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

ZiprHead said:
Boasberg finds ‘probable cause exists’ to hold Trump administration in contempt for violating orders on deportation flights

Boasberg moves to hold Trump administration in contempt over deportation flights
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Uh huh.
If the Trump junta wasn’t looking for this confrontation I’ll eat my hat.

WHO is “the administration”? Every goddam joker with a title?
So - what agency arrests the dude who is accused of knowingly blah blah … ?

Assume that they will ignore if they can, and lie if they can’t defy a summons, which I expect they will try.
At some point it’s gonna come down to SCROTUS limiting the insane clown posse’s power or acceding to it.

I wonder about the extent to which the apricot has managed to issue his usual implied personal threats to some or all of the justices.
 
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Jimmy Higgins said:
Trump apparently thinks he has free reign over law firms that made a deal with him.
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When some of the nation’s biggest law firms agreed to deals with President Trump, the terms appeared straightforward: In return for escaping the full force of his retribution campaign, the firms would do some free legal work on behalf of largely uncontroversial causes like helping veterans.

Mr. Trump, it turns out, has a far more expansive view of what those firms can be called on to do.

Over the last week, he has suggested that the firms will be drafted into helping him negotiate trade deals.

He has mused about having them help with his goal of reviving the coal industry.
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But now that nine firms have agreed to deals and committed to nearly $1 billion worth of pro bono legal work, some Trump advisers have started having discussions about a range of options for what the firms’ lawyers can be deployed to work on, according to two people briefed on the matter. That work could include sending the lawyers to help Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency or deploying them to aid the Justice Department, they said.

White House officials believe that some of the pro bono legal work could even be used toward representing Mr. Trump or his allies if they became ensnared in investigations, according to the two people.
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It seems to me that these law firms have the perfect opportunity to sabotage Trump. All they have to do is what Trump's current batch of lawyers, such as Alina Habba, have been doing, and provide incompetent service in courts.
 
Sometimes it seems like we are living through a time like 1953 all over again. Is that where Trump and his fan base want to take us?
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
lostone said:
Sometimes it seems like we are living through a time like 1953 all over again. Is that where Trump and his fan base want to take us?
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Waiting for the gold standard to come back.
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For tax years 1944 through 1951, the highest marginal tax rate for individuals was 91%, increasing to 92% for 1952 and 1953.

I fucking WISH that was what they were aiming for, but it’s inverted. They want poor people to give 90-something percent of every dollar they earn to the government so billionaires can become trillionaires.

Like everything else they say, MAGA is literally a big fat lie.
 
Have a barf bag at hand while watching this bullshit.



Using the mother of a murdered woman to smear someone else who had nothing to do with it is reprehensible. And doing it with a cross hanging from her neck makes it more so.
 
Looks as if the SCS may be nearing an end and evangelicals are celebrating it. When I was a child being indoctrinated in the Baptist religion, Baptists respected the SCS, apparently not any more. Read the creepy gifted article I'm going to link, or maybe I should say, read it and weep.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/...e_code=1.Ak8.l1EO.6GP-wyf0_S3A&smid=url-share

From the moment Donald J. Trump was re-elected to the presidency, his conservative Christian supporters have rejoiced in a second chance for their values to have power. And now, week after week, scenes like these are taking place at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as they seize on this opportunity.

Routinely, and often at Mr. Trump’s enthusiastic direction, senior administration officials and allied pastors are infusing their brand of Christian worship into the workings of the White House itself, suggesting that his campaign promise to “bring back Christianity” is taking tangible root.
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Mr. Trump is not known to attend church regularly, and at times in the past he has sounded ignorant of Christian language and beliefs. But after the assassination attempt, Mr. Trump said he had been saved from death by “the grace of almighty God.”

To his supporters’ particular delight, Mr. Trump’s new White House Faith Office has physical office space in the prized real estate of the West Wing. Evangelical leaders say they have increased proximity to Mr. Trump, even compared with his first administration, when they enjoyed a place of prominence.

“This is a different reality,” said the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, who prayed for Mr. Trump in the Oval Office with a group in March. “It comes with unprecedented access and an unparalleled commitment to affirming our Judeo-Christian value system.”


Ms. White-Cain and Ms. Korn emphasized that the faith office exists to support religious freedom for people of all faiths. The White House has hosted an iftar, where Mr. Trump thanked Muslims for their support in November. The faith office also held a Passover event on Thursday.

The executive order establishing the new office says it is devoted to “combating antisemitic, anti-Christian, and additional forms of anti-religious bias.” The office has promised pastors an ambitious agenda, including ending what it sees as Christian persecution in America and to end the prevailing belief that church and state should be separated.

Asked about a memo from the State Department ordering employees to report examples of anti-Christian bias, and whether other departments and agencies had issued similar instructions, Ms. White-Cain replied, “We sure would hope so.”
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Anti-Christian bias" WTF are these people talking about. Have they ever visited the South, where a town like mine has over 80 churches from tiny to mega?

“He just seems more resolute,” Mr. Kubal said of Mr. Trump. “It seems as if he is striving to accomplish God’s mission for him, and not just accomplish an achievement.”

Jackson Lahmeyer, a pastor in Oklahoma who has said that the Constitution is built on the Bible, has visited the White House several times in the past few months. He founded Pastors for Trump to mobilize church leaders in the 2024 campaign, and is part of a cohort of newer supporters with growing influence across the country and on social media, joining longtime Trump loyalists like Franklin Graham and Robert Jeffress.
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Just about everyone of the founders were skeptics, agnostics, atheists or deists, but these Christian extremists are doing their best to change history and their glorious leader is encouraging them. They think he's a god chosen king. They are working hard to establish a theocratic form of government. There is more in the linked article if you have the time and courage to read it all, please do.
 
The ignorance of American citizens truly inspires awe! Is there any historical precedent for such stupidity? Even if it were true that 15th century Europeans thought the Earth was flat -- they didn't -- that ignorance wouldn't rival the Terrible confusion and imbecility on display in Nazified America.

April 18: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance; 47% disapprove. Strongly Approve is 35%, up from 29% on April 9th. Strongly Disapprove is only 38%, down from 43% on the 9th. Almost exactly half of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.

Investors may have a less sanguine view. Tesla stock sells for exactly half of what it did at its December pinnacle. The stock pays no dividends and still trades at a 118 P/E ratio.

Trump has a plan for reviving the U.S. economy: Installing his cronies on the Federal Reserve Board, much as he took over the Lincoln Center.
The president called for the Fed chairman [Jerome Powell] to go in a post on his Truth Social website, claiming the chairman is “always TOO LATE AND WRONG”.... “He’ll leave if I ask him to, he’ll be out of there,” the president told reporters. “I’m not happy with him. I let him know and if I want him out, he’ll be out of there real fast, believe me.”

Mr Trump appointed Mr Powell to the post in his first term as president.
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According to RCP, Trump is generally under water, and the broader trend is it is getting worse for Trump in polling.

This Economist poll is interesting when you break down it down by household earnings, none of them support Trump in plurality or majority.

The frightening thing is Trump has approval among 85% of Republicans./"conservatives".
 
I actually needed to look up the Trump exec order on citizenship, with the recent arrest of the US Citizen in Florida. I was born to an American father and Canadian mother. At the time, she was a legalized alien, I think the term was (a few decades later she naturalized). And I was curious, assuming when SCOTUS gives the 14th some reaming and ends birthright citizenship, much like it fucked the Voting Rights Act, am I an American?

Well, the good news is that, well for now, my dad being an American should be good enough. The Exec Order only appears to complain if the woman isn't a citizen and the father isn't either.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
I was curious, assuming when SCOTUS gives the 14th some reaming and ends birthright citizenship, much like it fucked the Voting Rights Act, am I an American?
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As long as you worship Dear Leader.
NOBODY is an American if they don’t do that.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
I actually needed to look up the Trump exec order on citizenship, with the recent arrest of the US Citizen in Florida. I was born to an American father and Canadian mother. At the time, she was a legalized alien, I think the term was (a few decades later she naturalized). And I was curious, assuming when SCOTUS gives the 14th some reaming and ends birthright citizenship, much like it fucked the Voting Rights Act, am I an American?

Well, the good news is that, well for now, my dad being an American should be good enough. The Exec Order only appears to complain if the woman isn't a citizen and the father isn't either.
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They'll offer to deport half of you?

But don't worry, by then Canada will be a state anyway.
 
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