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

Trump looking to set the tariff rates again. You know... after all of those discussions that are going on with all those nations. This part gets real good.
article (my emphasis) said:
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for more details about the new strategy, though one person familiar with the negotiations, granted anonymity to share private conversations, said there were simply “too many nations to negotiate with all at once.” The person indicated that the administration plans to impose a specific tariff level after July while other deals will be negotiated “in due course.”
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Yeah, we went from making all this alleged progress to, there are just too many countries Maaa.... I don't wanna make trade deals with them all. *pouty face*

The Exec Branch usually gets lampooned as being run by idiots, but we are seeing this actually being the case with the Trump Admin. How long until he turns up the tariffs on China again?
 
Swammerdami said:
Or was it deliberate sabotage by some anti-fascist who wheedled his way into a job at MAGA Watches'R'Us?
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Like all the stuff he hawks, it was made in China of course. They are not fans.
Are we sure about the reality of this? To me "RUMP" looks slightly off-center, as if the 'T' was photoshoped out.
Swammerdami said:
What is the tRUMP meme about anyway?
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I don't know where 'The land of smiles' is, but around here 'rump' is a slang term for your ass. Trump is a Rump.
"Get off yer rump, impeach him already".
 
Swammerdami said:
This Rachel Maddow show is a compendium of recent Trumpist evil. If you have any acquaintances who aren't sure that Trump is one of the most vile and disgusting humans to ever live, insist that they watch this.

Among many other items Ms. Maddow mentions that Trump and Musk have targeted the FAA and that recently we've seen failures in air traffic control. Is there a cause-effect relationship?

Maybe not, but the future of FAA doesn't look promising.

avweb.com said:
the list [of FAA layoffs] apparently targeted probationary workers with less than a year's service. There are now reports circulating that the net might have been cast a little wider than that. Apparently recently promoted employees become designated as probationary so they can be reassigned to their former jobs if the new gig doesn't work out. That means some of the layoffs hit veteran employees with years or decades of experience who were in high-ranking positions.
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yahoo.com said:
On January 29, American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with a U.S. Army helicopter near Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport, killing 67 people, in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in recent history.... But the next day, President Donald Trump deepened the FAA’s problems by blaming the disaster on diversity programs, a pronouncement that baffled many in the agency’s workforce. At least one senior executive decided to quit in disgust, I was told.
... many jobs with critical safety functions are indeed being sacrificed, with any possible replacements uncertain because of the government-wide hiring freeze. And records I reviewed show that employees classified as eligible for early retirement—and therefore allowed to walk off the job—include aviation-safety technicians and assistants, quality-assurance specialists, and engineers. Meanwhile, the buyouts reach far beyond air-traffic safety, affecting other core elements of the agency.
... SpaceX’s owner, Elon Musk [is deploying] equipment from the SpaceX subsidiary Starlink across the FAA’s communications network. The directive promises to make the nation’s air-traffic-control system dependent on the billionaire Trump ally, using equipment that experts say has not gone through strict U.S.-government security and risk-management review.
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The FAA’s turn to Starlink as a solution for its aging communications network poses a challenge to a $2.4 billion contract awarded to Verizon in 2023 to upgrade the agency’s network. FAA lawyers have been working 80-hour weeks to figure out what to do—whether they need to cancel or amend parts of the contract or else find the funds to supplement Verizon’s work with Starlink equipment.

The cumulative result is a depleted and demoralized FAA workforce at a time of declining public confidence in aviation safety.

... Inside the FAA, morale is at an all-time low, two agency officials told me. A former senior executive told me that recent events—beginning with the crash and the pressure to take early retirement—have sunk the agency into “complete chaos.”
... Trump’s drive to downsize the federal government, as directed by Musk’s DOGE initiative, is drastically reducing the number of aeronautical-information specialists and other workers in critical safety roles. Interviews and internal FAA records show that as many as 12 percent of the country’s aeronautical-information specialists have been fired or are exiting the agency as part of the government-wide buyout program.
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Monday Denver Int'l Airport experienced an outage similar to one that affected Newark. NBC suggests that these problems result from years of under-funding rather than recent Trump-Musk malice; still the anti-FAA Trumpist mayhem hardly seems an appropriate way to counter years of underfunding.

There's more bad news about the FAA but I don't want to filibuster! 8-)
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Mayor Pete tried to get funding for more ATC and updated equipment. Republicans said no.
 
SCOTUS smacks Trump Admin and 5th Circuit in the face.
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The Supreme Court on Friday blocked President Donald Trump from moving forward with deportations under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act for a group of immigrants in northern Texas, siding with Venezuelans who feared they were poised for imminent removal under the sweeping wartime authority.

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The court’s unsigned opinion was notably pointed about how the government was attempting to handle the removals and also how US District Judge James Hendrix had dealt with the case at an earlier stage.

The court referenced another case that had reached it previously, that of the Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly removed to El Salvador. The court noted that the Trump administration has represented that it is “unable to provide for the return of an individual deported in error to a prison in El Salvador.”

Given that, the court said, “the detainees’ interests at stake are accordingly particularly weighty.” In other words, the court was saying it is important to get the legal questions correct before people are removed, potentially, forever.
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So the next move is Trump's. Sucks that this was presumably 7-2 and not 9-0.

Quite something they used the Garcia case to backstop their finding. Pretty much saying 'we have gone from hypothetical to actual'.
 
ZiprHead said:
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Its insane but not exactly as that post reports.

It was republicans on the house judiciary Committee.

They are evil and insane but just one committee.

Republicans on the US House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee universally voted against an amendment on Wednesday that would have prevented Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from using federal funds to detain or deport US citizens
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www.jurist.org

US House Republicans vote against blocking ICE from deporting US citizens

Republicans on the US House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee universally voted against an amendment on Wednesday that would have prevented Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from using f...
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unapologetic said:
Like all the stuff he hawks, it was made in China of course. They are not fans.
Are we sure about the reality of this? To me "RUMP" looks slightly off-center, as if the 'T' was photoshoped out.
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I suspect you're right. Fake news, fake fake fake; it's all fake now. :mad:
unapologetic said:
Swammerdami said:
What is the tRUMP meme about anyway?
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I don't know where 'The land of smiles' is, but around here 'rump' is a slang term for your ass. Trump is a Rump.
"Get off yer rump, impeach him already".
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Maybe it's due to my not eating beef cuts, but I thought "rump" was obsolescent by now. Even "trump" by itself seems like a better insult:
Wiktionary/trump said:
(UK, colloquial, euphemistic) A fart.
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As for 'the land of smiles' I suddenly realize that countries have well-known nicknames that are ONLY known to inmates and frequent visitors. Most countries have nicknames, I'd guess, but only a few are known to me:
  • Down under, Oz
  • Land of the Free, Sweet land of liberty
  • Emerald island
  • Hexagon
  • "Just lie back and think of ______"
  • "the 51st state"
Are there any other well-known nicknames for countries that I'm missing?

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I'd not intended my Location to be a puzzle but since it is, here is a clue:
  • Using an ancient etymology the country's name translates as "Land of the free." And in many ways, the country WAS more free than the USA even before the US electorate opted for fascism. In fact when I first visited this country and sought permissions I was often told:
    "This is ________. You can do whatever you want."​
    Occasionally that clause was qualified:
    "If you have money, you can do whatever you want."​
  • There is one major exception to this freedom: It is criminal to insult our beloved(?) Monarch, 10th of his dynasty.
 
ATTENTION
We are all invited to Rump's birthday parade.
June 14, Washington DC.

Better than front row seating.
Simply the best seat on the parade route:
Fill the street, in front of the reviewing stand.
(probably Pensylvania Ave.)
Show your 'respect' for our new king.
Wear your red hardhat.
If you're a vet, wear your uniform.
 
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