Trump's Second Term

Incidentally -

Trump's incompetent DOJ makes a mess of latest Epstein files drop

Among other things of interest -

According to Blanche, after releasing 3 million of the 6 million Epstein files, the DOJ’s work here is done. That’s because, per Blanche, 50% of those documents were not “responsive” and therefore will not be released.
However, there is no provision in the Epstein Files Transparency Act for a determination of responsiveness. Put another way, the DOJ doesn’t have the leeway to decide whether something in its possession is relevant or meaningful enough to include.
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But here’s where things get stupid and weird. The document beginning on EFTA01660679 has the same content as the document beginning on EFTA01660651, but with different redactions. One version, for example, has the criminal histories of people who made reports, while another redacts them. One version also redacted the word “daughters” for no discernible reason.
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Blanche might have wanted to check in with Trump before dropping these today, as it’s the tiniest bit awkward that his new pick for Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, makes an appearance in the files.

Also in the files? Brett Ratner, who just directed the “Melania” documentary. And then there’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who planned a trip to Epstein’s private island in 2012, several years after he said he cut ties with Epstein and four years after Epstein had already been convicted of sexually assaulting minors.

Of course, we also have to mention former Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk, who practically begged Epstein to let him visit his island in 2013.
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Andy_Ross said:
Can you create a whole Indycar race be Executive Order?
Don't the race organisers have anything to do with it?

BREAKING: President Trump signs executive order bringing IndyCar race to DC for America250 celebrations.

"This is going to be wild," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.

“This is free for the American people to come to your nation’s capital and see a great road race. Freedom, America, speed, and road racing — it doesn’t get more American than that,” he added.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2017291773412835558
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"I signed an executive order, the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians will play for the Stanley Cup. Canadians don't deserve it. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
 
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Andy_Ross said:
The White House
@WhiteHouse
American speed. American power. American GREATNESS. 🇺🇸🏁

President Donald J. Trump just signed an Executive Order launching the FIRST-EVER IndyCar race through the streets of our Nation’s Capital: The Freedom 250 Grand Prix.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2017287833086562579
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"And the cars will be powered by clean coal. No windmills, no solar, no hamster wheels. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
 
Andy_Ross said:
JUST IN: Florida driver license tests will be English only, effective Feb. 6.

All printed exams in Spanish, Haitian Creole, and other languages will be removed.

Translation services will not be allowed either.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Florida have a significant Cuban population that normally leans heavily Republican? Or are they assuming they're "the good ones" who have properly assimilated?
 
Reviews are in, and they're boffo! Everyone loves Melania!

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‘Melania’: What The Critics Are Saying About Amazon’s Controversial Big-Budget Documentary

'Melania' reviews: the critics are having their say on the expensive Amazon documentary...and it may be hard to find a worse reviewed film this year.
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The Daily Beast panned the film: “The truth is, my soul left my body during the very first seconds of the film, when a drone shot over the ocean makes its way over the Mar-a-Lago grounds to Melania’s feet in heels, walking to her car as The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” plays. But my soul didn’t just escape and flee, which it would have been in its every right to do. No, it lingered, glaring at me the entire Melania running time with a mixture of disappointment and anger, like an owner would at their dog after it ate the garbage.”
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The UK’s Independent gives the film one star out of five, saying: “[The] First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda … Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving – with the country on the verge of an irreparable schism – the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chateau, or Hermann Göring’s staring up at his looted Monet.”
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The Guardian, whose critic said he had the cinema all to himself at his screening this morning, also gave the film one star, calling it “Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable … I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne.”
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Buzzfeed’s critic slammed the film, calling it the worst she had ever seen: “Last night, I left an empty chickpea can on my counter. When I came back 30 minutes later, small, black bugs had swarmed the tin and were crawling over my sink. I would rather relive that moment a hundred times over than have to watch another minute of the movie Melania.”
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More reviews in the link.
 
Armitage72 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Florida have a significant Cuban population that normally leans heavily Republican? Or are they assuming they're "the good ones" who have properly assimilated?
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The old school ones whose ancestors came in the 1960s are pretty much assimilated, except for being right wing Castro haters. E.g. Marco Rubio. They speak English.
Recent immigrants on the other hand...
 
Andy_Ross said:
Can you create a whole Indycar race be Executive Order?
Don't the race organisers have anything to do with it?

BREAKING: President Trump signs executive order bringing IndyCar race to DC for America250 celebrations.

"This is going to be wild," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.

“This is free for the American people to come to your nation’s capital and see a great road race. Freedom, America, speed, and road racing — it doesn’t get more American than that,” he added.
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Panem et circenses.
 
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