Trump's Policies Part 4

[Bamabuzzard]

This has bothered me for decades now, but I'm starting to understand why no one wanted to do anything about it. There seem to be some slightly upset people talking about this. I admit that I'm out of my element with the tariff discussion, but as a non-professional, our trade agreements sure didn't sound like good ideas to me.

For the most powerful country on the globe, I don't understand how so many "deals" we've made over the years look like the other party had all the leverage. But it doesn't take long for me to get to the answer. Our politicians at the time didn't mind putting our country on the wrong end of deals if they're getting their personal bank accounts filled up. Once I remember that, it explains a lot of the "deals" we're in...

 

[crimsonaudio]

U.S. President Donald J. Trump announces from the Oval Office following his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that the United States will begin direct talks with Iran on Saturday, adding that he hopes they will be successful and that it’s in Iran’s “best interest” that the talks are successful.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1909328458380878228

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Trump planning military parade through DC for 79th birthday

The Trump administration is planning a June 14 military parade through the streets of Washington, D.C., to mark the president’s 79th birthday. It will also mark the Army’s 250th anniversary. A senior administration official confirmed the plans to NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network...

www.yahoo.com

He’s into DOGE, he’s into saving money!

Meh, he’s in the mood to spend over $100 million for his Dictator Don military parade. Anyone who believes the leopard changed his stripes……

 

[crimsonaudio]

The U.S. Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a victory on Monday by letting him use a 1798 law that historically has been employed only in wartime to swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members as part of the Republican president's hardline approach to immigration.
The court granted the administration's request to lift Washington-based U.S. Judge James Boasberg's March 15 order that had temporarily blocked the summary deportations under Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act while litigation in the case continues.

US Supreme Court backs Trump on deportations under 1798 law

 

[tusks_n_raider]

Trump planning military parade through DC for 79th birthday

The Trump administration is planning a June 14 military parade through the streets of Washington, D.C., to mark the president’s 79th birthday. It will also mark the Army’s 250th anniversary. A senior administration official confirmed the plans to NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network...

www.yahoo.com

He’s into DOGE, he’s into saving money!

Meh, he’s in the mood to spend over $100 million for his Dictator Don military parade. Anyone who believes the leopard changed his stripes……

I was hoping someone would post this.

I wouldn't expect much commentary on it though.

 

[crimsonaudio]

I was hoping someone would post this.

I wouldn't expect much commentary on it though.

Probably because it was already in the planning stages last year to celebrate the Army's 250 birthday.

But of course the news phrases it as:
"The Trump administration is planning a June 14 military parade through the streets of Washington, D.C., to mark the president’s 79th birthday.

It will also mark the Army’s 250th anniversary."

LOL

 

[tusks_n_raider]

Probably because it was already in the planning stages last year to celebrate the Army's 250 birthday.

But of course the news phrases it as:
"The Trump administration is planning a June 14 military parade through the streets of Washington, D.C., to mark the president’s 79th birthday.

It will also mark the Army’s 250th anniversary."

LOL

Either way it's excessive spending and I thought that is what conservatives were against.

But since this causes the slightest bit of cognitive dissonance it's *crickets*

 

[Crimson1967]

It’s the Army’s 250th birthday so it’s a big deal and I don’t have a problem with it and it really doesn’t have anything to do with Trump’s birthday.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Either way it's excessive spending and I thought that is what conservatives were against.

But since this causes the slightest bit of cognitive dissonance it's *crickets*

I'm not arguing that it's not excessive, just saying it was already in planning and it's typical that the media would paint it as "TRUMP's BIRTHDAY PARADE... and oh yeah, the Army's 250th as well..."

I'd rather us not waste money on stupid parades.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Probably because it was already in the planning stages last year to celebrate the Army's 250 birthday.

But of course the news phrases it as:
"The Trump administration is planning a June 14 military parade through the streets of Washington, D.C., to mark the president’s 79th birthday.

It will also mark the Army’s 250th anniversary."

LOL

I’m fine with that…..but folks don’t get to play the “ we have to stop all this wasteful spending” and THEN engage in wasteful spending. Sure seems to me that the folks who like to use us veterans as a mascot (“I’d rather my tax dollars go to a homeless veteran then a welfare drug addict”) might think, “I get the celebration, but wouldn’t that $100 million be better spent on better healthcare for combat vets.”

That’s the thing: once the “we are about to have a cataclysm if we don’t save money” folks start, they don’t get to say, “Let’s spend millions on a parade!”

Btw - I concur with your point about media framing, and it’s a lot of what brought us to where we are now.

 

[mdb-tpet]

I’m fine with that…..but folks don’t get to play the “ we have to stop all this wasteful spending” and THEN engage in wasteful spending. Sure seems to me that the folks who like to use us veterans as a mascot (“I’d rather my tax dollars go to a homeless veteran then a welfare drug addict”) might think, “I get the celebration, but wouldn’t that $100 million be better spent on better healthcare for combat vets.”

That’s the thing: once the “we are about to have a cataclysm if we don’t save money” folks start, they don’t get to say, “Let’s spend millions on a parade!”

Btw - I concur with your point about media framing, and it’s a lot of what brought us to where we are now.

I'm afraid we're stuck in a framing debate that started in the 1960s with Nixon and is sadly still playing out. We're also stuck in a political hypocrisy death spiral that neither part can pull the country out of.

 

[jthomas666]

US Supreme Court backs Trump on deportations under 1798 law

Sotomayor's dissent rips the majority a new one.

[According to the majority] not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal.

Put another way, the government can deprive you of your constitutional right to due process so long as they deprive you of your constitutional right to due process.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

I’m fine with that…..but folks don’t get to play the “ we have to stop all this wasteful spending” and THEN engage in wasteful spending. Sure seems to me that the folks who like to use us veterans as a mascot (“I’d rather my tax dollars go to a homeless veteran then a welfare drug addict”) might think, “I get the celebration, but wouldn’t that $100 million be better spent on better healthcare for combat vets.”

That’s the thing: once the “we are about to have a cataclysm if we don’t save money” folks start, they don’t get to say, “Let’s spend millions on a parade!”

Btw - I concur with your point about media framing, and it’s a lot of what brought us to where we are now.

If anyone thinks the president is getting flack for having this already planned parade celebrating 250 years of the Army, then just think what happens if it's canceled. Neither Trump nor Biden would have dared cancel this parade. The flack they would have gotten would have been ten fold what it now is for having it. We have a soft spot in our hearts for the military and those who serve, and yes at times, it goes overboard. But either way, no president in the last 30 years would have the balls to cancel this parade. They would be eaten alive by the same media that is crucifying him for still having it.

 

[cdub55]

Either way it's excessive spending and I thought that is what conservatives were against.

But since this causes the slightest bit of cognitive dissonance it's *crickets*

I'd much rather spend $250 million on celebrating our veterans and our citizens, then spend 1 cent on saving transgender penguins in Antarctica. Secondly, money spent in the US stays in the US. Not saying this should be a regular affair, but I think we can splurge every 250 years or so...

 

[Tidewater]

US Supreme Court backs Trump on deportations under 1798 law

This strikes me as a reasonable compromise:
"Detainees 'must receive notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act. The notice must be afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs,' the majority wrote."

My guess is that a number of the members of Tren de Aragua have not registered their real addresses with ICE so Immigration will mail a letter to the best address they have (which will be returned to sender as undeliverable) and then, after a "reasonable time," the next time the individual is arrested in a jurisdiction that is not a "sanctuary city," the individual will be on the fast track to El Salvador.

 

[Bamaro]

I'd much rather spend $250 million on celebrating our veterans and our citizens, then spend 1 cent on saving transgender penguins in Antarctica. Secondly, money spent in the US stays in the US. Not saying this should be a regular affair, but I think we can splurge every 250 years or so...

I'd rather not borrow $250 million for a parade

 

[cdub55]

I'd rather not borrow $250 million for a parade

Not arguing for a parade but as CA mentioned above, canceling the parade would be political suicide. You, me, Biden, Trump, or Lincoln would have all said, "let the show go on", if gave the chance.

 

[dtgreg]

Sotomayor's dissent rips the majority a new one.



Put another way, the government can deprive you of your constitutional right to due process so long as they deprive you of your constitutional right to due process.

This. The reason it's important for horrible, obviously guilty people to get due process and a fair trial is that it guarantees you and I will get the same. The minute you start making exceptions, ANY exceptions, our guarantee goes away.

NAZIs always start with the least popular and easiest groups to pick on. Hence, Trans people; even gays don't necessarily like them. Drug gangs are the worst but if you think law enforcement could never make a mistake, or a "mistake", well, I guess it must be bliss for you.

We are all made less safe by this.

 

[Tidewater]

I have been reliably informed that the federal government may do anything that is in "the general welfare," so, the majority having decided that expelling illegal immigrants benefits most Americans and is thus in "the general welfare," it must be constitutional. After all, the Founder wrote the words "general welfare" in the constitution twice, so they must have meant it.
And if that does not suffice, I have also been reliably informed that the federal government may do whatever it believes in "necessary and proper." The majority having deemed it is both necessary and proper to expel enemy aliens, the action of expelling them is therefore constitutional.

Loose construction is so much fun...

 

[CrimsonJazz]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just sided with Trump, overturning an activist judge's order requiring the rehiring of "probationary employees" at 6 federal agencies - POLITICO

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1909637053593034802