| second: Applications for vacant slots in U.S. attorneys’ offices, once apolitical questionnaires, now include requirements to weigh in on Mr. Trump’s policies. “How would you help advance the president’s executive orders and policy priorities in this role?” “Identify one or two relevant executive orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.” Candidates who expressed support for administration policies were moved forward for final interviews, even those with weak academic records and little litigation experience. [go to link] |
| THG: World leaders eye alliance to blunt Trump’s tariff shockwave |
| THG: Trump tariffs cost average US household $1K last year: |
| THG: 'Backtracking and blowing things up' defines Trump’s 'whiplash' second year: report |
| THG:
Billionaire Trump donor moving his Ohio manufacturing plant to China |
| 6ixStringJack: |
| second: The leaders of Denmark and Greenland do not think the crisis over the Arctic territory has ended and believe President Donald Trump is still "very serious" about acquiring the territory. "I think the desire from the U.S. president is exactly the same," said Denmark's prime minister. [go to link]/ |
| second: Trump donor who criticized offshoring to close Ohio plant and move work to China. Workers decried John Paulson’s plan after billionaire painted himself as advocate for domestic manufacturing. Paulson, like Trump, has publicly criticized offshoring. “We can’t have American producers closing American factories and offshoring. We need to protect American jobs and protect American manufacturing,” he said. A longtime Trump donor, he served on Trump’s economic policy team during his first presidential campaign and raised $50.5m for the president at his Palm Beach home in April 2024. He was in the running to serve as secretary of treasury during Trump’s second term but withdrew because of “complex financial obligations”. [go to link]
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| THG: Science given the boot at White House |
| THG: Scientists warn Earth may be tipping into an irreversible hothouse |
| second: The Trump administration has gone to war against any and all efforts to limit climate change. The administration is also imposing a “blockade” against wind and solar projects, delaying or even revoking permits, whether or not these projects have received federal subsidies.
Now, there isn’t a genuine scientific dispute about the reality of global warming and its causes. There isn’t even a serious dispute about the costs of fighting climate change: the economics of green energy are more favorable than they have ever been.
So what’s going on? In the case of energy, its destructive policy largely reflects the corrupting influence of big money. [go to link] |
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| 6ixStringJack: Well at least you're finally gaining a sense of humor. I'm impressed. Did you know that FDR had 3,721 executive orders? I didn't count them up, but just doing a quick skim it wouldn't surprise me if that was twice as many EOs than every President from Jimmy Carter up until today. History is crazy, ain't it? [go to link] |
| second: Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole [go to link]/ “Though few modern presidents have made use of it, this loophole has always given the nation’s chief executive unilateral power over the Constitution. Its provisions dictate that the president can sidestep any checks and balances on his power once he has abused his authority so many times that no one can keep track anymore.” |
6ixStringJack: But you keep your simple dopamine addicted primate brain focused on all the shit that doesn't matter while he continues to David Copperfield the fuck out of you and I"ll just sit back and continue to laugh at you and Ted, just as I have everyday for the last 15 months now.  |
| 6ixStringJack: Again, something that will be appealed and tossed, just like everything else has been so far. He's too busy to deal with you maggots right now. You have no power over anyone anymore and everyone is laughing at you while you continue to scream all day, everyday. You've been put on mute. Permanently. Loser. |
| second: 6ixStringJack wrote: "You are pathetic. I'm not going over something that was debunked 8 years ago with you again. Next issue." Trump was convicted of 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree because he is fundamentally dishonest. Dishonesty is not disqualifying -- if you are a Trumptard. They cheat on their taxes habitually, making Trump their kind of guy. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: You are pathetic. I'm not going over something that was debunked 8 years ago with you again. Next issue. |
| 6ixStringJack: Oh my god. Why do I waste my time. |
| second: Whatever is in the Epstein files can not be as damaging as all the women who have testified under penalty of perjury that Trump raped them. But there are real consequences for Trump not paying his income taxes. It is a certainty he hasn’t because he won’t show his IRS form 1040. Why do Presidents show their 1040? Nixon would have been removed from office by Congress because he was cheating on his taxes. Voluntarily paying after being caught cheating, Nixon’s lawyers convinced Congress to not impeach him. Nixon was found to have improperly deducted $576,000 for donating his Vice-Presidential papers and failed to report capital gains on the sale of his California home. The Cost: Investigations by the Joint Committee on Taxation and the IRS concluded that Nixon owed approximately $471,000 in back taxes and interest. Trump easily owes 1,000 times more than the amount that almost got Nixon removed from office. |