The Donald Trump Score Card

And RFK, Jr. is head of the medicine cabinet.

For real. Trump has nominated him for the cabinet position of Secretary of Health And Human Services.

 

How UFC head Dana White became the glue between Maga and the manosphere
The UFC’s CEO has become a kind of impresario for a new class of right-wing influencers, podcasters, streamers and wellness bros, helping Trump dominate the testosterone vote
Aaron Timms
Sat 16 Nov 2024 04.00 EST

How UFC head Dana White became the glue between Maga and the manosphere | Aaron Timms

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"With the exception of Rogan, who’s about as close to a household name as the world of podcasting has today, none of these figures would probably be familiar to anyone who observed the election through traditional media or cable TV. Theo Von is a comedian and former reality TV contestant whose podcasts, like those of many of his peers, often extend to several hours; Bussin’ with the Boys is hosted by a pair of NFL players; the Nelk Boys are former college pranksters with a brand of hard seltzer and a taste for casual cruelty; Adin Ross is a streamer who’s been banned multiple times (most recently permanently) from the gaming platform Twitch for hateful conduct. These online “creators” form a network: they all appear on each other’s shows, which often feature far-right streamers like Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate alongside more mainstream figures of the Maga movement like Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro and Elon Musk.

Trump happily sat for lengthy interviews with each of them, often more than once: he appeared on Full Send, the Nelk Boys’ podcast, three times over the course of the campaign. This support was likely key to securing Trump’s seismic victory among young men. At the center of this sprawling alternative media universe sits the UFC supremo, who Trump frequently named as the key connector between the creator economy and his own presidential campaign during his appearances on these podcasts. White must now be considered more than a mere surrogate for Trump: by aligning his own business interests with a particular style of new media built on podcasting, gambling, crypto, and violence, he has become the glue between Maga and the so-called “manosphere”. Trump not only rode a wave of popular support to victory in this election; in a very real sense he also bro’d his way to victory, and White was one of the main orchestrators in securing the testosterone vote."

 

Some in farm industry alarmed over Trump reelection and his elevation of RFJ, Jr.


https://www.npr.org/2024/11/17/nx-s...culture-experts-reaction-trump-rfk-jr-tariffs

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"The elevation of Kennedy by Trump is chilling," O'Brien wrote in the online trade journal Agri-Pulse. "It represents a wholesale shift in politics and farm policy."

Kennedy has a long track record voicing conspiracy theories, including baseless claims that Wi-Fi causes cancer and "leaky brain"; that school shootings are attributable to antidepressants; and that chemicals in water can lead to children becoming transgender.

Some agriculture experts worry similar unproven or unscientific views could now reshape U.S. farm and food policy.

 

Lol
I recall the move away from corn syrup to other sugars and sugar supplements. They thought it was a great step forward. Hindsight showed us otherwise. People will drink what they think it is, that which marketing (professional BS) persuades us is better.
Only later, when the consequences are seen rip-large that it wasn't better do we move you something else.

I expect there's a modern era principle somewhere in that and it will also apply to Trumps presidency.

 

Haitian immigrants flee Springfield, Ohio, in droves after Trump election win

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"Though Trump may ultimately succeed in ending TPS for some immigrants, some legal experts believe that is unlikely to happen during the early days of his administration after his second presidency begins on 20 January.

“There’s a fear among the Haitian community that TPS is going to end on 20 January, and I don’t think that is very likely for a number of reasons,” said Katie Kersh, a senior attorney at the non-profit law firm Advocates for Basic Legal Equality.

“The strain any deportation effort would place on an already stretched immigration court system would be significant.”

Even if the program was ended, Kersh says, current law allows for a court hearing that could take months or years to take place. Similarly, immigrants who have asylum applications filed also have an opportunity to have that application heard."

 

How UFC head Dana White became the glue between Maga and the manosphere | Aaron Timms

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"But the grifters and gabsters of the MMA-aligned right, with White as their godfather, seem far more adept at exploiting the messiness and velocity of clips culture than risk-averse liberals, who remain in thrall to legacy media and apparently still see conventional celebrity endorsements as a meaningful way to pull in the youth vote. In entertainment terms, the liberal order, like the Democratic Party that has come to embody it, represents the last gasp of the old studio system. The Trump right’s infotainment-addiction industry, with its phalanx of brawlers, talkers, gamblers, grifters, vloggers and floggers, feels increasingly like the future. And the UFC boss is now its leader. Trump may lead the party and soon again take control of the country, but Dana White is the American right’s instigator-in-chief."

 

Adjectives Trump uses to justify his selections:

fearless, patriotic, courageous, America First, loyal, a fighter

 

Trump never followed through on his threat to force Congress to adjourn.

Trump was trying to change who runs Voice Of America. Trump was enraged by VOA during the Covid pandemic. He wasn't able to have a new person head VOA due to lack of a confirmation hearing in the Senate.

Trump was trying to confirm his nomination of Michael Pack to head the VOA.

Pack had ties to Bannon and funneled money from a private non-profit group to his private venture (what Trump was accused of doing with his charity group).

Trump didn't have Congressional support for Pack, so he threatened to install him without Senate approval by forcibly adjourning Congress so that he could be installed without Senate approval, a move that has never happened before in the history of the U.S.

Article from 2020.


Trump threatens to adjourn Congress so he can make recess appointments

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Yet even the president himself seemed to acknowledge that he was pushing the boundaries of constitutional law with his threat to adjourn Congress. "Perhaps it's never been done before. Nobody's even sure if it has. But we're going to do it," Trump said.

Asked whether there was a deadline for the Senate to approve more nominees, Trump dodged the question. "They know they've been warned and they've been warned right now," Trump said. "If they don't approve it, then we're going to go this route. And we'll probably be challenged in court, and we'll see who wins."

 

Trump is currently pushing GOP members of Congress to adjourn for an extended period so that he can achieve his cabinet appointments without Senate approval by using recess appointment.

 

Article from 2020.


Trump threatens to adjourn Congress so he can make recess appointments

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"No president before has ever forcibly adjourned Congress. And while the Constitution does give the president that power, it only applies in limited circumstances, all of which are nearly unimaginable.

Even if the GOP controlled Senate agreed to adjourn, formal adjournment resolutions must be adopted by both chambers of Congress, and it's hard to envision a scenario in which Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would agree to adjourn so that Trump could appoint his nominees."

 

Article from 2020.


Trump threatens to adjourn Congress so he can make recess appointments

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"If the House will not agree to that adjournment, I will exercise my constitutional authority to adjourn both chambers of Congress," the president said. "The current practice of leaving town while conducting phony pro-forma sessions is a dereliction of duty that the American people cannot afford during this crisis. It is a scam that they do."

 

Trump's accusation that pro forma sessions are a scam isn't factual. They are used so that a president can't take undue advantage of putting nominees into office without Senate approval while Congress isn't in session.

 

Sounds like someone describing a UFC fighter.

Not surprisingly. Trump is highly connected to the UFC for promoting a tough-guy image to garner votes.

 

As expected, Trump says he will invoke a national emergency and use the military to deport people.


Trump says ready to use military, national emergency for mass deportations

 

Time for tRump to dust off the golf clubs....he played 350+ rounds during his last term - that is one day out of four on the golf course.....then there's a million bucks of security for each round....plus he has a terrible swing. Anybody ever see anything about his scores or handicap? He's always winning.....his tournaments..

 

You would have thought with all of Roy's dough, he'd have had that schnazola fixed to look less like a foot...

 

NK troops heading to Russia.

Trump said he would stop the Ukraine war within 24 hours while he was president-elect.


The war in Ukraine is about to become World War Three

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"The difference between losses and recruitment amounts to a steadily growing troop deficit. The Russian government could add a special draft to its usual annual conscription, but that’s so politically toxic that even the autocratic regime of Russian president Vladimir Putin is reluctant to order it.

Replacement troops have to come from somewhere. That somewhere, it seems, is North Korea."

 

They're aggravated with Biden's pro-Israel stance.

Trump is a couple orders of magnitude more pro-Israel than Biden.

After voting Trump into office as a protest to Biden (who wasn't the one running), they're now having reservations about Trump after his announcements of his cabinet selections.

It's like parents hiring a serial killer to babysit as a protest to their previous sitter they didn't like, and now they are having second thoughts about the serial killer.


Some Arab Americans who voted for Trump are concerned about his picks for key positions

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“I just want you to think about what the alternative was,” said Abbas, referring to the current administration’s handling of Israel's war in Gaza and its invasion of Lebanon. He added, “What did you expect from myself or many members of the community to do?”

 

Cruise line offers four-year trip for those who don't want to deal with a second Trump term.


Cruise line offers four-year trip for Americans wishing to skip Trump’s second term