Trump/Admin Policies

Gern Blansten · June 1

I wish a reporter will ask if all attendees will have to meet the height/weight requirements that they are forcing on military members that attend the event.

gimmesometruth27 · June 1

so iran has stopped negotiating and says it will close the strait of hormuz completely. again.

so much winning.

so much winning that i am sick and tired of winning.

Bentleyspop · June 1

gimmesometruth27 said:

so iran has stopped negotiating and says it will close the strait of hormuz completely. again.

so much winning.

so much winning that i am sick and tired of winning.

3 months ago he said it would be over in 2 weeks.
The math ain't mathin

Poncier · June 1

Bentleyspop said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

so iran has stopped negotiating and says it will close the strait of hormuz completely. again.

so much winning.

so much winning that i am sick and tired of winning.

3 months ago he said it would be over in 2 weeks.
The math ain't mathin

2 weeks is his go to for everything when he has no real answer. (So everything)

brianlux · June 1

cutz said:

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

I honestly thought that pic was from an SNL skit or something. Absurd.

LOL, I thought it was AI. But then sometimes when I wake up in the morning and look at myself in the mirror, I think I look a bit absurd as well, haha! But I guarantee I won't be holding a $250 bill with the image of an anarchist pedophile on it, so fuck that guy anyway!

I can't afford to have $250.00 in my wallet as I just have ones and 5's that don't even add up to $250.00=LOL

And, if I was rich enough to have that $250.00 single Bill, I would wipe my ass with it and flush it down the toilet. Couldn't pay me $250.00 to keep it=HA

Good idea. It wouldn't be good for much else.

I keep one of these in my wallet. It reminds me that I'm rich in all things money can't buy:

Image: https://i.postimg.cc/52hxc0Vn/20260601-095255.jpg

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Go Beavers · June 1

That is the coolest

cutz · June 1

brianlux said:

cutz said:

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

I honestly thought that pic was from an SNL skit or something. Absurd.

LOL, I thought it was AI. But then sometimes when I wake up in the morning and look at myself in the mirror, I think I look a bit absurd as well, haha! But I guarantee I won't be holding a $250 bill with the image of an anarchist pedophile on it, so fuck that guy anyway!

I can't afford to have $250.00 in my wallet as I just have ones and 5's that don't even add up to $250.00=LOL

And, if I was rich enough to have that $250.00 single Bill, I would wipe my ass with it and flush it down the toilet. Couldn't pay me $250.00 to keep it=HA

Good idea. It wouldn't be good for much else.

I keep one of these in my wallet. It reminds me that I'm rich in all things money can't buy:

Man, that is awesome!!

Jimi Hendrix is one of my all-time favorite.

Gern Blansten · June 1

LOL...slush fund gone

Poncier · June 1

Gern Blansten said:

LOL...slush fund gone

He'll announce a better plan in about 2 weeks.

Tim Simmons · June 1

This dude either backs down from everything or colossally fucks it up with little to no regards for plans, logistics, strategy or potential legal pushbacks.

I do not get why he still has fans other than the concept of he "hates" the same people that his followers hate and he's just a proxy in power for that. And that all other positions of his followers have, have just been convenient posturing to cover up that you hate black, brown, LGBTQ, foreign and liberal people.

Tim Simmons · June 1

Like, the dude gets the most basic wins.

Gern Blansten · June 1

Yeah he'll say they are going to bring the fund back even though they likely won't. Sounds like the GOP finally stood up to something. Getting pretty hard for them to explain this shit away.

Go Beavers · June 1

I’m picturing the upside which is the amount of credit card debt and car loans the 1/6 chumps racked up thinking they’d get a pay out.

gimmesometruth27 · June 1

Gern Blansten said:

LOL...slush fund gone

winning.

plus all these jan 6ers that thought they were going to soon be millionaires from this fund can choke on it.

gimmesometruth27 · June 1

Gern Blansten said:

Yeah he'll say they are going to bring the fund back even though they likely won't. Sounds like the GOP finally stood up to something. Getting pretty hard for them to explain this shit away.

trump has made billions off of us. why doesn't he just fucking pay these jan 6ers with his own money?

it's not like anybody is there to stop him, even if it is illegal.

gimmesometruth27 · June 1

cutz said:

brianlux said:

cutz said:

brianlux said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

I honestly thought that pic was from an SNL skit or something. Absurd.

LOL, I thought it was AI. But then sometimes when I wake up in the morning and look at myself in the mirror, I think I look a bit absurd as well, haha! But I guarantee I won't be holding a $250 bill with the image of an anarchist pedophile on it, so fuck that guy anyway!

I can't afford to have $250.00 in my wallet as I just have ones and 5's that don't even add up to $250.00=LOL

And, if I was rich enough to have that $250.00 single Bill, I would wipe my ass with it and flush it down the toilet. Couldn't pay me $250.00 to keep it=HA

Good idea. It wouldn't be good for much else.

I keep one of these in my wallet. It reminds me that I'm rich in all things money can't buy:

Man, that is awesome!!

Jimi Hendrix is one of my all-time favorite.

yeah that thing is awesome!!

Poncier · June 2

gimmesometruth27 said:

Gern Blansten said:

Yeah he'll say they are going to bring the fund back even though they likely won't. Sounds like the GOP finally stood up to something. Getting pretty hard for them to explain this shit away.

trump has made billions off of us. why doesn't he just fucking pay these jan 6ers with his own money?

it's not like anybody is there to stop him, even if it is illegal.

He ain't giving anybody any of his own money except maybe a few bucks to Ivanka for a lap dance.

Halifax2TheMax · June 2

*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.

These are the reasons things won't go back to "normal" after CCOOTWH leaves. The damage has been and continues to be done. From irreplaceable geoglyph, Las Playas Intaglio, in the Arizona desert destroyed to build the wall, that Mexico was going to pay for, to the dismantling of science and understanding, its too late. The Bible thumpers are actively trying to bring about the "second coming". Good freaking luck.

New Photos, Videos Show Border Wall Construction Damage to Ancient Archeological Site in Arizona

AJO, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity released new video footage and photographs today documenting recent damage from border wall construction to the Las Playas Intaglio, an ancient fish-shaped geoglyph in Arizona’s Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.

Contractors scraped a roughly 50-foot-wide swath through the 1,000-year-old figure and surrounding refuge to make way for a second border wall planned by the Trump administration.

“This is the destruction that occurs when the Trump administration strips away our bedrock environmental laws and turns protected public lands into a lawless construction zone,” said Russ McSpadden, Southwest conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. “I was just at the border and saw the damage up close. The intaglio has been scraped apart, a bladed corridor has been cut through it, and heavy machinery is parked nearby. This is an irreplaceable piece of human history that’s been permanently scarred.”

The damage occurred on or about April 23 when construction crews working for U.S. Customs and Border Protection drove heavy equipment through the site, destroying a portion of the intaglio. The formation is a 272-foot-long fish carved into the desert lava field along the U.S.-Mexico Border. It points south from the desert to the Gulf of California, about 45 miles away.

New Photos, Videos Show Border Wall Construction Damage to Ancient Archeological Site in Arizona - Center for Biological Diversity

You Can’t Stop This Data Center, a Mom Was Told. She Won’t Quit.

Kassi Solberg has concerns about a proposed complex, the size of 3,800 football fields, near her home. Trust us, the developer says.

At the top of a gravel road, inside a small aluminum-clad building, Kassi Solberg arrived at another town council meeting in Broadview, Mont., causing trouble.

This time, the mayor threatened to call the sheriff.

Ms. Solberg was at it again, demanding information about a Houston company’s plan to build a behemoth 5,000-acre A.I. data center campus near her rural property. The development, part of a nationwide boom in facilities that can power artificial intelligence, would be the size of about 3,800 football fields.

Her face grew red when Broadview’s mayor gruffly turned down her request to host a public forum about the data center. Because the property was outside the town limits, “it doesn’t affect us,” he said.

“It affects your residents!” Ms. Solberg said, leaning forward in her chair, frustrated that the council members didn’t share her unease that the project could destroy the area’s traditions of farming and ranching that have endured for generations.

You Can’t Stop This Data Center, a Mom Was Told. She Won’t Quit. - The New York Times

Estimated capital investment required to create one permanent job in a US data center: $54,000,000.00.

To create one permanent job in any other sector of the US economy: $322,000.00. (source: Harper's Index, May 2026).

If you don't know about it and it happens, must of been god's will, eh? Punishment for all those sinners, right?

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.

The National Science Foundation said it would send ships in June to begin removing more than 900 deep-sea instruments anchored off Oregon, Washington State, Alaska, North Carolina, and an area between Greenland and Iceland known as the Irminger Sea.

Scientists have used data from the system to understand how the ocean is absorbing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, how changes in ocean temperature such as marine heat waves might affect fisheries or signal bigger shifts in the climate, and coastal flooding along the East Coast.

The station in the Irminger Sea has been key to understanding changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current, a global conveyor belt of water that some scientists are concerned may be weakening as a result of climate warming. A collapse of the current could have severe weather effects.

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System - The New York Times

How a Melting Glacier Could Affect Tens of Millions Around the Globe

A collapse of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica would sharply accelerate sea-level rise in coastal cities.

Scientists spent the first weeks of the year on an expedition to Antarctica to study Thwaites Glacier, which is melting at an alarming rate. If it breaks apart entirely, it could push up global sea levels by two feet over the course of several decades, affecting tens of millions worldwide, according to a New York Times analysis.

The maps below show some of the coastal cities at risk and populated, low-lying areas that could be threatened if the glacier were to collapse today.

These are just the minimum effects that Thwaites’s disintegration would be likely to have on the world’s coastlines. As the glacier breaks apart, global warming will raise sea levels even higher by melting the ice from Greenland and causing oceans to expand in volume. And Thwaites acts as a plug, holding back many of the Antarctic glaciers on land around it. If it collapses, they could break apart and spill into the sea as well.

“Eventually it would take out all of the West Antarctic,” said Richard Alley, a professor of geosciences at Penn State.

Seaside cities all over the world are at risk, but the threat is especially acute in Asia, and includes some of the world’s fastest-growing urban areas, as the map below shows:

The costs of guarding against higher storm surges and more frequent flooding would be huge. One proposal from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect parts of New York City would cost more than $52 billion, a price tag that would be out of reach for much of the world.

“We’ll defend the highest-value places that are defensible, but there will be other places that we don’t,” said Benjamin Strauss, Chief Scientist at Climate Central, a nonprofit science organization that produced the elevation models used in this article.

In city after city, the Times’s analysis found that heavily populated areas tend to be near the coasts, as opposed to higher, safer areas.

Shanghai, one of the major cities under threat, already has more than 600,000 residents living below sea level. If average sea levels rose two feet, an additional 4.7 million people would be affected.

How a Melting Glacier in Antarctica Could Affect Tens of Millions Around the Globe - The New York Times

Halifax2TheMax · June 2

*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.

And then there's this. Its continuing, it gets worse and the "Proud Boys" have swapped their hats for "War Boys". Someone should send those fucks to Russia or Israel, for Christ's sake. And I'm sure there are some here who would vote for this a 4th time and they will regardless of the repub nominee.

Minnesota Republicans Hold Moment of Silence for Ex-Officer Convicted of Murder

Delegates to the Minnesota Republican Party’s convention voted to hold a moment of silent prayer for Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering George Floyd.

Delegates to the Minnesota Republican Party’s convention held a moment of silence over the weekend for Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, six years after he murdered George Floyd and touched off a national reckoning over policing and race.

The decision brought searing criticism from Democrats, who accused the Republicans of disrespecting the courts and Mr. Floyd’s memory. In recent years, some conservatives have sought to reshape the narrative around Mr. Floyd’s killing and have pushed President Trump to pardon Mr. Chauvin for his federal conviction.

A delegate who proposed the moment of silence during a morning session of the convention described Mr. Chauvin as someone “who should get a state retrial, who should get a federal pardon.” Audio of the delegate was recorded by The Minnesota Reformer, a local news outlet. His identity was not clear.

When a voice vote was held on a motion for a moment of silence or prayer, many people in the room could be heard yelling “aye.” The nays were far quieter.

“It wasn’t even close,” said State Representative Danny Nadeau, who presided over that portion of the convention, held in Duluth.

Mr. Nadeau said he chose to make the moment of silence last only a few seconds, “the minimum amount necessary.” He said he had told the delegate that he would prefer that the delegate not pursue a moment of silence before the convention began that morning.

Minnesota Republicans Hold Moment of Silence for Derek Chauvin - The New York Times

Must of been DEI, eh?

Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List

The defense secretary’s decision to block the officers’ promotions appears driven by his anti-diversity stance rather than based on merit.

In a move that disproportionately targets women and minority officers, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently blocked the promotions of nine Navy officers who had been selected by a board of senior Navy admirals.

The net result of Mr. Hegseth’s intervention is a slate of 22 nominees to be one-star admirals that bears little resemblance to the broader force these officers will help lead.

Three of the officers removed by Mr. Hegseth from the promotion list are women and two are Black men. An additional four are white men.

Mr. Hegseth’s actions, which appear to violate the rules governing a promotion system that is supposed to be apolitical and merit-based, were described by five current and former defense officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.

No female officers were included on the new one-star list, which was released publicly in late May, despite the fact that women make up about 21 percent of the active-duty Navy. The list appears to include only two nonwhite officers, even though sailors who identify as racial minorities make up about 38 percent of the active-duty Navy.

Mr. Hegseth’s removal of the officers from the one-star list is highly unusual, said the current and former defense officials. According to Pentagon rules, the defense secretary is supposed to pull officers from the list only for moral, mental, physical or professional failings that raise questions about the officers’ fitness to lead.

Mr. Hegseth’s actions are the latest in a series of firings and personnel interventions that appear to be driven by his anti-diversity politics rather than the officers’ performance. Taken together, they could reshape the military’s top ranks for years to come.

Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, declined to say why Mr. Hegseth pulled the officers off the Navy one-star list. “Military promotions are given to those who have earned them,” Mr. Parnell said. “The department will never consider the color of a service member’s skin or their gender as a factor in promotions.” The Navy declined to comment.

Since taking office, Mr. Hegseth has fired or sidelined nearly three dozen senior military officers as part of a broader campaign designed to purge the Pentagon of leaders he has disparaged as “foolish,” “reckless” and “woke.” He has consistently refused to explain why he has chosen to fire officers or pull them from promotion lists.

His scrutiny has fallen heavily on female and minority officers, who have borne the brunt of the dismissals. Nearly 60 percent of the senior officers Mr. Hegseth has fired are female or Black, Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said in recent Senate testimony. Women and minorities currently account for fewer than 20 percent of all generals and admirals.

“You are hollowing out the military’s bench of experience and highest-performing senior officers, while making young officers wonder if they should continue to serve,” Mr. Reed told Mr. Hegseth at another recent hearing.

Among those dismissed were Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the second African American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the Navy.

Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List - The New York Times

And let us not forget the hollowing out of the DOJ. Can't wait to see the prosecutions post the mid-terms and post 2028 elections. Because they "can" and "do".

Losing Trust in Justice Dept., Judges Call Out Its Lawyers’ Behavior

The federal courts have long assumed that the government’s lawyers are trustworthy. Now judges across the country are criticizing their lack of candor.

In late April, a lawyer for the Justice Department told a federal judge that her colleagues had been in the midst of negotiations with a Rhode Island hospital about turning over gender-transition treatment health records, only for the hospital’s lawyers to stop responding.

But Judge Mary S. McElroy of Federal District Court in Rhode Island concluded that was not true. While the government claimed it had not heard from the hospital since February, emails showed the hospital’s lawyers had stayed in close touch.

In a scathing ruling on May 14, Judge McElroy called the government’s account “misleading, if not utterly false.” At issue in Judge McElroy’s view was the “awesome power” wielded by government lawyers and the trust that they will “play fair and be honest” with courts.

The Justice Department “has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case,” she wrote.

The opinion was one of several heated rulings from federal judges in recent weeks castigating the government’s lawyers for withholding information and making assertions that turned out to be at odds with the facts.

A judge in Chicago said transcripts of grand jury proceedings had been redacted to hide misconduct by her district’s U.S. attorney’s office. Another judge in Rhode Island referred an assistant U.S. attorney for potential discipline after he admitted that he had knowingly withheld information from the court.

Like the one involving the Rhode Island hospital, the complaints have come as administration lawyers seek to defend major parts of President Trump’s agenda.

The government lawyers whose honesty the judges have called into question are a mix of career civil servants, political appointees and newcomers brought in as the Justice Department makes a public hiring push to fill its depleted ranks. Their missteps in court come as the department’s leadership takes an unusually combative tone with judges who rule against them, and department lawyers try to balance judges’ demands against the often stubborn posture of the executive-branch clients they represent.

But regardless, an increasing number of judges appear to be questioning the longtime assumption that Justice Department lawyers can be taken at their word, part of the “presumption of regularity” that experts say allows federal courts to operate swiftly and smoothly.

In a statement, a Justice Department spokeswoman disputed that lawyers were coming up short on ethics. “Any attack on the professionalism or integrity of D.O.J. attorneys is outrageous and unjustified,” said the spokeswoman, Natalie Baldassarre. “The department will continue to vigorously advance and defend President Trump’s agenda in federal court with the utmost respect for the institution and rule of law.”

Losing Trust in Justice Dept., Judges Call Out Its Lawyers’ Behavior - The New York Times

Trump Administration Sees Striking Exodus of Legal Talent

The departure of more than 10,000 federal lawyers has left some agencies without sufficient staff and has boosted the ranks of state attorneys general offices and advocacy groups.

President Trump’s upheaval of the federal government has led to an exodus of more than 10,000 lawyers since the beginning of 2025, a striking loss of legal talent that has left some agencies pushing to find attorneys to carry out his agenda.

Roughly one in five lawyers who worked in the government at the end of 2024 had left by March of this year, according to a New York Times analysis of federal employment data.

Along with the usual retirements and turnover in the federal work force, the last year saw deep staffing cuts and the resignations of some staff members who objected to Mr. Trump’s policies. Their departures show how rapidly the president has eroded the image of the federal government as the gold standard for lawyers seeking public service roles.

Instead, many of those looking for such work are flocking to the offices of Democratic state attorneys general and nonprofits that are challenging administration policies in the courts, boosting Mr. Trump’s opponents with seasoned lawyers.

Trump Administration Sees Striking Exodus of Legal Talent - The New York Times

You can't fix stupid. What a country.

Gern Blansten · June 2

Bill Pulte as DOI? What the fuck...