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The Trump Presidency 2.0
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Touche.
EU is caving, is probably the best thing for the Canadian election. Conservatives want to negotiate a new trade deal. Liberal's want to cut away from the US. Also helps that the Liberal's are proven to be Chinese owned.
Keir Starmer bending the knee has been satisfying to say the least. I think you can draw a pretty straight line from JD Vance giving them a tongue lashing to their face to this.
Well, not *all* day, the conservatives would run out of "oligarchs" in short order...
Well, not *all* day, the conservatives would run out of "oligarchs" in short order...
Maybe! That just means there's more liberal billionaires I'd like out of politics than conservative ones; different side same coin and all that in my opinion.
Link seems busted or removed.
For good reason- initial reporting that the Bibi press conference was cancelled- happening now.
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It was a low effort AI-generated meme of Vance sucking Michelle Obama's dick with GEN Milley eating a whole goddamn cheesecake in the background.
Trump uses EO. Forces fight in court. SC rules and enshrines precedent. Today, we won.
The Constitution is alive and well.
The Constitution is alive and well.
Okay, I know I'm super late in replying to this but I owed you a response since you took the time to write out this thoughtful post.
So I'll grant that the administration does do things to "start the conversation" or "force the issue". However, I also firmly believe that the administration has been taking rapid executive action to take advantage of the fact that the Dems are in disarray after the election loss. Essentially, they're flooding the zone with so many EOs - 159 so far - that even if some are on legally dubious grounds (like this one) they're bound to get through because nobody is leading the Dems right now. By comparison, the first Trump administration issued 55 EOs in all of 2017, which means that they've already issued three times as many EOs in three short months!
That's the essential lens by which I view a lot of this administration's actions through: Trump wants to go fast and break things. It's not that they haven't done the legal and constitutional review of their EOs prior to issuing them, it's that they know they're unconstitutional and are saying "What are you gonna do about it libs?"
Oh, and I don't think it will force Congress to do anything, let alone set nationwide standards. I may be wrong. If congress does end up taking up the issue and passing something codifying this EO, I'll change my sig line to something like "AMLOVE IS ALWAYS RIGHT".
This EO does more than just enforce national voter ID requirements. One of the things it does, weirdly, is end the implementation of one Trump's own EOs from the first administration, EO 14019 "Promoting Access to Voting". That particular EO expanded federal assistance to state voter registration systems, made it easier for US mil to vote overseas, and expand voter education materials for non-English speakers.
The EO will also penalize states that allow "...absentee or mail-in ballots received after Election Day in the final tabulation of votes for the appointment of Presidential electors and the election of members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives". Imagine - if you're voting overseas and the mail system delivers your paper ballot one day after the official voting day, it simply doesn't count. Furthermore, the EO intends to establish a precedent for further-reducing states' use of mail-in voting
I think that's pretty anti-democratic. Moreover, and this is a pretty cynical opinion, but I think that this is political hardball being played by the administration to reduce Democrat votes. It's fairly well-known that Democrats vote by mail more frequently than Republicans, at least in recent elections. All eight of the states that conduct elections solely through mail-in voting are Democrat-run. Establishing an artificial deadline for mail-in ballots to be counted simply doesn't make sense. If you're a citizen and you cast a (legal) vote, it should be counted - period.
Totally agree with this but this is kind of beside the point.
The founders also explicitly stated that states have the right to determine how they conduct elections. You can't argue founder's intent when they told us what their intent was:
"Chusing" is the original spelling. Don't blame me!
As to the point of "the ballots are tallied quickly, and the results are available immediately" I don't think that should be the case. We're a very large country with a ton of people. A lot of us like to vote. Sometimes that takes a long time. I think we ought to strive to make sure that every legal vote is counted rather than leaning towards expediency. Does our republic suffer if an election is determined a week after an official election day? Two weeks? Not at all. Inconvenient, sure, but ultimately more small-d democratic. I think that's important.
Okay this is a good question! Do I support the lawsuit on its core issues? Yes, and no. On the topic of voter ID, I've come around from my previous position that voter ID laws are discriminatory and now I have no problem with them. All 50 states require proof of citizenship to even register to vote, so I see it as a moot point.
However, as I said above, I think that this EO is largely a cynical play by the Trump administration (and the GOP writ large) to restrict mail-in voting and, as a result, reduce Democrat votes. I don't hate them for it - that's just politics. They're playing the game just like the Dems do. But like I said earlier, this attempt to go fast and break things should not go unchallenged.
Hope that answers your question.
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On Voter ID, in Arizon we have voter ID. However, you don't even need a DL unless you're using that as your ID or your voter ID doesn't have your correct address. Most DMV/MVDs are trash. But changing your address in AZ is easy and the MVD system is tied to the voter registration system of the SecState. You will say Grandma in Young AZ ain't unassing herself to get to the DMV or something and to that I say...there are other forms of ID. California used to have an ID requirement when I was a kid...like electricity bill. I think that is actually what you can use in Texas. It's meant to just show you are who you say you are against the registered address. Why is that a big gaslight from Democrats?
Is FOUO back? Just got a signed memo from the DNI that is UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO (dated from March 2025). I thought that FOUO was replaced by CUI? Perhaps I just need to take my mandatory yearly refresher training again.
The IC never implemented it. CUI is a DoD thing.
Maybe I'm misreading this.
I read that as it is the States' prerogative as much as it is Congress' should the latter choose to step in and do its own thing. Maybe there's some law to muddy the waters, but I'd take this to mean an EO doesn't apply. It is a State issue unless the Legislative steps in and gets the ball rolling on a nation-wide change.
Two news stories on Bagram.
Trump: ‘We were going to keep Bagram, not because of Afghanistan but because of China’
The second is the important part and why- the TAPI pipeline. There’s something like $13T of oil and gas in the caspian sea. If China controls a pipeline that runs from that sea through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India- that’s a problem.
Afghanistan Advances TAPI Pipeline Construction with Additional 3km | Pipeline Technology Journal
I know we’ve been focusing on other things but if you’ve been listening, Trump has been signaling a move towards Bagram for two reasons- getting that sweet sweet energy, and denying China that sweet energy.
Now we will see how we hold the terrain we just recaptured.
Trump: ‘We were going to keep Bagram, not because of Afghanistan but because of China’
The second is the important part and why- the TAPI pipeline. There’s something like $13T of oil and gas in the caspian sea. If China controls a pipeline that runs from that sea through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India- that’s a problem.
Afghanistan Advances TAPI Pipeline Construction with Additional 3km | Pipeline Technology Journal
I know we’ve been focusing on other things but if you’ve been listening, Trump has been signaling a move towards Bagram for two reasons- getting that sweet sweet energy, and denying China that sweet energy.
Now we will see how we hold the terrain we just recaptured.
Thanks for the response- gimme a bit to read.
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