Extreme Commanders

Just doing Putin's work sowing chaos with a NATO ally

Another story on trump and Greenland that broke last night headlined how he's telling a few of his closest allies he's "pretty sure we're gonna get it "

It's no secret trump is a fan of Andrew Jackson (or the interpretation of Jackson that trump has in his rotted brain) and often harkens back to his (Trump's) vision of how great aggressive, even lethal, land acquisition was, inc. "manifest destiny" and how he likes the discriminatory, financially predatory, causation dominated eras of the late 1700s to the early 1960s, with some and high officials operating like Mafioso.

Mark Twain famously observed (paraphrasing) that "we wouldn't hire a blacksmith who didn't know how to show a horse or a carpenter who didn't know how to build with wood but we'll support a new president putting a bunch of ignoramuses in charge of our government."

"To the victors goes the spoils" was a phrase used for over a century to describe how new presidents stacked their admins with unqualified loyalists, many of them making self enrichment their major goal with a strong man dictatorial governance in service to whether ideologies they held being the way to go for society.

And most of them basically thinking people that aren't older white male oligarchs and minions with sexist/racist mindsets need to shut up and follow, or be run over.

He thinks that is what making America great again really means. In more contemporary role models, basically be an American Putin.

Trump ag secretary nominee says food issues from mass deportations are ‘hypothetical’

Farmers have begun raising concerns about the potential impact of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations on their operations, but the president’s nominee for agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, said any issues stemming from a lost labor force are “hypothetical.”

If farms are affected by mass deportations, she and other administration officials would “hopefully solve some of these problems,” Rollins said during her nomination hearing in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Thursday. When a senator remarked he hoped the issues caused by mass deportations were hypothetical, Rollins said, “I do, too.”

These comments stand in contrast with those of other Trump policy officials regarding mass deportations. In an interview with The New York Times in 2023, Stephen Miller, now a deputy chief of staff in the White House, said the deportations would have a major impact: “Mass deportation will be a labor-market disruption celebrated by American workers.”

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Most farms nowadays are ran by large companies who I highly doubt are concerned by the possible lack of available labor. I’d anything they are probably salivating at the opportunity to demand more government subsidies WHILE raising the prices of crops.


Trump is all over the place. Surely deporting cheap labor won’t keep costs low. And the companies that run these farms are OK with that.

Jumbo wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2025 11:54 am

Another story on trump and Greenland that broke last night headlined how he's telling a few of his closest allies he's "pretty sure we're gonna get it "

It's no secret trump is a fan of Andrew Jackson (or the interpretation of Jackson that trump has in his rotted brain) and often harkens back to his (Trump's) vision of how great aggressive, even lethal, land acquisition was, inc. "manifest destiny" and how he likes the discriminatory, financially predatory, causation dominated eras of the late 1700s to the early 1960s, with some and high officials operating like Mafioso.

Mark Twain famously observed (paraphrasing) that "we wouldn't hire a blacksmith who didn't know how to show a horse or a carpenter who didn't know how to build with wood but we'll support a new president putting a bunch of ignoramuses in charge of our government."

"To the victors goes the spoils" was a phrase used for over a century to describe how new presidents stacked their admins with unqualified loyalists, many of them making self enrichment their major goal with a strong man dictatorial governance in service to whether ideologies they held being the way to go for society.

And most of them basically thinking people that aren't older white male oligarchs and minions with sexist/racist mindsets need to shut up and follow, or be run over.

He thinks that is what making America great again really means. In more contemporary role models, basically be an American Putin.

Great to see you found the joint Jumbo! With that out of the way, I'll just point out that a few years ago I said the U.S., China, and Russia weren't too far apart in terms of being slightly different flavors of oligarchs pulling the levers of power. As I remember it, I got a lot of pushback on that. However, the needle has been moving ever further toward that outcome and it appears that day is now awfully close. I hope those (not so) cheap eggs were worth it.

Trump wants to oversee another pandemic apparently:

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all agency staff who work with the WHO must immediately stop their collaborations and “await further guidance.”

Experts said the sudden stoppage was a surprise and would set back work on investigating and trying to stop outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox in Africa, as well as brewing threats from around the world. It also comes as health authorities around the world are monitoring bird flu outbreaks among U.S. livestock.

The Associated Press viewed a copy of Nkengasong’s memo, which said the stop-work policy applied to “all CDC staff engaging with WHO through technical working groups, coordinating centers, advisory boards, cooperative agreements or other means — in person or virtual.” It also says CDC staff are not allowed to visit WHO offices.

President Trump last week issued an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from WHO, but that did not take immediate effect. Leaving WHO requires the approval of Congress and that the U.S. meets its financial obligations for the current fiscal year. The U.S. also must provide a one-year notice.

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In case you weren't aware, Trump doesn't care about the average American and their economic woes:

Democratic lawmakers slam Trump for not making good on promise to 'immediately' lower food prices amid egg shortage

Donald Trump vowed to slash grocery prices as soon as he took office, yet he has barely addressed the cost of food in the whirlwind of executive orders he signed in his first week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic lawmakers wrote in a searing letter.

The letter, addressed to Trump, accuses the president of backtracking on a campaign promise to lower supermarket bills starting on Day 1 of his term.

“During your campaign, you repeatedly promised you would lower food prices ‘immediately’ if elected president,” read the letter, which was sent to Trump on Sunday evening and shared first with NBC News. “But during your first week of office you have instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning January 6 attackers.”

Trump made inflation and the cost of food a hallmark of his run for a second presidential term, displaying everything from a teeny box of Tic Tacs at a rally in North Carolina to entire tables full of groceries outside his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club to express his commitment to lowering voters’ grocery bills.

But the scores of executive orders Trump has signed since Inauguration Day only briefly touch on food, Warren, D-Mass., said in the letter, which was co-written by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., and signed by a total of 20 Democrats.

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Trump says inflation isn't his No. 1 issue. So what will happen to consumer prices?

Two months ago, in his first network television interview after the election, Donald Trump said he owed his victory to Americans' anger over immigration and inflation, specifically the rising cost of groceries.

“When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs, they would double and triple the price over a short period of time,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press. “And I won an election based on that. We’re going to bring those prices way down.”

But in Trump's first week back in the White House, there was little in his initial blitz of executive orders that directly tackled those prices, besides directing federal agencies to start “pursuing appropriate actions.” He is taking steps to lower energy costs, something that Trump hopes will have ripple effects throughout the economy. Otherwise, his focus has been clamping down on immigration, which he described as his “No. 1 issue” shortly after taking the oath of office.

“They all said inflation was the No. 1 issue. I said, ‘I disagree,’” Trump said. “I talked about inflation too, but how many times can you say that an apple has doubled in cost?”

Trump is banking on voters giving him a pass and continuing to blame former President Joe Biden for high prices.

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Working hard for the American people:

'I'm busy': Trump caught golfing after vowing not to

President Donald Trump was caught on camera golfing on Monday morning despite vowing not to.

CNN's Betsy Klein noted that Trump was asked about the possibility of a Monday golf outing at Doral while on Air Force One on Saturday.

"No. I don't think so. I'm busy," the president stated.

Trump's recreational time on Monday came after spending much of his day golfing on Sunday.

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If you see him hit a hole in one you know the nuclear holocaust has started. Yeehaw.

National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders


The National Science Foundation canceled all of its grant review panels this week, as the organization works to align its grantmaking process with new executive orders from the Trump administration.

The NSF funds a wide range of scientific research through grants to universities and research institutions. It convenes panels of experts to weigh the merits of those proposals, ultimately informing which receive federal funding. It has a budget of around $9 billion.

More than 60 of those meetings were scheduled for this week, all of which were abruptly canceled Monday morning. The move sparked confusion among panelists as to the extent of the pause. In a statement to NPR, an NSF spokesperson said that all review panels will be rescheduled. "This will allow the agency to make the best use of everyone's time and resources as we continue to develop guidance to ensure compliance with the recent executive orders."

Romi Burks, a biologist at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, had spent weeks preparing to serve on her NSF panel. "It's a considerable amount of effort," she said. "It's extremely disappointing for it to be canceled for political reasons."

Delays in grant approval inevitably mean delays in funding research. Those delays could threaten the scientists, who include tenured faculty, post-doctoral researchers and graduate students who often depend on grants for financial support. Delays also create extra uncertainty that makes it hard to plan, says Burks. Researchers need to schedule travel for field work, or arrange time to collaborate with colleagues. "All of these things cannot happen until you have notification," she says. "It's already a long time to get grants reviewed, any more time is just an increasing burden."

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