Trump+Musk; the DOGE and Pony show continues -Trump thread #140

[Spandauer]

Trump, as out of control as a faulty Tesla, takes an ICE pick to the Constitution.

Thanks to @AcrossthePond55 and @Jaichangecentfoisdenom for the thread title and sub-title 😊

Photocollage: Cold War Steve
Map illustration: Barry Blitt

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5286872-the-orange-man-and-the-state-of-his-union-trump-thread-139

1. The gall of Tulsi Gabbard in today's hearing, talking about her first amendment right to retweet an RT stooge whose opinions she agrees with made me rage.
2. The video of the apprehension of the Tufts student made me sick.

I don't know how I'm going to survive the next four years.

Haha... that's funny, given it's snowy and cold over there!

I think so hypothetically but his role is symbolic compared to the POTUS’. Why, are you saying Charlie boy managed to wangle his way onto the group chat too? 👀

At the hearings this afternoon, a Senator asked one of the Repubs whether Hegseth had been drinking when he sent all those messages on Signal. They did not like that question.

After the war, the US froze the UK out of it's nuclear programme.

Which considering how much the UK had advanced the US project felt like a kick in the teeth - the signs were all there.

Anyway, post war you weren't anyone if you didn't have an H-Bomb. Only the US and USSR managed to make one. Without access to the US research, the UK wasn't able to build one.

Only we did - which means we independently were able to do the very extreme research and engineering needed. Putting us in the same league as the US.

It was after that the US relented and readmitted the UK to it's nucleal programme.

This was back in Eisenhowers day. (I think Kennedy did the Polaris deal).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_hydrogen_bomb_programme#

Bomb making is (much like the Apollo programme) really extreme engineering. The physics is well understood.

Because he's too busy golfing and rage truthing from the toilet. Stephen Miller makes the decisions.

I just saw that video

https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3llccznpbvc2r

No. But being surprised Trump wasn't in on the chat, when if this had been the UK, no one would have been surprised if KC wasn't in on it. What with both being CinCs.

As I noted in another thread, maybe discussions about Trump and the US aren't really a place for pedantry.

I don’t think it’s really comparable though. The King doesn’t make operational decisions, he’s a symbolic head of state. The POTUS is very different, he should be having the final say in military action that’s taken forward.

I would however have been surprised if the Prime Minister wasn’t involved in these sorts of discussions, and the roles are far more comparable.

Not sure if you intend to come across as snippy, apologies if I’ve picked you up incorrectly.

Such a nice lady. So well brought up.

Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene literally telling a British reporter to "go back to your country" and berating her for trying to ask a question.

"We don't give a CRAP about your opinion."
bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3llcecrg6uc27

He is insane

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250326-trump-says-we-have-to-have-greenland-ahead-of-vance-trip

We need Greenland for international safety and security. We need it. We have to have it," Trump told podcaster Vince Coglianese. "I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it."”

Fucking insane

Trump: "We're gonna have tremendous goodies in the bag for women too. The women, between the fertilization and all the other things we're talking about, it's gonna be great. Fertilization. I'm still very proud of it, I don't care. I'll be known as the fertilization president and that's okay."

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3llclkqz7rc2o

Rapists like to fertilize

in the same breath as the Wisconsin Court Race might start the ball rolling on the National Abortion Ban
(Its in Project 2025)

It's insane.

In Faust, does Dr Faust realise at the end that the devil is a fool, or did I imagine that?

It never fails to amaze me how fundamentally thick she is. Horrible human being.

It's getting worse

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/hegseth-waltz-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7

https://x.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1904963090187219243

I’m almost worried what we might get next just to spite us all!

If that part of me hadn't already shut down, my reproductive system would have experienced a critical stop at those words coming from him.

This is turning into an international incident 😱

As it should. This “government” and its leaders should be soundly reprimanded by leaders the world over. I would think even Putin would be concerned

To be honest I’m genuinely concerned by Mark Rutte saying today that NATO can absolutely trust the US. It feels like they’re taking us for idiots.

More

https://bsky.app/profile/wired.com/post/3llcnphj4ds2z

SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

I don't know why anyone should be surprised, especially after all the gassing by senior UK politicians on WhatsApp. What's awful is that this has become normal.

Just reading about the new developments! How will Ms Leavitt spin this?