Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 3)

@RedWhippet I suppose there’s a qualitative difference between paying to see some pussies on screen and some genuine cunts.
( Apologies. Not really that sorry though tbh)

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Yeah, by the magazine Nation

Also now the by the Norwegian Greens. Maybe I am being stupid. Sometimes I am a bit knee-Jerk.
But I think this slightly too early.

Girl is on point:

Not that this administration cares anything for rules, but a DNI would only be anywhere near an election related issue if there was concern over foreign interference. So we now have Tulsi involved in the raid on the GA election office and in confiscation of voting machines in PR and it seems pretty obvious they are trying to fabricate a story supporting their long held story that 2020 was stolen, and now with evidence that was with help of foreign actors. They have long tied Chavez to this (despite being dead) and so also seems likely they are going to pressure Maduro into admitting having worked with Biden (or Obama) on this, and that more than anything is maybe the prime justification for capturing him.

All this with a view to making changes over how the 2028 election is conducted, or maybe even this year’s midterms

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This is a great illustration of how tough a prosect the long heralded Blexasing of Texas is going to be

Paxton is historically unpopular for a Republican with a long list of ethical and legal issues weighing him down with a ton of Republican establishment effort trying to get in the way of Paxton even running/winning the nomination. Talarico is like what a Dem would be if they grew one in a lab capable of winning statewide in Texas. And with all of that, his best polls right now have him only ahead by a margin of error gap, with most still having him behind.

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May also be a factor of Jasmine Crockett being in the Dem primary as well.

These are head to head polls.

I get that. Some may hedge wanting Crockett instead, or say neither. Just spitballing.

Tulsi: I was there because the president asked me to be
Trump: I dont know anything about it. Who is this woman?

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One of them must be lying, and I can’t think of a reason for anyone to incriminate the POTUS if they were just bullshitting to cover their ass.

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Well, we know Trump is the most honest person in the history of the world, by far, so…

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Option 3 is he genuinely has no idea what he is doing and so orders her to be there, doesnt really understand what he’s done and so when asked about it can credibly say “that was not on me.”

I’ve worked with plenty of those people :rofl:

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I don’t have dementia! Except for things I want to forget!

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Trump says he can’t remember who she is, and I personally believe him.

People with dementia often struggle to remember who people are.

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That’s reassuring…
I don’t remember pushing that red button

Personally, I think he’s lying.

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:0)

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Well, we know what this is about. Nothing to do with standards, everything to do with filling the government with loyalists. Part of the playbook of every dictatorship in history…

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The world will continue to ‘rattle-off’ its axis until this guy has gone for good..!

Trump demands airport be named after him in exchange for federal funding

Story by Carl Gibson


U.S. President Donald Trump sits behind a bill he signed to end the partial government shutdown, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 3, 2026.

President Donald Trump is now saying he’ll allow several billion dollars to flow to New York on one condition — that he be able to add his name to major landmarks.

CNN reported Thursday that Trump communicated to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) that he would be willing to lift his hold on $16 billion for a long-planned railway project connecting New York and New Jersey underneath the Hudson River. However, the president said he would only release the money if Washington Dulles International Airport (which is in Virginia) and Penn Station in New York were renamed for him.

Two unnamed sources told CNN that Schumer “swiftly rejected” Trump’s demand, and reminded the White House that he lacked the power to unilaterally change the names of both locations. The two reportedly discussed the proposition last month, per CNN’s reporting.

“Trump’s offer to Schumer would have represented perhaps his most audacious move yet,” CNN’s Manu Raju and Adam Cancryn reported. “While some conservative lawmakers have already introduced legislation to rename Dulles as the “Donald J. Trump International Airport,” it’s so far gained little traction.”

Both New Jersey and New York are suing the Trump administration over the holdup in funding, which is part of the administration’s pattern of withholding Congressionally appropriated money to states that didn’t vote for Trump in the 2024 election. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought announced in October the administration was holding up another $8 billion in clean energy projects in 18 blue states.

Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution specifically grants Congress — not the president — the power to appropriate tax dollars. The Trump administration’s blockade of federal funding is specifically in violation of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which Congress passed during the Nixon administration to re-assert its constitutional role over the appropriations process.

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They should just go the whole hog and name the country after him.

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The United States of Jabba the Hun… I could live with that :0)

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