Hollywood Reporter:FCC Chair Brendon Carr: “The days that these legacy media broadcasters get to decide what we can say, what we can think, who we can vote for are over. I think President Trump played a key role in just smashing the facade that they still get to decide the narrative here.”

Wouldn't it be interesting if he won? I think the orange buffoon would start to panic - James winning would chip away at Trump's Senate majority.

Trump went after Iran, no issue with that

He went for Maduro, no issue with that

He's contemplating in between golf rounds if he will go after Iran again, no real issue with that

In the meantime, a democratically elected country, who Trump sides with the attacking dictator is left hanging, into its 4th year. If the legal and moral country wants help, no help. If the illegal country has issues, the dictator leader calls Trump, praises him, a great call, then the defending democratic country is yet again, cast aside.

Shame. Go NATO and EU and UK . Others will jump on board if there is traction, although many are already on board, except as Trump is the most powerful leader, they cannot do that, as they will be ridiculed (no issue), or tariffed to the extreme, which affects the masses that the other leaders care for.

Its Trumps first year not the fourth, so thats an obvious issue. 

Now Trump is discussing his arms supply to Taiwan, with China, what is he on????

Trump lies all day every day.
Only honesty is to see what enriches Trump and secondarily his Cabinet/Oligarchs who will pass on a tithe to enrich him.

Dictatorships and Autocracies can do more to enrich Trump than democracies can.

China can do a better deal because they have more gold than Taiwan, but also because if Xi says 'it happens'. While he can extort Taiwan even harder having encouraged China, with Trump don't care.
I forgot to add, all his TAT is made in China plus other business deals already.
Xi would be quite happy to swap Greenland, Iceland and Canada, for Taiwan. :-) 

Trump would not consider that East Timor disaster, invasion of Kuwait happened because some American idiot indicated USA don't care.

For Iran, Trump really, really wants to do a deal to enrich himself too. Ayatollah can, but pride and all.
He removed most of the forces from the area, such he had to slow walk it back, but it's no invasion force.
They lost 3 F18's in operations against Houthis, and they did not have to hit any of them.
Last time he almost literally pounded sand, after warning Iran to secure its nuclear material elsewhere. 

Venezuela again regime change not a thing, just a new deal with a new dictator to enrich him. 

Peter Thiel's dictators get things done for Oligarchs model. 

quickymart:

 

 

Wise words from the woman who could - nay, should - have become president in 2016.

 

(FYI, the above quotation is from a transcript of an interview in this video here: https://www.facebook.com/briantylercohen/videos/yup/926370146607705/ )

 

Unfortunately she is precisely why Trump got elected.

She was seen as being part of the problem for middle/rural America. For too long this section of the US electorate had been ignored/forgotten by the career politicians, politicians full of platitudes. Trump was seen as an outsider, someone who could make a difference. 

The Democrats needed a strong inspirational leader that could gain the confidence of the US voter. Someone who didn't say what they thought the public wanted to hear but someone who could layout a clear concise policy (that won't suit everyone) and have the charisma to take the population on that journey. That wasn't/isn't Hillary.

I actually agree with you - to a point - about Hillary. She did come with a fair amount of baggage, and I daresay that's what turned a number of voters off. I also agree with your comments about Trump being the political outsider (back then; he isn't really now).

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if (or so I heard) Biden hadn't been pushed out in 2016 in favour of Hillary. He definitely beat Trump once, maybe they should have let him have a shot at it in 2016 as well? We'll never know.

Indirectly related to Trump - former Prince Andrew has been arrested over his ties to Epstein and specifically sharing information with him while he was a trade envoy (technically, the charge is "suspicion of misconduct in public office") - and on his 66th birthday too. Bet that's one he'll never forget:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/587371/live-former-prince-andrew-arrested-by-uk-police-over-epstein-ties

I saw something asking why Trump also wasn't arrested, but I have feeling there's some law that says a sitting president can't be charged with a crime? I may have that one wrong though.

After Nixon, what the US needed was a small heart attack, like a NSTEMI, partial blockage of a coronary artery.

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Trump is a widow maker heart attack, with the US struggling to sit up in its hospital bed, a massive STEMI with cardiogenic shock.

Executive orders are not specifically mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. The closest is the president should “take care that the laws be faithfully executed”

The authority for executive orders comes indirectly from Article II of the Constitution, which vests executive power in the president.

George Washington issued the first one, because the Constitution was just enacted. Congress had created departments, but it was the president’s responsibility to supervise them.

So Washington wrote a letter asking for explanations of how the Department of Foreign Affairs department was organized, and a recommendations for how it should operate going forward.

Simple and mundane. He made 8 executive order totals.

(I'm excluding Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt because of existential threats. The president does not need to issue an executive order to launch a nuclear strike. There is no formal requirement that Congress approve a first nuclear strike.)

Ever since World War II, the number of executive orders have been in the hundreds.

(Except for the first Bush, oddly restrained)

Nixon should have been a wake up call. Nixon was already abusing executive orders under Vietnam War–related actions. Nixon issued over 300 executive orders during his time in office. That's about 1 every 5 days.

Trump is projected to issue up to 500 executive orders. Or about 1 every 3 days.

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AlterNet - Another private company capitulates to Trump - without even fighting back 

19 Feb 2026

Note to the decision-makers at the Gallup Organization, which for nearly 90 years has tracked presidential approval ratings: Capitulation never works. ...

 

Gallup last week admitted it would no longer survey Americans’ sentiments on how the commander in chief was faring.

 

The organization’s latest presidential barometer, in December, placed Donald Trump’s approval rating at an abysmal 36%. ...

 

That a private company like Gallup would cave so dramatically to this administration is reprehensible. 

 

The capitulation is a stain on Gallup’s reputation and legacy, and it leaves Americans with less information on how we all feel our top government executive is faring.

 

What a country...

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’ | Techdirt

 

o flag grants for their DEI involvement, Fox entered the following command into ChatGPT: “Does the following relate at all to DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes.’ or ‘No.’ followed by a brief explanation. Do not use ‘this initiative’ or ‘this description’ in your response.” He then inserted short descriptions of each grant. Fox did nothing to understand ChatGPT’s interpretation of “DEI” as used in the command or to ensure that ChatGPT’s interpretation of “DEI” matched his own.

 

So the staff deciding what is DEI or not are people who wouldn't get a job based on their skills because they are useless people?

U.S. considers building pricey alternative to World Health Organization - The Washington Post

 

After pulling out of the World Health Organization, the Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the United States once helped build and accessed at a fraction of the cost, according to three administration officials briefed on the proposal.

 

So much winning. The incompetence is staggering.

quickymart:

 

 

 

I saw something asking why Trump also wasn't arrested, but I have feeling there's some law that says a sitting president can't be charged with a crime? I may have that one wrong though.

 

Lol, he was convicted of 34 felonies and let off with literally no punishment whatsoever before he went on the ballot. What makes you think they're going to arrest him NOW?

@kingdragonfly no need for crass words to make a point. I've edited your post.