Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[Dekafox]

In a new executive order, President Trump has targeted the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients.

Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries

www.everylibrary.org

 

[KidTDragon]

I guess that'll have to do until he can get the book-burnings going.

 

[wonko the sane?]

I guess that'll have to do until he can get the book-burnings going.

I'm torn on this bit: because, generally speaking, republicans are stupid enough to buy the books before they burn them.

But also... burning ******* books.

 

[KidTDragon]

Say things do get to that point: what if we take the dust jackets off of whatever books the MAGAts most want to burn, stick them on bibles, and give 'em those to incinerate? Then when they reach the apex of their cheering and Roman saluting and dancing around the bonfire, we show them a copy of one of the books they're burning and tear the cover off for the big reveal. How badly do you think they'll get burned frantically trying to pull their precious story books out of the blaze?

 

[wonko the sane?]

Realistically: unless they burn the printing presses too, or they burn enough books to start triggering nuclear winter... there's no point getting between them and their anger without enough people being with you to make them think twice.

I mean: a very dramatic idea and the giggles would be priceless; not worth the effort. Not like they'll read the bible anyway.

 

[Axaday]

Yeah, a book burning just isn't the thing it used to be. In the digital age it would be very difficult to keep a book from getting anywhere.

But I don't really think this movement is very interested in that anyway. Discrediting a book or idea with their supporters is fairly easy. I expect the move on library and museum funding is a lot more about how they just don't view such nerdy things as being worth spending money on.

 

[Axaday]

Trump said on the campaign trail that he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on immigration and now he's done it. Federal judge put a stay on it immediately.

If Trump was reading the Allspark last fall (?) he should have seen where I pointed out that Congress would have to declare war. Idiot.

 

[Covert Agent Rodimal]

What do you think Doctor Jones? I think goosestepping morons like you should try reading books instead of burning them!

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

It's tough to get Trump supporters to turn on Trump because tribal-minded people judge others by their allegiance, not their actions. Instead of thinking "he's on my side because he does these helpful things", they think "he must be helping me because he's on my side". It's backward logic, and as long as they feel like he's part of their tribe, they will never turn on him no matter what he does.

They will only turn on him when they finally decide he's not part of their tribe.

Yes, I know, it was completely absurd for them to think a snobby country-club Manhattan real-estate billionaire was ever part of their tribe in the first place, but these people are ... not smart.

I know you Americans mean well when you say "I don't support him" and "Not all of us are like that". But honestly, that just means you're the Dr. Jekyll half of the Mr. Hyde monster living next to us.

We're still stuck living next-door to a monster, and that will remain true even if the Dr. Jekyll half comes back.

People give Trump way too much credit when they assume his annexation talk about Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal is some kind of negotiating strategy. It's not a strategy: he is definitely enough of a stupid asshole to be 100% sincere about this.

I think that despite his bravado, he is acutely aware of his own age and his mortality. I think he's obsessed with the idea of leaving his mark in the history books before he kicks the bucket, and he has a plan, however stupid, that involves using these tariffs and threats to enormously expand America's land area.

He's a big fat stupid spoiled child in an old man's body. He just looked at the map and thought "wouldn't that be glorious". I wouldn't be surprised if he already has a revised map in the White House where Canada's name has been crudely scribbled out with a Sharpie and replaced with "Trump Land".

 

[Pocket]

Yeah, a book burning just isn't the thing it used to be. In the digital age it would be very difficult to keep a book from getting anywhere.

I'm sure they're working on that too.

 

[Paladin]

nice note going into hurricane season:

If you're not white and you need assistance; TOUGH jive.

Trump admin makes Asheville remove ‘DEI’ language to access hurricane relief aid

The Trump administration recently denied a funding request from the city of Asheville, North Carolina, to help its recovery from Hurricane Helene, telling the city it must cut a program meant to aid female and minority contractors.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Axaday]

FB friend:
People give Trump way too much credit when they assume his annexation talk about Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal is some kind of negotiating strategy. It's not a strategy: he is definitely enough of a stupid asshole to be 100% sincere about this.

I think that despite his bravado, he is acutely aware of his own age and his mortality. I think he's obsessed with the idea of leaving his mark in the history books before he kicks the bucket, and he has a plan, however stupid, that involves using these tariffs and threats to enormously expand America's land area.

He's a big fat stupid spoiled child in an old man's body. He just looked at the map and thought "wouldn't that be glorious". I wouldn't be surprised if he already has a revised map in the White House where Canada's name has been crudely scribbled out with a Sharpie and replaced with "Trump Land".

People who think it is just some gimmick have forgotten that they elected a real estate developer to the White House. What was he thinking as soon as he saw Gaza in ruins? He was thinking he knew people with concrete trucks and cranes and welding torches and he could make that into a resort. Every place he sees on the globe, this is his first impression. Every square mile of land on the globe could probably be monetized better and who better to do that than me?

I'm sure they're working on that too.

I don't think Trump sees books as dangerous, because he doesn't see them as powerful.

 

[wonko the sane?]

nice note going into hurricane season:

If you're not white and you need assistance; TOUGH jive.

Trump admin makes Asheville remove ‘DEI’ language to access hurricane relief aid

The Trump administration recently denied a funding request from the city of Asheville, North Carolina, to help its recovery from Hurricane Helene, telling the city it must cut a program meant to aid female and minority contractors.

www.yahoo.com

That's not what the article says.

So, trump enacted the alien enemies act. Functionally declaring war on Venezuela.

 

[Axaday]

Invoking the Alien Enemies Act presupposes that Congress has already declared war on Venezuela, which they have not done. It doesn't declare war. It just gives him the ability to suspend normal procedures for people from Venezuela. If Congress has declared war on Venezuela, which they have not done.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Right, so what happens when congress just goes along with it? Cause... they will.