Do they have any hippos on their campi?
Stranger_On_A_Train:
Don’t worry, I have it on good authority that everything is going to be just as it was in 2017 , and the Congress Supreme Court Attorney General press ‘adults in the room’ Boy Scouts will stop Trump from doing whatever he pleases!
Well, in fairness, Trump never HAS gone up against the Boy Scouts. So it’s possible they really will rein him in!!1!!!
I’m sure all the ‘Trump can’t really do anything bad’ folks will seize upon this new argument with alacrity.
Of course. All according to plan. (Why else would Vlad put in so much time at summits spending time alone with Donald? It’s not as though that’s enjoyable . No, it’s that he has to hammer home Donald’s instructions, again and again and again.)
@Czarcasm ’s response is appropriate. Here’s a bit more on the topic, though. It starts with a brief discussion of two of Trump’s Executive Orders:
…As Nevitt explains, the net effect of this language isn’t just about immigration. It’s about a fundamental shift in American norms concerning the domestic use of the military. Here’s Nevitt:
… The Posse Comitatus Act makes it unlawful for the president to use the military in direct support of LEOs while inside the United States.¹ This is why Trump uses the word assist.
Gyrate:
He has. They couldn’t
Why would…Boy Scouts…Donald Trump…speaking…?
Never mind, that is too dumb of a question to even be formulated much less expect a sensible answer.
Stranger
Possibly they still regard the President as an honorary leader in some way. My Eagle Scout certificate was signed by Jimmy Carter, for example, though I didn’t understand then (or now!) why.
Jimmy Carter was deeply involved in Scouting as a “…troop committee member, committee chair and Scoutmaster; and also served as an Exploring Advisor and Cubmaster.”
Before serving as the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter served in a smaller but just as vital role: his children’s Scout leader.
Est. reading time: 6 minutes
Stranger
Great leaders throughout history have sought to develop deep and abiding connections to the youth of their time:
So far any “Trump Youth” organization is still (presumably) in the future, but with developments like the following, that future may not be far off:
MAGA Kids: What is MAGA? [Crowley, Sgt, Crowley, Sgt] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. MAGA Kids: What is MAGA?
$12.99
That same page shows quite a few other ‘Trump is awesome ’-style books for kids. I guess any market will find suppliers.
Spoons
January 27, 2025, 9:18pm
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Sherrerd:
Of course. All according to plan. (Why else would Vlad put in so much time at summits spending time alone with Donald? It’s not as though that’s enjoyable . No, it’s that he has to hammer home Donald’s instructions, again and again and again.)
Using words of one syllable, accompanied by simple pictures. This ensures that Trump understands what is being said, and his attention is engaged by the pictures.
Monty
January 27, 2025, 9:24pm
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Somehow I doubt even that would ensure he understands something.
In fascism, there is always a market for products celebrating and showing deference to the Dear Leader.
Ugh!
Stranger
Only if every figure in the pictures is himself.
VLAD: ‘See Donald fly the big military transport, deporting a planeful of Donalds, instead of taking the usual civilian planes to deport them! That will help get Americans used to military intervention in their daily lives!’
Speaking (more) of Vlad, a published-today view of how things are going to go starts with Donald’s affection for violent gangbangers:
…In May, before he became a convicted felon, Trump held a rally in the Bronx. At the event he called up on stage two gentlemen, Michael Williams and Tegan Chambers, to help him make America great again.
Then he gets into Donald’s Aspirations territory:
… There have been 64 random, high-profile deaths of people who inconvenienced Putin just since 2022. Sixty-four of them. …
As with Nemtsov—or more recently with Alexei Navalny—it’s not always clear that Putin personally ordered the murder. But that’s the point. The people who do violence know what the boss wants. Or are at least willing to kill on the off chance the corpse makes the boss happy.
Not forgetting the thread topic:
… I understand that this sounds hysterical. It’s only been a week. No Trump critics have been poisoned, or shot, of fallen out of windows.
But humor me for a moment. Imagine it’s October 2024 and you’re having coffee with Hugh Hewitt.
Hugh is trying to cure you of your Trump Derangement Syndrome and convince you that a second Trump term will be fine. Because you’re a gentle soul, you try to meet him where he is. You outline three scenarios for him: low-, medium-, and high-risk to describe the first week of a second Trump administration.
Low risk : Trump appoints responsible people to his cabinet and takes office with a minimum of disruption. He reassures our European allies. He plans to pass legislation to construct his border wall and begins his deportation regime by focusing on undocumented immigrants who are currently in prison. He does not seek to apply Schedule F to the executive bureaucracy.
Medium risk : Some of Trump’s cabinet appointees are either radical or unqualified and he talks a lot about tariffs. But he extends an olive branch to NATO and appears to be ready to work with the Mexican government on border security and deportation. He pardons some of the people convicted for crimes on January 6th, but leaves the worst, most violent offenders in jail.
High risk : Trump files a series of defamation/libel lawsuits against media entities, including a pollster before taking office. Three days before inauguration he launches a crypto token which allows the untraceable funneling of money to his pockets. He puts unqualified toadies in charge of the power ministries and frees every single January 6th insurrectionist. He demands the removal of the Republican chair of the House Intel committee. He blames Ukraine for Russia’s invasion, saying that Ukraine should not have resisted Putin’s aggression. He institutes Schedule F and then illegally fires 17 inspectors general. He removes security protection for officials from his first term who he views as disloyal, remarking that “there’s risks to everything.”
I think we can agree that, if you had spun this high-risk scenario to Hewitt in October, he would have told you it was impossible. …
Our Hugh Hewitts are going to have a tough time of it, one would guess.
How surprising would it be if Bezos, to show his devotion, declared that from now on such will be the ONLY products sold on Amazon–?
Hewitt is an inveterate liar who isn’t troubled by niggling things like facts in his cultish worship of Donald Trump.
Once the tariffs hit, he’s going to lose access to much of the cheap Chinese shit Amazon peddles, so transitioning over to the “Dear Despot” line of accessories and ‘literature’ is a savvy business move.
Stranger
Certainly true. But I bet even he isn’t trying to sell the ‘Trump can’t really do anything bad, he’s constrained by ______’ idea, these days.
Stranger_On_A_Train:
Once the tariffs hit, he’s going to lose access to much of the cheap Chinese shit Amazon peddles, so transitioning over to the “Dear Despot” line of accessories and ‘literature’ is a savvy business move.
Good prediction.
Thank the gods we, at least, still have Smapti!
Smapti
January 27, 2025, 11:27pm
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And I’m being vindicated here as usual. His order on citizenship has been blocked in court. DOGE is subject to multiple lawsuits and is already falling apart at the seams. Hegseth backed down on not teaching about the Tuskeegee airmen. Trump backed down from his tariff threats against Colombia and agreed to their terms on humane treatment of deportees. Polling shows that his talk about invading and annexing other countries is wildly unpopular even among Republicans. He’s facing backlash in the Senate over the IG firings.
It’s clear that he’s damaging the country, but he’s no god-king.
Keep moving those goalposts and knocking down that strawman.
Stranger
Why did you not mention Trump raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week?
And don’t forget about starting to throw the post-WW II into chaos. Fortunately the constitution will protect everyone. /s