matter experience. Meanwhile the people they dismiss as “DEI” often bring more education, more expertise, and longer public service records to the job.

You can oppose DEI if you want.

But stop pretending the opposition is about qualifications.

i like how they call aoc "just a waitress". i am going to start calling ol markwayne just a plumber. no college degree ass and all.

gimmesometruth27

i saw president manbaby said he will not sign any bills into law until the save act is passed.

does this dumbfuck not know that if he doesn't veto a passed bill or sign a passed bill for 10 days and congress is still in session, it becomes law?

god can we have someone that took and passed a fucking civics class be in charge now?

Poncier

gimmesometruth27 said:

i saw president manbaby said he will not sign any bills into law until the save act is passed.

does this dumbfuck not know that if he doesn't veto a passed bill or sign a passed bill for 10 days and congress is still in session, it becomes law?

god can we have someone that took and passed a fucking civics class be in charge now?

You really need to ask that?
It wasn't in the POTUS Cliff Notes he didn't read.

gimmesometruth27

Poncier said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

i saw president manbaby said he will not sign any bills into law until the save act is passed.

does this dumbfuck not know that if he doesn't veto a passed bill or sign a passed bill for 10 days and congress is still in session, it becomes law?

god can we have someone that took and passed a fucking civics class be in charge now?

You really need to ask that?
It wasn't in the POTUS Cliff Notes he didn't read.

it isn't just trump. it is the people he is surrounded by. they don't know what they are doing, and they do not care. they all think they are monarchs.

i swear it is like having an entire kindergarden class in the cabinet, except the kids are all dicks instead of the normal nice kids you see in kindergarden. 

bootlegger10

Sadly, I think they do know what they are doing.   They are doing what they want with no ramifications.   

Get_Right

bootlegger10 said:

Sadly, I think they do know what they are doing.   They are doing what they want with no ramifications.   

This is an accurate interpretation. They are well counseled. Try this and then wait a year for a judge to tell us we cannot do this. Then it will take another year to implement any judicial decision. 

brianlux

Get_Right said:

bootlegger10 said:

Sadly, I think they do know what they are doing.   They are doing what they want with no ramifications.   

This is an accurate interpretation. They are well counseled. Try this and then wait a year for a judge to tell us we cannot do this. Then it will take another year to implement any judicial decision. 

To a degree, yes, they know what they are doing:  whatever it takes to create chaos and siphon as much wealth as they can off off the average citizen.  Beyond that, there is no plan and their actions are short sighted.  Just like when Rome fell, many of the wealthy will lose status, influence and security, and some will lose everything.  

Bentleyspop

bootlegger10 said:

Sadly, I think they do know what they are doing.   They are doing what they want with no ramifications.   

This is because they know they can be as corrupt as they wanna be because their orange overlord is as corrupt as he wants because as long as they show fealty they will all get preemptive pardons in January 2029.

What's worse is the 77 million people, some of whom are on here, who voted for and continue to support this sort of corruption. 

Gern Blansten

Get_Right said:

bootlegger10 said:

Sadly, I think they do know what they are doing.   They are doing what they want with no ramifications.   

This is an accurate interpretation. They are well counseled. Try this and then wait a year for a judge to tell us we cannot do this. Then it will take another year to implement any judicial decision. 

That's the advice trump gave to the NCAA the other day...

mickeyrat

gimmesometruth27

mickeyrat said:

so what does he propose? everyone just die?

OnWis97

gimmesometruth27 said:

mickeyrat said:

so what does he propose? everyone just die?

Remember when the right was accusing the left/Dems of "death panels?" Well, since every accusation is a confession...

gimmesometruth27

OnWis97 said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

mickeyrat said:

so what does he propose? everyone just die?

Remember when the right was accusing the left/Dems of "death panels?" Well, since every accusation is a confession...

always has been with maga.

Halifax2TheMax

OnWis97 said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

mickeyrat said:

so what does he propose? everyone just die?

Remember when the right was accusing the left/Dems of "death panels?" Well, since every accusation is a confession...

*The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

Remember this? And the faux rage?

https://youtu.be/bSRo51SbQQs?si=1Q2LQc5rN5Z7G

https://www.npr.org/2009/10/13/113742203/rep-graysons-die-quickly-comment-stirs-debate

mickeyrat

Married women will need to update their identification documentation in order to vote if the SAVE America Act passes Congress, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. https://trib.al/hwWmCKK

Responding to a reporter’s question Tuesday in the White House briefing room, Leavitt argued that the act—if realized—would not prevent married women from voting. Seconds later, she admitted that the bill actually would require married women and anyone else who has changed their name to re-register before they vote.

gimmesometruth27

mickeyrat said:

Married women will need to update their identification documentation in order to vote if the SAVE America Act passes Congress, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. https://trib.al/hwWmCKK

Responding to a reporter’s question Tuesday in the White House briefing room, Leavitt argued that the act—if realized—would not prevent married women from voting. Seconds later, she admitted that the bill actually would require married women and anyone else who has changed their name to re-register before they vote.

can't even lie well.

the toddlers are in charge.

hopefully dumbass fetterman doesn't come out in support of this. i think he is the only dem that would.