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Trump's Second Term

The US District Court for Oregon "permanently enjoins Defendants’ orders to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon." Those defendants are Trump, Hegseth, US DoD, Noem, and DHS; the plaintiffs were the states of Oregon and California, and the city of Portland.
After analyzing these statutory provisions, as applied to the facts in this case, this Court arrives at the necessary conclusion that there was neither “a rebellion or danger of a rebellion” nor was the President “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States” in Oregon when he ordered the federalization and deployment of the National Guard. 10 U.S.C. § 12406(2)–(3).
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Donald Trump has said the US will not attend the G20 summit in South Africa over widely discredited claims that white people are being persecuted in the country.

The US president said it was a "total disgrace" that South Africa is hosting the meeting, where leaders from the world's largest economies will gather in Johannesburg later this month.

Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social: "It is a total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa.

"Afrikaners (people who are descended from Dutch settlers, and also French and German immigrants) are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated," he wrote.

"No US government official will attend as long as these human rights abuses continue."

www.bbc.co.uk

Trump: US to boycott G20 in South Africa over white farmer 'abuses'

Trump says no US official will be sent to the summit over discredited claims that Afrikaners are being persecuted.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Explanation: quite a while back (2016) I had one of my long argumentative exchanges with another member over whether one could diagnose Trump's pathologic narcissism without seeing him in an in-person exam. I noted there was so much footage of him in the public sphere that not only was an in-person exam unnecessary it would only muck up matters given someone with a personality disorder like Trump's would have a profound lack of insight. It would mean he wouldn't/couldn't give honest replies to questions anyway.

At the time the Goldwater Rule was brought up which essentially was an ethical position one should not publicly diagnose a person withe a psychiatric disorder. But countering that was the ethical position of a duty to warn.

Dr Bandy Lee was close to getting tenure at Harvard when she came out with a book about the danger Trump posed to the country based on her duty to warn. Her teaching contract was not renewed. The discussion of the Goldwater Rule became front and center and a duty to warn was brushed under the rug.

Come forward a decade and it's clear Trump's diagnosis had been correct, he is dangerous and I was right.

Thanks for the information on Cassandra, an interesting literary character no doubt.
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Video on this.

With the "comforting" thought that we are now seeing the best Trump he ever will be.

About the intersection with his malignant narcissism and his increasing cognitive decline

 
Andy_Ross said:
Emmer: "There is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about. That is a direct quote from Commie Mamdani! And it should terrify every single freedom-loving American."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1986094541430980952
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When he's right, he's right!
There is no more important freedom than the one to not solve large problems and not care about small problems.
It's the Trump government's inalienable right to not give a damn.
 
jimbob said:
Video on this.
With the "comforting" thought that we are now seeing the best Trump he ever will be.
About the intersection with his malignant narcissism and his increasing cognitive decline
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Yes, it's a great video! Not least this quotations from Trump and especially this one, at 9:36-->
Trump: This is, as you see over here, the Presidential Walk of Fame. And we had this long wall with half windows because that used to be a swimming pool on the other side of the wall. That was the swimming pool where Jackie would say, I hear women inside, are women inside? Quite a famous. I'm not saying anything. This was a part of a movie and the Secret Service said, no, ma'am. There's no women in sight, ma'am. I'm sorry, ma'am, you're going to have to move along.

But I hear women inside. No, ma'am. You'll have to move along, ma'am. So that was the famous swimming pool. Now it's even worse. It's for the media. They covered the pool up. They covered the pool up and now it's for the media and I think we have a small representative group. I don't think they allowed the rest of them. I don't -- I can't believe it. What happened? They're all on the other side of the wall. Can you believe it? Because this is supposed to be sort of a private event. And there is no such thing in politics as a private event. Lindsay, you learned that a long time ago, right? The great Lindsay Graham, doing fantastic -- you're up 34 points, Lindsay.

Lindsay Graham: Thank you.

Trump: That's not bad. I'll tell you, it's not bad. So we did the Presidential Walk of Fame from the great George Washington all the way to -- well, I think we have to rate him above me. So he's less than great, less than George. Somebody went up there, they say, you're the third best president in the United -- this was on television, third best. And they said, who are the first two, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. And I got extremely angry at this man. You know, you can't -- it's going to be -- it's going to be tough to beat.
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The whole text: TRANSCRIPT: President Trump Hosts Republican Senators in the Rose Garden for Lunch, 10.21.25 (Senate Democrats)

And he's got access to the nuclear codes!
 
dann said:
Yes, it's a great video! Not least this quotations from Trump and especially this one, at 9:36-->
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And he's got access to the nuclear codes!
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Correction... he THINKS he has access to the nuclear codes.

Hopefully the top military brass has decided to replace his nuclear codes with the price list from the value menu at McDonalds, and the nuclear football with a speak-and-spell.
 
shemp said:
Dang it, can't find it now. Saw a post earlier about Walmart's Thanksgiving bundle costing 25% less versus last year. However, the ready to cook dinner from Walmart featured 15 items versus last year's 21, and everything in this year's bundle was Walmart's in-house generic brand versus last year's name brands.
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Which they probably did as a suck up to Schitler.
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I am not saying Wamart is some sort of anti-Trump resistance group... But I doubt their "price reduction" claims was necessarily a pro-trump strategy.

I think it was more a case of them wanting to put their own prices out there in hopes of attracting customers. (I mean, even if they didn't want Trump in the white house, announcing "things are more expensive this year" is likely to hurt business.) So they fudge the numbers by changing what they claimed was part of a "thanksgiving meal".
 
Segnosaur said:
I am not saying Wamart is some sort of anti-Trump resistance group... But I doubt their "price reduction" claims was necessarily a pro-trump strategy.

I think it was more a case of them wanting to put their own prices out there in hopes of attracting customers. (I mean, even if they didn't want Trump in the white house, announcing "things are more expensive this year" is likely to hurt business.) So they fudge the numbers by changing what they claimed was part of a "thanksgiving meal".
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i agree, consumer confidence is low and people are shopping less, and they are trying to put attractive deals out to draw shoppers into their stores. deceptively pricing things to make deals seem better than they are is something retailers have done my whole life.
 
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