So just a bit like open-pit coal mining and damaging, though some might save devastating, to the land. Lots of heavy equipment so one must make a “deal” with Putin to not hit them with a few drones.
Dunno if Trump also got permission to put guns on the ground, yet certainly a lot of the hard-hat supervisors will be CIA “advisors” / Army Rangers / Navy Seals - take your pick.
There is absolutely nothing in this for Zelenskiy or Ukraine. Some money yet way below the market rate as bigly profits need to be made for the USA/Putin/Halliburton (or whomever is behind this). Trump is going to say this proves he’s a “deal maker” and that Zelenskiy is a dictator/bad comic actor/fool.
The “fool” bit may not be true as the latest news is Zelenskiy is hestitant to sign the “deal”. Perhaps a few masked navy seals can literally drop in on him and make him an offer he can’t refuse.
They should do this for all Trump properties. Trump Tower could be renamed Dump Tower since Trump has poor taste, uses cheap building materials, and seems to be constantly clogging the toilets. Mar-a-Lardo also works given his physique.
Noem said that Trump instructed that he didn’t want to be in the ads himself, telling her: “I want you in the ads, and I want your face in the ads … but I want the first ad, I want you to thank me. I want you to thank me for closing the border.”
She recalled: “I said, ‘Yes, sir, I will thank you for closing the border.’
The cult of Trump is the only thing keeping a lot of these people together. If you take him out of the equation, the MAGA movement will attack each other like meat just got put back on the menu.
Federal employees will apparently be on the receiving end of an email that will request insight into “what they got done last week,” Elon Musk announced on X Saturday.
“Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,” Musk wrote. “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Thursday it is planning to drop its lawsuit against Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which alleged the company discriminated against refugees and asylees during the hiring process.
In a filing Thursday, the DOJ asked a federal court in Texas to lift a pause on the proceeding of the case to allow the department’s Civil Rights Division to file a dismissal notice.
“If the administrative proceeding has been dismissed by the end of the 30-day period, Defendants will promptly move to dismiss this case on mootness grounds, and SpaceX will not oppose that relief,” the filing stated.
The suit, filed in August 2023, accused SpaceX, a major aerospace company, of “routinely” discouraging refugees and those granted asylum from applying for jobs. Federal prosecutors argued SpaceX would often refuse to hire or consider them from positions, specifically due to their citizenship status.
The DOJ claimed the allegations occurred from at least September 2018 to May 2022 and violated the Immigration and Nationality Act.
After going out of his way to make sure the answer is “nothing, because we weren’t allowed to”. Like breaking somebody’s kneecaps and then demanding they demonstrate their dancing skills.
Trump was known for being easily led by the last person who spoke to him. And Musk and Bannon and Miller. I’m pretty sure W really did listen to and follow Cheney’s counsel - yet Cheney was, I’ve got to say, rather smart.
I like what this guy is saying. He called out Farage and others, yet no mention of Keir Stermer’s visit this Thursday. I can’t imagine “MAGA Wankfest” and perhaps there’s nothing to be gained by him cancelling - even if Wednesday night Trump does a speech with golden epulets.
ETA to add about the “deal” to ravage the land of Ukraine for rare earth minerals. It’s not really a deal - it’s compensation for that Nazi Tyrant / Bad Comic Actor / Guy who started the war to payback the USA:
But it’s Ukraine’s mineral reserves that have unexpectedly become key to the negotiations. The country has major deposits of Graphite, Lithium, Titanium and so called “rare earths” – much of them beneath areas of land now controlled by the Russians.
President Trump is said to be claiming that Ukraine should relinquish half these valuable resources as compensation for the American military aid.
Yeah, he has a reputation of being both very easy and very hard to manipulate. Because yes, the last person to talk to him can lead him on, but as soon as they leave somebody else will be trying the same thing possibly undoing the effort. And he tends to slide back to a Trumpish base of narcissistic malevolence in any case.
