Trump Presidency

[matthewfarmery]

So in a meeting with the German chancellor, Trump forgets where his own father was born, (born in NY) but Trump says his father was Born in Germany, What's more, he couldn't even name the country either, just saying he was born in, then he was born there. (indicating Germany.

This is another case for Dementia, the first bit where his father was born, could be mistaken as a lie, but to forgot the country's name? considering the German councillor was sitting right next to him? clear signs of dementia. He is getting worse, and this madman will take the world to hell in a handbasket. because Americans voted for this. Really scared now. I don't see any way out, unless Trump admits he is wrong.

But that not going to happen, congress won't stop this war, the senate seems reluctant to do the same. While Trump is getting more dangerous and stupid by the day. This is n't going to end well for America, its not going to end well for the world. Because many americans were too stupid to realise the dangers, and the guardrails that should have prevent this, clearly weren't there.

[chew-ie]

Spain should answer with a visitors tax for US tourists and explain them as compensation for lost trade due to Trumps trade embargo.

*scnr*

Why U.S. Travelers Are Spending More Than Ever In Spain
@source: forbes.com

Btw as a fellow fan of our dear chancellor, you will be pleased to hear that he was sitting in the Cuck chair next to Trump when Trump began talking about Spain and when he was asked if he would support an embargo of Spain he did begin to talk about Spain's defence expenditure, basically stabbing our european allies in the back to not make Trump angry.

lot of European leaders urgently need a spine transplant, any leader who does not condemn the unlawful attack on Iran is as guilty as trump and netty.

At least they finally did send the German foreign minister forward to say something nice about Spain and you know... show EU unity which is the LAST EFFIN thing we can do in this world spiralling out of control - after our chancellor imposter clearly did have no clue about the "complex situation" (as always...) when he sucked up to Trump.

On that note, Germany has offered its solidarity with Spain in a marked change of tone, after chancellor Friedrich Merz's previous refusal to defend the European partner in front of Donald Trump sparked some tensions between Madrid and Berlin.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... atest-news

[Vertigo 7]

Well apparently Noem got fired. So much could be said but I'll simply leave it at good riddance and hopefully we'll see the bitch in cuffs soon.

[chew-ie]

RE cuffs: nah - she's instead getting a job at the "Shield of Americans", Trumps latest "innovation" to circumvent US state departments: (to be announced in the next few days)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... d-security

So it's no firing - it's a 'whoopsie, she got caught, let me put her out of harms way'.

[matthewfarmery]

Trump is throwing a nuclear hissy fit over the Texas elections, demanding that they get stopped, as it will be bad for Trump. So, this is just a prelude to the midterms, you know he is terrified of the outcome of that.

[Vertigo 7]

RE cuffs: nah - she's instead getting a job at the "Shield of Americans", Trumps latest "innovation" to circumvent US state departments: (to be announced in the next few days)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... d-security

So it's no firing - it's a 'whoopsie, she got caught, let me put her out of harms way'.

oh don't misunderstand me. i do not believe she'll be arrested under this admistration. i mean for what comes next, if there is a next.

[chew-ie]

RE cuffs: nah - she's instead getting a job at the "Shield of Americans", Trumps latest "innovation" to circumvent US state departments: (to be announced in the next few days)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... d-security

So it's no firing - it's a 'whoopsie, she got caught, let me put her out of harms way'.

oh don't misunderstand me. i do not believe she'll be arrested under this admistration. i mean for what comes next, if there is a next.

Gotcha.

[Vertigo 7]

so now i guess she's blaming the orange one after he said he had no idea about the advertisement campaign she spent a crap ton of tax payer money on. Who is to say if dementia don authorized it or not? regardless... something tells me with this back and forth accusations that she's not gonna get her new job. 50 bucks says darth hamburder will claim she had no idea who she was before he appointed her to head up DHS.

[felter]

Supposedly no one has a clue what is going on inside the US government, Trumps own aids have admitted that they don't know what he wants them to do or even know what he is saying, that they are just taking a guess and saying to themselves I think this is what he wants us to do, which kind of gives meaning to why everything is a total and utter mess. Looks like there is currently no competent leadership in the US right now.

Kristi Noem, so much for draining the swamp.

[felter]

For February, they were expecting a job rise of 59,000 instead they got a job loss of 92,000 while US unemployment has risen to 4.4% and wage rise is below the rate of inflation, not a good month at all, but Trump still says it's the greatest of greatest in the world.

[Usenko]

Supposedly no one has a clue what is going on inside the US government, Trumps own aids have admitted that they don't know what he wants them to do or even know what he is saying, that they are just taking a guess and saying to themselves I think this is what he wants us to do, which kind of gives meaning to why everything is a total and utter mess. Looks like there is currently no competent leadership in the US right now.

Not that this is exactly a shock.

Kristi Noem, so much for draining the swamp.

Some folks are gloomy about the fact that her replacement is likely worse. I say celebrate the small wins. This was not something the foul creature actually wanted!

[mr.WHO]

Some folks are gloomy about the fact that her replacement is likely worse. I say celebrate the small wins. This was not something the foul creature actually wanted!

That's short sighted approach that carried us to this screw up world.

I keep telling this to people cheering for Tump to croak - that's how you will get President Vance - you don't want President Vance.

[matthewfarmery]

I can't remember who, but one poster here wondered how it is possible to take money from the US treasury, transferring government money to private accounts?

Well, here we go

New revelations surrounding the firing of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem as a $220 million taxpayer-funded advertising scheme tied to companies connected to Corey Lewandowski raises serious questions about corruption.

Corey Lewandowski, remember that person? they have been fired. But Kristi Noem did a lot of adds, (tax payers money) it turns out, that Kristi Noem rewired 220 million to herself, transferring money to front companies and shell media accounts.

So, it's fully possible to hide a lot of money if you are the head of a company. Also, Kristi Noem says that Trump fully endorsed this, but later denies all knowledge of it, (of course he would, probably profited from it himself(

bottom line, if this happened here, then, regarding the tariff money, wouldn’t be hard to do either. then make a good chunk of that money vanish in thin air.

https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/pres ... -contract/

On the corrupt ties of Noem and her staff members to companies who received millions in federal DHS contracts:

scroll down, and read yourself. But yeah, plenty of money wired to different people and companies. I highly doubt all that 220 million went into adds.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bom ... ccounter=1

[matthewfarmery]

Trump pretty much confirmed it, Trump wants to go after Cuba, but wants to finish the current war, he says he could do it, but do them too fast, then bad things happen.

But yeah, he already thinking of invading Cuba, he just wants the Iran war dusted. But you can easy see, he already bored of the Iran war, and wants another distraction from it.

So bloody insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K94fv37dG9g

WW3 here we come.

[fiksal]

so WW3 will be not major super powers annihilating each other as we feared during the Cold War, but instead more armed, larger, nuclear powers annihilating and annexing smaller countries, while everyone else watches

[chew-ie]

What's more interesting [to me] are the attacked targets by the Iran - the AWS data centers. And the connected discussion to defend those with military tech. It's really getting full steam ahead towards armed megacorps.

[Chips]

I can't remember who, but one poster here wondered how it is possible to take money from the US treasury, transferring government money to private accounts?

Well, here we go

New revelations surrounding the firing of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem as a $220 million taxpayer-funded advertising scheme tied to companies connected to Corey Lewandowski raises serious questions about corruption.

Corey Lewandowski, remember that person? they have been fired. But Kristi Noem did a lot of adds, (tax payers money) it turns out, that Kristi Noem rewired 220 million to herself, transferring money to front companies and shell media accounts.

So, it's fully possible to hide a lot of money if you are the head of a company. Also, Kristi Noem says that Trump fully endorsed this, but later denies all knowledge of it, (of course he would, probably profited from it himself(

bottom line, if this happened here, then, regarding the tariff money, wouldn’t be hard to do either. then make a good chunk of that money vanish in thin air.

https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/pres ... -contract/

On the corrupt ties of Noem and her staff members to companies who received millions in federal DHS contracts:

scroll down, and read yourself. But yeah, plenty of money wired to different people and companies. I highly doubt all that 220 million went into adds.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bom ... ccounter=1

You're equating the idea that (parallel) because buddies of some in the UK Govt got awarded PPE contracts (despite having sod all to do with PPE equipment!) during covid, that this means that someone would be able to access and take money from HMRC accounts without anyone noticing.

It just does *not* work like that.

Of course, doesn't mean that under investigation they don't find out that $220m contract wasn't worth the money it was supposed to be, and perhaps it's not a fair and competitive tender (see above example parallel with PPE). But there is a paper trail; there is a signature, there are contracts drawn up etc. Someone, somewhere, is accountable. Unless they get pardoned. Those accounts are audited. In the US its the Governmental Accountability Office (unless it's been defunded )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St ... ity_Office

Far more likely they'd be getting back handers from dodgy firms that'll benefit from competitor companies receiving significant tariffs on their import goods, making them uncompetitive, and therefore put them out of business. Therefore, getting to influence what tariffs are being imposed. In this instance the paper trail is several times removed; it can be from other companies and shell companies that file elsewhere that transfer funds into companies registered elsewhere and so on and so forth - and nothing, anywhere, within the Govt system to be picked up upon. A bit like handing an envelope stashed with notes to someone. In a different country (see Panama Papers).

Definitely true the old saying about Power corrupts absolutely and so on and so forth, and undoubtedly they're exploiting govt contracts/situations galore. But there's a different between contract award (dodgy) and just direct taking tariff money.

[Usenko]

That's short sighted approach that carried us to this screw up world.

I keep telling this to people cheering for Tump to croak - that's how you will get President Vance - you don't want President Vance.

Not exactly.

Trump's opponents have to be ready to play the long game. That means taking the wins where you can, with the aim of keeping your courage high.

Obviously, you don't want to treat the fact that Noem has been sacked as the end of the game - that would indeed be short sighted. But ANY time that you defeat Trump, at ANYTHING, you have every right to be pleased at that outcome.

Even if (as in this case) you force him to dump one of his key supporters and find someone who was [from his point of view] ALMOST as good, but not EXACTLY as good. It's still a win.

The key is that nobody is going to stop resisting because they achieved this small goal, but having a small win might well help people to keep up the struggle. So celebrate the small win!

[matthewfarmery]

I can't remember who, but one poster here wondered how it is possible to take money from the US treasury, transferring government money to private accounts?

Well, here we go

New revelations surrounding the firing of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem as a $220 million taxpayer-funded advertising scheme tied to companies connected to Corey Lewandowski raises serious questions about corruption.

Corey Lewandowski, remember that person? they have been fired. But Kristi Noem did a lot of adds, (tax payers money) it turns out, that Kristi Noem rewired 220 million to herself, transferring money to front companies and shell media accounts.

So, it's fully possible to hide a lot of money if you are the head of a company. Also, Kristi Noem says that Trump fully endorsed this, but later denies all knowledge of it, (of course he would, probably profited from it himself(

bottom line, if this happened here, then, regarding the tariff money, wouldn’t be hard to do either. then make a good chunk of that money vanish in thin air.

https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/pres ... -contract/

On the corrupt ties of Noem and her staff members to companies who received millions in federal DHS contracts:

scroll down, and read yourself. But yeah, plenty of money wired to different people and companies. I highly doubt all that 220 million went into adds.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bom ... ccounter=1

You're equating the idea that (parallel) because buddies of some in the UK Govt got awarded PPE contracts (despite having sod all to do with PPE equipment!) during covid, that this means that someone would be able to access and take money from HMRC accounts without anyone noticing.

It just does *not* work like that.

Of course, doesn't mean that under investigation they don't find out that $220m contract wasn't worth the money it was supposed to be, and perhaps it's not a fair and competitive tender (see above example parallel with PPE). But there is a paper trail; there is a signature, there are contracts drawn up etc. Someone, somewhere, is accountable. Unless they get pardoned. Those accounts are audited. In the US its the Governmental Accountability Office (unless it's been defunded )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St ... ity_Office

Far more likely they'd be getting back handers from dodgy firms that'll benefit from competitor companies receiving significant tariffs on their import goods, making them uncompetitive, and therefore put them out of business. Therefore, getting to influence what tariffs are being imposed. In this instance the paper trail is several times removed; it can be from other companies and shell companies that file elsewhere that transfer funds into companies registered elsewhere and so on and so forth - and nothing, anywhere, within the Govt system to be picked up upon. A bit like handing an envelope stashed with notes to someone. In a different country (see Panama Papers).

Definitely true the old saying about Power corrupts absolutely and so on and so forth, and undoubtedly they're exploiting govt contracts/situations galore. But there's a different between contract award (dodgy) and just direct taking tariff money.

........................

The issue with this scandal, is that at least one company was created days before the contract was signed, and a lot of that money went into the pockets of allies and friends.

On Oct. 2, the second day of the government shutdown, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a television ad. Sitting on horseback in chaps and a cowboy hat, Noem addressed the camera with a stern message for immigrants: “Break our laws, we’ll punish you.”

Noem has hailed the more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration. Her agency invoked the “national emergency” at the border as it awarded contracts for the campaign, bypassing the normal competitive bidding process designed to prevent waste and corruption.

The Department of Homeland Security has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret, records and interviews show: a Republican consulting firm with long-standing personal and business ties to Noem and her senior aides at DHS. The company running the Mount Rushmore shoot, called the Strategy Group, does not appear on public documents about the contract. The main recipient listed on the contracts is a mysterious Delaware company, which was created days before the deal was finalized.

No firm has closer ties to Noem’s political operation than the Strategy Group. It played a central role in her 2022 South Dakota gubernatorial campaign. Corey Lewandowski, her top adviser at DHS, has worked extensively with the firm. And the company’s CEO is married to Noem’s chief spokesperson at DHS, Tricia McLaughlin.

The Strategy Group’s ad work is the first known example of money flowing from Noem’s agency to businesses controlled by her allies and friends.

Government contracting experts said the depth of the ties between DHS leadership and the Strategy Group suggested major potential violations of ethics rules.

[matthewfarmery]

I don't know if anyone here remembers Max Headroom? way ahead of his time, a guy on a computer screen with lines behind him? 80''s

Well, I just had a laugh when I looked up some of his videos, in one Max headroom says this

"people can be really nasty, only the other day I heard someone say he nothing but a robot, covered in makeup and talks a lot of nonsense. What a way to talk about the president of the united states"

Thing is, that is pretty true, even if it was funny back then. a real blast from the past.

Also, "why are the only funny lines on this show, are the ones behind me?"

But still, true enough that we have a president that acts just like that. Only problem, its no longer a laughing matter. Still, some memories are worth remembering.