Trump/Admin Policies

gotthebottle

shecky said:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-releases-highly-anticipatedfiles-documents-ufos-extraterrestrial-life

I can hear it already - "That f*ckin' Trump! He's just doing this to distract us from the war in Iran! (which is actually a pre-emptive destruction of Iran's nuclear weapons program, which threatens our entire planet).
And, and...the White House Ballroom and, and...oh yeah... the Epstein files!" 
Lemme tell ya' folks, President Trump can not only walk and chew gum at the same time, he can play ten games of 4D chess at the same time, which is what he does 24/7.
So, how about trying to throw your hatred down - maybe just for this weekend? - and delve into this UFO info that every other modern day president has promised to release, but haven't had the balls to do.
It's fascinating stuff. And scary af.

I think you need some help...

gimmesometruth27

darwinstheory said:

"Trump admin releases highly anticipated files detailing.....oh, not THOSE files. Alien files, man!"

another distraction from the distraction from the distraction.

trump thinks we are stupid and will just forget about epstein.

gimmesometruth27

honestly shecky, most people couldn't give a shit about the ufo files. most of us are worried about your boy destroying the country while shaking his fist encouraging someone else to fight, fight, fight.

Tim Simmons

shecky said:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-releases-highly-anticipatedfiles-documents-ufos-extraterrestrial-life

I can hear it already - "That f*ckin' Trump! He's just doing this to distract us from the war in Iran! (which is actually a pre-emptive destruction of Iran's nuclear weapons program, which threatens our entire planet).
And, and...the White House Ballroom and, and...oh yeah... the Epstein files!" 
Lemme tell ya' folks, President Trump can not only walk and chew gum at the same time, he can play ten games of 4D chess at the same time, which is what he does 24/7.
So, how about trying to throw your hatred down - maybe just for this weekend? - and delve into this UFO info that every other modern day president has promised to release, but haven't had the balls to do.
It's fascinating stuff. And scary af.

I do love this "all news is local" bit they have going on.

In February, after former President Barack Obama told a podcaster that aliens were real, Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Trump directly about the existence of aliens.

"He gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that," Trump said of Obama. "I don’t know if they’re real or not. I can tell you, he gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that – he made a big mistake. He took it out of classified information."

Go Beavers

shecky said:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-releases-highly-anticipatedfiles-documents-ufos-extraterrestrial-life

I can hear it already - "That f*ckin' Trump! He's just doing this to distract us from the war in Iran! (which is actually a pre-emptive destruction of Iran's nuclear weapons program, which threatens our entire planet).
And, and...the White House Ballroom and, and...oh yeah... the Epstein files!" 
Lemme tell ya' folks, President Trump can not only walk and chew gum at the same time, he can play ten games of 4D chess at the same time, which is what he does 24/7.
So, how about trying to throw your hatred down - maybe just for this weekend? - and delve into this UFO info that every other modern day president has promised to release, but haven't had the balls to do.
It's fascinating stuff. And scary af.

We have enough going on and don’t need to hear about a rage filled, vengful ET

Tim Simmons

Lemme guess what the declassified info will be.

"such and such person of the air force reported an object that looks like a geometric shape of some kind in the sky. they could not approach to confirm." and there will be several similar instances. 

So basically like every other alien briefing, like ever.

Tim Simmons

Until, theres a photo of a ship or a body and they're like" oh, this is 'c.r.a.i.g. (Clearly Real Alien, Its Gray)', we found him in a crash", I'mma just hit the snooze on this shit. Yes its a shiny distraction for the smooth brain people who need it because everything else is going bad.

Tim Simmons

Also 23skidoo must be seething that this wasn't in the UFO/Alien thread

Vitalogensia

Is anyone convinced Trump could play 1-D chess?  I think 52 card pickup is way beyond his mental capacity, let alone knowing how six different chess pieces work. 

Poncier

Tim Simmons said:

shecky said:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-releases-highly-anticipatedfiles-documents-ufos-extraterrestrial-life

I can hear it already - "That f*ckin' Trump! He's just doing this to distract us from the war in Iran! (which is actually a pre-emptive destruction of Iran's nuclear weapons program, which threatens our entire planet).
And, and...the White House Ballroom and, and...oh yeah... the Epstein files!" 
Lemme tell ya' folks, President Trump can not only walk and chew gum at the same time, he can play ten games of 4D chess at the same time, which is what he does 24/7.
So, how about trying to throw your hatred down - maybe just for this weekend? - and delve into this UFO info that every other modern day president has promised to release, but haven't had the balls to do.
It's fascinating stuff. And scary af.

I do love this "all news is local" bit they have going on.

In February, after former President Barack Obama told a podcaster that aliens were real, Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Trump directly about the existence of aliens.

"He gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that," Trump said of Obama. "I don’t know if they’re real or not. I can tell you, he gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that – he made a big mistake. He took it out of classified information."

Didn't realize Barack had been dropping deuces in the Mar a Lago bathroom.

brianlux

Distraction ad infinitum.  

Man, is this ever going to look bad on our country's resume. 

Bentleyspop

shecky said:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-releases-highly-anticipatedfiles-documents-ufos-extraterrestrial-life

I can hear it already - "That f*ckin' Trump! He's just doing this to distract us from the war in Iran! (which is actually a pre-emptive destruction of Iran's nuclear weapons program, which threatens our entire planet).
And, and...the White House Ballroom and, and...oh yeah... the Epstein files!" 
Lemme tell ya' folks, President Trump can not only walk and chew gum at the same time, he can play ten games of 4D chess at the same time, which is what he does 24/7.
So, how about trying to throw your hatred down - maybe just for this weekend? - and delve into this UFO info that every other modern day president has promised to release, but haven't had the balls to do.
It's fascinating stuff. And scary af.

gimmesometruth27

Tim Simmons said:

Until, theres a photo of a ship or a body and they're like" oh, this is 'c.r.a.i.g. (Clearly Real Alien, Its Gray)', we found him in a crash", I'mma just hit the snooze on this shit. Yes its a shiny distraction for the smooth brain people who need it because everything else is going bad.

but what if trump's medical records from the butler incident are contained in these files??

PJ_Soul

shecky said:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-releases-highly-anticipatedfiles-documents-ufos-extraterrestrial-life

I can hear it already - "That f*ckin' Trump! He's just doing this to distract us from the war in Iran! (which is actually a pre-emptive destruction of Iran's nuclear weapons program, which threatens our entire planet).
And, and...the White House Ballroom and, and...oh yeah... the Epstein files!" 
Lemme tell ya' folks, President Trump can not only walk and chew gum at the same time, he can play ten games of 4D chess at the same time, which is what he does 24/7.
So, how about trying to throw your hatred down - maybe just for this weekend? - and delve into this UFO info that every other modern day president has promised to release, but haven't had the balls to do.
It's fascinating stuff. And scary af.

This HAS to be trolling. 

brianlux

Why I ignore. ..

Halifax2TheMax

*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.

4D chess right here boys and girls, 24/7, baby!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX-xhyqOOcN/?igsh=aWthNHNscnA2YWNu

gotthebottle

Halifax2TheMax said:

*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.

4D chess right here boys and girls, 24/7, baby!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX-xhyqOOcN/?igsh=aWthNHNscnA2YWNu

That's it! 10 games of 4D chess  AND walking and chewing gum!! Brilliant

Halifax2TheMax

*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.

More 4D chess right here. Grand master shit. After all, WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN AGE AND PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST!

From LFAA:

In case you’re wondering what kind of a news day it was, President Donald J. Trump announced that the “Department of War” was releasing “Government files related to Alien and Extraterrestrial Life, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, and Unidentified Flying Objects.” The president posted: “Have Fun and Enjoy!”

It’s hard to see the release of this information at this moment as anything more than a distraction from the many stories in the news that show the administration in an unflattering light.

The biggest of those stories was not that Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy took his family on a seven-month road trip to film a television series called The Great American Road Trip while he was supposed to be doing his job as secretary of transportation, or that he told Fox & Friends this morning that “it fits any budget to do a road trip” on a day when the national average for a gallon of gas was $4.54.

It was not the story, written by David A. Fahrenthold and Luke Broadwater and published in the New York Times, that Trump gave a no-bid $6.9 million contract to reseal the joints, waterproof, and paint bright blue the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Such contracts are supposed to be reviewed and put out for bids, but Trump ignored the review process and used an exemption designed to prevent “serious injury, financial or other, to the government” to award a no-bid contract to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, which has never before won a federal contract but which had worked at one of his golf clubs, because he wanted the work done before the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026.

The contract is for more than triple the $1.8 million Trump promised, and officials say the repairs will last for seven to ten years, rather than the 50 years Trump claimed. Even that might be generous: One expert warned that the motorcade the president took onto the pool yesterday to review the project was heavy enough to have sprung the newly-repaired joints between the concrete slabs that make up the pool bed.

It was not the story by economist Justin Wolfers in the New York Timesexplaining that the Defense Department’s claim that the war on Iran has cost taxpayers $25 billion tallies only the price of the 2,000 spent Tomahawk and Patriot missiles, the airplanes lost, and the other matériel used. It does not measure the lives lost, the disruption in global oil markets, companies shut down (like Spirit Airlines), heightened geopolitical tensions, higher interest rates, lower stock prices, lower economic growth, Iran’s new ability to charge tolls in the Strait of Hormuz to fund its nuclear ambitions, and the new need for countries to increase military spending. Wolfers notes that the Iraq war cost about $3 trillion and estimates the Iran war “will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and very possibly trillions.”

In any case, Jonathan Lemire of The Atlantic reported today that Trump is “bored” with the war and wants to move on. Five of Trump’s aides and advisors told Lemire that Trump is convinced he can sell any agreement as a win, but so far Iran is unwilling to bail Trump out of the war he started.

It was not the story in the Washington Post by Brianna Sacks and Kevin Crowe reporting that under Trump, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which helps people prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, has been denying aid to states that have Democratic-led governments while speeding it to Republican-dominated states.

It was not the story by Mark Olalde of ProPublica reporting that the Trump administration has granted a two-year pause on compliance with the Clean Air Act to more than 180 facilities, like coal power plants and medical sterilizers, that are polluting in 38 states and Puerto Rico. The administration sidelined the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by using a presidential exemption that can be tapped “if the technology to implement the standard is not available and it is in the national security interests of the United States to do so.”

This authority has never been used before, and other utilities say they are using the pollution controls the administration claims don’t exist. Trump has also invoked the national security justification for the pauses, claiming that the U.S. is in a national energy emergency out of concern that emerging industries, like AI and the data centers on which AI relies will not be able to get the huge amounts of energy they need. White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told Olalde: “The President has provided regulatory relief from certain burdensome Clean Air Act requirements due to national security concerns that critical industries would no longer be able to operate under such stringent standards.”

Democratic senators Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Adam Schiff of California have introduced a bill requiring the president to get Congress’s approval for such pauses in the future. Whitehouse noted that Trump’s exemptions show a willingness to “abuse every loophole available to pollute for free, damn the health consequences for Americans.”

It was not the story that the Court of International Trade in New York found Trump’s 10% global tariffs, imposed after the Supreme Court declared his “Liberation Day” tariffs of April 2025 unconstitutional, to be illegal. Trump is expected to appeal. Yesterday, he threatened to impose “much higher” tariffs on the European Union if it does not approve a trade agreement with the U.S. by July 4.

The biggest story of the day was not even the dedication of the 22-foot gold statue of Trump installed at his golf course in Miami. Marth McHardy of the Daily Beast reported that a group of crypto investors paid for the $450,000 statue as part of a promotional push for their new memecoin.

No, the biggest story of the day was that after voters in Virginia turned out in record numbers to approve a new temporary congressional district map on April 21 to garner four more seats for Democrats, the Virginia state supreme court struck down the referendum. Virginia voters had agreed to the change in order to counter gerrymandering imposed by Republican legislators in Texas, Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina, and Florida that is expected to gain them an additional 14 seats across the country. (Following last week’s Louisiana v. Callais Supreme Court decision, Republicans are hoping to change the lines in Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina to take four more.) So far, voters in California have agreed to a temporary redistricting of California to pick up four seats there.

The court split on partisan lines, saying the process of passing the referendum violated the state’s constitution. With Trump’s job approval ratings in the low 30s, anger at rising prices, frustration at the war on Iran, dislike of the administration’s attacks on immigrants, and growing outrage at the extraordinary corruption of the administration, Republicans were so worried they would lose control of the House of Representatives in the November midterm elections that they began the gerrymandering wars. Now those wars have turned in their favor.

“Huge win for the Republican Party, and America, in Virginia,” Trump gloated on social media. “The Virginia Supreme Court has just struck down the Democrats’ horrible gerrymander. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

In the end, the UFO files red herring from today’s news dump didn’t appear to work. Former representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called the UFO files a distraction from the Iran war and said: “Unless they roll out live aliens and test demo UFOs or actually admit what we know this really is then I have way better things to do on this Friday.” The chair of the Michigan Democratic Party also commented: “If any aliens had flown over Epstein Island, you could be damn sure Trump would keep their secret. Whether aliens are out there or not, I’m more concerned about the American people here on Earth struggling to pay for food [and] rent.”

And Democrats certainly didn’t miss the Virginia decision. Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, posted: “Today, in an outrageous outburst of right-wing judicial activism following the Roberts Court’s Callais decision, the Virginia Supreme Court has struck down the will of the voters. But democracy won’t end with right-wingers in black robes. Now is the time to campaign like never before for strong democracy, freedom and progress. The American people will have the final say in November. Organize!”

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! But good luck, eh?

brianlux

Halifax2TheMax said:

*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.

More 4D chess right here. Grand master shit. After all, WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN AGE AND PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST!

From LFAA:

In case you’re wondering what kind of a news day it was, President Donald J. Trump announced that the “Department of War” was releasing “Government files related to Alien and Extraterrestrial Life, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, and Unidentified Flying Objects.” The president posted: “Have Fun and Enjoy!”

It’s hard to see the release of this information at this moment as anything more than a distraction from the many stories in the news that show the administration in an unflattering light.

The biggest of those stories was not that Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy took his family on a seven-month road trip to film a television series called The Great American Road Trip while he was supposed to be doing his job as secretary of transportation, or that he told Fox & Friends this morning that “it fits any budget to do a road trip” on a day when the national average for a gallon of gas was $4.54.

It was not the story, written by David A. Fahrenthold and Luke Broadwater and published in the New York Times, that Trump gave a no-bid $6.9 million contract to reseal the joints, waterproof, and paint bright blue the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Such contracts are supposed to be reviewed and put out for bids, but Trump ignored the review process and used an exemption designed to prevent “serious injury, financial or other, to the government” to award a no-bid contract to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, which has never before won a federal contract but which had worked at one of his golf clubs, because he wanted the work done before the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026.

The contract is for more than triple the $1.8 million Trump promised, and officials say the repairs will last for seven to ten years, rather than the 50 years Trump claimed. Even that might be generous: One expert warned that the motorcade the president took onto the pool yesterday to review the project was heavy enough to have sprung the newly-repaired joints between the concrete slabs that make up the pool bed.

It was not the story by economist Justin Wolfers in the New York Timesexplaining that the Defense Department’s claim that the war on Iran has cost taxpayers $25 billion tallies only the price of the 2,000 spent Tomahawk and Patriot missiles, the airplanes lost, and the other matériel used. It does not measure the lives lost, the disruption in global oil markets, companies shut down (like Spirit Airlines), heightened geopolitical tensions, higher interest rates, lower stock prices, lower economic growth, Iran’s new ability to charge tolls in the Strait of Hormuz to fund its nuclear ambitions, and the new need for countries to increase military spending. Wolfers notes that the Iraq war cost about $3 trillion and estimates the Iran war “will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and very possibly trillions.”

In any case, Jonathan Lemire of The Atlantic reported today that Trump is “bored” with the war and wants to move on. Five of Trump’s aides and advisors told Lemire that Trump is convinced he can sell any agreement as a win, but so far Iran is unwilling to bail Trump out of the war he started.

It was not the story in the Washington Post by Brianna Sacks and Kevin Crowe reporting that under Trump, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which helps people prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, has been denying aid to states that have Democratic-led governments while speeding it to Republican-dominated states.

It was not the story by Mark Olalde of ProPublica reporting that the Trump administration has granted a two-year pause on compliance with the Clean Air Act to more than 180 facilities, like coal power plants and medical sterilizers, that are polluting in 38 states and Puerto Rico. The administration sidelined the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by using a presidential exemption that can be tapped “if the technology to implement the standard is not available and it is in the national security interests of the United States to do so.”

This authority has never been used before, and other utilities say they are using the pollution controls the administration claims don’t exist. Trump has also invoked the national security justification for the pauses, claiming that the U.S. is in a national energy emergency out of concern that emerging industries, like AI and the data centers on which AI relies will not be able to get the huge amounts of energy they need. White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told Olalde: “The President has provided regulatory relief from certain burdensome Clean Air Act requirements due to national security concerns that critical industries would no longer be able to operate under such stringent standards.”

Democratic senators Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Adam Schiff of California have introduced a bill requiring the president to get Congress’s approval for such pauses in the future. Whitehouse noted that Trump’s exemptions show a willingness to “abuse every loophole available to pollute for free, damn the health consequences for Americans.”

It was not the story that the Court of International Trade in New York found Trump’s 10% global tariffs, imposed after the Supreme Court declared his “Liberation Day” tariffs of April 2025 unconstitutional, to be illegal. Trump is expected to appeal. Yesterday, he threatened to impose “much higher” tariffs on the European Union if it does not approve a trade agreement with the U.S. by July 4.

The biggest story of the day was not even the dedication of the 22-foot gold statue of Trump installed at his golf course in Miami. Marth McHardy of the Daily Beast reported that a group of crypto investors paid for the $450,000 statue as part of a promotional push for their new memecoin.

No, the biggest story of the day was that after voters in Virginia turned out in record numbers to approve a new temporary congressional district map on April 21 to garner four more seats for Democrats, the Virginia state supreme court struck down the referendum. Virginia voters had agreed to the change in order to counter gerrymandering imposed by Republican legislators in Texas, Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina, and Florida that is expected to gain them an additional 14 seats across the country. (Following last week’s Louisiana v. Callais Supreme Court decision, Republicans are hoping to change the lines in Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina to take four more.) So far, voters in California have agreed to a temporary redistricting of California to pick up four seats there.

The court split on partisan lines, saying the process of passing the referendum violated the state’s constitution. With Trump’s job approval ratings in the low 30s, anger at rising prices, frustration at the war on Iran, dislike of the administration’s attacks on immigrants, and growing outrage at the extraordinary corruption of the administration, Republicans were so worried they would lose control of the House of Representatives in the November midterm elections that they began the gerrymandering wars. Now those wars have turned in their favor.

“Huge win for the Republican Party, and America, in Virginia,” Trump gloated on social media. “The Virginia Supreme Court has just struck down the Democrats’ horrible gerrymander. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

In the end, the UFO files red herring from today’s news dump didn’t appear to work. Former representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called the UFO files a distraction from the Iran war and said: “Unless they roll out live aliens and test demo UFOs or actually admit what we know this really is then I have way better things to do on this Friday.” The chair of the Michigan Democratic Party also commented: “If any aliens had flown over Epstein Island, you could be damn sure Trump would keep their secret. Whether aliens are out there or not, I’m more concerned about the American people here on Earth struggling to pay for food [and] rent.”

And Democrats certainly didn’t miss the Virginia decision. Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, posted: “Today, in an outrageous outburst of right-wing judicial activism following the Roberts Court’s Callais decision, the Virginia Supreme Court has struck down the will of the voters. But democracy won’t end with right-wingers in black robes. Now is the time to campaign like never before for strong democracy, freedom and progress. The American people will have the final say in November. Organize!”

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! But good luck, eh?

I wonder how the situation in VA will play out.  It rankles me to no end that the people of Virginia made their voices heard by voting for the redistricting but then had it nixed by the MAGA courts.  How is it that authoritarian fascist rule is being tolerated?  THIS WILL NOT DO!

gimmesometruth27

i heard on the news that trump's painting of the reflecting pool was a no bid $7 million tax payer funded project that went to a friend of his.

this is the kind of bullshit doge was supposed to prevent.