Donald Trump

[pipbarber]

Greenland glances at Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... e-of-trump

I won't pretend to know a damn thing about Greenland politics, but the only reason that springs to mind for people to vote for the party most open to talking to the US are people who think there might be some money in it for themselves. They'd be the party for the fools of Greenland, they did quite well apparently.

[stevebrooks]

It's bizarre, this is Trump's senior trade advisor:

“So the President wants steel and aluminium in America. And let me be clear, nothing’s going to stop that strong aluminium capability.

The only thing that's going to end the tariffs is if steel and aluminium is produced in the US, so if Australia just stops sending steel and aluminium to the US the tariffs will stop? Does that make an sense at all? Can anyone explain how that makes sense, I mean if that's the aim just ban all imports of steel and aluminium! Same result, Australia, as I said earlier, isn't going to ship the raw materials to the US to refine it their, and even if they did, they are just moving the problem further down the line, the US is still reliant on imports to get steel and aluminium, only now there is much more imported material to get the same volume of steel and aluminium. There is no sense in it! It's entirely nonsense!

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy ... af60ec7e4d

[stevebrooks]

Ah yeah this is going to make things much better!

Department of Health and Human Services leader Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said this week that it is really difficult for a "healthy" person to die from measles, and suggested that diet and exercise could have prevented a child from dying from the disease. Kennedy is now victim blaming the child for apparently not being "fit" enough to survive, when the real culprits are people like Kennedy that have spent years convincing people that vaccines are more harmful than diseases. He's deflecting the blame from himself and onto a dead child

[stevebrooks]

Oh no, it seems the "political" reasons that are keeping the astronauts trapped on the ISS are going to keep them trapped a little longer!

Two US astronauts stranded on the International Space Station for over nine months will have to wait longer to return home after a SpaceX mission to replace them was delayed.

The Falcon 9 rocket was set to take off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center with Crew-10 astronauts at 7:48pm on Wednesday US time (10.48am Thursday AEDT).

But with about 45 minutes left on the countdown clock and all four crew members strapped in, the rocket’s launch pad experienced a technical issue.

“There was an issue with the hydraulic system on the ground side,” NASA launch commentator Derrol Nail said, adding that “everything was fine with the rocket and the spacecraft itself.”

https://www.news.com.au/technology/scie ... 9b3b098b71

[stevebrooks]

Trump has declared that the pardons issued by Biden are void, thus breaking several hundred years of legal precedent, and could in fact lead to Hunter Biden again being brought before a judge and jury, lets see where this goes aye? Will the Supreme Court dare support him in this? I mean it does raise the possibility that the next president, if there is one, could just declare all the Jan 6 pardons void and incarcerate them, I don't think this is where they want to go personally, but MAGA's will be MAGA's.

https://imgur.com/gallery/wait-is-this- ... al-zWocDAz

[pipbarber]

Trump has declared that the pardons issued by Biden are void, thus breaking several hundred years of legal precedent, and could in fact lead to Hunter Biden again being brought before a judge and jury, lets see where this goes aye? Will the Supreme Court dare support him in this? I mean it does raise the possibility that the next president, if there is one, could just declare all the Jan 6 pardons void and incarcerate them, I don't think this is where they want to go personally, but MAGA's will be MAGA's.

I don't think maga are planning to ever be in opposition, so future pardon reverses against the J6s isn't something they need concern themselves with.

[stylofone]

Trump has declared that the pardons issued by Biden are void, thus breaking several hundred years of legal precedent, and could in fact lead to Hunter Biden again being brought before a judge and jury, lets see where this goes aye? Will the Supreme Court dare support him in this? I mean it does raise the possibility that the next president, if there is one, could just declare all the Jan 6 pardons void and incarcerate them, I don't think this is where they want to go personally, but MAGA's will be MAGA's.

https://imgur.com/gallery/wait-is-this- ... al-zWocDAz

I saw it compared to sovereign citizens who make silly arguments to judges like "you have the wrong flag displayed in the courtroom, and that means you have no authority over me."

The scary thing about it is that Trump isn't in court for driving without a licence. It is another increment in the slide to totalitarianism in the US. Note his threat to go after those who investigated his wrongdoing. Bypassing the courts, bypassing Congress, and now bypassing any executive decisions of his predecessors, it's all part of the descent into tyranny. Trump uber alles.

[stevebrooks]

Trump has declared that the pardons issued by Biden are void, thus breaking several hundred years of legal precedent, and could in fact lead to Hunter Biden again being brought before a judge and jury, lets see where this goes aye? Will the Supreme Court dare support him in this? I mean it does raise the possibility that the next president, if there is one, could just declare all the Jan 6 pardons void and incarcerate them, I don't think this is where they want to go personally, but MAGA's will be MAGA's.

I don't think maga are planning to ever be in opposition, so future pardon reverses against the J6s isn't something they need concern themselves with.

Oh yes that is a position I think they hold, however it's a problem for them because Trump won't be around forever, and what happens if the next person who gets into the Presidency disagrees with them on some important positions, like whether there should even be a congress. The checks and balances that were supposed to protect the American people also, well, were supposed to protect them as well, and if they throw them all away, well if MTG annoys someone in high position it might just be her being arrested and sent to camp for being a terrorist.

It's a double edged sword and authoritarian inclined never see the other edge until it takes their heads off!

[stylofone]

It's a double edged sword and authoritarian inclined never see the other edge until it takes their heads off!

This is true, but the disturbing thing for me is to contemplate how many innocent people's heads will be removed before the sword finally reverses its direction and falls on the authoritarians who started this murderous process? I don't like the ratio of innocent to guilty I'm seeing right now, and the direction it's going.

[stevebrooks]

It's a double edged sword and authoritarian inclined never see the other edge until it takes their heads off!

This is true, but the disturbing thing for me is to contemplate how many innocent people's heads will be removed before the sword finally reverses its direction and falls on the authoritarians who started this murderous process? I don't like the ratio of innocent to guilty I'm seeing right now, and the direction it's going.

Yeah, this is an exposition of the way they think:

https://imgur.com/gallery/we-need-due-process-KhDK55p

Basically criminals shouldn't be given trials, I mean they are criminals, why should they be given a costly, time consuming and pointless trial, just throw them in prison somewhere. Only innocent people would be given trials!