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[RD] Trump in Charge: The MAGA Presidency

alright so the moment democrats lost 1 vote when he died, republicans passed the bill with 1 vote margin.

as always, tax writeoffs for the wealthiest, insane investments into "security" (basically going more brownshirting), insane cuts to medicaid, social security, snap, etc.

two thoughts.

1 for any republican reading who don't care about the social policy, but keep yelling about it; this will absolutely further explode the national debt, as republican policy always does (dems tend to balance). +3.8 tn to federal deficit.
www.theguardian.com

House passes Trump’s sweeping tax-cut bill and sends it to Senate

Measure would tighten eligibility for health and food programs for poor people and could add $3.8tn to US debt
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

2 with dems insisting to keep the geriatric in endless positions, having them lose this over a passive guy dying is poetic, but of course, it's not poetry you like to hear.
i have sympathies for his family but this is insane. either rotate them or make some infinite life pod. we still don't have the latter, though.

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oh, and, another article
www.theguardian.com

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ spending bill, from tax cuts to mass deportations

All the key points laid out in the US president’s House-approved sweeping bill as it awaits Senate consideration
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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weeeeeeeeeeee
 
I saw an item about the federal courts thing earlier this week and I think it's highly likely that provision is struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional.
 
Lexicus said:
I saw an item about the federal courts thing earlier this week and I think it's highly likely that provision is struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional.
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with how they've acted, we might be lucky that this is the case yea.
 
@Broken_Erika I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with me or not, but those demands are clearly wildly out of proportion and quite possibly unconstitutional.
 
Is anyone surprised ? Trump must surely be the most ignorant prick ever elected :D


“These are all white farmers that are being buried,” said Trump, holding up a print-out of an article accompanied by the picture during a contentious Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

In fact, the video published by Reuters on February 3 and subsequently verified by its fact check team showed humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from footage of a mass burial following an M23 rebel assault on Goma, filmed by video journalist Djaffar Al Katanty.
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Andrea Widburg, managing editor at "American Thinker" and the author of the post in question, wrote in reply to a Reuters query that Trump had “misidentified the image”.
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And now Mad King Donald thinks he can tariff individual companies. From the Guardian's live feed:

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Considering this is a forum about a game whose parent is Take Two and Trump and co's effort to scrub it away, this is really relevant: Take Two scrubs mentions of diversity and removes LGBT awards from its annual investors report.

www.gamefile.news

Take Two removes praise for its LGBTQ efforts from its annual report, scrubs diversity references

Game File combed the latest annual reports from Take Two and EA, finding numerous fine-print changes. Some serious, some not, some seemingly in reaction to Donald Trump.
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And now Mad King Donald thinks he can tariff individual companies. From the Guardian's live feed:

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He can certainly instruct to tariff a specific category, and country of origin. "Smartphones produced in China/India...". As a result, everyone - Samsung, Google, Apple get hit by 25%. I think this is personal: Some companies (Nvidia) managed to avoid serious restrictions by committing to gradually transfer manufacturing inside the borders of the USA. Apple/Google/Samsung are categorically refusing to move their manufacturing out of Asia - that makes them a new target for Trump.

Trump is extorting committal from Cook. Everyone understands it takes years to relocate. Trump needs to believe Apple is planning to move modern high-yielding smart factories out of Asia and into USA. Once Cooks "signs a piece of paper with his blood" (to that effect) tariffs/threats will be lifted. At this point it has become a recurrent theme across many companies and industries.
 

Harvard sues Trump administration for blocking foreign student enrolment​

Harvard is suing the Trump administration after it revoked the university's ability to enrol international students, escalating a dispute between the White House and one of America's most prestigious institutions.

In the suit filed in Boston, the university called the administration's actions a "blatant violation" of the law.

It comes a day after officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said they would be revoking Harvard's access to student visa programmes.

The Trump administration says Harvard has not done enough to fight antisemitism and change its hiring and admissions practices – allegations that the university has strongly denied.

There are around 6,800 international students at Harvard, who make up more than 27% of its enrolments this year.

"With the stroke of a pen, the government has sought to erase a quarter of Harvard's student body, international students who contribute significantly to the University and its mission," Harvard argued in the lawsuit.

The university is asking for a court order to halt a move the DHS made on Thursday to revoke Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification - the mechanism by which it is allowed to enrol foreign students.

"We condemn this unlawful and unwarranted action," Harvard President Alan Garber said in a letter.

"The revocation continues a series of government actions to retaliate against Harvard for our refusal to surrender our academic independence and to submit to the federal government's illegal assertion of control over our curriculum, our faculty, and our student body," he wrote.

The Trump administration has taken aim at Harvard and other elite universities, not only arguing that they should do more to clamp down on pro-Palestinian activists but also claiming they discriminate against conservative viewpoints.

The Trump administration has launched investigations into dozens of universities across the countries and wrung concessions from other major US institutions like Columbia University in New York.

In April, the White House froze $2.2bn (£1.7bn) in federal funding to Harvard, and Trump has threated to remove the university's tax-exempt status, a standard designation for US educational institutions.

The funding freeze prompted an earlier Harvard lawsuit, also asking the courts to stop the administration's actions.

Harvard, a member of America's elite Ivy League class of universities, is located just outside Boston in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cje7ledqvyqo
 
Hope America gets through all this insanity and at one point returns as a regularly functioning democracy for all. Until then, I'm staying away though
 
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Hope America gets through all this insanity and at one point returns as a regularly functioning democracy for all. Until then, I'm staying away though
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Wish I had somewhere to go, but also fudge these guys
 
The man has lost his way.

Trump Warns Of The Perils Of 'Trophy Wives' During West Point Commencement Speech​

"A lot of trophy wives, it doesn't work out," the president noted as he spoke to graduating cadets at the military academy.
https://www.huffpost.com/author/hilary-hanson
By Hilary Hanson
May 24, 2025, 04:36 PM EDT

President Donald Trump went on a tangent about “trophy wives” during his commencement address at West Point Military Academy on Saturday. Speaking to graduating cadets, Trump told a story about William Levitt, the real estate developer who pioneered mass-produced homes in suburban developments known as Levittowns.

Trump brought Levitt up as an example of someone who had “momentum” in his career and then lost it. While discussing the life of the “great, great real estate man,” Trump made a point to comment on his marital history.
“He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife,” Trump said. “Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn’t work out too well, but that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell you. A lot of trophy wives, it doesn’t work out. But it made him happy for a little while at least. But he found a new wife.”

Levitt, like Trump, was married three times. The Levittown developer divorced his first wife, Rhoda Kirshner, in 1959 and married his secretary, Alice Kenny, the same year. The second marriage lasted until 1969, until Levitt again got divorced and remarried in the same year, this time marrying Simone Korchin, who survived him. At other points in the graduation speech, the MAGA hat-clad Trump referred to the United States the “hottest country in the world” and credited himself for rebuilding the American military.
 
The Fox News-approved guide to being a man
Tim Burchett, a Republican representative, would like you to know that he is not a straw man. No sir. Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, the Tennessee lawmaker explained that he is a red-blooded American male who does not “drink out of a straw” because “that’s what the women in my house do”. And no self-respecting man wants to be like the women in their house, do they? Yuck.

Why did Burchett feel the need to tell us all what he likes to put in his mouth? Because the Fox News host Jesse Watters has some very strange ideas about masculinity and, back in March, came up with “rules for men”. These include: don’t drink soup in public, don’t cross your legs, don’t drink from a straw (it makes your lips purse in an “effeminate” manner), don’t drink milkshakes and “don’t wave simultaneously with two hands”.

The Fox News host is so proud of these rules that he now has his producer running around Washington DC asking lawmakers their thoughts on Watters’ guide to masculinity. Burchett, as we’ve seen, is fully on board. So is the Missouri senator Josh Hawley, who has written a book called Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs.

Meanwhile, in a stunning example of ClickHole’s “The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point” meme, Ted Cruz seemed a little more dubious. “Jesse Watters has rules for men,” Watters’ producer told Cruz. “He said men should not have male best friends. What do you think?” Cruz replied: “Jesse needs a friend.” I think he needs a lot more than that.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/valeria-marquez-death-femicide
Watters has said his rules for men are just a bit of fun. But it all starts to become a little less funny when you look at the massive impact Fox has on the US, and how influential Watters himself is. More than 4 million people tune into Watters’ primetime show and the man is constantly reinforcing toxic ideas about gender. Watters, for example, has suggested that he doesn’t really think fathers are responsible for raising their daughters. “When you raise a son, you are responsible for that son,” Watters said last year. “It’s not like raising a daughter, it’s different.” He’s also denigrated fathers who leave work early to spend time with their children.

Watters, who is on his second marriage, to a much younger woman who was an associate producer on his show at Fox News, also has some very disturbing ideas about how to approach women. Want to know how he courted his second wife? He’s boasted on TV that he let the air out of her car tires. “She couldn’t go anywhere. She needed a lift. I said: ‘Hey, you need a lift?’ She hopped right in the car,” Watters laughed. (He later claimed it was a joke.) By the way, Watters was still married at the time. Fox News likes to style itself as a paragon of family values, but these are the values it promotes.

Again: Watters isn’t just some kook with a niche show. A large body of research shows that Fox News shapes American politics. There is a direct line between the misogyny and rigid gender roles amplified on Fox News and laws that treat women as nothing more than incubators and walking wombs. There’s a direct line between the sort of attitude towards women that Watters espouses and the fact that a brain dead woman in Georgia is being kept alive to carry out her pregnancy because of the state’s abortion ban. Watters may say his rules for men are just a bit of fun, but his viewers are gulping it all down. Obviously without a straw.

Pregnant news anchor stays on air during labor​

It’s funny how Watters seems to think “effeminate” is a slur when you’ve got women like the local news co-anchor Olivia Jaquith calmly delivering her newscast even after her labor contractions began. “I’m happy to be here and I’ll stay on the desk for as long as I possibly can,” Jaquith said. “But if I disappear, that’s what’s going on.”
 
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