All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

[Tero]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are planning to spend $100 million over a one-year period to recruit gun-rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers and a geo-targeted advertising campaign, part of what the agency called a “wartime recruitment” strategy it said was critical to hiring thousands of new deportation officers nationwide, according to an internal document reviewed by The Washington Post.

The spending would help President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation agenda dominate media networks and recruitment channels, including through ads targeting people who have attended UFC fights, listened to patriotic podcasts or shown an interest in guns and tactical gear, according to a 30-page document distributed among officials in this summer detailing ICE’s “surge hiring marketing strategy.”

The Department of Homeland Security has spoken publicly about its fast-tracked effort to significantly increase ICE’s workforce by hiring more than 10,000 new employees, a surge promoted on social media with calls for recruits willing to perform their “sacred duty” and “defend the homeland” by repelling “foreign invaders.” The agency currently employs more than 20,000 people, according to ICE’s website.

But the document, reported here for the first time, reveals new details about the vast scale of the recruitment effort and its unconventional strategy to “flood the market” with millions of dollars in spending for Snapchat ads, influencers and live streamers on Rumble, a video platform popular with conservatives. Under the strategy, ICE would also use an ad-industry technique known as “geofencing” to send ads to the phone web browsers and social media feeds of anyone who set foot near military bases, NASCAR races, college campuses or gun and trade shows.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technolo ... ment-push/

[JimC]

Recruit the fascists!

[Sean Hayden]

Should the government be training police to consider regular people invaders?

What was the point of all the research done by the feds in recent years on how best to improve policing? Funny innit, how these guys trust research about how best to sell something, but nothing from any other discipline --"only the best"...

[Tero]

Corporatiosn...ALL...bowing to Trump. Who would have predicted it? All big business, maybe not Costco.

acynig
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Bedoya: There’s the first bidding war: how much are you going to give Warner Bros. Discovery? The second bidding war is: what are you going to give Donald Trump? Who will censor things the way Donald Trump wants them censored?
Every one of these mergers is a chance for Trump to get his hooks into these networks, the people on them, and their ability to make fun of him or criticize him.

https://www.threads.com/@acynig/post/DS ... UG8kwK-nrw

[Tero]

Jack Smith report: a many times felon is in the white house
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5668 ... t1UddYaN7A

[Tero]

Start of hearing clip
https://www.threads.com/@blueatlgeorgia ... ay0&slof=1

[Tero]

He is wearing black tie....
https://www.threads.com/@vincedmonroy/p ... Oro&slof=1
But:
The President of the United States in an off- the- rack tux, sleeves too short, pants hemmed at home, cummerbund AND clip on bowtie BOTH fucking UPSIDE-DOWN, cankles busting out of his equally ill- fitting shoes, hanger marks on his pants, shoulder pads hanging off. Gyat damn... can he at least try not to look like a total slob who bought a used tuxedo at the Salvation Army?!?! They've got better suits and tailoring at the Men's Warehouse FFS.

[Sean Hayden]

Did you see Dracula on bass behind him, that’s pretty sweet. You just know he hated Trump’s fit!

[Tero]

Barron Trump is better at computers than his dad at Cognitive Tests! Aced it!
https://www.threads.com/@thetnholler/po ... -Jk&slof=1

[Tero]

Not in my Trump II bingo card: Trump kidnaps president. The English did that sort of thing in the 1300s

The second Trump term promoted an end to Maduro’s role as kingpin of a vast regional narco-trafficking network as key to its rationale. But they ran into a paradox when suggesting Maduro just leave power: He could not be both the kingpin and a man who could walk out on his role at the drop of a hat.

The evidence that Maduro was top of the regional tree was also not as substantial as the White House would have hoped. Yes, Venezuela undoubtedly permitted drug trafficking from its airspace and shores, with the top, global cocaine producer Colombia just over the border. But Mexico and Colombia’s cartels were bigger players – yet seemed to attract less US military focus.

Maduro’s departure is a win for Trump, but chaos or collapse after him would be a cascading loss. The plan for “what next” is more important than the staggering display of US might over Caracas’ skies on early Saturday morning.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/03/americas ... aduro-intl

[Tero]

[Brian Peacock]

Of course this is all about drugs, otherwise why would the US bother to regime-change a country with the worlds largest oil reserves?

[Sean Hayden]

Ah, god, we’re so good at it now. I wonder if this will give all the experts predicting the fall of the American Empire pause?

I think crump’s 10th man is screaming: they’re just getting started!

[Tero]

Social media says Trump also wanted Hugo Chavez's body or coffin bombed:
Chávez was entombed in a marble sarcophagus at the Mountain Barracks in Caracas. His death triggered a constitutional requirement that a presidential election be called within 30 days. Maduro, Chavez's vice president, was elected president on 14 April 2013.

[Tero]

Bella: When I've dreamed of a president being hauled out of bed into custody to face criminal charges for his illegal activities, it wasn't Maduro I was thinking of