Trumps Presidency 2025

[TJ Rollercoaster]

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2026/02/09/ford-worker-who-heckled-trump-keeps-job-no-discipline-for-incident/88588763007/

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, MichiganCardinal said:

It cuts both ways though...

of course there is an alternate view that both parties are walking dead, that 'political party' as a basic paradigm is dying and is not revivable exactly because the very people you need to be in them (the sane middle) won't go near them anymore. While I keep seeing this talked about, my question is what does it look like in practice? OK - so for starters you run ranked choice primaries and every candidate is a free agent, but how does a legislature function? Firstly, how to have stable leadership to manage an agenda if every leadership vote is an ad hoc exercise among a couple of hundred free agents? Sound like a recipe for getting even less done than the broken legislative processes we have now.

[MichiganCardinal]

9 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

of course there is an alternate view that both parties are walking dead, that 'political party' as a basic paradigm is dying and is not revivable exactly because the very people you need to be in them (the sane middle) won't go near them anymore. While I keep seeing this talked about, my question is what does it look like in practice? OK - so for starters you run ranked choice primaries and every candidate is a free agent, but how does a legislature function? Firstly, how to have stable leadership to manage an agenda if every leadership vote is an ad hoc exercise among a couple of hundred free agents? Sound like a recipe for getting even less done than the broken legislative processes we have now.

I have a hard time seeing either political party actually dying for the same reasons I have a hard time seeing either the Big Ten or SEC ever dying. That's where the money and infrastructure is, so that's where the money will always flow. As long as there is no reason for the party system (conference system) to commit suicide, it'll kick around.

Back to politics, if a powerful player is going to tip the apple cart like Trump did, or like Bernie tried to do, it's going to have to go through that structure, even if that structure becomes rather toothless in the grand scheme of electing a name.

[guy incognito]

[Tigerbomb13]

10 minutes ago, guy incognito said:

What a nutcase 

[gehringer_2]

I hope the Canadians tell him to pound sand. The bridge is will still be there long after Trump assumes room temperature.

[romad1]

The last stand of the Maroun family? 

[romad1]

This wasn't me but...

 

[Dan Gilmore]

Elbows up!

[CMRivdogs]

From the CBC,,,Trump endorsed the project in 2017. The alcohol smuggling owners of the Ambassador Bridge have to be involved

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/trump-gordie-howe-bridge-9.7081924

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The owners of the Ambassador Bridge, the Moroun family of Detroit, wants compensation for what they claim is the new bridge's infringement on their exclusive right to collect tolls. 

The Moroun family appealed to Trump during his first term as president to stop the new crossing. However, Trump endorsed the bridge as a priority project in 2017, issuing a joint statement with then-prime minister Justin Trudeau calling it a "vital economic link between our two countries."

Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens says parts of Trump's post are factually incorrect, as U.S. steel was used in the construction from the Michigan side of the river. 

"It's just insane," Dilkens told CBC Power & Politics host David Cochrane on Monday evening. 

"I really can't believe what I'm reading," Dilkens said. "The faster we can get to the midterms and hopefully see a change, the better for all of us."

 

 

 

[CMRivdogs]

Naturally she's not running for reelection...

 

[MichiganCardinal]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

This wasn't me but...

 

The Canadians haven’t seen the Stanley Cup since Clinton’s first term. Thirty-year-olds don’t even know it exists north of the border. They are supposed to take permanent elimination as some kind of a threat?

[Tiger337]

5 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

of course there is an alternate view that both parties are walking dead, that 'political party' as a basic paradigm is dying and is not revivable exactly because the very people you need to be in them (the sane middle) won't go near them anymore. While I keep seeing this talked about, my question is what does it look like in practice? OK - so for starters you run ranked choice primaries and every candidate is a free agent, but how does a legislature function? Firstly, how to have stable leadership to manage an agenda if every leadership vote is an ad hoc exercise among a couple of hundred free agents? Sound like a recipe for getting even less done than the broken legislative processes we have now.

I like ranked choice, but it might be too complicated for a lot of voters.   

[oblong]

I’m surprised it took Trump this long to jump on that. It has all the elements to portray it negatively to the willfully ignorant and uninformed.  “They keep all the money”.  Back then it could be sold as “didn’t cost us a thing. Ain’t it beautiful “. Now you reverse it. “We get nothing”. A perfect situation for his ignorant supporters who are repulsed by knowledge and facts. The entire movement tries on misinformation and lies.  

[Tigerbomb13]

13 minutes ago, oblong said:

The entire movement tries on misinformation and lies.  

My favorite one I’ve seen all over Facebook lately is the AI photo that was shared that showed Bad Bunny in a dress burning the U.S. flag. They will literally believe a photo or screenshot of anything. 

[romad1]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/chappell-roan-drops-casey-wasserman-epstein-files-maxwell-emails

Getting closer to subscribing to the Guardian every day...this story gave me the idea... Is Scot Boras in the files? 

and of course this 

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Los Angeles 2028 Olympics chief Casey Wasserman, who has faced criticism for flirtatious email exchanges with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell more than 20 years ago.

 

Edited 48 minutes ago by romad1

[romad1]

Playing the role of hot nazi lady is Carrie Prejean

https://jewishinsider.com/2026/02/religious-liberty-commission-antisemitism-hearing-israel-contentious/

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The conversation was largely friendly, barring one member of the commission, Catholic conservative activist and former Miss California Carrie Prejean Boller, who acted as more of an interrogator. She pushed back on witnesses’ testimony, arguing that they had defined antisemitism too broadly and questioning whether she would be considered an antisemite because she does not support Zionism and because she believes the Jews killed Jesus. 

 

Edited 41 minutes ago by romad1

[romad1]

7 hours ago, MichiganCardinal said:

The Canadians haven’t seen the Stanley Cup since Clinton’s first term. Thirty-year-olds don’t even know it exists north of the border. They are supposed to take permanent elimination as some kind of a threat?

the Marouns be like

[oblong]

16 minutes ago, romad1 said:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/chappell-roan-drops-casey-wasserman-epstein-files-maxwell-emails

Getting closer to subscribing to the Guardian every day...this story gave me the idea... Is Scot Boras in the files? 

and of course this 

 

Chappell Roan dropped his company as her agents over this.

[romad1]

Just now, oblong said:

Chappell Roan dropped his company as her agents over this.

DId you see where Oblong is telling me that Chappell Roan dropped his company as her agent?

(I could have also posted the meme of Lt. Dan saying "I know that Forrest" )

[oblong]

ha.  I didn't open the link or read the URL.  Just the quoted portion.