Trump Changes His Mind

Plus: War Department, government ownership stake in Intel, National Guard members become cleaning crews, and more...

A president who changes his mind: "It's very insulting to say students can't come here," said President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House yesterday. "I like that their students come here. I like that other countries' students come here."

"And you know what would happen if they didn't?" asked Trump. "Our college system would go to hell very quickly." Full video below.

NOW - Trump says he's allowing 600,00 Chinese students into the U.S. because "it's very insulting to say students can't come here… I like that their students come here. I like that other country's students come here." pic.twitter.com/wzCshB7tQQ

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 26, 2025

It's a little hilarious for Trump to say it's insulting to deny students the ability to come here when that's exactly what he did a few months ago. Besides, it might be a little too late for this change of heart; visa applications for international students are predicted to be down by 30 percent to 40 percent this fall, down from the roughly one million international students in the country about a year ago (with almost 300,000 of those students coming from China) in part due to the tightened vetting mandated by this administration. Chinese students have been targeted in particular as national security threats. Either we're worried about espionage or we're not; it's just not clear where Trump actually stands on this one.

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has long warned that foreign adversaries and competitors take advantage of easy access to American higher education to, among other things, steal technical information and products, exploit expensive research and development to advance their own ambitions, and spread false information for political or other reasons. Our adversaries, including the People's Republic of China, try to take advantage of American higher education by exploiting the student visa program for improper purposes and by using visiting students to collect information at elite universities in the United States," he said via proclamation in June.

"In my judgment, it presents an unacceptable risk to our Nation's security for an academic institution to refuse to provide sufficient information, when asked, about known instances of misconduct and criminality committed by its foreign students," the proclamation continued. "This principle is one reason why…regulations require foreign students to obey Federal and State criminal laws and require universities to keep records about foreign students' studies in the United States—including records relating to criminal activity by foreign students and resulting disciplinary proceedings—and furnish them to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on request."

To strain a bit, it's possible that the underlying concerns have in fact been addressed: Trump made a lot of noise about how American universities welcoming foreign students should be seen as a privilege, not a right, and it's possible he just wanted acquiescence on that front and a shift in university administrators' attitudes and cooperation with DHS. Or it's possible he just changed his mind or was never that committed to the initial viewpoint. Depending on your perspective, Trump's ability to quickly change his mind is either a feature or a bug. But for proponents of brain drain, the decision to let 600,000 new Chinese students in is undoubtedly a good thing.

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Scenes from New York: 

Funny but unimportant: Zohran Mamdani is bad at lifting weights.

Actually important: Mamdani embarks on things without considering his own limits.

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) August 25, 2025

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QUICK HITS

• More on this from this week's Just Asking Questions:

Note: He's not arguing that inventions made with public funds should be in the public domain, so anyone can make or build on them. He's saying he wants the government to get a cut of their monopolies. https://t.co/vlMkYNK70r

— Jesse Walker (@notjessewalker) August 26, 2025

• "So, Intel has raised some money from the US government, in exchange for equity, and discovered that previous money sent to them by the government should have been reciprocated with equity all along," writes Byrne Hobart at The Diff. "It's actually an incredibly tempting approach to couple corporate subsidies with equity ownership. If the government is making a company better-off, it seems only fair to give the government a stake in the upside, perhaps at a valuation that still makes it an obviously good deal for the company. The problem is that the long-term incentive is for the company to arrange itself around needing constant infusions of capital. The more Intel raises this way, the more attractive further subsidies are, since they help bail out the previous investment. If the government is going to take an equity stake in a previously-private company, but not take it over completely, the only structure that aligns incentives correctly is for them to be straitjacketed into only making the investment one time, and committing to sell it down in the future."
• Women want one thing: To watch the financial collapse of Rent the Runway and take advantage of designer clearance sales whenever bankruptcy is declared. "Rent the Runway Inc. will hand over a controlling stake in the company as part of a plan to cut debt and grow, after residual effects of the Covid-19 pandemic pushed the firm to the brink of bankruptcy," reports Bloomberg. "The deal, with lender Aranda Principal Strategies and other partners, will wipe more than $240 million of debt from Rent the Runway's balance sheet, according to a statement. The company, which allows subscribers to rent clothing for the office and events, will have several more years to repay $120 million in remaining borrowings."
• Calling the Department of Defense the "War Department" (as the president intends to do) strikes me as a lot more honest. I appreciate bluntness and don't understand the hand-wringing.
• Food for thought from Katherine Dee: "The latest suite of 'think of the children' [age-verification and phone-banning] policies create the infrastructure for much broader censorship. The problem isn't the phone bans themselves—it's how they're being used as part of a larger authoritarian project that most people can't see coming."
• Cleaning up the city!

National Guard members activated for DC federal takeover seen picking-up trash https://t.co/jFGM8awBIr pic.twitter.com/nfBuEuyJgZ

— Allison Papson (@AllisonPapson) August 26, 2025

• Evil:

Something I learned from this chapter:

Qian Xinzhong, China's family planning chief, received the inaugural UN Population Award in 1983 for his work on the one child policy. https://t.co/idQLZMXnHx

— Santi Ruiz (@rSanti97) August 27, 2025

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

A president who changes his mind...

TACO WEDNESDAY

[Fist of Etiquette]

"And you know what would happen if they didn't?" asked Trump. "Our college system would go to hell very quickly."

Alright, who let Harvard talk to Trump?

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Did they pay their danegeld?

[Social Justice is neither]

Maybe they stayed at a Trump Plaza?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Surprised he didnt see the benefit here.

[Medulla Oblongata]

A lot of countries would be nice to have some of their students here paying full price for admission. But 600,000 students from China? 99% of them are on CCP orders. It's nothing more than espionage.

[Mother's Lament]

The whole thing seems odd. Is he trying to make a deal with China? I'll have to go read more, because Reason gets so much stuff wrong.

[Mother's Lament]

Update: As pointed out below, that's 600,000 over four years, which is 150,000 a year, which is definitely a downward trend as previously promised.

I always fall for this stuff, even though I should know better.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Babylon Bee:

Genius Trump Enacts Plan To Dumb Down Chinese Population By Inviting Them To Attend American Universities

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Lying Jeffy pitches a tent:

This 15-year-old girl was charge with bullying and misgendering for refusing to play against an 18-year-old biological male

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1960688772275658845

[Idaho-Bob]

Fucking evil.

Waiting for the usual suspects to defend this or blame it on Trump.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

It would be fun to take the Time Machine back to, say, 1970, and ask a bunch of militant feminists what they think.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

I mean they did start the no shaving movement. So they may support bearded ladies.

[Idaho-Bob]

Yep. It's bizarre how the current crop of feminists defend insane men and berate women like JK Rowlings.

[Mother's Lament]

Go back 20 years and tell someone that in the future JK Rowling, Glenn Greenwald and Russel Brand are called "far-right", and that some of the people regarded as leading "far-right" voices are a Harvard professor of psychology, and a b-list actor who is one of the biggest advocates for psychedelics.

And that none of them have changed their opinions one iota.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Rogan has actually changed his opinion on a few things, but none of them would have been considered far right either.

[Square = Circle]

Actual feminists are now called TERFs and aren't allowed to speak in public without receiving death and rape threats.

This is what we call "progress."

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Look at the current protests. See how many of them are Boomerlib white females who were part of that movement? That pretty much answers your question.

Maybe the ones who were in Betty Freidan's age group would be horrified by it, but these dumb Boomerlib females have lived by the politics of consensus, cultural marxism, and emotional appeal their entire adult lives.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

If you mean that the gray-haired AWFLs have adopted the latest progressive screed, then sure. But I want to get them on video about transgender kid sports during a break in a womyn's march in 1970.

[damikesc]

It's cute that you think feminists are capable of thought.

[rbike]

Their getting even in Minneapolis today it appears. So very sad.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Besides, it might be a little too late for this change of heart; visa applications for international students are predicted to be down by 30 percent to 40 percent this fall...

Will this be what finally bursts the higher education bubble?

[Social Justice is neither]

From the writing and hand wringing, this must be the final year of the universities.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But what will 100,000 humanities professors do?

[Ajsloss]

"Oh, the Humanities!" should've been your response.

[Social Justice is neither]

Put the fries in the bag?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

As long as they don't lecture me about oppression of the rainbow proletariat.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

“Ma’am, this is a Wendy’s. Just cook the damn burger.”

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

The max number of chinese students in a year is 400k.

Don't think Liz realizes it is 600k over 4 or 150k a year. So the numbers work with the decrease.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/372900/number-of-chinese-students-that-study-in-the-us/

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

See? The impending loss of kids from China has already degraded Reason math skills.

[Ajsloss]

Obligatory: https://youtu.be/ac0JMDam6tM?t=6

[Mother's Lament]

"Don't think Liz realizes it is 600k over 4 or 150k a year. So the numbers work with the decrease."

I knew there was something really fucky with the narrative when I read it but wasn't sure what.

Thanks, Jesse.

[Quicktown Brix]

Do you think your statistics are only showing first year students?

400K is the total students in a given year in your stats and 600K would be the total in a given year under Trumps' suggestion.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

National Guard members activated for DC federal takeover seen picking-up trash

SPB was in town.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'It's a little hilarious for Trump to say it's insulting to deny students the ability to come here when that's exactly what he did a few months ago.'

It's more than a little hilarious to take everything Trump says literally, especially after the past few years. And hilarious (or sad) not to recognize that Trump uses bluster and outrageous statements to manipulate opinions and policies.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Uhhh, bud? These are not just things he said. These are things he did. Can't get much more literal than actual actions.

[Social Justice is neither]

And we're universities providing the requested information or were they declaring themselves above the law? Your pretense that all Democrat captured institutions are perfect angels is annoyingly dishonest.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

It's the only way to justify the TDS.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Your pretense that I have any respect for Democrat-captured institutions is pure TDS.

[Social Justice is neither]

No, it comes from your continued defense of them in every situation but keep with the projection I guess.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Quote me. Show me the exact words you pretend I said.

You cannot. You are a liar.

[Mother's Lament]

Ahh fuck. Do we have to start saving another guys previous comments like we do with Sarcs?

[Stupid Government Tricks]

If he wants to back up his lies, he needs to, yes. His recollections are wrong. Since I cannot prove a negative, it's up to him to prove the positive.

[sarcasmic]

You criticized Trump. That equals praise for Democrats and for Democrat-captured institutions. Anything you say that criticizes Democrats or Democrat-captured institutions is a lie because you criticized Trump. Don't you get it? You're arguing with people who see the world as a dichotomy. You either worship Trump or you worship Democrats. That's it. They're like every other religion out there. You're with them or you worship the devil. That's it. That's how they see the world. You criticized Trump. You may as well have said Jesus was a donkey. That means you worship the devil, which to them is Democrats. It's a cult. You haven't figured that out yet? I thought you had a brain.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Everyone here has criticized trump for actual things, not Maddow fever dream bullshit.

Your 2nd sentence is hilarious as you spent all day yesterday defending the sanctity of the fed.

You get shit because you push dem narratives, defend the left. And have raging TDS. Even when proven youre pushing a Maddow lie you persist.

Challenge for you.

Go into dem criticism articles here and what are your comments about?

Youre a raging leftist hypocrite.

[sarcasmic]

If he says something stupid you're supposed to ignore it and look at what he does.

If he does something stupid you're supposed to ignore it and look at what he says.

If he says and does something stupid then you're supposed to go on the attack and shout "TDS! Leftist! Marxist!"

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Have you ever tried reading his EOs instead of relying on Maddow? Or actually reading his full comments?

[Mother's Lament]

Of course not. He never even reads his own links or half the comments he responds to. He's not going to start reading EOs out of the blue when he can just turn on MSDNC to tell him what he wants to hear instead.

[mad.casual]

Can't get much more literal than actual actions.

Actually you can, but Stupid is as stupid does.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Chinese students have been targeted in particular as national security threats.

Admit them to our trade schools instead. Maybe then they can go back and show the fellow China-men how not to collapse new construction.

[rbike]

So the Chinese will be indoctrinated by our colleges? I now see Trump's plan

[Stupid Government Tricks]

That's the predicted key, innit?

Either we're worried about espionage or we're not; it's just not clear where Trump actually stands on this one.

Same with tariffs: national security requires blocking imports with high tariffs to bring essential manufacturing back home, but revenue tariffs have to be low enough to allow imports, and tariffs can't provide negotiating leverage unless they can be lowered enough to allow imports.

IOW, Trump doesn't know what he wants.

The real problem is that Congress and the courts have given the Presidency way too much power, and now suddenly everyone who hates Trump is moaning about how he has too much power. forgetting how good it was that their guy had just enough power.

Fuck 'em all. TDS is an equal opportunity employer.

[Quicktown Brix]

The real problem is that Congress and the courts have given the Presidency way too much power,

Yes

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But not Obama, right?

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Perhaps you don't understand too well. "Presidency". Try reading it again.

Another TDS self-victim.

Perhaps you think national security is so important that NVIDIA and AMD should be forbidden from selling AI chips to China. Except once they pay an unconstitutional export tax to the government, then it's no longer national security.

Is that how cheap national security is now, or is that how cheap it was when Trump said it mattered?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Another TDS self-victim."

Your projection of your TDS is typical of every lying TDS-addled slimy pile of shit.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Hey, how's that new mayor working out?

[Quicktown Brix]

But not Obama, right?

Obama was awful for this, as was Bush and Biden.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has long warned that foreign adversaries and competitors take advantage of easy access to American higher education...

THEY'RE STEALING OUR COMMUNISM!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Nice.

[mad.casual]

They wouldn't have to steal it if we'd just pay their student loan debts for them.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Mamdani embarks on things without considering his own limits.

Capitalism will always ultimately bail out communism.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

There is a reason why the first step to communism is always to destroy capitalism, they need capitalism to seed fund their beliefs.

[Fist of Etiquette]

He's saying he wants the government to get a cut of their monopolies.

Send me my patent stimmy!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Howard Lutnick reveals he will now seek to have the United States federal government OWN a portion of the patents currently owned by universities as a result of new inventions.'

Well, since even public universities do this to their faculty and other researchers on the campus payroll, then Uncle Sam seems entitled to a cut.

[mad.casual]

The backwardsness of the whole thing continues to blow my mind.

Again, it's not like the Universities set up their own patent system among themselves and defended against abuse; or even, like deeds and titles, patents have been observed and traded by banks and protected by local police since before the Magna Carta. You're explicitly asking Lord Vader or Fat Tony to flummox or destroy your competitors even if your idea isn't that creative and/or they come up with the idea on their own because relying on your own skill to get the business up and running faster and better than your potential competitors is too risky.

[Fat Rush Limpcock (King of the Conservatives)]

Chinese students have been targeted in particular as national security threats.

BAN TIKTOK!

It is the conservative way.

#Limpcock-approved

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Your new handle fits well. That was the most flaccid, limp comment from you yet. You’re definitely suffering from erectile dysfunction.

[Mother's Lament]

Somehow the retard thinks people here cared about Rush Limbaugh or even liked him and this is tweaking peoples noses. Everything about Shrike's worldview is stuck in the 80s and early 90s.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

You were banned for posting a link to child porn.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The company, which allows subscribers to rent clothing for the office and events...

GROSS

[Fist of Etiquette]

Do they at least spray the pants with whatever it is they use on bowling shoes?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

PAM?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Bowling shoe spray is as effective as Futbol fix an ACL spray.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Seattle antifa takes the bait.

https://x.com/thehoffather/status/1960196106475929773

Ari Hoffman

@thehoffather
NEW: In response to President Trump calling to ban the burning of the American flag, Seattle activists are calling for a massive flag burning event this Sunday at Cal Anderson Park, site of the deadly 2020 Autonomous Zone and most recently the "No Kings" rally

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I hope they get a CO2 release permit.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I hope they at least make a land acknowledgement.

[Rick James]

In Seattle, the American flag is rainbow.

[Mother's Lament]

I said yesterday that there are going to be a bunch of retarded Democrats burning flags because they think they're sticking it to MAGA, and they're going to appear in every Republican midterm ad.

So cumjeff accused me of posting fantasy.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Trump knows how to troll, and the Democrats are dumb enough to take the bait.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Found sarcs TikTok.

https://x.com/LangmanVince/status/1960292895878984156

[Idaho-Bob]

The glasses. It's always the eyewear.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

When did desperate wailing about mean daddy figures become a virtue (beyond 13 year old girls)?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Comey made it a virtue.

[Mother's Lament]

The poisoning of the minds of boomers by cable news in the last decade has been amazing to watch.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Don’t trust this guy with secrets.

[VinniUSMC]

Wonder how many times that cuck called the cops on his neighbors not wearing masks and going outside during covid times...

[Mother's Lament]

He lives in Georgia. That's the pedo's stomping grounds.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Raskin channels his best QB impression.

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
OMG...Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin opposes President Trump's crime crackdown because crime has "always been part of our history."

The Democrat Party of 2025, folks. You can't make it up.

"He's trying to militarize the society and intimidate his political opponents [...] Always, crime has ALWAYS been part of our history [...] [He shouldn't be] rolling National Guard INVASIONS of people's cities!"

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1960438797503508508

[Quicktown Brix]

Meh. C-. Gotta work in a "you get used to it" if you want to go full QB.

I'll have a talk with him at our next DNC "Time for Crime and Seal the Steal 2028" rally.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Or maybe Raskin was going for Jesus status, telling us the poor will always be with us.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

“When they carjacked the other guy, I said nothing”…….

[Fist of Etiquette]

Calling the Department of Defense the "War Department" (as the president intends to do) strikes me as a lot more honest.

That's going to totally ruin the movie The Final Countdown.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

You will be raped by rapegugees or you will go to jail says Scotland.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scottish-girl-arrested-using-knife-and-axe-ward-migrant-stalker

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

“Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief’s. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn’t know any better. But for you to have one was ‘terrorism.’”—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

https://x.com/JoelWBerry/status/1960471542166397402

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, what's that Arab guy got under 'is kilt?

[Michael Ejercito]

Is there outcry from feminist groups?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Nope. They're fine with sucking Paki cock.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

It's like Weather Underground sluts all over again.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Note the jeet that's following them isn't backing off after the girl pulls out the weapons. Someone who's afraid of getting attacked doesn't close in when threatened.

Those girls are fucking terrified, too. One them screams that her sister is only 12 years old and they want to be left alone. And you can tell these are exactly the kind of white working class girls that get targeted by these filthy subcontinent cockroaches, by the state of their dress and their extremely thick Dundee accents.

What probably happened is that the jeet was stalking them and telling them "please to be showing me bobs and vagene," they told him to fuck off, he kept following them, and then he pulled out his camera when he thought he might get nicked for sexually assaulting them. It is the filthy shitskin who posted the video, after all.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

I keep asking: where the fuck are the men?

[Mother's Lament]

The dad's are defending their daughters, but the police and courts are sticking them in jail every single time for doing so.

This has to be the first invasion of Europe where the "defenders" did the barbarian hordes job for them.

[damikesc]

It is time for government drones to pay the consequences for going along with it.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

There’s enough speed cameras in Britain that one could, if he or she wanted to, rig a gallows from.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

And their families.

[Marshal]

It's standard practice in empire building to initially ally with one faction of the target country against the rest. This grants you access to their institutions and prevents their full defense capability - which is organized around outside invaders rather than residents - to be fully used against you.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Their lack of creativity is disappointing.

[Mother's Lament]

Seeing her holding back the marauders with a knife and an axe was iconic.

That young girl will be the next Boudica, wait for it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I appreciate bluntness and don't understand the hand-wringing.

The rebranding will cost billions.

[Randy Sax]

The company, which allows subscribers to rent clothing for the office and events,

I have two pairs of dockers, four shirts, and two ties. Meaning I have 16 different work outfits before I have to repeat. That is enough.

[Idaho-Bob]

Don't forget the brown and black shoes.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

And commando days.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

No casual Friday?
What about how many pieces of flair?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

15 is the minimum.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don't you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?

[Randy Sax]

No casual Friday, but I do have FR coveralls site visit days.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

So Trump is Hitler?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Again?

[Fist of Etiquette]

National Guard members activated for DC federal takeover seen picking-up trash

That's an ignorant way of referring to DC residents.

[Quicktown Brix]

It's an ignorant way of referring to trash.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Trash is as trash does.

[Medulla Oblongata]

It's okay if it's white trash, though, right?

[Quicktown Brix]

Good question. I'll poll my family when I get home.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

TRASH IS DOWN IN DC!

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Australian liberal politician proposes taxing spare bedrooms since it isnt fair you have more rooms than you need.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/australian-experts-propose-tax-spare-bedrooms-ease-housing-shortage

Wait. It gets worse.

Meanwhile, Australian redistributionists are busy cooking up other means of extracting wealth from homeowners. In a new paper, university professors Peter Siminski and Roger Wilkins assail Australia's capital gains tax exemption for owner-occupied housing, by which the government foregoes the coercive collection of $50 billion a year. They also urge the imposition of a tax on "imputed rental income" -- the value of owning a home and not having to pay rent. In a manifestly Marxist sentence, the academics complain that favorable treatment of owner-occupied housing is "a major driver of inequality, undermining the redistributive role of government."

[Idaho-Bob]

So many of these people bragged about surrendering their guns for the greater good. Now the greater good has come home to roost.

[Michael Ejercito]

Australia was where dogs were euthanizaed, not because the dogs themselves were sick, but to prevent people from crossing state lines to rescue them.

That, in a nutshell, was the essence of lockdown.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I think we found Mamdani's Housing Czar.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Clinton wanted to do that here 30 years ago.

[Quicktown Brix]

"It's very insulting to say students can't come here," said President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House yesterday. "I like that their students come here. I like that other countries' students come here."

ohhh...you got me. I thought you were serious with all this canceling of visas and locking up of immigrant students. Boy do I feel silly. What a punk! Good one.

So....uhhh the tariffs then? The golden shares?

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

You’ll get used to it.

[Quicktown Brix]

Will my TDS subside then?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

We're all praying for your recovery.

[Quicktown Brix]

Won't the wrong religion prayers cancel out the correct religion prayers. Anyway my money's on Amish being correct. Any Amish here?

[Medulla Oblongata]

"The Mormons were the correct answer."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbNnsiP4Rhg&ab_channel=SteveTorres

[Quicktown Brix]

I never stood a chance.

[Fist of Etiquette]

National Guard members activated for DC federal takeover seen picking-up trash

More in line with their training anyway.

[Fist of Etiquette]

THAT'S A JOKE I SUPPORT ALL THE TROOPS

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

A look at Lisa Cook, the "independent" fed member sarc was demanding not be fired for mortgage fraud because she is "independent." Nice TDS rant proves her "independence."

https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1960457853082230803

[Fist of Etiquette]

Qian Xinzhong, China's family planning chief, received the inaugural UN Population Award in 1983 for his work on the one child policy.

UN awards aborting girls.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"I HOPE THE DEPOPULATION WILL OCCUR IN A CIVIL AND PEACEFUL WAY"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu57H6ubzyY&ab_channel=VenomnymouS%3AMeetTheSavage

The call was made by Dennis Meadows, one of the main authors of the Club of Rome’s 1972 pro-depopulation book “The Limits to Growth.”

Meadows is an honorary member of the Club of Rome and a member of the World Economic Forum.

[Mother's Lament]

The Club of Rome probably accounts for a bigger death toll than the participants of the Wannsee Conference in 1942.

[Mother's Lament]

"UN awards aborting girls."

If you view the global elite as a pack of man eating demons or the high priests of an Aztec temple, then this stuff starts to make sense.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"If the government is going to take an equity stake in a previously-private company, but not take it over completely, the only structure that aligns incentives correctly is for them to be straitjacketed into only making the investment one time, and committing to sell it down in the future."

Good thing company values never go down.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

But it’s ok if government continues to “invest” in trains.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Forward to the 19th century!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Women want one thing: To watch the financial collapse of Rent the Runway and take advantage of designer clearance sales whenever bankruptcy is declared. "Rent the Runway Inc. will hand over a controlling stake in the company as part of a plan to cut debt and grow, after residual effects of the Covid-19 pandemic pushed the firm to the brink of bankruptcy," reports Bloomberg. "The deal, with lender Aranda Principal Strategies and other partners, will wipe more than $240 million of debt from Rent the Runway's balance sheet, according to a statement. The company, which allows subscribers to rent clothing for the office and events, will have several more years to repay $120 million in remaining borrowings."'

My brain hurts trying to understand this one.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Summary: women be shopping.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Woman logic: you actually make money by buying items on sale.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

They never have enough shoes. I know it seems crazy but they never have enough shoes.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'I appreciate bluntness and don't understand the hand-wringing.'

100 million Democrats with clinical depression and anxiety on line 2.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Why do leftist insist on defending the worst causes? And frame it in the worst possible way? And then blatantly astroturf the thing?

https://www.theblaze.com/news/indians-read-off-script-trucker

Supporters of illegal alien truck driver accused of killing 3 demand light sentence: 'Shame on your white injustice'

The comments in support of Singh are also garnering attention, as many appear to be pre-prepared and identical.
'He was working hard to support his family like so many of us.'
Approximately 3 million people have signed a petition in support of Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien truck driver accused of killing three Americans on a Florida highway.

Last week, the nation was rocked when video appeared to show Singh attempting a U-turn on the Florida Turnpike while driving an 18-wheeler, pulling the rig across two lanes of traffic and killing three passengers in a minivan that crashed into his truck.

Singh has been charged with three counts of vehicular homicide and three counts of manslaughter, jail records show. He also has been placed on an immigration hold.

Now, a Change.org petition has popped up in support of the illegal alien driver, which contains bizarre requests and even more strange messages of support.

The India Times reported that Singh failed an English proficiency test, answering just two of 12 questions correctly while also being unable to identify more than one of four road signs.

The petition, however, claims that Singh should get lenient sentencing because he has no prior "criminal intent or history," despite being an illegal immigrant. The petition does not mention his failures in the post-crash testing.

Instead, the petition suggests a "proportionate and reasonable sentence" or "alternative sentencing measures," such as "restorative justice, counseling, or community service."

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Sounds like a good database to look into for visa compliance.

[mad.casual]

+1 Exactly how many of "you" have killed 3 people while working hard to support your family?

[Randy Sax]

restorative justice

Impossible, he can't bring people back to life.

counseling

Can't be in English, apparently.

community service

Breaking rocks in a jumpsuit for 50 years.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"Why do leftist insist on defending the worst causes?"

Because once they went all-in on post-modern woke oppressor-oppressed ideology they have to deny white patriarchal ethics like "crime" as defined by the oppressor. Kinda like double-daring us to call out their delusions.

[damikesc]

A proportionate sentence would be to have an 18-wheeler hit him hard.

[mad.casual]

I need to know the most important thing about the victims before I know how outraged to be.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"The latest suite of 'think of the children' [age-verification and phone-banning] policies create the infrastructure for much broader censorship. The problem isn't the phone bans themselves—it's how they're being used as part of a larger authoritarian project that most people can't see coming."

I demand the right to give my 12 year old a device that can connect to every other person on earth and access everything ever said or written, without having to make any effort to screen what my kid sees.

[mad.casual]

I demand the right to give my 12 year old a device that can connect to every other person on earth and access everything ever said or written, without having to make any effort to screen what my kid sees.

To be fair though, if I hand my kid an unloaded weapon or the keys to the car, TikTok thots and OF whores don't just "randomly" (or whatever the current term for created, highly-curated, and refined but totally uncontrollable and not our responsibility is) show up to help him load the gun or find his way to the nearest brothel or dispensary or whatever.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Too good to be true:

BREAKING: President Trump calls for George Soros and his son to receive RICO charges for supporting and funding violent protests.

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1960702333249065247

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Can he add Herb Sandler?

[Mother's Lament]

And the Pritzkers.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Definitely the Pritzkers. I wanna see JB take up residence in the jail cell vacated by Blago.

[Idaho-Bob]

Can't wait for the response to this.

Something, something, J6!!!!!!

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Violent protests are free speech!

[Medulla Oblongata]

I think you mean "fiery, but mostly peaceful protests".

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"A full busload of National Guard members were seen Tuesday morning picking up trash around Lafayette Park, just outside of the White House."

JUST LIKE NAZIS!

[Medulla Oblongata]

In this case, everyone's an asshole. The CEO with his lapdog "service animal"--which he calls his pet during the interview. The illegal immigrant Uber driver who headbutted and cold-cocked him (on surveillance video) for cancelling the ride after driver refused the "service animal". Uber for reportedly deactivating the customer and not taking any action against the driver. Not to mention, Charleston, where pretty much everyone is an asshole.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/ceo-speaks-out-after-attack-by-illegal-immigrant-uber-driver-uber-deactivated-my-account/vi-AA1LfUGs

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Dr. Evil got assaulted in an Uber?
He’ll just have to get used to it.

[Super Scary]

Pretty weak looking headbutt, but that slap was immaculate.

[mad.casual]

+1 I'm gonna need to see proof that the brain injury wasn't pre-existing.

Not that it necessarily deserves a punch in the face, but it's clearly not a service animal.

I feel I should highlight a subtext for both the... zealous... cat/dog person audience that urban America tends to breed as well as the "borders is imaginary constructs" readers who tend to insulate themselves; in case you haven't heard Muslims culturally and as religious edict, don't like dogs.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Evil:

'Qian Xinzhong, China’s family planning chief, received the inaugural UN Population Award in 1983 for his work on the one child policy.

'People forget how horrific the one child policy was'

But not as evil as encouraging women to have babies, right?

[Spiritus Mundi]

National Guard members activated for DC federal takeover seen picking-up trash

FASCIST!!! That is our trash. Besides, trash is at a 30 year low in DC.

#bringbackourtrash

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Trash as ethnic folk-dance artistic expression.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

The problem is that the long-term incentive is for the company to arrange itself around needing constant infusions of capital. The more Intel raises this way, the more attractive further subsidies are, since they help bail out the previous investment.

These concerns mean nothing to MAGA, because they ignore the future.

I was wrong - the MAGA movement isn't fascist. It is, instead, nihilistic.

The future is ignored, the past is fondly remembered. The only thing that matters is what happens right now, and whatever happens in the future is completely irrelevant.

Of course Team Blue will use this new executive equity stake power in all sorts of awful ways. But who cares? That is in a future that may or may not come to pass. We can't spend our time worrying about that when we must do things right now.

It goes along with comments that I routinely see here, along the lines of "well, of course I don't support X, but we are way beyond that point now..." If the concerns over doing "bad thing X" (typically by Team Blue) were ignored in the past, why should anyone give any credence to those same concerns now that Team Red wants to give it a go? Besides, any negative consequences will occur in the future, which is irrelevant (see above).

I think this is a much closer understanding to what motivates MAGA and Team Red generally. A complete disillusionment with the modern world, and a deliberate rejection of even considering the future. That's not fascism, but it is also deeply troubling.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Cool story Lying Jeffy.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Other companies never need infusions of capital.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

These concerns mean nothing to MAGA, because they ignore the future.

This is the entire fucking business model of corporate America since 2008, at least. It has nothing to do with MAGA, because companies were already in a state where they couldn't continue operating without fresh infusions of ZIRP funding, whether it was direct or via VC investment using the same tools. There's no incentive to worry about future viability if it's not really costing you anything, because you can always get another zero or negative rate interest loan.

And this is just a de jure acknowledgement of what was already a de facto practice of the government artificially propping companies and orgs up for years. That's how you get that purple-haired lich Rosa DeLauro bragging in a video that "we ARE the bag." Hell, the biggest tech companies would still be treading water financially, or even completely dead, if they hadn't gotten government sugar daddy VC investment via fronts like In-Q-Tel.

This whole thing started falling apart after ZIRP ended, and then in the second stage when USAID got squashed. What happens to Intel going forward isn't really material, because they're already admitting that they can't sustain themselves if they're needing Uncle Sam to have an upfront stake in the company.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Putting the moral back in moral hazard?

[Mother's Lament]

Lying Jeffy gonna lie.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"Of course Team Blue will use this new executive equity stake power in all sorts of awful ways."

The shoe would be on the other foot then. It's almost always Democrats pushing the boundary, then being apoplectic when Republicans pull the same shit when they're in power.

At this point, though, Trump is really not doing much more than Obama's "I've got a phone and pen" and "Elections have consequences, and I won". Obama fired something like 150 generals, deported a lot of illegals, ran roughshod over Congressional actions ("I'm not a king, I can't just make Dreamers legal"--oh wait here's DASA and DACA!). Democrats in Congress fired off the nuclear option and strangled opposition bills and opportunities for debate.

Government already had ownership stakes in multinational companies before, via TARP (a "bipartisan" action. Biden setup a new private non-profit corporation under CHIPS act and hired all his cronies (Natcast is a a 501 (c) (3) corporation with a highly-paid CEO, Board members, staff, and $7.4B slush funding).

As Sarc always says "It's okay, Democrats did it first".

[Medulla Oblongata]

"new executive equity stake power "

Speaking of the CHIPS act and its requirements...

https://natcast.org/nstc-governance

The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 established the NSTC as a public-private consortium and appropriated funds for the creation of a national semiconductor technology center (NSTC) to conduct research and prototyping of advanced semiconductor technology and grow the domestic semiconductor workforce to strengthen the economic competitiveness and security of the domestic supply chain. The statute requires that the U.S. Department of Commerce establish a public-private consortium in collaboration with other federal agencies, and with the participation of the semiconductor industry, research institutions, and other participants of the semiconductor ecosystem.

But Natcast itself would appear to be an illegal shell company setup by the Biden administration.

https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2025/08/department-commerce-takes-action-against-biden-administrations

Natcast is a private, non-profit corporation that Biden-era Commerce Department officials set up to operate the NSTC after the CHIPS and Science Act was signed into law in August of 2022. The CHIPS Act required the Commerce Department to establish the NSTC to conduct research and prototype advanced semiconductor technology, grow the domestic workforce, and strengthen the economic competitiveness and security of the domestic supply chain.

Rather than establishing the NSTC at the Department, however, Biden Administration officials stood up an entirely new, unaccountable entity—Natcast—to operate the NSTC’s public private-sector consortium on the Commerce Department’s behalf using taxpayer funds. In an effort to skirt clear legal restrictions prohibiting government agencies from establishing corporations, the Biden-era Commerce Department officials handpicked individuals friendly to the Biden Administration to serve on a “Selection Committee” that, in turn, chose who would form the entity that the Department anticipated would serve as the operator of the NSTC.

The Selection Committee included Jason Matheny (who held several roles in the Biden White House), Don Rosenberg (a partner at a venture capital firm whose portfolio companies received at least $117 million in federal grants), and Brenda Wilkerson (a self-described advocate for “social justice for underrepresented communities in technology”).

The Biden Administration then stacked Natcast with former Biden officials. The majority of Natcast’s executives, and a few of its trustees, previously held formal positions either within the Commerce Department itself or as members of the Industrial Advisory Committee, which advised the Commerce Department on CHIPS Act implementation. Documents show the Biden Administration even went so far as to provide Natcast’s trustees with detailed legal and corporate guidance that included recommended bylaws and the state of incorporation—which were readily adopted and implemented. In taking these actions to establish Natcast, the Biden Administration officials violated the Government Corporation Control Act—which forbids the government from establishing an entity to act on behalf of an agency, unless a specific provision of law permits it to do so.

On January 16, 2025—just days before President Trump’s inauguration—the Biden Administration executed an agreement to establish Natcast as the NSTC’s operator for the next decade and provided Natcast up to $7.4 billion in federal funding, accounting for virtually all of Natcast’s funding.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Babylon Bee:

Trump Vows To Nationalize As Many Private Companies As It Takes To Defeat Socialism

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Lol. You put that much thought into…… that?

You crack me up, dude. Get another hobby. Seriously.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Over Jan. 6 Ruling"
[...]
"A group of police officers involved in a "Stop the Steal" rally have sought legal action to keep their identities private following public records requests regarding their attendance. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied their emergency stay, and the U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld the decision requiring disclosure of their names..."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-over-jan-6-ruling/ss-AA1LdjWk?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=68ae53b2c28442409f8f4c4ce7b9b060&ei=14

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Federal judge refuses to dismiss charges against Milwaukee judge in ICE enforcement case"
[...]
"U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman has denied a motion to dismiss the federal case against Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, clearing the way for a trial on charges she obstructed immigration officers who came to her courtroom to make an arrest.
In the crucial, long-awaited ruling, Adelman turned back the arguments of Dugan's high-powered legal team that the judge was immune from prosecution and that the case was an example of judicial overreach..."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-judge-refuses-to-dismiss-charges-against-milwaukee-judge-in-ice-enforcement-case/ar-AA1Lhf9I?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=68ae53b2c28442409f8f4c4ce7b9b060&ei=64

No, being a judge does not mean a 'get out of jail free' card even if you are a slimy pile of lefty shit:
"...Adelman, 85, was appointed by President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and is considered among the most liberal federal judges in the nation..."

[Michael Ejercito]

Who would have imagined?

Though I do not blame her lawyers for making this argument.

[Michael Ejercito]

"There is no basis for granting immunity simply because some of the allegations in the indictment describe conduct that could be considered 'part of the judge's job,'" Adelman wrote in the 27-page ruling.

The key word is some.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Yeah, like putting on clothes.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Our favorite "we arent democrats" crew bought and pushed the argument she had immunity in these very comments.

[Michael Ejercito]

Immunity for escorting litigants in cases through the courthouse.

Before this, no one claimed those were orders or judgments issued from the bench.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

You misspelled "lying piles of lefty shit".

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Southwest Airlines is going to start charging heavy flyers for an extra seat if they can’t fit within armrests"
[...]
"Southwest Airlines is going to start charging heavy flyers for an extra seat if they can’t fit within armrests"
https://fortune.com/company/southwest-airlines/

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Can't wait to see the fatties waddling in protest at some mid-tier airport.

[mad.casual]

Jesse Walker
@notjessewalker
Note: He's not arguing that inventions made with public funds should be in the public domain, so anyone can make or build on them. He's saying he wants the government to get a cut of their monopolies.

Note: This is a 'wet roads cause rain' interpretation of the patent and legal protection system. Patenting an invention specifically requires putting its formulation into the public domain. The money is to enforce prevention other people from unfairly capitalizing on the idea. Whether it comes directly from the taxpayers at the issuing of the patent or jointly from the taxpayers and/or the invention or distributed among the cost of the patents as a sort of intellectual theft insurance, the costs have to be paid or the defense can't be provided. If doing business with and educating Chinese students increases the theft, the costs of preventing it go up.

Of course, trade secrets avoid all this.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

China is great at corporate espionage for trade secrets too.

[Marshal]

This was retweeted by Megan McArdle on the anniversary of the Kyle Rittenhouse attacks. I've bolded the problem:

Thomas Chatterton Williams
@thomaschattwill
I spend an entire chapter of Summer of Our Discontent on this. I think it's one of the more egregious examples of the scale of one-dimensional monothought the moment demanded. To say nothing of the media, numerous universities spanning the country from the New School to UC Santa Cruz issued manipulative statements condemning the verdict despite all evidence. So many weighed in without ever trying to understand what even happened or who was involved.

Ultimately our problem is that so many people who nominally oppose the left nevertheless fail to understand it. Williams wrote a book on this and McArdle thinks enough of him to support his comment, but both believe that if the left understood the facts they would change their conclusion. That's proven when they criticize the error as that they do not "understand what even happened or who was involved".

But the truth is the left does understand what happened and who was involved, they just don't care about the facts that matter to others. They reached a different conclusion from normal people because they have different values than normal people, and they knew everything they needed to to reach a conclusion based on those values. They don't need to know if Rittenhouse was obviously defending himself since they don't support self-defense as a principle. The relevant fact to them is that he was not present to advance the left's political agenda. To them this means his presence was illegitimate and therefore any violence directed at him was deserved.

Compare how the left treated Rittenhouse to how it treats Luigi Mangione. With Rittenhouse they pretend to oppose violence and corrupted their institutions to punish him. But literally none of the people outraged by Rittenhouse acted similarly to Mangione.

This failure to understand why leftists act as they do matters because it means people like McArdle and Williams end up protecting the left by arguing they are normal people with normal values. This is false. Leftists are fundamentally different from us and any analysis which does not recognize that will always be materially wrong.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Again, their violence is speech and our speech is violence. If not for double standard, the left would have no standards at all.

And if not for post-modern insanity, they would not have "serious" academic justification for double standards.

[Super Scary]

""understand what even happened or who was involved""

It's almost a certainty that some people still think Kyle shot some black people.

[Marshal]

Probably, but if they learned the truth it wouldn't change anything. Even Winston eventually learned to never question the narrative.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Ultimately our problem is that so many people who nominally oppose the left nevertheless fail to understand it.

LOL, fucking no. We understand the left just fine, and study after study confirms it; our actual problem is people who complain that such political retardation is properly called out to begin with, rather than going along with whatever idiotic framing is being presented.

I like McArdle, but she's fundamentally crippled by being part of the very Acela Corridor class that makes these complaints.

[damikesc]

""And you know what would happen if they didn't?" asked Trump. "Our college system would go to hell very quickly.""

I fail to see the negative.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

HAS ANYONE SEEN MY SHOCKEDFACE?

BREAKING: MN Catholic school gunman is trans, named Robin Westman, said to "kiII Trump" on magazine

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1960744700631245017

[Mother's Lament]

Poor Chemjeff.
He won't know whether or not to be blissfully happy that someone shot up a Catholic school, or sad that people are going to notice it was yet again another trans attack.

[BioBehavioral_View]

The Department of Defense: An Echo

“The less exact our words, the less clear our thoughts, the less sincere our sentences, the less honest our behavior.” Robert Hartwell Fiske (1948-2016)

The other day (25AUG2025), President Trump announced that he would be returning the name of the Department of War to the now-Department of Defense. His words were an echo of words written by this commentator/author in the novel, Retribution Fever (2018), as follows:
>>>
My point is that typical governmental language is intentionally ambiguous and obscure, often written in such a way that average Americans can’t understand it, which, of course, leads to plenty of work for lawyers. Worst of all, it amounts to ‘doublespeak’. Good is bad. Bad is good. Good terms for bad acts. Any country, including America, defends itself in many ways, only one of which is via war. The ‘Department of Defense’ is a typically nonsensical term coined by politicians appealing to public sentiment. ‘We don’t wage war ... We develop defense.’ Meanwhile, they continue to appropriate billions upon billions of dollars for waging war.”
“I always thought that you favored a strong military, Uncle.”
“To an extent, I do, but let’s call it what it is and what it used to be called ... the ‘War Department’ with its director being the ‘Secretary of War’.”
“Why? We haven’t declared a war since World War Two ... waged wars but haven’t declared them. Declaring war has become outdated and obsolete.”
“To those who ignore the Constitution of the United States. Perhaps, it is no mere coincidence that changing the name and ignoring Article One of the Constitution occurred about the same time.”
<<<
A number of such coïncidences between Mr. Trump’s actions and the events in the book have occurred. Has someone in the White House been reading the novel? Someone could, given that a number of such people received copies. Still, re-naming the DoD is a thought that likely occurred to many although this commentator/author cannot recall having seen or heard it of late elsewhere.

With all his faults, Mr. Trump may be the last, best hope to remedy the ills of this sick nation on fire. As described in the novel, there is a truth if you can find it.

“Ask, and it shall be given you;, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” -Matthew 7:7

[Mother's Lament]

Ever since Bush Jr. I've argued that it should go back to being the defence department.

[Heraclitus]

It is all for leverage. Immigration will be back up next year, but on Trump's terms. Likewise, he likes high crime because it gives him a reason to amp up ICE because they are under his control. Meanwhile, he will happily defund all other law enforcement, especially anyone who goes after tax cheats and white collar crime. He will create a new agency that goes after white collar crime but only if he can control it to go after anyone who does not butt snorkel him. It's all pretense and leverage to consolidate his power.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Meanwhile, he will happily defund all other law enforcement, especially anyone who goes after tax cheats and white collar crime.

Well, good news, it sounds like he's about to hit your sugar daddy subversives George and Alex Soros, so no worries on that front.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

"he will happily defund all other law enforcement"
"He will create a new agency"

Make up your mind, shitlib.

[TJJ2000]

D*mned if he doesn't allow foreigners in.
D*mned if he does allow foreigners in.

Good grief Reason ... You're proving to be nothing but a daily dose of TDS.

Frankly; I care far more about whether those students PAY for the services rendered more than anything else.