Trump administration 2024-2028

[Blackadder1916]

Interesting article in the Globe and Mail this morning.

https://archive.ph/ZSrRR

I remember an area in Texas flooded out during a hurricane a few years ago (I can't remember where) and it was reported that the municipality/county had no land use rules about where you could build, and the entire neighbourhood was in a known flood plain.

"Texas, its like a whole other country" has more than one meaning.

 

[HavokFour]

Oh geez, the letters are written like his posts on Truth Social with a little less caps lock. But more importantly blanket tariffs are back in his head, brace for even more market instability. But wait, it gets worse:

Both letters say that the 25% tariffs are separate from additional sector-specific duties on key product categories.

EDIT: Time to start watching the US bond market again.

Trump announces 25% tariffs on imports from Japan and South Korea, starting Aug. 1

 

[The Bread Guy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1941944375212130689

ICE is just going full FSB now

https://twitter.com/x/status/1940348030491971774

At the risk of being cliché .....

Wonder what laws the car wash broke employing undocumented folks, and what their punishment's going to be? I mean, the administration MUST be doing something to discourage businesses from doing this -- cut off the demand, and the supply'll dwindle, right?

Also does anyone else get Doctor Evil vibes from Alligator Alcatraz?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938773626217439653

I'll leave that call to the eye of the beholder

The sheer TDS flowing from this little echo chamber is quite entertaining. Keep going though it’s a fun read.

You mean Trudeau Derangement Syndrome (even though he's gone) -- can't disagree

Meanwhile, this from a Big Food think tank (hardly known for being virulant, SJW anti-POTUS47'ers) trade publication ....

Crops Rotting in Fields With Undocumented Farmworkers Gone - The Food Institute

Tough immigration enforcement is squeezing farms as migrant workers fear ICE raids – meaning some crops are going unpicked overnight.

foodinstitute.com

Winning!

 

[The Bread Guy]

How quickly they can turn on each other: five days ago …

Mystery surrounds the Jeffrey Epstein files after Bondi claims 'tens of thousands' of videos

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s comments about evidence the Justice Department is reviewing from its Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation have fueled anticipation about the expected release of more files related to the New York financier.

apnews.com

… versus today

MAGA Demands Pam Bondi’s Head for Falsely Hyping Epstein Client List

The president’s supporters savaged the attorney general after the Department of Justice found Jeffrey Epstein kept no “client list.”

www.thedailybeast.com

Epstein client list doesn't exist, DOJ says, walking back theory Bondi promoted

The Justice Department will not release more files related to the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking investigation despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

www.pbs.org

#SchrödingersList

 

[HavokFour]

How quickly they can turn on each other: five days ago …

Mystery surrounds the Jeffrey Epstein files after Bondi claims 'tens of thousands' of videos

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s comments about evidence the Justice Department is reviewing from its Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation have fueled anticipation about the expected release of more files related to the New York financier.

apnews.com

… versus today

MAGA Demands Pam Bondi’s Head for Falsely Hyping Epstein Client List

The president’s supporters savaged the attorney general after the Department of Justice found Jeffrey Epstein kept no “client list.”

www.thedailybeast.com

Epstein client list doesn't exist, DOJ says, walking back theory Bondi promoted

The Justice Department will not release more files related to the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking investigation despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

www.pbs.org

What I'm getting from this is that there is a list.

 

[McG]

Police show of force operations with Army overwatch are not a normal behaviour in a stable democracy. Defmon has another word for it though. He also has the Army’s one pager in this thread.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1942333699196178605

 

[FSTO]

While looking to see if there were any online photos of 1990 flooding to illustrate my personal tale, I came across this.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Comfort-flood-claimed-10-lives-thirty-years-ago-11293761.php

Flooding is so common in that area that 1990 was considered insignificant (I don't recall any reports of related deaths). Just a few years earlier a youth camp tragedy similar to this year's event occurred.

Another example of people sounding the alarm that shit is broken and needs to be fixed and nothing is done until people are killed. Far too many examples to be listed here.

 

[RangerRay]

Russian dissident Gary Kasparov has questions about ICE’s juiced up budget.

Don’t Miss This Part of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

Putin has Rosgvardiya. Trump has ICE.

open.substack.com

Politicized actions are matched by politicized rhetoric. If Trump administration officials didn’t stretch the limits of the Hatch Act every single day, then DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s formal press release on the OBBBA’s passage would be headline news. Noem praised the president on government stationary using a permutation of Trump’s MAGA campaign slogan. That’s on top of attacks against “fake news” on the department’s official website. How are these sorts of statements supposed to inspire public confidence that ICE is a professional law enforcement agency and not a private presidential militia? How will ICE be more disciplined and accountable with a bloated budget?
Conditions in ICE detention centers are often substandard, to put it mildly. The majority of OBBBA funding for ICE goes to more detention centers. Should we expect that money to support quality of life improvements for detainees or simply multiply the problem? What are we supposed to think of Republicans’ intentions here when some are hawking “Alligator Alcatraz” merchandise that mocks the plight of detainees?
Finally, let’s return to ICE’s roots: immigration enforcement. The number of illegal immigrants in the United States has remained fairly constant over the past two decades. Hiring 10,000 new officers, as the OBBBA envisions, would put the ratio of ICE agents to undocumented migrants at around 1:400. That’s within striking distance of the Stasi’s one secret policeman to every 166 East Germans and far ahead of the Gestapo’s 1:2,000.

Still, as a veteran of the Russian opposition, I’ll indulge in one bit of my own analysis.
In 2016, Vladimir Putin created Rosgvardiya—a new, militarized domestic law enforcement apparatus. Russia had no shortage of police agencies; it inherited several from the Soviet Union, including the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). So what made Rosgvardiya different? It operated directly under Putin’s authority.
Unlike Putin and Rosgvardiya, Trump did not create ICE. However, the 50% boost in ICE’s ranks that Trump is pursuing under OBBBA would change the face of any agency. Now that Gavin Newsom has taken Trump to court over the latter’s deployment of the California National Guard, the president is likely looking for more hassle-free and pliant institutions to do his bidding, and ICE could be the perfect outlet for those ambitions. If nothing else, ICE’s behavior in the past half year ought to make a dramatic expansion of the agency the object of intense public scrutiny.

 

[HavokFour]

Police show of force operations with Army overwatch are not a normal behaviour in a stable democracy. Defmon has another word for it though. He also has the Army’s one pager in this thread.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1942333699196178605

That seems pretty excessive, considering that there was only a kids summer camp program at the park when this happened.

 

[daftandbarmy]

That seems pretty excessive, considering that there was only a kids summer camp program at the park when this happened.

It looks like they're practicing their drills...

 

[Navy_Pete]

Not sure how people think supply chains and manufacturing works, but hard for US producers to make value added products when you continue to slap tariffs on things they are using for manufacturing.

Between this and turning the military and ICEholes loose on the populace pretty wild times.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-copper-tariffs-1.7579874

 

[Quirky]

Between this and turning the military and ICEholes loose on the populace pretty wild times.

Unless I’m missing something, ICE targets people who are in the US illegally, do they not? How many US citizens have been detained AND deported?

 

[McG]

How many US citizens have been detained AND deported?

At least four children with US citizenship this year.
There is also Esteban Tiznado-Reyna if you go back to 2020.

 

[HavokFour]

Impostor uses AI to impersonate Rubio and contact foreign and US officials

The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using AI-driven technology.

apnews.com

To think they originally wanted to put a 10 year ban on AI regulation in the BBB. Shame that the intelligence and cyber security branches have been severely gutted, probably could have helped out.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1941944375212130689

ICE is just going full FSB now

https://twitter.com/x/status/1940348030491971774

Also does anyone else get Doctor Evil vibes from Alligator Alcatraz?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938773626217439653

Spotted a report (so far) unconfirmed, that Canadian-owned GardaWorld may be providing security for some of Trumps detention centres.

 

[Blackadder1916]

Spotted a report (so far) unconfirmed, that Canadian-owned GardaWorld may be providing security for some of Trumps detention centres.

They apparently are involved. Not the first time they've played in the immigration detention and transport space, both in Canada as well as the US - with mixed results.

Here are the contractors who helped build Alligator Alcatraz

Contractors include CDR Maguire, Doodie Calls and GardaWorld.

www.tampabay.com

Here are the contractors who helped build Alligator Alcatraz
Contractors include CDR Maguire, Doodie Calls and GardaWorld.
. . .
The other state contractors include the port-a-potty company Doodie Calls, GardaWorld, Garner Environmental Services, Gothams LLC, Granny’s Alliance and Longview International Technological Solutions.

GardaWorld Cash, one of several companies affiliated with GardaWorld — one of the world’s largest security services companies, according to its website — gave $5,000 to DeSantis’ Empower Parents political action committee in 2018. The political organization, which went by Friends of Ron DeSantis at the time, was created to support DeSantis’ first bid for governor.

GardaWorld has also been eyed for Florida’s immigration agenda before — they were one of the vendors picked by the state to fly migrants out of Florida.

A representative from GardaWorld did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday evening.

 

[Quirky]

At least four children with US citizenship this year.
There is also Esteban Tiznado-Reyna if you go back to 2020.

4 children who’s mother was an illegal, sounds like the mother made a poor choice. Having children doesn’t make you immune from US laws. Better they all go together than be separated.

ICE is doing a great job cleaning up the mess left behind by the previous administration. Americans voted for this.

 

[PrairieFella]

4 children who’s mother was an illegal, sounds like the mother made a poor choice. Having children doesn’t make you immune from US laws. Better they all go together than be separated.

ICE is doing a great job cleaning up the mess left behind by the previous administration. Americans voted for this.

Unidentified people with guns disappearing gardeners into unmarked vans is a great job - neat. Surely ICE will go after the people who hire illegals, right?

 

[ModlrMike]

4 children who’s mother was an illegal, sounds like the mother made a poor choice. Having children doesn’t make you immune from US laws. Better they all go together than be separated.

ICE is doing a great job cleaning up the mess left behind by the previous administration. Americans voted for this.

So there's no room for a compassionate approach in your world?

 

[McG]

4 children who’s mother was an illegal, sounds like the mother made a poor choice. Having children doesn’t make you immune from US laws. Better they all go together than be separated.

Being ignorant of a topic doesn’t stop you from having strong opinions does it. The four children are three different families, not one.
Your morals on this are also quite fluid, with you supporting ICE because they aren’t deporting citizens to now you support ICE because the citizens they deport are who you feel are a lesser class.