Moon of Alabama Brecht quote
January 21, 2025
Trump Abolishes Democrats’ DEI And Trans-Craze Policies

Trump's second presidency has a strong start. On his first day in office he has issued some 200 executive actions including some 42 executive orders (EO) undoing many of Biden's attempts of socially engineering a new society.

(Unfortunately I have yet to find a complete list of those EOs. Why haven't even the agencies, AP, AFP or Reuters, compiled one?)

I do dislike many of the EOs Trump issued. Leaving the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreements, and thereby de-legitimizing them, is not good for mankind. Further supporting the Zionst entity is a disgrace.

Others I do like. Trump pardoned participants of the Jan 6 (2021) 'riots' which had never amounted to much more than a hustle.

He rescinded many of EOs the Biden administration had issued around its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. Attempts of social engineering against merit deserve to fail.

I am also very happy that Trump has ended the official Trans craze. The wording herein is remarkable:

DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers. This is wrong. Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being.

This unhealthy road is paved by an ongoing and purposeful attack against the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts. Invalidating the true and biological category of “woman” improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based, inchoate social concept.

There are and will be many more Trump policies which (will) deserve to be condemned and criticized.

That should not hinder us to admit that he got some things right.

Comments

Another white man who doesn’t see any reason for anyone other than white men to be included in anything or even be allowed out in public since they may not have a place to be. Your disgusting bigotry is an embarrassment Bernard

Posted by: Chris B Critter | Jan 21 2025 14:13 utc | 1

“Leaving the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreements, and thereby de-legitimizing them, is not good for mankind.”

You need to take a deeper look into both, as the legitimacy of both is severely compromised by their very characters. Paris is based on fraudulent statistics and dubious science, and WHO is headed by a genocidal tyrant and driven with a goal to use healthcare to subjugate the global population under a global order.

Posted by: Cato the Uncensored | Jan 21 2025 14:18 utc | 2

Lets hope lots of pronouns go the way of dinosaurs…

Posted by: notlurking | Jan 21 2025 14:19 utc | 3

Fact: There are four sexes – male, female, both (intersex) and none. The last 2 are rare but do exist.
Fact: Gender refers to masculinity or femininity only. Until the late 80s this was applied to language, not people.
Everyone falls somewhere along that spectrum and attempts to deny that is an attempt to deny nature, which psychotic white males are exceedingly, stupidly apt to do.

Posted by: realitycheck | Jan 21 2025 14:20 utc | 4

Ranting about “white men” while accusing others of “bigotry”?

Posted by: LunchbagLujan | Jan 21 2025 14:20 utc | 5

B: Carbon Dioxide accounts for just 0.04% of the atmosphere. There’s no effing way it affects the climate. The Paris Accords are bullshit.

Posted by: Dave Pollard | Jan 21 2025 14:22 utc | 6

“Posted by: Cato the Uncensored | Jan 21 2025 14:18 utc | 2”
You beat me to it. Agree, 100%. The WHO is corrupted, top to bottom, by WEF followers of Fauxi’s “the science.” Incredibly dangerous org that planned to shut down countries & force “vaccinations” via contrived scamdemics.
The Paris Accords are a joke. Nobody meets them, especially the German Greens who replaced cleaner gas with the dirtiest brown coal. And climate change is not the only environmental threat out there.

Posted by: Mary | Jan 21 2025 14:25 utc | 7

Here is a link to Trump’s executive orders.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/page/1/

Posted by: Philip Ebersole | Jan 21 2025 14:29 utc | 8

He put Cuba back onto the terrorist supporter list. That should inform people about his real agenda a lot more than the populist dog whistle BS people prefer to talk about.

Posted by: Ralph Conner | Jan 21 2025 14:30 utc | 9

Never realized B is a strong supporter of the globalists

Posted by: Feck | Jan 21 2025 14:31 utc | 10

Tulsi is doing a fantastic job influencing the President. /s
The issue is that once Trump survived the shooting he was deified there was no way for him to meet the insane expectations heaped on him, aided by his pronouncements and promises.
Meanwhile nothing obvious is being done about homelessness, the cost of education, or the inavailability of housing.
Anyone feeling victorious about the mentally ill being targeted early in the administration is missing the forest for the trees. Woke stuff is a symptom, and will re-appear with full force the next time the Dems “win” the Presidency. the root causes of these mental illnesses persist exacerbated by the inability of American society to reflect.
When you’re “exceptional” humility is absent.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 14:33 utc | 11

Posted by: Chris B Critter | Jan 21 2025 14:13 utc | 1
I second your condemnation!

Posted by: v | Jan 21 2025 14:33 utc | 12

Lets hope lots of pronouns go the way of dinosaurs…
@Posted by: notlurking | Jan 21 2025 14:19 utc | 3
Does this mean that I can no longer
self-identify as
a barfly?             🙂

Posted by: librul | Jan 21 2025 14:33 utc | 13

Feel leaving WHO and Paris accord were yesterday’s best decisions besides stopping gender nonsense

Posted by: Michael J | Jan 21 2025 14:33 utc | 14

“We shouldn’t be messing with the minds of kids and placing women in untenable situations”
“evil white men are evil!”
*angry screeching noises
Ok bro, not really relevant but nice bigotry I guess

Posted by: Ezzie | Jan 21 2025 14:35 utc | 15

WHO was central to implementation of ‘the pandemic’, it has lost its credibility already so no surprise at withdrawal from.
Paris Agreement seems globalist corrupt socialisation hysteria based. Europe has energy precarity and so it suits it, US doesn’t so much so has no reason to commit to being managed.
“Israel” policy is mostly spoken so far. I think he will go for pragmatic solutions, of which there are unfortunately few or none acceptable, and many to dislike. At least he seems to be taking some distance, he has to avoid being dragged in.
For the rest, there is a lot of sense to the directions chosen (whether liked or not) . Should leave Greenland alone, and for Panama few probably care whatever, but it would be very symbolic in terms of US presence in the region.
At least it is possible to reason with Trumps views, completely switched off to the US after last election…from ‘pandemic’ in fact. Trump got mired early on there. Previous ‘leaderships’ were terrible also.

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 21 2025 14:37 utc | 16

With his explosive start he has put Australia,Canada,UK,EU etc in a fix. What do they do. Their people now awakening

Posted by: Michael J | Jan 21 2025 14:43 utc | 17

Actually, I think the executive order leaving the World Health Organization is one of the most positive and could end up being very important.
Th US is now outside the scope of any attempts to declare another world plandemic, or more enforced lockdowns or mandatory vaccines. That is huge.

Posted by: CharlieO | Jan 21 2025 14:43 utc | 18

Ornot@16…..how anyone outside the Genodeciders could see the WHO as a force for good when the totalitarian bastards continue to kill thousands, perhaps millions with untested pseudo vaccines……we are in the twilight zone.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 21 2025 14:44 utc | 19

let’s go TRUMP!!!!! I want as many good policies as possible to take the stink away from all bad policies on Israel, Iran, and Venezuela that are sure to follow

Posted by: Kadath | Jan 21 2025 14:45 utc | 20

The WHO is funded in large parts through ‘donations’ from wealthy countries or companies. This leads to a strategic mindset in the WHO that aligns with the interests of a handful of global players.

Since the 1970s, voluntary contributions have become an increasingly important component of WHO’s budget. As voluntary contributions tend to be earmarked for donor-specified programmes and projects, there are concerns that this trend has diverted focus away from WHO’s strategic priorities, made coordination and attaining coherence more difficult, undermined WHO’s democratic structures and given undue power to a handful of wealthy donors. In the past few years, the WHO Secretariat has pushed for donors to increase the amount of flexible funding they provide.

Bill Gates, the half crazed pharmalogical absolutist, makes up over 10% alone, so he gets to say where the money goes. And that has led to an ideology of ‘health through pharmaceutical products’. Wherever the WHO goes, it preaches the gospel of pharma. Health is a result of the consumption of chemical products in the view of the WHO. Take this pill, take this shot, this is health! This ideology is spread by the WHO to people who used to have healthy traditions. There is no money to be made in telling people to live healthy, eat healthy. So WHO has no program for actual health. It is a frontend of pharma and nothing else.
Also the budget is tiny compared to the budgets of big pharma. At annually about 500 million $, it is almost insignificant compared to any of the large corporations.
Leaving the WHO is what every responsible head of state would do.

Posted by: Hamburger | Jan 21 2025 14:45 utc | 21

WHO and Paris are for commoners, they were since the inception of both. America is exceptional.
Private entities such as GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance will force their will on other states nevertheless. States will be forced to build up novel financial system based not on petrodollar, but on use of energy, offsets and carbon credits.
Ending deviant policies was an easy thing to do, these being like stretching a rubberband before unleashing the society off to the right-wing “comfort” and self-congratulation.

Posted by: js | Jan 21 2025 14:45 utc | 22

realitycheck @ 4
I know two women with AIS. The most common way that anything “intersex” manifests itself. Neither of them wants anything to do with wokery and both identify as women plain and simple. Both believe in two genders, with footnotes of interest to very few.

Posted by: oldhippie | Jan 21 2025 14:46 utc | 23

What’s up with all the butthurt barflys ?
Anyway,
If and when trump does something you wanted to have happen, stop voicing your support.
Always demand more.
Never be satisfied.
Never openly express your satisfaction to these “leaders”.

Posted by: ryanggg | Jan 21 2025 14:47 utc | 24

I’ve never been able to even conceptualize what it’s like to feel as a gender, let alone experience it. Wouldn’t one need to know internally what it’s like being one’s own opposite gender as part of that dynamic, or else what is one contrasting against and comparing oneself to? External non-experiences of others?

Posted by: Skiffer | Jan 21 2025 14:48 utc | 25

What we can say is that it is war and trump knows it this time.
Biden regency tries to trump proof as much and as many as he they could.
Trump opens with a strong salvo to neuter those that would neuter him.

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 21 2025 14:53 utc | 26

Looking at this post and commentary, craziness certainly persists and was not confined to gender politics.

Posted by: a stone | Jan 21 2025 14:54 utc | 27

The democratic party behavior has been the very essence of fascism – the definition of which can be a bit amorphous, but one would only need the study the recent behavior of the democratic party to get a fair grasp of what it is about – identifying people or groups as inherently bad, justifying violence, turning the language upside down so that there can be no productive discussion, destroying an moral markers.
I would have described myself as a moderate leaning toward liberal, but in such a sh*t-storm of nihilism, I take refuge in social guidelines of the past – have no interest in recent movies or literature or music or media. Everybody is lying about everything all the time and we can no longer trust our eyes or even family (who are often under the influence of this crap).
It is counter-intuitive that the democratic party which was quite the opposite of this should become this – to my mind it shows the signs of outside influence (is by design). My gut is that this somehow derives from Britain (the Perfidious Albion thing) they seem very practice in this kind of distortion of reality – not to mention immorality. I dont think it is the people so much, but rather force has embedded itself in their society – this force has gone global – not sure for whose benefit, I would think that there are some in position to know.

Posted by: jared | Jan 21 2025 14:54 utc | 28

Am I the only one who sees a paradox with operating biolabs while leaving the WHO?
It’s important to remember that Trump created vaccines (which are now we’ll understood to be dangerous) at warp speed.
It’s not about Trump the man, it’s that the entire American system is dangerous to humanity at large. The Russians and Chinese know this.
The woke stuff is just red meat for the base. Trump has always been a good friend to sodomites and I have no doubt will remain so.
As always “fans” will ignore the contradictions because this is about emotions, not reason.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 14:55 utc | 29

“well understood”
The links between COVID vaccines and cancer are clear.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 14:56 utc | 30

I find it very reassuring that so many commentators here share my view on the WHO. The organization itself is insignificant but the ideology it represents is detrimental to the wellbeing of every human on this planet. It gives me hope that many people have a similar opinion.
Scientism, the unquestioning believe in the currently perceived consensus of paradigms, holds a firm grip on the mind of people in the illusion of education. They belive themselves to be enlightend ans reasonable, but they neither actually understand science nor the limits thereof.

Posted by: Hamburger | Jan 21 2025 15:03 utc | 31

Am I the only one who sees a paradox with operating biolabs while leaving the WHO?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 14:55 utc | 29.
The only influence the WHO had on the biolabs was to prevent access to preventives & treatments proven effective & force lockdowns & incarceration known to destroy economies, societies, health & well-being.

Posted by: Mary | Jan 21 2025 15:12 utc | 32

The Zionist pigs invade the West Bank: https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/14709

Posted by: Apollyon | Jan 21 2025 15:12 utc | 33

Posted by: Philip Ebersole | Jan 21 2025 14:29 utc | 8
whitehouse.gov /
Yesterday was a federal holiday. Today the navigation menu is … developing. At the moment, the NEWS menu is organized thus:

Posted by: sln2002 | Jan 21 2025 15:14 utc | 34

Couldn’t help ROFLMAO when Trump told his audience that he was SAVED from assassination by God to Make AmeriKKKa Great Again.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 21 2025 15:15 utc | 35

Picking kernels of corn out of giant shytte.

Posted by: azeclecticdog | Jan 21 2025 15:16 utc | 36

It remains to be seen who gets waivers to the 90 day embargo on foreign aid.
I suspect that will tell us all we need to know about foreign policy…

Posted by: Mary | Jan 21 2025 15:16 utc | 37

At least eight Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli army raid on Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, according to health officials.
Israeli settlers have carried out out attacks and acts of aggression across the occupied West Bank, while dozens of Palestinians have been arrested in military raids.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/21/live-israeli-forces-raid-west-bank-as-ceasefire-sees-aid-trucks-reach-gaza

Trump is Natanjahu’s bitch.

Posted by: Apollyon | Jan 21 2025 15:17 utc | 38

@19 sean the leprechaun
That is one side to it, the other is that they have reshaped the direction of the lives of billions of people into a kind of blurred fudge, pinned down at the same time as supported by a kind of make believe. Many many people have not managed to reconcile with that, let alone find their way out of its maze, and many possibly never will. We are simply expendables in that picture.
This is a true story.
I was living near a town called Torture, in an area called The Place of Wailing. The local story attached to the town name is that during a procession the local vicar cut off the head of the statue of Jesus when the statue would not fit under the branch of a tree.
Well, this was just as the ‘pandemic’ was starting up, the mood was slightly unusual as most will remember. I had already had a premonition related to that, a premonition or I had foreseen someone’s ideas somehow; several weeks before the first news, when members of my family were telling me where they were travelling the following summer, I replied bluntly without thinking that ‘no-one was going anywhere’. It is only twice I have spoken like that, and both times the result was silent embarrassment.
I would sit overlooking a nearby road at night, with a cup of tea. It was busy all day but at night was empty. Every night one car would drive by though, a black mercedes with sun stripped paint, driving at maybe 40 mph like a rock stuck to the road. I always wondered who would be driving that way, what they were about. Then one night, I realised I hadn’t seen it drive by for a while and started to miss it.
Sometimes I would read local news, maybe every few weeks I would catch up for half an hour. This time, there was a story of a local happening. A policeman’s daughter and a female nurse had seduced a local guitar player, tied him up, and killed him. They had then cut off his head and thrown it in a river in one direction, and had taken his body and thrown it in a river in another direction, all according to something they had seen in a US crime drama series. They kept a finger of his to work his bank account. The whole country was outraged and disgusted, they were caught.
At the bottom of the article was a picture of the mercedes.
The finale to it all was both being released with minimal punishment, and the nurse suing her workplace for not giving her her job back.
Often reality is stranger than fiction, with the world around having its own way of speaking to us.
b gets a ‘polemicist’ pass from me though, because his site is open to counterviews.

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 21 2025 15:20 utc | 39

The WHO is a dangerous and highly corrupt organization controlled by Bill Gates, which is trying to usurp our sovereignty…It also pushed the deadly mRNA “vaccines” which have killed or crippled millions of Americans and was known, as seen in Pfizer’s secret research papers, to actually increase your chances of getting covid…
The Paris Protocol is just plain stupid, given that the Earth remains much cooler than it was in the fairly recent past, but has been highly profitable for those pushing useless and harmful infrastructure like windmills….

Posted by: pyrrhus | Jan 21 2025 15:21 utc | 40

Lindsey Graham may seem the obvious choice for Trump to appoint as the Transfinder General but personally I’d like to see Ted Cruz as the head of the Department of the Undergarment Interior.

Posted by: stopmakingsense | Jan 21 2025 15:24 utc | 41

Wake up MOA comenters is ther anybody in there.
https://musify.club/release/pink-floyd-comfortably-numb-1981-1017842
And then they came for you.
Mood

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 21 2025 15:28 utc | 42

Racketeer In Chief

We gotta take Greenland , its imperative for our ‘National Security

Some redneck once bragged in the Freerepublic

Malacca Straits is where we get the chicom by their balls

Fuck US ‘NATional security’
Greenland is just another chockpoint ‘to get the chicom by their ball’
https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/why-chinas-ice-silk-road-has-trump-up-in-arctic-arms/

Posted by: denk | Jan 21 2025 15:32 utc | 43

Thumbs up for getting out of WHO and the Paris Agreements. Both are worthless, globalist, and evil. They do nothing for the good of mankind. Both stand for the privileged wealthy class of the world. They are not for Common Man and only seek his enslavement and servitude
Now Trump needs to bulldoze the UN building, and smash NATO with a hammer.
The world would be a much better place.

Posted by: golddigger | Jan 21 2025 15:32 utc | 44

I have much respect for Bernard, and yet like many others in this thread, I’m greatly disappointed by his ignorance regarding both the WHO and the Paris so called ‘climate’ accords.
I genuinely believe that if Bernard were to seriously study either or both, that his misguided support would evolve into a recognition of how profoundly corrupt and fundamentally anti-humanity both constructs are.

Posted by: Robert Hope | Jan 21 2025 15:36 utc | 45

Posted by: Philip Ebersole | Jan 21 2025 14:29 utc | 8
whitehouse.gov /
Yesterday was a federal holiday. Today the navigation menu is … developing. At the moment, the NEWS menu categories are organized thus: Presidential Actions | Remarks | Briefings & Statements | Articles.
Each “Presidential Action” item therein is labeled “Executive Order“. That is, the Trump admin makes no distinction, whereas the publicized counts do. One explanation for this discrepancy is, journalists counted all sections within each EO as “presidential actions”.
The Office of The Federal Register has not yet enumerated and published the EOs, signed by DJT yesterday, 20 Jan, in Executive Orders Disposition Tables.

Posted by: sln2002 | Jan 21 2025 15:36 utc | 46

The refusal to subscribe to absurdity is not bigotry.
But speaking to the other issue it would be a mistake to trust WHO until several issues concerning influence from oligarchs is subject to reform. The WHO is captured by donors and presents a danger to the sovereignty of member states.

Posted by: Copeland | Jan 21 2025 15:36 utc | 47

Less than 1 1/2 hours left for Trump’s pledge on ending the war in country 404, no later than 24 hours after his inauguration.
Massive failure on his part and ain’t looking good, my friend.

Posted by: pepe | Jan 21 2025 15:37 utc | 48

Trump’s order for the US to leave the WHO endangers not only the US but all of humanity!

Posted by: Bill Gates | Jan 21 2025 15:38 utc | 49

(Unfortunately I have yet to find a complete list of those EOs. Why haven’t even the agencies, AP, AFP or Reuters, compiled one?)
Here is the complete list of Eos : https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/

Posted by: MOSHI | Jan 21 2025 15:45 utc | 50

Thanks Bill G.! Please keep developing those bioweapons so we can rid ourselves of these great unwashed masses, they are such a burden and not just the the “white man”!
Also great job help push all those coercive measure and getting all those essential and exploratory injectables into billions of arms. Who cares if most of the official narrative has been proven a lie. We can rest assured that even more will be coming down the pike. Speaking of pikes, what are all those peasants doing?

Posted by: Chevrus | Jan 21 2025 15:48 utc | 51

Even a clock is right twice a day – Trump like many US presidents will do more harm than good – now if Trump halted the genocide, or ended the war on Russia – and undone sanctions on the likes of Cuba – Iran etc – that might be something – but any nominal good he does domestically – will be countered a million times over in his international stance.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 21 2025 15:48 utc | 52

Musk the crypto does hitler hand signs to Trump the crypto at the inauguration. And everyone (including most here) think it’s a funny joke, because hey, Musk and Trump are “our guys”. Typical problem-reaction-solution operation: make the democrats into clowns and suddenly, as long as the shitty actors the democrats are just replaced by “our guys” (even though it’s two wings of the same monoparty), everything they did – pandemics, biolabs, gaza genocide, war, the scrubbing of the internet, digi-id’s, digital currency – will be okay. Because hey, now it’s our guys, the good guys doing those things. How do you get technocracy and round the clock surveillance installed without any resistance? Make everyone love Musk and then do it.
A researcher in Germany was once asked by students, “how was it possible that the nazis even got into power?” He answered, “because people were the same as you are.”
How was it possible that the nazis got into power this time? Because of all of you who chuckle at Musk and Trump just because they ran a few embarrassingly bad, to the point of surrealism, bad, psyops (such as the Trump “assassination”, Musk copy-pasting counterculture memes on Twitter, and the grade school theatre of the democrats intentionally pulling up only lunatic candidates that no one would ever choose in reality, if the goal was winning).
If that’s you, don’t come crying when the nazis run their next operations on you.
Another Trump problem-reaction-solution operation that’s a home run for the elite:
– Problem: the carbon emission discussion
– Reaction: everyone bawling that they want to keep their cars (preferably big and as many as possible) and eat meat (preferably only meat and nothing else, and make it really bleed so that the vegans feel it)
– Solution: Trump ending all climate agreements, ending the entire discussion on pollution and giving the corporations unlimited license to rape and pollute the planet with heavy metals, pesticides, strip mining, clear cutting and GMO. But hey, that’ll teach the hippies and vegans!

Posted by: Jack M | Jan 21 2025 15:52 utc | 53

He got nothing right.
Not the freeing of violent right-wing thugs, not the transgender stuff based on deliberately created scaremongering and lies.
While B is less of a fanboy then he was at the beginning of the Orange 1 presidency he still holds a lot of dubious and reprehensible views.
I guess it’s genetic, he is a German after all.

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Jan 21 2025 15:52 utc | 54

Revoking the security clearances of the 51 intelligence analysts that signed the Russian Dossier memo, eliminating federal funding of the censorship complex, pardoning the 1500 Jan 6 protesters and merit based hiring also deserve to be applauded.
I look forward to living in a world based on reality again, not the ideological concoctions of extremists with dubious intentions and unknown origins. It’s too bad the Zionists delusions are still a sacred cow.

Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 15:55 utc | 55

Ralph Connor Abolishes The First Tranche Of FUD. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
He put Cuba back onto the terrorist supporter list. That should inform people about his real agenda a lot more than the populist dog whistle BS people prefer to talk about.
Posted by: Ralph Conner | Jan 21 2025 14:30 utc | 9

Posted by: Ben Trovata | Jan 21 2025 15:59 utc | 56

With the Orange One rolling back the nonsense of Gender Diversity – to the normal two-sexes, on wonders what the USA’s minion states will do? – will they comply with the Yankee presidents changes – or will they defy him – I think they’ll comply, and the gender BS will have had its day – leaving god knows how many people – who’ve chopped of healthy normal parts of their bodies – in a state of panic – which will be quickly followed by horror – when they realise what they’ve done to themselves.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 21 2025 15:59 utc | 57

thanks b and @ Philip Ebersole | Jan 21 2025 14:29 utc | 8 for the list..
@ Ralph Conner | Jan 21 2025 14:30 utc | 9
i suspect nothing will change when it comes to usa foreign policy, which we aren’t supposed to look at here…. this is another distraction, in a long list of distractions… i think he got some things right, but many other things wrong.. time will tell..

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 16:00 utc | 58

Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 15:55 utc | 58
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American politics is best understood as a perpetual war between opposing extremist ideologies.
Banking vs Tech. East coast vs West coast. Red vs. Blue.
China doesn’t have these problems. Their civilization isn’t divided. It is amazing to see what people are capable of when they work together.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 21 2025 16:00 utc | 59

Trump Warns He’ll Drop Economic Hammer on Canada Next Week
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-day-1-analysis-1.7436812
“Sitting behind his Oval Office desk again, Trump warns of 25 per cent tariff.”
‘Fuhrer’ Trump Declares War on the World and the Working Class
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/21/hpol-j21.html
“Trump reiterated his plans for American expansion…and a further massive expansion of the US military machine.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 21 2025 16:03 utc | 60

Trump has done nothing to end the gender craze. Both sides approaches fail to fix the obvious issues. My daughter just graduated highschool finishing second in wrestling. The state of Texas has declared girls must compete against girls, simple enough. However, a born girl, transitioning is essentially a girl on anabolic steroids competing against girls who aren’t. Well, that’s no fix either. Policy is complicated, and sadly there are few decent logicians here, or around generally; the top simple false dichotomies are no way to address complex policy, and fuck you to all you simpletons who fall for and push for that. B, you’re smarter than this, many of the rest of you aren’t, you’re fully bamboozled by the duopoly, and fall for the partisan trap.

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 21 2025 16:07 utc | 61

The Orange Yankee president – has renamed the Gulf of Mexico, to the Gulf of America – he’s also renamed Mount Denali, back to Mount McKinley.
The Yankee POTUS – is probably taking a leaf out of his Zionist buddies book who have or are planning to rename the West Bank – Judea and Samaria

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 21 2025 16:07 utc | 62

Some thoughts on Trump’s first day, and his executive orders.
1. To ‘Make America Great Again’ Trump is building a wall (physical, economic, geopolitical) around the U.S. to give it time and space to rebuild as an industrial economy. Thus the many executive orders isolating the U.S. from international organizations and commitments, as well as the symbolic renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.
2. But the Trump team also appears to understand that their actions must not get ahead of the ability of the U.S. to absorb the resulting changes and kill MAGA in its infancy. Thus rather than tariffs, a directive to examine how to redevelop U.S. trade relationships in order support the re-industrialization of the U.S.
3. The message to Canada is that you can either be inside the wall, as the 51st state, or you will be outside. As for Greenland and the Panama Canal, they ‘will’ be inside.
4. It is clear from his executive orders, his comments and who he invited to his inauguration that Trump regards the ‘Globalist Elites’ as a more dangerous enemy than either Russia or China.

Posted by: dh-mtl | Jan 21 2025 16:07 utc | 63

Republicofscotland | Jan 21 2025 15:48 utc | 55–
To be fair, it must be understood that many actions Trump might want to take are controlled by Congress.
As for Russia and Ukraine, I hope Trump was provided with the information I provided to the bar yesterday, which garnered scant commentary, so I have no idea how many actually informed themselves.
It’s clear that anti-Trump fleas will continue to haunt the bar and spout their usual doublethink.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 21 2025 16:07 utc | 64

Trump was not sworn in on a bible as opposed to 2017. Any reason? Most of his children, in laws, grandchildren are Jewish or have gone over. Is he crypto?

Posted by: Teraspol | Jan 21 2025 16:10 utc | 65

Zakharova made it clear today… regarding the reversing of trans and DEI policies.
She stated that officials in Washington have been forcing other countries “to show solidarity with what they called anti-scientific narratives,” which in essence was “the very propaganda that kills both the body and the soul.”
This “inhumane doctrine” was linked with aid, sanctions, and political and financial pressure, as well as the “humiliation of human dignity and bullying,” Zakharova claimed.
The US of A is a sick nation without a doubt.

Posted by: pepe | Jan 21 2025 16:13 utc | 66

well he didn’t abolish the private bank – federal reserve… i guess those globalist elites/ oligarchs are cool or something..

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 16:15 utc | 67

Putin told corporate rich guys if they worked for the state and the people they would not be prosecuted unfairly. Many left and went to Britain. So, Trump has done the same. To restore the state, and the people. It doesn’t come about just by waving a wand. In this way recovery is possible and popularity is assured, which latter reality actually is the real strength of any state. A popular president can accomplish much; Putin has shown the way.
The second part of the solution is to listen to what the people are telling you. I hope that President Trump does that. Time will tell.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 21 2025 16:17 utc | 68

As a transgender person I can speak to the “craze” whipped up around us. First point is that we’ve always been around. In some native and ancient societies, trans people were in fact accorded special status. In any event, and despite what you Bernard, or the President, or what any other bigot might say, we’re here to stay.
But why all the “craze” around transwomen but nothing is ever said about transmen (i.e. female to male)? The history behind this is basic: what men do – being in positions of power – counts more than what women do.
Let me explain in simple terms: in misogynistic societies (like the US) any man who willingly gives up his position of power in that society threatens the power position held by men, thus incurring the wrath of men in general. Poor men.
In the past, sumptuary laws were passed to punish or prevent men from dressing as women, laws which were (of course) routinely ignored by the rich and powerful. But as nobody really cared what women did, as they held little power, the reverse was not true.
So the question arises: where is all the concern about transmen using men’s bathrooms where they would be subject to assault and/or rape? Not an issue, yeah?
Lastly, as a transwoman – and in line with every woman I’ve ever asked – including my mother – I’ve been assaulted – while presenting as a woman – by a man. So the last thing I will ever do is use the men’s bathroom as at least I know I’ll be safe using the women’s bathroom. Besides, men’s bathrooms generally stink.

Posted by: Trisha | Jan 21 2025 16:17 utc | 69

@ james | Jan 21 2025 16:15 utc | 70
The Federal Reserve was created by an act of Congress and therefore can’t be abolished by executive order.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 21 2025 16:19 utc | 70

Posted by: Trisha | Jan 21 2025 16:17 utc | 72
Blah, blah, blah.
Don’t let the door hit you in the way out.

Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 16:21 utc | 71

Posted by: Chris B Critter | Jan 21 2025 14:13 utc | 1
Another white man who doesn’t see any reason for anyone other than white men to be included in anything or even be allowed out in public since they may not have a place to be. Your disgusting bigotry is an embarrassment Bernard
Posted by: Ralph Conner | Jan 21 2025 14:30 utc | 9
He put Cuba back onto the terrorist supporter list. That should inform people about his real agenda a lot more than the populist dog whistle BS people prefer to talk about.
People should also be informed from the fact that the kind of person who would support attacking DEI attempts to correct historic injustices from discrimination as well as attacking the transgender issue in disregard to scientific research is the same kind of person who would hold Cuba in terrorist list and align with Zionist hardliners. All those stances are the wrong side of history.

Posted by: 1969LimaPeru | Jan 21 2025 16:24 utc | 72

Ignorance is Strenght
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Men are women

Doublethink is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in one’s mind simultaneously.
The Party develops this ability in its citizens by undermining their individuality, independence, and autonomy and by creating an environment of constant fear through propaganda. In this way, the Party breaks down their ability to think rationally and makes citizens accept and believe anything they tell them, even if it is entirely illogical.

https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Meaning-of-War-is-Peace-Freedom-is-Slavery-and-Ignorance-is-Strength-in-Orwells-1984

Posted by: Leuk | Jan 21 2025 16:25 utc | 73

Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 21 2025 16:21 utc | 74
Blah, blah, blah.
Don’t let the door hit you in the way out.

This website used to have a reputation for progressivism and left leaning activism.

Posted by: 1969LimaPeru | Jan 21 2025 16:25 utc | 74

@ malenkov | Jan 21 2025 16:19 utc | 73
yes.. well as i was saying earlier – what isn’t discussed is usually much more interesting and informative, then what is discussed..

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 16:26 utc | 75

The WEF meetings began in Davos yesterday – it probably went under the radar due to the Yankee presidents inauguration – English footballer David Beckham received an award from the WEF either today or yesterday – is Beckham part of the Deep State Faction? – the Great Reset is well underway.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 21 2025 16:26 utc | 76

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 21 2025 16:19 utc | 73
The Federal Reserve is unconstitutional — illegal in other words. In fact, the government does not have any authority not specifically listed as one of the Enumerated Powers of Congress. Similarly income tax on wages is by definition illegal.

Posted by: pepe | Jan 21 2025 16:27 utc | 77

@ pepe | Jan 21 2025 16:27 utc | 80
That may be so (and I’m inclined to agree) but unconstitutionality is a matter decided by the courts. For a president to abolish an agency established by Congress and approved by the signature of a previous president is rightly unheard of, as the potential for abuse would be limitless.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 21 2025 16:33 utc | 78

Fact: There are four sexes – male, female, both (intersex) and none […] Everyone falls somewhere along that spectrum and attempts to deny that is an attempt to deny nature
Posted by: realitycheck | Jan 21 2025 14:20 utc | 4

This statement is both convoluted and wrong. As a knowledgeable barfly once explained, the biology is clear when looking at the gametes, of which there are two types: smalll and mobile, or large and immobile. All known deviances regarding the chromosomes do not produce intersex individuals in this regard, but are distinct disorders of either one of these types.

Posted by: persiflo | Jan 21 2025 16:34 utc | 79

Has trump named america, israel yet ?
You folk would’nt even notice or care.
Prioratise ? On this thread stink.
The facists have taken over. Trumps picked up where hitler left off. Not from the begining.
Biden, trump and the american public are facist cunts. Banderight knuckle heads.
America will burn in cival war.
Pass the pop corn.

Posted by: Mark2 | Jan 21 2025 16:34 utc | 80

Love Donboss. There is no rift between tech and finance, they’re both “cap-lite”. Low taxes favor cap-lite production, progressive income taxes favor capital intensive production. American business doesn’t understand this, we’ve been propagandized by finance and our business schools drowned in financier/cap-lite policies. The MBAs don’t understand this at all. I debated the Harvard, Wharton, Kellogg, Standard, SMU MBAs, they have no clue at all.
You’ll notice no low tax supporters will even discuss, they can’t even define “capital” (a depreciable asset) or know what that means. Yet they say they’re “capitalists”. They don’t know what that even means

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 21 2025 16:35 utc | 81

Cato the Uncensored@1418 Jan 21
Generally agree with you, particularly regarding the nefarious World “Hell” Organization. Biggest donor and thereby equivalent in corporate terms to a shareholder, happens to be the utterly evil Bill Gates. As for the Paris Accords, my limited take is that this system is rather skewed.
In American school grading concepts I would give b a D+ or C- on his statement.
However, there is a significant forgiveness factor involved here. It is more than obvious that our “sponsor” delves deeply into geopolitical affairs to the point where he simply would not have the time to rigorously explore the nefarious realities of those two institutions. Eventually, he may have the time and energy to research and assess more closely that pairing. Thenceforth, I would likely be delighted to possibly raise his grading.
All that said, my hearty appreciation and gratitude for b’s diligent work along with significant courage in maintaining this rare gem of a geopolitical forum.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 16:37 utc | 82

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 16:15 utc | 70
James, I don’t think that the oligarchs who run the Fed are in the same camp as the ‘Globalist Elites’. I think rather that they are America First oligarchs, i.e. in Trump’s camp. Trump is not anti-oligarch, rather he is anti-Globalist.
Indeed, Tom Luongo has for some time maintained the premise that the Fed’s ‘Secured Overnight Financing Rate’ (SOFR) was created specifically to repatriate control of monetary policy back to the U.S. from Europe (with LIBOR). As well, the policies of Janet Yellen, a Globalist, at Treasury seem have been at often at odds with the Fed.

Posted by: dh-mtl | Jan 21 2025 16:37 utc | 83

dhmtl. My previous post is directed at you. Tariffs and low income taxes encourages off shoring of production and decapitalization of the economy. It encourages financial manipulation and games over real production. You’ve been bamboozled by Wall St gamblers

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 21 2025 16:38 utc | 84

Racketeer In Chief

William McKinley to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs. President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent.

NO mention about the almighty ‘gawd’ ?
Lets give credit where its due !

Spain, seeing the futility of trying to stop the U.S. militarily, sold all its possessions to the United States for $20 million. This also included the Philippines, with Pres. William McKinley clothing the theft in the following words: “…there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all (all of Spain’s possessions) and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God’s grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow men for whom Christ also died.”

https://countercurrents.org/us-cox240107.htm

Posted by: denk | Jan 21 2025 16:39 utc | 85

I have yet to find a complete list of those EOs. Why haven’t even the agencies, AP, AFP or Reuters, compiled one?

That would require basic Journalism skills, which are totally lacking in the media today.

Posted by: The Owl | Jan 21 2025 16:39 utc | 86

Others I do like. Trump pardoned participants of the Jan 6 (2021) ‘riots’ which had never amounted to much more than a hustle.
He rescinded many of EOs the Biden administration had issued around its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. Attempts of social engineering against merit deserve to fail.

Putting scare quotes around a simple fact is an appalling symptom of stupidity, dishonesty or an ugly combination of both. Sorry. The real problem is the way the politicians (most Republicans) and military officers involved in holding back reinforcements, allowing the attacks to proceed. That is why the indisputable (no matter what our host insinuates) riot really was a coup attempt. An essential role of the select committee was to cover up the role of the party and military. In that sense, Trump owes Liz Cheney a lot. Trying to pin it all on Trump the way the committee did was something like re-writing Hamlet to leave out Gertrude, Claudius, Polonius, Ophelia and even Laertes. Perhaps Yorick too? There’s not story. Of course the select committee scenario didn’t have much impact.
The observation that the status quo is a meritocracy is the kind of right-wing lunacy that is either blindly accepted, or not. It has never been clear that DEI was ever much more than a PR stunt. The only possible exception is the military, which seems to me to have taken DEI (starting with desegregation way back in the 1940s!) much more seriously. But the reason is that the military actually has serious pretensions to be a true meritocracy. DEI is about becoming a career open to the talents, an indispensable part of the real thing. Claiming the opposite is again an unseemly mix of ignorance, bigotry and hypocrisy. You cannot condemn the lower orders to permanent inferiority under the cloak of defending meritocracy. Murmuring about so-called social engineering add zero merit to this pretended meritocratic case! Insofar as MoA is an attempt to social engineer a reactionary world view, it deserves to fail.
It would be kinder not to analyze the subsequent hysteria. Personally, I await the EO requiring women to wear dresses and skirt, forbidding male attire as pants or suit and tie. I am confused as to whether women should be allowed to wear vests, or maybe it should be banned for men? The important thing is, the “immutable” biological realities of sex must be protected! Next step is keeping women safe at home…without main-in balloting! (Official notice, this is irony.)

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 21 2025 16:40 utc | 87

As the Salon article articulate, the war on “woke” is a war on workers. It’s a method for the capitalist tech billionaire class to beat back wages and salaries but not inflation.

Posted by: Troy | Jan 21 2025 16:41 utc | 88

@ dh-mtl | Jan 21 2025 16:37 utc | 86
thanks.. that is interesting and much more nuanced then i thought.. and – i don’t know if what you or tom luongo say is true or not, which is no reflection on either of you… i do think these private banks, beginning with the federal reserve in the usa, are a large part of our problem in the world today.. but i am sorry i can’t be more specific..

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 16:42 utc | 89

and i think i agree with @ Scottindallas | Jan 21 2025 16:38 utc | 87 too fwiw..

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 16:44 utc | 90

“Lets hope lots of pronouns go the way of dinosaurs…
@Posted by: notlurking | Jan 21 2025 14:19 utc | 3
Does this mean that I can no longer
self-identify as
a barfly?             :-)”
Posted by: librul | Jan 21 2025 14:33 utc | 13
No need for concern, a barfly is technically a noun. I’m really worried, now everybody is going to have to stop calling me lord.
Where I Trump I’d be quite concerned about the Democrats and cartels hooking up.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Jan 21 2025 16:46 utc | 91

Anti-trump barflies spouting doublespeak – out of curiosity, where exactly lies the doublespeak?
Ending deviant policies that hurt humanity to the core is to be credited – except these policies were from the beginning deliberately designed to do exactly what is now going to happen. Which is that society’s centre of gravity is moving to clearly fascist grounds, unabashedly, mob-style.

Big Serge on X: Melania looks like she’s about to say “rattle ‘em, boys” while a squad of goons in trench coats spray down a room with Tommy Guns

So, where’s doublespeak here?

Posted by: js | Jan 21 2025 16:46 utc | 92

Ornot@1337 Jan 21
Your takes are generally quite on target…particularly Trump’s pragmatic and basically sensible stands, along with some level of willingness to consider giving long looks at numerous riddles and puzzles of governance.
Where Trump falls off the wagon are his silly “Gulf of America” redirection of geographical realism. Had he rather made reference to the “Gulf of the Americas”, such a variation would have been inclusive rather than exclusive. Perhaps he spends so much time with Talmudists that he has fallen into the “Chosen” ideology for this ruptured republic and its history of exceptionalism.
The other inanity was his restoration of Mount McKinley, favoring that president’s fall into imperialistic and colonialist trends. Mount Denali is the proper designation for that majestic peak. That original native derivation will return to the mapping once Trump’s administration becomes history.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 21 2025 16:50 utc | 93

One really must wonder though, when lefties and liberals are already losing their sh1t over the new ‘Hitlers’ in charge, would Musk deliberately celebrate the inauguration with a Nazi salute even the clumsiest and naive simpleton knows would be stealing all the headlines, let alone when performed by an avowed Trump and AfD supporter?
Why did Musk choose to do that salute?
AFAI can see, it has only helped reset and erase the feeble liberal minds on who was actually presiding over all the abominations we witnessed in the past 4 years and is responsible for today’s increased number of world problems, and turbo charged the next 4 years of Trump Derangement Syndrome into a new Trump and Musk Derangement Syndrome.

Posted by: Rubiconned | Jan 21 2025 16:50 utc | 94

” So the last thing I will ever do is use the men’s bathroom as at least I know I’ll be safe using the women’s bathroom. Besides, men’s bathrooms generally stink.”
Posted by: Trisha | Jan 21 2025 16:17 utc | 72
Hi Tricia nice to see you back again. In your last paragraph you address the concerns of the majority of people. Biological males are three times stronger than females and as a rule more aggressive. And they smell funny.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Jan 21 2025 16:52 utc | 95

isn’t elon musk an oligarch?? he bought his way onto trumps 2nd admin – paid 200 million to get on it… how is that supposed to be some sort of great change to maga?? this set up doesn’t look good from an optics point of view.. is peter theil going to maga?? lol..

Posted by: james | Jan 21 2025 16:52 utc | 96

Whether Trump does things differently to his predecessor is really irrelevant. Looking hopefully at what he may or may not do means you have been successfully diverted into identity politics.
It is ALL corrupt and fascistic. Trump has no real power, anymore that any of his predecessors had. They are all products of the same ruling elite. There are many ‘establishments’ and they may hate each other but what they don’t do is shit on their own patch. To concentrate on individuals means you are not seeing the world through the analysis of class struggle. The 1% want it all. The Rest of us have to say No and be ready to fight.

Posted by: Vragtes | Jan 21 2025 16:54 utc | 97

When I commented back in #2 above, I meant that WHOis literally run by a genocidal tyrant… Mr. Ted rose US implicated in genocide and other crimes against humanity in Ethiopia. The USA should get the hell out of the UN as well, but the UN is unfortunately too valuable to US dreams of further hegemony.
I’m surptrised Mr. Trump’s trained monkeys did think of a more palatable renaming of the GoM to the Gilf of the Americas. Who could complain about that, other than (((La Presidenta))).
And for those bitching that Mr.Trump won’t be ending the SMO in 24 hours, even God himself took seven days to create Heaven & Earth.

Posted by: Cato the Uncensored | Jan 21 2025 16:56 utc | 98

Besides, men’s bathrooms generally stink.”
Posted by: Trisha | Jan 21 2025 16:17 utc | 72
______
Maybe “aiming” is for sissies. After all, there seems to be no shortage of guys who “express themselves” by pissing all over toilet seats.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 21 2025 16:57 utc | 99

Js, cause it fixes nothing. Good policy is more nuanced and would require hormone testing and a complex solution. I’m in TX. Women, even transitioning have to compete against women. It, those transitioning are effectively on anabolic steroids (under doctor’s orders) and are forced to compete against normal girls. Simple solutions to complex problems are never the answer, and you and the public generally need to be smarter than to fall for such simpleton answers. But, alas, you’re not smarter than that, or you let your emotions blind you. It sure isn’t logical to fall for false dichotomies, but even here B fell for the fools answer

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 21 2025 16:57 utc | 100