The Trump Presidency: Now auditioning for 51st State

[BruiserBrody]

Rep. Tenney wants to make President Trump's birthday a national holiday

Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, who represents Western New Yorkers in New York's 24th District, is proposing a bill to make President Trump's birthday a federal holiday.

www.wkbw.com

 

[snuffbox]

Don't we already have enough holidays for these ancient assholes?

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

RFK Jr. is already taking aim at antidepressants

The new HHS secretary has made baseless claims that the drugs are addictive and cause violent behavior.

www.motherjones.com

I knew he thought this but seeing it actually start to happen is fucking surreal.

 

[Valeyard]

Oh sweet I'm gonna die

 

[909]

RFK Jr. is already taking aim at antidepressants

The new HHS secretary has made baseless claims that the drugs are addictive and cause violent behavior.

www.motherjones.com

I knew he thought this but seeing it actually start to happen is fucking surreal.

This is the kind of shit people freak out over for no reason. It's just a study.

Big Pharma isn't going to allow a situation where people can't give them their money. There's no situation where Big Pharma will lose their hold on this country. We should all relax.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

JD Vance stuns Munich conference with blistering attack on Europeâs leaders

US vice-president questions whether European values are worth defending as he rails against ‘threat from within’

www.theguardian.com

I hate this man so much.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1890450933558992916

 

[BruiserBrody]

Trump fires hundreds of staff overseeing nuclear weapons: report

The Department of Energy employs approximately 14,000 workers and oversees 95,000 contractors across energy and security sectors.

www.newsweek.com

US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers

It is having problems contacting people who were fired in Trump's blitz to shrink the federal workforce.

www.bbc.com

 

[snuffbox]

MAGA Melts Down Over Trump Fan Scared Of Black Host’s Handshake In Tom Hanks SNL50 Sketch

MAGA supporters lashed out on social media over an SNL sketch in which a Trump fan is frightened by the Black Jeopardy! host's offer of a handshake.

www.mediaite.com

big feelings

 

[Mickey Massuco]

https://www.reuters.com/legal/white-house-says-musk-is-not-doge-employee-has-no-authority-make-decisions-2025-02-18/

Already distancing from him.

 

[Valeyard]

One of them better have the other killed. I need the dopamine.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

https://www.reuters.com/legal/white-house-says-musk-is-not-doge-employee-has-no-authority-make-decisions-2025-02-18/

Already distancing from him.

It's an attempt to evade freedom of information requests by arguing technicalities.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798

Only took him a month to declare himself Emperor. Not bad.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798

Only took him a month to declare himself Emperor. Not bad.

So my local news covered this as part of their segment 2 non local wrap up. So they mentioned it was a consolidation of power and showed clips of Elon/Trump on Hannity explaining themselves. So it went maybe a min. Then we got a bit about some rapper who beat a felony rap. THEN we closed the segment with the Pope's illness.

I was flabbergasted not only in the "normalization" of the Trump reporting but also how some rapper beat out the Pope on the news worthiness beat.

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1892025213224714698

835 billion dollars

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/18/white-house-x-immigrants-deportation-shackles-asmr-video.html

calling this ASMR is both fucked up and weirdly "too online".

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Trump backs idea to send some DOGE savings to American citizens

President Donald Trump says he likes the idea to give some of the savings from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency back to U.S. citizens as a kind of dividend.

apnews.com

"He said at an investment conference in Miami that the administration is considering a concept in which 20% of the savings produced by DOGE’s cost-cutting efforts goes to American citizens and another 20% goes to paying down the national debt.

Trump also said the potential for dividend payments would incentivize people to report wasteful spending.

“They’ll be reporting it themselves,” Trump said. “They participate in the process of saving us money.”

Yes... let's have people who know even less about Federal spending programs "report" wasteful spending.

 

[BruiserBrody]

80th Anniversary of Iwo Jima battle today. I was getting teary eyed listening to a local historian interview a vet's grand daughter on his experience in the battle.

Then I started swearing at the Orange piece of shit who wants to help a dictator because either he's compromised or infatuated.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Ex-NFL punter Chris Kluwe calls MAGA 'a Nazi movement' in protest that led to his arrest

Chris Kluwe was arrested Tuesday on a charge of disturbing an assembly. He staged an anti-MAGA protest during a Huntington Beach city council meeting.

www.usatoday.com

âTheyâre Scared Shitlessâ: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trumpâs Grip on Congress

With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.

www.vanityfair.com