No more Musk, Melania MIA and TACOs for tea: The Idiocracy beds down - Trump thread #144

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Second '100 days' working out much like the first, but with a Vance-proof Pope, a bigly white elephant plane, a few more legal push backs and way more grifting.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5327971-idiotam-habemus-trumpum-the-bigly-xxx-trump-thread-143

https://bsky.app/profile/starwarsexplained.com/post/3lr6mdgojlk2u

Best wishes to you @AcrossthePond55 and to Mr Across for a full recovery.

Hopefully LA citizens will now step back and not give Trump an excuse to escalate the response.

I also expect him to have NYC, Chicago and possibly Portland (OR) in his sights. Maybe his birthday parade will keep him occupied this week.

Wishing all your family well, @AcrossthePond55.

Good wishes to you @AcrossthePond55
I imagine (don't know) that you have a DH similar age to mine and sometimes it's one thing after another. Fingers x'd for an upturn and speedy recovery.

I am aghast with what's going on in LA. Trump and his band of morons will be loving flexing their muscles like this.

As for Stephen Miller, we can see the evil in him

Hope things improve quickly @AcrossthePond55- at least for your immediate family, wishing them safe and well.

Doing the rounds

Fair point

CNN: We have breaking news now from the Pentagon. CNN can now report that roughly 500 Marines are being mobilized in response to the protests in Los Angeles.

This is Trump's wet dream

I’m so sorry to hear about your troubles @AcrossthePond55, sending you all love.

This is absolutely horrifying from afar, can’t imagine what it’s like to have loved ones there!

He is also advocating arresting Newsom

BBC say 700.

The Trump administration’s deployment of national guard troops to Los Angeles to intervene in civilian protests in the face of opposition from the Californian governor is a major escalation that risks the politicisation of the US military, armed service veterans are warning.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/veterans-trump-national-guard-la-protests

This is a genie that will be very difficult to put back in its bottle.

That's why he's doing it.

The LA protests are the pretext, not the reason.

This is a standard part of creating an authoritarian state. It will have been on their To Do list since before the election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/health/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccine-panel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Nk8.0_Do.42Z_luhZ9z7F&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

The U.S. health secretary chose to “retire” members of a committee that makes significant decisions about who receives immunizations, including the vaccines for children.

Tosser.

With Trump escalating, are the protesters growing in number?

Are ice still grabbing people off the streets in California?

What is happening in other protests? Are they growing in solidarity?

Will the Marines support the constitution and stand with the protesters?

So many questions. I hope the protesters manage to stay peaceful, that will make Trump look even more batshit crazy than he already does.

FYI, LA's 'hometown' newspaper. Not sure if/how long this link will work. They're usually behind a paywall but often go 'free' for important local stories.

www.latimes.com/california/live/los-angeles-protests-immigration-raid-updates

LA TV station link

KABC-TV 'Live Stream' (as of 4pm local time)

https://abc7.com/watch/live/

According to GB News, this will be good for Trump as a crackdown on illegal migrants and he is just delivering on his campaign promises. If protests spread to Rep states, it will be interesting to see what happens then.

The insanity continues. What is the projected end result of Bigly's obsessive persecution? When all the different shades of immigrants and the uninsured sick and poor have obligingly died or left the country, what then? What the hell is the point of all this rubbish other than to allow Trump and gang to collect a lot of valuables that will allow them to sit and count their stolen wealth? Who's going to be making your burgers Bigly?

Do you see the protests spreading to Republican states, though? Why would they, when ICE is not going there to kidnap possibly illegal farm workers in the agricultural red states, if you see what I mean?

Gilead?