Is Anyone Paying Attention?

[Robbyv213]

I had read a headline talking about Trump trying to get rid of the constitution, or make it basically just a historical document that no longer applies to how our country is to ran.

[Lori Dee]

A while ago there was a video of a guy who claimed he was running as the first totally honest politician. I will look for that and share it.

[Lori Dee]

Here it is:

[Lori Dee]

Tonight, I will be rewatching an old favorite documentary.

TRIGGER WARNING!   TRIGGER WARNING!   TRIGGER WARNING!
"Everything is a Rich Man's Trick"

TRIGGER WARNING!   TRIGGER WARNING!   TRIGGER WARNING!

This video contains disturbing images. If you are squeamish or do not want to see news film footage of bodies at concentration camps, DO NOT click the link.

This documentary was made by a British historian who explains how the world has been operating and why. He shows actual photos, news films, and other documents to support his claims. If you think that anything he says is questionable, do an internet search and fact-check it yourself. I have.

After watching this video, you might just become a "Conspiracy Theorist". Are you paying attention?

[ChrissyRyan]

I suppose it is up to interpretation but I believe that a person can be elected to be the USA President only twice; but can serve longer.


Before being elected, a person can fill the remaining term for the president who dies or resigns.  Then she or he may be elected once or twice as President.

After being elected twice, the person cannot be elected as a president again.  However if such a person gets elected as Vice President, she or he may be able to serve as President if the elected president resigns or dies after inauguration.

So in theory, a person may serve about three to three and a half terms if she or he was involved in replacing a president twice.

Or so it seems. . .

I am not a constitutional scholar. 

[Lori Dee]

I think you are right, so I looked it up real quickly:

Section 1 of the 22nd Amendment indicates that "no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once." It was ratified in 1951.

[Mariah]

I wonder how close we are to that exact thing occurring right now. Hugs
Mariah

It wouldn't be the first time a dictator did that. 

[MaryT]

President Trump said that the USA would not defend NATO countries that did not spend enough on their own defence.  Ironically, NATO members such as Denmark are spending considerably more on defence in "coincidental" response to implied threats of invasion by the USA.

I wonder whether at some stage, President Trump will say that that was his plan all along.

[MaryT]

President Trump also said that he believed that the USA would get Greenland because "the inhabitants want to be with us."  Perhaps that was his genuine belief after members of his family visited Greenland.

The Kalaallit, the Inuit of Greenland, are an extension of the indigenous cultures of North America and I believe that their land is the largest territory north of Mexico in which indigenous peoples, as the majority, call the shots.  No offence intended to Americans but I'm sure that the Kalaallit have watched too many Westerns to possibly want to join the USA.

Orange man speak with forked tongue.

[Lori Dee]

Donald Trump Jr.'s visit was 'staged,' says Greenland lawmaker
"We know how they treat the Inuit in Alaska. Make that great before trying to invade us," Pipaluk Lynge tells POLITICO.
Source Link
POLITICO - Seb Starcevic, Eric Bazail-Eimil and Jack Detsch
January 9, 2025 5:56 pm CET

A senior Greenlandic politician slammed Donald Trump Jr.'s visit to the island as "staged," and warned the United States not to "invade us" given its historical treatment of Alaska's indigenous people.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's eldest son landed on the self-ruling Danish territory Tuesday and spent the day meeting with local residents, who he claimed were supportive of a U.S. takeover. But Lynge said it was a stunt.

"No journalists were allowed to interview him. It was all staged to make it seem like we — the Greenlandic people — were MAGA and love to be a part of the USA," Lynge said.

Local media said that the Trump Jr. camp passed out MAGA hats to residents on the day of the visit, while video footage from the trip showed the president-elect talking to cap-wearing Greenlanders on speakerphone during a lunch event.

His welcome was not entirely warm, Lynge added. "People were curious, but some took pictures giving him [the] finger at the airport ... Some wrote on Facebook: yankee go home," she said.

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In a different article, it was reported that they gathered up homeless people, and gave them MAGA hats and a free lunch for the photo op.

[Sephirah]

This is just crazy. Why do with tanks what you can do with baseball caps.

[Tig58072]

I'm paying as much attention as my stomach can handle. Both my great grand parents immigrated here from Norway and Denmark at the end of the 1800's. I wonder if they saw the writing on the wall back then and decided to leave. They were both city boys and business owners and they sold their businesses and came to North Dakota and started farming.
This is really a ->-bleeped-<- show.

[MaryT]

President Trump had huge success in business.  After concentrating on politics, he has survived efforts to incriminate him even when found guilty and even survived at least one assassination attempt.  I think that he really does believe that he is favoured, protected and given a mandate by God as well as the people.

If so, can we be certain that he is wrong?

Years ago, I watched a TV movie called God on Trial, based on Elie Wiesel's play The Trial of God.  The play was set in 1649 but the movie was set in WWII.  Although he did not write the screenplay, Wiesel said that the events in the movie were true and that he had witnessed them himself.

In WWII, Jewish internees, most of whom would soon be killed, debated whether God had broken his covenant with the Jews and changed his allegiance to their enemies.  They discussed, e.g. how the Israelites slaughtered the Midianites at God's command, eventually sparing only the virgin girls.  The internees concluded that God was strong and had been on the side of the Israelites but that He was not good.

While being marched to the gas chamber, one of the internees asked his friend
"Well, we found God guilty.  Now what shall we do?"
"Now", his friend replied, "we pray."

If God is on President Trump's side, at least we can still pray.

[MaryT]

Lord Peter Mandelson is now Britain's ambassador to the USA.  Of President Trump, he said
"We have to respect and understand what drives him, what his mandate is to do, and how his allies need to adjust sometimes."
He also described his own past criticisms of President Trump as "ill-judged and wrong".

As Mercutio said with much less justification,
"O calm, dishonourable, vile submission".

[Lori Dee]

And now we have "Trump pardons former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich - Trump commuted Blagojevich's 14-year sentence in 2020. The former governor had served about 8 years on charges stemming from his effort to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat."

If you are not familiar with this dirtbag, read the article here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-expected-pardon-former-illinois-governor-rod-blagojevich-rcna191566

Now there is talk about appointing this corrupt felon as Ambassador to Serbia.

Birds of a feather.

[Sephirah]

Lord Peter Mandelson is now Britain's ambassador to the USA.  Of President Trump, he said
"We have to respect and understand what drives him, what his mandate is to do, and how his allies need to adjust sometimes."
He also described his own past criticisms of President Trump as "ill-judged and wrong".

As Mercutio said with much less justification,
"O calm, dishonourable, vile submission".

If you're not from the UK... Peter Mandelson is the same kind of snake oil salesman that trump is. He was a Tory (conservative) MP back in the day. He's extremely slippery. Probably the kind of person that is right for that position right now.

[Lori Dee]

Sometimes I think we elected a child. At least that is how his tantrums seem to play out.

His Executive Order resulted in pages from the CDC and FDA websites being removed. A judge ordered them to be restored. The Orange Baby then ordered that statements harshly condemning "gender ideology" will be added to all of the restored pages.

https://www.susans.org/index.php/topic,250152.msg2293455.html#msg2293455

After Trump ordered that the "Gulf of Mexico" be renamed the "Gulf of America" the Associated Press said that they will use the original name "Gulf of Mexico" while acknowledging the new name Trump has chosen.

Trump disinvited the AP from attending the signing of other Executive Orders. ... the wire service called it "alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism."

"The White House Correspondents' Association condemned the administration for a second time after AP reporters were barred from a press conference involving President Trump and India's prime minister on Friday."

And now...

"The White House says it will limit Associated Press journalists' access to the Oval Office and Air Force One, an escalation of a brooding conflict between the Trump administration and the wire service this week.

"The Associated Press continues to ignore the lawful geographic name change of the Gulf of America," White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich said in a post on social media platform X on Friday.

"This decision is not just divisive, but it also exposes the Associated Press' commitment to misinformation. While their right to irresponsible and dishonest reporting is protected by the First Amendment, it does not ensure their privilege of unfettered access to limited spaces, like the Oval Office and Air Force One," the spokesman added.

Source:
White House limits AP access to Oval Office, Air Force One indefinitely
by Dominick Mastrangelo - 02/14/25 1:28 PM ET
Link to Full Article

[MaryT]

The other day, when I commented on the Thread That Cannot be Derailed that I hoped that the record number of visitors to Susan's Place was not the result of FBI or CIA interest, I was mostly joking.

The website of an organization that works to protect LGBTQ+ students has a quick exit path and encourages visitors to clear their browsing history regularly:

Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network

That is so sad.  I wonder whether Susan's Place will come to that.  As Lilis commented,

Hahaha! 😂🤣 Sorry, glowies, you're not welcome here!
...

[Lori Dee]

If they are just reading, or contributing to the site, no problem. Everyone is welcome here. Even closet homophobic glowies. 

But if they comment or post anything against the TOS, I will ban them faster than they can spell CIA. 

[Lori Dee]

One thing that I know for certain from extensive training in Military Intelligence is that the media, specifically news outlets in any form, are used as weapons of propaganda and misinformation.

I am not saying that they are lying. I am saying that the stories that are the most upfront and in-your-face are not the biggest issues. You must learn to read between the lines. Look past the headlines and see what lies just beyond in the background.

For example, ABC News reported on Feb 14th, 2025:
Here are all the agencies that Elon Musk and DOGE have been trying to dismantle so far
Democrats and unions are fighting DOGE's actions in court.
Source Link

You can read the article, which is somewhat interesting. But what I found very interesting is the descriptions of what Musk's team was after. We know that Trump, Musk, and the rest of his oligarchy pals all have a keen interest in Artificial Intelligence. Why?

AI uses huge databases of information to draw upon to answer queries. We know that these same members of the oligarchy allies have been collecting data on consumers for decades. Between the NSA spying on communications, Facebook/Meta tracking relationships and social preferences, Google Ads tracking consumer metrics, Amazon tracking purchases, and on and on, there is a wealth of data already out there being used for "marketing" (i.e. advertising propaganda).

What if all of these databases were combined? What data is still missing?

Let's look at some of what Musk's team was looking for besides fraud and wasted money:

DOGE employees ... have been going through data systems...

As of Feb. 10, ABC has tracked Musk and his DOGE team gaining access to at least 15 federal agencies. ...

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
The CMS -- a subagency of the Department of Health and Human Services -- has also been collaborating with DOGE since Feb. 5 ...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
... a federal regulatory agency that enforces financial consumer protection laws. ...

Department of Defense
... begin the process of reviewing the Pentagon's operations. ...

Department of Education
... reports that DOGE gained access to federal student loan data. ...

Federal Aviation Administration
The Department of Transportation and Musk announced that he had access to FAA technologies ...

Internal Revenue Service
The DOGE aide initiated multiple meetings with IRS employees, asking, in part, about the agency's technology, including how audits and compliance are done ...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
... That person was granted access to NOAA's IT systems ...

Treasury Department
The Treasury Department gave Musk and DOGE access to the vast federal payment system responsible for handling trillions of dollars in government expenditures. ...

... a temporary restraining order blocked DOGE from accessing taxpayer records, including the Social Security numbers and bank account information of millions of Americans. ...

In a related story, also reported by ABC News on February 17, 2025:

Top Social Security official steps down after clash with DOGE, sources say
Commissioner Michelle King had served over 30 years with the agency.
Source Link

The top official at the Social Security Administration stepped down after a clash with DOGE employees over access to sensitive personal records, two sources told ABC News.

Sources said that DOGE employees were seeking access to an internal data system which includes sensitive, personal information of Americans.

Nancy Altman, the president of Social Security Works, which works to expand social security, told ABC News the data the Social Security Administration has is expansive.

"It's your entire earnings record. If you're a beneficiary, it's your benefits, it's the name of your spouse and when you got married and if you got divorced, and all kinds of information. And most sensitive, if you've applied for disability benefits, all of your medical records," said Altman.

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Imagine a government-run Artificial Intelligence system with complete access to all of this information. The system is already built. The data already exists. The question is, "What will they use it for?"

I can guarantee that it will not be anything that benefits the people.

Now watch the movie, "2073". We were warned.