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The president is the head of the executive branch. Any random activist district judge had no jurisdiction to take the presidency into their own little hands.

The judge had jurisdiction - that's why it was followed other than the flights that were already in the air.

177 illegal aliens landing in Venezuela that were deported from Guantanamo Bay by President Trump, yesterday! 80 of them are linked to the notorious Tren de Aragua gang that Joe Biden rolled out the welcome mats for!

Money well spent.

Really Bass? What are the facts....?

President Donald Trump’s failed plan to detain up to 30,000 migrants at Guantánamo Bay has cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

Trump’s administration has detained just 300 migrants at the U.S.-operated facility in Cuba over the last two months. But now, all migrants detained at the facility have since been flown out.

The failed operation cost taxpayers at least $16 million.

No, he didn’t allow it, Pelosi wouldn’t help him fund the wall and he was dealing with a Democrat Congress

Firstly, he said México was going to pay for the wall. Secondly, he had control of Congress for the first two years of his term, during which time he did nothing. It was only after he lost control of Congress that he started to put the bill though and then started whining that the Dems were blocking him.

I'm surprised you've forgotten this sequence of events.

Religious cults destroy lives and families. They brainwash their member and take theirminds and then their money. In some cases their lives.

The world would be a much better place without any religion at all.

The woman is a victim here. Yes, she wasn't totally in the right - she had probably manipulated the man earlier - but what he did was so outrageous, disproportionate and premeditated that seeking to a blame her a bit is not right.

The only thing is to remind young women not to get involved with middle aged loners - it won't end well.

Hard to know Trump or Putin's true negotiating reality, but we do know Zelenskyy will not be in charge of Ukraine for long, he's deeply unpopular inside Ukraine and within the Trump Admin.

Hope springs eternal - it's hard to know how long Zelenskyy still be in charge for, but I wouldn't form my opinion on the matter from a mouthpiece for Kremlin propaganda.

Is Rubio going to be the first around to Trump to realize how insane he is?

In 2016 Rubio described Trump as someone who wanted to be "a third world strongman"

He then said, "there are many people on the right, in the media, and voters at large, that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump, because this is not going to end well, one way or the other.”

He's known exactly what Trump is like for years, but it's still prepared to do his bidding.

One is free to pretend Kursk - or the "patch of land... to be used as a bargaining chip" as the article puts it, isn't being squeezed. The article mentions a 'push' and 'pressure'.

As one of a long line of Kremlin proganda pushers who pop up on JT from time to time (and then disappear as quickly as they arrive) I have noticed through the course of this discussion that your approach to this news has been all over the place.

While I know that your line of arguement will be clearer in a few hours, the key thing remains that Ukraine wants peace and the aggressor, Russia, seems not to be interested (yet).

I've been trying to work out whether there is a pattern to Trump increasing, lowering or suspending tarrifs.

The only thing that is consistent is that there's a "youbi" in the day of the week. This seems to work every day.

Ukraine is seeking peace, but is Russia?

Russia started the war, but will it agree to end the war?

Surely bigger business news is that the stock markets are tanking as a direct result of Trump's bizarre policies, not that he's bought a glorified golf cart.

The only thing Trump would ever drive is an electric golf cart.

Given the millions being spent on his golf habit as president, giving that up would be a vast saving right there.

That is what Russia has been doing daily in Ukraine for three years.

This war could end tomorrow if Putin wanted peace.

trying to illegally and collusively boycott Tesla, one of the World’s great automakers, and Elon’s “baby,” in order to attack

Boycotting Tesla is neither illegal or collision. I have never wanted to buy one, initially because of their poor build quality, but them more morally because it has been clear (to me) for a couple of years that he is a fascist - I remember calling him one in December 2022.

This has become clearer to the wider world since he started supporting fascist political parties and giving Nazi salutes.

It's not a sad civil war, it's a Russian invasion and it always was, even in 2014

Of course it isn't a civil war, but you are replying to someone who simply repeats Kremlin propaganda rather than contributing to the conversation in good faith.

They really don’t but do to a minimal degree. What would you do, calling Trump that he’s not won’t help your argument, because you have zero proof and it’s just ludicrous altogether, but how would you personally hold Russia accountable? How?

Bass - I've read and re-read this several times, but can't quite work this out

One of the benefits of Trump's actions is that the rest of the world now knows that that the post-war model of the US backstop for defence has gone. It is now in the same camp as Russia and North Korea - as could be seen by its bizarre UN vote.

European and Japanese defence manufacturers can step up production and become self-reliant. The US is now allied to Russia and cannot be considered an ally in areas that genuinely matter.

In little over six weeks, a century of alliances have been shattered.

@Underworld - whilst it is now painfully obvious to everyone that Trump is a Russian asset (quite what hold they have on him, we'll never know), for Trump's most devoted followers they will acknowledge this - they have been told not to believe the evidence of their lying eyes.

But putting aside the the devoted MAGAs and the handful of employees of Russian troll farms who speak loudest for Trump and Putin, what does it mean for the rest of the world?

Simply that the USA can no longer be trusted as an ally, and that includes with intelligence, because what they see will be seen by Russia at some point. And under Trump, no ally can rely on the USA.

Amazingly, what Russia could never do through military and economic means, it has become the most powerful country on earth by the manipulation of one man.

And people say that Americans don't appreciate irony...

He voted for Trump and said he supports reducing the size of the federal government but not this way.

He voted for Trump so that other people could lose their jobs, not him.

Trump tariffs have driven the stock market down.

Trump's record to date:

inflation up

stock market down

GDP growth sets to slow

Allies turned against the USA

And all these fails in less than two months in office.

It looks like President #47 is already the worst on history, eclipsing the failures of the previous worst president, #45.

Dumb Donald done a dumb.

Yeah all this talk about what they could do, but no actual doing. Why is that?

Because trade wars are stupid and the best way to promote increased wealth and prosperity for all is to promote free trade.

I still don't get Trump's obsession with tariffs. Either the importer on the U.S. side will bear the brunt of the cost, or they will pass it on to the consumer. In the end, someone on the U.S. end has to pay more.

It tends to be both - the exporter has a drop in demand and sells less at a slightly lower price, and the end consumer pays a higher price.

Basically, everyone loses with trade barriers which is why the world has been moving to freer trade over the decades.

Given that Putin is now relying on North Korean troops to plug gaps in his forces, he needed this peace deal as much as anyone.

Whilst he has some inexplicable hold on Donald Trump, he cannot fool the rest of the world so easily.

This will cost Europe, but its economy is far larger than Russias. There is also $300bn of Russian money sitting in frozen bank accounts in Europe. So far just the interest on that is being given to Ukraine, but the total sum is nearly twice as much as the US has given to Ukraine.

Time to spend the Russian money to defend Ukraine.

The EU brigade couldn't knock the head off a beer. There will be no EU 'peacekeeping' force in Ukraine or 'security guarantees' (NATO via the backdoor). Watch.

Europe has a population four times the size of Russia, am economy ten times the size, two nuclear powers and armies that are not weakened by three years of war.

Three years in which Putin's army couldn't take more than 10% of Ukraine.

Russia will back down when anyone its own size stands up to it. It always has and it always will

Never thought I'd say this, but Starmer this weekend was reminincent of Churchill in 1940.

Someone had to assume leadership now that Trump has abdicated the role.

Musk did not buy Twitter to make money but rather protect free speech

Yet he is happy to use the platform to silence voices he doesn't like and promote the voices he does.

But I know where YOU are coming from - free speech as narrowly defined as the freedom to be hateful and racist etc by a certain groups on the right.

Whatever China's considerations are in its long-term plan to take back control of Taiwan, it can be pretty certain that it no longer needs to worry about the US intervening.

The chaos continues....

But this should not be seen as a surprise, but we need to keep asking ourselves how these emotionally stunted fools got their hands on the levers of power.