[Politics] Donald Trump, US President

[Cordwainer]

Republican who introduced Trump derangement syndrome bill arrested for soliciting a minor

Minnesota state senator Justin Eichorn allegedly traveled to meet a 17-year-old he thought he’d met online, but was instead a cop posing as minor

www.theguardian.com

Classy. And surely more than a touch ironic that another swivel eyed, fully paid up member of the orange cult is seeking to accuse others of TDS!

 

[aolstudios]

Robert Reich is a former Secretary of Labor who worked under presidents Ford, Carter, Clinton and Obama. A figure to take seriously.

His message to people outside the US is also something to take seriously: “Don’t come here”.

How our global friends can help us

Don’t come here

open.substack.com

 

[aolstudios]

Not sure Starmer helped the Israelis bomb Gaza!!

He didn't

 

[aolstudios]

Oh yeah, he helped the Americans bomb the Houthis, my bad but helping either the US or Israel bomb either is not great imo

Helping Ukraine bomb Russians though, that I can live with….

Bombing the Huthi rebels is just as worthy as bombing putin, tbf. They are absolutely f***ing vile

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

 

[bhafc99]

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To be replaced tomorrow with a new website stating that Donald Trump won WW2 single-handedly.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

To be replaced tomorrow with a new website stating that Donald Trump won WW2 single-handedly.

He parachuted in from the Enola Heterosexual and gave all the population of Hiroshima bone spurs.

 

[SweatyMexican]

To be replaced tomorrow with a new website stating that Donald Trump won WW2 single-handedly.

I’m sure he was desperate to win the Vietnam war until his doctor signed off his Bone Spurs. Devastating news.

 

[Fungus]

I’m sure he was desperate to win the Vietnam war until his doctor signed off his Bone Spurs. Devastating news.

Very Spursy. Loser.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/19/japan/politics/us-pentagon-dei-japan-removals/

Looks like the deletion is going to be reversed....

 

[US Seagull]

How mental is it that serious people can talk seriously about something so crazy-pants insane as this, seriously?

 

[peterward]

 

[Insel affe]

That was a given , the sooner people realise the better

 

[fly high]

Think many of us can see that coming. The world & especially USA is totally f***ed if that piece of gets in again.

 

[Insel affe]

Think many of us can see that coming. The world & especially USA is totally f***ed if that piece of gets in again.

What do you mean gets it, he will take it, possibly not even an election due to some contrived special circumstance.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

If you don't hear from any Ottawa-area Seagulls for several weeks or months, you'll know why.

Has Trump spoken to Blair yet as he is an expert on WMD ?

 

[Quebec Seagull]

Has Trump spoken to Blair yet as he is an expert on WMD ?

Thank goodness Jean Chrétien, our PM at the time, quickly and flatly refused to send Canadian troops to Iraq. Afghanistan, yes -- that was basically peacekeeping. But we wanted no part in a pre-emptive (read "unjustified / illegal") war.

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[raymondo]

If you don't hear from any Ottawa-area Seagulls for several weeks or months, you'll know why.

Personally, I say Trump and his cronies are weapons of mass destruction and should be neutralised.

 

[SouthSaxon]

What do you mean gets it, he will take it, possibly not even an election due to some contrived special circumstance.

This. Trump said some odd things after the election, about having some secret and how they didn’t need votes…it would be zero surprise to me to find out they’d found some way to manipulate that vote. I fully expect an attempt to prevent/steal the next one.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

This is copied from Professor Heather Cox Richardson, an eminent historian who is recording events as they happen

March 17, 2025 (Monday)

From 1942 to 1945, the Code Talkers were key to every major operation of the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater. The Code Talkers were Indigenous Americans who used codes based in their native languages to transmit messages that the Axis Powers never cracked. The Army recognized the ability of tribal members to send coded language in World War I and realized the codes could not be easily interpreted in part because many Indigenous languages had never been written down.

The Army expanded the use of Code Talkers in World War II, using members of 34 different tribes in the program. Indigenous Americans always enlisted in the military in higher proportions than any other demographic group—in World War II, more than a third of able-bodied Indigenous men between 19 and 50 joined the service—and the participation of the Code Talkers was key to the invasion of Iwo Jima, for example, when they sent more than 800 messages without error.

“Were it not for the Navajos,” Major Howard Connor said, “the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima.”

Today, Erin Alberty of Axios reported that at least ten articles about the Code Talkers have disappeared from U.S. military websites. Broken URLs are now labeled “DEI,” an abbreviation for “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.”

Axios found that web pages associated with the Department of Defense have also put DEI labels on now-missing pages that honored prominent Black veterans. Similarly missing is information about women who served in the military, including the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II. A profile of Army Major General Charles Rogers, who received the Medal of Honor for his service in Vietnam, was similarly changed, but the Defense Department replaced the missing page and removed “dei” from the URL today after a public outcry.

Two days ago, media outlets noted that the Arlington National Cemetery website had deleted content about Black, female, and Hispanic veterans.

The erasure of Indigenous, Black, Hispanic, and female veterans from our military history is an attempt to elevate white men as the sole actors in our history. It is also an attempt to erase a vision of a nation in which Americans of all backgrounds come together to work—and fight—for the common good.

After World War II, Americans came together in a similar spirit to create a government that works for all of us. It is that government—and the worldview it advances—that the Trump administration is currently dismantling.