Mayor Adams, Putin and his Oligarchs, Elon, January 6, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Steve Bannon, Ross Ulbricht, Charles Kushner, Andrew Zabavsky and Terence Sutton, etc.

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” — Peru’s General Óscar Benavides or FFOTUS
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The "unanimously" elected is a nice touch. Makes it even more North Korea-like.

“President Donald J. Trump was just unanimously elected Chairman of the Board of the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The President stated, "It is a Great Honor to be Chairman of The Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing Board of Trustees. We will make The Kennedy Center a very special and exciting place!"”
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The Trumplicans have confirmed Tulsi Gabbard.

The real-world impact here is that the USA relies on intelligence sharing with a number of allies, the most critical being under the Five Eyes pact. I can't help but think they will be loath to share significant intelligence with the USA for fear their sources will be compromised.
The damage to our intelligence gathering sets us back decades.
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petty petty Man .. and again his supporters :faga:

On Monday, Trump named Grenell as the interim executive director of the Kennedy Center in a post on Truth Social. The position plunged leadership at the Kennedy Center into confusion, as the position “executive director” does not exist.

The United States is now an open kleptocracy. The Constitution has been suspended to allow the wealthiest man in the world to loot and destroy the federal government.

Elon Musk is working to transform X, his social media platform, into a virtual wallet where people can send money to each other. He likely has all your information. Digital payment platforms have come under intense scrutiny by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but that is likely to ease.

Tesla is forecast to win the largest State Dept contract of 2025 -- $400 million for "Armored Tesla" -- according to procurement documents reviewed by drop site news
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“I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe.”

US Secretary of Defence, February 12, 2025.

Everything changed today.
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Elon Musk's Tesla on Tuesday opened an enormous $200 million battery plant in Shanghai, near its carmaking Gigafactory, deepening the company's investment in China even as its CEO serves in an administration picking a trade war with Beijing.

Find me a negative comment from musk involving china . On any topic.

I bet you can’t
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No longer helping with EU security, guessing withdrawal from Nato will be coming. No longer looking into bribery, no enemies list at AG confirmation, except now there is. Don’t worry maga change might be only painful at first wink wink.

If you’re bored
1. Google Gulf of Mexico.
2. "Gulf of America" will be at the head of Google's answer.
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of "Gulf of America".
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America" text.
6. Select "Inaccurate content".
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in whatever text you want such as "The correct name of this body of water is "Gulf of Mexico".
The more reports to Google the merrier....
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Did FFOTUS plan and implement project 2025?

https://youtu.be/MLbh7GXw0Es?si=ZuCDc1d9Wki5imbk
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This thread is going great. Surpassed my expectations.
Emotionally broken TDS sufferers coming together to share their pain. That is what I intended. You're Welcome

Trump DOJ confirms they will ask SCOTUS to overrule Humphrey’s Executor rather than defend independent agencies / multi member commissions like the FTC, etc.

(So they’re arguing Trump can fire the boards and commissioners that lead these agencies)
If they overrule Humphrey's, the Fed will be vulnerable. A few thoughts: (1) If SCOTUS doesn't gut Humphrey's (unlikely), it will be because they're concerned about the Fed. They recently rejected a constitutional challenge to the CFPB that would have jeopardized Fed funding, too- in part for that reason.
It's also possible SCOTUS tries to write an opinion that artificially carves out the Fed - or at least drops a footnote that makes clear that would be a separate case; and possible that, in that future case, they would make something up to protect the Fed -like insisting they (The Fed) don't/doesn't exercise significant executive authority. But it would probably be an exception good for that entity only - and made up.
It's also possible they just say "#^&#^&#^&#^& it, let's do it! (global economic turmoil & a great recession/depression)" Especially if R officials aren't sounding alarms....

Remember for Billionaires, economic downturns are an opportunity unlike the average American who loses the wealth that the billionaires gain.
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How about instead of the TDS bull#^&#^&#^&#^&, you try and contribute a thought or opinion?
Your in the trades, and you look to do great work from your posts.
Is a 25% tariff on Steel and Aluminum good for the country? We can maybe ramp up steel production (it sort of came up in 2018 when Trump tried this) but we don't have the raw materials to do that for Aluminum as most of the Bauxite (the ore) is found in more tropical climates. How about if we further tariff Canadian lumber?

There are two types of Trump supporters.
Billionaires and idiots, check your bank account to see which one you are.
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Steel is currently at less than capacity and tariffs will do nothing other than drive up prices for the cheapest steel that is produced more economically elsewhere (Nucor rebar prices increased $2 per hundred weight last week on the threat alone)

Steel.org analysis published weekly
In the week ending on February 8, 2025, domestic raw steel production was 1,675,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 75.2 percent. Production was 1,726,000 net tons in the week ending February 8, 2024, while the capability utilization then was 77.7 percent. The current week production represents a 3.0 percent decrease from the same period in the previous year. Production for the week ending February 8, 2025 is up 1.1 percent from the previous week ending February 1, 2025 when production was 1,656,000 net tons and the rate of capability utilization was 74.4 percent.

Aluminum tariffs if applied to all imported aluminum will increase domestic prices and likely reduce exports.

Aluminum industry doesn’t produce only US production. Aluminum.org is a North American entity.
Canada because they have abundant cheap hydroelectric power is the major producer of aluminum from bauxite.
Both the USA and Canada further process the raw material into finished products. This is either used in the USA or exported.
Bauxite which aluminum is produced from is mined in Australia, Guinea, India, Brazil and China.
The USA mines produce less than 1% of the world’s bauxite.

On the lumber market
Canadian mills are closing along with USA mills.
The day of the small sawmill growing into a bigger and bigger company are gone.
The modern wood industry has timber harvesting by machines, logs get a coded identification, log transportation is the same, mills have no humans inside during operation.(the sawyer is in a booth and optimization is by computer)
Workers only do repairs and maintenance.
The capital costs are large and margins are small.
It looks like the lumber industry will be controlled by several very large corporations who will have monopolies.
The current regimes elimination of regulations on large corporations will accelerate that.
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Wishful thinking he is just a incapable of having an adult conversation based on facts. I’m starting to think the reason he knew Biden had dementia is because he suffers from it as well. Anger is a side effect of dementia

And yet the

Missouri AG sues Starbucks, says workforce is ‘more female and less white’

Should the Missouri AG see the construction industry for hiring more males than females. And being less white.

And we’re off ! The Trump affect is in full swing. MAGA logic on full display

just in.

Trump administration set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas

After reports circulated Wednesday night of the State Department's intent to purchase Tesla vehicles, the document was edited, at 9:12 p.m., and now says the federal contract is for $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles," but the word "Tesla" was removed..

And like MAGIC. suddenly no further conflict of interest or
no waste fraud or abuse is a concern

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-...armored-teslas

We have never seen an unelected bureaucrat have as many government contracts and receive as much corporate welfare as Elon Musk.
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RFK Jr. confirmed, elevating anti-vaccine activist to nation’s top health post

Republicans have officially capitulated what cowards
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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE:
1. Chickenpox
2. Diphtheria
3. Measles
4. Pertussis
5. Pneumococcal Infection
6. Polio
7. Tetanus
8. Typhoid
9. Yellow Fever
10. Smallpox

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER:
1.
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4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Make previously eradicated diseases great again!

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Yup, this is a big power and money grab, the magna nuts will see the impact soon, but they will find a way to suggest Biden is responsible and Trump is only cleaning up the mess. Then there is Mitch, voting against RFK, any guess how that vote would go if he weren’t retiring? My father a decorated Marine veteran and die hard republican his entire life would be shocked and ashamed of what this party of cowards has become.

Apparently Mexico is also renaming part of the Gulf of Mexico
Above the line between the south end of Texas and Florida it’ll become
Golfo del Gringo Loco
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Trump renames CDC
Center for Denial and Conspiracy
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Jack Posobiec’s extensive ties to white supremacists should serve as a wake-up call for anyone who hasn’t made the connection between Trump’s MAGA movement and hate,


Guess where he is. Trump administration officials at the Pentagon invited a far-right activist, Jack Posobiec, to participate in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first trip overseas, And in Ukraine

But nothing to see right.

I understand your frustation. Id be crushed too if my candidate got such an ass whooping. Canadian lumber is overpriced garbage.

If I recall Tump lost in 2016

Oh wait you still think it was stolen. ..:rotflmao:

Easy post, copied a previous one which fits like a glove.

His response to your question is right out of the mini me play book with the classic deflection, followed by the usual venom and Trump favorite lines. It’s not that he can’t debate, it’s because he won’t knowing it would expose his inability to defend Trump, project 25 and Musk’s moves as constitutional and abiding by the rule of law.

It only took FFOTUS 24 days to sell out Ukraine.
I think the Europeans are foolish if they don’t attack Russia as soon as possible.
Russia is the weakest it has been since WW2 and delaying will only allow Putin to rebuild his military.
I expect Putin to test Article 5 shortly with a strike, likely in one of the Baltics.
I think the wild card is Xi Jinping who at this moment with the cooperation of Putin could get the European G7 countries to join BRICS and make the dollar just another currency.
Putin would completely withdraw from Ukraine, Europe would not need to attack Russia, the unpredictable USA would be moot.
The other choice is global conflict.
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You do realize Canadian lumber already has a 14.5% tariff and Americans have historically gone to foreign markets and bought the cheapest stuff possible to import.
Winton went out of business because Americans were too cheap to buy the good stuff.
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Worth reading
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/unite...arianism-trump
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He wound up to deliver this slap

BY EMAIL
Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH)
Mr. Bove,
I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S.
Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General.
In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys-is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse.
No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.
There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way. If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.
Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the
Southern District of New York.
Yours truly,
Hagan Scotten
Assistant United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
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Don't forget Danielle R. Sassoon (U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York) was a very conservative member of the Federalist Society. She clerked for Scalia.

Strong rumor with credible sourcing: DOJ has put all of public integrity line attorneys in a room and told them they have an hour for someone to choose who will sign motion to dismiss and if nobody does, they will all be fired. The nastiest strong-arming in DOJ history by a long shot.
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Hagan Scotten, who wrote this spectacular resignation letter, was an army ranger for 8 years, top of his law school class (Harvard) & a John Roberts law clerk. Not exactly a candidate for Trump’s liberal deep state.
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Those awful DEI hires
Don’t forget JD Vance got into law school with DEI
https://youtu.be/JvXoR4bHEmY?si=c6HfI-q1mhZ1ycuh
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Vance meets with leader of far-right German party

Vance said. “No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants,”

I am sure he reminded them of a another corporal from their Past.

FFOTUS is still upset that Biden said he would cure cancer so he’s going to save it.

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.
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CDC source:

“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.

They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
But don’t worry, I know a guy who’s really smart his uncle was a professor at MIT
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DEI hire JD Vance meets leader of AFD but not the Chancellor of Germany. Essentially endorsing the neo-Nazi party before the German elections.
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Was the clip of Elmo’s kid ‘X’ telling Trump he’s not the president and needs to go away, real or AI?
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