So, Trump plans to fire 15,000 Trans Troops on Day 1. Imagine the lawsuits! 15,000 lawsuits with no defence!

It is not legal to fire someone because they are transgender; under U.S. federal law, firing someone based on their gender identity is considered sex discrimination and is prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, as established by the Supreme Court ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County.
https://www.eeoc.gov/sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-sogi-discrimination#:~:text=Clayton%20County%2C%20Georgia%2C%20No.,on%20discrimination%20because%20of%20sex.

Report of Trump's plan to sign executive order on Day 1.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reportedly-plans-to-banish-transgender-troops-from-the-us-military/

Madness everywhere! I'm in an Irish pub in Atlanta and newspaper cuttings on the wall show they celebrate the IRA!

Yes, they support what was a terrorist organization here, a terrorist organization that killed 1800 people.


EDIT TO ADD THIS:

To be clear, they also had a "Remembering the hunger strikers" poster, paying tribute to Bobby Sands and other hunger strikers.
That wasn't old. It was a "40 years later" tribute to them dated 2021. Yes, that is celebrating terrorists.

If you could have pressed a magic button to prevent the fascists from winning the election, would you have pressed it?

You would be overturning the democratic will of the people, but potentially saving many lives.

Donald Trump ally warns Keir Starmer the US will 'crush' the UK economy if it helps arrest Benjamin Netanyahu

Source: The Independent

A staunch ally of Donald Trump has warned Keir Starmer that the UK will face severe economic consequences if it helps arrest Benjamin Netanyahu.

Senator Lindsey Graham said the US should “crush” the economies of all those who comply with the international warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The Israeli leader faces arrest if he enters Britain, Downing Street has said.

On Friday No 10 refused to explicitly comment on the case, saying it was a hypothetical situation, but added that the UK would follow its legal obligations.

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Asked what the penalty should be, he added: “We should crush your economy because we’re next…Why can’t they go after Trump or any other American president?”



Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/donald-trump-starmer-arrest-netanyahu-economy-b2652482.html

Trump loves being worshipped as an economic genius. He will have to water down his policies to keep that.

Billionaire tax cuts, mass deportations, tariffs, the culling of a million of public service jobs---these will wreck the economy and Trump's delusion that he is a financial guru. We know how thin-skinned he is and how his ego has no limits, so it's not hard to imagine that when the stock market starts going south, and inflation, deficits, and unemployment all start going up again, he's going to have to rapidly u-turn to save his reputation. My point is, maybe these things won't be as drastic as we fear.

Sorry, if already discussed, but what do you think of the Laken Riley murder coverage?

One Trump pick downed! Which POS next?

I'm glad Dr. Oz will be in charge of Medicare and Medicaid.

Yes, he dabbles in dangerous pseudomedicine, but he's a high-profile name and everyone will know he is the man responsible if any of their benefits are cut. They will know, it's not Biden. It's not Kamala. It's Dr Oz, as appointed by Trump.

150 million Americans are on either Medicare or Medicaid, a big chunk Trumpers. Now Trump and the Republicans will own it. It's their brand. They are the ones saying it is broken and must be fixed. They have put a household name at the top, and they will pay the price in 2026 and 2028 for any changes that impact any part of that 150 million Americans.

How can we (the people) bring together those who didn't vote for Trump and those who may regret voting for him?

I'm thinking of a movement comprising of Democrats and anyone else who wants to protect their rights and the rights of others and to stand up for an America that is free and not sliding towards fascism.

I feel there must be a way to bring people together. It could be at minimum an information campaign and an online pledge to stand by five basic single--line principles that an overwhelming majority support that would show more people actually want to maintain the America we know rather than the Trump/project 2025 agenda.

I think it should be presented as non-political to reach beyond the Democratic Party. It isn't asking people to endorse Democrats, but it could be a possible launchpad for Democrats in 2026 and 2028. Do you think this could work and if so, how?

Damning report shows that Republicans STOLE the 2004 election. That report was written by ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR!

Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or
having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House. BY
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.

Like many Americans, I spent the evening of the 2004 election watching the returns on television and wondering how the
exit polls, which predicted an overwhelming victory for John Kerry, had gotten it so wrong. By midnight, the official tallies
showed a decisive lead for George Bush -- and the next day, lacking enough legal evidence to contest the results, Kerry
conceded. Republicans derided anyone who expressed doubts about Bush's victory as nut cases in ''tinfoil hats,'' while the
national media, with few exceptions, did little to question the validity of the election.

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But despite the media blackout, indications continued to emerge that something deeply troubling had taken place in 2004.
Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad never received their ballots -- or received them too late to
vote -- after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of-the-art Web site used to file overseas registrations. A
consulting firm called Sproul & Associates, which was hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six
battleground states, was discovered shredding Democratic registrations. In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988
votes, malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000
ballots. Nationwide, according to the federal commission charged with implementing election reforms, as many as 1
million ballots were spoiled by faulty voting equipment -- roughly one for every 100 cast. The reports were especially disturbing
in Ohio, the critical battleground state that clinched Bush

The reports were especially disturbing in Ohio, the critical battleground state that clinched Bush's victory in the electoral
college. Officials there purged tens of thousands of eligible voters from the rolls, neglected to process registration cards
generated by Democratic voter drives, shortchanged Democratic precincts when they allocated voting machines and
illegally derailed a recount that could have given Kerry the presidency. A precinct in an evangelical church in Miami
County recorded an impossibly high turnout of ninety-eight percent, while a polling place in inner-city Cleveland recorded
an equally impossible turnout of only seven percent. In Warren County, GOP election officials even invented a nonexistent
terrorist threat to bar the media from monitoring the official vote count.

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But what is most anomalous about the irregularities in 2004 was their decidedly partisan bent: Almost without exception
they hurt John Kerry and benefited George Bush. After carefully examining the evidence, I've become convinced that the
president's party mounted a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people in 2004. Across the country,
Republican election officials and party stalwarts employed a wide range of illegal and unethical tactics to fix the election.

A review of the available data reveals that in Ohio alone, at least 357,000 voters, the overwhelming majority of them
Democratic, were prevented from casting ballots or did not have their votes counted in 2004 -- more than enough to
shift the results of an election decided by 118,601 votes. In what may be the single most astounding fact from the election,
one in every four Ohio citizens who registered to vote in 2004 showed up at the polls only to discover that they were not listed
on the rolls, thanks to GOP efforts to stem the unprecedented flood of Democrats eager to cast ballots. And that doesn?t even
take into account the troubling evidence of outright fraud, which indicates that upwards of 80,000 votes for Kerry were counted
instead for Bush. That alone is a swing of more than 160,000 votes -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.

More here:
https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/voting/press/WasThe2004ElectionStolen.pdf