Trump administration 2024-2028

[The Bread Guy]

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 ..."

 

[HavokFour]

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.

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

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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

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”.

 

[dapaterson]

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.

One critique: Language has meaning. An underage woman is a child. The phrase "underage woman" is a deliberate effort to reframe the conversation.

 

[brihard]

How many decades of damage can be compressed into 4 years?

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

Archive

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

Denmark could simply decline to grant accreditation or physical entry to anyone whose mandate focuses on the hiving off of parts of their state.

 

[Brad Sallows]

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.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Denmark could simply decline to grant accreditation or physical entry to anyone whose mandate focuses on the hiving off of parts of their state.

They could also evict Pituffik Space Base...

 

[brihard]

They could also evict Pituffik Space Base...

I’m sure Trump would take that super well.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Still developing.

At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein

The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.

apnews.com

https://twitter.com/x/status/2002430296172745079

https://twitter.com/x/status/2002428195153588517

Is it redacting or just not duplicating previously released material?

 

[Halifax Tar]

I’m sure Trump would take that super well.

He has a short attention span

 

[brihard]

He has a short attention span

Not when he decides someone’s an enemy.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Not when he decides someone’s an enemy.

TACO ?

 

[Cloud Cover]

They could also evict Pituffik Space Base...

Only Trump Approved super powers are allowed to breach contracts, leases and treaties.

 

[lenaitch]

Denmark could simply decline to grant accreditation or physical entry to anyone whose mandate focuses on the hiving off of parts of their state.

I don't know if it is etched in stone or law but I'm not sure a special envoy is a position that requires accreditation. Denying entry for sure since he likely couldn't travel on a diplomatic passport and wouldn't be a tourist.

 

[OldSolduer]

One critique: Language has meaning. An underage woman is a child. The phrase "underage woman" is a deliberate effort to reframe the conversation.

Fucking bingo. You win the net for the day. Absolutely right.

Children legally cannot consent to sex, so these people are in effect pedophiles. I used to listen to a podcast by former profilers - one FBI, one Scotland Yard and they were saying this fifteen years ago.

 

[The Bread Guy]

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.

Didn't realize Fuentes had been quite as nasty as he was until I read this:

JD Vance Finally Loses It Over Attacks on His Wife: ‘Eat S**t’

Vice President JD Vance finally lashed out at critics of his wife in a furious tirade, saying they can “eat s--t.” Vance’s response comes months after the attacks on Usha Vance, who is the first India...

ca.news.yahoo.com

Vice President JD Vance finally lashed out at critics of his wife in a furious tirade, saying they can “eat s--t.”

Vance’s response comes months after the attacks on Usha Vance, who is the first Indian American second lady. The vice president also lumped his wife’s critics together by name, though one is an MS NOW host and former White House press secretary and another is a white nationalist and antisemite.

Far-right white nationalist Nick Fuentes has made several racist slurs against the Vances, who married in 2014, and have three children together. He has called the vice president a “fat race-mixer” and a “race traitor” before using an offensive new slang word his followers, known as groypers, are using to describe Indian people ...

WTF? Quite the big tent there - for now, anyway ....

 

[OldSolduer]

Didn't realize Fuentes had been quite as nasty as he was until I read this:

JD Vance Finally Loses It Over Attacks on His Wife: ‘Eat S**t’

Vice President JD Vance finally lashed out at critics of his wife in a furious tirade, saying they can “eat s--t.” Vance’s response comes months after the attacks on Usha Vance, who is the first India...

ca.news.yahoo.com

WTF? Quite the big tent there - for now, anyway ....

Oh politics does make strange bed fellows. I think the tent is shrinking.

FWIW I agree with Vance on this subject.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Didn't realize Fuentes had been quite as nasty as he was until I read this:

JD Vance Finally Loses It Over Attacks on His Wife: ‘Eat S**t’

Vice President JD Vance finally lashed out at critics of his wife in a furious tirade, saying they can “eat s--t.” Vance’s response comes months after the attacks on Usha Vance, who is the first India...

ca.news.yahoo.com

WTF? Quite the big tent there - for now, anyway ....

 

[brihard]

Didn't realize Fuentes had been quite as nasty as he was until I read this:

JD Vance Finally Loses It Over Attacks on His Wife: ‘Eat S**t’

Vice President JD Vance finally lashed out at critics of his wife in a furious tirade, saying they can “eat s--t.” Vance’s response comes months after the attacks on Usha Vance, who is the first India...

ca.news.yahoo.com

WTF? Quite the big tent there - for now, anyway ....

That hateful little incel is basically everything bad about American politics wrapped up in a single bag of skin.

 

[FJAG]

One critique: Language has meaning. An underage woman is a child. The phrase "underage woman" is a deliberate effort to reframe the conversation.

You are both right and wrong.

You are right insofar as language has meaning and I should have used "female children" or "underage females" or "girls" as the word "women" denotes an adult female. The phrase "underage woman" is basically an oxymoron notwithstanding that it is frequently used.

You're wrong insofar as it being a "deliberate effort to reframe the conversation" as it certainly wasn't intended as any of that.

 

[dapaterson]

You are both right and wrong.

You are right insofar as language has meaning and I should have used "female children" or "underage females" or "girls" as the word "women" denotes an adult female. The phrase "underage woman" is basically an oxymoron notwithstanding that it is frequently used.

You're wrong insofar as it being a "deliberate effort to reframe the conversation" as it certainly wasn't intended as any of that.

I was not referring to your use of the phrase.