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13 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

 

So, I'm curious ... what steps did Donny take during his first administration to upgrade the ATC systems? Surely the systems didn't become antiquated overnight, the moment Biden was sworn in. Right?

What a fucking pos. Those system were out of date long before Trump took over in  2016.

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It doesn't undo any federal conviction, and I don't know that any such conviction was ever a real threat.  And the fucker is still permanently disbarred by the D.C. and New York state bars, and the pardon can't touch those sanctions. 

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4 hours ago, Rip76 said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/world/europe/bbc-resignations.html

"Two of the top executives of the BBC resigned abruptly on Sunday following a report suggesting the public service broadcaster had misleadingly edited a speech by President Trump that preceded the Jan. 6 Capitol riot."

I haven't seen the report, but a legit news agency should go above and beyond to ensure that edits from a speech do not even remotely create a false sense of what was said. Even if the 2 sentences are related, it should be noted if the sentences are not said next to each other. A on-screen message should be enough.

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7 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I haven't seen the report, but a legit news agency should go above and beyond to ensure that edits from a speech do not even remotely create a false sense of what was said. Even if the 2 sentences are related, it should be noted if the sentences are not said next to each other. A on-screen message should be enough.

I completely agree. It's bad journalism. However, if the BBC recognized it as such, they should have forced those guys out at the time. Waiting all this time is a terrible look for them as a once respected news organization. They either ignored bad journalism (damaging their credibility which used to be a big deal to news outlets) and waited until forced to take action, or they don't think it's bad journalism and they are abjectly capitulating to POSUS (sic).

I have not seen the tape. The fact is that POSUS did incite an insurrection (treason, fuck the letter of the law) and you'd have to doctor it up pretty fiercely to make him look worse, so why do such a useless thing? Either way, the Beeb (a friend of mine who worked there referred to it as such. Kinda catchy.) has shot themselves in the gonads. 

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1 hour ago, Red Five said:

I know he doesn’t know how to use words, but now the government shutdown was also a hoax?

Everything the Dems say is a hoax and the republicans are the only true patriots. Didn’t you know?

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10 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

I completely agree. It's bad journalism. However, if the BBC recognized it as such, they should have forced those guys out at the time. Waiting all this time is a terrible look for them as a once respected news organization. They either ignored bad journalism (damaging their credibility which used to be a big deal to news outlets) and waited until forced to take action, or they don't think it's bad journalism and they are abjectly capitulating to POSUS (sic).

I have not seen the tape. The fact is that POSUS did incite an insurrection (treason, fuck the letter of the law) and you'd have to doctor it up pretty fiercely to make him look worse, so why do such a useless thing? Either way, the Beeb (a friend of mine who worked there referred to it as such. Kinda catchy.) has shot themselves in the gonads. 

Oh who gives a fuck. Yall are acting like there are still rules. The Rs do way worse shit than this on a daily fucking basis and now we are worried about “bad journalism”? We need to start participating in the war we have been forced into. 
 

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8 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Oh who gives a fuck. Yall are acting like there are still rules. The Rs do way worse shit than this on a daily fucking basis and now we are worried about “bad journalism”? We need to start participating in the war we have been forced into. 
 

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Places still exist where there are rules. Not everywhere is the United States political shambles. Not sure what your point is in entering a pretty specific discussion about a journalism bastion.

Why even write about football or any subject?

I'm with you on the exasperation in general.

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10 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Oh who gives a fuck. Yall are acting like there are still rules. The Rs do way worse shit than this on a daily fucking basis and now we are worried about “bad journalism”? We need to start participating in the war we have been forced into. 

Maybe the public will start treating Trump's America like an emergency.

Probably after football season.

 

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3 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Files must be adequately redacted finally. No dotard, no other Rs, just Bill Clinton 

I'm still confused why people think swearing her in is going to lead to the E-Files being released. Dotard will veto any bill requiring it. 

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Every controller assigned to a heavily trafficked center sector or TRACON has been doing mandatory 6 days a week for quite some time. That shit is straight out of the triangle shirtwaist factory era. They also bid their days off for the entire year at once. If you get Wednesday/Thursday, that's your week for the next year.

Barbaric.
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Nicole Wallace is reporting that Fat Boy is gearing up the courts in Florida to ramp up a “grand conspiracy” that will result in subpoenas for folks like Obama and their “reasoning” is the 2016 election.

 

They are hell bent on arresting or indicting Obama for something, anything all because Fat Boy has indictments on him.

 

they are obsessed with Obama and it’s not clear why

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13 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Nicole Wallace is reporting that Fat Boy is gearing up the courts in Florida to ramp up a “grand conspiracy” that will result in subpoenas for folks like Obama and their “reasoning” is the 2016 election.

 

They are hell bent on arresting or indicting Obama for something, anything all because Fat Boy has indictments on him.

 

they are obsessed with Obama and it’s not clear why

Because they fear him. If Trump is cleared to run for a third term, I'm sure they expect Democrats will try and run Obama. They'll try and rig the rules -- previous concurrent administrations need not apply and shit -- but this would perhaps take care of that matter. We'll be in a shooting war long before Obama ever sees the inside of a court room on some bullshit election interference charges. But I welcome dotard to try. Sounds like Schiff is in the crosshairs first.

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18 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Nicole Wallace is reporting that Fat Boy is gearing up the courts in Florida to ramp up a “grand conspiracy” that will result in subpoenas for folks like Obama and their “reasoning” is the 2016 election.

Gotta link?

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33 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

It's already been decided.  But it will be a complex opinion.  Because they'll want to clarify that it only applies to blue and swing states.  For reasons. Probably "original intent," because James Madison once bitched about the mail being late, so that's what it means.

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10 minutes ago, Captainant said:

stripping voting rights from servicemembers, nice.

they need that first crack in the door to get into voting rights 

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Just now, tx 3 putt said:

they need that first crack in the door to get into voting rights 

Dude.  There are no doors left.  They blew the fucking building down.  We're in the "just waltz in and do whatever the fuck you want" stage.

Turns out, "protecting voting rights" is actually an unconstitutional overreach of Congress.  Alito already has the opinion written and in the can.

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3 hours ago, South Austin said:

It doesn't undo any federal conviction, and I don't know that any such conviction was ever a real threat.  And the fucker is still permanently disbarred by the D.C. and New York state bars, and the pardon can't touch those sanctions. 

Just signaling to future criminals and traitors that he’ll have their backs. 

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2 hours ago, mchookem said:

 

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In the case of Trump v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that former presidents have absolute immunity for "core" constitutional powers and presumptive immunity for other official acts. This means a president cannot be prosecuted for actions that fall within their core constitutional authority, and for other official acts, the government must prove that prosecution would not unduly interfere with the executive branch's functions. There is no immunity for unofficial, personal acts. 

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4 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I haven't seen the report, but a legit news agency should go above and beyond to ensure that edits from a speech do not even remotely create a false sense of what was said. Even if the 2 sentences are related, it should be noted if the sentences are not said next to each other. A on-screen message should be enough.

The thing is, the way the BBC played Trump’s quotes was exactly how his followers heard it. 

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8 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

The thing is, the way the BBC played Trump’s quotes was exactly how his followers heard it. 

That's what I expect.

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We all suspect people just run to Trump with some stupid idea and he goes with it.  Now, here's proof:

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/10/trumps-50-year-mortgage-plan-is-getting-panned-allies-blame-this-man-00645654?is_login_link=&template_id=OTJIR2CRKUD6&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it?experience_id=EXYF89KVT5UQ&variant_id=OTV632IE7RALS

 

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White House officials are furious with Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, who talked the president into suggesting a 50-year mortgage plan.

The White House was blindsided by the idea, according to two people familiar with the situation granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking, and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.

 

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On Saturday evening, Pulte arrived at President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach Golf Club with a roughly 3-by-5 posterboard in hand. A graphic of former President Franklin Roosevelt appeared below “30-year mortgage” and one of Trump below “50-year mortgage.” The headline was “Great American Presidents.”

Roughly 10 minutes later, Trump posted the image to Truth Social, according to one of the people familiar, who was with the president at the time.

 

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Almost immediately, aides were fielding angry phone calls from those who thought the idea – which would endorse a 50 year payback period for a mortgage – was both bad politics and bad policy, a move that could raise housing costs in the long run, the person said.

“He just sold POTUS a bill of goods that wasn’t necessarily accurate,” the person said. “He said ‘FDR did it, you can do it, it’s gonna be a big thing.’ But he didn’t tell him about all the unintended consequences.”

 

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The episode underscores the haphazard ways consequential policies are sometimes brought before the president, and how Trump’s govern-by-whim nature can backfire.

“Anything that goes before POTUS needs to be vetted,” said the person present for Pulte’s poster presentation. “And a lot of times with Pulte they’re not. He just goes straight up to POTUS.”

One of the two people familiar said there is more fallout from this idea than almost any other policy proposal of the second term, including from the MAGA base.

Conservative influencers, including Laura Loomer, Mike Cernovich, Christopher Rufo, Sean Davis of the Federalist, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) blasted the idea on social media.

“The thing that became clear from this latest episode — if it wasn’t already clear — is that Bill Pulte doesn’t know the first fucking thing about how the mortgage markets operate,” one of the two people said. “After publicly humiliating the president with his moronic 50 year mortgage plan it’s safe to assume that his days are numbered.”

A slew of experts also panned the idea.

“It would lead to buyers building equity in their homes more slowly. At the beginning of the mortgage, more of those payments tend to be interest,” Gennadiy Goldberg, head of US rates strategy at TD Securities. “This is more of a stopgap bandaid to address affordability.”

This morning, Pulte seemed to acknowledge the criticism, posting that a 50 year mortgage is just one piece of “a WIDE arsenal of solutions” that the Trump administration is developing. He also mentioned other ideas including portable mortgages, which can transfer to a new property, and assumable mortgages, which can be transferred to a property’s new buyer.

White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said Trump is “committed to making it easier and more affordable to achieve the American Dream of homeownership by eliminating unnecessary red tape, increasing supply, and lowering costs.”

“The White House and the entire Trump administration are appreciative of Mr. Pulte’s efforts, and everyone is working together to implement the President’s policies,” Ingle said.

An FHFA spokesperson told POLITICO that the inflation under former President Joe Biden destroyed the housing market. “As a result, we are studying a myriad of options to combat the damage it’s done,” the spokesperson said.

This is not the first time Pulte’s policy proposals have caused headaches. He was also behind the idea Trump floated earlier this year to take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of government conservatorship, which also resulted in significant pushback from industry.

It was also Pulte who first lodged mortgage fraud allegations against Fed Gov. Lisa Cook that Trump later used to fire her. Cook’s firing has been blocked in the courts and the case is pending before the Supreme Court.

POLITICO has also recently reported that Republicans in Congress are also growing increasingly frustrated with him.

Now, senior administration officials are increasingly getting fed up with Pulte’s approach. Yet Pulte remains close with the President and has direct access that aides have not been able to control.

“Trump isn’t just Pulte’s biggest ally in the admin, he is perhaps his only friend,” said one person familiar with their dynamic. “During Trump 2.0, the last time anything got as much pushback as this was over the ‘Epstein Files.’ MAGA is furious.”

In theory, 50-year mortgages would mean lower monthly payments for borrowers, but it also comes at a cost to homebuyers, who would build equity much more slowly.

In a statement warning that 50-year mortgages would “not address the true cause of today’s affordability challenges,” the National Association of Realtor’s chief economist Lawrence Yun said that homeowners could still gain some equity “as long as these mortgages are soundly underwritten.”

 

 

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1 minute ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

At this point, we need to do everything we can to keep him away from Bill Blaze....

 

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