Via Rupar:
#JDVance straight up lies on Fox & Friends, claims 40 percent of people calling the #SocialSecurity hotline are "actually committing fraud."
Via Rupar:
#JDVance straight up lies on Fox & Friends, claims 40 percent of people calling the #SocialSecurity hotline are "actually committing fraud."
alt text: A doughy man, JD Vance, in a suit with eyeliner sharp enough to cut food stamps extends his hand like he just personally delivered freedom, and he’s about to bless you with capitalism.
The caption says, “Have you said thank you?”, like you owe him rent for existing in America. His expression radiates a smug but cherub like glow. This is the face of a man who thinks bootstrap sermons count as economic policy and that Jesus personally endorses venture capital.
#Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to acquire all of #TikTok, …as it approaches an April deadline to be separated from its Chinese owner or face a ban in the #UnitedStates….
Various parties who have been involved in the talks do not appear to be taking Amazon’s bid seriously, the people said. The bid came via an offer letter addressed to Vice President #JDVance & #HowardLutnick, the #commerce secy….
#USpol #Trump #broligarchy #JeffBezos #law #tech #Antitrust
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/media/amazon-tiktok-bid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=D95FBEC6-2C4F-46F0-AAEC-465CE954890A
Rising anti-American sentiment in Europe is ushering in a shift in consumer behavior, not least in attitudes toward U.S.-made goods. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/02/world/politics/europe-anti-american-sentiment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #eu #europe #trade #us #republicans #donaldtrump #elonmusk #jdvance #canada
I'm getting sick of saying "yes the Trump regime is unquestionably fascist" because at some point, the evidence that they are a bunch of repugnant nazis is so extensive, you have to be willfully ignorant to keep pretending this is still up for debate; as many big media outlets in the US appear to be doing. This story however, brings us to a point where I feel compelled to point out not only that the Trump regime is definitely fascist, but these assclown nazi pigs are also, objectively speaking, evil.
As part of its unconstitutional scheme to traffic migrants, without due process, to a slave labor prison in El Salvador in order to wage a made up war against "gangs" and "Venezuela" apparently, Trump's DHS has admitted they "accidentally" deported a Maryland man, Abrego Garcia, who is A) married to a US citizen B) has a five year old disabled child, and C) had a judge's order *not* to deport him to El Salvador.
Trump Administration Admits Accidentally Deporting Maryland Father to El Salvador Mega Prison
“Although [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error,” the government admitted in response to Abrego Garcia’s complaint.
The government nevertheless argued in its filing that the court can’t order officials to bring Abrego Garcia home because he’s not in U.S. custody. The Trump administration is paying El Salvador to jail him, but the U.S. can’t force El Salvador to return the jailed men, the government claims.
It can only “entreat” or “cajole” its “close ally,” according to the filing.
“They claim that the court is powerless to order any relief,” Abrego Garcia’s attorney, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, told The Atlantic. “If that’s true, the immigration laws are meaningless—all of them—because the government can deport whoever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want, and no court can do anything about it once it’s done.”
Holy sweet fuck; let me restate that for clarity. The US govt just admitted, in court, that they unlawfully "deported" a guy who has been working and raising a family peacefully in the US for years while seeking *legal* asylum, despite a judge's order not to, as part of a nazi kabuki theater human trafficking (deportation, requires a hearing before an immigration judge) scheme. Despite this, the regime's lawyers are arguing, simultaneously, that they can't get him back because he's not in US custody, and they aren't obligated to obey a judge's order to return him because US courts don't have jurisdiction over El Salvador.
Wait, it gets better because the U.S. government is *also* arguing that they shouldn't have to do anything to correct this "mistake" because the man isn't in danger, and "even if Abrego Garcia is being wrongfully imprisoned, he hasn’t suffered irreparable harm." This is despite both the 2019 judge's order granted because Garcia was “more likely than not” to face persecution" in his country of origin (El Salvador), *and* a 2023 US State Dept report that "found credible reports that inmates in El Salvador had been electrocuted, tortured, and beaten to death." Finally it should be mentioned that the regime hasn't offered any legal reason (beyond "oopsie") for why it was trying to deport Garcia in the first place, given that even if Trump's bullshit invocation of the Alien Enemies Act walks in court somehow, Garcia isn't Venezuelan, and the state's own filing calls El Salvador a "close ally" - meaning we're not even at *fake* war with them in the Trump regime's own bubble of unreality.
Naturally, if the US wasn't being run by maliciously evil fascists, one might expect some degree of contrition; but that's not how the Pork Reich rolls. Vice President JD Vance took to social media to justify the actions his regime's own lawyers just admitted were a "mistake" by spewing fact-free excuses about MS-13 that had to be corrected multiple times because Vance didn't even read the government's own filing. As the article notes, even Vance's lies about gangs made no sense because ICE's previous case against Garcia (from 2019) was based on the testimony of one anonymous source and fell apart when the state couldn't produce anyone to testify; which is why he was still in the country and granted protected status while he sought asylum.
Folks, this wasn't a mistake; when you purposely ignore all the legal processes designed to prevent "mistakes" like this, we call that criminal negligence. The Trump regime wanted planes full of nonwhite migrants to display like war trophies on prime time TV, and Garcia fit the bill. They didn't care about the law; his skin tone and status as an asylum seeker made him an acceptable target. The cruelty was the point, which is why they don't want to return Garcia even after admitting their "mistake."
Greenland will decide its own future and the autonomous Danish territory will not become part of the United States, its new prime minister has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/31/world/politics/us-greenland-new-pm/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #republicans #donaldtrump #jdvance #greenland #denmark
No.
“ #Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a 3rd term, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying ..there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.”
NBC News asked about a possible scenario in which #JDVance would run for office and then pass the role to Trump. Trump responded that “that’s one” method.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-third-term-white-house-methods-rcna198752
Both #trump and #JDVance have now suggested that military options are NOT off the table for acquisition of #greenland.
This is terrifying as it's a territory of #denmark which is part of the EU.
They help one another in military actions against them, so we would be at war with ALL OF EUROPE. Which has more than twice the manpower, a bigger combined economy, and greater total military strength.
We wouldn't win.
If we did, it wouldn't be worth it.
Unipolar Multipolar Journalistischer Voyeurismus
In dieser Folge sprechen Dr. Karin Kneissl und Flavio von Witzleben über brisante Enthüllungen, politische Machtspiele und geopolitische Spannungen. Ein US-Journalist stolpert über ein schwerwiegendes Sicherheitsleck und erhält unbeabsichtigt Zugang zu einer geheimen Signal-Chatgruppe der Trump-Administration. Welche Konsequenzen hat dieser Vorfall?
In der Türkei sorgt die Verhaftung von Istanbuls Bürgermeister Ekrem Imamoğlu für Massenproteste. Ist dies ein gezielter Versuch, einen politischen Rivalen auszuschalten? Und dann wäre da noch Grönland: US-Vizepräsident JD Vance plant einen umstrittenen Besuch, doch Dänemark und die grönländische Regierung sprechen von "inakzeptablem Druck". Geht es hier um Sicherheit oder knallharte Geopolitik?
#germany #podcast #unipolar #multipolar #karinkneissl #flaviovonwitzleben #usa #securityleak #signal #donaldtrump #administration #jdvance #denmark #greenland #turkey #ekremimamoğlu #geopolitics
Morten Morland @mortenmorland on #PeteHegseth #signalscandal #DefenseSecretaryHegseth #JDVance #SignalGateScandal #Greenland @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
“It’s cold as shit here! Nobody told me.”
That's how unprepared and uneducated the *Vice President of the USA* is.
For a supposedly important mission. To a region in *checks notes* the Arctic circle. Doesn't anyone brief them?
Don't call it a clown show. Clown school is actually thorough and tough. Clowning needs talent and effort.
@SFFMagazineCovers is that #jdvance visiting #Greenland ?
Denmark chastises US Vice President Vance for his 'tone' over its support of Greenland.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen on Saturday scolded the Trump administration for its "tone" in criticising Denmark and Greenland, saying his country is already investing more into Arctic security and remains open to more cooperation with the US.
"As a parting shot, Vance told Greenlanders that life with the United States would be better than with Denmark. ... The US is is 24th in the world in the happiness rankings. Not bad. But Denmark is number two (after Finland). On a scale of 1 to 100, Freedom House ranks Denmark 97 and the US 84 on freedom — and the US will drop a great deal this year. An American is about ten times more likely to be incarcerated than a Dane. Danes have access to universal and essentially free health care; Americans spend a huge amount of money to be sick more often and to be treated worse when they are. Danes on average live four years longer than Americans. In Denmark university education is free; the average balance owed by the tens of millions of Americans who hold student debt in the US is about $40,000. Danish parents share a year of paid parental leave. In the US, one parent might get twelve weeks of unpaid leave." #Greenland #fascism #JDVance
ICYMI, Prof. Snyder is one of THREE Yale historians, 2 of whom specifically study fascism and dictatorships, to announce they are leaving the U.S. for Canada. https://snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-greenland
When your speech is gibberish but you smell like herring
Mislykkes.
Denmark is open to discussions with the U.S. on how to "fix" the status quo in #Greenland, the country's foreign minister said, after Vice President #JDVance accused #Copenhagen of failing to adequately protect the Arctic island during a controversial visit on Friday.
> In a post to X addressed to #Denmark's "dear American friends" late Friday, Danish Foreign Minister #LarsLokkeRasmussen said his nation agrees that the "status quo" in the #Arctic "is not an option."
https://abcnews.go.com/International/denmark-tone-us-greenland-remarks-minister/story?id=120287707
[11:13] Denmark criticises 'tone' of Vance's Greenland comments
Denmark has said it did not like the "tone" of US Vice President JD Vance comments that Copenhagen had not done enough for Greenland during a visit to the strategically placed, resource-rich Danish territory coveted by US President Donald Trump.
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0329/1504732-greenland-denmark-us/
#Denmark #US #JDVance #Copenhagen #Greenland #Danish #DonaldTrump