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Something has got to give here. Trump is now saying that he views “due process” — judicial hearings before throwing someone into a foreign dungeon torture site — as unAmerican.

Unbelievable. On second thought maybe not. https://apnews.com/article/trump-south-africa-refugees-afrikaners-white-9d6f87ae9b09ac21ba6ae2a2197b11d3 Trump is bringing white South Africans to the US as refugees, but what persecution are they facing? CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The Trump administration is bringing a small number of white South Africans to the United States as refugees next week in what it says is the start of a larger relocation effort for a minority group who are being persecuted by their Black-led government because of their race. The South Africans’ applications are being fast-tracked by the U.S. after President Donald Trump announced the relocation program in February. The Trump administration has taken an anti-migrant stance, suspending refugee programs and halting arrivals from other parts of the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan and most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Refugee groups have questioned why some white South Africans are being prioritized. South Africa says there’s no persecution The South African government said the U.S. allegations that the white minority Afrikaners in question are being persecuted are “completely false,” the result of misinformation and an inaccurate view of its country. It cited the fact that Afrikaners are among the richest and most successful people in the country, and said they are amongst “the most economically privileged.” Afrikaners are the descendants of mainly Dutch and French colonial settlers who first came to South Africa in the 17th century. There are around 2.7 million Afrikaners among South Africa’s population of 62 million, which is more than 80% Black. Many in South Africa are puzzled by claims that Afrikaners are persecuted and meet the requirements to be refugees. [...] So what persecution is the U.S. alleging? Farm attacks Trump and his South African-born adviser Elon Musk have accused the South African government of having racist anti-white laws and policies, but the claims of persecution center on a relatively small number of violent farm attacks and robberies on white people in rural communities. The U.S. alleges those attacks are racially motivated and the South African government is “fueling” them by allowing anti-white rhetoric from some political parties not in government and not doing enough to protect rural Afrikaner communities. The government strongly denies that and has condemned the farm attacks, but says their cause is being deliberately mischaracterized. Violent attacks on farm owners in South Africa have been a problem for years but represent a small percentage of the country’s extremely high violent crime rates, which affect all races. The government says there is no targeting of white people in South Africa and no persecution, and farm attacks are part of its struggles with violent crime. An Afrikaner group called AfriForum records farm attacks and said there were 49 farm homicides in South Africa in 2023. Those are set against a total of more than 20,000 homicides in South Africa a year. Experts say rural communities are susceptible to crime because of their remoteness and less police presence, but Black farm owners and workers are also killed in violent robberies.

This seems to be a legitimate news report, not like from the Babylon Bee. https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-posts-image-of-joe-biden-kidnapped-and-bound-with-rope Trump Posts Image of Joe Biden Kidnapped And Bound With Rope On Truth Social, Trump posted a video of Trump themed vehicles driving in New York. One of the trucks has an image of Joe Biden on the back bound with rope,. Some MAGA Republicans have been displaying this graphic depicting President Joe Biden bound with rope and laying in the bed of a pickup truck apparently kidnapped. Trump is now encouraging such imagery.

https://twitter.com/jonkarl/status/1921524227410145551 ABC EXCLUSIVE: President Trump is poised to accept a luxury jet as a gift from Qatar. It’s to be used as Air Force One and then transferred to the Trump library by January 2029. Perhaps the biggest foreign gift ever. DOJ insists it’s legal, not bribery, not violation of emoluments clause. w/ @KFaulders

What exactly does he mean by that? https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/29/trumps-debate-black-jobs-democratic-anger-00165930 Trump’s debate references to ‘Black jobs’ and ‘Hispanic jobs’ stir Democratic anger Donald Trump warned during his debate with Joe Biden and again at a Friday rally that migrants were taking “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs” from Americans, angering critics who called it a racist and insulting attempt to expand his appeal beyond his white conservative base. [...] “The fact is that his big kill on the Black people is the millions of people that he’s allowed to come in through the border. They’re taking Black jobs now,” Trump said during the debate on CNN. “They’re taking Black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs. And you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re going to see something that’s going to be the worst in our history,” he warned without specifying the danger.

Does that mean there will be no more elections? https://x.com/Acyn/status/1817007890496102490 (video clip at link) Trump: You have to get out and vote. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.. In four years, you won’t have to vote again.

What could have been.

And you deny having any dislike or hatred of LGBTQ people. Yeah, right. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lezzie lezzie noun lez·zie slang, usually disparaging + offensive

Fun Facts! Jobs data for September: ADP reported 32,000 jobs lost. Trump Labor Dept Reported 119,000 jobs added. Who do you believe?

The MAGA crowd are cheering Trump directing the military to blow up a tiny Venezuelan boat that barely had enough cocaine for a bachelor party (if it had drugs at all) without any proof of guilt or a trial. So, civilians from other countries allegedly brining drugs to the US in international waters now merits the death penalty? https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-military-kills-11-people-strike-alleged-drug-boat-venezuela-trump-says-2025-09-03/ US military kills 11 people in strike on alleged drug boat from Venezuela, Trump says WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. military killed 11 people on Tuesday in a strike on a vessel from Venezuela allegedly carrying illegal narcotics, President Donald Trump said, in the first known operation since his administration's recent deployment of warships to the southern Caribbean. "We just, over the last few minutes, literally shot out a boat, a drug-carrying boat, a lot of drugs in that boat," Trump told reporters at the White House. "And there's more where that came from. We have a lot of drugs pouring into our country, coming in for a long time ... These came out of Venezuela." He later shared a video on his Truth Social platform that appeared to show footage from overhead drones of a speedboat at sea exploding and then on fire. "The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike," Trump said. He added that the U.S. military had identified the crew as members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which the U.S. designated a terrorist group in February. He repeated allegations that Tren de Aragua is being controlled by Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, accusations that Caracas denies.

For some reason we get emotional about calling for the arrest/execution of Democratic lawmakers. We are funny that way.

Seriously, what is wrong with them?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-threatens-federal-takeover-of-dc-after-attack-on-former-doge-worker Trump threatens federal takeover of DC after attack on former DOGE worker WASHINGTON (AP) — Two 15-year-olds have been arrested in Washington in connection with the attempted carjacking and beating of one of the most prominent members of the Department of Government Efficiency, renewing calls from President Donald Trump for the federal government to seize control of the nation’s capital. The victim, Edward Coristine, nicknamed “Big Balls,” was among the most visible figures of Trump’s DOGE, which was tasked with slashing federal bureaucracy. Coristine was assaulted around 3 a.m. Sunday in the city’s Logan Circle neighborhood by a group of teenagers attempting to carjack him and a woman whom police identified as his significant other, according to authorities. The Metropolitan Police Department said the group approached the couple’s car and made a comment about taking it. Coristine pushed the woman into the vehicle for safety and turned to confront the group. At least several of the teens then attacked him, police said, until officers patrolling nearby intervened. As officers moved toward the group, the teens fled on foot. Two 15-year-olds from Maryland were arrested on charges of unarmed carjacking, police said. The attack gave new fuel to long-standing Republican efforts to challenge Washington’s autonomy, with Trump threatening to bypass local authority and impose direct federal control over the city. In a social media post and remarks at the White House on Tuesday, the president described crime in Washington as “out of control.” “If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

I mean seriously. This support of Trump is unreal.

Yeah, this news definitely belongs in the Trump's World thread. https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1991645395634544759 (with a link to WaPo article which is subscriber only) Breaking WaPo: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month. The policy similarly downgrades the classification of nooses and the Confederate flag, though display of the latter remains banned.

Trump insulting a reporter's appearance makes him transparent and frank? You have got to be kidding. https://x.com/PopBase/status/1991612181951988071 White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defends Donald Trump calling a female reporter “piggy”: “Look, the president is very frank and honest with everyone in this room… You have all experienced it yourself and I think it is one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president, because of his frankness. And he calls out fake news when he sees it. He gets frustrated with reporters when you lie about him, when you spread fake news about him and his administration. But he also is the most transparent president in history. […] So I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces [reporters] rather than hiding behind your backs, is frankly more respectful than what you saw in the last administration, where you had a president who lied to your face and then didn’t speak to you for weeks — and hid upstairs and didn’t take your questions. So, I think everyone in this room should appreciate the frankness and openness that you get from President Trump on a near-daily basis.”

Yeah, post some other fake news to try to deflect from Trump's appalling remarks. AI Overview: It has been alleged by a White House official that former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger was active on the gay dating app Grindr, but there is no confirmed evidence that the images shared online are authentic or that he posted them himself.

Wow! Talk about an opening scene that rivals a Bond film.

And wanting them executed for advocating that members of the military obey the military oath to the Constitution. This is crazy.

A updated summary from Grok for those just joining this thread; Trump Accuses Democratic Veterans of Treason Over Video Urging Troops to Obey Constitution Last updated 16 minutes ago The video, led by Sen. Elissa Slotkin and featuring other veterans like Sen. Mark Kelly, stresses the military oath to the Constitution over any person, aligning with U.S. military rules against illegal orders. Trump posted on Truth Social demanding their trial for 'seditious conspiracy,' reposting calls to 'hang them' and warning it threatens the country. Democrats condemned the threats as calls for violence, with leaders like Schumer and Jeffries denouncing them, while Republicans stayed mostly silent and security was boosted for the lawmakers. This story is a summary of posts on X and may evolve over time. Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs.

He doesn't sound desperate in the video (which is probably why there was no link to the below Tweet that you cut and pasted the OP from). https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1990827793014292841 A response from a New Yorker: https://x.com/Aarwaves/status/1990940127766442119 Oh look, another hot take from people who don’t live in New York, don’t vote here, don’t pay taxes here, and couldn’t find Astoria on a map if you circled it in neon. Yes, Mamdani is raising more money for his transition — like every incoming mayor before him. That’s not a scam, that’s literally how governing a 9-million-person city works. And the whole “communists are swindlers” line? Yeah, very bold from folks who think memes are investigative journalism. So unless you’re actually a New Yorker maybe sit this one out and STFU. We’ll manage our city without input from the peanut gallery in Florida and the Facebook Uncle Brigade.

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/trump-reacts-mexico-city-military-strikes-ok/ Trump reacts to Mexico City protest, says military strikes to stop drugs are ‘OK with me’ U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he would be willing to launch military strikes against cartel targets in Mexico, just days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that the U.S. wouldn’t be undertaking any unilateral actions in Mexico. “Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It’s OK with me,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Whatever we have to do to stop drugs. … Look, I looked at Mexico City over the weekend; there’s some big problems over there,” the president said. He was referring to the violence in Mexico City’s central square, the Zócalo, at the conclusion of a large protest march against insecurity on Saturday. U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he would be willing to launch military strikes against cartel targets in Mexico, just days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that the U.S. wouldn’t be undertaking any unilateral actions in Mexico. “Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It’s OK with me,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Whatever we have to do to stop drugs. … Look, I looked at Mexico City over the weekend; there’s some big problems over there,” the president said. He was referring to the violence in Mexico City’s central square, the Zócalo, at the conclusion of a large protest march against insecurity on Saturday. Asked whether he would only launch strikes on targets in Mexico “with Mexico’s permission,” Trump responded: “I wouldn’t answer that question. I’ve been speaking to Mexico; they know how I stand. We’re losing hundreds of thousands of people to drugs. So now we’ve stopped the waterways, but we know every route, we know the addresses of every drug lord. We know their address, we know their front door, we know everything about every one of them, they’re killing our people. That’s like a war. Would I do it? I’d be proud to. I’d probably go into Congress and say ‘hey,’ and you know what? The Democrats and the Republicans would both agree.” The president went on to say that “much” of the narcotics that enter the U.S. “come through Mexico.” “So let me just put it this way: I am not happy with Mexico,” said Trump, whose administration continues to collect fentanyl trafficking-related tariffs it imposed earlier this year on imports from Mexico that don’t comply with the USMCA free trade pact. The U.S. president’s remarks came four days after Rubio said that the U.S. would not be sending military forces to Mexico or undertaking any unilateral actions in the fight against drug trafficking.