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Trump administration 2024-2028

PrairieFella said:
For a country diametrically opposed to China, they sure like Chinese-style social policing these days.
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I was just down in the US. Nobody at US border asked me for squat other than my ID, where I’m going and why. Coming back into Canada was the real shit show. Bunch of clowns and morons up here.
 
Meanwhile, keeping an eye on the future - this from Catholic media: "Turning Point USA’s Erika Kirk, a Catholic, backs Vice President JD Vance’s potential 2028 presidential bid"
... and from other MSM
www.bbc.com

Erika Kirk endorses JD Vance for president at conservative event

Conservatives traded criticims at this year's annual Turning Point USA America Fest conference.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
www.ctvnews.ca

Turning Point USA’s Erika Kirk backs U.S. Vice-President JD Vance’s potential 2028 presidential bid

Erika Kirk, widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and the organization’s new leader, endorsed a potential presidential bid by U.S. Vice-President JD Vance on the opening night of the conservative youth group’s annual conference.
www.ctvnews.ca www.ctvnews.ca
www.foxnews.com

2028 power move: Turning Point's Erika Kirk throws support behind JD Vance as MAGA ‘heir apparent’

Erika Kirk, widow of the assassinated Turning Point co-founder Charlie Kirk, endorses Vice President JD Vance for president in the 2028 White House election
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com
 
FJAG said:
It probably would have been reasonable if they hadn't spent all that time redacting things that shouldn't have been redacted.
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Such as? Which should be more upsetting: unnecessary redactions (which can of course be challenged), or people taking it upon themselves to leak unredacted information (by definition without appropriate processes and controls)? Missing deadline, or failing to safeguard the information which is to be protected?

As I wrote, critics can take it to court. The worst thing that can happen for over-redaction and failing to meet deadline is that it takes longer (to issue the challenges to see everything that should be revealed); the shortcoming can be undone. The worst thing that can happen for under-redaction is revealing that which should not be revealed and hurting people, which cannot be undone.

It's always instructive when the goalposts move away from the target/subject to the process. The salivating hordes failed to collect Trump's head because it was never there to be collected. All that's left is trying to collect some kind of process consolation prize rather than focusing on whoever else has been implicated and giving them the kind of treatment which Trump would have received. It should be goose, gander, unless the whole point of the exercise is just to keep finding fly shit in the pepper to attack Trump.

My guess: whatever was "over-redacted" will not damage Trump once it is unredacted, but will damage a bunch of other people. Undoubtedly some of them don't deserve protection, but equally undoubtedly some are not guilty of anything except poor choice of associates.
 
Brad Sallows said:
Such as?
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Not going there. I've had to redact legal documents. The volume they had and time to do it properly was pretty much impossible.

I frankly don't care who gets caught up in this. Greasy people playing with underage women deserve to be exposed. I'm far from a liberal but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of them agree with me.

I'm also resigned to the fact that if anything is found out about Trump, he'll slide out from underneath it until it doesn't matter anymore. I think he was 100% right when he said "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Even if charged he'd skate through court until he was long dead of natural causes.

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I stand with "better 10 guilty men free than 1 innocent convicted". I could never be convinced to become sloppy about that just because some politically hyperactive people are increasingly deranged over their failure to find something to implicate Trump and therefore willing to be sloppy about disclosing information that, if it weren't for the Trump angle, pretty much the entire legal establishment would ordinarily be arguing to keep confidential to protect the rights of victims and alleged accused. The taint of accusations of sexual impropriety never really goes away.

People are pressing hard, which means risking potentially harmful disclosures to settle what is only a political grudge. Moreover, the effort appears increasingly unlikely to bear the fruit they seek - if a scandal with Trump at the nexus existed to be found, it would have been found and blown wide open long ago. So again: "Undoubtedly some of them don't deserve protection, but equally undoubtedly some are not guilty of anything except poor choice of associates."
 
More from Catholic media, sharing an Associated Press story: "Vice President JD Vance said Sunday the conservative movement should be open to everyone as long as they “love America,” declining to condemn a streak of antisemitism that has divided the Republican Party and roiled the opening days of Turning Point USA’s annual convention. After a long weekend of debates about whether the movement should exclude figures such as bigoted podcaster Nick Fuentes, Vance came down firmly against “purity tests.” Both men are Catholic. “I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to de-platform,” Vance said during the convention’s closing speech ... Vance didn’t name anyone, but his comments came in the midst of an increasingly contentious debate over whether the right should give a platform to commentators espousing antisemitic views, particularly Fuentes, whose followers see themselves as working to preserve America’s white, Christian identity. Fuentes has a growing audience, as does top-rated podcaster Candace Owens, who routinely shares antisemitic conspiracy theories ..."
 
How many decades of damage can be compressed into 4 years?

Landry in turn said it was an honour to take the voluntary role “to make Greenland part of the US” and added that it would not affect his position as governor of the southern US state of Louisiana.
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www.ft.com

Trump’s new special envoy says Greenland should be part of US

Jeff Landry’s appointment underlines US president’s determination to control Arctic island, but outrages Denmark
www.ft.com www.ft.com
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www.theguardian.com

You cannot annex other countries, Danish and Greenlandic leaders tell Trump

Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen demand respect for borders after US appoints Greenland envoy
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

Denmark’s foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, told Danish television on Monday he would summon Washington’s ambassador to Copenhagen, Ken Howery, to the ministry in the coming days “to get an explanation”.

Rasmussen said he was “deeply upset by this appointment of a special envoy”, and “particularly upset” by Landry’s statement, which he said Denmark had found “completely unacceptable”.
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FJAG said:
Not going there. I've had to redact legal documents. The volume they had and time to do it properly was pretty much impossible.

I frankly don't care who gets caught up in this. Greasy people playing with underage women deserve to be exposed. I'm far from a liberal but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of them agree with me.

I'm also resigned to the fact that if anything is found out about Trump, he'll slide out from underneath it until it doesn't matter anymore. I think he was 100% right when he said "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" Even if charged he'd skate through court until he was long dead of natural causes.

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One critique: Language has meaning. An underage woman is a child. The phrase "underage woman" is a deliberate effort to reframe the conversation.
 
HavokFour said:
How many decades of damage can be compressed into 4 years?



www.ft.com

Trump’s new special envoy says Greenland should be part of US

Jeff Landry’s appointment underlines US president’s determination to control Arctic island, but outrages Denmark
www.ft.com www.ft.com
Archive
www.theguardian.com

You cannot annex other countries, Danish and Greenlandic leaders tell Trump

Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen demand respect for borders after US appoints Greenland envoy
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Denmark could simply decline to grant accreditation or physical entry to anyone whose mandate focuses on the hiving off of parts of their state.
 
Heritage Foundation is coming apart at the seams, and it's good. Increasingly the anti-semitist/nativist tinged part of the political right, along with its prominent people (eg. Carlson, Owens, Fuentes, Roberts) is being rejected by the rest.
 
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