Trump Dictatorship and All Things Politics

[PJF]

You're an easily misled rube. The Mexican president promised to do what they've been doing for years now. Which has done nothing to reduce the flow of fentanyl, by the way. The vast majority of Mexican fentanyl flows through legal ports of entry, smuggled by US citizens. Soldiers roaming the border doesn't do anything to stop this. Trump just got played hard, and so did you.

Dude, let go of your TDS. You're embarrassing yourself.

 

[Sardines]

lol


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Nah you got it all wrong. This was Trump engaged in 3D chess. His supporters are saying you can't listen to the words that come out of his mouth, you have to patiently and loyally stand by and then praise whatever random result happens at some undetermined point afterwards.

Like in this one he got Mexico's President to send 10,000 national guard to the border to stop the illegal importation of Fentanyl into the U.S..

So that's pretty much it! No more Fentanyl in the USA. Suck on that libs!

 

[BabyPeterzz]

Nah you got it all wrong. This was Trump engaged in 3D chess. His supporters are saying you can't listen to the words that come out of his mouth, you have to patiently and loyally stand by and then praise whatever random result happens at some undetermined point afterwards.

Like in this one he got Mexico's President to send 10,000 national guard to the border to stop the illegal importation of Fentanyl into the U.S..

So that's pretty much it! No more Fentanyl in the USA. Suck on that libs!

Yeah, didn’t Biden get 15k troops? What a joke! MAGA is so desperate and gullible.

I thought tariffs were going to replace income tax tho? What happened?


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[LogGrad98]

You're an easily misled rube. The Mexican president promised to do what they've been doing for years now. Which has done nothing to reduce the flow of fentanyl, by the way. The vast majority of Mexican fentanyl flows through legal ports of entry, smuggled by US citizens. Soldiers roaming the border doesn't do anything to stop this. Trump just got played hard, and so did you.

He's right. That's where I get mine.

 

[LogGrad98]

Nah you got it all wrong. This was Trump engaged in 3D chess. His supporters are saying you can't listen to the words that come out of his mouth, you have to patiently and loyally stand by and then praise whatever random result happens at some undetermined point afterwards.

Like in this one he got Mexico's President to send 10,000 national guard to the border to stop the illegal importation of Fentanyl into the U.S..

So that's pretty much it! No more Fentanyl in the USA. Suck on that libs!

Ahem.....it is 5D Chutes and Ladders, tyvfm.

 

[Red]

You're an easily misled rube. The Mexican president promised to do what they've been doing for years now. Which has done nothing to reduce the flow of fentanyl, by the way. The vast majority of Mexican fentanyl flows through legal ports of entry, smuggled by US citizens. Soldiers roaming the border doesn't do anything to stop this. Trump just got played hard, and so did you.

https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers

Here are facts:

• Fentanyl smuggling is ultimately funded by U.S. consumers who pay for illicit opioids: nearly 99 percent of whom are U.S. citizens.
• In 2021, U.S. citizens were 86.3 percent of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers—ten times greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense.
• Over 90 percent of fentanyl seizures occur at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints, not on illegal migration routes, so U.S. citizens (who are subject to less scrutiny) when crossing legally are the best smugglers.
• The location of smuggling makes sense because hard drugs at ports of entry are about 97 percent less likely to be stopped than are people crossing illegally between them.
• Just 0.02 percent of the people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl whatsoever.

 

[TheStormofWar]

And China's refiners are already talking with Canada. Good job, *** hat.

 

[fishonjazz]

https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers

Here are facts:

• Fentanyl smuggling is ultimately funded by U.S. consumers who pay for illicit opioids: nearly 99 percent of whom are U.S. citizens.
• In 2021, U.S. citizens were 86.3 percent of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers—ten times greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense.
• Over 90 percent of fentanyl seizures occur at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints, not on illegal migration routes, so U.S. citizens (who are subject to less scrutiny) when crossing legally are the best smugglers.
• The location of smuggling makes sense because hard drugs at ports of entry are about 97 percent less likely to be stopped than are people crossing illegally between them.
• Just 0.02 percent of the people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl whatsoever.

There it is. The factual data.

 

[LogGrad98]

This one really is mind-boggling. This has to be a cash grab to provide more handouts to the rich, right? Why do this, it just makes no sense whatsoever, especially taken with the ridiculous diatribe against the organization where musk calls them an extreme-leftist marxist criminal organization. What the actual ****? @Bucknutz do you support this? Can you explain it?

Musk says Trump administration is on verge of shutting down USAID

Elon Musk, the administration's billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO, says the administration is on the verge of shutting the U.S. Agency for International Development.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[TheGoldStandard]

https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smuggled-us-citizens-us-citizens-not-asylum-seekers

Here are facts:

• Fentanyl smuggling is ultimately funded by U.S. consumers who pay for illicit opioids: nearly 99 percent of whom are U.S. citizens.
• In 2021, U.S. citizens were 86.3 percent of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers—ten times greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense.
• Over 90 percent of fentanyl seizures occur at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints, not on illegal migration routes, so U.S. citizens (who are subject to less scrutiny) when crossing legally are the best smugglers.
• The location of smuggling makes sense because hard drugs at ports of entry are about 97 percent less likely to be stopped than are people crossing illegally between them.
• Just 0.02 percent of the people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl whatsoever.

One could argue that this shows legal crossings are subject to more scrutiny/risk, accounting for why 90% of seizures occur in these places. This leads me to believe these people are actually the worst smugglers.

I assume drones and GPS, water drops and other methods that are hard to stop are being used. China has worked to stop some chemicals from being sold. It has helped some, but the drug trafficers moved a lot of manufacturing to India.

 

[Rubashov]

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/canadians-cancel-trips-ban-american-110433243.html

We have Canadians booing our national anthem and now cancelling trips to the US.

Well done trump. Dumbass

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Made the news here. Trump and his buddy Musk ****ing around with other countries like they're playing risk, I think its gonna back fire hugely. We have an election coming in the next few months the right and the far right have been parroting Trumps nonsense for months, in the last week I've sensed a pivot, I reckon their polling is coming back that Trump is about as popular as arse cancer.

 

[Rubashov]

This next 4 years will be a good time to be a lawyer. There will be so many lawsuits. Unbelievable. How is any of this good? I know the answer is "the enemy within" and full-on lies and ******** about idiots and morons and evil people running these departments as full-on crime syndicates. Still unbelievable so many people believe this ****.

Cant sue the king!!!!!!

 

[PJF]

View: https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1886500530094268784?t=Q6JT0y--HyhQaotVr1FUMg&s=19

 

[Al-O-Meter]

His supporters are saying you can't listen to the words that come out of his mouth, you have to patiently and loyally stand by and then praise whatever random result happens at some undetermined point afterwards.

It is not "random stuff". As has been said all along, Trump uses the threat of tariffs mostly for negotiation. This is what I wrote last year:

It is also not going to happen as made clear by Scott Bessant, Trump's nomination to be Treasury Secretary when he wrote "tariff gun will always be loaded and on the table but rarely discharged."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-pick-treasury-secretary-markets-115856300.html

It is a negotiation point that will be used in exactly the same way Trump used it in his first term.

From Mexico, he wants a wall. He's thinking 10,000 Mexican soldiers can help him quickly make a wall, and that is what he got.

From Canada, I'm thinking he's not happy with the Trans-Mountain pipeline that will allow Canada to pipe our Alberta oil to Canada's west coast for loading on to tankers bound for places that aren't the United States. I don't think Canada is going to give that up, but we'll see.

 

[Rubashov]

One could argue that this shows legal crossings are subject to more scrutiny/risk, accounting for why 90% of seizures occur in these places. This leads me to believe these people are actually the worst smugglers.

I assume drones and GPS, water drops and other methods that are hard to stop are being used. China has worked to stop some chemicals from being sold. It has helped some, but the drug trafficers moved a lot of manufacturing to India.

Are you ****ing kidding? The Chinese are deliberately flooding the west with drugs and precursors for drugs. Almost all precursors for DDs are now imported to Australia, during the Covid border closures drugs didn't disappear but the purity and availability nose dived as did the associated drug related health and anti-social behaviours. It was a night and day difference, after about 6 moths of closed borders ours instances of violence at the hospital halved and continued to to remain at historically low numbers until the borders re-opened. Once the borders re-opened our stats gradually increased until they returned to pre-pandemic numbers.

**** the Chinese they're a pack of *****.

 

[PJF]

 

[BabyPeterzz]

It is not "random stuff". As has been said all along, Trump uses the threat of tariffs mostly for negotiation. This is what I wrote last year:



From Mexico, he wants a wall. He's thinking 10,000 Mexican soldiers can help him quickly make a wall, and that is what he got.

From Canada, I'm thinking he's not happy with the Trans-Mountain pipeline that will allow Canada to pipe our Alberta oil to Canada's west coast for loading on to tankers bound for places that aren't the United States. I don't think Canada is going to give that up, but we'll see.

Why do you think Canada built this pipeline? It wasn’t because they trust the US.

Who eroded that trust starting in 2016? Through COVID, and throughout Biden’s term?

You morons don’t account for externalities out of our control. Like telling us to **** off and doing business with China.


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[Al-O-Meter]

Why do you think Canada built this pipeline?

Because Biden killed the Keystone XL pipeline which Canada made clear they preferred.

Canada almost built the pipeline to their ports earlier, after Obama also shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, but Trump stepped in to save our oil in Alberta.

COMMENTARY || How Donald Trump killed the Energy East pipeline

www.ualberta.ca

Then Trump lost, and Biden did everything wrong like he always does, and now Trump is trying to put the Genie back in the bottle with tariffs.

 

[Red]

MAGA world is trying to make hay over their discovery of Executive Order 10973, signed by JFK in Nov., 1961. They believe it means Trump has the authority to erase USAID via an E.O. That may not be the case.


View: https://x.com/steveondrugs/status/1886383629800231232

Can the President Dissolve USAID by Executive Order?

Congress established USAID in statute, and the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.

www.justsecurity.org

Can the President Dissolve USAID Without An Act of Congress?​

No, not lawfully. In 1961, USAID was created by an E.O. issued by President John F. Kennedy (E.O. 10973), based in part on authority provided in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. But a later act of Congress (The Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, 22 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) established USAID as its own agency. In a section titled “Status of AID” (22 U.S.C. 6563) it states:

(a) In general​

Unless abolished pursuant to the reorganization plan submitted under section 6601 of this title, and except as provided in section 6562 of this title, there is within the Executive branch of Government the United States Agency for International Development as an entity described in section 104 of title 5. (emphasis added)

The key language here is “there is within the Executive branch of Government [USAID]” (see sections 6562/6563). Those are the words Congress uses to establish an agency within the executive branch. It would take an act of Congress to reverse that – simply put, the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.

The 1998 statute also transfers only certain functions of USAID to the State Department, and in essence requires USAID to handle all other pre-existing USAID functions described in the Foreign Assistance Act. This means that, at a minimum, Congress asserted a role for itself in such transfers of functions as well as early as 1998.

Also in the 1998 Act, Congress gave the president a near-term, time-limited opportunity to reorganize these departments (22 USC 6601). Specifically, the Act provides, among other things, that within “60 days after October 21, 1998,” the president may, in a “reorganization plan and report” to be provided to Congress:

“(1) … provide for the abolition of the Agency for International Development and the transfer of all its functions to the Department of State or (2) in lieu of the abolition and transfer of functions . . . provide for the transfer to and consolidation within the Department of the functions set forth in section 6581 of this title; and may provide for additional consolidation, reorganization, and streamlining of AID . . .”

President Bill Clinton submitted the statutorily-envisioned report to Congress on Dec. 30, 1998, within Congress’ specified 60-day window. In that report, the Clinton administration explicitly chose to retain the independence of USAID as its own agency (while providing for certain forms of coordination and resource sharing). It stated:

(d) United States Agency for International Development. Effective April 1, 1999, the United States Agency for International Development shall continue as an independent establishment in the Executive Branch.

Congress provided the president the opportunity to modify or revise that plan (6601(e)) until the effective date of the reorganization plan, which the 1998 Act specified as no later than April 1, 1999 with respect to some USAID functions, and Oct. 1, 1999, with respect to the opportunity for abolition of the agency (6601(g)(2)). No prospective modification or reorganization authority was granted to the president beyond those effective dates.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

Congress provided the president the opportunity to modify or revise that plan (6601(e)) until the effective date of the reorganization plan, which the 1998 Act specified as no later than April 1, 1999 with respect to some USAID functions, and Oct. 1, 1999, with respect to the opportunity for abolition of the agency (6601(g)(2)). No prospective modification or reorganization authority was granted to the president beyond those effective dates.

Maybe, but he can put Marco Rubio in charge of it, and thanks to making Federal employees Schedule F, he can fire them all.