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26 minutes ago, Dimity said:

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Is it within Trump's purview to actually change the name of the Kennedy Centre?  Because if it is I am pretty sure he'll be changing it. 

Several entertainers have cancelled their appearances at the Kennedy Center since Trump’s takeover

Kamau Bell stand up comedian and host of the CNN show The United Shades of America has not 

He says he thinks he was booked while President Biden was in office so it had nothing to do with Trump’s takeover 

After reading that the Gay Men’s Chorus has been cancelled I hope Kamau will rethink his decision. I like him but I can’t respect him if he goes through with the performance. I don’t think throwing gay people under the bus is something he should think is acceptable. At least I hope not

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Annber03
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And yet the same people who are awed by his celebrity are also the ones talkng about how celebritees need to stay out of politics. You'll pardon me if I can't take their critiques all that seriously. 

Annber03
Annber03

For as long as I live, I will never understand the hold this guy has over people. 

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Everything I want to say would be a string of curse words at this point.  Hope you're happy, people who decided to be all precious with your votes or who felt this guy deserved another chance aft

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bluegirl147

bluegirl147

46 minutes ago, Dimity said:

s it within Trump's purview to actually change the name of the Kennedy Centre?  Because if it is I am pretty sure he'll be changing it. 

Anything Trump changes to his name I sincerely hope the next Democratic president changes them back. 

Renaming something with your name is like someone saying they are cool or good in bed. You know,  things other people are supposed to decide if you measure up those statements.

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Yeah No

Yeah No

3 minutes ago, bluegirl147 said:

Anything Trump changes to his name I sincerely hope the next Democratic president changes them back. 

Renaming something with your name is like someone saying they are cool or good in bed. You know,  things other people are supposed to decide if you measure up those statements.

Maybe he'll try to rename it the "Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Center", LOL. Shades of Fort Bragg.

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Dimity

Dimity

Just now, Yeah No said:

Maybe he'll try to rename it the "Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Center", LOL. Shades of Fort Bragg.

There's also a Republican, I think in Congress but could be a senator who's also  a loud proud Trumper and is named Kennedy.  Seeing that name associated with the Republican party definitely threw me for a loop!

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Dimity

Dimity

Speaking of reporters I am reading a really interesting book called "The Ghost of the Hardy Boys" by Canadian Leslie MacFarlane who ghostwrote the first 20 or so Hardy Boy books, but who was also a reporter for various newspapers at the time.  One of the things he talks about was how every editor he wrote under stressed that reporters needed to write about what they were covering honestly and with integrity.  This seems to be a lesson few are taking on board lately.

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bluegirl147

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20 minutes ago, jennifer6973 said:

Before yesterday, I thought the Presidential libraries were run by family foundations.

I know that the former presidents have to fundraise or get donations initially to open them.  I also didn't know the government paid to keep them open.  I just realized Trump didn't announce a presidential library after his first term. Not surprised for a man who probably has never stepped foot in an actual library.

21 minutes ago, Dimity said:

There's also a Republican, I think in Congress but could be a senator who's also  a loud proud Trumper and is named Kennedy.  Seeing that name associated with the Republican party definitely threw me for a loop!

John Kennedy from Louisiana.

10 minutes ago, Dimity said:

Speaking of reporters I am reading a really interesting book called "The Ghost of the Hardy Boys" by Canadian Leslie MacFarlane who ghostwrote the first 20 or so Hardy Boy books, but who was also a reporter for various newspapers at the time.  One of the things he talks about was how every editor he wrote under stressed that reporters needed to write about what they were covering honestly and with integrity.  This seems to be a lesson few are taking on board lately.

I think more and more reporters don't have journalism degrees. Even the ones on TV probably don't have broadcasting degrees.

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Notabug

Notabug

46 minutes ago, jennifer6973 said:

Before yesterday, I thought the Presidential libraries were run by family foundations.

I guess I was wrong. 

They are, but they also receive a portion of their funding for staffing and maintenance from the federal government.  Those staffers were the ones fired by DOGE.  Kennedy's library has scrambled to find non-governmental employees to fill in the holes left by the loss of the government employees and has re-opened.

So, they will either have to work with fewer staff members or cut back on programming and other services to hire more people and pay for them from the library's private funds

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54 minutes ago, Dimity said:

There's also a Republican, I think in Congress but could be a senator who's also  a loud proud Trumper and is named Kennedy.  Seeing that name associated with the Republican party definitely threw me for a loop!

He used to be a democrat and he’s a Rhodes Scholar. But that was in the before time 

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Dimity

Dimity

3 minutes ago, Notabug said:

Those staffers were the ones fired by DOGE

I am still horrified that DOGE has the authority to fire anyone.  It's just one of many things that have happened in the past month that seem unbelievable.

1 minute ago, tres bien said:

He used to be a democrat and he’s a Rhodes Scholar. But that was in the before time 

Sounds like Vance (although I don't think he was a Rhodes Scholar) - principles fly out the window when money and power beckon for some.

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Lantern7

Lantern7

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I read what YKW said about Zelensky. I will be donating to a Ukrainian charity later. I just need to figure out which one. Also, do you think I’d get into trouble if I sent Fearless Leader a package of sunflower seeds?

”Dictator without borders.” Fuck him all the way to hell with that shit.

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suomi

suomi

He wants NYC's congestion fee overturned and now he is telling Brazil what to do regarding an internal matter.

Will no one stand up to this chimp and tell him that he does not rule the world? 

President Trump’s media company sued a Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday, accusing him of illegally censoring right-wing voices on social media.

The Trump Media & Technology Group — which is majority owned by Mr. Trump and runs his Truth Social site — sued the Brazilian justice, Alexandre de Moraes, in U.S. federal court in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday morning. Joining as a plaintiff was Rumble, a Florida-based video platform that, like Truth Social, pitches itself as a home for free speech.

The lawsuit appeared to represent an astonishing effort by Mr. Trump to pressure a foreign judge as he weighed the fate of a fellow right-wing leader who, like him, was indicted on charges that he tried to overturn his election loss.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/americas/trump-brazil-bolsonaro-judge.html

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fastiller

fastiller

In '21 a friend was the recipient of a double transplant (kidney/pancreas; he named his new kidney Carole and his new pancreas Esther).  He's become an organ transplant ambassador.  You can see some of Patrick's story here: More than 100,000 Americans are waiting for an organ transplant.  Apparently the Dept of HHS Division of Transplantation has been hit by the DOGE firings.

 

 

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bluegirl147

bluegirl147

2 minutes ago, fastiller said:

In '21 a friend was the recipient of a double transplant (kidney/pancreas; he named his new kidney Carole and his new pancreas Esther).  He's become an organ transplant ambassador.  You can see some of Patrick's story here: More than 100,000 Americans are waiting for an organ transplant.  Apparently the Dept of HHS Division of Transplantation has been hit by the DOGE firings.

 

 

Rich people will just by organs if they need them.  We are a capitalist country after all.

18 minutes ago, suomi said:

Will no one stand up to this chimp and tell him that he does not rule the world? 

A chimp would do a better job.

29 minutes ago, Bookish Jen said:

I am absolutely horrified. The arts and libraries are sacred to me.

And in more horrifying news:

Indiana Republicans Propose Cuts to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.

I signed up my granddaughters for that.  Of course this is just yet another way for them to prevent children from reading. When you read you learn and as Trump said he loves the uneducated. 

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Anela

Anela

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/18/white-house-x-immigrants-deportation-shackles-asmr-video.html

I saw the video last night, when it was quoted by someone I follow.  They are pure evil. They called it an ASMR video, as they show someone being prepared for deportation.  
 

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The White House posted a video showing immigrants in shackles being prepared to board a deportation flight from Seattle.

The X post by the White House said, “ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight.”

ASMR, or “Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response,” refers to a pleasant, tingling feeling some people experience when watching videos featuring unusual sounds.

The White House on Tuesday afternoon posted a video online showing immigrants in shackles being prepared to board a deportation flight from Seattle.

The video includes footage of a set of handcuffs and chains jingling as they are pulled from a basket containing other shackles and then laid out on the airport tarmac next to four other sets of restraints.

The X post by the White House is titled, “ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight.”

ASMR is a nonclinical term that stands for “Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response.” It refers to a pleasant, tingling feeling some people experience when watching videosfeaturing unusual sounds, like whispering or fingernails tapping on a surface.

 

One shot in the 41-second video shows an immigrant with his hands cuffed in front of him and ankles bound by a chain as he walks past an officer.

Other shots include a close-up of a man having his handcuffs linked together, a man’s feet in chains as he walks up a stairway to a plane, and a man about to board the aircraft. None of the men in the video have their faces shown.

But the clip and the White House’s description of it capture the enthusiasm in the Trump administration and among the president’s supporters for his mass deportations.

The video was shared earlier Tuesday by the Seattle office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, with the words: “REMOVAL FLIGHT. A group of undocumented aliens are flown from Seattle as part of a process to finalize return to their home countries.”

ICE’s video begins with a shot of an officer wearing a jacket that identifies him as a member of the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations unit.

But the video shared by the White House opens with a different clip: An officer standing behind a shackled migrant, appearing to roll down the collar of the person’s jacket or hooded sweatshirt.

In ICE’s tweet, that shot appears at the end of the video, not the beginning.

The White House retweeted the original ICE video without commentary at 12:19 p.m. ET. Then, about 90 minutes later, the White House tweeted the edited version with the “ASMR” comment.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whom Trump has tasked to lead an initiative to slash the federal workforce, six minutes later reposted the White House “ASMR” tweet, writing, “Haha Wow.” Musk owns the social media site X.

President Donald Trump has made the crackdown on undocumented immigrants a priority for his second term in the White House. Federal agencies in the weeks since he was sworn in on Jan. 20 weeks have engaged in an aggressive series of arrests and deportations.

Trump is also a fan of dramatic videos and social media posts that depict him and his allies dominating their foes.

A White House spokesperson did not immediately reply to a request from CNBC for comment about the post, or why it was edited to put the final clip from the ICE Seattle video at the start of its own video.
 

By 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, the White House’s tweet had more than 6.4 million interactions and nearly 6,000 retweets.

Many people who replied to the tweet praised it, with one X user writing, “Keep it up! Love this!” while another wrote: “Thank you send them all back.”

But other people criticized the tweet, with one writing in reply, “This is disgusting.”

Another person wrote, “When [Vice President] JD Vance argues that illegal immigration enables poverty wages undermining the purpose of minimum wage, I can get behind that argument.”

“But when you post this, it’s just cruel and dehumanizing,” the user wrote.

 

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Dimity

Dimity

13 minutes ago, Anela said:

esla CEO Elon Musk, whom Trump has tasked to lead an initiative to slash the federal workforce, six minutes later reposted the White House “ASMR” tweet, writing, “Haha Wow.” Musk owns the social media site X.

In a different time and place he and others like him would have been cheering as they watched executions.  This is just getting beyond sickening.

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bluegirl147

bluegirl147

2 minutes ago, Dimity said:

In a different time and place he and others like him would have been cheering as they watched executions.  This is just getting beyond sickening.

If this is the stuff they are showing us what are they not showing us?

These people are evil enough to do some pretty heinous things.

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7 minutes ago, BetyBee said:

Did anyone else receive an email today from "Social Security Adm." with a subject line: Help Us Slam the Scam? I haven't opened it, but there's so much tomfoolery going on there that I'm afraid to open it. I think I'll just delete it. Google says that it's to warn people about scams, so 🤷‍♂️

Thank you for the heads up. I haven't received this email but I will instantly delete if I do.

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Dimity

Dimity

4 minutes ago, Anela said:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/19/gov-j-b-pritzker-likens-trump-administration-actions-to-nazi-germany-what-comes-next/

Gov. JB Pritzker likens Trump administration actions to Nazi Germany: ‘What comes next?’

Everything they are doing is straight out of the Nazi playbook.  I only hope it ends the same way, with him cowering in a bunker somewhere.

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MostlyContent

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12 minutes ago, Dimity said:

Just when you think nothing he does can surprise you, something does.  Not that he thinks he's a king, we all know that, but that he's proudly proclaiming it.  I didn't think even he was quite that stupid.

I'm not quite sure where Peach got that link or if it's a joke?  

The real 'White House official page':  https://www.whitehouse.gov/

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Browncoat

Browncoat

1 hour ago, BetyBee said:

Did anyone else receive an email today from "Social Security Adm." with a subject line: Help Us Slam the Scam? I haven't opened it, but there's so much tomfoolery going on there that I'm afraid to open it. I think I'll just delete it. Google says that it's to warn people about scams, so 🤷‍♂️

I got it, and I did open it.  If I hover my cursor over the e-mail address, the address shows up, and this one was a .gov address.  Anyway, it seems legit, as it has several tips for avoiding Social Security scams.  The tips are all things I've heard before, such as, if they ask for payment in gift cards, it's a scam.  

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Dimity

Dimity

11 minutes ago, MostlyContent said:

Gotcha.  Thank you!  

He does enjoy winding people up.  IMO, he can tone it down anytime now, but if it has to do with NYC, I doubt he will.  

Winding people up is a very mild way of describing what Trump does.  He is a seething ball of anger and resentment and he riles up his base to bring out the absolute worst in people. 

His behavior is emphatically not presidential but when you elect a lying liar who lies I guess you can't be surprised at what you get.

And speaking of lying liars who lie:

This showed up on my FB just now

 

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Elon Musk claims DOGE has saved $55 billion, but the numbers don’t add up. DOGE released a list of canceled contracts totaling $16 billion in supposed savings. However, nearly half of that came from an $8 billion ICE contract—except that contract was actually worth just $8 million. A closer look at federal records shows Musk’s claims are vastly overstated, and the $55 billion figure lacks any real documentation. Share to help stop the spread of misinformation.

 

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MostlyContent

MostlyContent

3 minutes ago, Dimity said:

Winding people up is a very mild way of describing what Trump does.  He is a seething ball of anger and resentment and he riles up his base to bring out the absolute worst in people. 

His behavior is emphatically not presidential but when you elect a lying liar who lies I guess you can't be surprised at what you get.

I understand that you see it that way, Dimity.  

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Lantern7

Lantern7

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*sigh* I can’t see things getting better without people getting hurt. Even if I consider some of those people to be grotesque parodies, it still counts as people getting hurt.

Are there any fans of South Park here? One episode that comes to mind is “Breast Cancer Show Ever.” Watch it if you can get it.

I want comeuppance for Trump. Even if it ends with him in a Club Fed prison, I would be open to that.

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Dimity

Dimity

2 minutes ago, Anela said:

She sees the real him. 

If his lips are moving, he's lying.   The biggest outrage today being that he accused Ukraine of being the aggressor in the war where Russia invaded them. 

But of course this is classic Trump.  If he actually ever follows through on the threats he is aiming at, hmm, last count: Canada, Panama, Greenland... I am sure he will twist things to make it look like he had no choice it was all their fault.

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anony.miss

anony.miss

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1 hour ago, MostlyContent said:

 

He does enjoy winding people up.

He's not just "winding people up". He's grooming his voters and Republicans to accept increasing breaches and abuses of presidential power as normal behavior in the Oval Office:

"Republicans Happily Roll Over as Trump Declares Himself King:...Republicans’ sycophantic support demonstrates that Trump’s autocratic (or monarchic) ranting isn’t merely him going rogue; it’s a distinct rhetorical feature of his entire administration, which has already set to work uprooting the checks and balances that underpin American democracy, and replacing it with something wholly different. 

On Tuesday night, Elon Musk claimed that “if the will of the president is not implemented, and the president is representative of the people, that means the will of the people is not being implemented. And that means we don’t live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy.” 

It’s not a bureaucracy Americans need fear, but a monarchy."

https://newrepublic.com/post/191718/republicans-donald-trump-king-congestion-pricing

 

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Soapy Goddess

Soapy Goddess

6 hours ago, tres bien said:

I hope Kamau will rethink his decision. I like him but I can’t respect him if he goes through with the performance.

Since when is it a must to respect a performer? Why can't people enjoy the humor or performance for what it is? 

6 hours ago, bluegirl147 said:

Renaming something with your name is like someone saying they are cool or good in bed. You know,  things other people are supposed to decide if you measure up those statements.

You mean how the group called the Supremes was changed to Diana Ross and the Supremes?

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Dimity

Dimity

4 minutes ago, anony.miss said:

On Tuesday night, Elon Musk claimed that “if the will of the president is not implemented, and the president is representative of the people, that means the will of the people is not being implemented. And that means we don’t live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy.” 

Ah yes, how many times did we see Musk voicing support for Biden using this exact argument.  So many times....

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bluegirl147

bluegirl147

19 minutes ago, Soapy Goddess said:

 

You mean how the group called the Supremes was changed to Diana Ross and the Supremes?

We were specifically talking about hoping Trump didn't name the Kennedy Center the Trump Center.  Not the same thing.

24 minutes ago, anony.miss said:

 

He's not just "winding people up". He's grooming his voters and Republicans to accept increasing breaches and abuses of presidential power as normal behavior in the Oval Office:

"Republicans Happily Roll Over as Trump Declares Himself King:...Republicans’ sycophantic support demonstrates that Trump’s autocratic (or monarchic) ranting isn’t merely him going rogue; it’s a distinct rhetorical feature of his entire administration, which has already set to work uprooting the checks and balances that underpin American democracy, and replacing it with something wholly different. 

On Tuesday night, Elon Musk claimed that “if the will of the president is not implemented, and the president is representative of the people, that means the will of the people is not being implemented. And that means we don’t live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy.” 

It’s not a bureaucracy Americans need fear, but a monarchy."

https://newrepublic.com/post/191718/republicans-donald-trump-king-congestion-pricing

 

Gaslighting at it's worst. It's what dictators do.

47 minutes ago, Dimity said:

If his lips are moving, he's lying.   The biggest outrage today being that he accused Ukraine of being the aggressor in the war where Russia invaded them. 

But of course this is classic Trump.  If he actually ever follows through on the threats he is aiming at, hmm, last count: Canada, Panama, Greenland... I am sure he will twist things to make it look like he had no choice it was all their fault.

Classic abuser behavior.   He will invade a country and then say look at what you made me do.

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bluegirl147

bluegirl147

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9 minutes ago, Soapy Goddess said:

Why is it that every analogy I put forth is "not the same thing"?  

And why is it that I have to watch what I say but you (collectively) don't?  

The Supremes changing their name to feature the name of one of their singers is not the same thing.  And I could be wrong but it probably wasn't Diana Ross who decided to do that.   My guess it was Barry Gordy. 

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Anela

Anela

8 minutes ago, Soapy Goddess said:

Why is it that every analogy I put forth is "not the same thing"?  

And why is it that I have to watch what I say but you (collectively) don't?  

We do have to watch what we say.

I do wonder what would be too much, for a trump supporter - and those who say they didn't vote for him, but back him versus the liberals. 

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