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

[WAB]

I worked at the one hospital in Lake Havasu City, AZ, for six years, from 2006 to 2012. In that time we had at least three occasions where ordinary citizens were walking around asking any Hispanic person they saw for identification. Here in the southwest, a lot of employees in virtually any business are Hispanic. And they are typically the best employees, IMO, and I speak as a former manager and/or team leader for several facilities in healthcare, not to mention the husband of a Mexican woman and father of two half-Mexican sons.

A lot of employees capitulated, probably out of fear, to these people. One day someone told me what was going down in the hospital lobby, and I ran out and begged everyone to abstain from producing their ID. I asked one of these people to please show me their ID. I got a lot of blank, hangdog faces. I asked them on what or whose authority they were accosting workers there. They were there on no authority at all. I told them if they didn't leave I would call security. They left. I was livid.

 

[Tigers!]

The most noticeable impact is that trouser pockets last longer.

Which means that big trouser will never let the change happen. Not to mention big zinc.
The latter actually has been lobbying against retiring the penny.
Saving the penny makes cents for zinc-backed front group

Tough shit. It's zinc or swim.

Zinc works best as a sun screen

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The most noticeable impact is that trouser pockets last longer.

Which means that big trouser will never let the change happen. Not to mention big zinc.
The latter actually has been lobbying against retiring the penny.
Saving the penny makes cents for zinc-backed front group

Tough shit. It's zinc or swim.

Zinc works best as a sun screen

Pretty certain any metal would. Not particularly comfortable though.

 

[bilby]

The most noticeable impact is that trouser pockets last longer.

Which means that big trouser will never let the change happen. Not to mention big zinc.
The latter actually has been lobbying against retiring the penny.
Saving the penny makes cents for zinc-backed front group

Tough shit. It's zinc or swim.

Zinc works best as a sun screen

Indeed, it zinc-omparable in that role.

(I wasn't going to say that, but your response galvanized me into action).

 

[bilby]

The most noticeable impact is that trouser pockets last longer.

Which means that big trouser will never let the change happen. Not to mention big zinc.
The latter actually has been lobbying against retiring the penny.
Saving the penny makes cents for zinc-backed front group

Tough shit. It's zinc or swim.

Zinc works best as a sun screen

Pretty certain any metal would. Not particularly comfortable though.

A man in a metal suit would need a horse to carry him around.

And with that, I'm calling it a (k)night.

 

[lostone]

Bring back copper pennies and silver dimes - bring back $20 gold pieces - but does anyone want really want to carry physical money on them any more? Physical money is obsolete. Like bank robbery.

 

[bilby]

Cash is certainly in a serious decline around here. I never use it.

 

[bilby]

The parallels with the 1930s are frightening. Nobody really knows how to handle Trump, but the consensus amongst other world leaders, both of nations and corporations, seems to be "Let's not do anything to upset the madman with the big army".

This seeems like a dangerous approach. We need to tell him, clearly and unequivocally, to pull his fucking head in. And we need to be prepared to smack him down if he doesn't.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5g3y6dxzgo

 

[Shadowy Man]

We need to tell him, clearly and unequivocally, to pull his fucking head in. And we need to be prepared to smack him down if he doesn't.

Danish European Parliament member to Trump: 'F*** off'

A Danish European Parliament member had strong language in response to President Donald Trump's idea of purchasing Greenland.

www.usatoday.com

Danish European Parliament member to Trump: 'F*** off'​

A Danish European Parliament member had strong language in response to President Donald Trump's idea of purchasing Greenland.

 

[bilby]

We need to tell him, clearly and unequivocally, to pull his fucking head in. And we need to be prepared to smack him down if he doesn't.

Danish European Parliament member to Trump: 'F*** off'

A Danish European Parliament member had strong language in response to President Donald Trump's idea of purchasing Greenland.

www.usatoday.com

Danish European Parliament member to Trump: 'F*** off'​

A Danish European Parliament member had strong language in response to President Donald Trump's idea of purchasing Greenland.

And where are the corporate and nation state representatives saying this about his plans for tariffs that will severely harm the world's economies (particularly that of the USA)?

 

[Shadowy Man]

I saw that Danish European Parliament member interviewed and he had some very interesting things to say about Trump's offer and what the people of Greenland would feel about it. He pointed out that the US Virgin Islands were sold to the US by the Danish and that the people there never received the right to vote or have any proper representation in the US government (just a non-voting "delegate"), whereas the Greenland people do have representation in the Danish government.

 

[southernhybrid]

They just said on the news that ICE invaded a business in Newark, NJ. They are asking for people's IDs. Fuck! I guess Mr. Sohy who is of Arabic descent, better make sure he always has his star driver's license handy. That's the one that where we had to prove we were US citizens to get. Fuck! This is beyond insane!

See, for example, https://www.axios.com/2025/01/24/ice-raid-newark-new-jersey-immigration-us-citizens

ICE agents entered the Ocean Food Depot restaurant where owner Luis Janota said around a dozen immigration authorities detained three people after receiving a complaint...

• "I asked [the agents] what documentation they were looking for, and they said it was a license or a passport. I thought, who walks around with a passport?" Janota told the station.
• Janota said among the workers questioned was the manager of the restaurant's warehouse, a Puerto Rican man and military veteran. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.
• "It looked to me like they were specifically going after certain kinds of people — not every kind, because they did not ask me for documentation or my American workers, Portuguese workers or white workers."

If Mr. Sohy looks white he may be ok, but it may make sense for anyone who may look "foreign" to keep proof of citizenship on them.

He looks like he could be Jewish or Arabic, but it his grandparents were immigrants over a hundred years ago. He's a Miami boy. One time when he was flying for business, a few years after 911, he was pulled over and searched. Two Black guys laughed and told him that he was being treated worse than they ever were while flying. One of our Black neighbors thought he was a light skinned Black guy when they first met, but his son said, "some white guy is at the door", when he went to their house. one time. His late mother would have a fit if she knew that he was now sometimes referred to as a "person of color". She was a bit racist. I now refer to him as "whitish". We needed a little humor in this thread. Anyway, in Georgia, about 7 or 8 years ago, we were all required to prove we were citizens before we could get or renew our driver's licenses. Since we don't go out without our driver's licenses, we will be good. I'm so white I could shine in the dark. Mr. Sohy's mom didn't like him marrying a non Arabic girl. Prejudice comes in all shades, doesn't it?



I saw on the news that ICE was about to deport some Puerto Ricans in Newark. This is a horror show, which will probably get worse until we get rid of American's Hitler. It sounded as if these ICE agents were brutal when they went into that restaurant in Newark.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Hegseth confirmed as Defense Secretary. Time for a drink. Up next... RFK Jr.

 

[Swammerdami]

At some of the other message-boards, I think they're playing Trump-47 Bingo. Why did no one start that game here?

Anyway, I've completed five in a row and declare myself the winner.

• Trump will foul up the Inauguration. Recall that Chief Cheater Roberts deliberately gave long sentences in 2009, hoping Obama would give a wrong word order. For the 2025 ritual, Roberts wasn't taking chances, and repeated the oath one word at a time, or close to it. But Trump kept his traditional hand OFF the traditional Bible. Check! The Minister of Disinformation has yet to reveal whether Trump was afraid of his hand catching fire, needed the extra hand to diddle his ding-dong, or what.
• An airplane illegally transporting migrants will be denied entry to the airspace of a U.S. ally. Check! Mexico, which never paid for the Wall, did this. Mexico thereby moves up sharply on the list of countries Trump is most likely to bomb first.
• Trump will attempt to revise the Constitution with a simple Executive Order. Check!
• Trump's choice for DNI -- highest-ranking official for supervising America's secret intelligence -- will be a kook whom Putin has openly bragged to be a Russian asset. Check!
• The Senate will confirm as civilian head of the world's most powerful military an alcoholic rapist whose vocation is sucking cock on a right-wing Lie Machine, and whose highest military expertise was serving as a company officer in a state National Guard. Check!

Five in a row. I win!!

 

[Swammerdami]

Also -- Truth is stranger than fiction -- Trump has barely had time to fart in the Oval Office and some sycophant is already introducing a Constitutional Amendment to repeal the "two terms and you're out" rule.

Trump has already broken the record for oldest to be elected President; another term is unlikely to be viable unless they play some variation on Weekend at Bernie's. I think the Amendment is to make THIS, his third term retroactively legal. After all, he was already elected in 2016 and 2020. The fact that Jill Biden, Ilhan Omar and Tom Hanks deployed Jewish space lasers to destroy ballot in the 2020 election doesn't change who was the LEGITIMATE President during Biden's usurpation.


ETA: It has come to my attention that some denizens of IIDB are almost unbelievably stupid. Let me add a Smiley-Face here.

 

[bilby]

It has come to my attention that some denizens of IIDB are almost unbelievably stupid.

I almost don't believe that

 

[James Brown]

Hegseth confirmed as Defense Secretary. Time for a drink. Up next... RFK Jr.

I just read that the Defense Secretary is sixth in the presidential line of succession.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Hegseth confirmed as Defense Secretary. Time for a drink. Up next... RFK Jr.

As it appeared, the GOP is all in on Trump, no matter how insane it gets.

 

[blastula]

Bring back copper pennies and silver dimes - bring back $20 gold pieces - but does anyone want really want to carry physical money on them any more? Physical money is obsolete. Like bank robbery.

I pay for everything with eggs now.