President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[myboynoah]

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[dabrockster]

This is an interesting perspective.

What if Trump is painfully right?

Sometimes the rude guest sees what the polite ones have agreed not to mention.

While I cringe often by his words and his treatment of our own.. HIS own Americans, I tend to smirk when he blasts our allies or other countries that are not because I tend to think they have taken advantage and allowed us to carry the brunt of foreign objectives they support and the world seems to think "diplomacy" and "etiquette" is proper while they steal/thieve in the shadows..

But I also become increasingly angry when he talks big and then backs down (i.e. Iran)..

[Goatnapper'96]

The question is painfully facile and binary. Trump has right on a variety of points, including EU freeloading, poor immigration policies, etc., but being right about the existence of an issue doesn't mean your solution (or lack thereof) is also correct. Trump takes a genuine issue and applies his usual ham-fisted methods (don't bother to understand the nuances of an issue which would require reading something; assume the other side is cheating; we must cheat better in order to win; never describe anything without using superlatives or hyperbole; make outrageous demands with the assumption the other side will back down; and be sure to plaster your name over everything like a dyspeptic animal marking his territory, etc.).

But sure, Trump is painfully right, and he's painfully wrong.

The biggest problems about his "solutions" is that he offers none other than the endstate of him being "right." No wonder he got divorced numerous times. One of the lingering issues post Trump will be the stupid positions other countries have taken in response to him being such an asshole.

[YOhio]

The question is painfully facile and binary. Trump has right on a variety of points, including EU freeloading, poor immigration policies, etc., but being right about the existence of an issue doesn't mean your solution (or lack thereof) is also correct. Trump takes a genuine issue and applies his usual ham-fisted methods (don't bother to understand the nuances of an issue which would require reading something; assume the other side is cheating; we must cheat better in order to win; never describe anything without using superlatives or hyperbole; make outrageous demands with the assumption the other side will back down; and be sure to plaster your name over everything like a dyspeptic animal marking his territory, etc.).

But sure, Trump is painfully right, and he's painfully wrong.

Ha! I knew you'd like that one.

[PaloAltoCougar]

..../"]What if Trump is painfully right[/URL]?

The question is painfully facile and binary. Trump has right on a variety of points, including EU freeloading, poor immigration policies, etc., but being right about the existence of an issue doesn't mean your solution (or lack thereof) is also correct. Trump takes a genuine issue and applies his usual ham-fisted methods (don't bother to understand the nuances of an issue which would require reading something; assume the other side is cheating; we must cheat better in order to win; never describe anything without using superlatives or hyperbole; make outrageous demands with the assumption the other side will back down; and be sure to plaster your name over everything like a dyspeptic animal marking his territory, etc.).

But sure, Trump is painfully right, and he's painfully wrong.

[YOhio]

This is an interesting perspective.

The hardest part of this argument is separating Trump’s possible correctness about the world from his obvious unfitness to navigate it. He may be right that allies have underinvested. He may be right that China exploited Western naïveté. He may be right that multilateral institutions became mechanisms for diffusing responsibility rather than solving problems. None of this means his methods will produce better outcomes. Cruelty alienates. Unpredictability frightens. Personalized grievance substitutes ego for strategy. Trump could be directionally correct about the failures of the old order while being catastrophically wrong about how to build a new one. These possibilities are not mutually exclusive.

I do not admire Trump’s methods. The cruelty is real, the damage to diplomatic relationships genuine, the risks of miscalculation heightened by his chaotic approach to statecraft. But strategy must be judged by whether it aligns with reality, not whether it pleases editorial boards or conference audiences. Carney offered a vision that earned applause in Davos. Trump offered threats that earned condemnation everywhere polite people gather. The question is which better describes the world as it actually operates – a world where middle powers can chart independent courses through rhetorical solidarity and institutional loyalty, or a world where power remains concentrated, choices remain binary, and countries like Canada must ultimately align with the great power on whose security and market access they fundamentally depend.

Nobody wants Trump to be right. The possibility offends. But wanting is not analysis, and offence is not refutation. The painful possibility that Canadian policymakers must sit with is that Trump’s crude assessment of allies, adversaries, and the failing international order may be closer to truth than the elegant alternative Carney presented to standing ovations in Switzerland. Sometimes the rude guest sees what the polite ones have agreed not to mention.

What if Trump is painfully right?

[dabrockster]

This guy is everything that is wrong with Trump as they are both extremely narcissistic and driven on impulses without pause or clarity or balanced thinking.. He seems to be the architect of all these terrible policies and actions. Any chance Trump gets rid of him. He needs to go.

How Stephen Miller Stokes Trump’s Boundary-Pushing Impulses

Moments after federal officers fatally shot Alex Pretti, his body still lying facedown on an icy Minneapolis street, Customs and Border Protection officials texted Stephen Miller, the White House aide and presidential confidant who framed the government’s response.

While White House communication and policy aides tried to sort out what they knew, what they should say and who would brief President Trump, Miller jumped ahead. Three hours after the shooting, Miller told the world via X that the slain VA nurse was a “domestic terrorist” who had “tried to assassinate federal law enforcement,” a description that set off one of the Trump administration’s biggest political crises of the president’s second term.

None of the language Miller used had been approved or reviewed, said administration officials familiar with the matter. Miller, who shared a photo of the handgun found on Pretti’s hip with White House officials, told colleagues his comments were based on early information.

Not long after Miller’s tweet, Trump posted the photo of the gun on his own social-media post, saying the weapon was loaded and ready to go. “What is that all about?” Trump wrote.

Video footage soon contradicted Miller’s portrayal of Pretti and marked a rare setback for the singularly powerful White House adviser who has shaped many of the president’s most incendiary impulses. Miller has been an architect in almost every boundary-pushing effort in Trump’s second term, according to White House officials familiar with the matter, including immigration sweeps in U.S. cities and the deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean.

Miller was influential in Trump’s first term, but his power has expanded in the second one. He personally drafted or edited every executive order the president signed, and faced little opposition from administration officials to his work to reshape immigration policy. Miller helped come up with the idea to blow up drug boats, officials said, and to deport migrants to a prison in El Salvador using the wartime Alien Enemies Act, an action now under court challenge.

In recent weeks, more Republicans have openly questioned Trump’s immigration strategy and its chief architect. North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis said Trump should fire Miller and Noem, citing their characterization of Pretti as a terrorist. “That is amateur hour at its worst,” he said, adding, “Stephen Miller never fails to live up to my expectations of incompetence.”

Cracks have appeared even in the Oval Office. The president, aware of polls showing that much of his immigration agenda isn’t popular, has told advisers he wasn’t comfortable with how far Miller has gone on some fronts, according to people who have spoken with Trump. The president has said that business officials are calling and complaining to him about longtime workers being thrown out of the country.

After Miller described Pretti as a terrorist and would-be assassin in the hours following the Jan. 24 shooting, Leavitt said at a news briefing that she spoke only for the president, who hadn’t made any such claims. Miller told colleagues he was frustrated by the coverage of the whole episode.

Early in Trump’s second term, Miller told federal agents in a meeting at the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that the president was disappointed in their numbers. Miller urged the agents to “just go out there and arrest illegal aliens,” without bothering with targeted lists, according to people familiar with the meeting.

Miller’s comments marked the start of a more aggressive enforcement campaign focused on progressive, Democratic Party-led cities. Since the shift, masked and heavily armed federal agents have detained some U.S. citizens and people with legal status in broad immigration sweeps, and, in Minneapolis and elsewhere, drawn street protests and violent confrontations.

While leading daily homeland security-related calls with administration officials, Miller, who frequently stressed the first-year goal of one million deportations, pushed officials to ramp up their numbers according to people familiar with the calls. He demanded 3,000 arrests a day—a number deemed unrealistic by many federal agents—and came up with the idea of offering recruitment bonuses as high as $50,000 for thousands of new ICE agents.

Miller pushed for sweeps at Home Depot and other spots where day workers gather, though Trump has at times been asked to temper raids at businesses. Following immigration arrests in September by federal agents at a Hyundai Motor factory in Georgia, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp called the president and asked for the release of 300 South Korean workers, according to administration officials. The president publicly said he opposed the raid and told Kemp privately that he didn’t know it was happening. He told aides repeatedly that he didn’t want any more sweeps at factories or farms, the officials said.

Trump needs to listen to these guys and remove Miller entirely from the immigration push. Let them do what they want. Enforce strategic, targeted illegals that are criminals. No way anyone would have a problem with this.

The administration’s immigration push is split between the sweeping measures in line with Miller’s view, and the belief of Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar and Todd Lyons, the ICE director—that agents should target immigrants with criminal histories or final deportation orders.

Yeah. NOTHING shady about that..

Miller is known for working longer hours than most anyone at the White House. His office is on the second floor of the West Wing, but he usually floats around the first floor, including the Oval Office. He often speaks in sentences that can seem to stretch for minutes, asking rhetorical questions designed to persuade colleagues to see matters his way. Miller rarely leaves a written trail of his orders, using Signal, an encrypted voice and text-messaging app, to communicate.

Unlike most of his colleagues, Miller has Secret Service protection. He moved his family to a military base after protests outside his Arlington, Va., home. He asked officials at the FBI and Justice Department to investigate protesters, including people who posted his home address online, according to administration officials.

More recently, Miller has broadened his portfolio beyond immigration to national security. In early January, he boasted on CNN that the U.S. could pursue Trump’s ambitions to control the Arctic with an invasion. “Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” Miller said in the TV interview. Other White House officials said they were amazed at the comments, which weren’t authorized by Trump.

In another TV appearance, Miller talked about Venezuela, prompting Trump to ask aides why Miller was speaking. “He doesn’t do foreign policy,” Trump said, according to a senior administration official.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/...trump-2448e779

[myboynoah]

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[frank ryan]

This Tulsi Gabbard story is concerning and interesting. An urgent whistleblower complaint has been stalled for 8 months. The complaint is about Gabbard among other issues. She has been blocking it. It was filed all the way back in May,

In my opinion Gabbard has been sus from the get-go. Her weird stunt in Georgia didn't make it easier to treat her seriously.

A whistleblower complaint against Donald Trump’s spy chief was flagged for being of “urgent concern” and was on its way to lawmakers before hitting a series of inexplicable snags that saw it hidden away in a safe.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was accused of playing games behind the scenes to keep the complaint under wraps, but a memo on the highly classified complaint obtained by The Associated Press now reveals the nature of the allegations against her.

Filed on May 21, 2025, by an intelligence official, the complaint alleged that Gabbard “restricted” distribution of a “highly classified intelligence report” for “political purposes,” according to the memo. It also alleged that officials with the DNI’s Office of General Counsel “failed to report a potential crime to the Department of Justice, also for political purposes.”


After the complaint was first lodged, the acting inspector general of the intelligence community at the time quickly deemed it to be of “urgent concern” if it was found to be “true.” The anonymous whistleblower then gave the go-ahead for the complaint to be shared with congressional intelligence committees, in keeping with federal law on such complaints.

But just three days later, “newly obtained evidence” was presented that the inspector general found made the first allegation “not appear credible,” the memo states. The credibility of the second allegation was still an open question.


The inspector general also claimed the overall process of disclosure to lawmakers was delayed by the nature of the claims and last year’s government shutdown.

Gabbard’s office has said the complaint is “baseless and politically motivated.” It has previously called the WSJ’s reporting “not true,” “one of the most disgusting cases of clickbait I have ever seen,” a “nothingburger story” and “trash.”

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner has nevertheless blasted Gabbard for what he described as a willful frustration of disclosure to lawmakers, noting that it took “six months of negotiation with the director of national intelligence to share that whistleblower complaint.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/leaked...a-locked-safe/

[myboynoah]

Funny

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[BigPiney]

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Lol, her job does suck. The local news report was pretty good. https://www.fox9.com/news/federal-at...e-system-sucks

Sounds like she volunteered for the job so ICE would do the right things. She sounds like she is trying her best and getting no help.

[myboynoah]

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[myboynoah]

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[Jeff Lebowski]

Maybe don't steal his hat.

where is the first part of the video?

“without provocation “ is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.