Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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“President Trump has a method of operating which the Russians call razvedka boyem —reconnaissance through battle: You push and you see what happens, and then you change your position. … And we need to respond,” the Polish minister said.
IMHO Trump makes outrageous proposals. Then he sees who stands firm, who wobbles, and who falls over.
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Peace may break out in Ukraine!
Quick! Call a meeting to stop that from happening!!!
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Quote:You failed to quote the part about Trump being a belligerent jackass who fires competent people, replacing them with unemployed Trumptards:
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There are 93 U.S. attorneys, each responsible for a specific judicial district. Two districts share a U.S. attorney. In each district, they are the head law enforcement officer.The president replacing federal prosecutors is common as the new administration settles in.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5152413-trump-firing-bide
n-era-us-attorneys/
Trump did not understand Pearl Harbor, new book reveals: ‘What’s this all about?’
A Very Stable Genius reveals a US president ignorant of geography who struggled to read constitution
By Tom Embury-Dennis | Wednesday 19 February 2025 07:00 GMT
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-pe
arl-harbor-new-book-very-stable-genius-b2700639.html
Donald Trump barely knew of Pearl Harbor, was ignorant about the basics of geography and complained the US constitution was like reading “a foreign language”, a new book reveals.
A Very Stable Genius, by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, is the latest book detailing the Trump administration’s tumultuous first three years in the White House.
Named after Mr Trump’s self-declared intellectual brilliance, the book, excerpts of which have been published by The Washington Post, reveals his litany of missteps and willingness to break long-standing legal and ethical norms since becoming president in 2017.
“Hey, John, what’s this all about? What’s this a tour of?” Mr Trump reportedly asked John Kelly, his then-chief of staff, when they took a private tour in 2017 of the USS Arizona Memorial, a ship commemorating the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during the Second World War.
"Trump had heard the phrase 'Pearl Harbor' and appeared to understand that he was visiting the scene of a historic battle, but he did not seem to know much else," write the authors, who quote a former White House adviser concluding the US president was “dangerously uninformed”.
During a meeting with Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister’s “eyes bulged out in surprise”, the Washington Post reporters claim, when Mr Trump told him: “It’s not like you’ve got China on your border.”
China and India in fact share more than 2,000 miles of common border.
Mr Modi’s expression “shifted from shock and concern to resignation”, with aides telling the authors the Indians “took a step back” in their diplomatic relations with the US following the meeting.
Foreshadowing the later special counsel investigation into his ties with Russia, during the presidential transition Mr Trump interrupted an interview with a potential secretary of state to inquire about when he would be able to meet Vladimir Putin.
"When can I meet Putin? Can I meet with him before the inaugural ceremony?" he reportedly asked.
When the leaders did meet, at a G20 summit in Hamburg, Mr Trump dismissed the expertise of his then-secretary of state Rex Tillerson, an oil executive who knew Mr Putin personally, telling him: “I have had a two-hour meeting with Putin. That's all I need to know ... I've sized it all up. I've got it.”
He also clashed with Mr Tillerson in 2017 when he asked his help in attempting to ditch the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a decades-old law banning Americans from bribing foreign officials for business deals.
"It's just so unfair that American companies aren't allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas. We're going to change that," Mr Trump said, according to the authors, who claim the president complained the rule prevented industry friends and his own company officials from paying off foreign governments.
When Mr Trump early in his tenure agreed to feature in an HBO documentary in w
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Quote:I never thought Trump was in favor of labor. He's promoting American BUSINESS, preferably production and manufacturing.
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Trump Is Already Showing How Much He Hates Labor Unions
After the president hobbled the NLRB, corporate America is jumping for joy.
By Nitish Pahwa | Feb 18, 2025 1:33 PM
https://slate.com/technology/2025/02/whole-foods-union-amazon-trump-la
bor-board-jeff-bezos.html
The National Labor Relations Board is one of the many federal agencies that have been subjected to purges of their employees, obstruction of their duties, and all-around sabotage of their most elemental functions.
Trump fired both the NLRB’s general counsel and a Biden-appointed commissioner on the five-member board, even though she’d been confirmed by the Senate to serve until 2028. The latter firing was blatantly illegal and unconstitutional, which is why the ousted board member sued Trump in court. While that case makes its way through the system, the NLRB has been left with just two members, depriving it of the ability to do just about anything substantive.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
What I think he's trying to do is free up capital on the one hand, and make imports relatively expensive. That is supposed to create investment opportunity.
I personally don't think its going to work as planned. American wealthy have a habit of using their spare capital for speculating in non-productive financial activities like stock buybacks and M&As and hedge funds, or abroad.
Putin managed to re-industrialize Russia, but he did a couple of things first. He re-nationalized the oil and gas industry But in order to do that, he had to take at least one oligarch's head and put it on a pike at the city gates, and that happened to be Mikhail Khodorkovsky, owner of Yukos Oil and one of the winners in the free-for-all after the fall of the Soviet Union. Putin broke the Khordokovsky- Magnitsky- Bill Browder connection. Russia is now majority shareholder of the largest oil and gas companies and defense industries. It offers preferred loans to businesses in critical sectors, like food production. Russia also continues to become owner of various budinesses.. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/russia-sets-record-with-67-com
panies-nationalized-in-2024/ar-AA1vxGpg. And finally, sanctions against Russia, and especially being barred from SWIFT, created capital controls that the Russian government itself could never hope to achieve.
I bring this up only to say that Putin had options open to him that Trump doesn't have. And even if some options were open, by Trump's nature as a "businessman " he would never take them. Because of that, I predict they'll be a percentage improvement in some sectors, but we won't see production increase by multiples or across the board.
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Incoming! DOGE Poised To Strike Defense Department With Mass Layoffs
Wednesday, Feb 19, 2025 - 07:00 AM
After firing thousands of "probationary employees" at various federal departments, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has arrived at the largest of them all -- the Department of Defense -- and is expected to unleash a mass termination as early as this week.
On Tuesday, DOGE staffers were reportedly at the Pentagon and being given lists of probationary employees in compliance with an end-of-business-day deadline. That term generally applies to any federal employee who's in the first one or two years of their current position, regardless of whether they've held other roles before taking their current one. During the probationary period, employees generally can be fired without any privilege of appeal.
Though it's not clear how many DOD employees are probationary, the Pentagon has about 950,000 civilian employees in all. Along with the lists of probationary employees, officials were also asked to identify any employees they wanted to spare, and provide a justification. However, according to the Washington Post's sources, few exceptions are expected to be made. The mass termination may happen by the end of this week. Uniformed service members are exempt.
MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/political/incoming-doge-poised-strike-defens
e-department-mass-layoffs
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Quote:Bill Would Make Trump's Birthday A Federal Holiday
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Excellent.
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It seems that Trump has essentially outsourced the Presidency to Musk and the Project 2025 people while he golfs, signs executive orders and does insane press conferences.
Trump wants all the glory, but doesn't want any of the work that usually entails. He is as lazy as he is dishonest. The only thing he works at diligently is bragging about himself.
Trump got to go to the Super Bowl. He led the cars in the Beast at the Daytona 500.
Trump is acting as a Monarch, Musk his Prime Minister--without bothering with the Parliament thing.
Trump wears the crown. Musk runs the technocracy in its mission to reduce government programs to Gaza-like rubble.
Musk does what Trump won’t. Through his whole career it's been rare for Trump to *do* the wet work with his own hands, face to face. He did a lot of firings on a fake TV show but almost never in reality -- last term it was almost always by tweet or done by someone else. Trump doesn't have the manic ADHD- and ketamine-fueled energy or attention to detail to do even a tenth of this himself. Nor the kind of mind that can grasp how the machinery interacts. Musk doesn't get that last point either. But why should that matter?
The Republican controlled Congress sits on its hands waiting for the Project 2025 apparatchiks' orders. Really. What is the legislative agenda for this regime? Besides tax cuts? Wait! Here's one: a bill was filed to make Trump's birthday a national holiday!
https://www.ktvu.com/news/bill-would-make-trumps-birthday-federal-holi
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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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Trump’s plan sounds great to not tax tips. But it’s quite bad for tipped workers.
But wait, as they say, there’s more! If the Republicans make this happen, we’ll soon be tipping lawyers, doctors, and anyone else who is public-facing. Tax-free income for the wealthiest workers! But what about the poorest workers?
Many tipped workers don’t make enough money to be subject to income tax or pay very little. So excluding tips solely for income-tax purposes won’t provide tipped workers much in the way of a benefit. In other words, it’s an empty promise.
However, even if some tipped workers don’t pay income taxes, they do pay payroll taxes, which finance Social Security and Medicare; if Congress exempts tips from those taxes, the workers lose out on better Social Security benefits. Social Security benefits are based on taxed income.
People will tip less if they know that tips are tax-free, and pressure to increase the minimum wage will lessen. That would also be bad for tipped workers.
Now the policy: Imagine that someone told you we should tax teachers at a higher rate than bartenders. To be clear, bartenders perform a valuable service—who doesn’t like a well-made cocktail?—but most people would say that’s ridiculous. A core Republican talking point is, or at least used to be, that the government is not supposed to interfere with the market or pick winners and losers. Exempting from tax income earned by people in certain professions does just that.
Consider a bartender and a teacher, both of whom earn $50,000. They should be taxed the same. But if $20,000 of the bartender’s $50,000 are in the form of tips, the bartender will pay far less in taxes than the teacher, even though they earn the same amount. Do we really want to create a tax incentive for folks to become bartenders instead of teachers?
Now, the skeptic might argue that the tips I would receive under this plan are merely salary in disguise and therefore should be taxed. And that’s the point. Tips are income and should be taxed, no more — and no less — than other kinds of income. If you don’t believe me, check out the federal minimum wage, which is lower for tipped employees.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/trump-taxes-tips-budget-ve
gas-workers-unions.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump and Musk set their sights on killing Social Security by spreading rumors
On X, Musk said he was “100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, etc) exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you’ve ever heard by FAR.”
Appearing on Fox News Monday night, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt picked up the baton to suggest massive fraud that Trump has directed Musk to investigate.
“They haven’t dug into the books yet, but they suspect that there are tens of millions of deceased people who are receiving fraudulent Social Security payments,” she said.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/politics/trump-musk-social-security-pay
ments-what-matters/index.html
Not an atom of evidence for these assertions. It’s just the big lie, and as Lenin and Goebbels showed, the bigger the lie, the more effective it is. Trump's next logical step is to shutdown Social Security payments. That will stop dead people from defrauding the government. Proof of life will be required to restart your Social Security payments. Seems perfectly reasonable that if you can't prove you deserve payment, you shouldn't be paid. And thus fraud is eliminated.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump and Musk set their sights on killing Social Security by spreading rumors
Blatant lie.
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Many tipped workers don’t make enough money to be subject to income tax or pay very little. So excluding tips solely for income-tax purposes won’t provide tipped workers much in the way of a benefit. In other words, it’s an empty promise.
This paragraph was written by somebody who never worked a day in their life and has no idea how taxes work.
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