General Trump Administration F**kery Thread (2025-2029)
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Gotcha. Ro Khanna got caught lying his ass off
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4 hours ago
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee moved to subpoena tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk at a hearing Wednesday — and one Democrat was conspicuously and missing from the vote, Rep. Ro Khanna of California, who represents Silicon Valley and has a longtime relationship with the billionaire.
Khanna said he missed the vote and said he was unaware it was happening — but three Democrats familiar with the run-up to the vote who were granted anonymity to describe what ensued said Democrats were given a heads-up about the maneuver to try to catch Republicans by surprise. They said they believed Khanna knew the vote was happening and made an intentional decision to miss it.
In the end, the motion to subpoena Musk was shut down by Republicans on the committee on a 20-19 vote — with eight lawmakers missing the vote, including Democrats Khanna and Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.), who missed for an unrelated reason, one Democrat familiar with the planning said.
The rest of the members who missed were Republicans.
Khanna disputed the characterization that he missed the vote on purpose, saying on X that he “would have voted yes.”
“They called a procedural vote without notice & I like 8 others didn’t make it there on time,” he said in a post. “Musk’s attacks on our institutions are unconstitutional. He should be subpoenaed & answer to our committee. They should call the vote again with notice.”
Musk responded to Khanna’s post, writing to him, “Don’t be a dikk.”
The three Democrats familiar with the planning said Khanna’s staff was properly notified about the vote ahead of time. A spokesperson for the California Democrat said "Congressman Khanna and his team had zero knowledge that this vote would be up."
One senior Democratic aide said there was a member meeting Tuesday evening that Khanna missed to attend a meeting with the Progressive Caucus. Democrats also announced the motion to all staff and his staff was present on that call — and that the top Democrat on Oversight, Gerry Connolly, told the Democratic Caucus about the plan this morning, two people said.
"No staffer from our team was present on a call where this was announced," the spokesperson for Khanna said.
Lead Art: Rep. Ro Khanna disputed the characterization that he missed the vote on purpose, saying on X that he “would have voted yes.” | Francis Chung/POLITICO
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House Democrats try, and fail, to subpoena Musk
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Notably missing the vote was Rep. Ro Khanna, who is close to Musk.
Daniella Diaz02/05/2025, 7:42pm ET
4 hours ago
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee moved to subpoena tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk at a hearing Wednesday — and one Democrat was conspicuously and missing from the vote, Rep. Ro Khanna of California, who represents Silicon Valley and has a longtime relationship with the billionaire.
Khanna said he missed the vote and said he was unaware it was happening — but three Democrats familiar with the run-up to the vote who were granted anonymity to describe what ensued said Democrats were given a heads-up about the maneuver to try to catch Republicans by surprise. They said they believed Khanna knew the vote was happening and made an intentional decision to miss it.
In the end, the motion to subpoena Musk was shut down by Republicans on the committee on a 20-19 vote — with eight lawmakers missing the vote, including Democrats Khanna and Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.), who missed for an unrelated reason, one Democrat familiar with the planning said.
The rest of the members who missed were Republicans.
Khanna disputed the characterization that he missed the vote on purpose, saying on X that he “would have voted yes.”
“They called a procedural vote without notice & I like 8 others didn’t make it there on time,” he said in a post. “Musk’s attacks on our institutions are unconstitutional. He should be subpoenaed & answer to our committee. They should call the vote again with notice.”
Musk responded to Khanna’s post, writing to him, “Don’t be a dikk.”
The three Democrats familiar with the planning said Khanna’s staff was properly notified about the vote ahead of time. A spokesperson for the California Democrat said "Congressman Khanna and his team had zero knowledge that this vote would be up."
One senior Democratic aide said there was a member meeting Tuesday evening that Khanna missed to attend a meeting with the Progressive Caucus. Democrats also announced the motion to all staff and his staff was present on that call — and that the top Democrat on Oversight, Gerry Connolly, told the Democratic Caucus about the plan this morning, two people said.
"No staffer from our team was present on a call where this was announced," the spokesperson for Khanna said.
Lead Art: Rep. Ro Khanna disputed the characterization that he missed the vote on purpose, saying on X that he “would have voted yes.” | Francis Chung/POLITICO
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DOGE broadens sweep of federal agencies, gains access to health payment systems — The Washington Post
Associates of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have fanned out across the federal government in recent days, alarming some career employees.
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whats fringe about it?
aw man, not JV@TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM? You ain’t never winning shyt now
Pro-Trump Arab American group changes its name after the president's Gaza 'Riviera' comments
The group Arab Americans for Trump is renaming itself Arab Americans for Peace after President Donald Trump said the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip.apnews.com
Pro-Trump Arab American group changes its name after the president’s Gaza ‘Riviera’ comments
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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A group that played a key role in Donald Trump’s voter outreach to the Arab American community alongside his allies is rebranding itself after the president said that the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip.
Bishara Bahbah, chairman of the group formerly known as Arab Americans for Trump, said during a phone interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday that the group would now be called Arab Americans for Peace.
The name change came after Trump held a Tuesday press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House and proposed the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the area into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
“The talk about what the president wants to do with Gaza, obviously we’re completely opposed to the idea of the transfer of Palestinians from anywhere in Historic Palestine,” Bahbah said. “And so we did not want to be behind the curve in terms of pushing for peace, because that has been our objective from the very beginning.”
Arab Americans for Trump helped lead voter outreach efforts for Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election in swing states such as Michigan and Arizona.
The residents of Dearborn, Michigan -- the heart of Arab America – are going to take a “deep breath” following President Donald Trump’s Gaza comments, a community leader said (AP video: Mike Householder)
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The group, independent from the Trump campaign, frequently facilitated meetings between Arab American community leaders and Trump’s allies, including Richard Grenell, now serving as Trump’s envoy for special missions, and Massad Boulos, the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany and now a senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs.
In the 2024 election, Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Dearborn, Michigan — home to the nation’s largest concentration of Arab Americans — since 2000 on his way to winning the state. Trump visited Dearborn on Nov. 1.
Bahbah said the group had been thinking about changing its name for “a while” and ultimately made the decision Tuesday. But Bahbah had said during a phone interview just prior to Trump’s Tuesday night press conference with Netanyahu that the group’s name was Arab Americans for Trump.
My take from this is that republican is just better meeting with people and framing their narrative.
Rather that race , geopolitics gender , crime ecomomy, the border etc.
Like look at this they 3 steps ahead building coalitions
NTSB to stop emailing news outlets with updates on plane crashes, press briefings
The NTSB says it will only notify the media about press conferences and investigative updates on two recent plane crashes via the social media platform X.
thedesk.net
NTSB forces reporters to get plane crash updates on X
The agency says it will no longer notify reporters about plane crash press briefings via email.
By Matthew Keys
mkeys@thedesk.net
February 1, 2025
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates about two plane crashes that occurred earlier this week.
Moving forward, the federal agency tasked with investigating transportation-related accidents and disasters said news organizations and reporters will have to follow the agency’s official account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, where “all NTSB updates about news conferences or other investigative information” will be posted moving forward.
The NTSB did not say why it was choosing to post information about public safety matters exclusively on X, a private social media platform owned by technology mogul Elon Musk, who has curried favor with President Donald Trump in recent weeks. The Desk has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the government agency to learn more about the NTSB’s decision-making process in moving updates to the news media exclusively to X.
Trump has frequently targeted the news media as a whole, criticizing outlets that have covered him in an unflattering light. He recently settled a lawsuit with ABC News over comments made during the political affairs program “This Week” that he considered to be disparaging, and has a pending lawsuit against CBS News over the network’s interview with Vice President Kamala Harris on “60 Minutes” last year.
On Friday, the Department of Defense announced it would evict four news organizations — NBC News, the New York Times, NPR and Politico — from leased offices within the Pentagon. The office space will be turned over to four other organizations — Breitbart News radio, the Huffington Post, One America News Network and the New York Post — some of which have curried favor with Trump and his political allies in recent times. (The Huffington Post is owned by BuzzFeed, which counts Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy among their minority owners.)
1/22
@MorePerfectUS
Trump wants to halt the high-speed rail project that would cut travel time between SF and LA from 9 hours to under 3 hours.
"We're going to start a big investigation on that.. it wasn't even necessary, I would have said, you don't buy it. You take an airplane.”
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1886882848121982976/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/rmDmLxeCajCyrEoy.mp4
2/22
@MorePerfectUS
Video continued:
" You take an airplane, it costs you 2 dollars."
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1886886049957224448/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/PWgXr9q-9k46OUho.mp4
3/22
@MorePerfectUS
We covered this important, potentially precedent setting high-speed rial project last year:
[Quoted tweet]
NEW: High-speed rail is coming to the United States soon.
Construction just began on the first high-speed rail line, which will connect LA and Las Vegas and reach 200mph.
And it’s being built by 11,000 union workers.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1792992453148205056/vid/avc1/1280x720/jx98e4RJNZhDfPGE.mp4
4/22
@1998called
I think he meant, it takes you 2 hours
5/22
@heyitsgilroy
6/22
@sycamoressource
It’s a banana Michael, how much could it cost?
7/22
@IshDavidd
we’re cooked
8/22
@peggy_gabour
9/22
@Kaleb_A_Acuna
The 2 dollar flight in question
10/22
@DANNYonPC
A man of the people
11/22
@RudyGalan_
Two dollars in the stock market is 200$
12/22
@AngelKM5683
No one has ever seen someone that stupid before
13/22
@TheSaurus831
A dribbling retard
14/22
@VladSarto
To the various idiots on this thread ...
If you had passed High School English, you'd remember that this is known as a figure of speech, and in this case Trump is employing, for rhetorical effect, the figure of speech known as hyperbole. Don't hurt yourself trying to pronounce it.
He actually altered the hyperbole to its more common form immediately after saying the $2 ... to "nothing".
He's saying that it costs "nothing" (or $2 means "next to nothing") to fly compared to whatever Biden had been doing, the cost overruns ... but we don't have the full context.
Yet another pathetic Leftist attempt to liken Trump to Biden when there's absolutely no comparison. Biden would be rambling about "ya know, the thing" by now.
I'm not a Trump supporter (voted write-in) but this is absurdly pathetic.
15/22
@corncobtvusa
Oh this guy is fukking stupid huh
16/22
@MaryellenTakacs
Eggs cost more than airfare? Who knew
17/22
@vansk24
Wasn’t Musk opposed to high speed rail because it competed with his tunnel company ?
18/22
@fredaykin
We traded one senile president for another. Great.
19/22
@jhassler80
Dementia Don
20/22
@Corrupted_Eden
21/22
@wolfygangg
its one airplane ride, michael. what could it cost, two dollars?
22/22
@dougiesant
I wish an airplane cost 2 bucks.
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@MorePerfectUS
Trump wants to halt the high-speed rail project that would cut travel time between SF and LA from 9 hours to under 3 hours.
"We're going to start a big investigation on that.. it wasn't even necessary, I would have said, you don't buy it. You take an airplane.”
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1886882848121982976/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/rmDmLxeCajCyrEoy.mp4
2/22
@MorePerfectUS
Video continued:
" You take an airplane, it costs you 2 dollars."
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1886886049957224448/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/PWgXr9q-9k46OUho.mp4
3/22
@MorePerfectUS
We covered this important, potentially precedent setting high-speed rial project last year:
[Quoted tweet]
NEW: High-speed rail is coming to the United States soon.
Construction just began on the first high-speed rail line, which will connect LA and Las Vegas and reach 200mph.
And it’s being built by 11,000 union workers.
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1792992453148205056/vid/avc1/1280x720/jx98e4RJNZhDfPGE.mp4
4/22
@1998called
I think he meant, it takes you 2 hours
5/22
@heyitsgilroy
6/22
@sycamoressource
It’s a banana Michael, how much could it cost?
7/22
@IshDavidd
we’re cooked
8/22
@peggy_gabour
9/22
@Kaleb_A_Acuna
The 2 dollar flight in question
10/22
@DANNYonPC
A man of the people
11/22
@RudyGalan_
Two dollars in the stock market is 200$
12/22
@AngelKM5683
No one has ever seen someone that stupid before
13/22
@TheSaurus831
A dribbling retard
14/22
@VladSarto
To the various idiots on this thread ...
If you had passed High School English, you'd remember that this is known as a figure of speech, and in this case Trump is employing, for rhetorical effect, the figure of speech known as hyperbole. Don't hurt yourself trying to pronounce it.
He actually altered the hyperbole to its more common form immediately after saying the $2 ... to "nothing".
He's saying that it costs "nothing" (or $2 means "next to nothing") to fly compared to whatever Biden had been doing, the cost overruns ... but we don't have the full context.
Yet another pathetic Leftist attempt to liken Trump to Biden when there's absolutely no comparison. Biden would be rambling about "ya know, the thing" by now.
I'm not a Trump supporter (voted write-in) but this is absurdly pathetic.
15/22
@corncobtvusa
Oh this guy is fukking stupid huh
16/22
@MaryellenTakacs
Eggs cost more than airfare? Who knew
17/22
@vansk24
Wasn’t Musk opposed to high speed rail because it competed with his tunnel company ?
18/22
@fredaykin
We traded one senile president for another. Great.
19/22
@jhassler80
Dementia Don
20/22
@Corrupted_Eden
21/22
@wolfygangg
its one airplane ride, michael. what could it cost, two dollars?
22/22
@dougiesant
I wish an airplane cost 2 bucks.
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Public reporting from CDC was shut down 2 weeks ago. We ain’t hearing shyt ever again.
Cows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu
A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been detected in cows.www.nytimes.com
Any word from the CDC?
Watching from the outside, America is going through a coup d'etat. It might not be bloody, but there is clearly a coup going on. Elon and Peter Thiel arw taking over. And they said this is exactly what they were going to do
Think mobb movie when you send someone on an errand
Nina Turner (@ninaturnerohio) on Threads
Democrats should be staging rallies and townhalls in light red GOP districts with their best communicators with an emphasis on education. Reach out to voters. Let them know what’s going on. Americans don’t need Sen. Schumer chanting “we will win” in DC.www.threads.net
Senator Schumer emboldens the opps just from his demeanor alone. when they trot him out to do a press conference with his old lady glasses, the opps are like “we got this”.