Yes, influence pedaling has a bipartisan history.
Somewhere deep in what Donny calls his brain: ‘Wait, Binance isn’t Beyoncé?’
By itself, of course this is no horror. But it illustrates how good Trump is at drawing attention to himself, and by extension his party. The GOP is going to be very hard to defeat in 2026 and 2028 elections when the party is led by such an effective politician — and that’s a horror.
Trump: “Do you know that if I weren’t elected president in my opinion every automobile company in the United States would be either bankrupt or very close to it, and instead they are hitting record highs. It’s all because of tariffs.”
Er…MAGA voters do not buy Toyotas.
I heard on NPR that Trump has instructed his staff to declare antifa a “foreign terrorist organization.” Since there are no laws regarding domestic terrorist organizations, using the foreign designation would allow him to prosecute anyone contributing to or affiliated with any organizations he construes to be “antifa” oriented.
Foreign? Like his wife?
This is from the right-wing Washington Examiner, but I doubt they just make stuff up:
Trump administration quietly purges ICE leaders in five cities: Sources
NBC News does not exactly confirm but says this is the plan:
Trump plans to install Border Patrol officials to lead a more aggressive migrant crackdown
Prosecute? If they are lucky. Trump has shown that his administration and military feels they have the right to proactively kill them. And they (the military ) are quite willing and have to power to kill with no due process at all.
Or as they’ll soon call it, “prosecuting with extreme prejudice.”
Trump: “I don’t think we’re necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we’re just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like dead.”
As for Congress — an institution that used to be important in this country — Sen. James Risch of Idaho, the Republican chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said this week that he has no plans “at this time” to hold an oversight hearing on Trump’s policy of using the military to summarily kill people in international waters.
This is a really bad, really quiet step in the background to cement control and allow widespread identification and persecution of undesirables. Do not take your eye off this ball.
I’m not a NIMBY guy. Really I’m not.
And I believe the first nuclear reactor was built in Chicago without harming health.
But might, nowadays, a big city not be the best place to construct a nuclear reactor?
See:
Trump says Seoul to build nuclear-powered submarine in Philadelphia
You might think Donald just means the Philadelphia area, not the city. But the only shipyard in my area is in the city, and since that one is South Korean-owned, I’m thinking that’s the one Trump means. I guess it is supposed to be our reward for him winning the state in the November 2024 election.
Or maybe they will build an all-new shipyard, many miles away, just for this one submarine.If so, it sounds inefficient, but I guess efficiency is not the goal.
Where do you think we build our nuclear subs? Newport News, VA and Groton, CT are populated areas.
They are much less populated, but I’d agree with Newport News being a real city.
Maybe they will tow the Philly-built sub to one of those other places to have the propulsion installed.
This is just beginning to hit Philadelphia media, so I do not know what local reaction will be
Philly Shipyard to get $5 billion investment from South Korea, Trump says
Maybe it was all cleared with the Philadelphia mayor. She is a very moderate Democrat and will not automatically say that anything connected with Trump is bad. We’ll see.
Building a reactor isn’t hazardous. Fueling a reactor is very close to not hazardous. Starting it up and running it begins to be hazardous. But Navy nukes are running in lots of cities.
Methinks you’re out on a limb here.
MIT has a nuclear reactor in Cambridge, right behind the major part of the INstitute
That’s a fair statement.
The Philadelphia Inquirer story on Trump apparently bringing submarine construction to Philadelphia ends with quotations from apparent experts who disagree on whether the safety issue is significant:
I now lean towards risks being acceptable given how badly we need the jobs.
Reading the Inquirer article, I’m wondering if the shipbuilder would have put this job in Philly without Trump. But I’m again out on a limb there, as opposed to documenting a real horror.
Here’s a better candidate for Trump nuclear horror of the day than what I posted yesterday:
The Atlantic has good takedown on this:
Oh, like tarriffs.
Now that I think about it, surely Trump just wants to see the explosion, which, if he’s anywhere near, he’ll treat with the same caution he gives to looking at a solar eclipse.