Well... it's Trump... again. #47, here we go.

[TomC]

You are right, this is a simple situation of poor people desperate for access to land to be able to herd their livestock and barely make ends meet.

Your utter disregard for their needs and the gross disparity in who owns the land and how best to manage this inequity that will otherwise lead to violence is duly noted.

Are these the same South Africans busy redefining "apartheid" so as to accuse Israeli people?
Yeah, it figures that Trump wants more immigrants like that.
Tom

 

[Elixir]

Trump wants more immigrants like that.

Tom

He should simply get Vlad to lend him some North Koreans for the next election

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Ukraine not invited to US-Russia peace talks in Saudi Arabia, source says

A Ukrainian government source told the BBC Kyiv would not be present at the proposed peace talks.

www.bbc.com

Trump has US going it alone with Russia on Ukraine. This is pathetic and shameful!

 

[Swammerdami]

Is there a special thread for discussing the Sycophancy that Dear Leader attracts? There's now a bill in Congress to rename Greenland to be Red White and Blueland. Another bill would call for a fifth face -- Guess whose? -- to be carved on Mount Rushmore. Both these bills were submitted by Creatures of the QOPAnon Party; they were NOT (as you understandably might have guessed) sarcastic bills introduced by rational hominids.

Since there is precedent for naming things after living persons, e.g. the Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza named after Mother Teresa while she was still alive, I think putting Trump's beloved face on Mt. Rushmore is not enough. Washington, DC needs to be renamed Philatrumpia DD. (DD for the District of Donald). To avoid confusion the State of Washington would be renamed Trumpington at the same time. A Presidential Order is all that's needed, so why not rename San Francisco, California to be Santa Melania, Ivankornia. That would really piss off the libtards!

If the Governor of Ivankornia complains tell him that his state's name will change once a week and that only documents with current letterhead will have legal effect. Send in the Army to take firm control of all spillways and flush another billion gallons of water to the ocean whenever Governor Newscum misbehaves.

 

[ZiprHead]

https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/southern-africa/south-africa/land-reform-south-africa-fact-and-fiction

A lot of good information in the article.

Apologists:

According to South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), the proposed amendment would introduce greater clarity to existing expropriation provisions, though it would remove the stipulation “subject to compensation”.

In other words, they're going to steal it.

So if a thief steals a valuable piece of jewelry from your grandmother, does the thief's grandson get to keep it even though it's known it belonged to your grandmother?

Basically every bit of land has been stolen from it's original owners, generally many times. Specific objects from specific people, ok, return is generally appropriate. General objects from populations--no. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Irony is dead.

Many of the children of the people whose land was stolen are still alive.

 

[Elixir]

Basically every bit of land has been stolen from it's original owners, generally many times. Specific objects from specific people, ok, return is generally appropriate. General objects from populations--no. Two wrongs don't make a right.

You sound like the minister of rationalization from the British Museum in London, arguing for their retention of Egyptian artifacts.

 

[ZiprHead]

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to fire independent agency leader

The administration asked the Supreme Court on Sunday to clear the way for the president to fire the leader of an independent agency that investigates whistleblower reports filed by government workers — the first time President Donald Trump has appealed to the justices for help in his efforts to remake and seize greater control of the federal bureaucracy.

Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, sued the Trump administration after he was fired in a one-sentence email this month. Dellinger said his termination was illegal because it violated a law that shields leaders of independent agencies from removal by the president, “except in cases of neglect of duty, malfeasance or inefficiency.”

In addition to Dellinger, Trump has in his first weeks back in office ousted more than a dozen inspectors general, replaced top ethics officials, and removed the heads of other agencies that protect federal workers and investigate agency wrongdoing.

If you're looking to root out waste and fraud you don't fire the people whose job it is to do exactly that.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to fire independent agency leader

The administration asked the Supreme Court on Sunday to clear the way for the president to fire the leader of an independent agency that investigates whistleblower reports filed by government workers — the first time President Donald Trump has appealed to the justices for help in his efforts to remake and seize greater control of the federal bureaucracy.

Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, sued the Trump administration after he was fired in a one-sentence email this month. Dellinger said his termination was illegal because it violated a law that shields leaders of independent agencies from removal by the president, “except in cases of neglect of duty, malfeasance or inefficiency.”

In addition to Dellinger, Trump has in his first weeks back in office ousted more than a dozen inspectors general, replaced top ethics officials, and removed the heads of other agencies that protect federal workers and investigate agency wrongdoing.

If you're looking to root out waste and fraud you don't fire the people whose job it is to do exactly that.

This will be interesting as it will make SCOTUS decide whether the Inspector General has standing to challenge the actions of the President, which are generally considered (by this corrupt court) near infallible.

 

[Elixir]

This will be interesting as it will make SCOTUS decide whether the Inspector General has standing to challenge the actions of the President, which are generally considered (by this corrupt court) near infallible.

It is interesting ... in the past when this court is forced to shit or get off the pot, they shit and smear it all over the walls.
They will probably find that no, it is not generally permissible, but in THIS case, due to extenuations (like threats to their lives if they don't go along with der Fuhrer) ... at least some/most of it will be permissible. Maybe "just this once because it's an emergency" language will be included. The 3 justices still clinging to the old fashioned notion of conscience, will write their usual politely phrased excoriations, then go back and sit in their corners.
-OR-
Maybe SCOTUS other than Alito and Thomas, will finally decide they've had enough of this bullshit and tell Trump to get lost. Not likely, but until they do what I predicted above, it's still possible. Maybe. If we reject determinism.

 

[RVonse]

Is there a special thread for discussing the Sycophancy that Dear Leader attracts? There's now a bill in Congress to rename Greenland to be Red White and Blueland. Another bill would call for a fifth face -- Guess whose? -- to be carved on Mount Rushmore. Both these bills were submitted by Creatures of the QOPAnon Party; they were NOT (as you understandably might have guessed) sarcastic bills introduced by rational hominids.

Since there is precedent for naming things after living persons, e.g. the Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza named after Mother Teresa while she was still alive, I think putting Trump's beloved face on Mt. Rushmore is not enough. Washington, DC needs to be renamed Philatrumpia DD. (DD for the District of Donald). To avoid confusion the State of Washington would be renamed Trumpington at the same time. A Presidential Order is all that's needed, so why not rename San Francisco, California to be Santa Melania, Ivankornia. That would really piss off the libtards!

If the Governor of Ivankornia complains tell him that his state's name will change once a week and that only documents with current letterhead will have legal effect. Send in the Army to take firm control of all spillways and flush another billion gallons of water to the ocean whenever Governor Newscum misbehaves.

I thought Trump wanted to name Greenland to "Orangeland"?

In all seriousness though, Obama is the one who started all this by renaming Mt McKinley. Trump is just taking this to the next level.

 

[Politesse]

Is there a special thread for discussing the Sycophancy that Dear Leader attracts? There's now a bill in Congress to rename Greenland to be Red White and Blueland. Another bill would call for a fifth face -- Guess whose? -- to be carved on Mount Rushmore. Both these bills were submitted by Creatures of the QOPAnon Party; they were NOT (as you understandably might have guessed) sarcastic bills introduced by rational hominids.

Since there is precedent for naming things after living persons, e.g. the Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza named after Mother Teresa while she was still alive, I think putting Trump's beloved face on Mt. Rushmore is not enough. Washington, DC needs to be renamed Philatrumpia DD. (DD for the District of Donald). To avoid confusion the State of Washington would be renamed Trumpington at the same time. A Presidential Order is all that's needed, so why not rename San Francisco, California to be Santa Melania, Ivankornia. That would really piss off the libtards!

If the Governor of Ivankornia complains tell him that his state's name will change once a week and that only documents with current letterhead will have legal effect. Send in the Army to take firm control of all spillways and flush another billion gallons of water to the ocean whenever Governor Newscum misbehaves.

I thought Trump wanted to name Greenland to "Orangeland"?

In all seriousness though, Obama is the one who started all this by renaming Mt McKinley. Trump is just taking this to the next level.

Obama did not "rename" Mt McKinley. It is and always has been Denali to everyone except the fucking USGS. Get an education before spouting off about dumb-ass race baiting bullshit.

 

[TomC]

all seriousness though, Obama is the one who started all this by renaming Mt McKinley. Trump is just taking this to the next level.

Once again, nonsensical bullshit.
The mountain was called Denali for many centuries by the people who lived there.
It got renamed to suit a political candidate from the USA.
Tom

 

[crazyfingers]

Obama is the one who started all this by renaming Mt McKinley

That's at best a misrepresentation. Alaska had been pushing for the name to be changed back to Denali for decades.

Denali–Mount McKinley naming dispute - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[TomC]

In all seriousness though, Obama is the one who started all this by renaming Mt McKinley. Trump is just taking this to the next level.

Out of curiosity, do you remember who told you this lie?
Tom

 

[Swammerdami]

In all seriousness though, Obama is the one who started all this by renaming Mt McKinley. Trump is just taking this to the next level.

Out of curiosity, do you remember who told you this lie?
Tom

Please correct me if I'm wrong, @RVonse , but isn't your stock answer to this question "fake news"?
As you learn that Fox, Truth Social and Lies_R_Us are continually blowing smoke at you, would you consider switching to more reputable sources?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

In all seriousness though, Obama is the one who started all this by renaming Mt McKinley. Trump is just taking this to the next level.

Out of curiosity, do you remember who told you this lie?
Tom

It isn't a lie, just a bad perspective. RVonse has a way of just garbling truths into nonsense and nonsense into "truth". It does betray a white nationalism though.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

link

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, said in a statement.

The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told the Associated Press. The air traffic controller was not authorized to talk to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity.

I know what you are thinking. Thank goodness Harris isn't President!

So again, this isn't about need, resources, analysis, etc... Trump is just cutting x % because Musk thinks he is a brilliant manager. And they are cutting into an area that I think we'd all agree would be one of the last we'd look into cuts,, you know, until we've gone through all the other departments that aren't directly involved in ensuring large groups of people don't needlessly die.

 

[Shadowy Man]

link

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, said in a statement.

The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told the Associated Press. The air traffic controller was not authorized to talk to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity.

I know what you are thinking. Thank goodness Harris isn't President!

So again, this isn't about need, resources, analysis, etc... Trump is just cutting x % because Musk thinks he is a brilliant manager. And they are cutting into an area that I think we'd all agree would be one of the last we'd look into cuts,, you know, until we've gone through all the other departments that aren't directly involved in ensuring large groups of people don't needlessly die.

Probationary workers (i.e., the newly hired) are the ones most likely to be enthusiastic and efficient, and thus should be the last ones to fire.

A proper downsizing would entail an analysis of the workforce and having managers recommend who in their groups could best be done without. Not just random hacking at the workforce to see what breaks first.

 

[Elixir]

A proper downsizing would entail an analysis of the workforce and having managers recommend who in their groups could best be done without. Not just random hacking at the workforce to see what breaks first.

Did something give you the idea that the fascist regime has any interest in "proper downsizing"?
They're there to break things.

 

[Shadowy Man]

A proper downsizing would entail an analysis of the workforce and having managers recommend who in their groups could best be done without. Not just random hacking at the workforce to see what breaks first.

Did something give you the idea that the fascist regime has any interest in "proper downsizing"?
They're there to break things.

No. Not me. But I have seen the arguments both here and on other boards where people see this as a good thing and should simply be compared to the downsizing that often happens in industry.