The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2)

[Smapti]

[Happy_Lendervedder]

@Happy_Lendervedder

The UAW worker, TJ Sabula, has been suspended. Fuck Ford for caving. Hopefully the local will make sure he’s made whole and back to work soon.

Ford Rouge plant employee TJ Sabula hasn’t been disciplined, per the UAW.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5730008-ford-worker-trump-heckle-no-discipline/?tbref=hp

In this Hill article, it’s reported that after Sabula yelled “Pedophile protector,” Trump flipped him off and mouthed “You’re fired.” That’s very generous of the reporter, or very bad lip reading.

[Smapti]

Trump to Canada: “Your country sucks and China is going to make hockey illegal. Give me a bridge.”

[BobLibDem]

What a fuckface. Canada paid for the entire Gordie Howe Bridge. They don’t owe the US a fucking thing.

[Spoons]

How can China ban ice hockey in Canada? I doubt that Trump has any even remotely factual source for that. Sounds like he’s panicking, so he decides to make even more outlandish stuff up.

[kaylasdad99]

@Monty

I can’t quote any more of that story. It’s just too horrendous.

I just want to know if she survived, man!

[Der_Trihs]

@Spoons

How can China ban ice hockey in Canada?

Projection. Trump has tried to ban “DEI” in other countries and in general interfere in their internal affairs. He doesn’t recognize that other nations aren’t required to follow his orders, so why would China?

[velomont]

Regarding the Gordie Howe bridge and Trump’s stupid declaration, I think and hope that we (Canada) just basically say “ok” and block off the fucking thing until someone reasonable is in the White House.

[Frodo]

I’ve said it before, I say it again, I will undoubtedly say it in the future: This man is not compos mentis.

[needscoffee]

@kaylasdad99

I just want to know if she survived, man! 

She survived.

[Buck_Godot]

@Spoons

How can China ban ice hockey in Canada?

How doesn’t nearly puzzle me as much as why? I can see Trump trying to do this, out for spite for kicking the US’s ass at hockey so much, but I can’t even come up with a fig leaf of an explanation as to why China would.

I agree his cheese has left the cracker.

[Horatius]

He thinks Canadians are as easily scared as Republicans. Jokes on him. The bridge will be there long after he’s dead and buried. We can wait.

[kaylasdad99]

@needscoffee

@kaylasdad99

I just want to know if she survived, man! 

She survived.

Thank you.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

@Buck_Godot

I can see Trump trying to do this, out for spite for kicking the US’s ass at hockey so much, but I can’t even come up with a fig leaf of an explanation as to why China would.

I know it’s a tired old theme, but I think the reason is: Every Accusation is A Confession.

Team USA coach has been crying and whining lately about how the referees in hockey are Soooo, Unfaaaairrrr. They’re Meeeannnnn to Team USA and favour Canada. Boo hoo.

I’d bet that someone put a bug in his ear that when he takes over Canada he should ban hockey and steal the Stanley Cup.

[Der_Trihs]

@Buck_Godot

How doesn’t nearly puzzle me as much as why? I can see Trump trying to do this, out for spite for kicking the US’s ass at hockey so much, but I can’t even come up with a fig leaf of an explanation as to why China would.

Besides projection, I suspect it has to do with Trump’s narcissism. If something is important to him it has to be important to everyone else, since he’s the center of the universe and its reason for being, after all. China is not Trump, and it can have therefore have no purpose, interests or concerns other than either serving Trump or opposing him.

[Monty]

@needscoffee

@kaylasdad99

I just want to know if she survived, man!

She survived.

Thus far.

@Buck_Godot

I can’t even come up with a fig leaf of an explanation as to why China would

What about a maple leaf?

@Euphonious_Polemic

I’d bet that someone put a bug in his ear that when he takes over Canada he should ban hockey and steal the Stanley Cup.

He’s probably just jealous the cup has less misspellings than each and every xit he xits.

Artists object to their work in the fakeumentary.

Jonny Greenwood and Paul Thomas Anderson are pushing back after music from “Phantom Thread” showed up in the “Melania” documentary.

Greenwood, the Radiohead guitarist and Oscar-nominated composer, has shared a joint statement with Anderson objecting to part of the musician’s score for Anderson’s 2017 movie being used in the recent Amazon MGM Studios documentary about first lady Melania Trump.

The pair have requested that the “Phantom Thread” music be taken out of “Melania.”

“It has come to our attention that a piece of music from ‘Phantom Thread’ has been used in the ‘Melania’ documentary,” Greenwood and Anderson said in a statement shared with USA TODAY. “While Jonny Greenwood does not own the copyright in the score, Universal failed to consult Jonny on this third-party use which is a breach of his composer agreement. As a result Jonny and Paul Thomas Anderson have asked for it to be removed from the documentary.”

So don’t tell me the felon’s current wife isn’t like him.

Remember how the felon kept whining about NATO countries “not paying their dues”? The United Nations certainly does.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations said Monday it’s waiting to find out how much of the nearly $4 billion the United States owes the world organization the Trump administration intends to pay and when the money will arrive.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned last week that the world body faces “imminent financial collapse” unless its financial rules are overhauled or all 193 member nations pay their dues, a message clearly directed at the United States.

The U.S. owes $2.196 billion to the U.N.’s regular operating budget, including $767 million for this year, according to a U.N. official. The U.S. also owes $1.8 billion for the separate budget for the U.N.’s far-flung peacekeeping operations, and that also will rise.

The U.S. Mission to the United Nations confirmed that U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz said the Trump administration planned to make a significant down payment on its arrears in a matter of weeks, with the final amount still to be determined. His comments were first reported by Reuters.

Matter of weeks, huh? How many? Two?

He’s saving America’s money at the cost of, you guessed it, Americans.

NEW YORK (AP) — One year after the Trump administration took control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the consumer watchdog has largely retreated from enforcement and regulatory work, changes that consumer advocates and Democrats now estimate have cost Americans at least $19 billion in financial relief.

In a report provided to The Associated Press ahead of its release by the office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday, the authors say the CFPB harmed consumers by abandoning major consumer protections, stalling investigation and dismissing a number of lawsuits.

“Trump’s attempt to sideline the CFPB has cost families billions of dollars over the last year alone,” said Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, as well as one of the bureau’s fiercest defenders in Congress.

What do you mean I can’t act like this is a scripted “reality” show?

The Trump administration on Monday proposed stripping the power of an independent board to review challenges from fired federal workers while barring employees from taking the matter to court.

The new proposed rule would impact federal workers fired through a Reduction in Force (RIF), the process used at 22 different agencies last year as the Trump administration conducted widespread layoffs.

If finalized, any federal worker fired in a future RIF would not be able to plead their case before the quasi-judicial Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), which last year found that some agencies had “engaged in a prohibited personnel practice” in firing the workers.

Instead, any challenges would be reviewed by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which last year alongside the Office of Management and Budget instructed agencies to begin RIFs.

“Eliminating independent review of federal RIF actions would not only make it harder for employees to challenge their proposed terminations, but would essentially give the administration free rein to terminate huge swaths of the federal workforce without meaningful independent oversight,” Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal worker union, said in a statement.

“This is all part of a deliberate attempt to dismantle the nonpartisan civil service. On their own, and taken together, these actions unlawfully concentrate removal authority in OPM and directly undermine the statutory framework Congress established to ensure an independent, professional, and nonpartisan civil service.”

This is exactly zero percent different than Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. In other words, the felon loves him some dictator so much he’s copying one.

[Pardel-Lux]

I hereby announce and declare that from now on, American football and baseball, two very boring sports where too little happens and which take much too long, will no longer be played in the United States of 'Murica until I understand the rules. So there.
England, India, Pakistan! Next I’ll get started with cricket. Horrible insects, so loud!

[Smapti]

@Spoons

How can China ban ice hockey in Canada?

I think there are three factors at play here;

1. Dementia. The part of Trump’s pudding-brain that thinks Greenland is in danger of being conquered by China and that “Canada should be our great 51st state” is a reasonable ask also thinks that the trade deal Canada and China are exploring is an annexation agreement.
2. Racism. Trump thinks of ALL cultures other than his own in terms of ethnic stereotypes. The only Canadian stereotype he knows is “They like hockey”, so therefore the worst thing he can imagine happening to them is their not being allowed to play hockey anymore.
3. Projection. If Trump were in control of Canada, he would ABSOLUTELY ban hockey and award the Stanley Cup to himself in order to punish them for not being appropriately subservient to him.

[Pardel-Lux]

@Horatius

The bridge will be there long after he’s dead and buried. We can wait.

I would advice to paint it urine yellow, claim it was gold, name it the “Great Tronald J. Dump the Magnificent Bridge”, add a bicycle lane, and make it toll free for Chinese EVs. Then wait what he xits next.

[Spoons]

@Pardel-Lux

I would advice to paint it urine yellow, claim it was gold, name it the “Great Tronald J. Dump the Magnificent Bridge”, add a bicycle lane, and make it toll free for Chinese EVs. Then wait what he xits next.

Gosh, @Pardel-Lux , you are evil.

I like it!