[Politics] Donald Trump, US President

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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

I know you admit some knowledge gaps @Flounce, but that one was a whoppa.
As @aolstudios says, well research is not difficult, even if you're still using dial-up.

Houthi insurgency - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Parliamentary question | Crimes committed by the Houthi militia in Yemen | E-005440/2021 | European Parliament

Question for written answer E-005440/2021 to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Rule 138 Fulvio Martusciello (PPE)

www.europarl.europa.eu

Preventing the Next Kabul: Confronting the Houthi’s Violent Suppression of Women in Yemen

Since 2014, the Houthi militia has abducted and tortured hundreds of women and forced their seclusion through indoctrination with foreign ideology. The violations of women’s rights and international norms cannot go unpunished unless Sana’a is to become a second Kabul.

www.wilsoncenter.org

and so on.

Well done Starmer if he helped anyone attack these shits.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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.

Wow. That's amazing.

What will happen to Trump I wonder?
Retire to spend more time with other people's money (and wives, if he can still raise the chipolata)?
Shot?
Impeached?
A third glorious term?

He will certainly go down as America's most absurd president
He gets a couple of things right most days, perhaps.
But so does a broken clock.
I for one see no need to applaud just because, today, he didn't shit on his own slippers.

 

[raymondo]

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.

Absolutely shocking stuff. The 'public outcry,,' from one exclusion mentioned, needs to become total public outrage! It's shocking, and members of Congress are still drawing their salaries- they are complicit by their silence.

 

[US Seagull]

Wow. That's amazing.

What will happen to Trump I wonder?
Retire to spend more time with other people's money (and wives, if he can still raise the chipolata)?
Shot?
Impeached?
A third glorious term?

He will certainly go down as America's most absurd president
He gets a couple of things right most days, perhaps.
But so does a broken clock.
I for one see no need to applaud just because, today, he didn't shit on his own slippers.

To be fair, it did occur today that Trump has managed something that I really don't think anybody else could have achieved.

Making me nostalgic for his first term when he was just ridiculous and incompetent instead of dangerously deranged.

 

[fly high]

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.

.

Neither did we but Blair did it anyway.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

To be fair, it did occur today that Trump has managed something that I really don't think anybody else could have achieved.

Making me nostalgic for his first term when he was just ridiculous and incompetent instead of dangerously deranged.

Nothing to lose now?
My first guess at how his pres mark II would go was "shits and giggles",
while getting himself immune from any further inquiries about his Ponzi financial 'empire'.

I'm still not yet persuaded that my initial take wasn't wrong.

 

[Cordwainer]

Wow. That's amazing.

What will happen to Trump I wonder?
Retire to spend more time with other people's money (and wives, if he can still raise the chipolata)?
Shot?
Impeached?
A third glorious term?

He will certainly go down as America's most absurd president
He gets a couple of things right most days, perhaps.
But so does a broken clock.
I for one see no need to applaud just because, today, he didn't shit on his own slippers.

To be fair to him, he’s extraordinarily good at pointing and over use of adjectives. Tremendously.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Neither did we but Blair did it anyway.

The nation was generally behind it at the time.
Labour and Tory generally all on the same script.
I supported it.
My middle brother, who is a big fan of The Palestinians, and is currently telling me Putin Has A Point (about Ukraine), didn't.

'We' is doing some heavy lifting, there.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

To be fair to him, he’s extraordinarily good at pointing and over use of adjectives. Tremendously.

That's what bigness does for you.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Personally, I say Trump and his cronies are weapons.

Yep, I'd go along with that. Massive weapons.

 

[SouthSaxon]

Nothing to lose now?
My first guess at how his pres mark II would go was "shits and giggles",
while getting himself immune from any further inquiries about his Ponzi financial 'empire'.

I'm still not yet persuaded that my initial take wasn't wrong.

Getting reelected kept him out of prison, and now he’s got nobody there telling him he can’t do things. Even the Democrats (well, one in particular) are letting them do what they want

 

[BadFish]

I am encouraged that he is expecting another election.

 

[raymondo]

I am encouraged that he is expecting another election.

Well don't get too carried away . They're clearly working on changing the constitution somehow, or maybe Congress won't even notice.
Bannon doesn't look too healthy...

 

[BadFish]

Well don't get too carried away . They're clearly working on changing the constitution somehow, or maybe Congress won't even notice.
Bannon doesn't look too healthy...

I suppose it's better than him saying 'don't worry people you won't need to vote again.'

 

[nicko31]

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

It is remarkable the speed at which the pillars of democracy are getting dismantled.

Some democrats are speaking as if everything will be fine come the next election as the country will never trust the republicans again. Personally I just can't see another free election as we know it.

Republican voters have chosen authoritarianism out to choice, the problem for them is it won't end there. They will be next...

 

[raymondo]

I suppose it's better than him saying 'don't worry people you won't need to vote again.'

Yep, it was a sidestep away from that

 

[sparkie]

The destruction of the USA by Krasnov is like watching in real time the fall of the Roman Empire.

 

[SouthSaxon]

The destruction of the USA by Krasnov is like watching in real time the fall of the Roman Empire.

In fast forward

 

[US Seagull]

In fast forward

With wifi

 

[Peteinblack]

And while Musk complains that free-speech is under threat in the West:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained