The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues

Not sure where to post this.

The Pentagon is considering a campaign to use Charlie Kirk’s death to boost recruiting, with ideas like “Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors” and Turning Point USA chapters as enlistment centers. Some officials warned it would look like the military was exploiting his assassination. (NBC News)

Source: https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com

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I did just that earlier this week. Good stuff.

From that site just now:

House Democratic leaders said they would support a Republican resolution honoring Charlie Kirk.

What the everloving ~? Why, pray tell, does the United States even need its own Lei Feng?

Here’s the whole quote. My bold within the paragraph. Not sure what difference that makes. :roll_eyes:

House Democratic leaders said they would support a Republican resolution honoring Charlie Kirk . The resolution praises Kirk as a “courageous American patriot” who promoted unity and civil discourse, and condemns political violence “in all forms.” While Democratic leaders told members they would support the resolution, they left it up to individual lawmakers to decide how to vote. Separately, Senate and House Democrats introduced the “No Political Enemies Act,” which would expand legal protections for people targeted by government officials over political speech. In addition, Democratic leaders called on FCC chair Brendan Carr to resign for “bullying ABC.” (The Hill / Axios / Associated Press / Axios / New York Times)

Maybe the intent is to stick up for free speech. If so, they should spell that out, lest they look look dumbasses.

Well, they managed to look like dumbasses this time. Their intent for speaking up to free speech can be memorialized in quite a number of different ways than glorifying a hateful racist bigot.

You are forgetting where Trump said the Declaration of Independence was a document of “love, unity and respect”.

Fucking up just one country’s not good enough for the felon. (The bolding is mine.)

Trump floated the idea during a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as he wrapped up a state visit to the UK and tied it to the need for the US to counter its top rival, China, The Associated Press reported.

“We’re trying to get it back,” Trump said of the base in an aside to a question about ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

While Trump described his call for the US military to reestablish a position in Afghanistan as “breaking news,” the Republican president has previously raised the idea. The White House did not immediately respond to questions about whether it or the Pentagon has done any planning around returning to the sprawling air base, which was central to America’s longest war.

Trump has seized on the US withdrawal under Biden During his first presidency, Trump set the terms for the US withdrawal by negotiating a deal with the Taliban. The 20-year conflict came to an end in disquieting fashion under President Joe Biden: The US-backed Afghan government collapsed, a grisly bombing killed 13 US troops and 170 others, and thousands of desperate Afghans descended on Kabul’s airport in search of a way out before the final US aircraft departed over the Hindu Kush.

The Afghanistan debacle was a major setback just eight months into Biden’s Democratic presidency that he struggled to recover from.

Biden’s Republican detractors, including Trump, seized on it as a signal moment in a failed presidency. Those criticisms have persisted into the present day, including as recently as last week, when Trump claimed the move emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine in February 2022.

“He would have never done what he did, except that he didn’t respect the leadership of the United States,” Trump said, speaking of Putin. “They just went through the Afghanistan total disaster for no reason whatsoever. We were going to leave Afghanistan, but we were going to leave it with strength and dignity. We were going to keep Bagram Air Base — one of the biggest air bases in the world. We gave it to them for nothing.”

Asked again about the proposal hours later on Air Force One, Trump offered no details but again bashed Biden for “gross incompetence” and said the base should have “never been given back.”

“It’s one of the most powerful bases in the world in terms of runway strength and length,” he said. “You can land anything on there. You can land a planet on top of it.”

No clarity if there have been discussions with the Taliban about Bagram It is unclear if the US has any new direct or indirect conversations with the Taliban government about returning to the country. But Trump hinted that the Taliban, who have struggled with an economic crisis, international legitimacy, internal rifts and rival militant groups since their return to power in 2021, could be game to allow the US military to return.

“We’re trying to get it back because they need things from us,” Trump said of the Taliban.

The president repeated his view that a US presence at Bagram is of value because of its proximity to China, the most significant economic and military competitor to the United States.

“But one of the reasons we want that base is, as you know, it’s an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons," Trump said. “So a lot of things are happening.”

Fuck me! He’s openly stating he wants to put troops close to China to attack China’s nuclear weapons facilities. You think the People’s Liberation Army gets bent out of shape when foreign troops simply sail through seas China claims? Wait until there are American soldiers in a neighboring country, said soldiers whose fucking declared purpose in being there is to fucking attack China.

And fucking who was it who fucking made the fucking withdrawal agreement in the fucking first place, you fucking lying fucking incompetent fucking treasonous fucking hypocrite?

And Koko Nor? Where the fuck are you getting your fucking “information”, Joseph McCarthy? He’s out of action, just like Kok Nor, you fucking idiot.

Don’t tell him about Terok Nor.

I understood that reference.

Trump wants to fire a Trump-appointed judge because the Trump-appointed judge did not find any evidence that Letitia James committed mortgage fraud.

Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bill Pulte said [emphasis mine]:

“I believe this is riddled with mortgage fraud, and frankly, I think that’s why she knew so much about the law in terms of how to go after President Trump,” Pulte told Fox News last month. “She was the fraudster, not President Trump.”

‘Every Republican accusation is a confession.’

“I know you are, but what am I?”

“I mean, how else would a lawyer learn about the law?!?”

God, the stupidity is breathtaking in both its width and depth.

Yes, I caught that too. :laughing:

[quote=“Johnny_L.A, post:8111, topic:1010068”]
‘Every Republican accusation is a confession.’

Speaking of which…

There is more, much more, at the link. And it’s very good journalism. The best journalism. Journalism like nobody’s ever seen before.

Don’t you know how an absolute monarchy works? Whatever the king says is the law is the law.

Trump levies $100k yearly fee on H-1B visas in clampdown on legal immigration

The Trump administration also plans to launch a $1 million gold card visa for wealthy foreigners

https://wapo.st/4nJSE26

President Donald Trump on Friday imposed an annual $100,000 fee on successful applicants for a high-skilled worker visa program that is widely used in Silicon Valley, constraining a key path to legal immigration.

The president also signed an executive order that allows wealthy foreigners to pay $1 million for a ‘Gold Card’ for U.S. residency and companies to pay $2 million for a ‘Corporate Gold Card’ that permits them to sponsor one or more employees.

“The main thing is we’re going to have great people coming in and they’re going to be paying,” Trump said. “We’re going to take that money and we’re going to be reducing taxes and we’re going to be reducing debt.”

The $100,000 payment for H-1B visas can be made for a total of six years, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik said in an Oval Office ceremony unveiling the actions. …

“The company needs to decide … is the person valuable enough to have a $100,000 a year payment to the government or they should head home, and they should go hire an American,” Lutnik told reporters. “Stop the nonsense of letting people just come into this country on visas that were given away for free. The president is crystal clear: valuable people only for America.”

My bold.

Yeah…stop the nonsense. Pardon me while I :face_vomiting:.

And now there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever remaining that the absolute monarch the felon is emulating is, in fact, the Queen of Hearts.

I think we’re discovering why Trump’s lawyers are filing 85-page briefs without a “short, plain, direct statement of allegations of fact,” as required by Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

US Attorny resigns instead of doing the felon’s bidding.

And there you have it. The real reason the felon wanted him out was because he didn’t pass the stench loyalty test.

The Mouse is finding out what happens to a louse.

Even Cancun Cruz has harsh words for the felon’s goodfella.

The felon is still losing in court. (The bolding is mine; the shade is the judge’s.)

And yet another court loss for the Second Felonial Era.

Mister “I deserve the Noble Prize” kills more mariners.

Remember, folks; this is the same person who is designating the groundswell opposition to his autoritarianism a terrorist organization. That means people he simply asserts are members of a group he doesn’t like are, in his eyes, legitimate targets for military action.

The felon thinks he runs the United Kingdom.

What do you know? The felon even put in an accufession!

Continuing with the article.

Even Felon’s News Network is turning on him, and he turns on them.

Time for me to recite my mantra.

He promised to be a dictator on Day One. Remember: every day is Day One of the rest of the dictatorship.

…because there’s no jobs involved in building factories, I guess?

What a fuckhead.

Is this a literary reference? Or your own wordplay?