US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[Useful_Mistake]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-1046/357921/20250501150148754_24-1046-Cert-Amicus-US.pdf

Trump's DOJ asked the Supreme Court to declare that Hawaii law forbidding the carrying of guns of private property is unconstitutional

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Gordon Chang is a national treasure and a model for Chinese American contrition.

Be like him if you want to stay

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

Damn, maybe you shouldn't have stabbed Trump in the back so deeply the knife came out the other side if you wanted him to consider your opinion, Mikey.

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[MaduroHunter]

I'm debating between living in one of five places:
- Minneapolis City (downtown), Minnesota
- Seattle City (downtown), Washington
- Urbana, Illinois
- Bloomington, Indiana
- Morgantown, West Virginia
Which would you all choose? I'm leaning towards Illinois, not too urban but not too rural

Why not Florida at all? or the south?

 

[ascension failure]

Getting rid of CPB won't do anything to larger city PBS and NPR affiliates, but it will likely result in a bunch of tiny rural stations going dark.

It will if it takes all the small stations offline, because PBS and NPR get paid membership fees and payments for syndicated content, so there's less money to pay for PBS and NPR generally and syndicated content specifically.

 

[liam dees]

Damn, maybe you shouldn't have stabbed Trump in the back so deeply the knife came out the other side if you wanted him to consider your opinion, Mikey.
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Ironic he said this considering the huge alarm he gave Trump not to trust him last election.

 

[Internet Wizard]

Why not Florida at all? or the south?

Way too hot - I could add Tallahassee or Blacksburg VA to the list but I cba relative to the others

 

[ascension failure]

I'm debating between living in one of five places

If I had to choose from one of those places I'd be debating about living, too

 

[Clyde Cash's Left Teste]

PBS is less bad but I could take 'em or leave 'em, only thing is they'll pull the same shit they did with Mitt

I've always had a soft spot for Nova

 

[Imperial Citizen]

The order doesn’t direct NPR or PBS to do anything. The order is asserting control over the board of the CPB. Given that the CPB board is appointed by the president, the argument will be that the CPB is under the Executive Branch and thus can be made subject to an executive order.

The problem is that Trump’s order is based on 47 U.S.C. 396(f)(3), which states that the CPB can’t contribute or support any political party or candidate for office.

Where the hell is any proof that PBS or NPR are part of a political party?

Is NPR biased? Yes, their journalists are left-wing and their articles are critical of conservatives. But the law does not say that the CPB can’t fund a biased news organization, only that it can’t support a political party or candidate.

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

Dude, you can feel this article's author seething through the damn screen. The Finance Minister was asked a question, gave a response, and this dipfuck is acting like he just threatened to shoot Trump in the head.

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[Clyde Cash's Left Teste]

The problem is that Trump’s order is based on 47 U.S.C. 396(f)(3), which states that the CPB can’t contribute or support any political party or candidate for office.

Where the hell is any proof that PBS or NPR are part of a political party?

Is NPR biased? Yes, their journalists are left-wing and their articles are critical of conservatives. But the law does not say that the CPB can’t fund a biased news organization, only that it can’t support a political party or candidate.

A curious point Trump made in the EO was pointing out that the services PBS and NPR were created for are kinda now covered by things such as YouTube

 

[George Lucas]

Why are Placebos for testing a bad thing?
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Maybe if you posted the fucking article we would know?

 

[MaduroHunter]

A curious point Trump made in the EO was pointing out that the services PBS and NPR were created for are kinda now covered by things such as YouTube

your not wrong there, I'd say make PBS non political, period. don't even report on news outside of like, world changing shit like elections and what not. I will admit, my older parents do love Americans test kitchen on PBS though..

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Way too hot - I could add Tallahassee or Blacksburg VA to the list but I cba relative to the others

iirc Tallahassee (and most of the panhandle) is the worst of Florida bog?
down in the dick of the state you get pretty solid breezes from the ocean on both sides keeping things manageable

 

[X Prime]

Dear God, only a Jew pretending to be a lawyer could turn around and pretend that clearly being biased in such a way that it always benefits a particular political party and its candidates somehow doesn't count as supporting that party.

 

[TrinityReformed]

Dude, you can feel this article's author seething through the damn screen. The Finance Minister was asked a question, gave a response, and this dipfuck is acting like he just threatened to shoot Trump in the head.
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The option to unload those treasuries exist as a bluff. They're not going to fuck over their main deterrent(the USA) against the Chinks. It really is shitty how badly financial articles have been for the past years.

 

[George Lucas]

The problem is that Trump’s order is based on 47 U.S.C. 396(f)(3), which states that the CPB can’t contribute or support any political party or candidate for office.

Where the hell is any proof that PBS or NPR are part of a political party?

Is NPR biased? Yes, their journalists are left-wing and their articles are critical of conservatives. But the law does not say that the CPB can’t fund a biased news organization, only that it can’t support a political party or candidate.

That’s not true. The order is based on the fact that the CPB board is appointed by the Executive Branch, thus controlled by the Executive Branch. The reason why the CPB board would withhold funds doesn’t actually matter because the president has sole authority over the executive branch and directing the CPB board to withhold funds from NPR and PBS is not otherwise unlawful.

The argument to be made against the order is either:

1. The CPB board is not a part of the Executive Branch

OR

2. The order to withhold funding from NPR and PBS stations is unlawful.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Way too hot - I could add Tallahassee or Blacksburg VA to the list but I cba relative to the others

iirc Tallahassee (and most of the panhandle) is the worst of Florida bog?

Actual Floridian here - state is currently in the worst drought in eight years. It's been obscenely hot outside for some time now, we're not even close to summer yet. Most of the state is like this right now, and in general I'm not too fond of Florida anymore despite me living here most of my life. I'm in agreement it's too hot/humid, also I don't think it's very pleasant to look at given how flat it is and how dull a lot of it is starting to look.

 

[X Prime]

2. The order to withhold funding from NPR and PBS stations is unlawful.

That's how they'll do it, it's unlawful because Orange Man gave the order.