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Re: Living under Trump 2

Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:23 am
by 88Commanders00
SWIM wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:14 am
China wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 1:38 am
'Stuff of nightmares': Expert imagines four ways Trump could try to serve a third term

Donald Trump has openly mused about serving an unconstitutional third term as president, and a legal analyst said it's not too early to start worrying.

The newly inaugurated president is "notorious for bending norms and breaking laws," wrote Politico legal editor James Romoser, and while the U.S. Constitution's 22nd Amendment makes clear that "no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice," there are four scenarios where he might carry out "the stuff of liberal nightmares and MAGA dreams" and hold onto power for at least four more years.

“Anyone who says that obviously the 22nd Amendment will deter Trump from trying for a third term has been living on a different planet than the one I’ve been living on,” said Ian Bassin, an associate White House counsel for Barack Obama who is now executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Protect Democracy.

Rosomer mapped out four paths Trump could try to remain president in spite of the constitutional prohibition.

"He could generate a movement to repeal the 22nd Amendment directly," Rosomer wrote. "He could exploit a little-noticed loophole in the amendment that might allow him to run for vice president and then immediately ascend back to the presidency. He could run for president again on the bet that a pliant Supreme Court won’t stop him. Or he could simply refuse to leave — and put a formal end to America’s democratic experiment."

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) has already introduced a constitutional amendment that would allow Trump, but not Obama or Bill Clinton, to seek a third term, and his supporters are talking like it's a done deal.

“People are already talking about changing the 22nd Amendment so he can serve a third term,” said Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in a social media post Trump later shared. “If this pace and success keeps up for 4 years, and there is no reason it won’t, most Americans really won’t want him to leave.”

Trump could just run for a third term and dare anyone to stop him, and Rosomer wasn't so sure that anyone would step up.

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He has to die of old age eventually
Trump will either be dead by 2028 or in a nursing home because his mental decline will be so great; he can’t function anymore and he’ll be put in a nursing home.

Also, if the country goes to s**t as expected; he’s likely to see more attempts on him, except he won’t survive this time.

Re: Living under Trump 2

Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:26 am
by China
SWIM wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:14 am
China wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2025 1:38 am
'Stuff of nightmares': Expert imagines four ways Trump could try to serve a third term

Donald Trump has openly mused about serving an unconstitutional third term as president, and a legal analyst said it's not too early to start worrying.

The newly inaugurated president is "notorious for bending norms and breaking laws," wrote Politico legal editor James Romoser, and while the U.S. Constitution's 22nd Amendment makes clear that "no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice," there are four scenarios where he might carry out "the stuff of liberal nightmares and MAGA dreams" and hold onto power for at least four more years.

“Anyone who says that obviously the 22nd Amendment will deter Trump from trying for a third term has been living on a different planet than the one I’ve been living on,” said Ian Bassin, an associate White House counsel for Barack Obama who is now executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Protect Democracy.

Rosomer mapped out four paths Trump could try to remain president in spite of the constitutional prohibition.

"He could generate a movement to repeal the 22nd Amendment directly," Rosomer wrote. "He could exploit a little-noticed loophole in the amendment that might allow him to run for vice president and then immediately ascend back to the presidency. He could run for president again on the bet that a pliant Supreme Court won’t stop him. Or he could simply refuse to leave — and put a formal end to America’s democratic experiment."

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) has already introduced a constitutional amendment that would allow Trump, but not Obama or Bill Clinton, to seek a third term, and his supporters are talking like it's a done deal.

“People are already talking about changing the 22nd Amendment so he can serve a third term,” said Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in a social media post Trump later shared. “If this pace and success keeps up for 4 years, and there is no reason it won’t, most Americans really won’t want him to leave.”

Trump could just run for a third term and dare anyone to stop him, and Rosomer wasn't so sure that anyone would step up.

Click on the link for the full article
He has to die of old age eventually
Yeah, but if he takes the reins unconstitutionally for a third term, who's to say he won't unconstitutionally give power over to one of his children and get rid of elections altogether.

Re: Living under Trump 2

Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:34 am
by China
Wait until food prices soar because California farmers don't have enough water this summer because Trump released it unnecessarily.

Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them.

President Donald Trump declared victory on Friday in his long-running water war with California, boasting he sent billions of gallons south — but local officials say they narrowly prevented him from possibly flooding farms.

“Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory! I only wish they listened to me six years ago — There would have been no fire!” he said in a post on his social media site.

Local officials had to talk the Army Corps of Engineers down after it abruptly alerted them Thursday afternoon it was about to increase flows from two reservoirs to maximum capacity — a move the agency said was in response to Trump directing the federal government to “maximize” water supplies.


Before the Corps ratcheted down its plan, local authorities scrambled to move equipment and warn farms about possible flooding, said Victor Hernandez, who oversees water management on one of the rivers, the Kaweah in Tulare County. He said the Corps gave him one hour notice on Thursday.

“I’ve been here 25 years, and I’ve never been given notice that quick,” Hernandez said. “That was alarming and scary.”

The incident is the latest chapter in an ongoing feud between Trump and state authorities that has been turbo-charged by the Los Angeles fires, which the president has used to reignite long-running complaints about water management that had nothing to do with the response to the disaster.

An Army Corps spokesperson tied the releases to Trump’s executive order on Sunday directing all federal agencies to maximize water deliveries in order to respond to the fires that started in Los Angeles earlier this month.

“Consistent with the direction in the Executive Order on Emergency Measures to Provide Water Resources in California, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is releasing water from Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah and Schafer Dam at Success Lake to ensure California has water available to respond to the wildfires,” Gene Pawlik said in a statement.

While releasing water from reservoirs before a big storm, like the one expected to hit Northern California this weekend, is standard flood-control procedure to avoid overflowing dams, Hernandez said the Army Corps’ Thursday plan would have released far more water than needed. He said releasing the water at the capacity the Corps had planned to would have flooded both the Kaweah and Tule rivers, where the Corps’ reservoirs are located.

“Channel capacity is very dangerous,” Hernandez said. “People don’t understand that [with] channel capacity, you’re going to have flood damage down below.”

Trump since his first term and during his presidential campaigns has repeatedly vowed to send more water to Central Valley farmers in the state’s conservative heartland. He incorrectly blamed the temporary lack of water in Los Angeles hydrants during wildfires earlier this month on the state’s water management policies, though the state’s reservoirs are at or near historic levels right now and the hydrants went dry because of the high local demand. He’s also threatened to withhold disaster aid unless California goes along with his moves to deliver more water.

But a former senior Bureau of Reclamation official said moves like the one in Tulare County could endanger property and lives. Reclamation is the primary federal agency with authority over delivering water in the West, while the Army Corps is largely responsible for flood control.

Firefighters had almost completely contained the Palisades and Eaton fires as of early Friday. The Army Corps did not respond to a question about how the water would reach Los Angeles, about 200 miles away. Hernandez said the water would go to Tulare Lake, a dry lakebed that last filled up during record-high rainfall in 2023.

Other water experts said it would have been nearly impossible to divert the water to Los Angeles at the speed the Corps originally planned to release it.

Dumping the water from Lake Kaweah and Success Lake poses a flood risk to downstream communities, he said, like the town of Porterville, which nearly flooded during rainstorms in 2023. It also reduces the amount of irrigation water available to farmers during the driest months of the year. The snowpack in the Southern Sierra Nevada that California depends on for water supplies in the summer has dipped to 47 percent of average for this time of year after a dry January, according to state estimates released Friday.

“We need to keep every bit that we have, because this potentially is irrigation water that we have up there,” Hernandez said.

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Re: Living under Trump 2

Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 5:27 pm
by China

Re: Living under Trump 2

Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 9:47 pm
by China
B.C. premier respond to U.S. imposing 25% tariff on Canadian goods starting Tuesday

"I have directed BC liquor sales to immediately stop buying American liquor from red states. Liquor store employees will be removing the most popular of these brands from government store shelves." -BC Premier David Eby

Re: Living under Trump 2

Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 12:49 am
by Renegade7
BraveLilToasterOven wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 6:57 pm
Since we're 11 days through this new admin and every day seems like a 5 alarm fire, how long before the riots begin?

I'm going to put the +/- at 5 months. The expected tariffs next week and the price impact will be felt by all his mouth breathing supporters who were whining and crying about not being able to afford anything.
It's unsustainable.

Combine folks not picking food anymore because of ICE and trade wars with our neighbors this is the opposite of making food more affordable.

Re: Living under Trump 2

Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:27 am
by China
This Project 2025 crap is out of control:

ENDING RADICAL INDOCTRINATION IN K-12 SCHOOLING

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Parents trust America’s schools to provide their children with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation and the values for which we stand.
In recent years, however, parents have witnessed schools indoctrinate their children in radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight. Such an environment operates as an echo chamber, in which students are forced to accept these ideologies without question or critical examination. In many cases, innocent children are compelled to adopt identities as either victims or oppressors solely based on their skin color and other immutable characteristics. In other instances, young men and women are made to question whether they were born in the wrong body and whether to view their parents and their reality as enemies to be blamed. These practices not only erode critical thinking but also sow division, confusion, and distrust, which undermine the very foundations of personal identity and family unity.

Imprinting anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies on our Nation’s children not only violates longstanding anti-discrimination civil rights law in many cases, but usurps basic parental authority. For example, steering students toward surgical and chemical mutilation without parental consent or involvement or allowing males access to private spaces designated for females may contravene Federal laws that protect parental rights, including the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), and sex-based equality and opportunity, including Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). Similarly, demanding acquiescence to “White Privilege” or “unconscious bias,” actually promotes racial discrimination and undermines national unity.

My Administration will enforce the law to ensure that recipients of Federal funds providing K-12 education comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination in various contexts and protecting parental rights, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), 42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.; Title IX, 20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.; FERPA, 20 U.S.C. 1232g; and the PPRA, 20 U.S.C. 1232h.

Sec. 2. Definitions. As used herein:
(a) The definitions in the Executive Order “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” (January 20, 2025) shall apply to this order.
(b) “Discriminatory equity ideology” means an ideology that treats individuals as members of preferred or disfavored groups, rather than as individuals, and minimizes agency, merit, and capability in favor of immoral generalizations, including that:
(i) Members of one race, color, sex, or national origin are morally or inherently superior to members of another race, color, sex, or national origin;
(ii) An individual, by virtue of the individual’s race, color, sex, or national origin, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously;
(iii) An individual’s moral character or status as privileged, oppressing, or oppressed is primarily determined by the individual’s race, color, sex, or national origin;
(iv) Members of one race, color, sex, or national origin cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect to their race, color, sex, or national origin;
(v) An individual, by virtue of the individual’s race, color, sex, or national origin, bears responsibility for, should feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress because of, should be discriminated against, blamed, or stereotyped for, or should receive adverse treatment because of actions committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, sex, or national origin, in which the individual played no part;
(vi) An individual, by virtue of the individual’s race, color, sex, or national origin, should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment to achieve diversity, equity, or inclusion;
(vii) Virtues such as merit, excellence, hard work, fairness, neutrality, objectivity, and racial colorblindness are racist or sexist or were created by members of a particular race, color, sex, or national origin to oppress members of another race, color, sex, or national origin; or
(viii) the United States is fundamentally racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory.
(c) “Educational service agency” (ESA) has the meaning given in 20 U.S.C. 1401(5), and the terms “elementary school,” “local educational agency” (LEA), “secondary school,” and “state educational agency” (SEA) have the meanings given in 34 C.F.R. 77.1(c).
(d) “Patriotic education” means a presentation of the history of America grounded in:
(i) an accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling characterization of America’s founding and foundational principles;
(ii) a clear examination of how the United States has admirably grown closer to its noble principles throughout its history;
(iii) the concept that commitment to America’s aspirations is beneficial and justified; and
(iv) the concept that celebration of America’s greatness and history is proper.
(e) “Social transition” means the process of adopting a “gender identity” or “gender marker” that differs from a person’s sex. This process can include psychological or psychiatric counseling or treatment by a school counselor or other provider; modifying a person’s name (e.g., “Jane” to “James”) or pronouns (e.g., “him” to “her”); calling a child “nonbinary”; use of intimate facilities and accommodations such as bathrooms or locker rooms specifically designated for persons of the opposite sex; and participating in school athletic competitions or other extracurricular activities specifically designated for persons of the opposite sex. “Social transition” does not include chemical or surgical mutilation.
Sec. 3. Ending Indoctrination Strategy.
(i) eliminating Federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology; and
Sec. 4. Reestablishing the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission and Promoting Patriotic Education. (a) The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission (“1776 Commission”), which was created by Executive Order 13958 of November 2, 2020, to promote patriotic education, but was terminated by President Biden in Executive Order 13985 of January 20, 2021, is hereby reestablished. The purpose of the 1776 Commission is to promote patriotic education and advance the purposes stated in section 1 of Executive Order 13958, as well as to advise and promote the work of the White House Task Force on Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday (“Task Force 250”) and the United States Semiquincentennial Commission in their efforts to provide a grand celebration worthy of the momentous occasion of the 250th anniversary of American Independence on July 4, 2026.

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Re-education camps are coming...

Re: Living under Trump 2

Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:41 am
by Simmsy
Poll shows Donald Trump Jr. is the top Republican candidate for 2028 U.S elections; here's what he has to say

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... s?from=mdr
The poll results actually reveal significant support for Donald Trump Jr. with some surveys even showing him tied with Vice President JD Vance at 30% among the Republican voters, reported The Hill. Younger GOP voters who are aged between 18-34 specifically favor Donald Trump Jr. with 44% supporting his potential candidacy.

Re: Living under Trump 2

Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 11:30 am
by China
People are fighting back:

Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions

This public resource tracks legal challenges to Trump administration actions. If you think we are missing anything, you can email us at lte@justsecurity.org. Special thanks to Just Security Student Staff Editors Rick Da and Jeremy Venook.

The Tracker is part of the Collection: Just Security’s Coverage of the Trump Administration’s Executive Actions

Click on the link for the details

Re: Living under Trump 2

Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 12:20 pm
by 88Commanders00
Simmsy wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:41 am
Poll shows Donald Trump Jr. is the top Republican candidate for 2028 U.S elections; here's what he has to say

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... s?from=mdr


The poll results actually reveal significant support for Donald Trump Jr. with some surveys even showing him tied with Vice President JD Vance at 30% among the Republican voters, reported The Hill. Younger GOP voters who are aged between 18-34 specifically favor Donald Trump Jr. with 44% supporting his potential candidacy.
He’s to Coked out.