Trump's Policies Part 3

[jthomas666]

Good catch by the reporter. Doesn't mean he's not a liberal hack activist. Plenty of judges are appointed by a D or an R and then rule wildly in the other direction.

Doesn't mean he's a liberal hack activist, either. Unless, of course, your definition of "liberal hack activist" is "anyone with the nerve to rule against His Sublime Orangeness".

A good catch? By all means, let's give him props for his ability to look something up on Wikipedia, while ignoring that the White House press secretary is either willfully lying (unpossible, I know) or incapable of using Wikipedia.

If they want to help Trump keep this stuff up. Liberal activist judges defending violent gang members in the eyes of the public is a real winner. The Dems just keep taking those L's. If Trump would get off this stupid tariff kick he's on I think his approval would go up over 5% overnight.

What is "this stuff", exactly? Judges ruling on the constitutionality of a presidential order is hardly "defending violent gang members".

Oh, and by the way:

Jackie Robinson’s Army career wiped from military website in DEI purge

At least one website about Robinson, who trained as an officer and was assigned to a tank regiment during World War II, was reinstated Wednesday afternoon.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Tidewater]

Given where we are headed in this country we need to establish a special "district court" that only hears cases pertaining to the federal government and it should be in DC. Lawfare seems to really be catching on with politicians. It's only going to get worse.

If the Founders imagined that any federal district judge could issue nationwide injunctions overruling elected officials, they would have disapproved.

 

[Huckleberry]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1902849489670381676

President Trump on his decision to withdraw an EO targeting Paul Weiss law firm. Its chairman agreed to, among other things, “dedicate the equivalent of $40 million in pro bono legal services over the course of President Trump’s term to support” the administration's initiatives

 

[cbi1972]

If the Founders imagined that any federal district judge could issue nationwide injunctions overruling elected officials, they would have disapproved.

Elizabeth Willing Powel, the wife of Philadelphia Mayor Samuel Powel, reportedly asked Benjamin Franklin, after the Constitutional Convention of 1787. "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?

"A republic, if you can keep it."

We have had a decent run.

 

[AWRTR]

Doesn't mean he's a liberal hack activist, either. Unless, of course, your definition of "liberal hack activist" is "anyone with the nerve to rule against His Sublime Orangeness".

A good catch? By all means, let's give him props for his ability to look something up on Wikipedia, while ignoring that the White House press secretary is either willfully lying (unpossible, I know) or incapable of using Wikipedia.


What is "this stuff", exactly? Judges ruling on the constitutionality of a presidential order is hardly "defending violent gang members".

Oh, and by the way:

Jackie Robinson’s Army career wiped from military website in DEI purge

At least one website about Robinson, who trained as an officer and was assigned to a tank regiment during World War II, was reinstated Wednesday afternoon.

www.nbcnews.com

This stuff is fighting to keep criminals from violent gangs in our country. This isn’t an old lady getting scooped up going to the store to get some eggs and milk. These are bad people. The public is for throwing those types out on their ears. It is politically a win for Trump when he fights with a liberal hack judge and some Dems over this.

The Dems are boxed in politically. Republicans think they have lost their minds, independents think large chunks of the parties positions are crazy, and the base thinks the party isn’t crazy enough. AOC was at the top of a poll for the leaders of the party. I know it wasn’t an overwhelming majority, but when that’s the case at all you are out of touch with the main stream of the country. As I’ve stated these are losers politically. Even if Trump loses in court on this he wins politically because it’s common sense to throw these jokers out of here and people arguing against it on any grounds seem ridiculous and not ready to lead to the average American. This type of issue is why Trump us in the WH right now.

 

[Bazza]

"I wouldn't be surprised if we were at all-time [stock market] highs before the year is over" ~
@cvpayne

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1902773482510786960

 

[Bazza]

We need 7 million affordable homes in America and 20% of America’s landmass is owned by the Department of Interior. Today, @SecretaryBurgum and I are announcing a partnership between @HUDgov & @Interior to identify and open under utilized federal lands for affordable housing.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1901634637606035462

 

[Bamaro]

We need 7 million affordable homes in America and 20% of America’s landmass is owned by the Department of Interior. Today, @SecretaryBurgum and I are announcing a partnership between @HUDgov & @Interior to identify and open under utilized federal lands for affordable housing.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1901634637606035462

Lets not celebrate paving over more and more land. Keep federal lands open.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Lets not celebrate paving over more and more land. Keep federal lands open.

Yeah, I'm not sure about this - I don't know anything about it but it seems like there's plenty of open space out there.

That said, I'm also not sure the federal government needs to own a whopping 20% of the land mass. I'm 100% behind parks and protected areas but on the surface that seems excessive.

 

[Crimson1967]

Opening up government land for housing probably won’t do much to lower housing prices in urban areas. Someone paying $3,000 a month for a 900 square foot apartment in Manhattan, New York would pay much less for much more right now in Manhattan, Kansas. But I doubt many would be willing to make that move.

 

[jthomas666]

This stuff is fighting to keep criminals from violent gangs in our country. This isn’t an old lady getting scooped up going to the store to get some eggs and milk. These are bad people. The public is for throwing those types out on their ears. It is politically a win for Trump when he fights with a liberal hack judge and some Dems over this.

Still waiting to hear what makes this guy a "liberal hack judge" beyond having the temerity to rule against Trump.

 

[mdb-tpet]

We need 7 million affordable homes in America and 20% of America’s landmass is owned by the Department of Interior. Today, @SecretaryBurgum and I are announcing a partnership between @HUDgov & @Interior to identify and open under utilized federal lands for affordable housing.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1901634637606035462

Every car has at least 3.4 and possibly up to 8 parking spaces in the USA, and only 1 one parking space can be used, meaning 2.4 to 6 spaces are always empty per car. The average paved space per car is 900 square feet, not including the roads or the lanes to get to the parking spaces. If we simply reduced our dependence on cars by 2 percent from 284 million cars to 279 million cars, we could free around 28 million parking spaces for housing in our cities. If you assume that 10 parking spaces could be turned into a house, that would be easily 2.8 million new homes in the cities we already live in right next to the jobs and stores we already have. No need to mow down our last remaining intact forests for suburbs we have to drive miles and mile to get to. If we were bolder and went for a 5% reduction, well, you can get right to the 7 million homes you say we need.

https://www.nrdc.org/bio/david-b-goldstein/does-every-car-need-8-parking-spaces-ride-sharing-can-save-emissions-reducing

 

[crimsonaudio]

Except the area these parking spaces use isn't contiguous (and is also largely privately owned). Freeing up 50-100sq ft per property doesn't accomplish anything.

 

[Tidewater]

Elizabeth Willing Powel, the wife of Philadelphia Mayor Samuel Powel, reportedly asked Benjamin Franklin, after the Constitutional Convention of 1787. "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?

"A republic, if you can keep it."

We have had a decent run.

We have.
There is just a lot of stuff the Founders did not protect us from because they could not foresee them or how depraved Americans would become.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

BREAKING: The United Arab Emirates commits to a $1.4 trillion investment in the U.S. over 10 years after meeting with Trump - Reuters

Just WOW.

The investment includes AI infrastructure, semiconductors, energy and manufacturing.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1903090222566347156

What's the total dollar value of foreign investments so far? A little over $3T? Close to $4T? These are eye-popping numbers, but I can't help but wonder what the trade-off is.

 

[Huckleberry]

Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal Data

Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data

www.yahoo.com

Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal Data

Donald Trump’s interim Social Security chief suggested Thursday night he will effectively turn off the agency that manages the essential safety net program for seniors and the disabled, if Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can’t access the non-anonymized sensitive personal information and data of hundreds of millions of Americans, based on a judge’s order.

“My anti-fraud team would be DOGE affiliates. My IT staff would be DOGE affiliates,” said Lee Dudek, acting Social Security Administration (SSA) commissioner, arguing the order was too broad, according to Bloomberg News. “As it stands, I will follow it exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems,” he said, adding: “Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency.”

 

[Tidewater]

Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal Data

Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data

www.yahoo.com

Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal Data

Donald Trump’s interim Social Security chief suggested Thursday night he will effectively turn off the agency that manages the essential safety net program for seniors and the disabled, if Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can’t access the non-anonymized sensitive personal information and data of hundreds of millions of Americans, based on a judge’s order.

“My anti-fraud team would be DOGE affiliates. My IT staff would be DOGE affiliates,” said Lee Dudek, acting Social Security Administration (SSA) commissioner, arguing the order was too broad, according to Bloomberg News. “As it stands, I will follow it exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems,” he said, adding: “Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency.”

Need more info here.
Government agencies have access to PII all the time. The IRS for example has lots of access to my PII, for good reason. They want to know I am paying my taxes correctly.
On the face of it, it appears that DOGE wants to check data for fraud. That is a valid government function.

Let me tell you an anecdote. A woman in her 90s had designated her daughter (who was herself in her 60s) as her agent to receive Social Security payments and pay her bills.
SSA policy is to see an extremely elderly person directly and in person every so often to verify she/he is still alive. The woman in her 90s (through her daughter) declined to show up over the course of a few years for a variety pof reasons: medical appointments, indisposed due to illness, etc. Every time the SSA suggested she bring her momma in, she had an excuse.
Finally, the SSA put their foot down and declared that the payments would stop if she did not come to the SSA office. Turns out, momma was dead. She had been dead for years. When SSA investigated to start recovering the money (something like $38k), the 60-something woman told investigators, "My mother would have wanted me to have this." To which the investigators said, "Ma'am, once your mother passed on, that money was not hers to give. Those payments are based on contributions during her lifetime and actuarial tables. Once she passes, that money is no longer hers, but your neighbors'."
The daughter had spent the money on furniture and other things.
SSA lawyers declined to prosecute because the criminal was "a little old lady in her 60s."

If someone does not check for fraud like this, people will rob the system and cause insolvency for everyone.

 

[Huckleberry]

Need more info here.
Government agencies have access to PII all the time. The IRS for example has lots of access to my PII, for good reason. They want to know I am paying my taxes correctly.
On the face of it, it appears that DOGE wants to check data for fraud. That is a valid government function.

Let me tell you an anecdote. A woman in her 90s had designated her daughter (who was herself in her 60s) as her agent to receive Social Security payments and pay her bills.
SSA policy is to see an extremely elderly person directly and in person every so often to verify she/he is still alive. The woman in her 90s (through her daughter) declined to show up over the course of a few years for a variety pof reasons: medical appointments, indisposed due to illness, etc. Every time the SSA suggested she bring her momma in, she had an excuse.
Finally, the SSA put their foot down and declared that the payments would stop if she did not come to the SSA office. Turns out, momma was dead. She had been dead for years. When SSA investigated to start recovering the money (something like $38k), the 60-something woman told investigators, "My mother would have wanted me to have this." To which the investigators said, "Ma'am, once your mother passed on, that money was not hers to give. Those payments are based on contributions during her lifetime and actuarial tables. Once she passes, that money is no longer hers, but your neighbors'."
The daughter had spent the money on furniture and other things.
SSA lawyers declined to prosecute because the criminal was "a little old lady in her 60s."

If someone does not check for fraud like this, people will rob the system and cause insolvency for everyone.

It would be nice if it was guaranteed that the DOGE team followed existing privacy laws as well as passed the relevant security protocol before gaining access to the private data of every single American.

 

[Tidewater]

It would be nice if it was guaranteed that the DOGE team followed existing privacy laws as well as passed the relevant security protocol before gaining access to the private data of every single American.

Probably.
If you gave most Americans a choice between (a) we may share you PII with DOGE in an effort to find fraud but Social Security will be there when you retire or (b) we will absolutely respect your privacy in regards to PII, but Social Security will probably not be there when you retire, I believe most Americans would chose (a).

 

[Huckleberry]

Probably.
If you gave most Americans a choice between (a) we may share you PII with DOGE in an effort to find fraud but Social Security will be there when you retire or (b) we will absolutely respect your privacy in regards to PII, but Social Security will probably not be there when you retire, I believe most Americans would chose (a).

Fortunately a third choice is available: (c) we will make sure that your data is viewed only be people who can be trusted as we root out fraud and mistakes in an effort to ensure the solvency of SS.