Legitimate gripes about Trump
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Trump's Cabinet is Rich as Hell
Many Americans turned to Trump because they believed he would unrig the system. But he’s filling his White House with the billionaires who benefit most by keeping it rigged.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump advisers concede Ukraine peace deal is months away
By Gram Slattery | January 15, 2025 5:54 AM CST
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-advisers-concede-ukraine-pe
ace-deal-is-months-away-2025-01-15/
Summary
• Trump advisers are quietly backing away from the campaign promise to end the war on Day One
• New extended timeline - months, not days or weeks - recognizes the intractability of the conflict
• Putin sending mixed messages about readiness to resolve the conflict
In the run-up to his Nov. 5 election victory, Trump declared dozens of times that he would have a deal in place between Ukraine and Russia on his first day in office, if not before.
In late October, however, he made a subtle shift in his rhetoric, and began saying he could solve the war "very quickly."
Since the election, Trump has walked back his rhetoric further, often simply saying that he would "solve" the conflict, without offering a timeline. And the president-elect has said ending the war in Ukraine will be harder than reaching a ceasefire in Gaza.
"I think, actually, more difficult is going to be the Russia-Ukraine situation," Trump said when asked about Gaza during a press conference in December. "I see that as more difficult."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The incoming administration doesn’t seem to have any economic plan. But the ultimate reason for that absence is fear: everyone is afraid to say anything that might be taken as an implicit contradiction or criticism of Trump
The details are in “Trump's Team of Economic Yes-Men. Or, why he still has no plan”
By Paul Krugman | Jan 15, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-team-of-economic-yes-men
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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No reply to that one, huh?
That's what I thought.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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the Ego therefore he loves to talk
always shooting his mouth off?
Trump’s claim Canada’s water would stop L.A. fires ‘preposterous’: experts
https://globalnews.ca/news/10953225/los-angeles-wildfires-canada-water
-trump-claims/
Every "You're fired!" ever (The Apprentice)
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Does This Trump Crypto Appointee Even Have Crypto Experience? Yes, With a Trump-Themed Meme Coin.
By Matt Sledge | January 15, 2024
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/15/trump-crypto-who-is-bo-hines/
When Donald Trump announced days before Christmas that he was tapping a former college football player and failed congressional candidate to lead a White House “crypto council,” even crypto bros were confused.
“Who the heck is Bo Hines?” one Bitcoin booster posted on X.
As it turns out, the trust fund kid from North Carolina had connections in the crypto world.
Hines, 29, received support in one of his election campaigns from FTX campaign finance fraudster Ryan Salame.
More recently, a group overseen by his company teamed up with the makers of a Trump-themed meme coin called Restore the Republic that launched with a storm of scam accusations.
Hines will serve as executive director of the newly created Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, which is chaired by the far more prominent venture capitalist David Sacks.
Hines’s experience with the Trump-themed crypto venture raises questions about whether his appointment could signal looser restrictions on the fringe “meme coins” as the council sets out to deregulate more mainstream crypto projects backed by the likes of Sacks.
Until now, Hines’s ties to the crypto industry escaped scrutiny, in part because Trump announced his appointment in the days before Christmas. His relationship with Restore the Republic has not been previously reported.
Crypto Connections
Trump announced Hines’s selection on Truth Social on December 22 by lauding Hines’s educational background — Yale University, Wake Forest University law school — instead of his crypto chops.
In his home state of North Carolina, Hines may be best known for 2022 and 2024 runs for Congress, in two different districts, as well as a stint as a wide receiver at North Carolina State University before he transferred to Yale.
Despite Trump’s failure to tout them, however, Hines’s links to the crypto world were out in the open for anyone to notice.
As the CEO of the right-wing news organization Today Is America, which he ran since March 2023, provided a quote for an October 23 announcement about a partnership with a Trump-themed meme token called Restore the Republic.
Those were frantic, final days of a campaign that still seemed like it might come down to the wire. According to the press release, an organization called Students for Trump would partner with the meme coin organization to hold events, community forums, and voter outreach programs in swing states.
Students for Trump and Today Is America are deeply intertwined. The student group is overseen by Today In America, according to a LinkedIn posting by a former top official at the company and a separate post on a crypto news clearinghouse about the Restore the Republic coin. And the student group’s homepage is a vertical of the Today Is America website. According to its Instagram bio, Students for Trump is “powered” by Today Is America.
In the announcement of the Restore the Republic meme coin, Hines referred to the Students for Trump partnership in the first person.
“We are excited to join forces with Restore the Republic to amplify our outreach and ensure voters across the country are equipped with the knowledge and tools they need to make informed decisions,” Hines said in a press release.
The press release made it sound as if a trio of civic-minded organizations were coming together around a love of Trump. But in a conversation on X Spaces around the same time, an adviser for the Restore the Republic “team” acknowledged a more contentious recent history involving Trump.
In early August, Restore the Republic launched as a token at the same time that Trump’s sons were teasing the imminent creation of an official Trump crypto project.
Meme coins operate on the edges of a wider, infamously freewheeling cryptocurrency world. The most famous is Dogecoin, a dog-themed token with a shiba inu as its lo
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Jan 15, 2025 5:26 PM
At his Senate confirmation hearing yesterday, Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth refused to state whether he would follow an unlawful order given by President-elect Donald Trump. During the nationwide protests after George Floyd’s murder in 2020, Trump asked the then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Can’t you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?” It is entirely conceivable that during his second term, what was previously a question becomes an order.
Everyone in the military chain of command swears an oath to the Constitution that requires them to disobey unlawful orders—and to be very clear, a mass shooting conducted by the government against its own citizens is definitely that. If the secretary of defense is unwilling to fulfill that oath in contradiction of a commander-in-chief who demands absolute fealty from his subordinates, it will fall on the uniformed career service members to uphold the Constitution and ensure that the military is not unleashed on American civilians. Although individual service members are legally authorized to use force in acts of self-defense against an imminent threat, an order to fire on civilians would be not just unlawful—a violation of the rules for the use of force—but a war crime under the laws of armed conflict.
An order by Trump to deploy the military and have it open fire on protesters would be catastrophic in a way few Americans who haven’t served in uniform realize. Unlike the National Guard at Kent State, today’s military is significantly more lethal. In 1970 the Ohio National Guard killed four protesters and wounded nine at Kent State University, firing bolt-action M1 Garand rifles, which held an eight-round magazine and could fire 40 to 50 rounds a minute. As one National Guard member there that day recalled: “I distinctly heard one shot fired; then all hell broke loose when 28 men fired a total of 67 shots over a period of 13 seconds.”
A modern military squad operates with roughly nine M16s loaded with 30-round magazines and three squad automatic weapons that each contain 200-round belts of ammunition. If today the same number of soldiers were firing for 13 seconds, as they did at Kent State, they could easily unleash several hundred rounds. Additionally, contemporary crowd-control tactics often result in “kettling,” in which protesters are pushed into densely confined areas, where individual bullets are likely to penetrate multiple people before stopping.
This has nearly happened before. When the Insurrection Act was most recently invoked, it was by President George H.W. Bush, who deployed elements from the 1st Marine Division to Los Angeles in 1992, after the Rodney King verdict. After taking fire while responding to a domestic disturbance with the city’s police department, Marines fired more than 200 rounds into a house with children inside after an officer yelled, “Cover me!” Thankfully, nobody was harmed, but as Major General James Delk, who commanded the joint task force at the time, would write: “The marines responded instantly in the precise way they had been trained, where ‘cover me’ means provide me with cover using firepower.”
Much more at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/trump-cabinet-pete-hegseth
-military-defense-worst-case-scenario.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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With those fires still burning towns and cities is the USA setting an example of freedom and leadership?
In polls
the US public does not want to annex Greenland
USA does not want Canada
the public also does not want Mexico
support for the Panama Canal was more mixed
Trump's suggestion that the United States annex Greenland has met with a lukewarm reception among American voters, who overwhelmingly oppose a military operation with that aim. Seventy-six percent of registered voters in a recent Napolitan News Service survey either "somewhat" or "strongly" opposed sending troops to take the island by force.
Whatever about Canada and Mexico or Latin American having trouble standing up to a bigger 'bully' guy, Greenland has even less of a chance. If the USA wanted to politically take over Greenland would they really be able to hold off Americanization and cultural imperialism that wipes out Ancient Culture? Technically if you go outside Iceland then you are outside Europe, Silfra Icelandic a rift formed in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge – the divergent tectonic boundary between the North American and Eurasian plates, it goes under the Ocean as Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge a divergent or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean when America split from Africa and Europe 150 million years ago in what used to be a giant super continent but Greenland is culturally linked to the Scandinavian and Danish and the Native, The Thule are thought to be proto-Inuit were the ancestors of all modern Inuit.
Culturally I feel we entered an era of understanding and revisionism, the days of Ronald Reagan types, Harry Truman and Joseph McCarthy cheering on movies of John Wayne shooting the Indians are over.
While sometimes I find Trump amusing I don't think this whole annex Panama, Canada, Mexico, Greenland thing is going to fly well and people might look back on it as a bad dark period. Yes there are military reasons to be there in Greenland, it is strategy, there are investments, under the ice from news reports we see credible stories of secret United States program of the Cold War cities under the ice, however the USA has bases all over the world...would it need to politically 'annex' anyone? It is generally agreed that this place is ancient and has a lot of Native American heritage, yes it is classed as European but in Greenland a Native First people existed there a long long time ago, even before the Vikings. Inuit religion is the shared spiritual beliefs and practices of the Inuit, an indigenous people from Alaska, northern Canada, parts of Siberia, and Greenland. Their religion shares many similarities with some Alaska Native religions. It is generally accepted that the Eskimos, or Inuit, migrated east from northeast Siberia thousands of years before Christ, before India, before Rome, before China before Jewish religion or Egypt religion and people, for some reason these people lived in the snows for many years part of the continent of North America, but it might have been colonized as recently as only 1 thousand years ago before Vikings arrived. Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe specifically Norway and Denmark, the colonial Scandanavia powers and in Europe there are old Native people who were surviving, in Japan the Ainu, the Sámi Ancient DNA shows the Sámi the Siberian the Native American Alaskan and Finns, they share some symbolism and share similar words in their language. Somehow a lot of their rituals and religions survived despite a push by Christian Lutheranism to wipe out their 'Paganism' there was also an influece and fusion of Choir and Dance with Native Folk music and tradition, even its Christian traditions became a unique fusion of Native and old Church music.
Greenland is one of the places on Earth with most Native peoples, it also has a few hundred and dozens of people from other place the Danish represented demographically as it is a Denmark colony
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Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland – and his implication that he could use the military to get it – may be just a negotiation ploy. But for Denmark and Europe, it would be irresponsible to ignore the possibility that he’s serious.
By Dominique Soguel Special correspondent, Anna Mulrine Grobe Staff writer
Jan. 15, 2025, 5:13 p.m. ET | Basel, Switzerland; and Brussels
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0115/greenland-donald-trum
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When President-elect Donald Trump said last week that the United States needs Greenland “for national security” and refused to rule out military measures to get it, it raised eyebrows all over the world.
Mr. Trump’s fellow Republicans quickly defended his comments. “The United States is not going to invade another country,” said Sen. James Lankford on “Meet the Press” Sunday. “The president speaks very boldly on a lot of things. We’ve seen this [is] how he’s done negotiations.”
But officials in Denmark – and Europe more broadly – don’t have the luxury of thinking that way.
For while the idea of the U.S. forcibly seizing control of Greenland may appear capricious, the possibility – however remote – raises challenges to international law, security alliances, and U.S.-European relations. France and Germany have responded with a seriousness typically reserved for Russia and China, emphasizing the importance of maintaining Europe’s borders as inviolable.
And even if Mr. Trump intends his Greenland gambit as a ploy to negotiate greater defense contributions from NATO allies, to Europeans his aggressive approach is not how allies should engage.
“The Europeans are taking it seriously,” says Célia Belin, head of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ office in Paris. “It is not just about Greenland. It is about the type of relationship that this president is trying to establish with Europe, which is not just transactional, but extortionist.”
Mr. Trump’s expansionist rhetoric is forcing Europeans to have conversations that were not even on the agenda. If backed with action, it potentially puts the U.S. on par with revanchist powers China and Russia.
Much more at https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0115/greenland-donald-trum
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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