[old boy]

Trump’s groveling, cult-like White House Cabinet meetings go from bad to worse​

From https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-groveling-cult-white-house-cabinet-meetings-go-bad-worse-rcna227501

The president’s Cabinet meetings from his first term were sycophantic and cringe-worthy. In his second term, they’re worse.​

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "Mr President, I invite you see your big beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor because you are really the transformational president of the American worker, along with the American flag and President Roosevelt."

bsky.app

Just when you think they've hit rock-bottom, something like this happens...yikes !

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

BREAKING: At least 3 CDC leaders have resigned tonight:

Dan Jernigan, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Deb Houry, chief medical officer

Demetre Daskalakis, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

BREAKING: At least 3 CDC leaders have resigned tonight:

Dan Jernigan, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Deb Houry, chief medical officer

Demetre Daskalakis, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

Wonder if they submitted their résumés to outside the USA?

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

 

[adma]

Just when you think they've hit rock-bottom, something like this happens...yikes !

Well, given how his end might be coming sooner than his sycophants want us (or themselves, for that matter) to believe, imagine the grotesque posthumous circus that awaits.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

The Trump administration moves to bar states and nonprofits, such as the Red Cross, from helping undocumented immigrants after disasters.

 

[afransen]

The fact that Trump seems likely to kick the bucket in the not too distant future gives me some comfort that he won't be able to cement himself as dictator for life. I don't see Vance as having the charisma to command Trump loyalists once he passes.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

The Trump administration moves to bar states and nonprofits, such as the Red Cross, from helping undocumented immigrants after disasters.

...makes me wonder if they're planning to set up "special" showers for them next. /bleh

 

[adma]

The fact that Trump seems likely to kick the bucket in the not too distant future gives me some comfort that he won't be able to cement himself as dictator for life. I don't see Vance as having the charisma to command Trump loyalists once he passes.

But different kinds of grotesque insanity might await, in how the sitting regime *and* media (including social media) *and* American public handles his passing. And if everything somehow bluffs into the TheoBros under Hegseth having access to the nuclear codes, watch out.

It befits the land of the mass shooting; but it almost seems as if the US is the first nation-state poised to commit a kind of mass murder-suicide. A frenzy of *everybody* liquidating one another until there's scarcely anybody left (and it even seems as if the present regime is trying to trigger "the left" into sparking that likelihood--like it's one thing when Southern bigots perform lynchings; but if "the left" tries to perform a Mussolini upon MAGA leaders, which is basically the same as "lynch techniques", then you have Norman McLaren's "Neighbours" nationwide. And Trump won't be in a position to care, because he'll be dead--in fact, it'll be his final act of posthumous retribution)

 

[PinkLucy]

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5473850-monarez-ousted-cdc-director/

Please add some context when posting hyperlinks

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

BREAKING: Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has just sued Trump over his attempt to fire her from office.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

SENIOR TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: PACKAGE SHIPMENTS TO U.S. WILL BE SUBJECT TO FLAT DUTIES OF $80 TO $200 FOR SIX MONTHS BEFORE TRANSITIONING TO SPECIFIC DUTY RATES

 

[PL1]

SENIOR TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: PACKAGE SHIPMENTS TO U.S. WILL BE SUBJECT TO FLAT DUTIES OF $80 TO $200 FOR SIX MONTHS BEFORE TRANSITIONING TO SPECIFIC DUTY RATES

Many smaller shops I follow on (e.g.) IG have been cancelling shipments to the US due to these fees. At some point you have to believe Trump's supporters will realize the emperor is wearing no clothes...

Edit: spelling sops not shoppers

 

[PinkLucy]

As posted upthread, a growing number of countries aren’t shipping to the US at all

 

[zang]

Many smaller shoppers I follow on (e.g.) IG have been cancelling shipments to the US due to these fees. At some point you have to believe Trump's supporters will realize the emperor is wearing no clothes...

Not like there'll be many countries they can order stuff from soon enough.

Germany, Japan, France, Australia, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Austria, Taiwan, South Korea, The UK and others have all eliminated or reduced parcel service to the U.S.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/economy/postal-service-halt-japan-australia-intl-hnk